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Ask HN: Is Slowing Down Failed Startups Possible?
I have heard it said that sometimes great ideas are killed by start-up culture i.e. pressuring it to grow too quickly and take risks in hopes of 100x-ing the investment. Is it not possible to take these failed startups and turn them into small profitable businesses without the start-up pressures.
You’re describing a pop science book, and of course people write those too.

But research publishing is a traditionally internal dialog among people who ostensibly spent years being inducted into a common contextual foundation.

Post-web journalism and open access publishing might be challenging that tradition, but the answer is probably not to staple an introductory textbook to every paper.
There are easy, non-offensive, non-interrupting methods of communicating while another person is talking. Signal yes/no, dissent, agreement? Thumbs up or down, Nod or shake head. Applause? Deaf people's clap (raise both hands, oscillate quickly around z-axis). Want to say something? Raise one hand. Want the speaker to get on with it? Circular motion with the tip of the index finger around the y-axis. Strongly disagree with speaker and intend to insult? Show middle finger (ok, that one is offensive, intentionally).

There is a rich repertoire of non-verbal communication available to us that most people will understand. And if you use them, the problem instantly vanishes.

That people don't use them is imho not a problem of not knowing or not understanding. It is a problem of lacking civility. Of the desire to assert dominance by interrupting. Of asserting dominance by talking for a long time. And of the myopic concentration on verbal communication.

Now if you are on the phone, there isn't much else you can do, of course...
What DVDs? This collection is the top hit on Amazon, and it's all post-Elmo dumbed down crap:

https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sesame-Street-Collection-Various...

I looked for sesame street for years, and HBO Max was the only source I could find for the old critically-acclaimed / educator approved series.
Some folks included ads in npm postinstall scripts, til they were outlawed.
socialist communist twaddle
More like discontinuity, amirite?
My grandmother was a child in the UK when horses were still common in the streets, which was also where all the children played. One thing she mentioned that stuck with me was that when children cut their knees falling in the road they would end up running green with pus - presumably from infections from the horse crap.
Related. Others?

Can We Throw Satellites to Space? – SpinLaunch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32375464 - Aug 2022 (5 comments)

An Inside Look: SpinLaunch Flight Test #7 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31098021 - April 2022 (4 comments)

NASA to Test SpinLaunch, a Giant Slingshot for Launching Satellites into Space - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31010244 - April 2022 (1 comment)

NASA will test SpinLaunch's ability to fling satellites into orbit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30996665 - April 2022 (199 comments)

SpinLaunch completes first test flight with rocket-flinging launch system - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29198589 - Nov 2021 (219 comments)

Spinlaunch completes suborbital launch without engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29175912 - Nov 2021 (6 comments)

SpinLaunch is building a centrifuge to launch satellites into orbit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25204660 - Nov 2020 (143 comments)

SpinLaunch raises $40M to build a machine to catapult objects into space - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17317688 - June 2018 (105 comments)

Space catapult startup SpinLaunch comes out of stealth - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16439835 - Feb 2018 (110 comments)
And even with today's tools, cutting and splitting firewood is still very dangerous.
I’m actually trying to convince my current employer to let us use Linux laptops instead of windows ones (with Linux vms for all development).

My comment was in reply to someone saying Linux just works without needing to tinker, and as much as I’d prefer to be using a Linux based laptop, those are 3 things I have spent countless hours tinkering with to try and get working without success.
4 and 5 don't really seem interruption in the sense the article refers to. Yes, they're not letting you say right away what you had in mind to say, but they have every intention to eventually let you make your point.
Like Canada where people regularly blow through their 4 or 5gb that they’re paying $40+/month for.
Claims of ownership are only as legitimate as the potential to do violence to assert such claims.
Nice read, seems a bit biased and over-simplified, but I really enjoyed it and learned new things.
Damn there's alot of pro kiwifarms nutjobs here. It's a shame because I really like the kinds of discussions on HN.
Related:

The Church of Interruption - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21044009 - Sept 2019 (141 comments)
This sounds like introversion (taker) vs extroversion (giver)

Is this related to social comfort speaking with others?
I’m getting the sense that the control system here is pretty tight. In that, any intervention that causes cells to change, divide, or die… pretty much causes statistically more cancer.

