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Co-founder of Bubble on the benefits of being broke
I interviewed Emmanuel Straschnov, the co-founder of the nocode platform [Bubble](https://bubble.io/) a while back. At the time, they were pulling in about $150k/mo.

TL;DR: Entrepreneurship is not glamorous, but it's worth it. And being broke can actually light a fire under you.

"If you become an entrepreneur after having had the comfort of a nice salary, it is costly. Personally costly, in terms of comfort. I survived on a combination of savings and a cheap lifestyle — I managed to live on less than $28,000 a year. My first room was less than 8 square meters. I had roommates. You don't want to do that for ten years, but for a year? I actually enjoyed it. And I wanted a little discomfort in my life to make me work harder. The biggest challenge was social. Most of my friends from business school had highly-paid jobs so the fun that they wanted to have was not at the same price point as the fun I wanted to have. Like, I didn't know when I'd get paid again, I couldn't put 80 dollars into dinner. So the people I hung out with changed, but a few very good friends would regularly just pay for me and say, 'You'll buy me dinner when you're rich.' I'm very grateful for that. Three years in, we still weren't making real salaries, we had no vertical traction, we were working a lot, and I was getting too old for the college lifestyle. It was a little tough. I started looking at the opportunity costs and it got to a point where I was like, 'Is this really what I should be doing with my life during my most productive years?' People around me were doing great things and I felt the clock ticking. It actually made me work a little bit harder and scale more aggressively. Soon, the business was making enough money for us to take a decent salary. It wasn't the kind of life I would have had in the corporate world, but it actually felt cooler."
Yeah I did the same. I find the best way to use YouTube with a lot of subscriptions is just to click the subscriptions list and it shows you who has a new video and you can decide what you're in the mood for based on the channel.
>> why should someone be 'investing' in newbuild Apartments they won't live in, what value does that bring to the economy?

it funds their construction and land acquisition
> What would be the best alternative to Wikipedia at getting a list of citations on a topic quickly?

If you're looking for major/important sources to read on a topic, not just a quick way to halfway-fake a works-cited section, I've found it valuable to locate some representative, recent academic book in the field and read the author's introduction and other pre-chapter-1 material. These will often include a lot of name-dropping of what are considered major works in the field. There may also be a list of abbreviations the book will use, and those often include several major works in the field that'll come up often in the body text.

That's your list of books and papers to find and read. Repeat that technique with each of those books and papers, too, if you want to keep going deeper.

Often you can get enough off an Amazon or Google preview of a book for this to work. Plus, libraries exist, and you pull that kind of information out of several books (which can be handy—anything that appears more than once deserves special attention) in less than an hour, without checking anything out. And there's always Library Genesis, which may not have every book but probably has at least one in your interest area that can be mined in this way.

Wikipedia's sort of useful for this, at least for tracking down a first work to attack with this approach, but the problem is that many articles don't cite highly-regarded or authoritative or landmark works on the topic, so much as whatever the author(s) happened to have handy or what was easiest to find online (a whole hell of a lot of great information is still not available on the Web, even in 2022, including material in very recent books, not just pre-Web ones, or is available on the Web but only in poorly- or not-indexed-by-web-search-engines under-copyright ebooks).
But... why? As productivity levels go up and life expectancy goes up, we should be able to allow people to enjoy retirement more, not less. If we can't do that, then perhaps capitalism is just garbage and we need to find a better way.

Also I do wonder if life expectancy increases are translating directly into the possibility of more "productive years". I wouldn't be surprised if some of the life expectancy increase is due to medical procedures that extend life at the expense of quality of life. People in these situations wouldn't be working anyway.
> not a failure of culture, it's Capitalism

Plenty of capitalists are happy running businesses at steady state. Some, even to wind down. (We tend to have nasty names for the latter.)

Growth at all costs is not a problem with our commercial culture at large nor with capitalism. It’s a convenient bogeyman for when we want to punt on a problem.
In the last months I worked with some juniors on the same project. Usually in order to overcome some bad practices and bad code, I add some linters: ESLint, Stylint, commitlint and also prettier.

It usually helps a lot and I avoid redundant code reviews for dummy things.

However, there was one thing I couldn't avoid. Files and folders names.
Although I had some clear convention with my file structure, other people kept on creating files and folders that did not follow the repository convention.

First thing I thought of was applying some file structure linter.
But I couldn't find any proper linter for this.
I found one which could not be applied with lint-staged and has very low maintenance and features. So.. I created my own package!

This tool will scan your file structure in the repository, and validates, according to provided configuration, that the files and folders match the provided convention.
As a wikipedia contributor, I disagree.

