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This makes intuitive sense to me. Startups are so hard that I know I wouldn’t persevere if I was sufficiently wealthy already. I’ve been failing at this game for twenty years straight. Like the OP, I quit last year and got a full time job again. But it always beckons me back somehow. It’s the failed startup attempts, the failed investments, the fraudsters who conned me out of my money, the career that could have been spectacular, but only ended up so-so because I’m not in the US. Somehow every knockdown from life makes me a little grittier, a little more determined when I get back up. How does a rich kid develop that?
Thanks very much for the responses, many of which were helpful.
Yeah. There's two camps of the "year of the Linux desktop" topic. "I want Linux to be the majority of usage share" and "I want Linux to be good enough for me to use." The 2nd goal has been accomplished for many potential users since the mid-2000s, and only increasing especially since the web has nearly killed off native application development. The first goal is one I'm not interested in, myself.
Based on what cstross and others say about book sales in general, I suspect that even at such low rates Audible loses money on the median book, and only bother with most of the audiobooks so they can advertise how many audiobooks they have.
Was going to say this, does a bulb even have a connection for "ground", I never saw that. Some armatures do though...
I think the steelman for supporting Ukraine in the war is stronger than that.

1. It provides security for Europe, which benefits us.

2. Our military expenditures are massive in general, we have sent roughly $50B in aid thus far which is around 3% of our 2022 DoD budget. If you consider the military a tool to destroy specific enemies, of which there are two main candidates, spending a marginal 3% (or more!) to destroy one of them is incredibly cheap. Personally I would invest 3-5x as much without blinking. The returns look great.

3. War is bad, starting wars is bad, and invading smaller neighbors to set up puppet regimes or annex them is bad. The best way to prevent this in general is to make starting wars look like an extremely bad idea which will definitely destroy your country.

4. Showing that we will doggedly defend countries to which we owe no special allegiance is an extremely good deterrent and raises the expected costs of invading (for example) Taiwan. China might see a more limited investment in the defense of Ukraine and say “ok, well Russia couldn’t afford to match that but I can. Expensive but on the table” whereas open ended support till Russia collapses is substantially scarier.

And this is only reasoning from an America-first perspective. Considering only how these are good for us, I would expect conservative support to be more full-throated. That said, it is true that mainstream conservatives are definitely much more normal on this front.
that's what I'm talking about. I think AI would approach "laundry folding" in ways we never thought of, using simpler machinery than would have been expected in novel ways. this is pretty specific to something very geometric / topological like folding things.
Also you get really great engineers in norway, something about the lack of light, cold, snowy eternal night, produces excellent devs. Lots of fantastic open source projects exist due to the vikings no longer using boats..
> The US is going to start looking like China if big companies can ban you for doing anything they don't like

This sounds very similar to concerns around social media platforms banning users arbitrarily (usually ideologically).
They could be agents for the communist party operating without the knowledge of the regular management.
why if you hate it so much?
We used to do the same thing in Newsgroups. It was a sad couple of years when the ones I used to hang out in slowly hollowed out as people migrated to web forums, which was inevitable, as more and more people came onboard and chose the "easiest" route to other people who were into whatever obscure interest you suddenly had a community for.

Usenet was limited to nerds and nerd-adjacent people who were shown, on a one-to-one basis, how to use it. My uncle logged me into the local university's mainframe when I was a kid in the mid-80s, absent that influence I would've jumped onboard with everyone else in the late 90s, probably.

After the extreme efficiency of desktop Usenet clients, where I could traverse and keep up with many communities in one easy interface, with exactly the text size and font I wanted, I never really joined any web forums to speak of. I would've had to create an account on a different site for every single interest, most web forums had appalling crayon interfaces with zero sorting options or anything like that, they were all functionally corrals rather than intersections. There was no way to efficiently cover that many communities anymore, and the act of engaging had become detestable, but only in the context of what was lost; for those just arriving it was brilliant.

I wish there was a word for the expression on my face right now. Once you've been on the internet for any length of time, you start looking back to a better one in the past. It's probably one of those internet laws, like Moore's.
Sounds like you've been going it alone. Have you tried teaming up with someone else? Many successful projects wouldn't be successful if they were done alone, having another person can help sanity check and motivate you.
Me: “Grandpapa, is that you?”

Tentacled microbe: ::Cthulhu noises::
undiagnosed metal scars

What are undiagnosed metal scars ?
Amazing. Kind of fuzzing as unit-tests mixed with continuous
improvement by self-sabotage. Thanks for that link!
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> How?

This question is the foundation of the marketing industry. There are so many ways to manipulate people into parting with their money, but one of the basic approaches is to introduce and build tension in the customer that your product claims to release. This tension always exists on a deeper level than the practical value of the product.

