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Ask HN: How Do I Start a Startup?
Background: I have a lot of experience in various industries in various capacities, many of them executive leadership or directional, but certainly everything from engineering to leadership. Those include existing large entities as well as being there on “Day One” for startups that have raised hundreds of millions of dollars and achieved the vaunted unicorn status. I feel like I may have contacts in the “industry” but maybe not.

So I decided to Start My Own Thing. Kind of. I feel like I have good intuition here, maybe not, but much of that was within confines of existing entities and more importantly structures. So, started my own thing. Under my name pitched something under software and got a $100k contract, very easily, based on my personal capability alone.

I do not care about $100k, and it is almost not noteworthy. Except I feel like based on my industry knowledge I can turn this small contract into goodwill that can snowball into lots and lots of “small” B2B contracts of similar sizes and maybe be a real thing. I have a lot of talented SWEs in my rolodex I could call. But, assuming maybe I’m right, and I can turn this small thing into a big thing, I really don’t know what to do here. I am used to fast growing things. I am thinking come up with a company name and start a Delaware c corp, and then the for contract #2 and then maybe start pinging outside contacts at various SV firms for some seed capital to expand to similar deals 3-10? I really don’t know.

Overall: I feel like I have the skills, have some market fit (?), have the personal history, and could theoretically build a well-heeled team. But I have never actually started a startup myself and am totally lost. Can someone suggest a roadmap to the practical aspects of Starting a Startup?
Nobody described in either the article or the original source from the Telegraph seems to have made any of these claims. So I'm not sure why you're asking these questions here.
Would you mind giving an example of what that might look like? Or linking to something? I've always struggled with needing to open ports temporarily on stuff behind my own reverse proxy to avoid passing the certs by hand, and it sounds like something that'd be useful to understand.
The acme client needs to reach LE though. Or you need to do a dance where the client is outside of the private network and ships the certificate into the private network.
A maze generator in WebAssembly in Rust
Everything about this article is great except the clickbait title:

New information and number (new to me, I mean), historical context, and nuanced analysis on a charged issue. I feel obligated to re-subscribe.
The Recognitions is a fantastic and rewarding book. It made an impact on my thinking that will probably never go away. Be patient with it and enjoy it.
I do leave my hand on the trackpad on Mac a lot more than I do with Linux - partly because the trackpad on Mac is better than any other trackpad - but also because I think a trackpad is inherently slower and sometimes when I use a mouse/keyboard on Mac I notice the system isn't quite as responsive as it feels when I use gestures
Paid version of alfred includes a clipboard manager and the ability to create workflows like add emojis or integrate with let’s say dash for documentation search etc. very nice, telepathy-like experience.
I miss my Pebble Time Steel, the concept of a Timeline on the watch for upcoming events and weather is IMO superior to anything else out there.

I somewhat found a spiritual replacement for it with the Bangle JS 2, but the experience isn't as polished and it feels a bit slow.
For me creating an account is a sort of payment.
Yep, or CMD + left/right arrow. Option + left/right arrow goes back/forward one word. Hold down Shift doing these to select what you move over.
With rail, the physical rail becomes an economic chokepoint. Who controls the rail came name his price. Now you might think that the same goes for airports, but often there are multiple viable choices. E.g. in the bay area you could use SF, Oakland or San Jose.
Cmd + left/right works everywhere for me (except the terminal)
> They are funded by the CCP

First time I am hearing this. What's the source?
Yes, the article identified the scaling issue. Since they received minimal VC they were perfectly positioned for “organic growth”, but being part of YC, may have led them to follow the pack and try to hire their way into 10x growth. The original model was made in a garage and then they took on a large staff which burdened the company to produce a higher volume of products. They could have chased more VC money or debt to keep the lights on, but facing up against the Apple Watch behemoth isn’t such an attractive proposition.
I’ve been in this spot - a change in ownership, lapse in insurance, and having to cover it yourself until new insurance is retroactively applied.

