skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's very cool! On Firefox you really have to scroll like your life depends on it, somewhere around 12+ full scrolls per box.

The progressions appear to be something close to the following:
|A|: F6 - C7(♯5)
|B|: Dmi7 - A7 |Melody|: (D A) G F♯ E

I think it would be super cool to have add dynamic note selection. Maybe once you get to the |B| section you could cycle tonalities with each box. You could also have the melody be a function of each chord-duo's union of notes. I'm imagining something like the following, which is the combinations of

['mima7', 'mi7', 'mi6', 'mi(add ♭6)', 'ma7', '7', 'ma6', 'ma(add ♭6)'] and

['7', 'ma7', '7(♯5)']

|B1|: Dmima7 - A7

|B2|: Dmima7 - Ama7

|B3|: Dmima7 - A7(♯5)

|B5|: Dmi7 - A7

|B6|: Dmi7 - Ama7

|B7|: Dmi7 - A7(♯5)

|B9|: Dmi6 - A7

|B10|: Dmi6 - Ama7

|B11|: Dmi6 - A7(♯5)

|B13|: Dmi(add ♭6) - A7

|B14|: Dmi(add ♭6) - Ama7

|B15|: Dmi(add ♭6) - A7(♯5)

|B17|: Dma7 - A7

|B18|: Dma7 - Ama7

|B19|: Dma7 - A7(♯5)

|B21|: D7 - A7

|B22|: D7 - Ama7

|B23|: D7 - A7(♯5)

|B25|: Dma6 - A7

|B26|: Dma6 - Ama7

|B27|: Dma6 - A7(♯5)

|B29|: Dma(add ♭6) - A7

|B30|: Dma(add ♭6) - Ama7

|B31|: Dma(add ♭6) - A7(♯5)

You could also change the roots away from D and A. Just spitballing. I get nerdy on notes. ;)
This seems like a massive waste of resources. If the image is generated by AI it's clearly not offering very much to the reader but they still have to load it and scroll past it to get to the actual content.
Language doesn't need to be good to be popular for a long time. PHP was (is) previous "shit but lowest common denominator that everyone uses it" before JS took that mantle.

Also "good" depends on the audience. Ability to cheaply hire a bunch of devs to whip up CRUD app is "good" quality of PHP/JS even if it might not make the language "good" from engineering perspective.
China also has a direct interest in seeing Russia defeated. In the event of a full on Russian defeat, Moscovite power over the vast territories of Russia will weaken greatly, which can allow China to expand its influence in the Russian Far East. Russia has a lot of resources that China needs, such as natural gas, oil, and fresh water. Already, we are seeing Russia selling resources to China at below market rates. This is why I believe the US will take actions to prevent a full collapse of the Russian state.
That’s right, but it wouldn’t be a very large torque, I don’t think. Especially since the roll is resisted by the spring damped suspension and the sway bar. The resulting force would pitch the car up/down depending on turn direction and flywheel direction.
I don't know if that's helpful; but one lesson I remember from a business program years ago was that the average business owner fails at least three times before becoming successful.
If Valve decides to make a standard ‘game console’ - miniature gaming PC with a PlayStation-like form factor, standard hardware for game devs to target, SteamOS - then add gaming consoles to that list.

There was an interview recently with someone in Valves steam deck team who mentioned that it’s on their radar but they don’t have the manpower yet to consider it. It does seem like an obvious next step, especially if Steam Controller 2 is released.
I've made two edits to Wikipedia ever. Once in college over 20 years ago in an article about Thomas Hobbes, and once a few months ago in an article about the Slayer album Reign in Blood. I quite appreciate that they did not try to make me create an account that I would use once every 20 years.
I don't think I would ever wear Augmented Reality glasses in general. I would however consider wearing some kind of visual input device off to the side of my head, similar to Locutus of Borg in Star Trek Next Generation. Just not glasses.
Also worth mentioning, Florence Lipsky’s book San Francisco: The Grid Meets the Hills, about how the grid was imposed on some of the most unsuitable topography for it.
that was the first video I have watched start to finish without skipping in years. brilliant, thanks
That is the point of fun, only you (should) know, otherwise the more important point before is to find that out.. :)

> Even if I don't need the money, I would still very much enjoy making some.

It seems you and also that guy didn't yet?
It was Travis Downs: https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2019/08/20/interrupts.htm...
and many thoughtful hours to get those sounds out of it!

The Art of Noise's hits used just the basic sample pack from the Fairlight demo reel. ("Close to the Edit" will never hit the same after you've heard the demo reel.) But Kate Bush went absolutely wild with its synthesis capabilities, for example.
Bit OT but generally speaking if you care about company culture and want to build something great, acquiring mature companies is not the way to go. You end up with an alien culture you can’t integrate into your own. This is why Apple only buy companies they absolutely have to, and specifically early stage where the culture has not ossified yet.

