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Ask HN: Creating the best possible career/monetary outcome for a side project
I wrote a JavaScript compiler / low code framework that can build single page apps pretty quickly in what I believe to be a unique way. I know it has some uses in the real world, but I am unsure how to monetize it or show it off in a way that can land me a better paying job in the future.

It has it's pro's and con's like most frameworks. It's not designed to be the fastest, but allows people to build internal like apps/ forms quickly with very readable code. I'm looking for advice on possible next steps I can take to create the best possible outcome without being taken advantage of. (I have heard tons of stories about open source maintainers driven to burnout because of the demands of the masses).

If anyone has advice I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
FMJ is a statically typed dataflow language. Programs are directed graphs. It has no program counter or stack. There are queues of tagged values at vertex inputs, and vertices execute asynchronously when all their inputs have values with the same tag.

Lisp is a dynamically typed impure functional language. Programs are nested lists. Its interpreter runs by calling eval and apply, which call each other. After compilation, code runs on a machine with a program counter and stack.

I don't see much similarity myself, and I wrote FMJ and know Lisp well.
This is important because Mr Beast doesn't actually spend a lot of time self aggrandising. He approaches philanthropy similarly to how many ultra wealthy people do; giving in public, only he makes more from it.
Bitcoin has lost more than 80% of its value at least four times in its short 10yr existence. It, and all other crypto, are highly volatile. Every time they go through one of these stages, people publish articles like these, asking if this time is the end.

But the builders just keep building, advancing the tech and extending its capabilities. Largely because cryptocurrencies are a fascinating engineering problem, which combine cryptography and distributed systems in a way never done before, and which also incorporate programming language theory, networking, computer and network security, economics, and law into the mix. It’s one of the most multi-disciplinary technologies there is. Like catnip for engineers, they just can’t stop building this stuff.
How do you find it compares to home assistant?
Ethereum’s famously expensive and slow though.
Unrelated, but yesterday I found out you can have two bools in C++ that are both true but do not equal each other, by reinterpret casting them from (u)ints. I think this was for the standard bool type too... Now I'm questioning the most basic of things.
Magic links are better security than most people's use of passwords.

I can't count the number of people I know who reuse the same password on every site or just use terrible passwords. It took me years to get my dad and girlfriend on a password manager, and they're the only family I've succeeded with.

It's the same with privacy. I could never get anyone to leave Gmail. You can't sell people on a major "inconvenience" by telling them about a hypothetical security breach. It's just not human nature.

And even worse, the only good password manager that I've used is 1Password and it isn't free.
The source of information about this that I have found most useful is an hour long talk given by Dr. William Dement at Google Tech Talks called Healthy Sleep and Optimal Performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hAw1z8GdE8
One of the nice things about Lisp is there are no statements, only expressions. It's easier to think about your code.

Lisp was the first language I used (other than assembly code) so when I encountered C I was puzzled why they even bothered to have statements at all. 40 years later I still don't understand the point.
Sure renewable energy is not everything, but spending 200 millions to tear down wind farms is also not how you get there
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-green-energ...
> Having a team that communicates effectively and and is agile (in the normal sense of the word) and executes effectively is more important than strategy.

Been part of a team that was very agile and executed quite effectively every day. We just put out fires caused by our bad code. It worked fine in some way every time but hours were wasted but everyone worked hard and gave their best.

I guess a strategy in this context would be post-mortems and root-cause analysis and time for the devs to actually learn the frameworks they are abusing.
I’ve been asked this before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21436448#21437951
Virtue can be practiced and even observed without being signalled.
Then charge the customers more for a 5G subscription and if they don't want to pay that and are quite happy with their "slow" 4G connection, then that begs the question whether 5G is worth the investment at all.

Making content providers pay the ISPs doesn't help consumers at all. Because content providers will simply increase their prices to cover the extra fees, so consumers are either going to pay their ISP more directly through their internet subscription or indirectly through their content subscription.