For example, if Apple want to sell a laptop, they don’t focus on selling the tech specs. Instead they promise the customer that if they buy a macbook, they’ll become a creative genius, a musician or a VFX artist - high status careers. So what they’re really selling is the promise of enhanced social standing, not technology. That’s as manipulative as it gets

See also : https://garrisonmarketinggroup.com/tension-point-can-you-fee...
Nice! Now run any 32-bit program.
Ah, apologies. I will try to get that added today

Basic answer is that you can only have one outstanding buy, and must end with no open trade. My understanding is this is/was a common interview style question.
In standard HN/startup parlance, are you a potential CTO looking for a CEO co-founder? If so, there are doubtless plenty on here. Maybe search for "non-technical founder" or similar here, if you haven't done already.

If you're just looking for business ideas, people are notoriously reluctant to give those away - rightly or wongly :)

Edit: Perhaps put your contact details in your profile.

Edit 2: Definitely have a search, see https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Sure, I didn’t intend to claim that. It’s just a hassle for me to compile my own C code, which I’d have to do if binaries weren’t bundled. That’s why anaconda python took off on windows - it’s hard work to compile scipy on windows!
> I really cannot grasp the individualism about "I know how to write code, I deserve a better life than 95% of the population".

You're missing something here. You can omit the first sentence. People already believe they deserve a better life than 95% of the population, even without being able to code specifically.
They haven’t had the history of security problems that LastPass has had, and they’ve taken steps to handle this kind of situation by including an extra per-user key to stymie password guessing if someone does get the vaults:

https://support.1password.com/secret-key/

I stopped using them when they switched to subscription-only but I think it’s in their favor that they have planned for a nightmare scenario rather than assuming it won’t happen.
But it makes dependency trust far worse since there is no code signing, review signing, or maintainer approval process.
Of course. I'm not so cool (or naive) to think I'm immune to peer pressure and tribalism.

It doesn't necessarily mean that I'll have to go the other way and adopt the mannerisms of the annoying tech guy.

https://youtu.be/02a723LsoFA
How would I do that securely?
Thanks for the insight. My Software Quality prof gifted me a copy of one of Gelman's texts but I haven't had time to take it in; I should change that...

It's weird to me that formal verification isn't more widely used; I would think it would be common at least in safety critical systems development.
Not OP, but likely because Democrats have been doing this to Republicans online for the last 20 years or so (and almost never the other way around), so it's likely that we'll see the same behavior escape into the real world now that it's possible.
How much privilege does it take to move to Guatemala or Pakistan?
What exactly is hunter Biden supposed to have done that was illegal? Especially to the tune of $100M
More cores won’t fix it. Some app will add more processes and use all available CPUs and there’s no reservations.

You had it right with nice - phones and tablets and consoles and cars have it right with their techniques. Apps shouldn’t be able to make the system unusable by default.
Because we are the gateway to exponential free work. Program once, run on x machines, supply all 8 billions with a service, for defacto nothing. From these hands flows cornucopia..

Just because the nano machinery is invisible, doesent mean it cant spin great things from nothing. Half the giants you see today, were nothing one generation ago.
If it’s dark enough Triangulum is naked eye visible too. Sure those are all in some sense local, but it’s still neat to see almost three million year old light.
Interestingly, the US still ranks #1 in the world in Entrepreneurship and Switzerland is #2.

Source: https://thegedi.org/global-entrepreneurship-and-development-...

I think the reason why welfare is irrelevant here is because the people going into entrepreneurship tend to be skilled enough to find a good-paying job even if their startup fails. Suppose that you're a good product manager or a good developer that's going into the startup world and you don't get lucky with your startup, you'd still be able to find a good job as soon as you're done... in fact, you might even get a higher-paying job because of this experience you've had.
>" Try hiring a hundred software engineers in Norway"

They're not particularly cheap in the US either. Toronto might be better but hi-tech salaries are going up as well.
CPU is short for Central Processing Unit, and is often used to contrast with GPU, which is short for Graphics Processing Unit, which is often used for ML, which is short for Machine Learning, even though ML isn't just Graphics, and TPU is short for Tensor Processing Unit, which is also used for Machine Learning.

Also, C-3PO is short for See-Threepio, and is used for interacting with organics, while R2D2 is short for Artoo-Detoo, which is used for interacting with digitals and arguing with C-3P0, while TWKE-4 is short for Twiki, which is used for saying BDBDBDBD, which is short for Bee Dee Bee Dee Bee Dee Bee Dee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeCb_abgig0
The Curl Fragment Trick
Both are non-mandatory, but the first carries the connotation that this is something the government thinks you should be doing, but the latter is more like a suggestion of something cool you may want to do, like visit the Vasa museum next time you're in Stockholm.

