skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i agree with the other commenters that it sounds like perhaps you're looking at a string of consulting / contract engagements, but perhaps don't have a product.

consulting could be a way to explore the space and start to get ideas for a product or repeatable offering.

maybe also of interest:

https://commoncog.com/blog/the-consulting-business-model/
Would that be like the "free for life" google gsuite accounts that are ending next month?

Do not rely on any "free" google product you aren't willing to pay for.
Simple isn’t the same as convenient.
Tweeted by Steve Wozniak on April 7, 2022:

> Here is a digital (.pdf) version of the book:[0]

> Woz - being who you are, I'm sure people ask you for all types of things. My only asks to you were the podcast interview and the Foreword to the book. And you so graciously provided them.[1]

[0] https://cybersecurityventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04...

[1] https://twitter.com/stevewoz/status/1512092062761426944
Thanks, but you’re explaining that my finger hurts because I hit it with a hammer when I’m complaining (in a kind hearted way, I hope!) that Free Software hammers have angled heads which skid off the nail sideways onto my finger.

$ zfs -h | grep help

(Edit: ah, not a very fair example, and a topical one too :)
Echoing the others, sounds like you're trying to starting a consulting agency (the difference being a startup focuses on solving a specific problem).

Either way, incorporation can be done using services such as Stripe Atlas.
>up till, I guess now, Google Cloud TLS is just LetsEncrypt.

Google Cloud has been issuing certs for customer use off its own CA ( pki.goog ) for a while. It went GA April 27, 2020:

https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/release-notes#A...

You can see the documentation here:

https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/ssl-certificate...

GCP load balancers can automatically switch between pki.goog and letsencrypt.org if one goes down. Or you can restrict the load balancer to just get certs one of them by using a DNS CAA record.

Up till now, you could only use pki.goog with GCP load balancers. This new release allows pki.goog to be used with anything, because you actually control the private key.

Disclosure: I work in Google Cloud.
For creating an optimal Delaware Corp I highly recommend using Stripe Atlas which greatly simplifies the process to create an optimal structure for receiving future investments:

https://stripe.com/atlas

Otherwise IMO the biggest challenges for Startups is raising awareness, getting sales and creating USPs that customers are willing to pay for, which is where I'd recommend the primary focus of Startups should be in their preliminary years. After you're able to establish a pattern of increasing revenue is a good place for the next step whether it's seeking funding or hiring to accelerate product development & sales.
The essential Ceephax Acid Crew way of life:

https://youtu.be/xdzX35VDVZE
The meta-conversation technique blew up for me once. A buddy and I got into it and I went in that direction of how do we know if something is good or bad, right or wrong, and it had him feeling incredibly frustrated and distraught, questioning whether his friends have fundamentally different values than he does. I recognized in that moment he seemed very emotionally vulnerable and so I switched out of my head exploration and opened up deep abkut some of the emotional struggles I had been facing. I think very often conflicts are not about the actual conflict we discuss, but about tangential, or even unrelated, things.
> can snowball into lots and lots of “small” B2B contracts

Presumably you left to do your own thing for a reason. They could snowball, but is pursuing those contracts what you want to do?

Pick something you want to build and build it. I've learned that you don't need to be an engineer, but you do need to really want to build it, otherwise someone who actually wants to will come and build it better.
More like: first they become the dominant acme provider, then the other ones go away so they are the only one left, and then they have you where they want you.
Google Plus? Hangouts?
Maps got a 7000% price increase... No user support for blocked accounts?

My point is though that while you say "most don't have that extreme a position", I'm not sure what % it is. And does that perception, that it exists at all, hinder them from future rollout?
I saw a photo of this board elsewhere today and I'm also just fascinated by the routing, which seems so completely different from everything else I've seen, even from the era. Were they just trying to make a board where everything, including all traces, components, and connectors, were all on one side? And then they wanted test points on literally every bus line?

