skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What are your guys thought?

Former fintech co-founder: I boot-strapped (VC and incubators expressed interest but wouldn't give term sheets because of Bitcoin's 'gray zone' reputation) and with this current tech-apocalypse afflicting the entire Industry I fear you will have a very hard-time raising anything without showing revenue right now. The fat is being trimmed even on the most established of companies, and I fear you will have to enter the work-force if you are in such dire need of money.

> My cofounder is telling me if I don't keep working on this startup (using the money out of my cofounder & me's pocket after the company die), then I am being guilty to him, guilty to current investors and guilty to employees, because I am not all in.

I self-imposed this on myself, and to be honest had I not done it would have never gone anywhere, whihc had a cascade of effects downstream to the entire cannabis Industry; but ultimately I personally feel I paid too high a cost to do it in the end--it was my most daunting Pyrrhic victory which seemed never ending until I decided to step down and go Corpo for a bit.

As someone who went through this and had a decent exit I think that if you thought it's worth doing, you probably wouldn't need external validation, but if I were you I'd really consider what your physical and mental health is worth to you because you will be sacrificing both for the foreseeable future.

I'd say start with what other skills can you leverage in this market and start from there, and have a brutally honest assessment with your team as to what it will take to keep the lights on.

> But the business we are in require millions of dollars to launch (after the code is ready). Without that much of money, the product provides 0 value.

Why? Are you having to comply with lots of legal issues/regulations in various markets?

In my time friends were getting sent to prison for non-compliance of nebulous KYC-AML laws and were deemed money transmitters when it was classified as property and not money depending what agency you asked in the US; my question is why would you enter a market that requires that much in run-way and think that this is a viable option let alone that could succeed given the current incumbents?

Fintech's appeal is in how well it scales with limited resources, which ultimately is the only thing that allows it to compete with legacy payment processors like Visa/MC who dominate the Market for a reason.
> No, but I would tell them to not do their gardening in the public botanical gardens unless they want the demands and responsibility that goes with that.

A weird example given many botanical gardens do rely on volunteers.

> As for being condescending, I found your comments only considering the volunteer side of open source equally so

I personally was previously employed doing open source work. I have no problem with people making money off open source if they want and are able to, just with the idea that it should automatically be the aim.

> I have met a bunch of artists, and all of them wish to make a living from their art

"Making a living" and "being discovered" are very different things. But if you really think every artist wants to do art professionally, you should umm, meet more people.

> And that is obviously causing a lot of friction between the professionals there to do a job and the hobbyists.

How so? I have yet to encounter any friction.

Although i suppose it also depends on what you mean by "professional doing a job". Even professional open source does not look like a real software job. There are no SLA's or garuntees from a professional open source project unless you pay for that seperately, so what even distinguishes professional open source from amateur open source.

> Both sides would be better off not being on the same platform.

Why?

More to the point, although there certainly are some open source projects with big $$$ involved on github, the really famous ones tend to be not hosted on github. E.g. linux is not on github.

> My argument is that the hobbyists should get out of the botanical gardens (to keep going with the gardening analogy) and take their stuff to a community garden or home to their front garden.

The phrase "corporate appropriation of the commons" comes to mind.
I think “smart quotes” is fine as a name, since most people who type them still do it automatically via a context-based logic (whether it’s a word processor or text box input on an iPhone). And it works better than “curly quotes” since they are not curly in some fonts.

If you’re going to be pedantic, I’m not sure that “left-quote” or “right-quote” is correct either. Shouldn’t it be “left double quotation mark” or “right double quotation mark”?
They have no margins because they blow hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars on these self-checkouts!
I frequently receive psychiatric evaluations, and every time the doc justifies it to me, she (it is always a woman) she explains it based on my current affect at that time. Like if I am affable and outgoing, I receive a favorable diagnosis, but if I am in a bad mood, sort of standoffish, quiet or retiring, I receive a negative diagnosis.

Also since they are clinical psychiatrists I always 100% encounter them in a clinical setting where I already suffer from "white coat syndrome" so that just factors into the mess.
Love him or hate him, without Musk Tesla would have been dead in the water as a company and its shares would have been worthless by now. Those stock owners knew what they did when they got into TSLA.
What percentage of people do you believe drive a car newer than 2018?
Crowd crushes always happen at high profile events with a lot of media presence, happen to hundreds at once, and are particularly reported on because the victims usually did nothing wrong.

