skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This advice is correct.

It took us 18 months to make our first dollar and then another 10 months to hit $2k MRR. Now we're north of $800k ARR. (bootstrapped, 2 first-time founders)

Time frames of "three weeks" and "two months" are unrealistically quick, and might cause you to give up before you even give your startup a real chance.

Mayyyybe you can hit these milestones if:

- You've built a successful SaaS company before, and deeply understand product, sales, marketing, pricing, etc

- You start out with a validated product + market, so you have a high chance of hitting product market fit quickly

- You have a team and can work on building product + acquiring users simultaneously

But for a first-time solo-founder, this is just so unrealistic.
Good question: if you ask BYU Pathway Worldwide people or browse their site to learn about it, would be a good follow-up post here, to say. :) I am pretty sure I link to them indirectly above (i.e., to a page that has a convenient link to them).

(Edit: from what I have read, I don't think there are different tiers for tuition, but it is all the same. Corrections welcome. I think it is quite low, for any student, so the opportunity including for international students in lower-income countries is significant.)

And for WGU, there were praises of it on this page from former students (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22719797 and Ctrl+F for "wgu"), and a relative of mine is planning to attend soon, but I can't say from personal experience. I would certainly hope they do a good job. At the very least, they are accredited and one can use that credential to earn money while continuing to learn well from many available sources (like MIT online courses, unix system documentation, etc :).
College Humor had a bit that called Facebook "The Site That Commits Treason & Tells You What Your Parents Are Doing".
They (and the author here) aren't wrong.

But what am I supposed to advise them to use?

The article doesn't make any suggestions on alternatives.
It links another article he wrote, which also doesn't suggest anything.

* Instagram is picture focused, which doesn't fit with 90% of my parent's posts.

* Twitter is public by default, which is less privacy than the soft-wall provided by FB "Friends".
Maybe everyone could use private twitter accounts.. But the article argues

> "It (FB) is a megaphone and an amplifier of extreme views, easily disproven conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, superstition, magic cures, disinformation, controversy and hyper-effective propaganda."

If that's true of Facebook, it's certainly in abundance in twitter!

* Maybe Mastodon? They don't want or need to understand federation. None of their friends use it, so they can't keep in touch with their old co-worker from 3 jobs back.

* Discord/Telegram/Signal/Wire - They're all intended for live/dynamic use, while FB excels at async. Sure, you can go back and reply to old things, but that's not the intent or way things are typically used.

* The best I can think of right now is regular old Email.. It's pushed-based, and sends to exactly who you want it to. It handles comments (replies) and it can embed pictures/links/etc.
Michael Moore represents the very unusual combination of being left-leaning and populist. He points out flaws in western governments/corporates that get ignored most of the time and puts them into a narrative. (I don't agree with everything but Bowling for Columbine is very good, I think) It gets problematic how he exaggerates things, doesn't seem to be ashamed of distorting ("enhancing") arguments by stringing together unrelated - though concerning - topics.

FWIW I think one needs to differentiate between Climate Science and the narrative of the Climate Movement. The former is more than 100 years old, the latter kind of under-developed and easy to attack. It's surprising though that Moore does it...
(pricing) validation is a step-wise process, not a single binary outcome. you can validate initial unit economics pretty quickly, on the order of days/weeks depending on the market dynamics.

you keep experimenting and validating as you grow. yc is basically premised on this being true.
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Maybe not the best word to use. Education is not a private good, like that offered by a medieval guild which required the learner to work for some period for the guild like an indentured servant.
I highly recommend using the canonicalization feature if you use multiple networks:

CanonicalizeHostname yes
CanonicalDomains example.org

That ensures that you never have the same host listed twice under the bare hostname and the fully-qualified version, avoiding the need to change keys twice when you rotate them.

This setting allows you to automatically accept keys for new hosts but still report conflicts for existing hosts:

StrictHostKeyChecking accept-new

I highly recommend using the control-master feature to keep a persistent connection open to servers you access a lot. This makes new connections and tools like Git, scp, sftp, rsync, etc. much faster:

Host *.amazonaws.com github.com *.github.com gitlab.com *.gitlab.com *.googleusercontent.com
ControlMaster auto
ControlPath ~/.ssh/control/%C.socket
ControlPersist 600

On MacOS, you can use an x509 certificate on a device like a Yubikey as the SSH key so you can authenticate everywhere with the private key never leaving the token and, should you set it up that way, requiring a tap to use.

This will enable the provider:

PKCS11Provider=/usr/lib/ssh-keychain.dylib

This will get the public key:

ssh-keygen -D /usr/lib/ssh-keychain.dylib

(see https://piv.idmanagement.gov/engineering/ssh/ for other platforms)
Of course. The fixes weren't unique to systemd. Upstart addressed those issues too. The problem, either branding or adoption, is that after literally decades it hadn't been widely adopted on sysv-style systems. `/etc/rc.d/init.d/functions` was never ubiquitous enough that you could trust it existed. I've downloaded software that required it on platforms that didn't offer it and meant troubleshooting and rewriting when I should have been on to the next thing.