(As does eating barbecue, but is that not also an intervention of sorts?)

I’m sure we can fix that bug in our project of curing so much pain.

I used to think we’d be testing nanobots in patients by now, so what do I know? But I don’t think we’ve found the mutation/metabolism/mitosis sweet spot.

Save us, something we haven’t tried yet! Maybe it’s still CRISPR, and I’m just talking impatiently.
Hey this is a great explanation. Most people just say "this makes no sense, can never work"
Very interesting, but it looks like you're only targeting the Linux kernel right now?
I think that tweet from Keffals was incredibly irresponsible and she was right in deleting it.

I think trying to get Cloudflare to stop supporting Kiwifarms is good.

You don't have to either deem a person purely good or purely bad, you can agree with some things they do and disagree with other things. It's not that hard.
... and here I thought they weren't even supposed to conspire directly. Don't industry majors usually have to conspire indirectly, like by all hiring the same consultants?
Ok but it's not too expensive in terms of absolutes as well as the value of good health. And if you are vegan it's the only option.
In grocery stores?
you may be buy some ads targeting these specific group. If your app is really solving some problem, you likely will get good conversion rate.
If the whole world engages in witch-burning, and burn a lot of innocents along with the old women who poison wells, and you build a town and loudly declare it will have no witch-hunts, then you'll get people who want to live in that town- including a lot of witches.

HN, etc. really shouldn't be "platforms" moderated by a central entity, anyway. If I like Dang's moderation, I should be able to pick and choose it. Maybe there's another potential moderator out there whose sensibilities line up more neatly with my own; I should be able to choose their moderation, too.

Decentralized/splintered moderation, that's what we need.

(I've never been on Parler. Do they actually ban people for disagreeing with them?)

(Is it possible that rejecting people from society makes them more likely to be violent?)
I wonder why there was no PAPI at SAN?
I've looked at a bunch of them (I have this argument somewhat frequently). But, sure: let's find some examples. What's a major metro where you think teachers probably get a raw deal? This is easy data to pull up.
> They have a real competitor, yet it’s not a competitive market.

Yes, that's completely consistent with the Brandeis view of antitrust. Cartels are not a competitive market.

> Everyone was crying antitrust and it never went anywhere.

Not facts. It resulted in a successful prosecution by the Clinton DOJ, and Microsoft was ordered to breakup in 2000. The company appealed (dragging past the election) and it was settled by the Bush DOJ, which obviously resulted in weaker policies since the Bush lawyers subscribed to the Borkist view of antitrust.

> If you think anything worse is going to happen to Apple with their 20% market share, or even if you somehow inflate the number to 65%, think again. It’s not going to happen under antitrust law. If anything is going to happen it’s going to be new laws.

Guess we will see. Seems to already be happening based on the defensive moves these companies are making in response to more aggressive regulators, but I agree new laws would help move things along. I didn't "somehow" inflate it. I looked at the recurring revenue streams from the app store instead of device sales, because app store revenue is a massive stream of profit, and devices are low-margin commodities.
Id argue a DBA who doesn't understand the practical value of judicious use of denormalization isn't YET an expert. knowing when to dry your data and when to optimize for a specific usage pattern is part of being an "expert."
I just did the math. Paying every teacher $150k would cost more than my entire local district gets in total funding every year.

That's a lot of new property taxes.
I remember the first time I hooked it up, finally found a connection, and connected my OG xbox to someone in the UK (!!!) to play halo CE with.

I was promptly called the N word and exploded on spawn again and again because it was a modded/hacked map.