So don’t buy GM - or Twitter…
And the distribution of text will be very different for all books vs the internet.
IRIX was remarkable for its performance, and not just in graphics.
> it is more likely that Windows will continue to decline in usability until it is on par with the top Linux DEs

For me, that threshold has been shattered.

I'm not even going to talk about ads and similar telemetry crap.

All in all, the Windows desktop is more sluggish and loves, LOVES, to get in my way. And I'm basing this impression on my desktop: 8 core xeon, 64 GB ram, fast pcie3 nvme drive, mid-range gpu (I can comfortably play most games with full settings in FHD). Maybe not the greatest out there, but a comfortable machine still.

It may be due to animations in part, but many, many things just lag. Try to launch some app by clicking the start menu. First, it takes a while to appear, then it waits for ages until it shows my app. I only have a few apps. I know it looks for something on the internet. I don't care. It's on Windows. I never asked it to do that. On win 10, I could jump through some hoops and disable that in between updates. I don't think that's possible anymore.

The freaking control center, or whatever it's called, which pops up when you click on the sound / network icons. One out of three times it will seemingly ignore my click, even though there's an animation. And then jump up three times when I click it multiple times. Same for opening the settings up from said menu. The gear turns, but nothing happens for several seconds.

Speaking of settings, every other update it figures it should reactivate the freaking "use alt-tab to change between edge tabs". No. I don't want that. Please. stop. changing. my. settings.

Then there's the light / dark circus. Sometimes the explorer ends up in some kind of grey color for some reason. It's neither the light nor dark ones.

The task manager has a hard time figuring that my screen is quite big (4k at 100%). So it just chops off the right hand side of the memory info in the performance tab. The graph does take the whole size, though. Also, quite often, when I try to maximize it, it will take the whole screen, and end up with the bottom part behind the taskbar. I don't use any interface tweaks, everything is at its default, with a fresh install of windows when 11-22h2 came out.

Then, you decide you've had enough and what to shut down. For some reason, the task manager doesn't feel like it and will block it. There's also often, but now always, an unnamed process that will delay the shutdown.

Then, there's the whole hardware support question. I've complained about this like a broken record, but my work laptop only got full GPU support a few weeks ago. For a laptop bought in December 2021. With an 11th gen Intel GPU. Same for another similar laptop, whose webcam had only worked intermittently. Both laptops are your usual HP Enterprise fare. Both worked 100% on Linux since day one.
The GitHub mentions 8B canaries after allocated blocks, how realistic is it that canaries can be overwritten as they were allocated in an overflow attack to continue writing the payload?
What you see on Tiktok rarely reflects reality.
That's what I asked myself reading the post. Business wise nobody cares about your product blog.
Actually wrong at several levels. First, the free version includes all the security features. Xpack was always free (as in beer) and easy to enable when that still was a separate thing (it no longer is). After they changed the license for the whole of elasticsearch to be similar, xpack is no longer a separate thing. You just get the whole product. For free. There are some paid features in there but they are mostly related to high value stuff related to e.g. machine learning.

The "security issues" mostly stem from people intentionally running it without a firewall completely unprotected on the public internet. And then they put important data in there. Simple solution: don't do that, it's stupid and negligent and it's 100% your fault if data leaks like that.

You wouldn't run a database on the internet either. But if you must run it on the public internet, just put nginx in front of it with basic auth and https. Problem solved. Not that hard.

Alternatively, use the hosted version which doesn't allow you to do that at all and is nice and easy to get started with.
I was doing the same at one point, albeit it only lasted 5 years before I changed employers. Didnt even had to rotate the numbers, I could always come up with new and colorful insults for the nameless IT group. Which ironically I remember perfectly.
To better understand the intuition here, imagine you spin a really heavy bike wheel on an axle held horizontally between your hands. It would be easy to spin the axle, which is the equivalent of turning the car here.

To be clear I’m agreeing with you.
Yeah, just get rid of anything that has a binary blob. Cool. And then when PyPI gets swapped out for whatever immediately replaces it because PyPI is useless, then at least PyPI will be secure.
After reading this I really like to know as well!
Starting any business is very very very hard work. Creating a new product from nothing, is very very hard work. Combining the 2 means you have an insane amount of work to do.
That leaves you to be CEO and R&D and manufacturing.
How do you think marketing and sales fits into that? And finance and strategy?
Those are the pitfalls and a reason to better not do startup alone.
There are freelance sales people that will sell your product for a fee, with the advantages of using their network and their feedback in an early stage of development (if they say they can’t sell it, stop your work).

For now: you have a ton of experience and are invaluable for any employer. See this as an investment and see you get a return.
Finding the right people has made entrepreneurship bearable for me. And I didn't find those right people on my first attempt either.

