skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The average founder of a business is not founding a VC-targeted startup, or even a technology business. There are a lot more landscapers counted in all of these surveys of successful startup businesses than founders who even considered YC.
Good to hear that the one in Boston was full of enthusiastic folk. What format did it take? Was it quite structured, or very casual meeting and discussion?
I've had recent discussions with IT people who have been laid off or fear a layoff.

Inflation's raging. The Fed is raising rates to stem it. The market is in bear territory.

Economic conditions had been favorable for a very long time. Reversion to the mean is inevitable. Buckle up.
Hustle Culture
I don’t see why that has to be read as an ‘xor’.
I think that the cause of that is unlikely to be Stable Diffusion but the lack of education that allows so many educated people in this thread to mistake images for art. In that way a lot of the damage has already been done.
I've learn't a lot about this for my product[0]. Often teams deploy web apps multiple times a week (or day!) so having a time based trial works. For web extensions, some teams release once a week, others once a month and some a few times a year. When you're at the mercy of a review cycle (Chrome Web Store can take hours to days), it really impacts how rapidly you can release your work.

If I had a 2 week trial - those that submit web extensions to stores rarely wouldn't see the benefit of the product before their trial was over. I made it simple and capped it at 5 successful submissions. Success is important here because you can go through the review cycle 5 times ('5 failed submissions' - this number could change, but it works for now) and then your trial would be over. At the end of the day, regardless of how fast teams work, I want everyone to see the value under the same conditions.

I've worked at places that are focused on time trials because there's no practical way to limit the product in another sense that would give users time to fit in their workflow but also limit their actions enough to convert. Perhaps that's a failure of the scope of the product etc. but it works well enough for them.

0 - https://atriumapp.dev
> Russia is going to end up in a much worse position without any significant (and maybe any at all) gain.

Judging by how bad the inflation and energy poverty is in the West, as well as the continued loss of ground and billions in Western funds in this war whilst the ruble stays strong, I don't have the same optimism whatsoever.
Really, the secret ingredient was McKinsey? Maybe I'm biased but except for one person, I've never worked with McKinsey folks (and working in Germany you work with many) and thought they'd be great entrepreneurs
I assume this is major reason why teaching benefits/layoffs in the USA are heavily based on seniority.
I bought DW by mistake and was the best mistake I took buying TTRPG books. Just print the character sheet and play.
So stable it won't load...
EDIT: Ahhh... nearly 30 seconds later something is happening
Otherwise the taxpayers are forced to pay hundreds of millions, probably even billions, more in counteracting the negative externalities these companies create for society as a whole. It’s a net benefit for the taxpayer.
This gives me strong scam / nonsense vibes.
was about to say
Yes, if you ascribe to the Singularity theory of technological development. The closer we get to the asymptote, the larger each automation jump will be, and we'll have less time to adjust as a society before another even larger jump in automation hits. Granted, at this point we're talking about basically being at AGI, but still, yes, the idea is that it will tip eventually
HN seems to have given it a hug of death and the page came back after 60 seconds completely mangled, oh the irony I guess!
I've worked for a startup where we begged the IT folks to just buy us an M1 Mac Mini to stuff in the closet somewhere, or at least sign us up for Mac Stadium or something, but it was borderline impossible to convince them to do that.

Talking to DevOps folks to spin up two dedicated instances on AWS? I had access within 10 minutes.
"They warned me to wear a seatbelt but I didn't and was fine"
2% desktop market share (traditional PCs + laptops) during the last 20 years since people started making that assertion after each single Windows release that annoys them somehow.

Windows XP toy's are us UI, DX10 being Vista only, Windows 7 new UI, Windows 8 new UI, Windows 8.1 new UI, UWP focus, ....

