skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hahaha, this is pretty funny. But I also wonder why people kind of hate pg--like we're on a forum that he created written in a language that he developed and basically funded by the success of companies that he helped build.

I know sometimes he takes the odd controversial stance but, compared to some other internet commentators it really doesn't seem that controversial. Plus, he hasn't been canceled, the woke barbarian mobs haven't come for his head, and I'm honestly just asking like why do people seem to hate Paul graham? I don't get it.

Was it one thing in particular that he did that was heterodox or heretical? Or is it cuz he sort of pontificates in a self-important way in his blog posts which nevertheless you know make a lot of valid points and certainly have an audience that really appreciates them? And anyway how many other developers or people in tech are guilty of the same air quotes crime of pontificating in a self-important way. I mean that's a lot of what hn comments are as well...

Why does that seem to be so much pushback against pg?

I mean he's successful... Do people resent his success? But that doesn't make much sense to me because there's a lot of successful people in silicon valley who people admire.

Is he just an unlikable person? But that doesn't seem obvious to me, though I have no way of knowing, because I mean a lot of founders have quite a lot to do with him and they don't seem to be making complaints about him.

What is it?
May be Paul wants to convey that business plans should be easy to convey, understand and to the point.
It's written in Vala [1]. I had never heard of it before.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vala_(programming_language)
For the most recent papers on arxiv, you can check out another site here
https://academ.us/article/2106.10522/
This one uses a different backend (pandoc), so slightly different pros and cons in rendering.
Which companies got their start by reverse engineering/scraping?
Plaid, Mint, etc. I imagine that one of the many travel booking sites did it as well. What are some other examples?
The discussion about analogous problems in the UK post brexit go to both renumeration and infrastructure. This article talks about how torrid the truckstop toilets, showers and food are. European long distance drivers have said norms on the continent include properly cleaned and resourced truckstops which are more pleasant and so make having the job safer and healthier. They avoid driving jobs in the UK because it's an unpleasant place to be a truck driver.

I'm sure there are still some dank holes, but it's not axiomatic a long distance driver has to put up with it.

Maybe if trucking companies in the US put time and effort into truck stops, they'd have a better outcome?
Wittgenstein famously repudiated all his early work, including Tractatus.

So, was he right before, or after?
It's also the case in China where 73% of millennials are homeowners.
Taxes should provide the reason to rein in fugitive emissions. If the negative externalities were properly priced in, they would already be reducing the methane pollution. I’m pretty skeptical they are “creating value” - at this point increasing the hash rate adds approximately 0 marginal security.
I don't wish that limbo to you. Not being prosecuted after such serious threats from big people is no small thing.
I think one of the problems with this, which I've ran into with tools I've built in the past, is that there are a lot of potential use cases but to make one of those use cases complete would take a lot of work - for example co-browsing, probably you want that as a part of something else.

So probably you should identify types of companies that would benefit from co-browsing in their products, find companies that are successful enough to pay you for the X-frame licensing, and then try to market to them to integrate your product in theirs.
1. Resources are not infinite

2. Construction speed is not immediate

3. 1% of global consumption is still hell of a lot (more than 150 countries. Stop pretending that if you say 1% this makes it "tiny")

4. You are the only one talking about interplanetary civilizations and pretending your opponents are making arguments they are not making
Big discussion earlier, still on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30318208
How much you were making: seen on income statements as revenues and on balance sheets as accounts receivable.

How much you were spending: seen on income statements as expenses and on balance sheets in accounts payable.

How much cash in the bank: seen on cash flow statements as starting/ending cash position and seen on balance sheets as cash assets.

Paul graham didn't care about your poetry, he just wanted to see your income statement and balance sheet. He apparently just didn't want to call it that because then he couldn't get edgy contrarian soundbites in on Twitter.
An alternative that I have tried in the past, when stuck with a development issue, is to write an analysis of the problem. This then leads to insights, which typically reveals the way forward.
Yeah, PoE makes this sort of thing much easier. The Unifi Switch Flex Mini [1] is even cheaper, but requires "real" PoE (not passive 24V), and doesn't pass through PoE. The various in-wall access points [2] are PoE powered, PoE pass-through, flush mount to a wall plate, and have an integrated four-port switch -- depending on use case the WiFi is almost just a bonus. If you have ethernet cabling in your place, it's definitely worth putting PoE on it for the options it opens up.

[1] https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-switching/pro...
[2] https://store.ui.com/collections/unifi-network-wireless/prod...
Had to chuckle at this exchange down in the replies:

> @ebecerra999: how do you approach Ikea furniture.

> @paulg: Oregon Expressway, then 101.