Staying disciplined for years is so much easier when you have competent and compassionate cofounders with you. You might even get away with a few vacations.
building startup = testing a new idea / market / product from 0

digital nomad = selling a common service - probably cheaper since you can work remotely from cheaper countries
Anti-dependency mafia, rise up. I feel the same way. I code almost everything from scratch too.
> VW sells a ton of cheap and small vehicles

Which inflates their unit numbers, exposes them to downturn risk, and doesn't really do much for their bottom line.
I found the same with Safari on Mac - need to right click -> settings, and enable auto-play for media with sound
To be fair, "X-pack" was a thing many years ago. But those days are gone and have been for a while.

You get authorization in the free offering and that's been the case for the least two major versions.

The things you need to pay for are IMHO not hobby project stuff, like integration with LDAP/AD.

You are of course correct that this used to be the case, and that to some extend this sentiment prevails.

But I feel Elastic (the company) deserves credit for acknowledging the issue and addressing it.
You’re right that your not alone in this. More than 50% of products built by indie hackers don’t make any money at all: https://scrapingfish.com/blog/indie-hackers-revenue
I hope some day we can use chatGPT to give us the tl;dr of TOS changes.
You’re conflating your “entrepreneurship dream” with a very very small subset of entrepreneurs (indie hacker digital nomads). Entrepreneurs start corner shops. Sell physical products, digital products, provide services, etc. the number who build a SaaS alone and travel while doing it is very small.

Also - in regards to the indie hacker space there are important things to watch out for:

- Constant bragging about revenue but no talk of margin/profit.

- Lots of talk that the product would still be a success without the persons huge Twitter following.

- Lots of bragging about success that, when you actually look into it, is $1000MRR. That’s great but these people give off the impression that they are much more successful than that.

Finally, you have to love entrepreneurship because it fits your personality. The risk taking necessary isn’t for everyone (rightly so) and for some people a stable career is much more fulfilling. You sound like you want to be an entrepreneur because of the lifestyle you see from these digital nomads but maybe the reality of it (risk, instability, failure) isn’t actually what you want.
Basically you enforce static heap allocation. Meaning you cannot type new in a method only in the class definition. I don't even know if this can be enforced from the bytecode VM... just playing with it in my head.
So now you're arguing that Rust won't help because it doesn't fix the deficiencies of other languages? So what? At least you'll have fewer defects in those parts that do use Rust.
As a sober alcoholic, coffee meets your requirements for a 1 on 1 convo. I like it for the same reasons! Your choice of days to meet is much more limited (people typically recuperate in a weekend morning, so each person really only has one day they can meet) but all it takes is one good 1 on 1 convo every few years to maintain a great friendship. In the same way that small amounts of alcohol act as a CNS stimulant, coffee boosts the convo too.
Can Doom run Doom?
What rate is the cutoff at which people give up entrepreneurship altogether? I wonder how big has the opportunity cost of monopolies been in the past decade
Make your Prismic content multilingual
It's a Darwinian world out there. Success is not up to you to produce. Telling people that it's all up to them and their free will is the most destructive lie you can tell, because it's not and the end result is that people start harming themselves with guilt because it's "their fault".

It's not "your fault" and it's not because of your "free will". Guilt is an extremely destructive and evil emotion. Excise it from your heart.
There is something to this. If you include big chunks of Bosch, Siemens and all their other component providers in the VW market cap you would definitely get a more fair comparison to Tesla.
The way I've built my app, gets rid of latency altogether. Simply ceases to be an issue. It is a big bet, long road ahead of me
> constant stream of digital nomad influencers on Twitter who sell extremely distorted, rosy, and often times false dreams to indie entrepreneurs like myself

I don’t know where the grindset culture comes from (on Instagram I often used to see sappy quotes slapped over an image of an overrated business type) but it must be very lucrative. Influencers are not there to show you reality, just like no one is ever driving their new car down empty streets in Manhattan. I don’t know what success is like, but it’s not that.
> “Democracy" is more or less an delusion

The primary strength of democracy is removing people that mistreat us, and it is a real power in a properly run democracy. Lose that power, and democracy dies.

I do generally agree voters have little influence on policy.
Open Source Machine Learning Shapes AI
TL;DR: Machine Learning Open Source Software (MLOSS) is an important, yet neglected factor shaping the trajectory of AI.

Contributions:

1. Using qualitative data, we claim that MLOSS shapes AI through standardization, enabling newer and faster forms of experimentation, and by creating online communities.

2. We suggest that a dependency graph of technology capabilities (Wardley map) provide a helpful alternative to the canonical AI production function.

3. We examine the economic incentives, sociotechnical factors, and ideology shaping MLOSS

4. We suggest that the future of MLOSS involves decreased emphasis on deep learning frameworks and increased focus on model and data tooling (probabilistic predictions can be found at the end). At the end, we also briefly examine the risks implied by these trends.