ChromeOS and Android don't count as Linux desktops, given the only thing Linux about them, is their usage of the Linux kernel, considered by Google an implementation detail and not exposed as public userspace APIs to the respective store apps.
On the angel investing, I was thinking that was the next logical step too but rather than building an internal mechanism and pulling focus I wonder if you could just partner with an early stage vc to give them first look in return for special consideration and earlier mentorship or something. Tons of early vc's with dry powder and minimal differentiation to lean on!
Is that how Canada's epost system kinda works? Edit:The costs of the us gov running everyone through kyc isn’t going to happen, didn’t they outsource part of that to private sector already?
These companies know the age range of their users. It’s no doubt one of their most lucrative.
Commercial dishwashers don't exist. The $3000 devices they call dishwashers are just dish sterilizers, and will not get anything except the loosest dirt off. I've been wanting a commercial dishwasher, but they don't seem to exist.
This is cool, I'll sign up to their September event when it's published.

The hackathon section is interesting too. Do they host hackathons, or just help companies organise them?
Maybe they are thinking of headers such as: From, Original-From, and Resent-From.

IANA list of email headers:
https://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/message-hea...
GL-iNet has a "mini" range that can run off USB. They ship with OpenWrt so should be pretty open, you have SSH access so you could run pretty much anything on it: https://www.gl-inet.com
I truly wonder, in the age of free CDNs and basically completely static content, why stability is even a question
What’s the disadvantage of crts that outweighs all the advantages?
Done https://github.com/rom1504/clip-retrieval/commit/53e3383f58b...

Using clip for searching is better than direct text indexing for a variety of reasons but here for example because it matches better what stable diffusion sees

Still interesting to have a different view over the dataset!

If you want to scale this out, you could use elastic search
Such freedom, to get pillaged by western companies. We are now in massive debt, most public services are privatised and collapsing, the young can't afford rents, wages are constantly dropping relative to expenses.

It was the profit extractors that won the cold war.
Ah yes let's keep funding them to throw their lives away for us in a war they can't win, that's certainly the more morally respectable position.
Apple’s Chief Privacy Officer Set to Leave Company for Law Firm
It’s not political grandstanding. There’s a real economic interest. Go visit east Texas. Tons of working class prosperity from the availability of jobs at refineries. New malls and restaurants, big shiny pickup trucks, big families, etc. (Also lots of economic integration between whites and Latinos, because these well paying jobs are readily available to immigrants without college degrees or ESL. The complete opposite of SF or NYC.)

Now I believe in climate change, and I don’t think those communities are sustainable long term. But there’s real pragmatic reasons for Texas to not want the oil gravy train to stop. The state is legislating in its material interests.
Time is spent on going to a grocery store in a car too. That's also a substantial cost. With proper urban planning, it wouldn't be a PITA to shop for grocery since it will be close to you.

But it's not like you can't shop weekly with a bike too. Cargo bikes can carry more grocery than usual. Coupled with electric assist, it shouldn't be too bad.
Is that study even relevant? It just observes that Europeans work less than Americans. The question is hours vs pay.

There are people on HN who can easily work 0 hours a week and thrash the earnings of the Europeans and Americans combined because they own capital. You're looking for these people to find a marginal tactical advantage by throwing away efforts to secure a meaningful strategic one. That is foolish.

I'm telling you, I've read a lot of literature on the subject. There is no way I'm going to go on strike, it is ineffective and I'll end up worse off. Almost literally none of the people who are going to out-earn me are doing it by striking, and if anyone manages it that is one crazy fluke! It is a strategy for people who are already losing economically and may as well flail on the way down in case it helps. If people have time to organise they should organise to achieve good & sustainable results. Everyone could be a winner here.
> You're right though, I don't have experience doing things other than what I've done. I can only speak to how useful my experience has been when going back to very early stage as a first employee, which has a lot of overlap with founder.

I think you're missing the critique: you don't know how useful your experience has been just because you experienced it. This is why systematic studies are necessary: to collate a lot of experiences to see what works and what doesn't (and even those are hard).
I think I failed to communicate this nuance in the article, but my major point was how to most quickly develop the experience you'd need to start your own company.

