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Why we’re selling our YC- startup onetool as an NFT
Hi peers,

Gordi from onetool here.

We’re a YC backed company that worked hard to solve the SaaS chaos and failed along the way. It’s a story that many founders have experienced one way or another - from flying high after being accepted to YC to reaching rock bottom aka the realization of not being able to offer what you set out to solve. This rollercoaster journey represents the struggle many founders are facing (but are often still not entirely honest about) and we’re paying tribute to it by converting our failed company into a collectible piece of art by selling onetool as the first startup ever sold as an NFT

The idea mainly struck us from an angle where we did not understand why failing is so rarely embraced in the startup community. You often see “exits” for “undisclosed amounts” where, in many cases, people tried to hide their failure, trying to make it seem like a successful exit. We thought “that’s not us”. Instead of whitewashing the situation by going through a fire sale, why not be authentic and do something we actually enjoy doing as our last move: Trying something completely new and different; being entrepreneurial. Being aware of the fact that selling a business this way doesn’t attract buyers in the traditional sense, we think that the journey of a startup setting out with a great vision and eventually failing represents something most entrepreneurs should be able to identify with - the art of failing as you might say. Closing a business is never easy and a culture where failure is something people rather prefer not to talk about makes dealing with it even harder. Selling onetool as an NFT is our way of embracing failure as entrepreneurs. Being transparent about it and setting an example that even in difficult times there’s room for fresh ideas.

You can read the full story here: https://medium.com/@gordi/why-were-selling-our-yc-startup-onetool-as-nft-art-897e91c67a17

If you like the idea feel free to share our auction:https://nft.onetool.co/going-down-in-style

Cheers,
Gordi
No info why the servers were seized?
"Point this device at the thing you are looking at and press a button." is sufficient creative effort to generate copyright for photographs, I am not going to be hard on digital artists doing significantly more work.
Hi, I am Victor founder of https://webautomation.io/, our tool helps companies extract data from the web using pre-built webscrapers

Here are my top do's and donts solely based from my experience
Do's
1. Experiment with paid ads,its probably cheaper than creating organic content
2. Have a chat bot, and use this to have open conversations with visitors and users
3. Find any excuse to get people on a call i e demo,customer support etc
4. Yes your target demographic might be clear to you, but still listen to the data, I thought I was building for data engineers but alot of my users are surprisingly marketers

Don't
1. Copy other people's strategies, it doesn't always work, instead experiment different ideas and see whats working
2. Outsource any early interaction with customers, its best you do yourself and get a feel for what people want

Good luck please share updates and let us know how much progress you made
You can use a password manager to store unique passwords, without enabling autofill. I have autofill disabled in my password manager and have to click a button manually, in order to populate my credentials
I wish people would stop using YouTube for technical content and blog instead. Sure, some things need to be video, but you could just have that part in the video and link to it from the blog. (SIGGRAPH papers are a decent example.)

Basically, no talking heads. That stuff should be text.
The Battle That Decided the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War
At least in Chrome and Edge you can just disable notifications completely in the settings menu.
I have been using GIS data to create 3d carvings out of wood with CNC machines. We've been having tons of fun iterating and learning. We started selling a few here and there and have been trying to optimize our workflow to be able to create a map for any location we can find data for in a reasonable amount of time.

http://imgur.com/gallery/kXdCKqo
Clearly you've never had to be responsible for PCI compliance. PCI auditors have no patience for arguments like "When's the last time that kind of setup was exploited? If you add more complexity, you add more attack vectors!" and just want you to install the damned antivirus software like their guidelines say. Yes, even though you're running Linux. No, they don't care that there's a CVE in ClamAV every two months. They don't make the rules. And PCI DSS is written by for-profit companies that lose money when their rules don't work. Legislators only lose money when their campaign donors don't donate enough to get them re-elected and nobody will hire them for speaking engagements.

You're coming at this whole thing from the perspective that wise and sane rules would be put in place and then sanely enforced for the welfare of everybody—by the same US government that told people not to wear face masks to protect against covid, while also shipping defective covid tests from the CDC and prohibiting the use of any other covid tests. And that's a case where nobody was in a position to profit by making the rules hard to comply with.

Listen, you know and I know that you can serve a personal website perfectly well with /var/www and a stock Apache config. But the proposal we're discussing here is precisely to take that judgment call away from people like you and me and give it to people like Donald Trump, using laws written by, most likely, lobbyists from Oracle and Microsoft.
Apple effectively doesn't allow PWAs on iOS, so I don't follow your last point.
Meson internals have nothing to do with cmake, and the syntax is not python.

If you want to make that comparison, meson is more restrictive than cmake, but tends to have more functionality built-in to make up for it.

bazel is more all-encompasing than either, as it's more about reproducible and distributed builds than a "better makefile" type system.
Safer languages like Rust are awesome but cannot solve all of these problems.