But where do they fall amongst all other causes of mortality? Are they in the top 100 causes of death? Top 1000? Do the crowd crushes of street festivals make it an activity as risky as say mountain climbing per hour that you're taking part?
I gave a good faith effort to learn MS-DOS (my first operating system). I am proficient in DOS. I gave a good faith effort to learn UNIX. I am proficient in UNIX. I gave a good faith effort to learn vi. I am proficient in vi. I gave a good faith effort to learn C. I am proficient in C. I gave a good faith effort in to learn Java. I am not good at Java. I gave a good faith effort to learn how to use tablets. I am not good with tablets. I gave a good faith effort to learn how to use Emacs. I am not good with Emacs.

It's tempting to blame the tools, but it's more rational to blame myself. I'm not certain how to describe what the problem is, but I think capacity to think in whatever paradigm the application expects is good enough to express the point.
Before Henry VIII, pope > king in medieval society. The clergy were tremendously powerful.
Some of them are quite forgiving and let you go fast, others insist on you placing every item on the scale carefully and still freak out half the time. Depends on the quality of the area, perhaps.
This is a gem:

Mr. Musk may also be testing Twitter’s engineers. He and his team have assigned some of them projects to complete, three people with knowledge of the matter said. One project involved changes to Twitter’s login screen, they said. Some engineers worked late into the night on Friday to complete the assignments, they said.
I think he got it well enough, it's just not his truth.

Like if Watts says, "Life isn't a journey, it's a dance," one can hear that and say, "Ok, I get what you're going for, I've reflected on it deeply, but for me, life is a journey, not a dance." And it's not necessarily true that, if one reflects deeper, and grows wiser, and puts down one's preconceptions, etc etc, they will eventually, in the fullness of time, realize Alan was right. That's the sort of presumptive condescension that is being called out.
RISC-V seems increasingly inevitable in much of ARM's former feeding grounds, something I doubt ARM is unaware of, so it makes sense from a business perspective to squeeze out every cent while you still can.
Women are nearly as unaware of the invisible parts of their anatomy as men, which is fine. What's scary is that in any given country whenever there is a survey 60% of the men, and 50% of the women gets the visible parts wrong. They mostly get the clitoris right though, I guess subjectively that's the most important part, who cares about the rest. Don't even start asking people how their genitals work, or about health or anything. There is an entire douching industry built on women not knowing that their vagina is self-cleaning, or that cleaning it even with water can lead to many health problems. Almost one in five women douches regularly.

I don't get why we can't teach people about their bodies in school properly. There shouldn't be anything controversial about it.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately while reading books about leadership

I don't know much about Musk or his companies, but I do know that a single person or a small team can often outperform hundreds of people at a big company. I wonder if he's tapped into that somehow in this case

If you're doing something you love with a great team that takes care of you, you can easily work 2x as hard for no extra money without being exploited or putting in more than 8-10 hours a day. People spend a lot of time chatting online on the toilet, aimlessly surfing the web, etc at work

I'll say that I haven't been impressed at all with Tesla, FWIW. Tons of small annoyances with their cars that you'd never get with a comparably priced luxury vehicle elsewhere.
It involves grokking the arguments from both sides and if it’s anything non-trivial it will take hours to actually give it due diligence. “Taking a side” without being some political hot-head dipshit is a massive waste of time.
Can we make the steering wheel a touch screen too? Like a digital wheel you turn with your finger to steer the car. Wouldn't that be just super duper? Couldn't possibly go wrong.
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Quit vs fire vs layoff is the strategy of deciding to have a severance or not having one.
It's not a matter of simply pointing fingers though, even alluding to there being a general issue is controversial, virtually all opinions other than "We're not experts but you're probably disabled" are wrong. You mention going to doctors, if somebody goes to a doctor, and the doctor says they're disabled people say congratulations, if the doctor says they're not disabled people will criticise and say "bad doctor, doesn't know their job, see another doctor until you find a REAL doctor".

This TikTok thing is a fantastical world where the more visibly and stereotypically disabled you act, and the more diagnosis's you have, the more people give you positive attention. The presumption is though that it would be a terrible burden to impose on somebody to tell them they aren't disabled is what has brought us to the status quo in the article.

My experience is that a lot of the time, being diagnosed doesn't help people, and in fact subjects them to stigma, it does result in reification. I've seen people react to labelling themselves with a disability with significant self-destructive personality changes caused by self-victimisation. Mostly I feel resentful towards the medical system who really caused this nonsense to be inevitable by making people feel nobody will help them unless they apply some unflattering label to themselves first thus making them insurable.
This is exactly what I mean. Musk had very little to do with actually designing rockets. Much like Thomas Edison his main skill is getting credited for the work of other people.
Do you have an example of this? I haven't seen it.

Disclosure: I work at Google but not on Search.
> Remind me again why the brake pedal isn't a button buried in a sub-menu?