This whole idea is just a way for ISPs to raise prices without actually sending their customers a higher bill. They'll simply let the content providers take the fall for it instead.
This is also a first investment. They can wait a year and invest double in a larger plant - when building something for mass manufacture you start with a smaller plant to learn how to do it, and then a larger one applying all the expensive lessons learned the hard way from the first. Sometimes this cycle is repeating dozens of times.
Honest question - how does he fund these giveaways?
Different audiences have different opinions. Most of the places you would have seen the video were places where it was being upvoted and liked. So everyone was positive and those that weren't were downvoted and drowned out. This is something that isn't positive so all the negative opinions are here and positive opinions will probably be drowned out.
I also recommend Alex DeBrie's "The DynamoDB Book" (https://www.dynamodbbook.com/). It is a great resource that talks about these design patterns in depth. It has served me and my team well over the past few years.
Providing embedded AI with a capacity for palimpsest memory storage
Yes, there’s a list of these commands[1] somewhere, I thing "D <username> <msg>" did the same
[1] - https://archive.ph/Kqdqx
Sure, but the compiler doesn't care, and that's the problem.
To manage negative PR
I don't think that the bible says that giving to the poor will absolve you of your sins. So maybe not the same coin.
I really want to order one of these but my recent experience with Apple has been utterly horrendous.

They delivered two Studio Displays I ordered five weeks late, with no apologies and absolutely no information.

But that’s nothing: for reasons that have never been adequately explained to me, their system tried to charge my credit card TWICE for the same order, and when my card issuer blocked the card for suspected fraudulent transactions, they announced that they weren’t going to ship my order if I didn’t provide money within three days and that my material would be sent to others. Also this resulted in me being stuck in Germany without a working credit card and not being able to pay my hotel.

It was an absolutely disaster, totally unacceptable. I’m never going to trust them again.
I find the good strategy/bad strategy definition useful, which is essentially, an area of ‘strength’ as to be applied to an area of ‘weakness’ (put in quotes because I think weakness can be replaced with “opportunity” or similar words, but his point is that a good strategy should respect the specific skills of the business/team while also finding some unique space in the market those skills apply. Otherwise “visions” are just pipe dreams.
Better Than 'Foo'
We're going for a hybrid SFU/MCU architecture - c.f. https://2021.commcon.xyz/talks/extending-matrix-s-e2ee-calls...
Turning someone into a prop for your entertainment and profit without permission seems like a dictionary definition of dehumanizing.
Mr. Beast's driving motivation, as he's stated many times in interviews, is to make the best YouTube videos he can. He spends millions on his videos these days, all in an effort to outdo the previous one and provide the best content he can. So while he certainly does give away money in some of his videos, he films it in order to make money while doing it. I don't doubt that he's some level of generous, but his motivations are not solely benevolent.

His first viral "giveaway" video was him giving a homeless person $10,000. That wasn't his money. He got a company to invest in him by giving him the money to donate (while filming it) and promised them a return on their money. It's been a business venture from the outset.

That said, it doesn't really bother me. If he makes $1m dollars giving away $500k, so be it. He reinvests that money back into his business, that employs many, many people and sometime finds its way back to those in need. He's not inherently rich, he needs to make money to donate it and his means of making that money is sometimes exploiting the very act for likes, clicks and ad revenue.
Twitter suffers global outage at delicate moment for the company
> (5 + 1) * 2

That’s six expressions, not five. Josh conflates the the addition expression and the parenthesised expression, but they’re distinct (even if you couldn’t represent the semantics without the parenthesis due to operator precedence).

Here’s an approximate representation of the parse tree, indicating which nodes are expressions:

MultiplicativeExpression { ←
ParenthesizedExpression { ←
AdditiveExpression { ←
DecimalIntegerLiteral("5") ←
"+"
DecimalIntegerLiteral("1") ←
}
}
"*"
DecimalIntegerLiteral("2") ←
}
Interestingly enough -- well, to me, at least -- I came across this introductory video[1] last night from HBR about the differences between strategy and planning. It's piqued my interest enough to look more into it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuYlGRnC7J8&t=325s
The Chips for America Act : https://www.chipsact.com

US Chips Act Needs Stronger Congressional Backing Now : https://www.forbes.com/sites/timbajarin/2022/06/29/us-chips-...