You don’t automatically deserve Wikipedia article because you exist, or even because you did a good job your whole life. Even if you have tons of credits on IMDV. You don’t “deserve” wikipedia article. It’s not a collection of everything that exists ever.

The criteria for notability on wikipedia are actually quite clear and documented.

It’s not a badge for a job well done…

And if you disagree with that - fine, it’s creative commons, you can easily get all the articles with all their histories (wikipedia helpfully dumps all that periodically every day as giant XML), and the software is open source; you can fork it and create article on every living human being that ever existed.
>Seeing as how NVIDIA doesn't actually manufacture semiconductors

They don't fabricate, but they do design quite a lot of them, and are even moving into the ARM CPU arena.
It was, and let's keep pretending like the Russian invasion of Ukraine has nothing to do with that (or other tech news about Russia).
Interestingly it also seems to mix your content with content your friends tend to view. Or at least it does so tentatively, to see if you share the same interest. When I friended a pilot friend of mine on TikTok, I immediately started seeing pilot/plane content. This is after having had an account since forever and not once having seen pilot content on my For You page before. It's an interesting way to broaden your horizons, but it does turn a little common denominator, depending on what your friends like.

Similarly (and I have no way of proving this, but I believe it 100%), TikTok seems to alter your feed to incorporate videos from other people watching TikTok near you. My friends and I have made a game of this where we cast TikTok to a TV, watch videos, and try to guess which of us the video was intended for.

I've never once had a "oh wow that's a neat content discovery method" moment from Facebook/Instagram/YouTube but it has happened multiple times with TikTok. I'm not saying TikTok is the end-all-be-all of social media, but it's a good window into what social media could be, if they stopped chasing ad revenue and anger-driven content.
European private-sector offensive actor using 0-day exploits
>In a periodic transaction report, the senior Democrat disclosed that her husband, financier Paul Pelosi, sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia for about $4.1 million, ending up with a loss of $341,365.

He bought options in July 2021. Basically, he said he'd buy 20k shares stock for X price regardless of the price in the next year. If the stock goes up he can sell the options without having to buy said stock (for a profit). He can also give up what he paid for the options and choose not to buy the shares and they'd expire worthless.

As the stock was below what he bet it would be within a years time he decided to exercise his right to buy the 20k shares rather than lose his initial investment. He then sold, for a loss, but possibly a smaller one than if he just let them expire worthless.
ML Is a Game Changer for the Incident Management Lifecycle
Didn't they deal with interest during those periods that caused the long recessions you're talking about? I think we're seeing a pattern here.
google docs + keep, reasonably well curated bookmarks, and especially for work: a pen and post-it notes (a lot). i kanban them all across my monitor and end up with a nice archive that i can dig through for historical context.
> I found myself in an "interesting" position where I had to reshape my identity from scratch.

What did you end up doing about it?
And if you are in Paris and can't visit Notre-Dame because it is under renovation, maybe go see some other gothic cathedrals that are less than an hour away by train, such as Beauvais' or Chartres'.

For what my opinion is worth, I was awestruck by Beauvais' cathedral personally (even though, or especially because, I visited a fair number of period churches). Its nave is incredibly high, high enough that the aisles vaults by themselves are higher than some entire churches. It's also only halfway done, which is somewhat disappointing from an architectural perspective but fascinating from an archeological perspective: half the Carolingian cathedral is still there, which is a rarity.
Oh, it's that low? I guess they are priced for "slow decline." For comparison, IBM's P/E ratio was around 10 before the pivot to a consulting company.
Same problem here but to be honest I do click on those ass pics
This hit the same day I released a hobby music side-project I'd just spent 200+ hours of time and nearly $10,000 on.

The website has been unreliable, constantly -- for nearly 5 days. Their support has been useless.

Their communication has been useless — I would never have done the release promotion had they clearly communicated that my website would be effectively offline.

They have made no effort whatsoever to make things right with customers. It's as if they don't know what they're doing -- or don't care.

Instead of celebrating the release of geek music, I'm dealing with my listeners sending me emails like:

"Fourth time's the charm"

"got a CloudFlare error once, and some confusion with the cart (0 items, then 2)"

"It eventually worked on the fourth try just now, but the whole site (not just the emailed links) is loading very slowly, with frequent timeouts at the moment... (Both static pages and logged-in account pages.)"

"At checkout it hung for a long time with spinning circles and then gave me a message in red at the top that said something about it having failed."
Yes, there is some truth to it. Many older systems communicate with the central station over an ordinary telephone line. More modern systems will use either a cellular communications link or VOIP.

