skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used Ansible in the past for the exact same purpose and it has one major flaw: Ansible is imperative. What I mean is: if I add a line in a config file and want to rollback then I have to manually handle revert (create playbooks with `delete` flag etc.) With Nix you get this for free.

Also, with Nix you can trivially create image for your configuration (even with slightly different options, e.g. only enable ssh on 0.0.0.0 for a fresh install, but disable it after first config apply) which I find useful when working with a cloud.
A baby learns to just walk in three years. If you want to fly in 3 years, you better do a job. Business is not for you.
There might be something interesting here.

- people in the VC entrepreneur world are seeing mostly 20s and 30s be successful

- VC world is, as one previous commenter put it, swing for the bleachers

- researchers are saying average age of success is 45, so more than half are 40+

This seems to perhaps indicate (though needs research) that

- those 40+ prefer bootstrapped businesses

- bootstrapped businesses are over half the successful entrepreneurs, so tend to be more successful

Many things could be wrong with this:

- different definitions of successful

- research bias

- geographical bias

However, it's something that seems to bear investigation.

And if true, what is it that is driving the budding entrepreneur to think that to be more successful they need to seek VC funding, when it may actually be the opposite. Would you rather take a 1 in 1m shot at 1m/yr, or a 1 in 10k shot at 300k/yr? Numbers made up in the question of course, research needed to figure out what they are.
It's the proliferation of credit combined with increasing ubiquity of equating consumerism with success.

Using other people's money to act like you can afford the things that other people who have much more money than you can actually afford.

The easier and more common this has gotten, the crummier deal everyone ends up getting for their money.

Back when average consumers still had to save money for years before making big-ticket purchases, the shrewdest of manufacturers achieved the greatest success with product lifetimes having quite good multiples of those saving years.

When that became no longer as much of an issue, then never mind.

Expanded credit opened up opportunities for spendthrifts to dominate, who love to consume so much that they replace purchases that are still perfectly good after a few years anyway.

Remember all those 70-year-old juicers where there's far more in the landfills than remaining in the kitchen? Most of those were landfilled while they were still working.
> China/TikTok is even worse of course.)

Is it tho? Is it worse than Cisco or bcci? What about CryptoAG? Instagram and Meta literary have got shadow profiles on near every single person on the planet....
I have no doubts there are many investors who are unimpressed with Elon's and Mark's excursions into their fantastical worlds. There is no lack of hubris on their part.

As interest rates rise, it becomes appealing to cash out of speculative investments and re-invest where returns are reliable and predictable.
Mate, if you failed to make $10 online it means there is something seriously wrong with your mental model of how the world and business works.

I am sorry about your health, of course get that addressed first.

Then ask yourself what you want and get someone who had more success than you to point out what's wrong with your beliefs and approach.
This. It's the "developers trying to sell products to other developers" conundrum. You know the development workflow. You came up with a great tool to increase productivity for developers. You set a low price of $50. And yet no one is going to buy it because "lol I could do this in a weekend".

Developers are cheap bastards (I'm still fighting over whether I should shell our $99 for Panic's Nova editor or not - even though it would be the perfect fit for my editing needs. But I'm a cheap bastard and VIM is good enough so...)

I guess "indiehackers" aren't much different. Only maybe they have less disposable income that old fart developers?
This is for people who don't have time to learn the complicated UI of a regular 3D software. There's a lot of them.
Considering all the comments about the amount of luck among the top performer entrepreneurs I am always flabbergasted by how HN is so vocally opposed to the confiscation of fortunes in excess of 1bn .

It seems like the natural consequence, the bigger the lottery win, the bigger the cut that society takes out of the lucky winner.

It’s only natural and if somebody were to spit on 999.99M they deserve to also have that remaining amount confiscated.
I got something similar:

def is_prime(n):
""" Use sieve of erasthotenes to check if n is prime. """
if n < 2:
return False
if n == 2:
return True
if n % 2 == 0:
return False
for i in range(3, int(n\*0.5)+1, 2):
if n % i == 0:
return False
return True
> Deploying is as simple as pushing a new commit and then triggering a rebuild on a specific host.

Or you can forgo /etc/nixos and push from your current machine with

nixos-rebuild switch -v --target-host machine2 --flake .#machine2
Same here!

I ended up shifting more towards the dev side - devops, software engineering, etc.
> uses product-led/marketing-led/sales-led growth

What exactly do you mean here? because I'd argue depending on the product, each of the 3 could be the way to go over the others. Are you trying to say one is the best way of growing? Curious to hear your thoughts.
Indeed! That's why even though renewables now do often make more sense than nuclear plants, I'm worried about all the know how and industrial base possibly being lost, as that might slow us down as we move further into space.