Intended audience: technologists and academics wanting to analyze and critique AI research and development as a whole
> Why do "indiehackers" want attention from and create products for other "indiehackers"?

Two things come to my mind:

1) "indie hackers" are way easier to get a relation started with than companies or even start-ups. And forget about big enterprise if you don't have an angel investor or some other experienced and well-connected guidance.

2) With smaller users, you're more likely to get better testing and feedback. In companies of all sizes, it's rare to have a "we have an issue with vendor X's software" pipeline that goes straight from the affected user to the vendor, in most cases every report or feedback question will take six to seven steps in between.
Please don’t take any offence at this, it’s not meant to offend at all. I just feel like perhaps part of your outlook here may help to explain where you’re currently at.

Firstly, you’ve learned that social media influencing is in essence a MLM scam. Good! A lot of people never realise this and get themselves into incredibly dire situations as a result, so kudos for realising this.

> I tried everything - building an audience, making sure my product actually solved a problem, getting paying customers, and writing high-quality content and contributing to the community. But no matter what I did, I couldn't seem to get anywhere. My efforts were fruitless and I'm tired of trying. I barely had 20 followers, my substack and product blogs didn't get any signups, and while I did get a few upvotes (8) on Product Hunt once, I never had a paid customer. It was as if the world was against me and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make any progress.

You’ve missed out on one critical ingredient in the above. Luck. A lot of things need to fall together just so in order for a product to gain traction. Broken down these are all fairly logical non-chance related factors, but no-one is realistically able to anticipate the millions of externalities that will play into that ahead of time, so from the perspective of someone trying to get a business off the ground, it is luck. All those factors you talked about in terms of substack and product hunt should be viewed as the cost of getting slightly better odds on your lottery ticket. YCombinator doesn’t expect a single random applicant to become AirBnb, and they have more experience in this than anyone.

You’ve learned that social media is bad for you and that nothing on it is real. This is also good. You can take some time, and if you choose to have another attempt at this later, you’ll have that wisdom to carry with you.

> Don't let your dreams consume you like they did for me

Dreams are fleeting, but they’re still precious. It feels strange to say that as in my 20’s I had a very all-or-nothing view of success, but life happens regardless and what you want to get out of it will change over time. I’m grateful for my lot, and if I should achieve those dreams later then I’ll be grateful for that too, but if it doesn’t happen I really don’t regret the pitfalls along the way. You can’t take any of it with you anyway.

> PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PROTECT YOUR MENTAL HEALTH AT ALL COST! Don't make the same mistakes I did and realize that entrepreneurship may not be the path for you. It's okay to admit defeat and move on to something else.

This is the correct answer. Speaking as someone with wild stories that are a little too close to the bone for sharing on the topic of mental health, it really does need to come first. Speaking personally - the costs aren’t obvious, they sneak up on you, and you’re usually the last to see it. Take the win here - learning this lesson while you’re young is very much “the easy way”.

I wish you well and happy to chat if you ever want to reach out.
> A big fact of the entrepreneur world is that it is hugely based on luck.

And for anything with bigger ambitions than a lifestyle business, don’t forget connections. Most founders are still men from Ivies or Stanford. Just look at the “PayPal mafia” to see how inbred tech investing can be.

Not that most entrepreneurs need or should expect VC funding, but this is HN, run by a VC. You can totally run a business and be successful without it.
Having done several options -- entrepreneurship, job, internal entrepreneurship, and consulting, my advice:

- Entrepreneurship isn't a lifestyle. Stay in a job unless you have a good idea and are ready to execute.

- Try your idea internally. Starting a new product in a company is easier than outside. It doesn't have a $1B upside, but it has enough upside, in all respects (not just financial -- learning, credibility, etc.).

- If that doesn't pan out, go external only once you're pretty confident of success.

My experience is that entrepreneurship isn't so much hard or take luck, as it takes a lot of groundwork:

- You want a diverse set of skills. Management. Finance. Sales. Technical. Legal. Market research. Etc. It's not a place for specialists, and it takes time to develop those skills. You also ought to enjoy (or at least not hate) most of them.

- You want good market timing, which comes with experience.

- You want a good idea with traction. That's where nights / weekends fit in. Nights / weekends don't give enough time for a successful startup, but they give enough to do early prototyping.

Doing a (failed) startup as a student is a good learning experience. I wish I had done it. I don't wish I had done it three times, or as an adult.

Oh, and selling false dreams is part of being a successful entrepreneur. You'll get zero customers if people think you're on the verge of going broke. Every business I've seen takes a "fake it until you make it approach." If you rely on blogs for what entrepreneurship ought to look like, you're in for a nasty surprise. A better option to learn how to do a startup is a job at a startup; you'll see the process from the inside.
Now I really want to know what you were selling and for how much. I want to know if the product was bad or just unlucky.