Intel CEO Expects Chip Shortage to Persist Through 2024 : https://www.eetimes.com/intel-ceo-expects-chip-shortage-to-p...

House Bill Funds CHIPS Act, Stresses R&D : https://www.eetimes.com/house-bill-funds-chips-act-stresses-...

House Bill Funds CHIPS Act, Stresses R&D - (44 days ago | 117 comments) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31560844
People in Texas will be conserving power for most of the summer to "protect the grid". There's a good chance the power won't fail spectacularly like it did in the winter, but their lives are impacted.
it takes what is a useful social response (I had better be kind, so other people physically present don't shun me) into a twisted spectacle (I must show me being kind to as many people as possible and in the internet I have the means to do it)
I updated the demo to this newer link try this one.

https://www.atorable.com
What a despicable human being. He even lied about her crying and being grateful after he left her the flowers.
https://youtu.be/BU6PlJmGNkM?t=75
Well there has always been a supply of victims (err investors*, but after the last two crashes , what if the well has ran dry?
It still would be interesting to track this over time using similar methods, or adjusting for survey sampling. It may be that music during one's adolescence is favored, but that there are some common trends by decade nonetheless — maybe everyone likes the music from my adolescence disproportionately, for example. I imagine this might be out there but in a quick search I couldn't find it.

For me, good music ebbs and flows. It's constantly coming, in some sort of stochastic process. I'm not sure I have a favorite decade.

There's also the problem that as time goes on, people are exposed to an increasing selected sample of music that's not reflective of actual music at the time.
I’d wager the primary reason they’re not doing it is they don’t have a use case for it (yet).
Lol, within the first paragraph, we have the words "heteronormative", "prosecco", and a reference to 1Q84.

This is a lifestyle ad-piece. And what a bullshit lifestyle! Does she not even know that 1Q84 is Haruki Murakami's worst book?
Quebec is having 94% hydro (and has been for what, at least 2-3 decades now?) and is not suffering 1-2 days of falling apart every year.
Yeah - I spent a while searching 'teams message delay' etc. and even contacted our 365 admins to see if something was wrong with my account

Didn't occur to me that 'idle' would cause messages to stop coming in
No, it's not. Reality is that which, when you stop believing it, doesn't go away.
It is concerning that you can't take the Bar exam without agreeing to an incredibly invasive EULA.
Can you cite that? I've heard lots of those claims repeated but never first-hand
The backlash against "defund the police" was only for poor people's police. Defunding rich people's police has been official policy for decades.
Multiply those by the actual production and you'll get an equivalent cost.

Per the article, they estimate wind and solar to produce at ~40%. The reactors will operate at ~98%, some downtime for maintenance.
I can see how this issue will happen frequently, in diverse domains and abundantly.

In other words, the prediction is that the most likely outcome will be a lot of AI objects trained to be quite imbecile and will be optimal at that.

The danger is that real people might be assumed to be guilty of things due to AI trained and automated imbecility.

It's an ethical problem for the AI community and product designers.
Context has a big impact on intention. This video is a prime example of that.
As a dedicated org-roam user: Interesting to read Prot's analysis of this crowded space. I must give this a spin some time.
Emirates statement on operations at London Heathrow
I don't know how to explain it - if you make your living by being charitable, then the whole act of charity is somewhat lessened, no?

It's like when nestle announces they are going to plant 1 million trees - like yeah, it's very generous of you, no doubt - but you are doing it as a marketing exercise.

