skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting no success is hard. But getting some initial success can be a trap. I spent 15 years of my life scraping by in various attempts to make something that sticks, and (too) slowly failed to find it.

Finally I sold out to the dark side (consulting). The money is decent and the job is something I can forget when I clock out. Not being able to retire early will be my own fault for chasing the dream for too long, had I switched sooner it would still have been a possibility.

Failing can be a good thing, it forces you out from something that's not working.
ColdFusion is a global household name compared to what I use :)
it's really not. There are all kinds of entrepreneurs and most are not making weird iphone apps, but more conventional businesses that do somewhat work or fail. Rich kids don't necessarily do many throws, as they have the money to push even an unsuccessful idea for a long time. VCs may be the ones throwing darts. And poor kids do go to the carnival, you don't often see rich people going there.
Most companies do not exist for decades, and many, even for years. They either get acquired, or, more often, dissolved.

Hence the idea to make a quick buck now, like there is no tomorrow, because tomorrow may actually not be %)
Dang, thank you for everything you do - Happy Holidays!!

For the unfamiliar, here’s more information on Dang:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
> Why hasn't this been done by anyone yet?

That depends what you mean by "this." The Java spec requires you to support `new A()` by returning a fresh object or throwing a VMError (like OutOfMemoryError). If by "this" you mean that allocations would succeed until some fixed amount of memory is exhausted, then, as others have pointed out, this has been done even in OpenJDK. If by "this" you mean that the allocation of some particular set of objects -- say, only those allocated during class initialisation -- would succeed regardless of memory consumption and all others would fail with an OutOfMemoryError, then I guess that it hasn't been done in that particular way because people haven't found it particularly useful as most Java programs would fail, but you can give it a try.

RTSJ, the specification for hard-realtime Java [1][2], actually goes further than that and supports both "static" memory (ImmortalMemory) and arenas (ScopedMemory). So if that's what you mean, then it has been done.

[1]: https://www.rtsj.org/specjavadoc/book_index.html

[2]: https://www.aicas.com/download/rtsj/rtsj_76.pdf
Thank you for posting this. The world of solopreneur success stories is rife with survivorship bias. We need more candid conversations like this it balance the message.

It is hard.
I feel you. I'm gonna be honest, I've lost count of my attempts(solo or with others) for a course of 12 years. 2 years ago I completely gave up. This isn't an endeavor that anyone can take. Some of us are not built for it. As strange as it may sound, this is something best suited for people who are average at most related fields (marketing, sales and development) with slightly above average skills in one area. If your skills in any of those areas excel all others, you are doomed to fail. In my case I can easily devote a ton of effort to the tech side of things at near 0 mental cost and I'll go to insane lengths to make something perfect. The moment I step out of this field and have to face any of the other two, I can stare at a blank page for days not knowing what to do and feel mentally drained afterwards. When I came to realize this, I was kinda bummed, not gonna lie. My advice: don't sweat it and move on. Not worth spending effort thinking what it might have been: it isn't and it won't be so you shouldn't care. Simply move on.
(... as people actually say, in England. Or did.)
Indeed. You need blind luck and lots of it to be a successful first time entrepreneur.

Just remember that there are also the people who sell shovels in a gold rush —- or for the modern times, start an exchange during a crypto craze. There are also investors and funds. Their maths looks different.

Don’t be just a roll of the dice in someone else’s numbers game.
> But if you put aside those examples, I need to know what they did, and where they are, and what they are capable of doing.

Interestingly enough, the article I linked in my previous comment[0], and another one by the same person[1], have answers to your questions. Also, that particular person managed to get out of poverty eventually, and wrote a follow-up post on that[2].

So that's the guy who was /really/ poor, and struggled for a while. He has some insight on what it is like and why it is so hard to get out. I guess he'd be infuriated by this patronizing "hey, that's easy, why don't you just...", even though he does not write it out loud.

Let's have more compassion to those who are less lucky than us, fellow stranger, shall we?

[0] https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/on-the-experience-of-be...

[1] https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/what-does-shitty-job-me...

[2] https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/on-being-rich-ish-lesso...
How's the performance and DX?
Blocked google account is one of those things like not having regular backups, you'll realize how bad it is when it will happen, even once in your lifetime.
It's absolutely possible. My only dependency is Flask and I'll be eliminating that in time too.

Why do you need numpy for web?

Edit: I will concede that there is no point in retooling ML. Web is an entirely different circumstance though.
> if you get screwed, let it be, revenge is costly, you likely can't afford it

"Living well is the best revenge". And if you're someone who has the skills to turn their time into significant value-add, seeking revenge is an opportunity cost that undoubtedly counts as "living poorly".

