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3 Industries that Raise the Most Money
As we have a newsletter for weekly top 10 investments, I've been researching to see what industries raise the most money from investors.

Obviously, If you have a great product, you'll be able to raise enough money to scale your business, but it really seems like a few industries can attract more attention and eventually more money.

1. Financial technology

We don't need a new PayPal or Coinbase but we actually need platforms to make the ability to work with money more effective, that's why we see big new money platforms every now and then.

Acrons is a great example here, Acorns is a finance company that allows individuals to round up purchases and automatically invest the change.

Acrons recently raised $300M from a series F making their total of funding over $507M.

2. Communication

Building a new Facebook is not reasonable, but creating a platform to connect two special groups of people can be good enough to give you millions of dollars.

MessageBird is a cloud communications platform that connects enterprises to their global customers.

They have raised over $1.1 Billion, only $1 Billion of that comes from their series C.

3. Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Based on statistics, The AI market is expected to reach $190 billion by 2025, So you can imagine its high growth potential.

We're seeing many new AI startups, They try to automate everything with AI, and every successful AI startup is a step toward a better future.

Building an AI startup with a useful innovation can almost guarantee that you'll be able to raise enough money to scale your business.

Databricks is a data and AI company that interacts with corporate information stored in the public cloud.
They've raised $3.5 Billion already in 9 founding rounds.

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MMT would say that the government takes the money in taxes, then just burns it

The money the government spends is then unrelated to that which it taxes
Having started programming in a time where all we had were TUIs and GUIs were only accessible in expensive workstations (first computer, a Timex 2068), I also don't get this adoration for TUI and CLI.

They are a reflection of a time when I would like to have more and it was out of reach.

We used them because it was everything we had access to, that is all.
The parallel question is: are there limits to population growth and productivity?
> When people in other countries get more defensive or sensitive to an influx of foreigners is not an indication that racism doesn't exist or race doesn't play a part at all in how they view others

People can treat foreigners in a prejudiced way without believing that they belong to a "different race". That's still "racism" provided you define "racism" in broad terms to include prejudice and discrimination based on ethnicity/nationality/language/culture/etc – but once you've done that, the concept of "race" is no longer essential to the concept of "racism".

> Yet, look at how the plight of a white population in Ukraine is seen vs. that in Syria or Yemen or even Rwanda before that.

The US government officially considers Syrians to be "white". Syria's President has pale skin and blue eyes, and many other Syrians look like he does–other Syrians have darker eyes and skin, but then so do many Europeans (southern Europeans especially). If you had seen Bashar al-Assad walking the streets of London – he lived there from 1988 to 1994 – and you didn't know who he was, could you have known he wasn't European just by looking at him? I couldn't have. So your idea that Ukrainians are "white" but Syrians are "not white" seems to me rather questionable.

I think most uncompassionate responses to the Syrian civil war and refugee crisis, were not primarily motivated by the physical appearance of Syrians, but rather by their predominant religion. The same point applies to the Bosnian genocide, whose victims were Muslims of Slavic ancestry and language, physically largely indistinguishable from their Christian Serb murderers.
A bunch of my friends have a routine of playing a whole host of wordle variants daily. It's been amazing to watch.

dordle/quordle/octordle: Play 2, 4, or 8 boards at once. I find quordle to be the sweet spot.

xordle: Just one board but two secret words. A more puzzley feel. I made this one.

squardle: Sort of a crossword of wordles doing 6 at a time. Your feedback has some spatial meaning rather than all the puzzles and hints being done in parallel.

semantle: Guess the word based on similarity of meanings rather than spelling.

worldle: Guess the country/territory by its shape.

chessle: Chess opening moves.

ordsnille: Swedish wordle. I don't know Swedish but I do this one, using 5 letter words I find on the page then guessing plausible words. I'm slowly building up a valid word list by playing.

So I think even if the NYT acquisition is distasteful to you, maybe Wordle still is an example of nice things we can have.
We have PSAs for driving under the influence, vaping and teenage sex.

Do we have the same for doomscrolling on TikTok, Instagram mimetic induced depression and ghosting in online dating?

These are the problems the new generation is contending with and there seems to be a massive trivialization of them. Sure you can try to regulate social media and take legal action, but we need more social support and collective recognition of these issues
I think there are several nice things on the Internet. They're mostly run by individuals or non profits. Startups or large companies run the most visited sites and that more or less takes over the internet experience for most people.

https://archive.org is still an underrated corner of the internet. Other sites like LibreVox, Project Gutenberg, several blogs run by individuals, webcomics (xkcd), small merchants, community sites, MOOCs (private and large ones) etc. who are all great and I can't think of any way other than the Internet to get access to them. There is a centralising effect at work (e.g. people use discord rather than personal forum sites, medium instead of personal blogs etc.) but it's still not a dead end.