Not sure why they were asking about Ikea furniture.
Send money to friends is definitely a feature that facebook should have implemented early. Now it feels very late in that “pay” game. It makes them look like the google+ of payments.
SFHs burn down, are destroyed by floods or landslides. Termites may lead to hidden damage that leads to thousands of dollars in repair bills. On and on... All of the risks you list for condo owners exist for homeowners as well. A diligent homeowner may have more control over preventing/limiting some issues but sometimes stuff happens. As far as I know it is impossible to insure against every threat to ones home (landslides for instance) at any price.
This would fit in nicely with the FB marketplace and help it become more like WeChat. I have family that uses WeChat. In China it`s an all in one app. The payment features are very convenient.
Why not sell the unit tests separately from the business?
I found the process of writing a business plan to be a useful one. It’s really just a list of questions to ask yourself - who are the customers? What is the product? How will you sell it? etc.

The plan itself was short enough that I could share it with a fee people for advice but I never showed it to any of my investors, other than perhaps as a way to give a pre-canned snippet of information on a specific thing.

The process itself took about a day and a half, mostly spent getting specific answers. The knowledge gained helped a lot while pitching.
I have a whole stable of machines running Mavericks just because I have a huge investment in iPhoto. I would like to switch to Photos but every time I try to convert an iPhoto library to Photos it fails (after a very very long time).
> So it's another way to avoid the problem, but still might have
> eggshells in the public sphere, so I don't really release.

Go ahead and be traditional, even if the snowflakes find it a bit offensive. They're looking for offense, it's an arms race. The deeper you bury it now the more you'll have to work to appease them.
Interestingly, at the beginning of the video he mentions that 122 GHz antenna transmission has shown to work for distances of 60 kms.

The curvature of the earth is that you need to be elevated 400-500 meters over sea level to have a sight of line of 60 kms to the horizon; the horizon is only 5 kms away at the 2 meters elevation.

Perhaps those measurements were done mountaintop-to-mountaintop.
Isn't that just creating more electronic waste that has to be disposed of or recycled?

Now what will be clever is using the flare divert technology to distill a portable energy source from that electricity that can be used for more productive uses. Creating a block of some reactive X that can more easily be shipped than the gas that created it.

Crypto is like motor sport is to car production. It's mostly pointless in itself, but may lead to technology improvements in computer science that can be employed usefully elsewhere.

Costless atomic swaps between existing banks for example.
Not sure how many employees you had, but I'd say anywhere more than three or four it really helps to write something down so that you all can be sure you agree on it. Or I guess even if you don't agree on it, you know what it is.
Yeah, I really can't figure out whether they actually believe they have an issue with this or not. Nonetheless, they do claim to be working on it.
That is indeed the fastest route from El Camino to East Palo Alto.
Facebook ux has been on a downward spiral all decade.
I hadn't seen it in a long time. It's really come along.
Sounds promising but I will believe it when I see it (and use it).
I`m a big fan.
I find both sides of the "remote vs in-person" argument rather exhausting and ridiculous.

Of course, both formats have issues. Personally, I like a hybrid remote/local work life.

I thought I wanted fully remote, but it was simply too isolating for me. I like being able to shoot the shit at work with some semi-friends. I think it connects us and adds some value to the whole operation that makes it more than about work, but caring about the people you work with.

That being said, that's just my personal experience. What is good for me might not be good for you.

I too often see people say, "Oh the only people who like in-person work are managers who want to schedule pointless meetings" like hey maybe some people actually just have different needs than you and you shouldn't insult people who may have different experiences.
I'm going to be looking in to Vscode for different reasons. So it'll be interesting to see it work its magic with markdown.
Radar Interference Tracker: Open-Source Tool to Locate Active Military Radars
Jack Mallers (CEO of Strike) gave a presentation about the Lightning network as the open protocol for international fiat debit payments, and multiple Facebook managers were on that meeting. Now that Cashapp integrated sending money with it, Strike can be connected with US Chase bank account, the race for embracing the open protocol is on.

The cool thing with USD payments over lightning network is that capital gains tax is not triggered.
No. You are both right. That's the joke ...
Biden Moves to Split $7B in Frozen Afghan Funds
She didn't suffer injustice for being a woman.

She received justice for being a charlatan.
archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20220213044131/https://www.nytim...
Did Viaweb also have a pitch deck? https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1492696791434731529?s=20&t=...
I was personally very unhappy with gloomhaven's decision to spread the content out so wide. I think they could have structured a much stronger game experience if they just focused on a core 10 to 20 modules versus the over 100 they have.

Not to say they couldn't include more modules, but when you're trying to progress a storyline it's really frustrating to have multiple sessions (most many hours long) in between you a plot development.
What if someone don't use Messenger? Venmo/Paypal are still the most popular options in my circles, largely because they are not tied to any specific platform.
I think this only works for Monterey because older macOS were never build for Apple Silicon.
Viaweb's First Business Plan: http://paulgraham.com/vwplan.html
How in the world is a tweet about funding methodology even close to outrageous content that tip toes into banishment? You're losing the plot, friend.