It sucks. But it’s far from the worst pitfall of our system.
I had a Nissan Leaf a few years ago and hated that it had to beep when in reverse. Leaving early in the morning felt extremely rude for my neighbors and given the context of use, the beeping had little to no value for safety.
Many airlines are subsidised, and their pollution (sound, air, sea, land) is effectively a subsidy as the airlines don't pay.
>I would have expected some sort of acknowledgement to their fantastic work over the years.

i think their platinum-level sponsorship of the ISRG is probably more meaningful than a shout-out in a blog post.
-c is often command
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows." -- Geronimo Gletkin
If people in Russian, or Spanish or Chinese or Indians want to call the Pythagorean theorem by any other name, let them, by all means, who cares? Let them print their own books, publish their own web pages and have them call it by whatever they want.

In English we get it from our own tradition, they can get it from their own. If they like they can very well make it up, who cares.

Is it racist if Indians or Chinese, or Egyptians have another names for it? Like who cares about where the nomenclature came from. They can call it frankfurter instead, or porkbun, who cares. In English we call it the Pythagorean theorem. We have our names, they have theirs.

What next, people who speak English remove any bible-inspired names and take up native names because using biblical names is racist by denying names 'native' to English? I guess Peter is out but William is in, right?

Wait, wait, to further decolonize the English language itself, we'll abandon the Latin alphabet and go back to Fuþark, better? Ah, decolonization!
shameless self-promotion

Three ex-Pebblers went on to found Memfault(YC W19, https://memfault.com), taking what they learned about managing a fleet of IOT devices and building a suite of monitoring and OTA tools to support other hardware companies.

Answering questions like "did fleet battery life get worse with yesterday's update?" get really really hard when you start managing thousands of devices. Memfault is all about making it easier to create the next Pebble.

We're hiring! https://www.workatastartup.com/companies/memfault
I find one of the most effective ways has been for me to try to feel closer to them first. I think a lot of conflict leads into attacks, such as blame, guilt tripping, rejection, etc, and so I practice replying to such attacks in a way where I might feel closer to them after than when I started. To get back on the same team, per say. It doesn't mean they will, but I've found that if at least think they're on my team, then I'm more likely to engage with them openly and they may come around to do the same.

I practice three main steps: 1) tell the truth about how I'm actually feeling 2) tell them how I imagine they might be feeling, and 3) say one thing to connect with love. If I do the first two steps well, then the third comes more easily.

There are other tactics, such as separating behavior from person: "I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at what you said, and I'm telling you because I care about you." Or really expressing uncertainty: "I don't know what to do anymore" (as long as I genuinely don't know what to do)

I'd say overall the goal is for me to feel closer to them, for me to resolve my conflict with them, and then maybe they'll resolve their side as well, but not required.

Does that make sense?
And for those unaware of Cmd+left/right, there's also Alt+left/right for moving over one word at a time.
Woodworking,or just creating physical stuff
When I was a kid we sat literally inches from the screen. This was because of a TV show called Winky Dink and You:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winky_Dink_and_You

You would go to the store and buy a special kit with a vinyl sheet that stuck to the TV screen and special crayons you could use to write on that sheet and interact with the characters in the show.

I think what saved us was parental wrath.

All the kids in the neighborhood discovered that you didn't need the special vinyl sheet, and in fact you could use ordinary household crayons to write directly on the TV screen!

And that was the end of Winky Dink.
It would be helpful if you gave actual examples of how math is racist, instead of making accusations of “blind denialism.”

Instead of telling us how blind we are, why don’t you enlighten us?
Shine: A super fast fixed-point MP3 encoder
I think they are going for zero Covid so entire buildings are quarantined for weeks if anyone is sick and those who fail tests are send to Covid camps which are overloaded because Omicron spreads so easily. The government is supposed to distribute food but its not done uniformly.
Well yeah, now you can't turn it off
i am pretty certain (but happy to be corrected) that Google has never killed a GCP service that paying customers are using.