[caveat: I have had to litigate on occasion, but (a) that is something where hours spent are indirect, via counsel, and (b) it's not exactly "living well", either]
> they travel to cool places and meeting cool people

I was looking at some forums and it seems that the first question after someone arrives in a new place is "where do i meet you guys (digital nomads)". It seems to me that it's a closed group of people selling things to each other.

Tbc, I don't have anything against this kind of living, and in fact i d like it to be easier to work in other countries. Unfortunately, even within the EU you can't work in another country.
The point of canaries is not that you can't overwrite then, it's that you won't know what to overwrite them with (and are forced to overwrite them, thus detecting the overflow).

However, as someone who does this type of exploitation for fun and has a little bit of experience with heap attacks, I doubt the canaries are particularly effective at stopping exploits, and the README basically admits this as well.
> Literally everything humans build need mining.

Actually one of the newest trend in architecture are large scale buildings made from (fire-proof!) wood

> Chernobyl was looked at by an international panel of scientist and engineers and early death related to it are below 1500. And many of those people live to pretty old age still.

Yeah and 600,000 people worked as liquidators.

I think a lot of those arguments (in fact on both sides) are overly nitpicky and based on niche facts making reasonable discussions next to impossible.

Nuclear seems this simplistic choice where the risk is shifted to somewhere where nobody can see it. Nobody knows about missing Core catchers, failure modes or insurance.

That said, new Nuclear plants are actually more expensive (LCOE) than other Energy forms with the exception of on-demand Gas
And I wasted a lot of my time thinking that a new company must be a startup and needs VC funding. The news is full of companies getting millions in funding, leading to that impression.
Then, could you give an example of a concrete MNIST-like dataset you worked with?

Galaxies are not like such (more diverse, more noise, you don't start with centered images, usually more data - in size and channels).
It looks like the only relevant data that was unencrypted are the URLs [0]. I'm guessing that was some sort of design decision they made for the browser extension to be able to see if you had a password for that site.

If anything, apart from leaking the domain, which could still be a privacy issue, they should have at least sanitized the URLs to remove usernames or tokens if they were going to automatically save those URLs to the vault. I can guess that not doing so allowed their auto-login function to work on some websites by saving the login URL endpoint, but all I'd really want is the vault to keep the sanitized domain.

[0]: https://github.com/cfbao/lastpass-vault-parser/wiki/LastPass...
That looks really cool. I'd need more help for the next steps - a game loop that runs the game at a consistent speed on different processors, and a sound library.
Many commerce sites estimate your location by IP address, and give a shipping cost and time estimate right out. They of course allow you to enter your real address and get a more precise figure.

I find it useful.
The originally submitted link was the LessWrong version of this post, and there too the top comment was about this: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ESp3SsuqWrht7SApu/not-gettin...
First of all: please stay polite and don't accuse people of dishonesty.

Second: yes, the nuclear production is more than 50% of their electricity production. In that sense you are right. But the problem is what I wrote: it fell behind the required production capacity badly. France was no longer able to completely power its own grid for months. And the bad state of their reactors - they don't get any younger - will make this an increasingly larger challenge.
Find a few friends who couches you can crash on or get exception to sleep at the office.
Sleep with deep sleep music + active noise cancelling headphones(spend money on them) + Meditate when awake.
Why are your working so hard if your parents can support you atleast temporarily?
Do not deal with landlords, find someone who has all the above but wants to save money by having someone crash on the couch 3days a week.

There are so many options better than commuting 5hrs/day.Hell for some people(parents) that their sleep time.
Anyone have opinions on what Google's next steps could be?

I think I've heard enough of how ChatGPT is better than Google Search. I'm interested in hearing from people in the know of how Google could use its very sizable and knowledgeable resources to compete with ChatGPT.
Wouldn't an easy defense be to always look at the watch just to set a pattern?
There's something to be said about the corporate imagination when they can't even envision a VR shopping experience without a massive parking with zero utility.
My understanding is that bootstrapped and lifestyle are different things. A lifestyle business should be able to run on autopilot with minimal involvement from the founder (hence they can focus on living their life, rather than working). A bootstrapped business is one built with your own capital - it doesn’t necessarily have to become a lifestyle business.
I suspect a free modular synth app developed for an 8-bit fantasy console is not really aiming to replace a $500 professional DAW.
If you’re being so cocky, I’m sure you would never type your secrets into any piece of software that auto-updates, right? After all, you’re trusting someone else not to release a software update that leaks your secrets. And I’m sure you do a full audit of the Chrome source code every time a new version is released. And for your locally hosted password manager software too, right?
The average American watches 4 hours a day of TV.

Most startup founders work other jobs while building their project - if they can afford to fail, it's because they have that other job. But they're spending those four hours (and many, many more) on labors of love.