BTW, there is a recently released grand-strategy game called Terra Invicta that gets it right - the same solar panel module that gives you 40 power units in LEO (or 260 at Mercury!) will produce just 3 power units at Ceres. So its all fission, followed by various fusion designs for any stations further from the sun than Earth/Luna & for basically all the ships.

As for launching reactors into space - I think that at least the fuel elements will have to be launched for quite a while, the industrial base required for nuclear fuel refining and fuel assembly fabrication is just too massive for early deployment space-side.

Lot of other stuff - dirt for shielding, coolant, possibly even some primitive radiators - could likely be made in space relatively quickly.

Still, nuclear fuel that has not yet been through a reactor is just a bunch of toxic heavy metal - not ideal if it burns up, but possibly quite a bit better than plutonium from an RTG. Also being dense and quite small in volume, it could very well be shipped in a big ball of ablative shielding, just in case.
The TV numbers are surely skewed by retirees?

Who built their billion dollar company while working a day job again?
Then I think we have different definitions of business logic?

HTML rendering, email, data compression, ... for me never belonged to the business logic.
Does it even work without a cloud subscription? And doesn't it require a supply of special containers?
We really really need to shut this down as a national security issue. If they took it off Apple and Google Play stores it would reduce usage immediately by at least 80-90% along with having apple/android send out blocks like they can for malware (which it is). It's hard to believe Biden didn't continue Trump's attempt to shut it down.
indie entrepreneurs?? this is not an hobby! either you are all in or do something else!
prepare to fail! you should fail, if you are not failing you are not pushing yourself enough, and it's painful for everyone.

I saw the evolution from a tiny 3 people company to a 150+ and growing, my boss and friend went from one struggle to another, as elon musk put "it's like staring into the abyss while eating glass". It's that hard and gets emotional right away.

indie entrepreneurs? influencers? really? it's an insult to everyone that put their soul into it, it makes my blood boil.
There is no half measure, if you think this way you won't succeed.
I think they meant was that if one of these VC backed lifestyle businesses fails, the CxO guys running the show just shrug and go sink an other one, who cares.
yeah you can bet those underlings were workign for someone else.
Musk’s Campaign to Win Back Twitter Advertisers Isn’t Going Well
Does this count as a dupe if the reporting sites and articles are different?

At the very least the reporting styles will be different.
Wow… Sanderson is trying to back down Audible and their monopoly on audio books.

Looks like I’ll be getting his books from Speechify from now on.
What is your "entrepreneurship dream?" Being able to build startups for the rest of your life? Building a single successful company? Building a company that earns you enough to live?
Been there, done that. However, the worst position to find yourself in is partial traction. A few customers, giving you that slight bit of hope to keep grinding. Then after 5 our more years, you've made 20K and are stone motherless broke. Or maybe that's just me. Chin Up dude.
You will get this reply: "NIST is an American institute, and we are a Japanese company, we have our own standards that differ, and must follow them".
Give the AI access to cURL and train it on how to interpret responses. What could possibly go wrong :p
100% agree. In fact most all of the successful-in-business people I know owe a huge amount of their success to luck. They’re also the often last to acknowledge the part luck played in their story. This, coupled with survivorship bias of startups who win, leads to people thinking it’s more likely to build a successful company in tech than the reality.
Check out the climate change ai[0] community! There are many people working on the interesting interface between ai and relevant problems.

I think the main thing to take into account that many of these problems and organisations still live in an age of 200X tech, so already implementing current age practices can result in great improvements (although this does not result in flashy press announcments or papers).

[0] https://www.climatechange.ai/
I like it. It can be hard to a avoid idioms like tackle as they are used alot. Avoiding acronyms, jargon etc. is a great start for everyone. Especially in IT!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Machine_%28computer%29?w...
There are people like this everywhere I just learned to not answer them, you will say something that's true for 99% of the population, instead of reading between the lines and understanding that I was trying to say "people are different and the difficulty isn't the same for everyone", they'll instantly jump on the 1% for who the thing you said doesn't apply and reply telling you how you're wrong, there people argue to argue, to get a dopamine hit (they'll reply to tell me it's some other neurotransmitter at work here) and satisfy their ego, radio has static noise and the internet has these people, just ignore them.
The question is not what to add, but what to take away. But I guess this notion due to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is lost on CSS heads which brings us into the territory of another quote attributed to Upton Sinclair: "it's difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

By whom however I don't mean Chris Coyler even though his css-tricks.com when he was still running it certainly profited off CSS' let's say less-than-razor-sharp scope.
My intuition is that effective entrepreneurs generally have a strong conviction that they won't fail, and in any case wouldn't want to fall back on taxpayers if they did. They will also disproportionately be averse to paying social democratic tax rates once they, in their mind, inevitably succeed.
Agreed. I'd say it's related, but not a dupe.
Are they to test this condition for each input to each program?
To be fair, support humans do that anyway.
Interested to know what happened here.