It's simply a tweet to say he gets more value from talking directly with the founders about what he wants to know. Seems pretty reasonable to me, but I could see how a certain audience would say ** context and ignore to categorize it as "controversial edgy tweets". Easy to rile those people up though without challenging the algo.
Ed is the standard text editor - https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html

> Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:

golem$ ed

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help
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quit
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exit
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bye
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hello?
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eat flaming death
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^C
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^C
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^D
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there are some sources of funding you need business plans to get, generally government ones need business plans, as to whether those sources are worth pursuing is of course up to the individual.
Considering china is still very rural that doesn’t seem surprising. But China is still in their 1980s Japan phase where real estate in Shanghai is worth more than all of California.
Anyone else finding that clicking on this link overrides their browser's "back" button? It's just grayed out after clicking on the link. Might well be browser-specifc - I'm on Firefox.

I'm skeptical FB is so sketchy as to do this intentionally, but I've also never seen this behavior before.
Financially, YC's decision made sense regardless of balance sheets or business plans: YC was investing at a $1.5M valuation (7% for $100k). By selecting a pair of smart engineers, the acquihire potential often exceeded the invested value.

Furthermore, their interviews cut to the underlying cause (scrappiness & maker mentality), which inherently eliminated certain effects (AAA office spaces) without ever seeing a balance sheet.
I'd imagine a formal business plan would actually be very useful for some lower-margin traditional businesses like e.g. a food/retail franchise.
I got into XMPP in just the last few years, after already using Matrix (and still using IRC also).

XMPP for me is mostly internet friends. It's quite popular on the fediverse (they also happen to commonly dislike Matrix, although many are on both like me). Lots of people who are into technology and anime, basically.

I've noticed most free software projects don't have an XMPP room unless they are literally XMPP projects like Gajim and Dino. Pine64 (as well as many other places) will have a bridge between IRC and Matrix, but I've only seen one or two IRC channels that also bridge XMPP that I can remember. Many people aren't even really aware of it. I don't know the actual stats, but it often feels like XMPP is actually less popular than IRC these days.
I’m surprised the YC application hasn’t been more of a focus in this discussion.

The following questions are pulled from the application (perhaps an older version):

What is your company going to make?

Why did you pick this idea to work on? Do you have domain expertise in this area? How do you know people need what you're making?

What's new about what you're making? What substitutes do people resort to because it doesn't exist yet (or they don't know about it)?

Who are your competitors, and who might become competitors? Who do you fear most?

What do you understand about your business that other companies in it just don't get?

How do or will you make money? How much could you make?

How far along are you? Do you have a beta yet? If not, when will you? Are you launched? If so, how many users do you have? Do you have revenue? If so, how much? If you're launched, what is your monthly growth rate (in users or revenue or both)?

—-

These questions cover product description, value prop, market analysis, financial projections and more, all of which are the core of a “business plan”.

Sure, the application may be structured in a different way, but the sentiment that PG has never read a business plan seems very disingenuous.
This feels like a see change. A stake in as reputable a medium as Forbes?
Does this even work? The documentation states that one should not rely on TemporaryFile having a name. Otherwise why would NamedTemporaryFile exist?

For the rare occurrence of sigkill before cleanup, I think your /tmp has ample of space to keep a few more kb until the next reboot. Servers running tests probably restart more often than desktops nowadays, when wrapped in containers.
Edge (chromium) here. When I click on the link from HN I can correctly navigate backwards.
Well, I think if the matter reaches the prosecutor's office and it sits there for several months before a determination is made whether to proceed, it's not a stretch for the party involved to prepare as if he will be prosecuted.
I link this XKCD at least once a month. I know it's a trope but it seems to be so relevant in so many ways these days.
its leveraging their existing user base. they dont need to run a $10 offer ot get them to install or use fb pay. low acquisition cost.
I worked on a government project in which we put a lot of work into making it difficult for automated attacks, after which our automated ui tests were not able to run, I left before a solution was found (if it was) but was arguing that SikuliX was the solution before I left.
Do you think glossy ads in niche magazines are a problem?

Yeah. That system is super flawed. Those magazines usually wind up totally beholden to the advertisers.
It will keep evolving. The only way anyone manages to kill crypto (as a technology and asset class hybrid) is by making it technologically obsolete.
Paul Graham seems like a good guy, but sometimes he drops far-reaching low-quality statements like:

> And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial.

That’s a ridiculously strong opinion.

I don’t know what the purpose of it is. Shaming people who don’t write much? Making himself feel good because he does write?

Paul: if you’re reading this, will you please tone the conclusions a bit down ? It’ll make you a better writer.
Ok, you don’t need a business plan. But no balance sheet? You can’t file your taxes without a balance sheet. How can you run anything larger than a mom-and-pop business without ever seeing a balance sheet?
Because time is finite, and if you want to experience other things -- or other board games -- it's hard to justify sinking this much time into a single experience.