Code reflects the programmer's understanding of the world. If this understanding is flawed, the logic will also be flawed.
Ask HN: What are the most common legal documents that you use for your projects?
I built ndahrhino.com and ipbutterfly.com as easy, do-it-yourself legal form generators.

And I am wondering what are some other very popular legal documents that people use? I can think of many but curious what you use over and over again.
Upload Filters: 23 EU Member States Face Legal Action over Copyright Law Delays
Sinophobia is the new Islamophobia, which was the replacement for Russophobia when the USSR collapsed. The USA seems to need an enemy at all times so we don't focus on how bad things are in the domestic sphere.
> Sure you might get 1k km out of a brand new battery but what about in 5-10 years? After all, my phone's simple battery is basically done within 5 years and replacing a car's battery sounds like it would be very expensive.

Yep, don't buy into super duper larger batteries.

A bigger battery will last longer in cycle life, sure, but the vehicles itself may well be much more expensive.

If your EV will survive long enough to see a battery replacement, then a larger battery will be still a worse option economically.
The article says

> ‘Flattening the curve’ just slows down the transmission rate of the virus. It does not affect the overall attack rate. That means we have just prolonged the pandemic.

but that was the whole point, and I thought it was obvious to anybody who was paying attention. There's only so much medical capacity at any one time, and unless you're going to, say, build a hospital in ten days, you have to choose between 'get overwhelmed' or 'delay'.
My blog about golang:
https://www.sulinehk.com/
That and Fuzzy Logic.
>Shrinking populations in particular puts a lot of strain on workers to support a larger elderly population. The more rapid the decline, the worse the strain is.

It's the exact opposite. There will be a strain on the large elderly population that dies alone while workers get large salaries paid by all the wealthy old people.
That is commendable actually. High quality news is something I miss dearly.

I would never defend Murdoch for that matter and WSJ has indeed quite a few opinions I disagree with.
Perhaps it is COBOL bindings for the Watson API?
For $2 billion, could he purchase a ride on a rocket to take his lander to the moon, and just do the whole thing privately?
Try pkgsrc.
Would be good if content publishers did something like digitally signing their content along with embedded metadata so if e.g. you see a video circulating you can see that the BBC attested that it was released by them & its original air date was such & such.

Or if you see a quote claiming to be from Emmanuel Macron or Boris Johnson, you can see it was released with a digital signature from a Guardian journalist & they add whatever date/time/location details they want to validate the information.

If instead I release something (on Twitter or wherever) that I say is a screen-capture of my TV, _I_ add the metadata (originally seen on BBC on 27 Jul, 1:55pm) and sign and then you know that you only trust it as much as you trust _my_ reputation rather than the BBC.

Wouldn't solve the problem entirely but it might create a bit of an audit trail for stuff and encourage people not to trust unvetted material.
Great article that I am sharing with non-tech friends and family.

The most powerful point is to stop using unsafe programming languages. I usually use Common Lisp (for almost 40 years now), but I have been experimenting a lot with Swift over the last year. I have little experience with Rust.

I have seen comments that Swift and/or Rust are not appropriate for operating systems and general systems programming, but I call bullshit on that. The problem is a financial problem, expensive to pay for difficult to hire Rust and Swift developers to rewrite billions of lines of code. But it should be done. I pay an incredible amount of money to Apple every year and I expect it from them. Same for Microsoft customers (and Google).
Adjusting the tool for sure, and moreover, adjusting your data collection strategy to the scene, and applying manual fixes to the data or the output. Definitely an art as much as it is a science, much like Machine Learning in general. I'm not sure if the tool will even improve much with time, as I understand, most of the work is in the data collection, and quantity is definitely not better than quality.
From what I have heard, there is less and less money per article in the market. They hire college temps to write (copy paste from other websites) and no one checks the articles. They have to make sure that whatever has an article on the internet, they have a copy as well.
Duh, (before reading the article) I thought "substack" was a software thing. Maybe a stack below the main stack?
It's even more insane when you remember that strong encryption was regulated as munitions until the mid 90s [1,2] - and actual cyber-weapons aren't today.

