skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if "only" 2.5% of desktops and laptops use it, that is not a small number by any stretch of the imagination -- that's like 30-50 million people. For comparison, ChromeOS has a market share of about 2.4%, and that's with a fairly concerted effort by Google to drive adoption.

Meanwhile, the Stack Overflow Developer Survey showed a massive jump from 25% of respondents using Linux last year to 40% using it this year. Even if you assume some sampling bias, that's still a huge swing.

Then you have major manufacturers like Dell shipping laptops with Ubuntu, Proton and Wine getting better and better at running Windows games and apps, projects like WSL and the Steam Deck giving more people the opportunity to try Linux out, etc.

Even if there are still flaws and barriers to adoption, those barriers are diminishing and momentum is clearly building in Linux's favor. It will only get easier to run Linux going forward.

It probably won't overtake Windows or become a huge competitor (at least, not in the foreseeable future), but I think in the near future it will become more of a "mainstream niche" like OS X was in the 2000s. Most people won't run it, but they'll probably know someone who does and it will be at least conceivable that they could run it themselves.
https://feedbin.com/ for a reader designed with admirable restraint, resulting in a lack of feature creep.
This is the way it is described in the GC Handbook as well.

New():
ref <- allocate()
if ref = null
collect()
ref <- allocate()
if ref = null
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return ref
I think you’re right there is a lot of luck, but as they say, luck is effort plus opportunity. You need to put in the effort and position yourself for unique opportunities.

OP: My personal advice is to stick with a part/full-time job and continuing to explore your business ideas on the side until they are generating enough revenue to cover your expenses. Focus on businesses that sell something practical and don’t need lots of marketing or engagement (at first).
I don’t think those are season ticket prices…
I like this framework for discussing free speech.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-free-speech-ped...

>there are three distinct categories of free speech values: free speech rights, free speech culture, and decency of speech.
One of the problems with RSS is lack of a feedback loop from mere reader to content creator. Said another way, RSS doesn't have a reply function and that makes it harder to iterate around user feedback. Some of which can be very valuable.
Also a note for anyone ordering and not seeing their pdf arrive within ~20 minutes– looks like due to the surge in orders from HN some of the emails are being flagged as Spam, so please check your Spam folder!
This seems to be the toxic end result of “hustle porn”.

The promise that you “Yes even you!” Can start the next unicorn, or even just bootstrap to ramen profitable & gain the attention of some VC money, maybe find a lucrative graceful exit if your runway runs out.

It’s a subtle lie, because it directly or indirectly says “everyone could be…” when in reality it’s “anyone might be…” in the sense of “anyone might be the next lottery winner!”

Anyone might, but not everyone can, and a significant amount of the outcome (sure, much more on the lottery) is determined by luck.

Only with hustle porn the themes pervading it all, unlike the lottery, is that if you fail, it’s because you did something wrong. You didn’t work hard enough. You didn’t network in the right places, that fundamental something is wrong with you

Most who have studied the progression of Christian religion throughout the history of colonizing the North American continent may recognize here the trappings of the Prosperity Gospel, itself a pernicious offshoot & watered down version of Predestination as found in some Protestant sects, that boils down to the belief that the unsuccessful, the sick, the poor, are all that way because it’s their own fault, because they have failed to achieve some vague notion of god’s grace.

Predestination is a complex topic with multiple interpretations, but the strong Calvinist version basically says that god not only knows who is predestined to heaven and hell, but that we might see that destiny here on earth in the trappings of a person’s life. The successful and healthy must surely have god’s blessing while the sick and the poor are clearly among the damned. As you might imagine, theological explanations and biblical references supporting this are complex, but that’s the nutshell.

You can see it’s roots in the concept of the American Dream among other attitudes that seem have been popular in the US— a sometimes, among some people, disdain for the poor who surely are there by some form of choice.

That is hustle porn. Modern repackaging of and stitching together of bits & pieces of the worst pieces of theology found in early (and some recent) groups of protestants. (See Joel Osteen for recent incarnations)
> There is a difference between what people know because it is pushed out to them vs. what someone can deduce by careful research and logic.

Indeed. It's the difference between public knowledge and common knowledge. Matters which are public knowledge may not be common knowledge, if they've been swept under the rug or generally forgotten.
good. It's not a sustainable lifestyle. Imagine if you had employees and payroll to hit and sales are slumping and you are running low on cash and your investors are yelling at you, your customers are never happy... That's a lot harder of a situation to deal with.

I dropped out of being an entrepreneur and normal life with a normal job is just a sweet sweet vacation. Bonus if you don't have to talk to the outside world and have good coworkers. You are a super human now.. be considerate of those who can't produce as much as you. The normal world moves slow. Turn up your patience dial and get home for soccer practice.
Anecdotally, the plan isn't very popular with those who live in the area.
I doubt querying JSON or XML or some other embedded structured format would be faster than querying normalized data. It might be true in some special cases, but certainly not in the general case of ad-hoc queries across nested data structures.

