skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
60 employees didn’t seem that wild when you consider they took on the role of publisher for his secret projects kickstarter. 186k backers of which a decent portion are getting 4 physical books over the next year.
I had my own company for a while. We were doing pretty well given my founder and I were in our 20s, it was our first company, and neither of us worked anywhere else before. We started it right out of college. We ended up having half a dozen employees and a nice office in the downtown of our city. We worked on some cool projects and had a good reputation.

But the stress was insane. Being that young and not having the experience or support around us was incredibly difficult. Having the thought in the back of your mind each month that you might have to let an employee go, lose a project/employee, or have a client bail on you, was overwhelming.

I ended up quitting after about 3 years. I now work for other companies and let them worry about all these things. I am much happier now and my work is much better. I also have a better work/life balance.

Consider the "having my own company" phase over if you feel that way. It isn't for everyone. A lot of society applauds entrepreneurs and glorifies them. Makes it seem like it's a great option for everyone and if you aren't running some company you must be a loser in the cog of the machine... That is not the case.

I actually make more money now than I did running my own company. I used to say I had more freedom but given I work from home now too, it is actually almost the same. I take more vacations now too. I couldn't afford to be away for a week when I had my own business.

I know once you pass a certain point you work "on the business, not in the business" but that is, like others have mentioned, the minority of companies that actually get that far and succeed.
Wasm could start out as a "function runner" box with no outside interface at all besides arguments and return value, with everything UI, storage or networking conveniently out of scope. Applet, in its day, had to be so much more than just the bytecode VM...
> funny aspect to me is that the senators pushing to "ban TikTok" are the same senators pushing for an "open App Store" bill

They're both about open markets. China is not only a closed market, it's threatening our open-market allies.

> going to jail every middle schooler who "does business" with them by downloading the app from unofficial sources?

If they download the app from unofficial sources and then send it money, somehow, or get money from it, somehow, yes, they'd be treated like someone trading with the Taliban. If they're just using the software, no, that's like using open-source code written by an Iranian.
And my point is that your conclusion have to doesn't follow when pandering to American literacy to make sure the lowest common denominator comprehends what they're reading is just as likely a scenario. It's been a trend in "journalism" for a very long time. You ignored what I said and repeated yourself, good job.
I hope that's not how I am coming across as
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There's more to speaking than just the words. Sign language can convey inflection and emotion in ways that closed captions cannot.

Watch someone signing: they use their face and body to convey emotions like anger, confusion, hesitation, love, joy, and the rest of the human range.
What is fascinating to me is that it isn’t just about jargon - this is also about the complex spatial metaphors that english native speakers use to sound „better”.

Reminds me of „Metaphors we Live By” https://george-lakoff.com/books/metaphors-we-live-by/
I don’t think it’s tough love per se. I think it’s just true that many people let a victim mentality get in there way. Not derail the thread but I think it is more problematic now as victimhood is lionized today. It can be very helpful yo show people that letting go of this is a way yo change your circumstance. It doesn’t mean the person is not a victim of something or yo downplay it but it is a recognition of how to actual affect change in one’s life. I do actually some people take this advice abs internalize it and get on a more successful path because of it.
It appears that there is a maintainer approval process on nixpkgs prs? Am I wrong about that, or did you mean upstream approval process?

Can you expand on the issue with code signing?
That's called a Chinese Room. :-) A human cannot write correct C. The theorem-prover-human system can. Unfortunately, the C apologists I observe around me are as opposed to formal methods as they are non-C languages. It's some kind of bizarre cowboy thing.
Since I live with someone whose first language isn't English I basically watch everything with subtitles. And live subtitling - while it's a thing - isn't that good. Try turning on subtitles for something like a news programme or live broadcast and it'll usually be quite delayed, with lots of misspellings and even outright wrong text. (This is true for premier public broadcasters in the UK such as the BBC, I don't know if this is solved better in other countries).

Anyway my theory is that sign language interpreters may be much better at this because sign language uses the same areas of the brain as speaking[1] so they're able to listen and sign much more intuitively than typing. Think if you were able to listen and speak at the same time without your "speech" drowning out what you are listening to.

[1] https://maxplanckneuroscience.org/language-is-more-than-spea...
> better content, well sourced, well written and quantifiable intentional

I've not seen AI create "better content" than even a moderately competent human, let alone an expert writer and researcher. How do you know AI content is well-sourced when it's generated by an AI which makes it up based on a statistical model? Well-written is somewhat subjective, but ChatGTP is repetitive, overly verbose, and the opposite of intentional.

AI content will be great for repetitive copy like eCommerce descriptions, simple business and sports reports, and maybe API documentation, but it won't replace human writers in most contexts humans care about.
Any recommendations on static analyzers, unit tests, coverage for c? Can clang tidy give hints about modern c they way it does about modern c++?
Analytics are necessary - without analytics sites' design would be much worse.