Shouldn't Happy eyeballs fall back to IPv4 when IPv6 is broken?
I just exited my first one, bought up by a listed company.

I think the main reason a lot of startups fail is that it is started out as "I want to have a startup just now at once", and not the reverse direction.

All my high school and university life I was just open all the time, and every other week/month some good opportunity came with people holding money in their hands. My father was kind of a guy who everyone called if had a problem, he was the channel of these. One day this idea came that with years of work we can have this recurring revenues and this is even cool, started it with friends, win.

Point is: the agenda was not to have a startup, but I had gigs with open eyes. And I was picky to stop and choose this, I can tell you.

Just my 2 cents.
"Building a startup is hard work and it takes time." "I'm giving up on my entrepreneurship dreams." Take time to recover mentally and financially. You can always try again at a later time (or not), and do it in a gradual way, not all-or-nothing (take a look at the 37Signals books). You at least tried, and won't have regrets of never have attempted it. Though it is hard to see it right now, you probably have learnt a few things that hopefully you can put to use in the future. Good luck and hope things improve.
Eventually you learn it's not always a great idea to stop your employer from getting burned. Some people don't learn until it hurts.
> In my experience it is common to meet managers who think they have far more data than is really the case. What data they do have tends to be inconsistent…

Can also back this up 100%.

Too many times I’ve had “we have some x data, we need you to do y”.
Turns out, the data they “have” is a 15 line excel file of unknown provenance and replicability; nobody in the dev/marketing/finance/etc team has the time, interest, or project alignment to care what you want, and what they’re trying to do needs a team of phd’s anyways, but all of this falls on deaf ears.
That's totally fair, and as a non American, I have a bunch of sympathy for this viewpoint.

The US government have behaved like absolute shitheels for much of the Cold War and beyond.

That being said, they have a relatively free press and relatively fair and liberal laws, especially compared to China.
It's a private company, they're allowed to be biased, while you can call that out, you can't really call it "wrong" as there is nothing starting you from stopping your own company and a few are out there now for those people who enjoy right->alt-right->nazi topics [gab, truth, mastodon, parler]. I posit you won't make much money as it'll be hard to find advertisers for said spaces (and obviously mastodon can just ban you from servers easily) My point is the tech crowd is highly center->left leaning, and you can't ask someone "please take this political spectrum questionnaire" 90% of them will get up and walk out when you are hiring.
> It's also the constant stream of digital nomad influencers on Twitter who sell extremely distorted, rosy, and often times false dreams to indie entrepreneurs like myself. They make it seem like building a successful startup is easy and anyone can do it with the right mindset and a few key tips.

Most of them sell the idea they are successfull. But once in a blue moon they share their real MRR and you are shocked. Because most of them make 1-2k and behave like they are successfull and can live from it. Most are just pretending and are never successfull at all. But they know each other and push each other which make it seem you are the outlier of being a ”failure“.
Pretty much every country that tried to tax wealth had to back up exactly because of wealthy and capital flight.

> local competitors will immediately spring up

What is your experience starting new businesses? It is a highly difficult and risky endeavor and few people find it more attractive than simply getting a job. It's exactly this kind of people that you will alienate and drive away with these of wealth-hostile policies.
I missed clicking on it, thanks for sharing!
That’s 8 degrees Celsius, for everyone else.

Doesn’t seem so dramatic, but it’s a large-ish drop
Michael Kramer, who reads many of his books on audible, is incredible. I enjoyed listening to several more than reading them because of him.
This is excellent advice.

I followed roughly this path until I was in my late 30s. Now have a startup that is growing because we put in essentially 5 years of groundwork, while working full time day jobs, building product in an industry that isn’t sexy, being “lucky” (patient/observant) enough to ride a new federal regulation, having go throw away an entire product after 2 years and starting a new product in the same space/customers, showing customers we were in it for the long haul FOR THEM, with a well rounded seasoned founding team, business model first, taking the right amount of investment from the right investors at the right time.

In that way I think entrepreneurship IS actually a lifestyle, but the behaviors are not what OP alludes to. The lifestyle is falling in love with a problem or a type of customer or both and just seeing what you can do to help while building a business along the way…SUSTAINABLY. If your version of lifestyle is somehow BEING caught up in acting a certain way based on influence (I have no idea what an indie hacker is), that seems destined for failure.

TLDR. Go live your life, get a normal job to build security, don’t try and start a company at all, wait for a problem/opportunity to find you.
I am probably stereotyping here.. but the kind of people who get attracted to the right wing conspiracy theories tends to be more rural, non-college educated middle aged white men (and women) who also are likely to come from more rural parts of the country. I do not think the audience for Tesla is there. You need density to build charging infra. You need most of your trips to be short-distance away and your use mostly commuting.