But, the real truth here is that most criminals are pretty unsophisticated and won't even bother cutting phone lines or other cables. Most break-ins also happen through the front door, so, although it sounds great (and it is actually pretty great) to have contact sensors on every window and blanket the whole place with motion detectors, it's not really necessary. If anything, you only really need sensors on the first floor, because in spite of how the movies sometimes depict these sophisticated, cat burgler types, it's mostly just thugs who bash in or take a crowbar to your front door. That's also why advertising exactly what company your security system is from isn't a big deal: they don't care. They see "security system" and just move on to the next house.
I don't know who these articles are written for (having read this one in a dozen variations) Sure I agree they're not always the right solution but do you think you're going to convince someone who thinks they are at some small company from trying to roll them out?
I don't blame them tbh. On a whole species level, why are we inventing the wheel hundreds of separate times just to satisfy pedantic legalese? Any alien observing earth would think we are idiots and clearly nothing to be worried about because we do stuff like this, in the name of profits usually, instead of just sharing ideas openly with each other.
Why "must" the agricultural sector be forced to "liquidate" their dollars "in a reasonable time"? By "liquidate" you presumably mean "sell for pesos", and the answer is that pesos are an irresponsible speculative investment that nobody would invest in voluntarily. It only goes down, and it does so with enormous volatility. The only reasonable time to do this is less than one day before spending the pesos.

So the answer is the same as if a mugger asks why you must be forced to give me all the money in your wallet, receiving nothing in return. The implied necessity is an invention of the speaker.

I don't believe you have reliable information about the size of the illegal dollar market.
exactly. this also leads to e.g. "Controversy" sections of articles with sentences that make uncharitable statements about people or groups, sometimes outstripping the rest of the article in terms of length, and ending with [11][12][13][14][17][24][27] so you know it's a super accurate true statement instead of politically- and/or ideologically-slanted analysis from multiple sources (potentially all referencing a single source themselves) that "just so happen" to be completely identical. it doesn't matter that if it was something that happened years ago that's wholly irrelevant now and everyone's long forgotten about it—if a Sufficient Quantity of Journalists said that the thing was notably controversial at the time, well, it's notably controversial forever!

it seems like I encounter more and more of this exact thing all over Wikipedia as time marches on.
Apparently also known as the "Baader–Meinhof phenomenon".
Exactly this. Thanks to cryptocurrencies we can avoid a lot of this madness
Finding a source that conveniently supports the judgement you wish to deliver, is not quite the same thing as being swayed by the source you come across. Both would manifest as an increase in citations, and it's hard to tell which has occurred here (perhaps a mix - but in what ratio?)
Every morning I to go youtube and check my subscriptions for new videos. I have zero bell notifications because I just find it really annoying. I work from home most days so I play the interesting new videos that day from my subscriptions and really don't bother with anything else.
Thanks, never saw the plan just heard an anecdote. And it's interesting to learn London landlords could be as "assertive" in XVII century as they are now
The part that's missing here is the expenses, which have risen substantially.
Rust was sufficiently different from C++ and C in a lot of use cases, while maintaining a similar syntax.

It also rode on a sort of anti OO programming sentiment (or rather, pro interface anti class sentiment), which was my personnal reason. I mean, i know you can do everything rust traits do with interfaces, but it feel better, and it also feel better there won't be a exceedingly smart programmer who does exceedingly smart things with classes that someone will have to understand and write a documentation for (and fail).

It also was out at a good time, with a sort of "rivalry" with go, without the same uses case: the number of "Go vs Rust" thread that poped in with the response "they are not targeting the same problems" did help with popularizing the two languages.

And rust is simply a very good language.
only time will tell. Every gamer was upset about diablo immortal being a mobile pay to win game, but recent reports suggests diablo making boatloads of money. The shift could work out in the long run.
I’m 27 and I’ve felt that way since I was 9. My psychiatric evaluator calls it “permanent depression”. There is little hope for remission in this life
He bought the options back in summer of 2021. He decided to exercise them rather than let them expire worthless. His price was probably around 180/share.

>In a periodic transaction report, the senior Democrat disclosed that her husband, financier Paul Pelosi, sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia for about $4.1 million, ending up with a loss of $341,365.
Also coal. But oil is better than both, and cannot be effectively embargoed for a country as big as Russia.

And the Mid to North African pipeline projects will be supercharged now, but how long will they take ?

(At least, the first German methane vaporization terminal should be up and running this winter ?)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32052302

Finally, not «unlimited» - this shows yet again (and we knew this for nearly 70 years now), that it was foolish to rely medium-term on fossil fuels - only viable if your goal was medium-term survival as a polity against industrialized polities - and I have the suspicion that the oncoming decade of industrial recession and freezing will push public opinion even more towards short-, rather than long-term comfort and survival...
GPS spoofing will not prevent a US attack on Russia, it may prevent angry Russians from finding Putins' office, though.
As a side note, that's like a couple of days of production for one fab. A billion chips would be more meaningful in your example.
Here's an example of what I mean. The article states "The Committee seeks to achieve maximum employment and inflation at the rate of 2 percent over the longer run."