But I totally agree SQL could be improved to make normalization feel like less of a burden. It really highlights a problem when it feels like its more convenient to just dump a JSON array into a field rather than extract to a separate table.
NewsBlur - I'm on a paid plan since I'm a packrat with almost 700 feeds. It is a pretty busy interface but has tons of functionality. Their mobile app is also pretty good.

https://newsblur.com/
Media Mogul Michael Bloomberg Looking to Buy Dow Jones or Washington Post- Axios
Chrome in Android has a built in RSS reader in chrome now labeled the 'following' tab in your new tab page. I've been using this with great success lately. The key for me was to pick only a few really high quality sources instead of 99999 sources. https://9to5google.com/2021/10/08/chrome-rss-web-feed/

There's a flag for desktop too. You can enable 'Feed' in the sidebar, but it doesn't work for me on any platform at the moment.
https://www.learn-c.org/

If you have lots of time: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02383654

If you can't be bothered reading a whole book: https://matt.sh/howto-c

Exercises: https://www.codestepbystep.com/problem/list/c and https://exercism.org/tracks/c

Once you have syntax and basic algorithms down well, watch this, the only 2 hour YouTube video I'll ever recommend: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=443UNeGrFoM

Both r/cprogramming and r/C_programming are active, also full of lazy students trying to get people to do their homework. If you come by, describe your problem well with code. Say you're learning for yourself, not for school.

Together C & C++ is a good Discord if you prefer live chat: https://discord.gg/tccpp
> They were very lucky to succeed then.

The people I known are serial entrepreneurs, so this certainly is not luck. Yes, some ventures do not succeed, but then the company immediately pivots to things that are actually making money.

As I mentioned earlier, it is not easy. It is lot of hard work and hustle.
Wear a MAGA hat in a solid blue county and just go about a typical daily routine. The prejudice and discrimination is eye opening.
The power went out where I am right as the temps dropped. That means no heating. Luckily, I was able to get my fireplace running, despite it being fully electric-controlled and we were out of batteries (I just wired together a bunch of triple A's and it happened to work)
Omg I’m thinking Spotify. Thank you. Let me correct my comment.
ESP32 is quite nice. It is much lower level than Raspberry Pi or similar SBCs, and C really makes sense there.

It ships with pretty high-level libraries (connecting to a Wi-Fi network is ~200 lines of C code), and you'll be running on top of a small operating system (FreeRTOS). But you still have full access to hardware and all the fun of working directly with it. The dev boards are quite cheap at $3-4 per piece, and have lots of peripherals (including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth).

Have a look for ESP-WROOM-32D at aliexpress, or whatever the platform of choice in your country is. Some of the newer boards are built on RISC-V, if that's your thing.

Their SDK also has first-class Linux support (and the other two OSs, obviously).

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/esp32/
What did you learn?

That's the most important question to ask yourself. I also tried running a startup that got nowhere. What I learned is that I like spending most of my time behind a computer, programming. Thus, I decided I was better off joining someone else's startup so I could spend all day programming. I'm a lot happier that way.

Perhaps there's something in the process that you really enjoyed? Can you do just that piece in someone else's startup? Do you believe you'll be more successful working in a team when you're doing what you do best, and someone else is running the company?

I think you can, and with some self reflection on what you were good at, I think you'll find a great direction for your future career.
I'm very sorry that you are having mental health issues as a result of your efforts, that sucks.

But as someone who has been where you are, and has a couple of small exits, dude... you're trying to get into the NBA. It's really fucking hard.
> traffic light in regular German is "Ampel", in government German it's "Lichtsignalanlage" - light signal installation

Ampel is so boring though!

It makes me think of people I met at a conference doing research on vertical people transportation. In other words, lifts, or elevators.
I moved all my stuff to Thunderbird a while ago, and unless you have more specific demands, having a basic self-run RSS reader beats just about all fancy hosted solutions out there. Old-school e-mail works well a lot of the time too.
Has Dang ever done any AMA? Would love to know how he doesn't get burnt out.