Mr Beast is making money this way. I am extremely far from saying that there's anything wrong with it - but it's not charity in my mind. It's just a business that happens to benefit random bystanders from time to time.
And yet it was faster / cheaper / easier for the OP vs the traditional banking mechanisms. That says more about the US and Canadian banks than anything else.
> Sending money in Europe is free and increasingly often instantaneous 24/7. It will be very difficult for crypto to reach the level of convenience available on unified infrastructure created through sensible regulation. Lacking that, maybe Americans will have to keep settling for all these clunky, incompatible intermediated patchwork solutions like Zelle and Venmo and USDC-on-Ethereum and whatever.

While true, I do think there is value in a permissionless protocol that anyone can plug into like this. Anyone in the world can send USDC to someone else (and any bank can integrate with this). The same can't be said for banking systems.
She should auction off the flowers.
The author makes a good point that there are not enough incentives to think long and ponder - which can lead to better, more "thoughtful" ideas.

I have found the following to be great incentives for quiet thinking:

- No electronics in early morning and at night (~1hr before sleep)

- Go on long runs without listening to music or podcasts

- Write things down on a notebook

- Do hobbies instead of scrolling through social media (i.e drawing, playing an instrument, exercising).
"And your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."

So still selfish (if doing it for the reward), but that is human nature.
We are in luck, angryincels.com is available! Let’s do a startup.
Reminds me of a story of Donal Rusk Currey and his unfortunate undoing while doing his job.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-one-man-accide...

One last note, as I've been to The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in recent years, it's an AMAZING panacea of views up high as the eye can see. I THINK you can see almost all of the Sierra Nevada across the valley in a couple points, and its breath taking how beautiful it is.

Worth visiting, but as a short fat white guy in technology - be ready for the thin air, and absolutely grueling hikes if you explore. It's SOOOO worth it for anyone in the Bay Area to make this trek.
> You need to rent a safety deposit box for the gold

No, I don't. Where I keep my valuables is my business, and it depends on how much gold I have. People kept gold long before safety deposit boxes at banks were a thing.

And, paraphrasing above: why is secure storage included for gold and not for Bitcoin in your analogy?
Then the data on your hardware is yours.

Your data in the cloud is the data of the cloud service's.

Your data is protected. Your cloud service resident data is not.

My rule is simple. If I cannot point at the drives my 0's and 1's are ultimately stored on, and the drives I point at do not belong to me, operating in in computers I own, it isn't mine. I don't have a fleet of lawyers to navigate the "technically mine" ToS/EULA minefield.

If I own the hardware, and I own the software on it, it is mine. Otherwise, short of levels of audit I find extremely unpleasant, it's an arms length arrangement I personally am intensely uncomfortable with given the track record humanity has demonstrated with prioritizing short-term self-interest against not doing questionable things in the long term.

I find this simplistic treatment of things, while making my life and software choices fewer in number, and less polished, tends to keep my friends and family out of trouble and harms way. They know the lecture is coming, and they still come see me anyway.
Well I enjoyed Lawn Darts and disagree with the prohibition on them so if the desire would be to ban social media I would also disagree with it

neither were "defective" products, just because they caused harm does not make them defective, both lawn darts, and social media are working exactly as the manufacturer intended, calling them "defective" is stretching the definition of the term

if you want to make the case of regulation one does not need to nor should the term defect be perverted to be used to get around legal productions (like free speech). Cocaine is banned not because it is defective but because it is harmful, though I also disagree with the banning of cocaine generally because I do not believe it is role of government to protect someone from self harm
Canada is a surprisingly unconnected federation of almost independent provinces. We don't have a great east-west interconnection between the provinces.

I mean, we have trade barriers between provinces. It's insane.
> Free market advocates always find the next culprit why the market can't deliver.

I advocate for the free market because it's been the most reliable way of elevating humans from subsistence levels of consumption and improving their quality of life. It's been the driving force in elevating billions of people from poverty over recent decades. I'd wager that most people, free market advocates or otherwise, would consider that a good thing.