Someone on this thread stated the interests rates are actually being raised because the committee seeks to crush unions.

So if that "obvious" sentence was removed I'd only be hearing one side of the story if I read the poster's take and the attached press release.
No, there are actual customers whose websites have been borked for a half week. I am one of them.
Mark is unkickable, he has owns the majority of votes. We’re not even close to a world where he kicks himself
I think it's important to remain playful about life. To quote the book Finite and Infinite Games, by JP Carse:

"To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as though nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful with each other we relate as free persons, and the relationship is open to surprise; everything that happens is of consequence. It is, in fact, seriousness that closes itself to consequence, for seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcome of open possibility. To be serious is to press for a specified conclusion. To be playful is to allow for possibility whatever the cost to oneself."
There are basically only 3 close-to-cutting edge foundries left - Intel (American), Samsung (South Korean) and TSMC (Taiwanese), and TSMC is in the lead by quite a bit. We're getting extremely close to the end-game of moore's law, so the lifetime of a <7nm fab is likely to be long, and there are likely to only ever be a handful built because they are absurdly expensive (20+ Billion dollars), particularly if you can't keep them fully utilized. There are no 'smaller companies' with cutting edge fabs, and these aren't really American companies who outsourced and are no bringing them back - Intel has always had a large manufacturing presence in the US, and a large part of this is trying to get foreign companies to 'offshore' fabs to the US rather than continuing to concentrate in south korea / taiwan.
My rough and ready sums put 30,000 pounds of petrol through the lifetime of an average ICE car.

Meanwhile, I see numbers like this a lot and they always seem to trend high. You're talking 250 tons of ores to make perhaps 250-1000kg of the car; an efficiency of between 0.1 and 0.4 percent over some pretty straightforward, widely available ores. That doesn't really stack up with the numbers you get if you look at the efficiency of commercial ores for those minerals.

So I think the mining is comparable between battery and petrol, but as others point out, you can recycle the battery; the petrol had become problematic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

If nothing else, you could grind up the batteries and treat them as ore for any single one of the minerals used, and by your numbers you'd be way better off.
No one is asking shareholders to do anything… We’re having the government give the company money for a joint venture. If the company uses it wisely in the way they promise they would, everyone, including the shareholders benefit.

If the company cynically takes the money, intentionally fails to uphold their side of the contract, and then rebuffs attempts by the government to reclaim the money, while that might be in the interest of the shareholders they haven’t actually done anything there and don’t deserve to benefit. In fact they should be punished (along with the executives) for being unethical.
You see how bizarre it gets. If you discuss workplace safety and racism (even without any proof of any wrongdoing, just talking about how to treat people better - and I'm sure there are always ways to treat people better), you get a ding on the score. If you suppress any discussion on the matter, you score is perfect.

There's absolutely no evidence Tesla is more racist or unsafe place to work than Shell. If anything, Shell should be, in theory, more risky, safety-wise - they are much bigger, so more opportunity to screw up, and they do some things that are inherently risky, like mining and extraction. But I have a serious suspicion that the score has much less to do with safety statistics than with politics and donating to certain people and NGOs, somehow.
The Economist podcast had an episode on ESG (likely related to the article) and they had Tariq Fancy come on that podcast:

https://www.economist.com/esg-pod
Well, my "joke" was ment as a demonstration, that the rules have the purpose to make it easy to be understood. I bent the rules a bit, so that it should still be possible to decode my message, but not easily. This should demonstrate that rules are not completely arbitrary, even if (some) people can understand what I am saying.
Ask HN: PayPal sent me unencrypted mail with my purchase details
I received email from PayPal that had confirmation of shipment and tracking ids as well as my name, address, my vendor's name, the product I purchased and a bunch of other details. This was sent without any encryption which gives me reason to believe that all parties involved in the transmission of message including ISPs, Data Centers etc could read my message in transit. I checked other emails from Paypal and all of them are encrypted with TLS. Is this an isolated incident? Or does this have something to do with what I purchased ( pertaining to a highly sensitive procedure that's a topic of hot-debate these days with tons of state banning it outright). What's going on here?
Nah it’s an off grey. Purple needs to be more saturated and darker than this. It’s not just about hue. Clearly who am I to disagree with Pantone, but fuck Pantone on this particular issue I am a man on the internet and this excuse for a Color offends me
I think this makes some sense if you're a golang shop, sure. But FB doesn't seem to be using it much anywhere else.