Maybe because they /could/ be run directly if/when service existed without warning or penalty, it also wasn't widely used.

In practice, I hit it many many times in sysv-style systems. I've used systemd systems for much less time but haven't hit a similar issue since transitioning.
I think you can get set up with a domain and static site generator and run it through something like GitHub pages in an hour or two. I personally spent a lot of time writing up a bunch of Jekyll templates and Sass because I have strong NIH and want full control over my website, but for those who don't care (presumably which includes those using Medium) you can get up and going with zero ongoing overhead with just the default themes and stuff.
> get yourself off Facebook

Re-posting an old comment of mine.

Going cold turkey is never easy. If you're having trouble withdrawing, consider what I did over the past few years:

1. Turn off notifications for the Facebook app on your phone; then

2. Turn off notifications for the Facebook Messenger, Instagram, et cetera apps on your phone; next

3. Delete the Facebook app from your phone; then

4. Delete the Facebook Messenger, Instagram, et cetera apps from your phone; and finally

5. Log out of Facebook on your desktop.

It took me 2 years to go through from step 1 to step 5. It has made me happier and more productive. I still have a Facebook account. But the friction of grabbing my laptop and logging in forces me to consider "is this what I want to do? Or am I thoughtlessly reaching for the crack pipe?" (It's been over a year since I've cared to log into Facebook. Feels more like trudging through spam in an old e-mail inbox, now, than anything compelling.)
No, e.g.:

a::after {
content: "↗";
}
Madoff case...
Anti-vaxers find not getting vaccinations useful, how does that work for the rest of society when they start getting other people sick, and bring back things that were once eradicated.

A lot of people find not living in reality useful, AND they are still allowed to vote; how is that working out for the rest of society.

Until we have a better system for running countries that doesn't allow crazy and uninformed people to vote, maybe getting rid of some the sources of crazy information can at least help.
In that light AMD losing him to Intel via Tesla sounds like a potential few billion dollar blunder. I wonder how difficult/expensive it would have been to prevent that.
You don't need to use them. I never paid for any of these and I graduated debt free
I started looking st going back to school starting around mid last year. I picked up my research again in the past month.

All I've done is manage to make myself so much more cynical. Everything I read and learned made it seem like college is nothing more than a pay to play game. I'm not andti-education or anti-intellectual, but I sure as hell do not support whatever the hell is going on in US higher education. I've been tempted to write aboutit, but my particular circumstances are rather unique and it would just come off as an angry rant.
There is also a lot of value in the conversations you have with other students and faculty something that is really hard to reproduce remotely. It's also something where quality matters, I suspect.
You can have relationships but as a lawmaker you have to be careful who you associate with. During the 2008 crisis it seemed pretty obvious that a lot of people in Congress and at the Fed felt more affinity towards bankers vs other citizens. Or the current administration seems to talk only to business people and not other groups like unions about the economy. The lack of balance is a problem.
You can just call them and ask to check signal strength etc on their end.
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Yeah, this. I'm just getting started with Erlang and I already feel like an idiot for not using it sooner. When I think of some of the things I've done to try to achieve what the BEAM does out-of-the-box...
The affordable care act specifies that 80% of premiums must be spent on medical expenses. If not, the consumer gets a rebate at the end of the year.

See e.g. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/medical-cost-ratio.asp
Smallest x86 ELF Hello World
Plenty of embedded systems still use cooperative multitasking.
These days you can't say anything positive about Intel even if it is factually true. I am personally excited about the 10900K and the competition with AMD is bringing Intel prices down.

People seem to have a deep hatred for Intel, exactly the way they had deep hatred for AMD (pre-Conroe days, when Intel released Conroe in 2005/06, people were rooting so hard for Intel, it was hard to find any positive comments about AMD). I don't get it. Both are multi-billion dollar companies and innovating like crazy. We can't just sit back, and feel the utter awe of what it takes to make computer chips whether it is Intel or AMD. You know, its engineers like anyone else - they have good intentions and work hard to make all of this possible, the fans have this egregious entitlement that is so infuriating and dismissive.
The biggest problem with this argument is that if you live in a larger city, often times their time still equates to my time.

Anecdotally, I've had several friends take time off of work to let the repairman into their home often to reset or swap out the device. It means that they are forced to be without internet for the duration, and personally I've never had a repairman from a big cable company come within the agreed upon appointment window.