While they might feel happy about elon and kanye sticking it to the other side, they are not in market for an EV.
I'm on the other side of the fence. I am working on the very early stages of what is planned to become a SaaS product. It would save me a considerable amount of time to use something along the lines of what you appear to have done.

If you'd like to chat further, my email is in my profile.
This is the reason. Institutional investors (which hold the lions share) are more wary of stocks with astronomical P/E ratios when the macroeconomical forecasts are what they are today. Expect the bloodbath to continue until there is a semblance of calm waters on the horizon. I'm thinking around March.
>Most founders are still men from Ivies or Stanford.

That's the key part of the "entrepreneur" story the OP missed. From Gates over Zuckerberg to Musk, all these people were born rich, into well-connected families. If you do not belong to this ultra-privileged class of people, your chances of doing what they did is practically zero.
Imo, the problems are the same but the conditions are different. If the query is used many times, parameterize it. If the input is used many times, sanitize it. If both are used many times, parameterize.
Pay for access
That could have been cached locally on your machine, separate from your vault.
> This advice is the exact opposite of the wisdom in the rest of the post.

Very much this
The “Minimal Latents” approach to natural abstractions
Yep, that is definitely evidence against my theory.
More sellers than buyers, or sellers are more certain of their positions than buyers. Why?

1 - smaller number of registrations in China than expected. Is it because covid is ravaging and there are less people buying cars? BYD not seeing this effect, so indicates softer demand for Tesla in China

2 - increased output finally matching the demand? either because China has more internal competition or because the Fed increasing rates makes cars less affordable in the US

3 - hodlers of TSLA (overlap with hodlers of crypto) and option traders are getting margin calls with the decreasing stock price (their collateral for the margin) and are forced to sell at the current price

4 - Elon Musk sold TSLA stock to have money to shore up is Twitter acquisition ("found" that Twitter had 3B yearly negative cash flow)

5 - higher interest rates in US cause Price/Earnings compression, no need to risk on the stock market when treasuries offer a nice, guaranteed payout

6 - US economy is in recession and with a high interest rate; market participants will short stocks, specially the ones with higher P/E; its a self-powering process until it ends

7 - Musk political views on twitter (or lack of independence) tarnished the halo of the Tesla brand and may reduce the overall addressable market of the brand, specially in the US. Tesla was always a Mass Stream Media magnet but now common folks and journalists are exposed to more "radical" views from Musk, eroding trust.

8 - Tesla price reductions and free charging miles in push to reach end-of-quarter numbers, because customers could be delaying purchases until next year to benefit from Inflation Reduction Act tax credits. This will lower profit margin on these sales and, therefore, total profit for the quarter (although Tesla is producing more cars, with scale effects on the margin and the supply chain prices are starting to decrease)

9 - too much noise regarding Musk attention to Twitter. Is he still taking enough time to drive the Tesla business ?

I had to sell the most my TSLA stock to prevent margin calls (greed selling puts at All Time Highs and thought the rising Tesla business would outdo the Fed tightening - was totally wrong).

Would not have sold any if not for this. Looking forward to shove some extra money again back into TSLA, as it becomes available.
It's the market. Tesla is way overpriced. Now that the market is contacting, money is moving to value instead of speculation.
I've been thinking of doing that for some stuff! Teach it how to call APIs and see what happens.
Used Macs back in mid/late 80s, and to this day that feature, that icons stay where you put them, is the part I miss the most. Before 95, Windows seemed like just a glorified program-launcher, but when 95 took on that icons-stay -put feature, that's when I decided Windows might just be ok after all.

It makes sense, at a deep level in our brains, that we apprehend our world spatially, that we'd be adapted to instant recognition of landscapes. Other people would look at my Mac folders and ask "how can you find anything?" For me, it was bliss. I could see without having to read any path names exactly where I was, because each folder's icons had a unique sort of constellation. If I needed to find someplace else, unconscious brain mechanisms could tell me it's that way, i.e. behind whichever icon. London cabbies are known to have maps of the entire city in their minds, and that's what it felt like. Some of the same people that thought my icon arrangements were crazy had their own constellations that didn't make sense to me. It was a much more personal experience.

So of course not long after trying to get comfortable with W95, it came as a shock when I discovered previously tamed territory was suddenly in disarray. Suddenly I had to read O(n) icon names to find what was sought, rather than just knowing by spatial arrangement which was the right one. And as I tried to establish and expand order, it became apparent this was just a kind of whack-a-mole, due to a very poor implementation that could only retain 400 positions at most. There were many other reasons I eventually abandoned Windows, but this was one of the first deep aggravations with it.
> general

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Name a big UK startup?

Nordic countries have the safety net countered with a mentality that is borderline entrepreneur-hostile and the law of Jante on top of that so safety nets may be the few pro-entrepreneurship things they have. Finland of the lot is also capital poor so no huge investor funds or such.