They don't meet the legal definition of strictly necessary.

They don't really "track you" in any meaningful way - the most interesting info in the gov.uk cookies seems to be language (English or Welsh) and if the user provides it, country (England, Wales, Scotland or NI).

Still, the data falls under GDPR, so we get consent dialogs.

https://www.gov.uk/help/cookie-details
> with minimal involvement from the founder (hence they can focus on living their life, rather than working).

I don't think this is right, most of the "lifestyle businesses" I've seen involve at least "normal" levels of work on their part, but are structured so that the work happens where & when suits other parts of their lives, or similar. At least the ones where that term made sense.

They are often located somewhere that causes some friction, or have opportunities to grow that they don't take on, etc.
Both batteries and electric motors are far older than cars and aren’t getting more complicated any time soon.

Infotainment etc impact both equally so it’s clear EV’s will just be simpler than ICE’s coming out in the same year.
Broad general reading can expose you to good writing and help you improve your own writing.
How did you check or determine who would be successful? These are retail SMBs?
This may seem a bit off base but have you tried marketing? Sounds like it's an area that may be a weakness for you. Have you looked at partnering or hiring a PR/marketing firm to do some of that for you?

The old saying is "Work Smart, Not Hard". It sounds like you were working harder and harder to try to make it happen without looking at whether those efforts are actually being successful. You can tweet and engage and support the community but unless you're marketing a product or executing a plan, you're just working hard, not smart.

Luck has a lot to do with it. Being at the right place, at the right time, with the right product. Network has to do with it as well. Who you know can get you farther than what you know. Finally, marketing, are you selling a service? a product? How are you attracting new users? What's your growth? Conversion rate? etc. Building something is just one part of the jigsaw. Making people aware you built something is the other. Convincing them it's a good thing, well, that's sales.
Curious: Why? Do you want to feed it? Shoo it away? Get to know it? Avoid letting your cat out when it's around?
I am perfectly willing to believe it’s possible that Tesla will be the dominant auto manufacturer someday. I doubt it, but I could believe it. But Tesla’s market cap of 1.2 trillion was that of a company that would have a near-monopoly in the entire auto industry worldwide.

I don’t see how Tesla’s EV market share justified Tesla’s market cap. I just went back and looked and Tesla’s market cap was higher than every single auto manufacturer combined. Could anyone really justify that based on expectations of future performance? Even now it’s about the same as the top four or five combined. I struggle to see how that’s not a crazy overvaluation. But I am not going to put any money on it. Even if I’m right, the market can stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent.
That website has a popup when I load it from the UK.

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I'll warrant that if you have hundreds of accounts you rarely log in to then it may behoove you to record them somewhere. However in this case I'm not sure a password vault is superior to just keeping them on an encrypted volume on a thumb drive. And I'd still argue its best to keep these rarely-used credentials siloed from your day-to-day passwords, especially if they're being held in trust for someone else (really each client should have their own silo).
Yay! One of the unexpected benefits of releasing a lot of source code for our work back then, is that we can now find it again on the internet [1] - most of it would have been (and was) lost otherwise :)

[1] - https://hornet.org/cgi-bin/scene-search.cgi?search=iguana
why is it -30 in your place, or is your kettle outside?
I hate to sound negative but I'm still going to use ncurses.

I'm not trying to slight Textualize (or any of the other fine TUI systems) when I say that, to me, they all seem like "fun toys". What I mean is that ncurses covers the terminal abstraction (glorified turd-polished teletype machine, literally an electric typewriter) and provides all the building blocks that make sense to provide. All these TUI projects then add an additional abstraction layer to essentially add a GUI toolkit on top.

For my use case, it was more work to learn and use the additional abstractions than it was to implement the behaviour I wanted in ncurses. And this was true for every TUI system I tried, in every language I tried (OCaml, C, Nim, Python).

The conclusion I came to was that TUI systems are essentially nerd toys (I mean that in an affectionate way), one gets "nerd-sniped" into making a TUI system and then sometimes it becomes a "real project" (Textualize has VC money?) but in ten or twenty years... ncurses will still be there, eh?

(My lil tui side-quest got started when a terminal text editor project went by here on HN and I thought, "How hard could it be...?" Nerd-sniped by a classic: write your own text editor. The thing that saved me was that, as I said, I bounced off of the TUI sub-universe into the arms of ncurses, and then I realized that all my design ideas were basically vim, and that snapped me out of it. Whew! Close call!)

From my POV the important thing is that the Textualize folks are having fun. (I don't mean that in a snark way, I'm sincere!)
My point is that they can't consistently write correct software in any language. Javascript for example has similar issues where if you're not careful about which keys in a hashmap you write to you can create situations that allow for all kinds of things including arbitrary code execution.