“Because title 49, subtitle B, chapter III, subchapter B, part 393, subpart C, paragraph 393.40 of Federal Safety Regulations requires us to install brakes as specified by subpart B, paragraph 571.105 of the same regulations, which require a pedal. And if those did not exist, then we absolutely would install some other bullshit, make you pay extra for it, and bear no responsibility for it whatsoever.”

Glove box isn’t a safety feature? Do whatevs, land of the free.
Nope. Less code is not always better. Collapsing a loop into a single line lambda with single char variables doing 5 times is not elegant or better. It’s orders of magnitude worse.

Less code is more readable. But absolute minimal amount of code can be unreadable.
All excellent examples of how much hot air Musk spews.
wow such insight from a genius. 2 variants have pros and cons, and you select between them based on your need. genius.
I'm pretty sure my steel toed boots could open the glove box really quickly.
It's known as «the bus problem». Peer review is used to address this, to make someone else a bit more familiar with your code, so he will be able to help you when you are overwhelmed and need help (or when you hit by a bus). Also, built-in documentation, run books, guides, and automated test cases are very helpful for those, who are not familiar with your code base. It reduces job security tough. (I hit by that multiple times, because, for management, it feels like good developers and good administrators are doing nothing or constantly pick-up very easy tasks to do).
And the cybertruck and the electric semi that was announced 5 freaking years ago.
Not to get off topic, but steam engines still drive the whole world; whether nuclear or gas or coal fuel, or concentrated solar power, steam turbines are how heat is turned into motion to make electricity. Modern ones operate very close to the theoretical limit of efficiency (around 40% [1]). The great advance James Watt made in the late 18th century, was a technique to recapture heat from the exhaust and raise practical efficiencies to several percent, with the remainder of the theoretical limit eeked out progressively over the following century.

One of the ways that limit is approached is to use the largest temperature difference the materials can stand; steam for large turbines is hot. The exhaust is still steam, but no longer hot enough to drive things efficiently. Indeed, the cooling loop of many plants run steam-hot, just not superheated-hot. Another common district heating approach (used in NYC) is a small direct gas-fired turbine driving an electric generator, with steam cooling. Combined generation is the use of that waste heat, for other heating purposes, and can raise total system efficiency.

Similarly, Iceland uses a lot of geothermal heating; some directly but much is waste heat from geothermal-electric plants. Since the geothermal taps are not that hot, an enormous volume of fluid is moved and the cold side needs to be quite cool; the output is barely-hot water after going through the cycle. But there's a lot of it. So much so, that they have under-sidewalk heating in Reykjavik and outdoor pools in winter. Most places just throw such heat away without making further use of it. It's traditionally been cheaper (or at least easier/simpler) to distribute and burn fossil fuels than to try and recapture and redistribute low intensity heat.

The pipes are indeed heat-leaky, despite usually being heavily insulated.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot%27s_theorem_(thermody...
It isn't irrational to hate Elon Musk.
No worries at all, I'm sure they wont mask defects with OTA updates to get past the warranty period.
can you explain why? i read thru the linked post and it seemed kinda obvious that differnt people care about different things so you must adapt your value proposition accordingly. i must be missing something
For those who aren't aware, this wasn't actually the end of the story; the original author ended up deciding to let someone else take over after all, and actix is still actively developed and used: https://github.com/actix/actix-web
> without Musk Tesla would have been dead in the water as a company and its shares would have been worthless by now

I don't know how you could possibly know that, that's an unfalsifiable claim.

I could make the opposite claim (that with a different CEO, Tesla would be worth ten times as much as it is now) and you couldn't disprove it.
How exactly is it being undermined if it's still being used as the main unit of accounting? Is there some new political movement I'm not aware of that is trying to replace the US dollar with something else or is inflation of the US dollar sufficient to destroy people's faith in capitalism?
He could be wasting his time too. If he's playing on your emotions that's just manipulation. What's best for both of you? Enabling him to waste his life chasing his white whale is not the right thing to do. Especially if you end up collateral damage on the way.