Yes, they are both voluntary, but the nuance is quite different. That ambiguity in nuance is a problem, given that "recommendation" is the strongest wording for a non-legal mandate the Swedish government will use.
i'd go even further and claim you have never picked up an ml textbook, let alone an ml paper
This seems mostly correct to me. We wouldn't call 37signals a "lifestyle business" but a bootstrapped business.

I wouldn't say that a "able to run on autopilot" is necessarily the defining feature, but rather the attitude towards growth. The simply, the goal in starting and running the business is to support a work-life balance that is more strongly weighted towards life. As such, growing a lifestyle business beyond a certain point is counter productive since that leads to a more responsibility and less time for other stuff.

A bootstrapped business does still have growth as a primary goal and there is intention to reach a larger size and complexity.

While I'm not sure that I like the term "lifestyle" to describe it, I'm not sure what a better one is since "bootstrapped" means something different in this context.
Even the relatively lax enforcement of anti-competitive laws we do have is likely to prevent that particular scenario.

I'm not sure it is possible to write a good law that says you can't act against people for some set of reasons, without impacting the ability of venues to deny service in more reasonable cases. (Current trespassing law pretty much relies on notification, if you are told you aren't welcome in a private place and then refuse to leave or later re-enter it, you are trespassing).

Like say an attendant observes that someone is visibly intoxicated, sees them vomit in a spot that isn't part of the venue, and then tries to deny them service. In that case, an escape hatch that lets them add people to a list if they are ejected wouldn't work, but it's perfectly reasonable to deny that person entry.

The better mechanism to deal with things like this would be social pressure. Arbitrary denial of service is outrageous and people should punish them by not doing any business with them (don't book events there, don't attend events there). But no way is anyone going to inconvenience themselves over a few lawyers getting a bad deal. Maybe we'll get a more charismatic scenario sometime in the future.
Imagine if it were acceptable for me to delegate my job to my underlings, and then use the freed time to draw a salary at another company. How come only CEOs get to do that?
Your not recognising jargon from other fields. All of those phrases have precise technical definitions.

For example "360 degree feedback" is when a manager's direct report is asked to give feedback about their manager. In other words you give feedback about your boss, often to your boss.

It doesn't really make sense as a phrase or metaphor. It should really be 180 degree feedback because if you turn 360 degrees you're facing the same way that you started.... But that makes it even better jargon. It signals that you've been on some management training courses.
I found this video very helpful, since it avoids a lot of the music theory lingo, but at the same time explains the basics very well (while cutting some corners...): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoeHDN2FVTc
Any full stack engineer should have a working knowledge of the system they are writing code for, or they will end up making massive security mistakes.
The best thing about rss is that after i read my 30 unread articles, i can just close my laptop and walk away. Who ever said that twitter was going to make rss obsolete has never experienced this digital freedom.
That use case seems to indeed be why they have implemented it that way, but I'd consider this a very poor risk-reward trade-off:

Lastpass isn't exactly (or at least was, when I last used it) perfect at figuring out which part of a URL is the generic part (used for identifying a login site), and which part is e.g. a session token or worse, a deep link that lets me access my account without any further authentication.
Congratulations (I mean it. No /s).

I understand that to mean that your income was enough to keep (at least) both of you fed, housed and clothed.

Maybe you also had some savings/family support to use as a Kickstarter for her business and possibly to help pay the bills but maybe you didn't.

If both of you had to work 40+ hours a week and there is still too much month left at the end of the money, it's really hard to afford so much as a car repair not to speak of starting a business.

Is it possible to be an entrepreneur in that case? Yes but it's an enormous gamble and needs for all the stars to align just right. The consequences of failure are immediate (there are no 5 years to get started) and dire (homelessness/ no ability to get to work).

It's a much worse bet than for someone from the middle class who might have to move in with their parents again. Not pleasant but endurable.

Someone well off suffers not even that and is, at worst, a little bit embarrassed in front of their family. They can also try again and again.
Interestingly pasting the article URL into my reader doesn't discover a feed for this site.
Victoria 3. By the way, I fount a 4th way: in certain political circumstances there's an option to subsudize wages in certain parts of economy. But that usually makes everything chaotic, with workforce reassigned and goods prices randomizing.
That still makes him only an investor and not a founder.
While I'm not sure I agree with the GP's premise...

...Gen Z doesn't have to be "using" anything particular. Just because, for some years, "everybody had to be on Facebook" doesn't mean that the decline of that means something will necessarily replace it.

There was no "previous Facebook", and there doesn't have to be a "next Facebook".
Where in the world are you? I am in the UK and I have never heard 'dialog' refer to a dialogue box.
Connections, privilege, but also it's about personal net capital invested. Entrepreneurs with ordinary net worth are underdiversified, with a concentration in their own business. If you have high net worth, you have less exposure so the stakes are lower and you require a lower rate of return to compensate you for the risk (CAPM).