I'd imagine McKinsey is a great place to see loads of companies and be exposed to a lot of useful stuff. But it probably won't pack as much relevant experience into as short a time as several years in a start-up 5-10x'ing in size.

Hiroki Takeuchi and Matt Robinson – two of the GoCardless founders – both left McKinsey to start GC. I'd imagine that experience was incredibly useful, though you'd have to ask them if they think it's more or less valuable than seeing things at a different start-up beforehand.
As someone that grew up in York I was surprised to not see any mentions of buildings from there. There's quite a lot of buildings from around 1500 but most current day pubs seem to be in buildings that started at houses or commercial properties.
Also neither have a supported[1] CPU.

Though, if you really want to run Windows 11, easy workarounds[2] exist for both.

For what it's worth, I'm currently running Windows 11 on a 2011 MacBook Pro — in BIOS mode, actually, because EFI support for Windows is broken on this particular model — and hardware support is no worse than it is on supported versions of Windows (meaning mostly OK except for the lack of GPU switching and precision touchpad drivers), and considerably better than it is on recent, similarly unsupported Mac OS versions (this machine — my emergency "for the rare cases where I actually need a laptop" box — is currently triple-booting Windows 11 [BIOS], macOS Monterey [EFI], and Linux [EFI]).

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/min...

[2] https://rufus.ie/en/
WOW. This looks great. Thanks. I will be testing it for a while.
Electric motors are not very expensive, just buy one and save all the complexity of having your car allowing it to be disconnected.
I think this greatly helps Royal Caribbean with younger customers who simply cannot be 100% disconnected. I have customers I need to be available for if something goes wrong. I won't even consider a 7-day cruise. But now I can. Looking forward to this new service.
Article sums it up as: there hasn't been a better WebMD because the costs of making one have been too high, but new advances promise to draw those costs down, so the author is founding.

Costs might be a factor. But revenue is a bigger one. WebMD and Healthline have flourished because advertisers have an incentive to underwrite them. Symptom checkers for health professionals do well, too—hospitals and medical malpractice insurers have an incentive to pay for provider-focused tools. A comment brings up the UK NHS site—sure, it makes sense that a national health system would have a strong incentive to help people self diagnose.

Do end users have a similarly strong incentive to maintain a subscription to a service like this month after month? Selling direct-to-consumer subscriptions at scale is hard. I wish you the best, but it's tough business.
Yup.

https://twitter.com/Volodymyr_D_/status/1560350883929620481
Are there similar tools for video formats?
Bit short notice for me but I've joined the group and would love to come in the future. Thanks for taking the initiative!
SD is so popular these days. It has been on the top of GitHub trending for a long time, last hour, last day, and even last week. https://ossinsight.io/#trending-repos

Is it because it represents that AI can do things that humans thought would never be replaced by AI before?
It's not so much that it's a bad artifact of something in the past, it's more speculation about what will happen to employment of humans if/when companies can just create human-level AI that operates 1000x faster than fleshy humans for digital/white collar work, and just buy a Boston Dynamics style robot with a similar AI in it for blue collar work
And a lot of turmeric has lead in it: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/08/ge...
It isn't coming for the artists' jobs. Commercial illustrators sure.

Francis Bacon has a quote that is apt about how he paints the things that cannot be described with words.
Thanks for your response!

- my company has a formally-structured approach to training / knowledge gathering

My understanding is that this would appear in the form of a training budget, classroom sessions, sponsored courses / certification etc. This is fairly standard across the industry.

- my company provides me the ability to independently structure my process of inquiry without interference or external management

Could you give some examples of how this manifests in real-life scenarios? I'm not clear on what you mean exactly.
I can tell right now if you were a media reporter you'd be fired on the first day. You gotta make those news stories "pop!".

"Courts ruled that to be a strike"? BORING.