Software that can cause real damage to not just data and business activities, but endanger lives is completely legal to sell to despotic lunatics. If you sold a bag of fertilizer to a Syrian you'd go straight to Guantanamo, but somehow this is okay.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20051201184530/http://www.cyberl...
It means Brendan Eich is opposed to same sex marriage: Brendan doesn't believe that same sex couples should have equal rights as opposite sex couples. There's something about equality that deeply disturbs and confuses Brendan, so much that he donated a large amount of money to the cause of tearing apart families by destroying legally married loving couple's existing same sex marriages in California, while Brendan and his own opposite-sex wife enjoyed all the benefits of marriage themselves. Brendan Eich believes that his own marriage is greater than, not equal to, same sex marriages of lesser people.
Say the Names of the Forever Wars
I think it is hard to answer this without reducing the real world into something it may not be. What constitutes an event in the real world? Is the universe discrete or continuous? Do we really use mathematics to describe nature, or do we use it to model and approximate some properties of it?
> for every second you spend with a creator's work

Time spend is a really bad metric since it can easily be gamed. For non-entertainment content time spent could oven correlate negatively with value.
I'm not understanding why you say that being purchased by a phone manufacturer would be better - wouldn't the optimal solution be to expose any features from the OS that the app could need, while leaving the app developers their independence?
I'm not sure low birth rates is so much of a problem, they will just keep people working longer.
I used my E6 for almost ten years (replaced the battery once). 3~4 years is just the life of the lithium battery. Nowadays it is the software's fault that perfectly serviceable devices are out of use. I give about 1½ years before they give up.
Speed is king in the content/clicks game. It's easy to go back and edit afterwards. Hitting publish as fast as possible is the only way. Some "articles" are published as just headlines and fleshed out afterwards. Really interesting to watch on a Bloomberg terminal for example.
Automotive batteries have enough reserve they take more like 10yr to degrade. And the degradation is like 10-20%, not 60+% like you get with an end of life laptop battery. The duty cycle that a larger battery charging at home or at work will see is also highly conducive to long life.
Give it another decade or so, and I can see Lucasfilm/Disney making full feature films starring only deepfake 'clones' of the original trilogy characters in their younger/O.T. forms.
I wonder if journalists say the same thing about how often developers release software with bugs.
Deep fake tools are like ... well, any other digital content creation tool. The artist needs to do most of the parametrization, even though the algorithms come boxed in.

Deepfacelab has some tutorials to explain what is actually done: https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLab

e.g.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1smpMsfC3ls
There was a stand-in and the tv show computer generated the character replacing the stand-in. And then a YouTuber took that footage and made it look even more realistic.
There is a bug in Safari’s inspector where the line number is omitted if the error is generated inside an ES6 module... For me it’s basically impossible to develop and debug on Safari.
I submitted this to WebKit months ago.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218275
You claim Safari is so behind in CSS that it's "quite funny" to discuss making a simple HTML and CSS site in it. And you didn't bother to name even one important missing CSS feature.

Very low effort.

If you want to be taken seriously, bring some facts and examples next time, not just generic internet flamebait.
This Mercedes announcement does not seem to be related to any special expectations about the battery.

From what they say, a battery of 100 kWh is supposed to be used for this range and such battery packs already exist.

Mercedes claims that their car will use less than 0.1 kWh per km, at normal highway driving speeds.

So it seems that they rely on advances in motor efficiency and regenerative braking efficiency and in a low drag coefficient.
In many cases, these are public or quasi-public works, and security is a cooperative venture between the engineers who develop vulnerable structures and the state. Rather than building bridges to withstand artillery strikes, the nation itself implements national anti-missile defense making it quite difficult to launch an artillery strike, and if one gets through, they strike back.

I'm not really sure how to analogize this with software. The reality is some communications networks were just never meant to be secure. This isn't unique to the Internet. Nothing ever stopped anyone from tapping your phone and stealing your personal information that way except that it is illegal. On the other hand, a whole lot technical measures are in place to make sure it is very difficult and maybe impossible to "tap" a military or classified communications network at all. Nobody can stop you from intercepting radio, but good luck breaking the encryption.

But the national security infrastructure can't extend that level of protection to everyone, just as average citizens don't get police escorts and personal bodyguards assigned from the secret service. If someone wants to shoot you, the only thing the state does to stop them is make it illegal. Otherwise, it's on you to protect yourself, and we don't hold clothing manufacturers liable for not making your t-shirt bulletproof.
Maybe there's going to be new AI specific hardware on new Mainframe processors or AI accelerators in the future that will require z/OS 2.5 to run but they are not ready to announce the hardware? I think buzzwords is more likely though.
Ah, right, thanks for the reminder, it always trips me up that overflow can round to infinity even in the mode that is called "round to nearest".
I think it means they're incorporating mainfame H/W into their hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Do you really think they didn’t try doing this without this guy before deciding it would be easier just to hire him?
Its different if you have a charger at home. This is not a Tesla, however it is a realistic view of the current status for some people and some models if we talk about the car experience:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27970913

Cannot comment on the main point of your question. Battery duration. Somebody should include that in depreciation
calculations concerning car resell value.
>and international leaders in the decision making process

