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The drama is unbecoming. Contrary to claims, civilization didn't end when Trump took office. The economy didn't crash, it grew. Food prices didn't soar, they went down. Unemployment didn't go up, it went down, especially for minorities. Gas prices didn't hit $7 in California. Home energy bills went down. People had more disposable income and less tax burden. We didn't experience wild inflation. There was no prospect for a third world war.

But then Biden took office and many of those predictions came true through a variety of factors, not the least of which was the incompetence of State Governors, Chinese Communists and Democrats.

Funny how the real world works.
it's funny to read such news on YCombinator website, since YC don't give a f*ck about "hardware startups" and constantly looking "for the next facebook" (or at least wework)
Let's imagine a counterfactual. Absent lawyers, who helps legislators write the laws? Who helps a software developer write a contract, and how does the developer get their money if the other side decides they don't want to pay?

If we're chucking out lawyers, are we also getting rid of judges? Juries?

We have a legal system developed over hundreds of years. It involves people on both sides advocating for their clients. The clients are in total control. The clients are the ones who hire, pay, and fire the lawyers. The clients are the ones who hire lobbyists and who pay campaign contributions to influence the laws.

The clients are the the ones who aim and shoot; the lawyers are the guns. How area the lawyers the problem rather than the clients?
> You're still attempting to take my comments to the extreme instead of making a substantial reply on any of my points (unfortunately).

That was not my intention; I'm genuinely trying to engage constructively and in good faith.

You stated that "anything that's within the law should be allowed", and I'm trying to examine what that would mean and what effects it would have. With an extreme example, yes, but that is the sort of stuff that would be allowed under your proposed policy. Now, if you think that's an acceptable trade-off: fair enough, I can't argue with that. But I don't think it can merely be brushed aside with "that's extreme", because in my experience things like that will be posted, usually by a small (but very active) group of people.

> In addition, whether a certain moderation approach would "drive away people" is a strawman. This is not the question.

The question is what effect this policy would have. This is, in my opinion, one of them.
Exactly, where’s the dirty bowl of mostly eaten oatmeal, the three empty cups of tea and the plate with sandwich crumbs. Add to that two cell phones, three laptops (one for each of your clients) and cables everywhere because the only tidy ones are your KVM cables for your personal PC and your employers laptop.
Honestly at this point, it should, as it is widely used. Maybe a page where be can see all the mentions so he can check them if he has time, not something disruptive like an email notification for every mention obviously.
Why does renewable energy sources have to be so political? Personally, I like the idea of better and more wind and solar generated power, but not because I 'hate fossil fuels'.

If solar panels keep getting cheaper and more efficient, I will eventually get a rooftop solar system. If I can buy a good electric car without breaking the bank then I will.

Renewables seem like a great way to meet the growing demands of an energy hungry society but if they are really good then we shouldn't have to try to scare people away from competing energy sources.
With a growing expense. It’s not so clear cut math.
“If lift plus thrust is greater than load plus drag, anything will fly!”

When I was a kid, my father attributed the phrase to a short-lived TV show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Nun
You are reading the terms of the deal incorrectly. He had the option to pay 1b only under the specific case that his financing fell through. That never happened, quite the opposite the banks backing this deal have been adamant that they were ready to go but Musk was dragging his feet.

Meanwhile, Musk was getting absolutely savaged in the Delaware chancery court and they were just in discovery. He was going to lose and that would be more embarrassing (somehow) than this outcome.

All because he went off half cocked and didn’t write bog standard contingencies into his offer.

He’s come off looking like an absolute simpleton in this and that’s the better outcome for him than if the court case had proceeded.
This is a common misconception. Once you hit the rated torque you NEVER do an "extra click" or anything else. That increases the applied torque beyond rated, and can (has) had disastrous consequences by weakening the bolts and/or the material the bolts are seated against.

Source: career Naval Aviation Maintainer, QA on F/A-18's and H-60's, etc.
All my best programming work involved reducing lines in the codebase, not adding them.

Do I bring shredded paper to demonstrate that?
Java/C# territory is already better than D, even for low level programing, because in the last 10 years that D spent changing projects to atract the next wave to the language "because we need X for Y", they grew out of where they were in 2010, when Andrei's book came out.

D doesn't even have hardware vendors shipping commercial embedded SDKs for baremetal development like Java, C# and Go have in 2022.
If you choose a license like AGPL then this will exclude most corps who will not pay for open source from using it, which turns out to have a large overlap with the corps that expect you to drop everything and address their immediate concern. It keeps the project within OSS more, or those who are willing to invest in OSS (because if they do anything more than just use the library / application then they now have a burden to publish changes and be visible so they're forced to invest something from their side).

Recently this has been my thought... that my future projects should be AGPL from day one.