Gotta spice that story up. "Company forces employees to work overtime or get fired".

Yeah, that's more like it. That'll pull in the ad revenue we need.
Not just the old internet! Ever considered visiting the Sierra Nevadas? Well there's a wonderful, outdoorsy place in California that's just waiting to welcome you: Lake Tahoe! Visit, uh, gotahoe.com, and keep in mind that the Nevada border, where certain things unrelated to outdoor sports are entirely legal, is right there.
I had a quick look at x670 motherboards and the only usb4 support I could see is via addin cards with that hacky displayport in setup.
>I would give credit to the people and government of Japan for their post-war success

Perhaps a bit of both. We can also give credit to both for it's decline/stagnation. It wasn't the Japanese people that wanted quotas for US made cars, semiconductor technology transfers to the US, economic policy that didn't fit em, etc
I keep stumbling over the Skydio, they look quite impressive, and I think almost what I am looking for but all their inspection videos are tailored towards relatively big structures (factories, RF towers, ...)

Does any company make an indoor capable drone that can fly a fixed path (through a house). It does not really matter how fast it is, and it does not need to be a strong drone.

"All" I want is to walk through a house with a drone, capturing the video and then have it repeat the same path over and over again autonomously. I don't even care about obstacle avoidance beyond the most basic "stop if you can't move to the next point"
It's a real pity that events haven't started up again completely post-lockdown. One of the reasons that I started out in tech was the active and welcoming European Hackathon community, so events have been a big part of my experience.

Hope to catch you at an event in the future!
Seems to be down, I wonder if it is visitors from HN.
Those checks and balances weren't in Tzarist Russia either.
Show HN: Fill in the plaques for these paintings made by Stable Diffusion
Of course, hope to see you at one in the next few months.
Why would the architect provide proof of concept code? Feels like a completely different role than large scale planning. This is something I would expect a manager or senior dev to assist a junior with.
Chris (one of our founders) just pointed out that we (incident.io) are signed up to the future founder promise:

https://github.com/StellateHQ/future-founder-promise

So we are doing exactly this, which is cool! I think the primary value is in leveraging the investor network, as you say, though the angel investment is a nice bonus.
You get the same with OLED TVs. You often have a practical choice between 4k @ 60HZz and 1080p @ 120Hz, whether you're using a PC or a console.
How do you pick a high-growth startup that makes it through several stages? It's like saying the best way to make money is to pick stocks that beat the market.
Anyone in Amsterdam interested?
Just because there isn't a strict naming convention doesn't mean there isn't a longstanding convention in English-speaking countries of giving wars boring names based on the participants or theatre, even when it's absolutely unambiguous that the other side was the belligerent. Picking a ludicrously overblown name like "Northern Aggression" for a failed secession makes no sense in that context, but plenty of sense in Lost Cause victimhood narrative.

Which is why it was a name popularised by 1950s segregationists, not the original secessionists who may have rejected the notion that it was a "rebellion" or "civil" war, but talked about wars of "Separation" or "War for Independence" instead.
Because startup companies are by definition high-growth. The term has become significantly overused by clueless journalists and business types looking to pad their resumes with buzzwords.
Oh, it's definitely possible to shop weekly, especially with a modern e-bike. I used to do it with a big backpack and a shitty walamrt bike when I lived in the city because the good (read: cheap) grocery store was inconveniently located.

I just take issue with the lunacy that adding an extra errand and the associated overhead, even if it's just a stop on your way home, doesn't have a cost.
I'm not sure if describe collective action as "a game they will lose." Labor laws and the 40 hour work week didn't just get handed down by well meaning capitalists. They happened because of decades of intense coordinated action, largely by unions.

"Not playing the game" sounds a lot like a strike to me. Isn't "Grouping together and investing their capital" exactly what unions do?

A lot of folk going on strike don't have the option to go elsewhere or find another job (which is probably the exact reason that a corporation feels they can underpay them).