Sure, there are some trustfund kids who get to play founder and have the odds stacked in their favor, but that's neither the soul nor the joy of starting your own project. In my experience most of those types are miserable even in success.
Ask HN: Evernote Password Reset Requests
Is anyone else getting a ton of password reset requests for Evernote?
There's also the issue of words that sound offensive.

Case in point, niggard [0] has cost people their jobs. Wikipedia maintains a list of controversies[1].

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/niggard

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word...
This one got me 'drive out (unless it’s cattle)'
Cool, thats not what I said. Building software that people will buy gives you creative freedom.
Bezos was 30.
Seems like a great way to teach the foundations of primitive based 3d modelling and uv mapping to kids.
> Have you seen journalists attacking a dictatorship while living there, and go unpunished?

You mean like Kashoggi, right?
He’s also attracting a ton of right wingers who never would have bought a Tesla.

I wonder if there’s a strategy there
The convenience of offering to re-login if your session is expired and you hit a site where you use it?
Define "making it". Do you want a million/billion dollar startup? Or would be a "lifestyle business" enough for you?

I can tell you that I'm pretty happy with my small business selling desktop software to "normies". But if my benchmark was Elon Musk or some VC funded dude having millions at his disposal ... well I'd be miserable, too.

But my benchmark is the small business next door and compared to them I'm doing very well. Heck, I don't need to engage "fellow indie hackers" on "$product hunt" and collect twitter followers because that's completely irrelevant to my bottom line. All I need is a good sales copy and a little SEO.

I don't know you but maybe re-aligning your goals would make you happy?
There can be export tariffs or something.
This is one of the underappreciated benefits of the Nordic-style welfare state: everybody can afford to fail.

Unfortunately it's rarely discussed in society as such. The political parties that built these welfare states have traditionally been associated with worker unions, and entrepreneurship isn't high on their agenda. The Nordic right-wing parties got ideologically married to Thatcher-style neoliberalism and prefer to yammer endlessly about tax cuts instead of thinking about how the welfare foundation can help entrepreneurship.

Fortunately there are some successful people who talk about this. For example in Finland the Supercell founders (gaming company with $10B exit) have been emphasizing the importance of the welfare structures for enabling entrepreneurship opportunities.
VW also owns some strictly cheaper brands like Skoda.
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We read and discuss the book Mastering Emacs written by Mickey Petersen. 40 minute meetings every Fri, Sat, and Sun. Do join us if this sounds like fun to you.

Meeting link, schedule, and more details here: https://susam.net/club/mastering-emacs/
Thanks for posting the link and thank you very much to everyone who have sent us PRs over the last 24 hours!

Please keep submitting them. You can use the little pencil icon in the top-right of any page to quickly submit a typo fix patch. I'm from Denmark and English is not my first language — I very much appreciate the help from you to fix all the grammar mistakes :-)
Cool blog theme, feel like I've seen it before ;)
https://filippo-orru.com/
None of those packages are downloading and running CRAP.EXE within the setup.py process, that's not how native extensions work. It should be possible to flag packages that are downloading things when setup.py runs, much less running exec within setup.py. a python package that really needs you to run a windows installer for its dependencies should have you be doing that separately.
There is some kind of a signal here. This message got you 373 upvotes in a few hours. Maybe you should do something with this.
Most of the "amusing" examples in the linked seem to me to be pretty legitimate attempts at being precise. Yeah, the definition of hot food seems nitpicky but it kind of has to be nitpicky for their purposes of enforcing the rules (dumb rules maybe, but they didn't pick the rules).

The advice against using the phrase "combat problems" or even "key stakeholders" instead of just "stakeholders" seems somewhat pointless to me. I don't think these are changes that will significantly improve reader comprehension. Maybe avoiding the use of the word "stakeholder" at all will but they dont seem to want to go that far.
The hell-factory reveal is hilarious to me
Thanks!

Looks like that feature was added in Animate CC, which I don't use, so I haven't tried it.

Looking at the docs, it looks like something I would have at least tried. Might have saved me writing the rasterizer, though I'd still have wanted to atlas everything together into bigger atlases, and make binary animation files.

One downside vs the .fla parsing approach I went with is that even if you can script away the GUI clicking, you'd still have to have Flash open while the build script runs. I quite like having an exporter that is just a CLI program you can run without Flash, though it's not a massive deal.

I'd be interested to see what exactly Animate puts into the animation.json file it generates. The docs don't seem to mention it, and I couldn't find any example ones online.

Your tool looks great, by the way — have you made any games with it?
Have you considered buying a working business? There's no shame in not starting from scratch. You can get something with proof of concept and take it to the next level. Even Tesla had some parts in place when Elon came in.
This hits very close to home, so I'll provide as much advice I can give.