I think treating the net like a resource rather than a "way of life" or a something to binge on is the good way think about it. The latter is what companies try to make us do for their bottom line but that doesn't mean that it's the only thing out there.

Finally, when you're done, visit https://hmpg.net/ and tune out.
Don't forget the built-in chat in google docs that nobody uses! (Yes, the one other than the commenting system).
We don't strictly use an IP DNS database to figure out the location, but a series of factors that make it much more accurate than standard GeoDNS. Something we've had to do to improve our own routing for the CDN. We're constantly looking for feedback and how to solve problems, so make sure to reach out. Your feedback is what allows you to improve.
100%

> why not provide news and information that's being blocked?

Radio free europe style. I like it
> be upfront and clear about the nature of your library, and your level of commitment

The clear statement on this is in the license of the project. You need to read the license, which grants you certain rights to the software to see what you're being granted and what you're not getting.

In nearly every license, very specifically says that it's not supported and you're entirely on your own if you decide to use it.

If you need a higher level of assurance, you need to pay for support. Either from the author(s) if they are interested, or from third party companies who provide support for that library, if any exist.
where did I say I was convinced? I said I was not unconvinced. I am curious and not out-ruling anything, especially now that we have credible academic research starting on the matter.

Why are you convinced by a hobbyist with no academic background? He is a retired video game programmer.
Nit: it likely wasn't done though the DMCA:

> It’s still unclear what went down legally between the NYT and the Wordle Archive, but a spokesperson for the news outlet vaguely told Ars Technica that the archive’s “usage was unauthorized, and we were in touch with them.”
I quit my job to start a company, trusting the legal to my business partner. We exchanged a written egalitarian cap table, but he secretly gave himself >100x more shares than listed. Yet, he called me "co-founder" and wrote that I held the most shares of anyone. In actuality, I vested <0.5%/year. Nearly a year in I found out, causing me to leave after having drained my savings in exchange for almost no equity.
The linked repo requires manual ratings. There's a way to grab your upvoted posts programatically, but it requires scraping, which can get your IP banned if done incorrectly. There doesn't seem to be an endpoint for access to private HN data.

Here's a recent example of an implementation of the scraping method: https://github.com/davenicoll/hackernews-to-raindrop/blob/ma...
Absolutely correct on the privacy. We're actually dropping everything from Google / Facebook and anything third-party at the moment (since it's not technically legal in Europe anyway). It will be a bit of a process though.
Chinese government threatens the family members still living in China: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/this-student-attende...

Students doxxed and harassed after protesting
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/04/we-ca...

The government doesn't do anything about it because Chinese students are a cash cow and every university in Australia as well as the property market would implode without that sweet cash
> They wouldn't dream of this with C, Java or even python (even though these probably work exactly like other languages they know -- unlike JS), but for some reason perfectly smart developers make this crazy decision all the time.

It's because they can. You can cobble something together and it works or seems to work. It may fail later down the chain but browsers accept all sorts of hackery, because they have been historically doing this for a long time. Before there was Javascript you could write broken HTML, nest elements wrong and browsers still figured out a way to deal with it. The expectations of half-assed solutions has always been there on the web.
100% agreed.

To add my 2¥ I think this aligns with a generalised version of the main thesis of the essay too. It’s just that the modern variation of aristocratically tutored is along the lines of serendipity-induced tutored (meeting the right mentors/senseis at the right time in the sense that when you turned back and look at the past you can connect the dots nicely for your future endeavour. It is in this way that you can increase your chance to prevail in a field in ways that are your choosing and only yours)
'This is why we can't have nice things', which is what my comment (and likely the article title) was referencing, is an idiomatic, not a literal, expression [1].

[1] https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/this+is+why+we+can%27t+...
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I do think there's a ton of nice things on the Internet. The FOSS community as a whole and Wikipedia are astounding in their civilization-transforming, anti-capitalistic effect on society. 20 years ago people paid Microsoft for the only half-decent productivity software around, Internet Explorer and freaking Encarta, for crying out loud. I don't think wordle is nearly close to the same level especially after getting bought.
Try training for things you would click on. Or the opposite of things you would click on.
Why? What does this comment have to do with it?
I am not saying definitely that this article has been sponsored by [censored on HN], but there is high probability of it. This is how they operate.