Google != Google Cloud Platform
One of my favourite Go posts from awhile ago was a Go v Java/C where both beat Go handily in speed. The author then went on to declare the winner Go b/c Go used less mem than Java and had mem management while C didn't.

This led me to Randy's Law of Benchmarking: Unless an author publishes what result they want beforehand, any benchmark the author produces is invalid.

Corollary: Even the ideation of a benchmark has bias embedded in it.
> The fact that Google can't and is losing the war

Google has zero incentive to actually win that conflict, as frequently the SEO spam serves up ads from which google directly profits.
I think this is because some tools print the usage message to stderr rather than stdout (ironically I couldn't find an example while typing up this reply). Try:

$ foo -h 2>&1 | grep bar
Not trying to fit into your red vs blue grouping, but I don’t think anyone considers Joe Rogan to be left at all. He’s generally seen at Dr Oz for 30 year old dudes. I’ve listened to some after hearing him hyped up and generally fitting into the target demographic. Didn’t find much nuance.
Former Gitea (Gogs) contributor here. I see your point and you're not really wrong but it's not that easy either:

- GitHub has way more features. More features means more scattered data (e.g. different micro-services databases, file storage).

- You cannot use Gitea in an organization with hundreds or thousands of engineers. It provides nether the features nor the scalability you need. I like Gitea but I'm happy that my company uses GitHub.

- Individuals and open-source use GitHub because it's free and has all the features (including stuff like free CI/CD which is expensive). This is all being paid for by companies like mine who buy expensive enterprise licenses for thousands of engineers.

- It's not uncommon to shard by customer/account, even in the cloud and GitHub is actually trying to do this right now for their primary database. Doesn't solve the problem with different storages for different micro-services though.
Haha I didn't mean it to sound so grandiose, it's hard to explain with so little context. That's why it's been way harder than expected to try to write up a proposal or summary to get my point across to people, without actually just writing the entire thing! When it's generalized it sounds like some super fluffy stuff haha.

I actually really appreciate the critical feedback. It gives me data on how people perceive my posts/efforts/work. Lack of data really drives me crazy. So this is good :)

I'm so so glad you're up for proofreading and giving feedback!! This is crazy! Thank you so much! I'll keep your contact on hand and will let you know of any updates!!

:)))
Tell HN: Love this GCC error message
interpret.h: In function ‘h_interpret’:
interpret.h:763:8: error: ‘*lhs’ is a pointer; did you mean to use ‘->’?
*lhs->type = Node_var_new;
^~
->

"Did you mean to use the -> token instead of the -> token?"

"Why yes, only with more parentheses."
Lagrange is by far the best gemini client I've used. The gemini experience on Android has been a bit lacking, useable but not very polished, I'm very happy to see this particular client ported to Android.
rlwrap [1] may be able to help

[1] https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
True but you could with Starship. Or even if we ignore Starship. Falcon Heavy, Vulcan and New Glenn.

The only reason SLS is required is because the mission architects HAD TO use SLS in their architecture.

SLS in terms of what it does for it price would never be used in any architecture that tried to achieve the most with a given budget.
... which is how they connect your account to who you are (or who you work for), so they can extract value from your social graph instead.

As the adage goes, if it's free you are the product, not the customer.
You're saying this like it's a bad thing, why? Why should we tax common goods and services to the point they become luxuries only some people can afford?
This is amazing, and every day my excitement for Supabase grows. What would be the best way to build a multi-region cluster in Supabase?
> Which does raise an issue: I'm not sure why you'd use this, given Google's

.. the biggest advertising giant on the planet that sucks up as much data as they possibly can about their subjects.

> What's the compelling reason to switch
This, I'm not sure why people don't talk about as much but Finder is awful and I've not been able to find a replacement.
It launched in 2002 - well before my time but I'm guessing that for the first few years of its life there weren't many competitors.