If there you think you've got the drive to make this work then make it work. If not move on.
I 100% object to code reviews in this way. If you have dignity as a developer you’d quit swiftly.
And Reno is West of Los Angeles.
what?? this one is stupid but the reverse lights is dangerously stupid
Just trying to figure out how exactly an even distribution of money is not distributed capitalism as you defined it. So sounds like if the market magically made everyone equally rich (or poor) you would consider that distributed capitalism but if it was done through taxation then you wouldn't. Did I get that right?
This doesn't make sense. There are certainly options and stock to vest; every pre-IPO startup employee in the world knows about the four-year vesting schedule.
Is that all marketing cost? What exactly makes up the millions of dollars? Because there are bootstrappers that launch successfully by growth hacking, although that is admittedly difficult to do.
Except that I open my glove box twice a year and turn the wheel slightly more often than that.
Dad has a Mazda. Can vouch for this 100%. It's very clear to me when I drive it that their car interfaces are very deliberate and properly designed. That rolling knob thing which controls the screen is amazing and I wish it were standard
I’m seeing more of this post-pandemic. I like it. It’s more evolved than just view-only PDF. Now it’s scan QR to access menu listing, add
items to cart and then checkout to payment. Some even with robot server bringing the food to you. Seamless and easier than waiting for a waiter to take my order, especially in a busy restaurant.
Fewer drivers in Seattle’s Highway 99 tunnel could create need for bailout
I don't know why this antididactical bullshit is tolerated in STEM or even praised. Every single research in the field show us that feedback is one if not the most important part of learning, that's why self teaching is so difficult, but problem sets without solutions, no guidance on how to approach problem solving and, my favourite, fear of memorization and firm knowledge are the rule in that world. They were just annoying, frustrating, full of themselves and generally poor teachers.
I'm european and I've always been surprised at how far east Vienna is compared to where I imagine it to be. I mentioned this to many people and quite a few very surprised that Vienna is considerably further east than Prague (if you go straight down from Vienna you'll reach Zagreb)
is this a tensorflow subtweet?

i mean i am not too close to the matter but tensorflow has still been sort of a success hasnt it?
In 2005 we were still using knuckle busters with airport shuttle customers who didn’t prepay. Also alpha pagers, VHF radios, and Thomas Guide paper maps. I have to admit they were all reliable out in the middle of nowhere.
The problem is some languages are more verbose than others. Considering boilerplate (which is often automated these days) it extra has nothing to do with productivity. More lines doesn't mean more action - I mean, we're on a Lisp-derivative forum.

And sure, if I was getting judged by LoC I'd just paste in a library versus including it, which would generally be worse.
> losing ... winning

not 'losing or winning' but upholding the principle of 'no aggression' is what is (hopefully) popular?
Putin has mentioned repeatedly that he will use a nuclear weapon. I don't think he's bluffing but I'm also having a hard time parsing whatever you're trying to say. What exactly is the meaning of "kitchen is lying in the midst of an active engagement nearing the span of 12 months"?
Eh, if you're competent, then sure. But some people have obvious code smells. You'd be surprised. A quick glance and it's obvious they're not competent. 6 layers of inheritance. Composition loops everywhere (A is in B, B is in A, A and B are in C, C are in A and b).
I think that the guys that use NSO products think that this is Restaurant Industry's best idea ...
i mean, the cashier also had a vested interest in selling you books and no qualms about taking the last money you had
My advice to someone earlier in their career would not be to quit, but to make them pay you while you look for your next job if the writing is already on the wall.
> it's probably not the best career path.

Which is a damn shame for our industry, fixing bugs should be a good career path.
They're just referencing the earlier claim that the new natural gas boiler is cleaner than the old coal boiler. The sentence is worded incorrectly, and doesn't claim to be a cleaner distribution method either. They said they keep it because it's too difficult to sufficiently upgrade the buried electrical distribution system.
It's not "perceived cons" - it causes accidents. It is distracting.
This was the first thing I disable when I got my 2016 Mazda 3. SSH'd into the infotainment and locked the GPS position. Now the car thinks I'm always parked, even when rolling. I also reduced the warning/notice on boot to about 500ms.

Considering this, I don't think I've ever even had to touch the screen since; the wheel is just so nice. The volume knob down in that cluster is also very ergonomic.
Ads. It's not about technology. It's about ads.
> I wasn't asking you to 'prove a negative', I was specifically asking you to prove a positive.

Yeah, you did ask for the negative. My friends weren't asked for anything at all. Not even code review.

This aligns with what you said earlier about "only some engineers were asked", but now you purposefully ignored what you yourself said.

How would they even prove that Elon didn't ask for a print out if they didn't get any message from Elon?

> But you're not going to do this

You are damn right I'm not.

1. My friends are likely in the thousands of engineers who aren't asked for this. You said it yourself some engineers are asked for this, and you think Elon asked for this kind of sensitive thing in a public slack channel that everyone could see? That is ridiculous. (Hint: nothing in slack either. My friends did search for it)

2. I'm not the one who makes this
ridiculously comical accusation. The more ridiculous accusation, the stronger evidence should be required. The onus is on you and Casey who insist that the story is true.

I know you like the story but damn please have some standard for verifying whether the news is fake.
This is a huge thing on Wikipedia. Nationalist factions on both sides endlessly edit-war about this. "Spanish Catalan" is a blatantly constructed compromise that somewhat keeps both sides happy enough not to break the truce.