Anyway, there is almost no price that the humanity should not be prepared to pay to stop The Evil. Choose, a little less gadgets, less air travel and a thermostate tuned to 5 degrees lower, or nuclear winter.
You are right about French. The language academy has no legal authority (they don’t “officially regulate” anything), and very little influence on common speech. It is a state-funded cultural institution, nothing more.
They also change the syscall abi without touching the numbering. gettimeofday(2) is a pretty famous one there.

Then there’s also the Linux-specific issue of vDSO, which are not kernel code and to which the article applies in full (see: “debugging an evil ho runtime bug”).
I follow this Twitter list: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1383431779751657480
Maybe he needed to sell some of it to the NYT in series A, with another round after 6 months to 2 years, but being careful not to go too soon or too late.
After correctly judging the runway and managing the burn rate following series B, more marketing and branding before series C would maximise value for the creator.
Try telling that to your 13 year old daughter when every one of her friend group is congregating on social app du jure.
Good point, I haven't thought about the personnel and operating costs of the tank.
> Users need open source projects, but open source projects do not need users.

I get what’s the author is trying to say, but, as a maintainer of a small, free, open source project [1], I’m really happy to get more users:

- having more users helps to keep motivation

- it helps also with the credibility: we work in a large telco, and popularity can justify us working on it on our work hours

- we get more feedbacks, more bug reports and so we improve our tools. As we use it intensively, it’s benefit for us

When your project reach a certain level of popularity, maybe you don’t « need users » any more but I think the majority of GitHub projets are small, relatively obscure, and can benefit from feedbacks, usage etc…

[1] https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl
Hardship makes people more resilient, yeah. I don't think it's exclusively about being an outsider.
I am disappointed that this IPC mechanism doesn't allow optimization across boundaries.

For example, imagine a function call in C++, when compiling with all the optimization on. If a parameter is fixed or unused, the compiler can remove it and the associated memory location and code.

But in Fuchsia IDL, there is no opportunity to do similar things. The client must make a fully formed request, and the server must make a fully formed response.
I guess it's similar to how we in the metric world would say "2000 kilometres" and not "2 megametres" (certainly not in an everyday context).

> "a billion dollars"

This is only tangentially related to your point, but the word "billion" often gets mistranslated due to its two distinct meanings (long vs short scale). This could be another reason to avoid it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion
This is nice evil plan
We lost a cultural icon? This is amazing. Or is the joke passing me by?
Why did they reinvent Protos again?
:p

This was more an observation that you can specify a system ABI in a way that isn't a fragile as C's. At least it isn't xml plists :D
Social media companies say you have to be over 13 to use the service, and then they fail to enforce their own rules a lot of the time. It's a disclaimer to avoid legal action by shifting responsibility to the user more than a real feature to stop children accessing their applications.

Laws like the one proposed in the article are a way to push social media companies to start enforcing those rules better.
I have tried GA4 before but the issues with the event when can not record still not be fixed.
Wordle may or may not be proof but there are plenty of nice things on the internet. Tons of personal blogs, tutorials written by experts for fun, etc. It might be true that on average, random articles are horrible, especially on mobile where every 4/5ths of a screen a new animated ad appears (I just leave the site). But, for there's still plenty of sites made with TLC
To get promoted, of course. Perf is just around the corner.
Flappy Bird did exactly that many meme cycles ago and it wasn’t “awesome”.
The fans were pissed off and everyone else just forgot about it in a week.
On the other hand the paid version is no fuss, affordable and works great. Its much cheaper than fiddling with how to selfhost it. Not sure what bugs would be in paid that are not in the self hosted one. It´s same thing.
To offset all the negative comments, I'll agree with the premise of the article: Wordle was a nice thing that didn't seem to have any of the negative emergent behaviors of his past projects.

It's a fun thing that everybody in my family does and gets to chat about every day. It's very cool that a guy wrote a piece of software that has positively impacted millions of people, and it's very cool that he was able to make money from it, and it's very cool that it is being supported and maintained in perpetuity by its new owner.

I also don't understand all the complaining about ads and trackers. I guess every single person here releases every project completely out of the goodness of their own hearts without any analytics or ads or any aspirations to monetize it? If so, good for you, but just because something may be monetized (probably tastefully) at some point in the future doesn't take away from the fact that a cool and fun thing was created.
Cost $300K total: $100K to exercise, $200K in paper gains. Looks like it will pay off bc valuation has continued to go up, but the 90-day exercise window is punishing for cashflow.

Didn't know about 83b election, didn't make use of QSBS exemption; learnings here: https://www.productlessons.xyz/article/how-stock-options-for...
Looking at the Middle Ages, there were basically three ways for "artists" to earn a living.

There were the traveling artists who moved from noble court to noble court. And there were the artists who were employed (at least temporarily) at a court.