Maybe some are fine experiencing this one thing over many months/years, but most people (by far, I would guess) would prefer experiencing more of a variety in the limited time we have.

Our group is playing Jaws of the Lion, but only play it about once every few months, while still playing several other games in between.

But depending on how long a given campaign would take, it might take more than we want to invest in a single game -- in the example of this article, that would take a lifetime for us.
To explore ways of bringing Lisp to wider ranges of audiences, I prefer indentation based syntax like:

->
range 100
map $ fn (x)
* x x
foldl 0 &+
println

which is S-Expressions with indentations, with in-line paren pairs. It looks a lot like Python by still using prefixed operators and it's still S-Expressions after parsing to remain homoiconic.

And my prototype language http://calcit-lang.org/ .
That’s why there are multiple people on a company board, but it’s also telling how narrative-driven rather than economics-driven the startup world is. It doesn’t matter if a company is hemorrhaging money as long as it fits in a good storyline.
Not happening here on Firefox, I could see it potentially happening if you use Facebook Container extension to 'wall off' facebook properties from normal browsing profile. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...
since we are talking consumers here, what would it look like to a regular user? would I have to walk around asking people for their account numbers and routing numbers to FedNow them the money?
Durham says Clinton campaign funded surveillance of Trump Tower, White House
I agree with this, but remember that it's just as important that devices make sure that anyone who's not you can't inspect or alter what your devices are sending or receiving.
You can check out a similar site here, for example
https://academ.us/article/2202.04668/
If you click on the cross reference of figures and equations it will pop up a sticker showing the corresponding content, if that's what you mean.
Has anyone built a new rowhouse, like those in Philly, since the end of WWII? Serious question. I don't think they are allowed anywhere in the US anymore. Existing ones are grandfathered in.
Ehhhh... The plot in gloomhaven is really pretty minimal. It's a matter bones choose your own adventure stringing together episodes in a fun combat tactics game.
Not the op, I don't have any bans, and I'm not normally signed in to Twitter. But a side note on UX here...

When I land on this tweet the site takes long enough to annoy me before it loads the content (ie. everything below the "Log In / Sign Up" banner is delayed).

When I scroll down past the first few tweets the whole page disappears and is replaced with a nag screen implying I can't see more without signing up and/or downloading the app.

Pressing back once bumps me right out of the whole site (back to HN).

The behavior is non-deterministic. It worked this way the first few tries (with varying quantities of tweets loaded before the nag screen took over). Then I tried in Incognito mode and it worked, and after that going back to the site without Incognito seemed to fare better (did Twitter finally figure out I don't want to download their app?)

Seriously disheartened the majority puts up with this kind of horrible UX. As a content publisher, I don't want readers encountering friction preventing them from digesting my thoughts. As a consumer I want to see the content without hassles. The only party benefitted by their dark pattern is the platform.

Not putting users first = opportunity for someone else to do it better and eventually displace your business.

I used to respect Twitter engineers and was under the impression they cared about things like load times and user experience. Has the culture changed? Am I just getting old and grumpy?
So do tract homes (every major subdivision built in the last 20 years).
That's the same way that Venmo (or any of the other p2p payments) work (though I guess Venmo has a specific "opt in to some extra protection for a fee").
It’s even better having a single family home in the city. You get all that plus space.
The great library of Alexandra, you mean.
Zig does this too I believe: https://kristoff.it/blog/what-is-zig-comptime/
Just checked. Article was written Feb 2018, and pg11 was released in October 2018.

This was one of the huge features I was excited about when it dropped!
Another one with only 2x10G SFP+

CSS610-8G-2S+IN
Eight 1G Ethernet ports and two SFP+ ports for 10G fiber connectivity.
$99.00
I raised $4M seed round on a SAFE from two well known multi $B fund and others. I don’t think anyone asked for a balance sheet. The company was 3mo old, so there wasn’t much (no revenue, hardly any expenses) and we didn’t even have an accountant yet.

There was some basic due diligence questions that us founders had to answer but very light still.

I’d assume most seed deals on SAFEs or even priced rounds are similar.
A&A Supremacy was alright, as was Theater-wide Bio-Chemical Warfare, but Global Thermal Nuclear War was clearly the best.
CGP Grey: The Simple Solution to Traffic.

https://youtu.be/iHzzSao6ypE
How did this guy ever get famous? He should delete his Twitter account...

First it's not a tax, it's rent. Second, the idea that a "free market" stops it, come on man.

Trying to drive engagement by saying stupid shit is a huge problem on Twitter.
Regulation to what? Force builders to big bigger condos?

You realize that just makes them even more expensive?
Is it more likely that we'll all have fibre to our desktops than 10GB Ethernet?