Seems like something must have motivated it.
They were being valued on obtaining X% of a known market. Simple as.
I encountered the same problem with DigiCert.

I was trying to verify ownership OF A SUBDOMAIN (e.g. sub.example.com) and I was given a TXT record to add to my DNS. I added it to the subdomain sub.example.com but the verification kept failing. It wasn't until I added it to my domain (example.com) that the verification succeeded. Who thought that was a good idea?

It was especially frustrating since I had verified ownership of the domain minutes before. Why do I have to do it again for every subdomain?
Woah, your post sounds like it could have been written by me. Trippy. Anywho, I look forward to reading responses. In my case, there is not the drive yet, and I feel like that is among the hardest parts. Hopefully in your case all good and just in need of legal/finance related next steps.
It's foreshadowing what is to come to the US if you ask me... This is very concerning as the Eastern region took extreme containment measures in the early stages of the pandemic.

As crime and more and more crazy mental health stress related things keep happening publicly (e.g. Will Smith's meltdown, the insane war in Ukraine, supply shortages, rising inflation, and the anti-work movement building), I worry that sere are constantly at a tipping point for societal stability. Even top execs in the US government, including the VP were recently found to be positive for Covid/

With all the cycles we've had of lockdown and fear, people have abandoned vigilance and responsibility, and that's a very dangerous place to be right now while the virus continues to mutate, and it's likely to keep going just based on the failures of forecasting by leadership (CDC, Faucci, ETC...). Accountability has truly been vacated lately, and so has preparedness, we are in an acceptance phase of the pandemic, which may lead to a devastating lack of empathy from government, scientists, corporations, and the entire health care industry in responses... Worst part is that our bills to them need to be paid in advance.
You are not the target audience for this. I would assume it would be helpful for kids to hear some familiar names when studying subjects here and there. I know you cannot relate AT ALL and I do not relate either (did not grow up in the West), but people who are POC get affected so much by such things, and I don't see it being the end of Western civilization of some of this things are adjusted. Most of crediting is just mythos not even real creating. Just like how randos are credited with inventing the web, browser, email, infinite scrolling, password... etc Elon Musk claiming (and the being believed) that he co-founded Tesla is example of such mythos.
Sweden is not a "weak" target just because it's not part of NATO.

Invading, defending, and holding Gotland is not an easy task, especially as the Ukraine invasion has exposed the glaring deficiencies of the Russian armed forces. And Sweden's defense, attenuated as it might be from decades of budget cuts, is focused on defending Gotland.
April 2023: Google announces end of free ACME server
That infamous bankrate.com "study" is misleading in similar ways; they define terms in a way no reasonable person would to support a desired conclusion. Same for "retirement savings" and a bunch of other financial topics where the terms are misleadingly defined to create a dramatic headline. These are all clickbait articles that have been debunked countless times, and any careful reading of the studies indicates why.

Start from the well-sourced fact that median American households have ~$1000 per month to spend without sacrificing anything, and work from there. This can't be true at the same time all of those breathless headlines about broke Americans is also true. Without fail, if you dig into the details, the headlines are grossly misleading. The percentage of Americans that truly have no capacity to deal with significant unplanned expenses -- per Federal Reserve studies -- is 10-15%. A not inconsiderable number of people but far less than implied by the clickbait.

Average Americans have extraordinary amounts of discretionary income compared to almost anywhere else in the world. Americans both have a low savings rate and they have large amounts of money available to save.
Steinbeck once said "a man has only himself as a meter stick" (paraphrasing).

Given an accusation of bias, most ppl imagine that they have wronged someone (b/c they can only imagine doing so honestly).

For narcissists, something not working out for them must be b/c of someone else. Here it takes the form of accusations of racism. This is preferable to narcissists as opposed to taking responsibility.
Isn't the VQ-VAE/dVAE generator approach in the DALL-E models quite a bit cheaper computationally than latent diffusion models?