Now it has endless competitors and I'm led to believe that it has accumulated lots of features that businesses can't live without but which the average end user never touches.
It's a really bloated browser, barely working on my 11 year old core 2 duo.

However, it's way the best geminibrowser there is! It's beautiful and well built. I'm using it everyday on my macbook air m1.

This is no toy like many other gemini things. This is awesome
Ceephax Acid Crew - Eurozone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpvUzUQKOqU

> warning: occasional strobe. as we've not been able to travel for ages I decided to send myself off on a virtual holiday of Europe
This object was a probe.

Oumuamua was the mass ejected to decelerate.

Mother ship due in 10-20 years.
Whoa, he's related to Squarepusher? Now I need to check him out...
It's surprisingly hard to find prompts that give good results. Almost anything anthropomorphic is a no go, and X made of Y usually just gives you an X or a Y. Here are a few I found that are pretty consistent in mixing the mentioned influences.

Portrait of a steampunk cyborg by Andy Warhol

Steampunk landscape oil painting

Art deco teapot

Organic spaceship in the clouds

Sketch of alien anatomy by Leonardo da Vinci
Collectivism, by definition, requires the use of force against people who aren’t complaint with the “collective”, so it requires violence.

It’s a lot easier to commit violence against people when you can outsource it to someone else, so collectivism requires a strong, central authority. The less local that authority is, the less culpable we can convince ourselves we are when it goes wrong. The reason we keep building these large, dysfunctional political systems is because taking responsibility is hard, and most people don’t want to put in the effort.
besides the small data point 'visited hostname console.cloud.google.com'

That's a pretty huge data point though. It puts you into a very specific market segment.
Yours is a common belief, and I don't think you should be down voted for it, but you are wrong.

Firstly companies don't shutter, they downsize. The most vulnerable employees are the first to go, the higher paid ones are typically the most valuable, remain. Owners go last.

Secondly, in my experience, all employees would rather forgoe a raise and keep everyone employed that insist on a raise. We saw this first-hand in 2020. Lockdown brought extreme uncertainty but employees agreed to 50% [1] pay instead of massive job cuts.

Yes it helps that we pay staff well. Yes it helps that they get a bonus in the good years. Yes it helps that we have their interests at heart. Yes it helps that they are skilled and we don't want to lose them.

Yes, over the years some people have become redundant, but there are swings between good times and bad times, and no we don't shutter just because there's a bad time. That's explicitly _not_ how it is supposed to work.

[1] we had a min threshold for 50%, those under got 100%. Also thanks to govt assistance, and our ability to back-pay later, they all ended up "whole".

[2] ps - I agree on the need for a minimum wage. In almost all cases it is too low by a lot. And I agree that if you can't pay minimum wage, then you can't afford an employee.
My honest theory, being the victim feels good. It's easier to wrap up yourself in the warm blanket of victimhood when you're a loser.

Now, I should probably define "loser" a bit. Not in regards to wealth or career status. Generally, I mean someone that has zero going for them. No drive. No aspiration. No ambition. No skills. No pursuits. No self improvement. No self education. No... well... have you noticed the people loudest online regarding the whole victim this, victim that... if you took that away... what do they have? Like, you can't even nerd out with them about anything. No interests. No hobbies. Nothing really. Their entire personality and life comprises of this stuff. And I mean doing things within their control too. Sure, some aspirations are going to be out of your reach for one reason or another. Shit, all F1 drivers were pretty much chosen when they were sperm at this point. That's not in the cards for a lot of people. But to focus on a handful of things that don't work out for you and miss out on literally everything else the world has to offer... fuck, that's some childish shit. Which again, it's all just a tantrum of losers.

The real problem, kids are being raised that this line of thought is okay. It's encouraged and glamorized. Most of you here are programmers to some degree. If you have a few years under you're belt, you had that hazing period to become a "real programmer". That first problem/bug that could not be looked up. There was no pre-packaged solution. And you bashed your fucking head against that problem/bug day in and day out. You dreamt of it. You thought about it when you ate and when you shit. You refused to give up even though you thought you were NEVER going to figure it out... until one night you smashed that wall and grabbed the solution by it's neck.