I agree that well paid workers don't strike, so i guess this corp should pony up some more money?
dicks.com was previously NOT Dicks Sporting Goods...
I absolutely would be if I took copyrighted images out of my head and distributed them.
What secret and hidden, nefarious things could those reasonably be?
The "winners of the game" get a nice bailout from US taxpayers when they lose, so it's not particularly impressive. Striking is what got you a 5 day work week and an end to child labor. You may not appreciate the blood that was spilt for your cushy white collar desk job, but from there to tell people that collective bargaining is a waste and something only the poors do? Egregious.
It is actually less of bother or time suck then weekly/bi-weekly car trip. You typically stop by in the way home from work in smaller store where you can pop in/out super quick. It also requires less organizing and planning.

Weekly/bi-weekly car trip is something like 2-3 hours of your time.

The other bonuses are that sometimes you just send kids to fetch bread or whatever.
Great stuff. Thanks for doing that! #golondon
so adjusted for currency alone the lowest paid stevadore in Australia earns almost as much as the highest paid one in the US and five times more than the lowest paid one. to put this into perspective, australian stevedore gets paid as much as a mid-level senior developer in australia.

australian economy very much depends on its ports. if these workers go on strike guess what happens to the rest of the economy. unions in this situation are then in a good position to argue for good rewards for their workers via collective bargaining. i dont think they would get anywhere near as much if salaries were negotiated on an individual basis
No, read the details. Their collective agreement has a process for requiring overtime if no volunteers. The union is saying "don't volunteer" so the courts are saying "ok, that's a strike since you aren't following the collective agreement".
> It's hard to imagine that I could come up with anything that is not inspired by copyrighted work.

That is legitimately a problem, people get sued for it all the time.
Don’t give them any ideas!

Maybe they have to spend tokens to get you read their message and if you don’t accept the tokens you don’t see it.
Hope to see you there :)
I simply don't use the closed source ones? Easy to filter (can I see the source?), and helps if I want to contribute as well.

Currently using https://github.com/hlky/stable-diffusion + https://github.com/hlky/stable-diffusion-webui which are both FOSS and works well.
The GOP is a coalition of people who don’t agree with each other. (Do Mark Warner and AOC agree on anything besides maybe abortion?) The “small government” folks were powerful for a period, but the historical orientation of the party is a much more interventionist capitalism.
Cobblers still exist. I visit one regularly for shoe repair.

https://www.davepagecobbler.com/
Totally accept this as a critique of the article!

I think the content is still useful, though. Especially as it gives some examples of the type of challenge that appear routinely when scaling a company, and why experience seeing this before can help you avoid similar mistakes if you ever start your own thing.

I'd personally love to see people write competing posts from other angles, even if they too will be limited by the author's own experience.

It would be great to hear what type of stuff you can learn from working at a large corporation was particularly useful when starting a company. I'd read that in a heartbeat!
Same here, will join the next one :D
Just be aware follow detailed article Get past the Deceptive Site Ahead warning https://geeksadvice.com/remove-deceptive-site-ahead/
> 2. What significance does the law have for the Mullvad service?

> Mullvad cannot be made subject to a duty to cooperate in connection with the enforcement of a decision authorising covert surveillance of data since VPN services are not an activity subject to a reporting obligation pursuant to Chapter 2, section 1 of the LEK.

Same page.
I;m waiting for some meta creepypastas that will tricks some folks believing it's a fact.
Things not available when someone blocks all cookies
Currently there is so much activity that for every closed source tool chances are there is an open source one that does the same. I simply use those instead, after skimming over the code for any obviously malicious activity.
Look for the phrase "scale-up" instead of "start-up", these are usually well-funded, up-and-running companies that still have some of the start-up mentality but without the financial worries.

Of course, some of these are already a decade old and may employ hundreds or thousands of people already, so YMMV; they might just be like older, boring enterprises, just not as formal or fixed in their ways.