My understanding was that diffusion models were quite a bit more expensive, but yielded richer latent distributions and better images (for some definition of better).
I feel like I see a lot of HN/HN-adjacent (pg, his friends, etc) conversation about polarization and elite overproduction that totally misses the asymmetry between the left and the right.

Like, sure, there are plenty of middle-to-upper-middle-class white liberals with “In This House We Believe” signs in their front yards. But while they may be culturally liberal, if you poll them on Medicare for All, wealth taxes, putting workers on corporate boards, or a $15 minimum wage, you’ll probably find that the rich white people of America aren’t clamoring to do anything that would threaten the status of corporations of people with lots of property. However the people who are (like the Amazon workers who just unionized, or the diverse coalition behind Bernie’s campaigns) are more sympathetic than suburban white liberals, and don’t fit as nicely into the horseshoe shape.

Meanwhile the Right is all in line on their agenda. The Right’s rich white folks aren’t worried about their masses voting against corporate interests, and they’ll happily sign off on whatever culture war issues it takes to keep the middle and working class parts of their constituency coming to the polls.
I think this just shows that politics is largely not a generative project. Trump tapped into a current of grievance and honed his message on that and almost never went against whatever got the biggest cheers at his rallies. He wasn’t the mastermind who came up with these ideas. They were already there.
S-Corp customers also don't have to worry about 1099s. They also tend to offer substantial tax savings vs a C Corp. They are less attractive to VC investors, but should work fine if the author plans on scaling by introducing partners instead of passive investors.
It is so sad how inaccessible the better parts of the world are. I feel so sad that so few have access to anything genuine. The opportunities dwindle & I feel terrible for that- I want an electrified humanity, with vast potential everywhere. With few exceptions it feels like this world is falling so far away from empowered stances, and it's so sad, and so little of tech tries to rectify & enhance humanity's greater potential.

Reciprocally- and this isnt necessarily better- I look at how squandered this interesting field is. It's so fortunate & gifted a field, to have exposure to so much, to be so uniquely empowered & entrusted. Yet I see so much partial pursuit, so much partial interest, so much moderated enthusiasm. The really good people in this field have so little support, so few who can help them or who work at their level. I don't begrudge anyone their existence here but to see the tip of the spear, the vanguard of humanity so dulled & un-trying is sad. I see such limited futures everywhere, but to see such limited uniterested unengauged potential so close to a heart of power & potential is truly dismaying. Who if not the techies can inspire us, reawaken our potentail? I feel as uncomfortable with my professional class as I do with anyone else: they at least have potential. And yet that just makes me feel further apart from them than the every-person, who has such limited chances to find an enabling empowering path.
I haven't seen the inside of an Action, but most of the stores here in the US that sell garbage at the lowest possible prices target the poor. The people I know who would never have to enter one, only do when it's convenient and the item is disposable. (We have "dollar stores" that can be a pretty good deal for party supplies/decorations) I hope people who really have a "I don't care if I have to throw this away and buy a new one all the time" mentality are a minority.

Having that kind of an attitude with device chargers is a great way to damage your devices! Does that guy feel the same about his phone as he does his chargers?

There are times when the cheapest option is a smart way to go, and times when it's so convenient that it's worth picking up the cheap item even knowing it'll cost you later. Most of the time though I think people like having nice things.
I'll confess I do know people who have money but always buy the cheapest toilet paper. There's no understanding some people.
Not only the build, but also research. Chris has published a paper on it during a lengthy build hiatus.
I struggled with this a lot. Drove me nuts we couldn't get decent code coverage because of error handling for errors I don't even know how to replicate in the first place.

Plus once your code throws one error, every bit of calling code also needs to handle that error. The problem cascades through a codebase quickly. Seemed like a huge violation of DRY principles.