There's no way I wanted the pressure to run a business in my 20s. A decade or so later with a cushy job gives me the financial freedom to do this without the high risk of failure, since if it tanks I'll still have other investments. Most entrepreneurs are in their 40s apparently according to research.
If you mean ‘what about freedom of speech’ - ie the moral value rather than the US law - tiktok’s not being banned for speech but for stealing user data.
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As I see it, you're both right, as in: all that you mention finds its relevance through shaping luck / increasing luck surface area.
You’ll be ok. I’ve been institutionalized many times and I’ve never even tried to start a business. Take care of yourself and shield yourself from the liars who profit from your belief in their fabrications. Be well, health is a process and has nothing to do with monetary or business success, but is far more valuable.
I've distinctly noticed this in my own life, being born and raised in the western US, but having lived throughout the US, my trust in my "fellow Americans" declines the further away from the mountain west I get. My spouse is Finnish, and we've lived in Finland for years, and have independently observed that their homogeneous society definitely makes their rosy politics possible. I bring this up when people try to compare US and Finnish domestic politics. There is often a "it works in <Finno/Scandinavia>!" rhetoric when discussing health care, schools, or whatever. Comparatively, Finnish politics are boring and uneventful.
Judging by your website, you're very much the rich kid who simply resents the label.
> To demonstrate that the speaker is part of the "in" crowd.

I think the point of removing jargon is to remove the "in" and "out" crowds as much as possible, at least for the mundane aspects of government.

I think that some people will still try to make an "in" crowd in which they are a member by introducing jargon, but separating people into these groups doesn't benefit most, so let's try to fight that.

Simple words is better as it is inclusive and also makes things understandable.
Agreed that this isn't worth much as a legit trading algorithm. That is the framing I was given to the puzzle.

With how fast this answers the question of the boolean linear program, I suspect it could be used for some neat tricks. That said, if you try to make the decision diagram smarter, it tends to explode in size. (At least, I think it does?)
Yes, I've heard that as well but as I've said, the mystery is that he was 5"10' at 165lbs, he was fit. No diabetes or any health issues at all.
It's in the definition of the IQ (assuming a bell curve distribution)
Synthesize your two examples and you get some really sinister results. Imagine getting banned from a national grocery store chain not because you shoplifted, but rather because one of your family, friends or coworkers shoplifted. The company just mutters something about thieves associating with thieves and now you can't buy food because you associated with the wrong people.
That’s an engineering decision but it shouldn’t be directly exposed in the UI because people don’t understand the trade offs or update it as hardware improves. It’d be better as a time-based setting which changes periodically as attack capacity increases, and perhaps a UI toggle like “faster on ancient hardware, less secure” and “more secure”. You could even automatically improve that over time (“you haven’t used a slow device in 6 months. Want to update to our recommended secure level?”).
> I'm curious if other languages have similar issues

French does indeed. For instance, the government and the corporate world love to use vocabulary to downplay situations. Like "mouvement social" (social movement) for "grève" (strike). It's like people are moving a bit, like they are dancing. It's cute. Or "restructuration" for "massive layoffs". Newspeak is all over the place. Like the sibling commenter says about Germany, "an unhealthy dose of euphemisms". We also have all the faux English startup vocabulary that makes things feel much more extraordinary than they are, or positive when they are not particularly so. In part to make France look cool internationally probably ("French Tech" [1] - "technologies françaises" sounds boring I guess).

There are also tricks you can use to make things feel less acceptable, like saying "charge sociale" (social benefits charge, feels like social burden) for "cotisation sociale" (social security contribution).

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Tech (this logo, yikes)
chatgpt detected ;)
Where are you working? I've been working in BigCorps for ~10 years and the usual standard is that most people are functionally illiterate and only the accountants can add and subtract fluently. Never once have I written an email with content (as opposed to just "let's meet to discuss" or "you can follow my progress in JIRA-4001") where the other person doesn't ignore the email and reply with their own request for a meeting. Only the most basic literacy is now required in most corporate environments.
Having worked in consulting and government, I think it's just that many of those words have a slight connotation of pretension, like the writer is choosing words to sound smart. It's very subtle and in many cases probably not worth banning, but prohibition has the side effect of forcing people to think about what they're trying to write rather than just regurgitate pre-made phrases.

Another subtlety in English is that words with Germanic roots feel more direct and simple while those with Latin roots feel flowery and pretentious so the former are often preferred. E.g. ask/inquire, answer/response. It's not always true, and some words may still be out of date.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Germanic_and_Latinat...