It was still magical.
There were no American expats who committed suicide during the time that Near supposedly took his life.
The specifics of how Keffals behaves or what she has or hasn't done are basically irrelevant, because KF would have done exactly the same things to her regardless of any of those factors. Being a prominent trans person online means there is a significant chance of your home address being posted on KF for absolutely no reason other than you're a prominent trans person online.
There is mounting evidence that anti-oxidant supplements are cancer promoting (or perhaps more accurately, ‘deprotecting’). A lot of this data is in animal models, but there is also a bit of high quality controlled trial data. The best example is probably that vitamin E increases the risk of prostate cancer (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1104493).

Proponents will argue endlessly that it isn’t the right formulation of vitamin E and nitpick trial flaws, but taken as a whole the data is pretty clear. Eating AO rich foods is fine, but I would not take a supplement.
> Why not just let me use the supercomputer I have in my possession and run the thing without the baggage and overhead?

Because the app would be too easy to steal and too hard to monetize.

At this point, from an economic perspective, apps either need to be completely open source or running in the cloud behind secured servers.

Even if I dismiss piracy as a problem (and I don't), the bigger issue is that if the app does something clever/technical and is somehow successful, someone will tear it apart, clone it, and put their own copy on the app stores.

Running in the cloud is how companies are dodging that race to the bottom (see: Chitubox as a prime example--good or bad example is up to you to decide).
> Yea, we get it, some people can afford homeschooling and have time to do it. That doesn't scale nationwide.

I think you're cutting exactly to the core of it. We conflate child sitting with education and end up with a bad version of both.
I must conclude that this is satire, unless you truly see nothing sinister in the notion of sociopathic corporations training humans for drooling obedience in the same way that humans train dogs.
Just like everyone else, I love baiting questions designed to provoke engagement..

I heard a small child playing giant wind chimes (?) at the park today. She had fully-formed musical taste, as far as I could tell, and sounded really good. It helped that the instrument was easy to make good tone with, but all the pieces were there. Tension, release, playing around the root note, rhythm.

Music is the intersection of sound and us.
Nothing happened to them. Nothing ever happens to them! There's a now twenty year old Panasonic still hanging on my wall that refuses to stop working flawlessly and thus allow me to guiltlessly replace its 480 fat & smugly glowing rows of pixels with something a little more modern.
The list doesn't appear to be exhaustive. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29066186
A simple workaround is to store “bulk data” in an external system like blob storage and reference that from the DB.
The problem city governments have is all the problems caused by laws passed by state and federal politicians who live in 'nice upscale places with cops that run off anyone that looks dodgy' end up being an open in your face problem for cities.
The wizard has mastered all 4 quadrants and skillfully choses protocols based on the current programming contexts at play.

Also, communication is programming and the wizard is very clear about this.
I'm not familiar with US Private vs. Public schools so which one requires you to pay for the lunch?

In many countries in Europe there are only public schools.
Private to Google's tracking algorithms. Secure from competitors.
I mean, this is mostly joking, of course if I was on a team I'd put forward my argument once and then comply with the conclusion the group makes, it is not really a big deal anyway.

Hopefully somebody wouldn't just apply an auto-formatter, that'd be quite rude!
> the risk of developing lung adenocarcinoma was increased, possibly by weakening of the tumorigenesis-barrier effect of cell senescence

-

The proposed mechanism of why there is an increase in lung adenocarcinoma makes sense to me:

Because of NAC and its antioxidant effects, cells were living longer in these mice; much longer than usual. While predictably, this caused lower rates of lung emphysema, it had an adverse effect of increased cancer risk due to messing with harmony of cell cycle arrest (cellular senescence).
Really, using a Teensy 4.0 to make scrolling faster? That seems really overkill to me. You could make a small computer out of a Teensy 4, quite excessive to use it as a display-out.
Funny you should say that.

I got into a bit of a twitter rabbit hole and ended up realizing my heart was racing, knuckles white and teeth grinding.