It is honestly faster, and more reliable to go to the nearest electronic store in a larger city and buy new hardware than it is to be cancelled on and wait for repairs that may or may not come.
That's tricky, though, since there are many uses for SSH which are not circumventing security policy — blocking outbound SSH would also mean you couldn't use Git, manage servers in the cloud or other locations, transfer files, etc.

Using this to circumvent policy is exactly the kind of move which would lead to those other uses being banned and making life worse for all of your coworkers.
"People need to place more effort on maintaining factual reputation. If someone spews bullshit once, they are on probation. If they do it twice, I don't listen to them anymore."

Bingo. Michael Moore has been on my personal _index expurgatorius_ for decades.

Much of what this film says is outdated enough to constitute deliberate mendacity, and deliberate mendacity is Moore's stock and trade.

Of course, Moore's latest documendacity doesn't mention nuclear as a carbon-free energy source.

I've long said that the moment an energy source -- ANY energy source -- threatens to be able to produce enough reliable 24x7 power to keep technological civilization from collapsing, All The Usual Suspects will find some reason to oppose it. The goal is the collapse of technological civilization and the depopulation of the planet. (These types assume that they will not be personally snapped because they are Oh So Special.)

I hadn't thought wind and solar were likely to meet the challenge of producing sufficient 24x7 energy to power our technological civilization, but Moore & co. seem to think there's a risk that it might.
Personally, I think the example "songs" are all awful. None of them would succeed on any criteria, despite the admittedly low bar for music composition and vocal performance that passes today.

This project only serves to demonstrate that computers cannot make art; only people.
buy house, start new business, buy equipment for existing business = good debt. Lifted $40k truck that you get with 0 down = bad debt.

Unfortunately our culture and multiple industries strongly push people towards bad debt.
Oh wow, well at least Skynet has decent taste.
I'm glad you said this -- I think a lot of people are missing that that's what this foray was intended to do -- validate initial unit economics.

I'm sure dialing in pricing / market will improve pricing a LOT, but it also seems logical that those improvements will be a multiple of the initial unit economics to some degree.
Operations per cycle also matters. Circa P4, an instruction took around 40-50 cycles to complete. Yeah, it was +5GHz, though.

Core architecture brought it down to around 8 cycles to complete an op. Clock speeds dropped, but more shit got done at lower clock speeds.
> I'm SRE and I think of myself as a useless lamer compared to the real 10x guys around

The difference is that SRE -- unlike much of AppDev -- gives you leveraged impact. The building blocks and guardrails that an SRE team gives to application development teams can create productivity impact for hundreds or thousands of engineers across dozens of teams. It may not feel like 10x from a banging-out-code perspective, but it sure is from an economic perspective - don't lose sight of that when you're talking about your value with your employer.
Hard lesson learned through experience: if you're phrasing the question the way you have, you've already failed.

Viable ideas usually come out of a community that's at the forefront of some change in the world, either technical or social. Embed yourself in such a community and then build what you and your friends need, and chances are the rest of the world will eventually come around to seeing they need it too. If you're explicitly trying to brainstorm and evaluate ideas rationally, particularly if you're doing it in isolation, you will a.) bias yourself toward ideas that sound good but aren't what anyone wants b.) bias yourself toward ideas you might've heard of in the press but are already filled with competitors and c.) bias yourself toward ideas with big potential markets but that nobody actually wants.
This must be written by a developers with only very little experience.

Generally very shallow advice and poor or no discussion on why.
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> Indeed, it would be unjust for a garbage man's taxes to be paying for a stockbroker's education.

Education and improving society floats all boats, just as the garbage man is dependent on people generating trash. Stocks fund companies that employ people who generate trash. That was a very narrow, short-sighted analysis of tax policy.
> ...none of those other "competitors" seem to feel the need to have 4 different products in order to operate in this space.

So? Google wants to make more money than they do. What's wrong with that?

Also what's wrong with "me-too"-ism? Pepsi exists even though Coca-Cola is fine. Verizon exists even though AT&T works. What you call "me-too"-ism, I just call capitalism and healthy competition.

Google's strategy has nothing to do with ad dollars or anyone being "bored" and everything to do with making money in a different market.

You're basically arguing that Google shouldn't build more products to try to make more money? But that's not how public corporations work. Making money is their whole point.
not to be nitpicky, but I was looking more for people that make physical things.
sure, you can get off facebook the site, but if you still want to keep in touch w/ family and friends, you'll most likely use "whatsapp" which is owned by fb. thoughts?
Useful In-Depth Guide to Medium.com
I use JSONB heavily for a few things:

* Tags. Basically the same as array of strings, which postgres also supports, but I don't need to remember a different set of operators.

* Polymorphic data. Instead of countless nullable fields that represent the union of all fields of all subtypes, I just include a single (or in some cases, a couple) JSONB columns whose schema varies by type. The schema is enforced by types at the application layer.