To the existing ones, especially the successful one... if it does get too much for me, I shall relicense.
Edit window now closed, so an update:

After much research and brainstorming with my friend Jerry, I'm hitting on some tags from Chipolo. They're in the same league as AirTags and Tile, designed for consumers to find their lost items, not for industrial applications.

Much more expensive than a passive RFID tag, but the "reader" is just your phone, so that's an enormous win. And he only needs a few tags, which will be used over and over.
Even better - you can hire a Parisian and a Roman and a Londoner to each have a vacation for you at the same time! 2 weeks of work and 6 weeks of vacation in just two weeks of clock time. This is the way.
It seems like if these general purpose social networks aren’t resilient to the population growing and diversifying…. I mean, I’m not saying there isn’t plenty of evidence to suggest this is hard if not impossible (ahem twitter) but it also seems like a real crisis to wha the internet should be.

On the one hand a social network that appeals to everyone will appeal to no one, on the other hand an internet built on the idea of exclusivity just seems. Incompatible? I’m not sure what the word is but there’s a paradox here somewhere.
I tell all my Elon fan friends they are going to be sorely disappointed with what happens next. It's not going to be a Trumpian wonderland, even Elon isn't going to toss $44 billion down a hole. It shows very poor sportsmanship for GM to act like a child and step back from Twitter before anything really even happens. Who is running the show over there?
If I recall correctly, we went through this on Linux in the past. I believe the first wireguard implementations were userspace while the work was being done to get it in the kernel.
> the advantage of faster booting, which is the prime reason for systemd development

It was more of a side effect, rather than being a primary reason. Good design and utilizing dependency resolution and parallelization led to it also happening to be faster.
1) "You should develop a thick skin." - advice provided by Jeff Bezos. I think it's one of the least obvious, and most important, things especially if you have a bit of ambition in life, and you need to swim with the sharks. I mention the advice here [0].

2) "Is this what you want to be remembered for?", not sure where I've read it, but it's a powerful question.

3) "It's sunny in Venezia today, stop reading HN and go for a walk". Me, just now. Half kidding... But walking is one of the most powerful things you can do to help yourself. In fact, I'm closing my computer now, and I'm going for a walk. Can't wait to see other comments when I come back later tonight.

[0]: https://simon.medium.com/jack-dorsey-meditation-and-a-tip-fr...
> If it's not compatible, then how come it thrives so well?

Careful — some societies a while back "thrived" by relying on slavery. OSS is not slavery, but drawing conclusions just from apparent thriving is dangerous. (Other analogies: recent bubble collapses from the housing market & dotcom before that — those seemed to "thrive" too, before the bubble collapsed.)

> […] let's ask why it works to begin with, […]

One thing I'd throw on that list is people trying to build a name and reputation hoping to get hired in the future. This includes bright youths fresh out of high school, but also PhD students whose thesis delivery is turning into a dreading life change. They're running on borrowed time, and if it doesn't work out it's both them and their projects that are screwed.
> Notice how I just made a realistic projection?

Well, you haven’t. There is absolutely nothing in the current AI state of the art which points towards that. As many as been telling you, you are scared of ghosts.

Did the loop make workers disappear? Did cameras made us stop painting?

What you wrote were written in exactly the same way for all these innovations. You will pass, progress will march on.
My thoughts…

1. How much and at what valuation?

The answer to this is harder to think about with convertible notes, so I’d tend to think about it the way the VC in your first priced round will think about it. For them, today, they’ll want to, after the round, own ~20% of the company. “Today” is important because that number will fluctuate. A year ago, when money was flowing freely, that number may have been as low as 10%. In a few months, if things tighten up further, it may get as high as 30%. But my sense of the market today is 20%.

While it seems wacky, everything else in your first question then flows from this. If you raise $1M, and the VC wants 20%, then your valuation after the round closes (post-money valuation) is $5M. Raise $2M and it’s $10M. Raise $3M and it’s $15M. Etc… to some rational limit.

So the two numbers you’re really trying to figure out are: 1) how much the VC you want to talk to targets owning in your company; and 2) how much you need to get to the next milestone. If for #1 the answer is greater than 20% then it means either VCs aren’t as excited about you or venture markets have even further seized up. For #2, once upon a time I’d probably have said think about what you need for the next 18 months. Today, as I think we’re headed into tough times, I’d probably be thinking about what you need for 24 – 30 months.

By the way, at Cloudflare we raised our first round in 2009, the last period where venture markets were really seized up. In our first round we raised $2M and sold the VCs ~30% of the company. But 10 years later when we went public, in spite of raising another $200M+, the founding team still owned 25%+ of the company and held super voting shares giving us full control. So sweat these fund raising questions a bit, but mostly just focus on building a great business.