I once emailed him about a very minor thing, he replied at the same day and was very accomodating. I was very happy about that but at the same time was very confused. I bet he is getting hundreds of email like that but how does he manage the time for them?
You need to look at the entire spectrum of direct, indirect and near-taxes. A couple of examples: VAT of 15-25% on almost everything. With social security contributions a maximum marginal tax rate on labour of more than 50%. Norway is actually pretty efficient and by far the best of the region compared with other countries but also massively subsidized with north sea oil money.
Jargon is an old file of hacker culture slang definitions from the MIT-AI Lab "HUMOR;" directory, including the word "hacker" itself, that that Eric S Raymond hijacked and redefined to spread his bat-shit crazy political ideology.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20382529
LastPass Security Breach Update: What You Need to Know
If you're a LastPass user, you need to be alarmed (and maybe even a little intimidated) by the recent security breach update revealing that threat actor was able to access and copy a BACKUP OF CUSTOMER VAULT DATA, including fully-encrypted sensitive fields like website usernames and passwords, secure notes, and form-filled data.
well... it's a flip phone. It has multiple remappable buttons, usb c, headphone jack, nano sim, sd card. I imagine you could change the form factor a bit to reduce the size.
There's not a straightforward consideration of what is jargon, what is slang, and what is argot. Some linguists use the terms synonymously and some have strict theories of categorization, but there's no universal consensus.

In any case, your language here would certainly run afoul of the "simple English" the OP is espousing, and the OP terms such things "jargon", so contextually, yes, it's jargon.

Although personally I agree, the OP is using a particularly sloppy definition of "jargon", which often has a stronger technical connotation than merely metaphorical or business newspeak language.
No it isn't, because unlike passwords you can reuse a key pair indefinitely without suffering any greater risk.

If we only ever had to remember a handful of passwords you would be right about them being easier, but we have hundreds of them which necessitates a password manager anyway which has all the same manageability problems of the asymmetric key pair without any of the benefits.

> Auditing is also harder, now

Care to elaborate?
This seems oversold to me. If only because I don't take much stock in the supposed "opinions" of GPT or the results of online quizzes.
I have to say I agree. My corporate environment does not reward competence. It’s much more valuable to be approachable and likable. You don’t need literacy to do that. I work in a large engineering company.

I don’t think we’re necessarily contradicting the parents post though. You need some people with some amount of competence to get work done. If it’s more valuable for individuals to play political games instead of delivering value, and the people who deliver value are ostracized, the team, or organization will fail.

If the organization is one of those too big to fail companies, of which our country has many, the buck will stop at our nation being over taken.
At my last job, I was brought in by the then new CTO to make their company “cloud native” as they were both trying to bring development in house and pivot toward selling access to our micro services to large health care providers. We aggregated publicly available (non PII) provider data from all 50 states and national databases.

I never had a formal interview. We met for lunch through a recruiter that was helping him hire. We just talked like adults. I had no real non theoretical AWS experience at the time. But I had led projects before.

He took a chance on me. After a couple of months and we got to know each other. I told him that neither one of us had time for “shit sandwiches”. We have a lot to do and we need to be able to be honest with each other.

After a while, when we were just talking alone he would just be blunt. He once asked me “why are you coming to me with this shit. You have admin access to everything. Come up with a solution and let me know how much it will cost”. I would also tell him “you know in your heart that’s a dumb move and isn’t going to turn out well”.

We had passionate technical disagreements. But if the argument was well made, either one of us would “disagree and commit” or change our opinions.

We got a lot of shit done. Two years later, I ended up at AWS in ProServe almost exclusively because he pushed me to be better, more articulate, stretch myself, etc and the company had an exit for 10x revenue (small company - $30 million exit). I probably would have gotten about $50K - $70K if I had stayed or about $30K if I had exercised my options - not life changing money. But my two year sign on bonus was more than that at AWS.

I still talk to him sometimes and he said one of the major motivating factors for the acquisition is how well my designs stood up to the growth and increase in traffic right after Covid and they could point at their cloud maturity - scalability, redundancy, etc.
> For example, in the UK, under 50% of people eligible for free monetary benefits from the government claim them.

These bureaucratic hurdles are by design to limit the amount of people actually using the services they are entitled to by law.
This is the real reason. All Stocks are down. Why pick Facebook and Meta?
How long will this feature last until it inevitably gets canned?
it would depend on what the suit is about.

Imagine if you had to sue a company for a wrong doing, but still would require the services of said company. They could pressure you to drop the suit, by using this tech to deny you access to their services.

So even if the suit had merit, the company escaped being sued. So this would produce unfair outcomes.

In other words, a company discriminating against customers should be illegal, except in specific circumstances allowed by the law.
You would not. Experts will not spend time mentoring random people for free. In the past, mentorship or apprenticeships were provided in exchange for work. You might find someone willing to give you pointers if you start contributing to open source, but otherwise you need to learn yourself. You might pay a professional coach/therapist to help you on a personal/career level, but I would not expect anything from strangers for free.
There's no better education than trying and failing.
I was curious what books you were making a play on words for (since it wasn't immediately obvious), so asking ChatGPT:

What are the real names of the books? For instance, "Zero To Plushy" is play on "Zero To One". List out the names for the other books.