* Truly schemaless data. Sometimes I just need to keep track of an arbitrary JSON blob defined by some other service (say, an Order from shopify). Just dump it in my table as-is and now I can search orders.

Postgres' json functions and operators aren't wholly intuitive (updating bits of nested data can be hard; it's really a lot better if you can just update whole json fields at once) but overall it works pretty well.
> Why do you think older people are more foolish than younger people?

There is a documented age bias in the sharing of fake news [1][2].

"Foolish" is the wrong word. "Unaccustomed to modern social media" fits the bill better.

[1] https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaau4586

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/facebook-fake...
They're saying they want the CHOICE to be theirs, not the governments.

There's a fundamental difference between the underlying freedom that facilitates a choice to exist and the topic/behaviors relating to the choice itself.
Personally, this right here is the crux of the problem. Debts should not be resaleable. Loans are supposed to be about risk-sharing first, profit-taking second.

However, seeing as that will never happen I would settle for no resale without a meeting of seller, buyer, and borrower, with right of refusal of transfer of service by the borrower. to ensure that any changes/terms associated with the initial debt contract are properly transferred and honored; and no resets of timers as long as your account is in good standing. I.e. your debt holder selling your balance should still qualify as the same fundamental debt you originally entered into.

I don't particularly give a damn if that ruins/misses the point of securitization.
> No exponential increase in tonnage over Apollo, but an exponential increase in costs and private access.

When you say "exponential" here, are you using it as a confusing synonym for "really big"? Or is there something increasing exponentially, i.e. at a rate proportional to its current value? If it's the second one, it would be incredibly interesting to see where the exponential nature of that growth is coming from.
Looks like it was cooperative until OSX actually. I just remembered that it was a loooooong time compared to other desktop OSs.

> With the release of System 7, the MultiFinder extension was integrated with the operating system, and it remains so in Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9. However, the integration into the OS does nothing to fix MultiFinder's inherent idiosyncrasies and disadvantages.[11] These problems were not overcome in the mainstream Macintosh operating system until the MultiFinder model was abandoned with the move to a modern preemptive multitasking Unix-based OS in Mac OS X.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiFinder
Are farmers in Ontario planting corn already? Seems a bit early in the season to me.
The fifth word in your question is also the answer to your question.
>> As she noticed, lobbying in the US is really more of a social process, where politicians aren't directly bought, but spent a lot of time with lobbyists. And familiarity, as always, breeds sympathy.

> So the solution is don’t have human relationships?

No. The solution is probably that the politicians need to be more choosy about who they form human relationships with. They should probably exchange all the time they spend with paid lobbyists for more time with their constituents and relatively unbiased experts.
I think standardizing init to systemd across distributions has some benefits for everyone.

SysV certainly wasn't and isn't the smooth experience either and took some time to grasp.
Well it’s not midi but what you’re describing is similar to this approach:

https://magenta.tensorflow.org/ddsp
Also because the JSONB is so close to a relational data model it's a bit easier I've found to pick up some relational data work when needed or visa versa.

Accounting for user balances vis a vis some clearing and payment processing accounts? Let's do that with ref integrity and relational model.

Developers want to add all sorts of cruft and notes and weird data to the user record or order record they may want to look back on once in a while or display somehow, give them JSONB.

The alternative seems to a docDB that folks stretch 100 ways to sunday to try and shoehorn a relational model in, or visa versa (exploding schemas and slow dev velocity as whoever manages DB complains).

And with AWS doing hosted postgresql RDS somewhat recently with t3 micros as an option - it's really easy to reach for this hammer. I just do a 1 year reserved instance at $5/month for development, and you can deploy to any size.
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> My experience is that for any given subject, there are often only a few really good textbooks.

Yeah, but they don't stay really good if they have to go through a mandatory new edition every couple of years to keep students from buying used textbooks. And the writers who get sucked into that treadmill generally aren't the ones who are capable of writing the really good textbooks in the first place — writing textbooks doesn't pay enough to make it a profitable alternative to practicing in a highly skilled research field.

Really good textbooks also rarely stay really good when they're translated from English into Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, or whatever. There isn't a free market in translation — whatever dipshit landed the contract to sell a local translation of Horowitz & Hill or whatever, that's whose shitty translation you have to buy, unless you fancy struggling through electrical engineering and an overcomplicated foreign language at the same time. Copyright is a scam to keep poor countries poor.

So generally the textbooks you have to pay more for are the worse ones.
I'm assuming that the above comment is not sarcastic.

Ask yourself:

First, do you have to share pics?

If so, do you have to share pics of food?

Do you really want to share pics of kids in an open forum such as FB?

Above for vacation pics?

Do you really want to share all the pics that you share currently, or just a small subset?

If so, here are some much safer options:

1) email

2) instant messaging application of choice

3) shared folder in the cloud storage of choice.
cassandra supports TTLs as well