Now imagine you thought it was computer science's fault because it was racist. Would you have solved it or just cried/whined?

Looking for the light in the darkest struggle is what most encouraging tales and stories are about, for a good reason. Even Beethoven's Ode to Joy has the themes of dark brooding, then the bright, large success in overcoming and not giving up. A good reason it's lasted this long. Hiding in the shadows of this racism/victimhood bullshit has got to stop or humanity is going to reap a barren field.
Trains are also noisy, at least as much as planes. As for pollution, consider how much land is taken from nature for tracks...there is almost none for airplanes, in comparison.
It seems to be empty: https://github.com/lucidrains/DALLE2-pytorch/blob/main/dalle...
Ultimately because it drives down the cost of labor by locking employees in.

Employer’s cost per employee is much much lower than an employee’s cost directly from insurer. The employer “sells” the benefit to the employee at a higher perceived cost because of this.

Without an employer’s discount, an employee simply cannot get the same insurance coverage.

Thus, the employee agrees to working pay and conditions which would not be agreeable without the pressure to get health coverage.

Hence, lower cost of labor to the employer and pressure to keep the current structure in place.
There’s also watchy which is more like the original. I haven’t seen it in the flesh but maybe others have experience.
https://watchy.sqfmi.com/
^^^ you mean ctrl-a and ctrl-e? But yes, +100 to the caps lock → ctrl remapping. Trivial to do in the keyboard "modifier keys" setting, and makes emacs text movement extra fast.
Intel Opens D1X-Mod3 Fab Expansion; Moves Up Intel 18A Manufacturing to H2’2024
Well, clandestine psychedelic assisted therapy has been going on for at least a few decades and seemed to be largely based on both psychedelic experiences had by the therapist themselves, and trial and error - which you could argue is not too different from shamanic practice.

I’m not sure how much, if any, scientific rigor was applied in the past - I hope that changes.
Author here. Every time I do one of these lists and it appears on Hacker News, folks go nuts because the obscurity is not what _they_ think of as obscurity. With that in mind, I’m trying to tweak the model as I go along. In this case, I tried rephrasing the title in this case to make it clear that I’m generally talking about things that aren’t in common use today. (I went with “10 Networking Technologies That You Probably Aren’t Using”)

OSI is actually a good example. There is a lot of specificity within the spec where technologies that were borne of standard found use, specifically with networking. But for those who aren’t networking pros, some (not all) of the more detailed standards are simply not very common today, even if they did see a degree of success. Broadly, the model itself proved more influential than some of the protocols that were borne from it, which (beyond the point that OSI’s original intended use case was largely usurped by TCP/IP) is the point I was trying to make in all of three paragraphs.

Kermit is another example—it was very common in the 1980s if you were a modem user. But over time, while still being maintained, it fell out of sync with the ways many people use computers. It’s still good technology; it’s just not necessarily something the layperson is aware of.

I think the challenge here is that my newsletter’s audience has a lot of overlap with the HN crowd but it generally hits slightly broader—as in, they know some of the lingo but aren’t necessarily experts in it. It’s a balance I’m trying to strike with these, but it’s not always perfect. Hope that makes sense, thanks.
Looking at the list of gemini pages here https://gemini.circumlunar.space/, I'm reminded of the 90s where interlinked sites actually seems like the most sensible way to get around. This stuff isn't going to be found on Google.
Animals often seem to do nothing.

Sit and watch a wild rabbit all day, and while he'll be eating a lot of the time, his 2nd favourite activity appears to be just sitting idle.

He's awake, eyes open, just not doing anything.
I’m certainly overlooking something but the risk seems small since it uses an open standard. You should be able to fallback to another acme provider right?