I was furiously pounding on my keyboard to reply to what was probably a bot before I came to my senses and closed the page.

I can see how that shit is addictive.

Rage is a hell of drug.
I live a few blocks from the safe injection site in SF. People shoot up on the sidewalk literally feet away from the entrance. It’s possible that fewer people shoot up on the street overall, but my personal experience at least is that it’s had no impact.
For me a CRUD application has none or very few business rules and a simple data model. I sometimes look an application and think that it could probably be written with a generic CRUD app with a few customisations, perhaps a list of data elements.

An app is no longer CRUD when you have:

1. more than a couple of SQL statements (other than CRUD!)
2. are implementing a business process (multiple steps, multiple people)
3. you are performing calculations or analysis
Actual time teachers spend working has, of course, been measured.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art4full.pdf
https://www.bls.gov/mlr/1999/04/art4full.pdf
10k Hours with Reid Hoffman: What I Learned
> A child was once forced to masturbate in front of a camera by COURT ORDER. Police held them down. All because the child was a victim of child pornography and the court wanted a "comparison image" in a similar arousal state to prove it was a image of that child.

That summary is misleading and, I feel, wrong. It's not accurate to state that he was "a victim of child pornography," the complaint in this case was against him by the parent of another minor that he was "sexting" with.

That doesn't excuse the police behavior here, but you're attempting to paint a picture where the victims in these cases are outright ignored in a misguided search for justice. You're twisting this case[1] to fit your narrative, I think.

Further, he sued the government and won. The courts made it perfectly clear, the lower courts and police were absolutely in violation of this teens rights when it granted and executed this search warrant. So egregiously that "qualified immunity" doesn't even apply to the officers estate.

I wasn't going to address this, but..

> Therefore CP laws very quickly stopped being about protecting the children and more about punishing the pedophiles.

Pedophiles create a market through demand. Often it is also pedophiles that are on the supply side of this market, but not always. Merely participating in the demand side implicates you in these crimes against children as you are suborning their abuse. One could say that our system merely recognizes this fact.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/forcing-kid-to-m...
>I would pay to hear eastdakota try to rationalize why protecting KF is a net good for the world.

Let me try. KF is a place to archive the publicly-posted online antics of people who willingly publish said antics to the internet. Interacting with the subject of a thread is against the rules and anyone bragging about doing so is banned. If you dislike the idea of people making fun of you for your actions, don't broadcast them to the internet.
a) We are in 2022. A lot can and has changed in the last 2 years especially with regards to privacy. Again do you have evidence that location data is being sent to Apple when all the options have been disabled.

b) I’m not sure if developer installs are being tracked by Apple. Are they ?
>> If people would not trade with USA because of racism?

Are you trying to make a consistent argument that no one should use trade to pressure other countries to change policies they disagree with?

So you're okay with buying goods made by Israeli companies in the West Bank, right? And buying Russian oil? How about sneakers made by Uighur slaves in Chinese concentration camps? How about buying blood diamonds? Should companies not pressure countries they do business with to prevent child labor, or enforce minimal worker safety regulations?

If people didn't trade with us because our policies were abhorrent to them, then maybe our policies are abhorrent and that would put pressure on us to stop those policies, which would be good. For example, if Europe passed a law banning the import of goods made in US for-profit prisons, that would be good.

This tired argument that "US is evil, everything it does must be bad" is absurd if you have any knowledge of what goes on in the rest of the world. The US can be flawed without making it as flawed as a country that hangs homosexuals from cranes (Iran), or as flawed as one that prohibits all forms of speech against the government (China, Vietnam, Russia, and on, and on).

So if you don't think it's a problem to trade with anyone, you aren't really standing up for the moral position you claim to hold against the US.
I rented a place during the summer that had a plasma TV in the master bedroom. I had to disconnect it, and never used it, because it generated so much heat that we could not sleep.
never mind. I hadn’t gotten far enough in the article.
> The race to commercialize the Internet is over, and advertising is the big winner.