"The Dart Thing About Dart Things: Plushy Hunting When There Are No Easy Answers" is a play on "The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers"
"Dart Throwers at Work: Stories of Plushy Hunters' Early Days" is a play on "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance"
"You Are a Badass at Hunting Plushies: Master the Mindset of Throwing Darts" is a play on "You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life"
"The Lean Plushy Hunter" is a play on "The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses"
I mean, Applets are just really old, security itself wasn’t considered all that “important” at the time. There is no real difference on a purely runtime level between wasm and the JVM to make one safer than the other. And regarding release strategy, that’s just politics.
being seamless here can be tricky 100%.
I agree and it's not a great situation to be in. They also fail in long term energy security.

The vice chancellor Habeck as gone on record to fanatically oppose nuclear when his countrymen(and women) are suffering through his idiotic stance made years ago.

Have a fuckton of non carbon electricity and then, sitting in that position of luxury, take the risk of further cleaning anything up you think is dangerous. Its very very very dumb to deny your citizenry near unlimited energy in this day and age , as an advanced country for cheap.
Silicon Valley trains entrepreneurs the way World War I trained infantry. The goal is NOT to make most succeed.
There is a lot of overhead for books like he is selling. They’re premium. He could maybe order a lot, but he’d be tying up a lot of his own money with no idea of actual demand. Maybe he under purchased? In which case what is available gets out on eBay at high markup because the books are hard to get. Or he over orders and loses his ass.

By doing the Kickstarter he got a great idea of what the demand was, and then had the money to make it happen without putting his money at risk as well. He delivered superbly with his first Kickstarter. He’ll do the same with this one.
> You probably don’t need the money. Just work on projects that you find fun.

Oh but I do. I'm doing fine but sometimes relatives need help with medical bills and I would very much like to help them all. And it's quite the sum of money needed there.
The Australian Government has quite a good, related guide: https://www.stylemanual.gov.au/writing-and-designing-content...
Your terminology is confusing as I think you’re using technical terms (“trade”, “open”, etc) in a way that does not reflect their usual meaning. A “trade” generally refers to an event not state, while I think you want to refer to “position” which is a component of trading state. E.g. by “ending with no open trade”, you mean ending with no position or “flat”.
Missing the /s here mate
You explain a little? I'm having trouble understanding why hosting an audio book is going to lose audible money.

Do they also produce said books?
Amazon doesn't make profits and thus doesn't pay taxes. Bezos doesn't sell much and thus doesn't pay taxes either. Changing rates wouldn't change anything. Tax rates only affect the middle class, and as @jliptzin has pointed out, those tax rates are quite similar.

The EU has a lower output because there are fewer investors. One successful startup creates wealth in the hand of knowledgeable people who can create the next startup. There are simply not thousands of millionaires and billionaires who can successfully pick the next round. There is also less of a network effect where venture capitalists can offer their portfolio as leads for the sales teams of their new investments.

The Nordic welfare levels can turn out to be the path to European success. It's easier to start an idea when failure doesn't end in an existential crisis.
Kickstarter should be for financing things you can't get out on the market without the investment. You're basically saying "I need X money for Y to happen" and instead of a regular investor you rely on the hopes of future customers. Like a pre-order but without the obligation to deliver because of the moonshot.

In Sanderson's case it's just a pre-order where you milk your fans for some extra bucks. He doesn't need this money to make these four books happen.
There were a half a dozen or more "previous Facebook." MySpace, Friendster, LiveJournal, DeadJournal, etc. There were so many during the MySpace era that I've forgotten most and barely recall the bigger ones. There will be a replacement but hopefully it will look different.
MS Access?
Yeah, I've heard of it. I contribute to it. I pay people to write it. I run my business on it.

If you're so inclined to work on things for your own pleasure, please do give us a hand by solving some of these.

https://github.com/bitemyapp/esqueleto/issues
It wasn't publishers, it was the Author's Guild, the union representing voice talent for audiobooks. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology/...
That's what I meant to say - don't put your critical services passwords in one cloud password manager
No upfront costs?

They have to get the books recorded and printed without overproducing and losing money while also not getting a worse deal with a smaller print + miss out on sales. Same thing for merchandise. All of it needs to be warehoused until it's ready for delivery. Plus probably other things I'm unaware of.

A major publisher already has all this infrastructure to take a gamble on new books while paying with current sales. Dragonsteel is still very small.
I suggest downloading and playing with Raylib[1]. It's written in C, not C++, and is a library for video games, but it can be used to produce apps too. It has a ton of examples for you to review and modify as you learn, and it is cross platform. There are even bindings to other languages if you decide to leave C and use your favorite language. It's a one-click download and setup. Couldn't be easier and more fun!

[1] https://www.raylib.com/