Modern C compilers/runtimes also have bounds checking (although I've never used it) like java if you want to use it.

Sure there's some improvement but it's not nearly as extreme as it's made out to be.
But those skills are still getting diverted from more productive means. Those pursuits are allowed to exist for longer for the dream that they will someday be massively productive. Look at the blockchain space to see all the companies that are about to go under, if they haven't already.
ESPECIALLY "buttons" that are basically text links without the underline. If you're lucky, you might have a "pill" border or drop shadow, but that hasn't helped my dad in my experience observing him.
> wihout plenty of VC money, building and running a business is hard

But..isn't that how it always worked?
Google Reader was a free product, subsidized by google ads.
There is no meaningful sense in which either Rust or Go’s reference compilers is “proprietary.” If you’re trying to say that there is no ISO standard for the two, that’s an entirely different problem (and one shared by the overwhelming majority of programming languages).
Thanks! Better description of the toy than I put on the page. :)

I haven't used a bdd before, so I was surprised this worked as well as it did. I haven't tried this with DP, but the solutions I saw that did weren't able to handle this much data. I'm assuming I just saw sub optimal solutions?
I was an editor before getting into tech, and these are the books that still hold up 20 years later:

Readable and fun, but extremely useful:

• Lapsing into a Comma, Bill Walsh (RIP)

• The 10% Solution, Ken Rand (for editing down wordy text)

• Sin and Syntax, Constance Hale

• Woe Is I, Patricia T. O'Conner

More resource-like and grammar-heavy:

• Words Into Type, Marjorie E. Skillin (hard-core grammar rules, great section on redundancies)

• Chicago Manual of Style (in general, the core style of book and magazine writing)

• Associated Press Stylebook (in general, the core style of newspaper writing)

• Garner's Modern English Usage, Bryan A. Garner

• Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage

• Dictionary of American Idioms, Maxine Tull Makkai

Not about writing, but hilarious and snobby and awesome -- great airplane reading:

• The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, Charles Harrington Elster
On a similar note, however, how many sites have explicitly removed comments at this point?

I know there was a Gab browser extension that would effectively make all sites have comment sections, and there are other similar attempts, but none seemed to gain any significant traction.
Around Y2K, a portal was a web-page that linked to assorted on- and off-site resources; the Yahoo! front page was a portal. It was a kind of aggregator, and commonly the off-site content would display within the portal site (don't let them navigate away from our site!)
Coincidentally, I got Newsboat+Podboat mostly set up today on NixOS to disconnect from the feed cycle that wants me to continually engage. The sad fact was learning after not having subbed to anything after two years to find a lot of news channels, like AP and Reuters, have stopped publishing feeds.
Been using WLED for a few years now, it's really a great project. You can take the default build, flash it to an ESP device and get started directly, or integrate it easily into other automation systems and devices easily.

The amount of both features and general professionalism in the interface is really incredible for an ESP-based project.
RSS Feeds are an easy way to stay up to date with your favorite websites, such as blogs or online magazines. If a site offers an RSS feed, you get notified whenever a post goes up, and then you can read a summary or the whole post.<a href="http://hundredyearscalender.com/>100 years calander</a>
I'm given to understand that's more about having an offline signing process then the actual builds.
> This is one of the underappreciated benefits of the Nordic-style welfare state: everybody can afford to fail.

That is a false romantization. The reality is if you live in Copenhagen you need a full time job to to pay for expensive rent, food, and of course tax. That is not true in Berlin where rent, food, and taxes are cheaper. On average the price level in Berlin is half of that of Copenhagen.
I have no issue with a charity asking for money. I give them a regular donation.
This is great for consumers with the assumption that Tesla will still find it profitable to build out the infrastructure at all. On the other hand, Europe is a lot smaller, so maybe it doesn't matter as much.
Sinclair always comes across to me as a snake-oil salesman. Maybe there's some science there, but there seems to be a whole lot of bullshit too
I recently started looking for something really close to this, and found this project.... but what I really want is a PoE controller, because my LEDs need power anyway, so why not control them with the same cable? Unfortunately I haven't found a WLED compatible PoE controller.

Anyone know of such a thing?
Two RSS threads on HN frontpage today? Great!
RSS never went away but I hope it becommes much more prominent again.
The last lost decade of walled-garden social has been a relative disaster.
Agreed. And, in general, I don't like this toy problem. Largely because of how silly it is. I did like getting a fast solution using a technique new to me, though.
And you have the Federal Reserve right now with that as their stated objective to try to keep a lid on inflation. Not saying this is the right more or not, but that's the unfortunate position we are now in.
Unfortunate. I wish that stories of the exploitation of musicians were uncommon, but they aren't.