Rob Pike (my understanding as one of the main guys who created the language) has actually addressed this, it's a good read:

https://go.dev/blog/errors-are-values

Tldr refactor your error handling to treat it like code. DRY and SOLID principles would apply and etc. Article makes example of handle your errors in one place rather than 20 by using no-ops on remaining operations after an error occurs.

I don't actually agree with the choice, as it takes one key library which throws errors at every call (like I'm dealing with now) for this to just become a huge pain to do. I had to completely change business logic to implement his suggestion, which isn't always viable (and I'm subsequently finding that out that that wasn't completely viable for us first hand now). Also a lot more boilerplatey type no value add type code needs to be written.

I much prefer unchecked exceptions for the most part, but at least I can understand WHY error handling is the way it is in Go.
It starts at 9:30 and arrives at 8:30. So if you're in a sleeper, you're pretty much ready to get to bed when it starts. There's plenty to do on the train if you carry electronics, books, etc.
Google maps api got a 7000% price increase. So, not shuttered but....
I'm actually shocked that battery life wasn't mentioned at all in this article. A watch that you don't have to charge for a week+ was Pebble's #1 differentiator. No other smart watch had that feature, and (almost) no other smart watch has it today in 2022.

The super lightweight C-based runtime and eInk display combination was a genius move. But I'm not sure they realize it, even in hindsight, other than alluding to the "geeky/hacker user base." As one of those geeky hackers, I didn't buy the watch because it looked like an off-brand Casio calculator, I bought it (and came back to buy the Pebble Steel and Time 2) because I don't have to plug the damn thing in every night. And I'd buy another one today if I could.
No, that's just GNU.
The Alt-Tab image is amusing but I will point out that Windows is doing its own innovations here - by default it now cycles through the 5 most recently used Edge tabs alongside your actual windows. On the bright side it can be turned off.
That’s my point, it’s irrational to think that. Amazon has so little to gain by doing that compared to the absolute mass of customers that would be migrated off of aws within a few years of such a scandal.
> My advice would be to scale fast. Hire subcontractors and productize your offering as quickly as you can.

So.. then you are back to the startup idea? I don‘t think that works for a lot of consultancies, does it?
Glowforge? Higher price point than most consumer gadgets, but their crowdfunding campaign set a record at the time. (The founding team spent tons of effort on getting the product-market fit right)
As a Let’s Encrypt user and fan, I can answer this.

LE is great, but their SLO is significantly below our customers’ expectations. For us, Google wouldn’t replace LE, it would supplement LE for higher reliability.

Seeing more providers conforming to ACME at a price point of “free” is great for the ecosystem.
> Their biggest asset is $3 billion in "funds held for customers", which, if they show that on their balance sheet, is not the property of the customer. It's money they owe their customers. They're acting as a bank.

If they're showing those funds as an asset and not a liability, that's a not a good thing. They're claiming ownership of those funds... Personally I'd run away as fast as possible.
Hackers Stole More Than $600M in Crypto. Laundering It Is the Tricky Part
People will look back on this period and be amazed that giving out free crack pipes was actually a thing the US government did.
Sounds like you are doing consultancy. You seem contradictory.

Everything is smooth and easy for you but you are lost too?

Here is my road map:

- Hire people

- Give them work

- Get paid and pay

- Change whatever you see is not working well

Good luck and I wish you luck.
Oddly this is actually nicer in macOS than Linux desktops, because Ctrl-A is normally reserved for "select all" on other OSes. Because macOS puts all the "normal" select/cut/copy/paste combos on the command key, the full set of Unixy movement keys is available on the control key.
I think this is probably the most accurate answer in this particular thread. There's essentially unlimited capacity in airspace, and while some airports are massively oversubscribed (LHR!) most are not. You can just keep putting planes up in the air in 3 dimensions where increasing the number of trains needs laying more excessively expensive physical infrastructure in 2 dimensions
What do you mean? I brought it up because it's directly relevant to my comment...