And, again, this is assuming venture not angels. And assuming a priced round, not a SAFE (convertible debt). But it can provide a good mental model to think about what you’ll do when you get to your first VC-led round.

2. Financial projections?

Focus on costs, not revenue. Assume you’ll generate no revenue. Think about how long, with that assumption, whatever you raise will last you. Today (again, winter is here or coming soon) think 24 – 30 months until you can raise again.

3. EU or US investors?

10 years ago the answer probably was US. Today venture is much more distributed. I’d think less about where and more about who. And think about the individual, not the firm. It’s so much easier having conversations with people who “get” your space. At Cloudflare, we made a list of the top 10 cyber security investors. We then found ways to meet those 10 people. The number two person on our list offered us a term sheet within 15 minutes of the start of our conversation. Rest is history.
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> Problem: I do not have a good feel for the amount of energy needed to heat a pan vs the amount easily generated by a pedal. If you would need to pedal for hours to get the pan hot that would not be good.

Boy do I have some bad news for you
Creating a filter to destroy dissenting opinion and voices is not wisdom. It is pure evil and has no place in modern civilization.
The important metric for electrolysers now is not so much efficiency (although that's nice), it's capital cost. For use with intermittently available power capital cost becomes more important. This is different from the old notion of a hydrogen economy, using relatively expensive nuclear power to drive electrolysers 24/7.

It may also be nice if the electrolysers were reversible, so they could also act as fuel cells.
It's not small; it's also not huge. For the type of website that has use for this it's not really all that much.
It's got a weird bit of nuance to it. I think Open Source does well because it's economically infeasible for it to fail. The cost of hosting source code is next to nothing, and the idea of writing a shared library/tool gives it long-term appeal. The problem boils down to human nature, and the greed/ambition/entitlement we feel isn't balanced with a proper respect for our surroundings. If you train people to be entrepreneurs, they'll nickle-and-dime every free software product they find.

There's not really a problem with FOSS software, as I see it. It's okay to disagree with it's principles (or even for the purposes of a single project), but the concepts of public licensing are completely moral and just. If we frame this as a money problem, corporate FOSS benefactors will build us a money pit. That's not what Free Software (capital F) needs.
It's not that I don't understand that (I live, by choice, where the population density is 1/40th that of Netherlands). And, if Netherlands wants to choose not to grow, that's great. That's not encountering some inherent limit to growth, though, as the article implies - it's choosing not to grow.

I think the really interesting, and hard, question - which to be fair, the article does hint at - is whether a country can opt for such limits, and still maintain a world-leading standard of living. I've never seen an economics model that convincingly has a path for no-growth. Clearly, we all need one.
Not really - especially when that longer tunnel is an international project and is being drilled under the sea, not a straight line in a desert.
That is a problem.

On the other hand I know more incidents caused by overfunded corporate OSS developers who have taken over projects and justify their existence by manically rewriting the code base for no reason.

Many of these incidents are covered up. Contradicting the corporate politicians is dangerous, because often they have installed dozens of other developers who always agree with them and are ready to libel dissenters.

OSS funding is a hard problem. OSS was best when it wasn't funded at all.
Because he’s usually self deprecating? I didn’t think this was a particularly kind analysis, my assessment was basically he’ll do whatever makes him the most money (or loses him the least)
> Your best bet for "Switch + Factorio + Mods" is probably Factorio backporting the controller controls on to the mainline release, then taking that release and running it on a Steam Deck.

That is on the roadmap.

> I actually started working on the port for Nintendo Switch before the Steam Deck was even announced, so first I will finish what I started. Currently the controller support is optimized for and built around the Nintendo Switch system, the Joy-Con™ controllers, and their features. There's still more work to be done for generic controller support, such as dealing with the many controller types, handling mods, ability to switch between "keyboard and mouse" and "controller" modes, etc. Also I want to make it a priority to focus on the initial feedback coming from Nintendo Switch players, to make sure any bigger issues are ironed out quickly. So generic controller support is planned, just that like most things, it will take some time.

That said, people are playing Factorio on the deck and liking it as it has enough buttons and additional controls beyond the traditional controller - https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/vz5d96/factorio_...

> ...

> For everything else not in the layout specifically, I have no problems just clicking on the UI buttons for what I need, like Rate Calculator or To-do List, as they are less frequently needed.

> I know that when Wube announced Steam Deck compatibility for Factorio, their blog post somewhat doubted the ability to control the game easily using a controller since the game wasn't designed for it - and I'd agree with them for any other console controller I think. But for the deck - the trackpads, back buttons, and grid menus open up tons of potential.