By the way, the headline misspells "shocking".
We are definitely approaching the age of AI avatars that interact on our behalf.

Perhaps soon we won't even talk to each other anymore without it being filtered for thought crimes.
It's true that humans will inevitably produce software with defects. There are differences in the impacts of these defects.

> Javascript for example has similar issues where if you're not careful about which keys in a hashmap you write to you can create situations that allow for all kinds of things including arbitrary code execution.

Not without eval() you can't.

> Modern C compilers/runtimes also have bounds checking

No, they don't. There are C-like languages (e.g. C++/CLI) that do, and you can use containers, but no, plain C cannot do bounds checking. There's no room in the ABI for it, at least not without CHERI or ASAN.

> although I've never used it

One of the most dangerous things in the world is giving powerful tools to people who don't know that they shouldn't use them.
> have you ever managed to "change your mindset"? did it materially change your circumstances?

Not GP, but yes and yes. Personal growth is indeed possible!
It sounds like sound advice to do a crypto pump and dump and get in early for the next rug pull. But I think you have to stress that to do this in a sound way you need to have a team of lawyers and a way to insulate yourself from prosecution, if only an exit strategy to a non-extraditing country. Yeah, this is a good plan.
I’m waiting for You-Know-Who’s novel to come out so Paul Graham can flip the remote activate switch (I still don’t know what that feels like) and I can spam Twitter with hate for a book I’ve never read.

Admit it, you’re curious too if we can beat that guy.
"Center" here is a set of values and leanings like any other. It is hard to call that a lack of bias.
What rss readers for linux can you recommend?
Last I checked TikTok has a huge office in London. They’re not invulnerable to penalties.
It's always hard to figure out what exactly to look at...

I find both things plausible, both that the most successful startups are not started by the "rich kids" and that the "rich kids" start most successful startups.

The paper you linked is talking only about the first thing, by limiting its analysis to startups that surpass a $1B valuation. But you could choose some much more modest definition of "successful startup", like "all startups that reach series C or have an exit that returns at least 1.5x", and see totally different results.
what rss reader can you recommend for linux?
We would consider companies foolish if they left sales on the table, even if they didn't immediately need it. Why would non-profits be expected to not fundraise as aggressively as possible?

The expectation that non-profits should be run on fumes is silly.
> they spend (read: waste)

Really? What makes you think it's all or even mostly waste?
Prosecutors can't promise the judge will do anything; the judge doesn't work for them. However, judges have the same vested interest in honoring these deals as the prosecutors do; the prosecutors or the defendant have to really piss off the judge to have it disregarded entirely.
I had a nice conversation last week with someone on HN discussing how I went about making items on my RSS feeds commentable.[1]

I think with a little bit of creativity it's still possible to innovate quite a bit with/on top of RSS.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33978500
I’m also a traditionalist and I think the classic K&R C Programming Language book is the best way to learn C—you also get an understanding why C and *nix-based systems seem to go so well.
>If your battery is easily replaceable there might be a market for it.

There already is a market for every phone battery ever made, even though they're not easily removable. The problem is they're mostly fakes or used parts masquerading as new after the scammers have reset their chips. That's the issue that this EU law won't fix.

If we could buy the parts directly from the manufacturers supply chain (with the added cost) we'd all be saved.
And when I click the "track your package" in the email confirmation, which guides me into "create an account" but still doesn't show?
Neither do I. I take issue with them asking for money with the pretext that Wikipedia is going to disappear because they don't have enough money.
How Asus and a Microsoft Bug Almost Broke Remote Work
Unfortunately investors are now all over B2B startups because they're now keenly aware of just how stacked the odds are against you in consumer products. Even YC nowadays calls consumer facing ideas "tar pits". It's also way easier for investors to pump up B2B valuations through cross pollination between portfolio companies
Making it impossible for them to operate a business in the US ought to be more than sufficient.
But if you're watching the politician speak, you can already see all of the emotion in their facial expression and body movement.

And that's the "original" emotion, it's not filtered through another human being. When you watch a movie without audio and with subtitles (like in a bar or on a bus), the emotions of the speakers are already awfully clear from the visuals.
> China, which didn’t invade anyone in half a decade, militaristic? Let me guess, you’re American?

Nobody's claiming America isn't militaristic. But it's not a dictatorship. And it's acting in its self interest. China blocks every foreign social media app. Whataboutism doesn't make rhetorical sense here.
> I always felt like allowing myself to become emotional when debating something meant I had lost.

Nope, the new meta is just whoever is more obstinate and has the bigger microphone. You want to land zingers while ignoring context. Nuance is for the weak. After all it’s not like anyone is trying to change minds anymore, just get them points.