Especially later, in large cities, there were also artists whose reputation made it possible to have their own workshop and work from there.

The medieval, especially the early and high medieval nobles considered patronage as an essential element of their own status presentation. One was someone if one could afford to patronize/pay for art.

The benefit of patronizing art was both in the present (I show what I can afford) and in the future (I secure the memory of myself after my death).

And much of that, perhaps unfortunately not as a general value in entrepreneurship today, I find structurally in dealing with open source funding.

There are the "traveling artists" who live on the hope of (irregular) donations. There are the "employed artists" at court and there are those with their own place of work.

So open source projects/maintainers that have to live from many (small and large) donors. Projects/Maintainers that are sponsored/paid by (big) companies. And there are the projects that have a second (often hosted versions and services around the OS project) as a source of income.

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> every other languages are too rigid when it comes to DSLs, so you either fall back to a scripting language / bloated XML file, or you use the language itself and write a bloaty and unreadable mess

C macros fuckery aren't a good thing, at all. The problem aren't macro per say, Rust has them, the problem is the way they are implemented, with basic text substitution. There is absolutely nothing to praise here.

> every other languages are too rigid when it comes to DSLs, so you either fall back to a scripting language

This is objectively a false statement, Crystal, Rust, Haxe... actually implement Macros the right way. C macros are brittle and a horror to debug.
Have you been to a doctors office in the US? There are more administrators filling out insurance papers than doctors. US spends money on healthcare administration, not on healthcare. The same dollar in the US buys ten times less insulin than a dollar in Canada.
> If people can't work out a way to share a skin between games

People can work it out at great expense to developers and at the risk of destroying whatever a game is stylistically.

Again, each game will have its own ways of presenting, combining and displaying objects. A game with highly detailed human-like motion will be radically different from a cartoonish game. A game designed with large textures in mind will not work well with small textures. A game with complex physics will be completely different from a simpler game in how it represents, handles and combines objects. And so on, and so forth, ad infinitum.

Brushing this aside betrays how little you understand of this.

By way if example: websites are completely open systems. You can go in and see all the "assets and objects and items". Websites are also manny, many orders of magnitude less complex than a computer game.

Go ahead, copy a website's CSS and paste it into another. Or copy a chunk of a website's HTML and paste into another. Doesn't work, does it? You can reflect on why that is.

On top of all of that, why would, say, developers of Elden Ring want to allow you to bring in assets from Horizon Zero Dawn or Binding of Isaac? Those are completely different games with completely different stylistic choices.

> I understand why AAA games are so boring nowadays outside of a couple studios.

Ah yes, they are boring because you can't use skins from Fortnite in Shadow of Mordor. That's the reason.
I find it amusing someone actually had to take the effort to classify those and find a way to differentiate what constituted "very low effort" vs. "low effort" or how many meetings were involved.
That's too broad a brush. I'm against militarism, but what engagement against conventional forces has the US military lost in the last 20 years?

I can't speak to dealing with insurgencies but it's clear to me that a mix of various administrations policies was to blame more than military effectiveness.

I mean was it the military or Paul Bremmer and co who disbanded the Iraqi military and unleashed a lot of chaos?
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I don’t speak any Danish, so correct me if I’m wrong, but maybe the situation with islands is parallel to English.

“I’m on Manhattan” and “I’m in Manhattan” both sound like fine English to me, the former having the connotation that you are specifically referring to the physical island rather than the political subdivision (borough of NYC) that roughly corresponds to it. But nobody would ever say “I’m on Jamaica” unless they were trying to advocate for some extremist political view that it’s not actually an independent country.
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> GitHub's Pull Request feature creates an expectation that the maintainers will read a contributor's code

> Back in the days of SourceForge...

Strongly agree. The github PR is a somewhat toxic misfeature. The last thing I want in my open source projects is some rando sending some huge diff that does who knows what. Now I'm supposed to read and understand this code and figure out all the unintended side effects? And even if the code is ok it's probably missing test coverage, doc updates, etc. So filling the gaps would generate more work for me.

However, I do like and accept tiny PRs that fix very targeted things.

I wish I could put a size limit on PR diffs in github. Something like if the PR changes more than 10 lines of code, block it. File a ticket instead of discuss the proposal, don't blast me with code I don't have time to read.
Yes, if the situation was different then it might be different. Conveniently, it wasn't, so it isn't.
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Do you have a reasonable example of why a library that would call location or history?

All I can think of is "using query string as getenv() for random debug hacks" or "using history as a hack to synchronously reach the structured clone algorithm", neither of which a library should do (but both easily emulatable).
Are old applications going to run on new kernels? If so, backwards compatibility is a primary goal of an IPC dialog.
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