First: don't focus solely on the huge product launch / startup mentality. As a solo dev this is a recipe for a depressive disaster. Instead, I recommend you do a mix of things, like creating youtube videos, software courses, software consulting, and so on. This way you cast a wide net and if any one of those areas doesn't do well or hits a rough patch, you can put more effort into the others. Yeah, it's a grind, but that's kind of the social contract we sign when we go indy / soloprenuer.

I have a modest following and I very often repeat your warnings about these so called digital nomad gurus and entrepeneuers, at least those you see all the time on socials. I hate that whole scene - the crap those people push out is mind bogglingly useless banter. It even drove me to delete my Twitter completely a few months back because I kept seeing like 6 of the same software accounts upvoted to the moon just by repeating stupid trope without any hands on advice, implementations, or anything of any real actionable value. Those people either got lucky or were first to market, but the overwhelming majority of them don't know a damn thing about software, let alone building full stack products or apps used by real customers.

However, as you've said yourself: building any successful startup is extremely hard, time consuming, and can be extremely frustrating at times.

If it helps further, I was exactly where you were only a few weeks ago and I posted nearly the same thing here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33835532. This industry is unforgiving and we all have weeks or even months of dark times. I had just felt cheated by a few people I had otherwise trusted (so a slightly difference sense than your post I guess, but same discouraged theme). Fast forward two weeks later and I'm working for myself again and loving it.

and usually, once you're an entrepeneuer, it likely won't go away ;) just don't force it, who knows, you may return with a badass product weeks, months, or years from today!

Hope this helps and that you can enjoy the holiday season with whomever you may have in your life. Take a break! Best of luck, happy holidays, and best wishes.
I’m not on macOS so I’m not in your intended audience but I’ve paid for stuff on the JetBrains model where the subscription also gets you permanent access to some previous version.
Without their capital the whole organization where workers are creating would not exist in the first place. So the market is rightly rewarding capital owners for risking it in the first place.

Do you think that is easy and just "collecting rent"? What is your experience investing?
Ah that's ashame for the indy dev that they promoted the platform in the link and not the actual application.
Enabling Smart Vision with Metasurfaces
I did a few different versions of that search for the LessWrong discussion about this (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ESp3SsuqWrht7SApu/not-gettin...) and learned that a large majority of these blocked accounts are developer accounts.

There are still cases where individuals' accounts get banned randomly (and if there's enough ruckus, reinstated), which I've posted about there. And thinking about it, it might be the case that developer accounts with $$$ invested in them might just be the most likely to post on HN and complain, while individuals just suffer Google's "support" and give up. In any case, they're not as easily visible as the dev account bans, so we don't know how often they occur (unless someone trawls through support.google.com posts and creates a list of such).
> General counsel Erich Andersen wrote to staff that a “misguided plan was developed and carried out by a few individuals within the Internal Audit department this past summer”, adding that those involved “misused their authority to obtain access to TikTok user data” in violation of its code of conduct.

Ah yes, straight from the playbook: management gets caught being mischievous and throws a few underlings under the bus to save their own asses.
GitHub tweeted about this brand new network monitoring tool written in Rust
Wait, what is a portal, then, and where are you getting that definition from? I have been a web dev for a decade and I also understand a "portal" to be a broadly applicable term meaning basically any webapp that grants access to some data. Did it once have some narrower meaning, in times long past before I was a dev?
Ironically if you linked your projects here, you would see more traffic :)
After playing steam deck for a week including trying some low (basic) level game using python, it is all good so far.
> The first thing that is outdated, the advice is basically don't be a programmer be an expert in something the company needs. The thing is in the modern world the company often needs programmers more than it needs the other expertise, hence the big salaries we earn getting hired to solve problems

I was a boring old “enterprise programmer” from 1996-2016. I belatedly started moving into more “architect” type roles where I was brought in to lead by example and while I was still hands on, I was hired to solve more strategic issues and lead initiatives.

Fast forward to today and now I’m a “cloud architect” working in the consulting department at $BigTech.

Right now I’m working on a “DevOps” project that required a few relatively trivial Python scripts as part of the design. Most of my time has been spent “consulting”.

ChatGPT was able to spit out every Python script that I needed correctly and all I had to do was tell it - this is the input I want and this is the output I need.

It got me 100% there with code that didn’t require the AWS SDK (boto3). It does have some understanding of the boto library. But it isn’t perfect.

Yes I know how to program. But I only started making real money when I could talk to “the business” and know what to program.
>Meta-optics: The disruptive technology you didn't see coming

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-meta-optics-disruptive-technol...