Special bonus! Since advertising corrupts ad supported media, The Internet got corrupted! Entirely predictable.
I've found even apps that support downloading content for offline usage don't work properly offline. They do stupid things like sign you out randomly, refuse to work without a connection, put un-dismissable banners about not having connections over controls, or hang in random spots trying to navigate their UI.

I'd settle for offline-second apps that, when ostensibly having the ability work offline, can work with any sort of designed or considered experience (dismiss banners about no connection, don't hang randomly, etc.)
August 21, 2022

Re: your messages in this thread

Dear BrandoElFollito:

You're rebuilding TCP over UDP. Chat apps are connectionless (or RESTful, if you will). What makes them productive, especially in the workplace, is the fact that they can work without all the handshaking that accompanies more structured communication like in-person, spoken human conversations.

Nothing is stopping you from adding back all your binds, listens, SYNs, and ACKs to a protocol that doesn't need them. But it's a conversational code smell if you do.

Sincerely yours,

sowbug
> I always found docker as a dev environment rather painful.

I’ve found the following to work quite well:

Have a docker compose file setup that runs a container with all the necessary build tools and anything else.

Map home directories, /opt and anything else you want to persist as named volumes.

Run docker compose up -d

Use the remote development extension of vscode to connect to the container and develop almost as if it was local.
I agree these articles loosely mentioning “the pandemic” seems more like hand-wavey excuses from top management. I think many blue collar workers I know doing day in day out had a jolt that made them realize they were over-prioritizing their company that didn’t prioritize them.
How much of this is "pixel response" and how much is size? Newer TVs highly correlate with larger TVs. Want to see judder? Watch a 24fps projection in a huge theater. I've seen jerky panning on big screens through my life, even in the film days (I guess film projection doesn't have any persistenc of image either - but this, to my mind, would still be a rebuttal to the idea that a display with some like a CRT is "better" vs just accidentally blurry in sometimes-useful ways). I don't remember my plasma being any better at this than the LCD that replaced it in the same size, but it's been a long time. I certainly didn't immediately notice anything getting worse (the black levels, on the other hand...).

(And what if you want crisp motion, e.g. for 60p sports broadcasts compared to slow panning shots? Let's not go too far to praise one inferior technology for hiding problems of another one!)
That's how and why I got down to 3 days a week. I went to 4 to get my next job, then down to 2 at my current job. If you can afford it and arrange it, it's fantastic.
Glibc and Dt_gnu_hash
No. Directing funds to a private school you are a board member of makes zero case for embezzlement. It doesn't even hint at it. It may be unethical, but you aren't stealing the funds but are you misappropriating them. As you said yourself if the funds go to a private school it is fine.
There are two yet channels that are excellent
Dev inside you and rock the jvm
https://youtube.com/c/DevInsideYou

https://youtube.com/c/RocktheJVM
One thing that might help with the monitoring aspect is the dreem headband at https://dreem.com/

This might give you nightly data on which you can experiment continuously

It measures your sleep via reusable eeg electrodes on a device thats connected to an app

I got it a couple years ago I think for 600 USD. I think now it may be geared towards clinical trials though, at least in the USA, so you may have to contact them about it

There also is (was?) a feature on it where pulses of pink noise were played in sync with deepest NREM brain waves to enhance that aspect sleep... but last I checked you had to purchase it while in the EU or something (i.e. not USA)
Downloaded songs on Spotify stopped working for me if I'm offline. Why even bother downloading songs???
Also, you know you can block network access to the app for privacy reasons and it will still work.
Can anyone translate the amount of NAC the mice got into human terms? Or how the amounts given to COPD patients or the like compares to what OTC supplements have?
There is a train every 30 mins at worst, and thinking that the car will go at the maximum speed all the way is a pipedream:

In practice, in Paris, at commute hours the car is often slower than using public transit.