To be clear, there are cases where markets fail. In those cases, government intervention can actually produce more efficient outcomes. Consider the case of basic research. Private enterprises would have be foolish to pay for glowing worms and shrimp treadmills; there's just no clear payoff. But this seemingly silly research is critical to progress. For example, the research on glowing worms (GFP added to C. Elegans) ended up winning the Nobel Prize and is crucial for observing biological processes in living organisms.

> new construction is coming in at 4x than 10 years ago... I don't see how the market is really solving anything here.

It sounds like high prices incentivized builders to increase construction by 400% over 10 years? That seems like the price mechanism is driving an increase in housing supply, exactly as one would want when there's a shortage of housing.
Dig in... I see what you did there
The lyrics for context :

Louie, Louie, me gotta go

Louie, Louie, me gotta go

Fine little girl she waits for me

Me catch the ship for cross the sea

I sail the ship all alone

I never think me make it home

Louie, Louie, oh, me gotta go

Louie, Louie, me gotta go

Three nights and days me sail the sea

Me think of girl constantly

On the ship I dream she there

I smell the rose in her hair

Louie, Louie, me gotta go

Louie, Louie, me gotta go

Me see Jamaica moon above

It won't be long, me see my love

Me take her in my arms and then

I tell her I never leave again

Louie, Louie, oh, me gotta go

Louie, Louie, me gotta go

I say, me gotta go

I say, me gotta go

Oh the humanity!
Show HN: Last Friday I sent 25 emails for music updates 1 week after release
We're Building the New Internet – Decentralised and Autonomous
Relatedly, this article is claimed to be a description of the algorithm that the C standard intended; it is surprisingly succinct: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22444447
Thanks for that link. Just got back from Ontario, I'm really surprised that wind generation is so low, they have a lot of wind turbines in south western Ontario. On my hour long drive to the beach I could almost always see one. I saw lots of solar as well.
Fire up Windows 2000 in a VM and poke around for a bit. The responsiveness is so good it's actually a little jarring. I have this experience working with the legacy 2003 VMs at work. Shows you how much software developers and designs have squandered resources over the decades.
Had the content not been flagged, you would've seen:

> As of 0848 EDT on 14 July

> https://twitter.com

> https://tweetdeck.twitter.com

:)
I've elaborated and gotten shouted down enough on the old threads that it's not worth repeating the whole thing. tldr:

1) the beams are not full, so many users are getting unrealistic service since they're not doing traffic shaping in those areas yet.

2) the areas that are full are seeing significantly worse speeds and latencies. see Reddit.

3) Elon said <20 ms pings will be normal. they're averaging 30-40ms in full areas.

4) it's not financially viable without many more users, higher costs, and cheaper launches.
I see this often in Seattle, especially near the tourist attracting areas. I had a friend get sniped by it and they ended up arguing with the scammer for 20 minutes. Absolute waste of everybody’s energy, I’m surprised it’s not treated as a form of harassment by the authorities.
It boils down to C compatiblity, every non zero numeric value is true, that language where good developers make no errors.
I'm very sure that's just UB. The standard requires unique representations of true and false (e.g. byte values of 1 and 0, but for all you care it could be 13 and 37). Converting an integer to bool (even implicitly, as in `if (3)`) is required to lead to those values in the abstract machine.

If you somehow force a bool to be a different value (e.g. `*(int*)(&myBool) = 7`), that's UB.
What is a leaky British sports car?

TVR? Jaguar?
Did you design Amazon's warehousing system?
I did several days straight without sleep and got mildly delusional. I remember sitting up, thinking about something (can't remember what) and then a minute later realized I was just thinking complete nonsense and got up to work.
I'm not the one making the comparison, it's people going around touting that you should invest because "it's like the early internet, it'll be everywhere soon and worth trillions".
I have all the helpful "filters" disabled and still regularly miss notifications for replies - it seems like Twitter doesn't notify you when a "small" account, the ones whose replies get hidden for some AI's random reason, replies.