Genuine question, would you rather I danced around it somehow or figured out a phrasing that left that detail out? Part of the point of that detail was to show how commonplace this type of thing is by talking about just the group of people's who's land I happen to be on and not some exotic far away group.

Also I don't see how either of those two questions are relevant. If I point out that the native biome here is a chaparral am I necessarily implying that I feel guilt that it's been paved over or showing off that I live in the society that paved it over?
Ah, but you'd have to error on any even power, since of course a negative squared is positive, thus -v^2 would be v^2 and without the dash you can't be sure it's a switch.
I look for this in interviews. Obviously people are typically on best behavior and nervous so liable to make non-meaningful* errors, but I look for humility and openness, hard as it is to find upon such a high pressure and artificial situation. If it does it’s positive.

More importantly the founders set the culture through their own behavior and most new hires adopt and adapt to the local culture. So if you can propagate humility, openness to changing minds, etc your company will become stronger and more fun.

And I use the word “company” deliberately: “corporation” and “business” and technical tools, but a ”company” is a group of people getting together. Often corporation and company are used interchangeably, but effective organizations know the difference.
I used to...

Write software to model and evaluate hardware performance and power. Write software that generates software to test hardware, think hard about how to test hardware and explore if implementations violate architecture spec.

Now at work I mostly write docs about how to model/test hardware. I am too senior to write software and have to do something strategic (that is what I am told and rewarded for).

A series (very short - i did not switch companies too many times) of hey this is interesting and a few years became - "I know how to do this. It is not fun any more but I have bills to pay."

Outside of work I try to dabble in modifying/writing system code (*BSD or Linux) and teaching computer systems. Unfortunately I have very little time to put into these hobbies. I am not done chasing the dream, just a little winded from work so cant run as fast as needed to catch the dream.
I don't see it as a charity so much as we, as a group, are pooling our money so that those that need health care get health care. That can be people with pre-existing conditions, people with a new condition, people that are in an accident, preventative maintenance, or even just normal life situations (pregnancy, etc).

In my mind, it's not charity because it's

- For everyone. Maybe not for you today, but maybe tomorrow

- For the benefit of society as a whole. If we let everyone who got sick just die, our society would be worse for it.
Oh, so they've achieved parity with AWS. That's still nice, if not particularly impressive.
Conservation of energy is pretty fundamental. If we can't rely on that, then there's no point assuming anything at all, certainly not alien intentions.
The only Gaddis book I've read is A Frolic of His Own. It is essentially nothing but dialogue among upper class lawyers (& associated ilk), and I won't pretend it's a page-turner, but my word, it was masterfully crafted. Dialogue in novels is often so artificial, yet he managed to make it not only accurate and natural but also perfectly adept at carrying the novel along as well as if it were written in standard prose.
And that they're using chrome browser to make certs a mandatory and increasingly expensive monthly subscription service for site owners even though for many sites that don't handle secure transactions it really shouldn't be a requirement.

In 2026 only rich companies will be able to maintain sites with the way we're going folks.
> Its not so simple as just hitting a switch.

I know nothing about this area, but why _isn't_ it as simple as flipping a switch? When the tweet mentions their insurance becoming retroactively available, this sounds very similar to the experience everyone has when starting with a new employer -- even if you're eligible for their insurance program with coverage starting your first day, it takes a bit for your benefits selection to end up in the insurance company's system.

Why? Why can't this be instant? Is something happening other than a couple writes in a DB somewhere? Why can the new employee not fill out the registration form online, and be immediately covered, and given a digital insurance card?
What is or was fast?
There’s nothing to get. They oversold what they were doing and VCs didn’t do their necessary due diligence.
I'm not sure about your interpretation. It's a double-sided PCB. I think the vias are what you're calling test points. It looks fairly standard to me.
the (late)-2020 to 2021 euphoria environment is partially to blame too.

Going to be interesting to see how the other companies that raised big A and B rounds in the past one to two years fare.