That didn't work so well for Carlos Ghosn.
Think hotel chain with 2-3 employees at a checkin desk, plus a manager on a personal laptop and a franchise owner on a tablet off-site. We have nowhere near that level of control even over front desk machines. Can't even dictate whether they're mac or pc. The software has to do all the heavy lifting of verifying each device by SMS confirmation with the managers, but we have no control over how the machines are set up... I don't think they'd even know how to create multiple user accounts, and if they did, no one would actually log out or follow security protocols anyway.
If you'd like to address the original point, I'm happy to discuss. No, Americans generally do
not tell people how to pronounce English words in their own native language. Not really sure the point you're making here.
Is this done without any tracking or collecting any data on users? Anonymity is really hard and even huge companies get it wrong pretty often. Without anonymity I can't see it being a good idea but maybe it is just because I use a lot of energy on privacy.
What’s a backup going to do? It’s not as if a database backup would enable business to continue the next day. For a data model the size of Xero, the logic of the application is inherently tied to the data.
Authors given an advance by Substack are on a much broader ideological spectrum than, say, NYT op-ed columnists.
Researcher Stands by Prediction of 2040 Civilization Collapse
Creator of the Philadelphia Slayride.
Sorry I edited my post just after posting it, because I realised I wrote it the wrong way around (too many nots and light switches ;). You managed to reply just in between.

>I disagree with you here. The counterfactual, or at least the logic theorem, for the statement [light is on] => [I turned the light on] (me turning it on is necessary for it to be on) is [I did not turn the light on] => [the light is not on]

Yes you're correct and that's what I corrected my statement to where you managed your reply in between.

However my original statement was:

>If me turning on the light is a necessary condition for the light being on, then it implies that if I did not turn on the light the light is off.

so A=>B therefore !B=>!A. Where A == "light is on", and B == "me turning light on". I agree that it's not particularly insightful.

My point was regarding the statement "The whole point of the article is that you can't get causality from things that didn't happen" from the OP I replied to. That's just not true, we can make statements about causality for things that didn't happen, because we can deduce them from logical conditions.

>If you translate this to the author’s point, they’re basically saying that !A => !B doesn’t tell you that A => B. And that’s correct as far as Boolean logic goes. I am unclear on whether we disagree on that point.

Although we agree in principle I disagree what you say is the authors point.

From the article:
>They [counterfactuals] express wishful thinking about an alternate history where the bad event didn’t happen. Because they represent “events that didn’t occur” they cannot have caused anything.

This is a statement I disagree with. To me that sounds that the author essentially says we can not make statements of the type of !A => B (or !B). To me that is wrong and also not a counterfactual. Counterfactuals, are statements about a hypothetical event, i.e. "If I had not turned the light on it would be off now". To me though the author seems to extend the definition of counterfactuals to mean "events that did not happen", maybe he means the correct thing, but both his words and examples do not reflect the correct meaning IMO
> I think power is the only metric unit I've seen where the common unit also often follows metric notations. 1 kW, MW, GW, TW.

You might just not recognize them as such.

Ampere, Volt, Ohm, Tesla, Newton, Pascal, Hertz, Joule, ... are all SI units or directly derived from SI units and used with SI-prefixes regularily.
Covid-19 in Israel is taking a globally unique course
Why would you not have firmware updates and parts for salvaged vehicle? Are they expliciply preventing that? If so that's just dangerous both to the individual and economically.
A little off topic, but do new megacorps pony up for IBM? Or is it just the Verizons, Morgan Stanleys, etc who got locked in a while back and there’s no easy course forward. Or maybe said another way, I’ve got $CASHCOW unicorn that raised a mega series H—-why would I switch from the stack that got me there to z/OS?

(disclaimer: I still claim to be scarred from being a former IBMer)
It probably is cheaper if you ditch live TV (like I did)--or can get it over the air. If you add a $60-ish live TV subscription, without sport adders, it isn't especially.
I see 100cl a lot - bizarre.
Considering the current state of the economy there is a huge surplus of people that aren't needed for anything. It's clearly not a numbers thing. You could probably beat population growth by much faster allocation growth.
You can control notification settings in your browser easier than app notifications on your phone and you can persist those settings across your laptop / phone / etc. (At least on Firefox you can)

I see lots of non technical users who are really annoyed by iOS apps intrusiveness and do not know how to disable things like location seeking / notifications / etc. per app.
Again, this was always true, we relied on news agencies and such to be gatekeepers of what is true.

Sometimes a random video pops up and people believe it shows X and then it propagates but it's something completely different (e.g. people beating up immigrants on the streets in northern Italy -> traditional krampus celebrations; Junker drunk at some event -> Junker suffers from lombalgia; Berlusconi mimicing a sexual act on some woman -> it was a comedian skit; Britney Spears sex tape -> it's a random pornstar ...)

People will learn to be doubtful of random internet videos just as they have learned to be doubtful of random internet articles.

Or not, since they haven't yet, but it's not a qualitative change.