> ...
Airbnb will start designing homes (2018)
if you reject copyright (I assume that is what you mean by 'having nice things') it has to work both ways and not the"Disney I love Public Domain but I lobby to extend copyright forever" way, because it suits whatever business model.
Or just printing out diffs, not that I advocate for this position
Very true if you’re counting only the positive effects, in which case it’s not “on net.” There are obviously significant downsides to amphetamines which is why we don’t treat them like caffeine or even vitamins.
Texes has cheap power? https://www.dallasnews.com/business/energy/2022/06/02/were-i...

I would argue that when your power bill can skyrocket suddenly due to poor governance and mismanagement of the grid and you pay 1000s you do not have “cheap” power.

Other states, provinces, and countries manage to deliver even cheaper power, consistently, without the grid failures and profiteering thanks to regulation.

People shouldnt be dead because power companies want to make more money.
"Limiting Speech is Actually Free Speech"

This reads like a BuzzFeed article after the author finished squeezing their own head in a vice.
Why is the PE/VC industry still using PowerPoint and Excel?
Nowadays, with CLI apps such as OpenBB and Rich, alongside powerful IDEs leveraging the potential for text & presentation generation in markdown, why do hedge funds, VCs, and investment banks have NO dedicated teams to transition from MS office suite to open-source alternatives?
Microsoft still does this too, shared source is still a thing if you’re an important enough customer/vendor/university:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/
We already know how to find our way out. Stratospheric aerosol injection. We don’t need to invent anything new or spend significant sums of money.

We will do it eventually, but only after green democrats finish their “perfect is the enemy of good” lifetime crusade.
Pkg.jl has been such a breath of fresh air vs my prior experience with Python,R, VBA. Built into language, environment management, dependency pinning, SemVer enforcement at the registry level, easy to update as a package developer.
He had to buy Twitter under exceptionally seller-friendly terms, because Twitter didn't want to change hands or be taken over by Musk; that's the month of drama leading up to the M&A debacle.

What I'm saying is that he'll be getting exceptionally seller-friendly terms from everybody, for years to come, because in the course of this supposed "negotiation" he repeatedly breached the terms of the acquisition agreement, publicly slagged the target over and over again, reneged on the deal, and brought a horseshit case to the Delaware Chancery Court to try to avoid performance when the target held him to the deal he agreed to. Every other company is going to notice that (it's one of the most noticeable things to happen in business in 50 years!), and nobody is going to trust him.

I don't believe he did all of that as a negotiating ploy. If he wanted to get the price down, all he had to do was wait before agreeing to an ironclad, overpriced deal. In fact: "waiting" is what he ended up trying to make happen anyways!

This wasn't a negotiating strategy.
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> You see this whenever Elon talks about the "far left". This is such a laughable concept. The "far left" in American politics quite often simply means "we should let trans people exist"

Look I’m probably somewhere between center and far left depending on your perspective and maybe that’s the point. For better or for worse(probably worse) the functioning of society is based on relative, not absolute belief.
We do 600+ foot-pounds by hand on H-60's. It's not fun but it doesn't require a hydraulic jig. It requires a specific (long) wrench and a guy who can brace. If you can deadlift 200lbs you could do it.

The jig is likely to speed up the process and prevent fatigue; doing that torque 16 times per wing would get exhausting.
And during that big winter storm outage, the sudden loss of a nuclear power plant's output.
Microsoft’s first median pay report shows racial gaps in top jobs
Sometimes you have to open up and investigate can of worms nobody who is around knows about. That would involve you in various stacks of software with very weird quirks and unintuitive design decisions. That sounds like hell to me and am wondering how you’d be able to handle these without investing tons of time in learning the domain and the SW involved. I’d be interested in learning from your experience as well.
Operators of vehicles like boats or airplanes are much more likely to try and save the vehicle with all means necessary. This is probably due to a number of reasons but there is a somewhat increased attachment.

Car people love their cars yes, but boat people and pilots treat their vehicle like a child. No idea why.
A surprising number, actually. In Brazil, it's still the best-selling Blu-Ray player the country can get!
As others have hinted to -- no userspace copies. No context switches. Vroom Vroom.
We are deceived into thinking news is important because we need to be “informed” to be “responsible voting citizens” but if nothing on the news would change your vote who cares? Ignoring that statistically the lottery makes more sense than national voting …
Wdym? Most UNIX vendors shipped source code...
No exec ever got a bonus for taking care of their customers.
I was just pointing out that their next design isn't "safe", as you find their current designs.
Similarly I think “what if I die tomorrow”? This really helps me prioritize the experience I want from life over status, money, etc.
Come on. "fight for speech?"

The only speech she fought for was for her ideological-religion.

Free, open, and fair debate were never permitted on twitter. She flat out ensured that their opinion became your opinion or you were out, one way or the other.