skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh, it's been a tumultuous ride for my family.

Paternal grandad was a civil servant, and they were comfortable, but grandad died when dad was 6. Granny married a drunk and lost everything. Step-grandad beat them. My dad grew up a rebel. His saving grace was a teacher who said: I don't care if you don't come back to school, but promise me one thing: you'll read a book a week.

Mum and dad meet quite young, and have me when mum was still a teen. We're dirt poor, and they borrow a lot of money from maternal grandad, who is a gold miner with 7 kids. He gets my dad a job at the mine. The 80s in South Africa were boom years for gold, and everyone does well. My dad pays maternal grandad back all their debts, and I distinctly remember how our lives changed as a young chap. Not rich by any stretch, but we're not hungry or shoddily dressed. My dad is smart enough to spend money on important things, like getting us a home PC, and paying for skills, like my Karate and scuba diving.

However, in my late teens, things start changing again. Jobs dry up for dad, mum leaves him, he falls into depression. Finances rise and fall as dad gets back into work, and makes a bit of money day trading. I drop out of uni, as we can't pay for it anymore.

He meets a nice new lady, who inherited a piece of land, and they scrape just about enough money and know-how together to start developing the first phase of a four-phase development. But, he gets fucked by the bank.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absa_Group_Limited#Mortgage_lo...

Three weeks after my wedding in 2014, he commits suicide. Either severely depressed, or so that the bank can't come after him. He leaves whatever they have left in a secure estate to the grandchildren, and stepmum can live in the house until she dies. The kids (me and sis, and 3 step sisters) inherit nothing.

Me? I was privileged enough to learn programming in school. The gold mines funded the schools well, and in 1990 already (when I was 11/12), our classroom had 20 Commodores in it. That was my saving grace: coding. I could earn good money, and self-fund most of my bad decisions.

(My first startup: we won Startup weekend, then got a £50K grant from Telefonica - all pure luck, and a little bit of tapping into the zeitgeist at the time: polling apps)
MSG offers entertainment to the public. They sell tickets which are fungible.

How do you expect an attorney to be able to perform her professional responsibilities if she can be punished for doing so?

What happens when her firm is involved in litigation with Cushman & Wakefield and she can’t meet clients with offices in Rockefeller Center due to a ban?
My apologies. I didn't mean you to him, i meant it as a generic response to everyone. I will reword the reply to say one.
Sarcasm noted. Seriously, though, this is somewhat easy to explain.

Much of America does have an amazing "safety net": generational wealth.

There's a reason why startups tend to spring from elite schools like Stanford, MIT, Yale, etc. Those kids have the brains, yes, but also the family connections and the parental safety nets and the connections to capital investment. These kids don't have to worry about food security or having healthcare.

If you're from that upper 10%/5%/1% or so of American society, that's GREAT!

It's an incredible primordial soup from which startups can spring. We are a big country, so we are still talking about perhaps 30,000,000+ people in this lucky category. That's more than all of Scandinavia's population combined. Goes a long way toward explaining why so many "big" startups come from the USA.

However, if you don't come from one of these blessed demographics in the USA, you have a much harder road. If you didn't go to an "elite" school and don't have a parental safety net it's very difficult... I fall into this category and simply didn't have access to healthcare for five years while I pursued my tiny indie business. It made money, but not enough to buy healthcare for a family, so I had to ditch it.
Team Topologies, Software Architecture and Complexity
Crypto miners and traders are closing up shop across Asia
The Americanization of Religion
Progression is a Markov chain between chords: http://jazz.computer/info/
It’s not complicated either. It’s just complex.
> Why isn't there a law mandating easily removable gas tanks in cars?

Because the petrol tank won’t have shrunk to half its capacity in a few years’ time.
If this were true, wouldn't the other side of that statement be true? Since all startups seem to be privileged white males - shouldn't they all succeed and have funding?
What if I'm using my home as an investment to fund my retirement? for which I have no savings... this is never as clear as you think it is
Charles Sobhraj is being deported from Nepal
RISC-V Decoupled Vector Processing Unit (VPU) for HPC
So it is an UX problem.

Most people don't give a fuck about anything that isn't related to their current task. However, there are laws, and company must give a fuck about it and do such UX so that those that don't give a fuck are not fucked on spot.
Back in the day all major browser provided their own "feed available" icon so including an extra icon on your site was pointless. The browser's icon was consistent across sites instead of the user needing to look around for a feed link on your site.

Of course now most popular browsers don't show this icon so it is more important to advertise it yourself. (Although there are extensions to bring this icon back)
Headcount growth is slowing as startups prepare for worst-case scenarios
Every car manufacturer invests heavily in robotics, take a look at Magna Steyer, Toyota, and a number of the new Chinese EVs coming out
"Human History [...] is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy." --C. S. Lewis
Is there a decent hardware manual even for the first VisionFive, say to the extent the original BeagleBoards had one (even if the Pis never did)? I wanted to write a (slow) emulator that could at least boot the Ubuntu image into text mode, but I have absolutely no idea how it all hangs together beyond the SoC docs. For that matter, the page for the Unmatched doesn’t have a link to a hardware manual either.
International Chess Federation Checks into Web3 with Avalanche Integration
This is a good analogy, right down to Git's painful UX. Nix is powerful and difficult to understand. Often you'll find yourself in a spot where either you need to take hours or days to understand some fundamental component, or you can just paste a magic incantaion you found soewhere and move on. Good luck googling, it's almost as if they designed the Nix language to be unsearchable. When you do find an answer, it's often 3 years old and completely obsolete. Definitely recommend having a chat window open with other Nix users while working with it. When starting a meaningful project with Nix, make sure you're not on a deadline.

I like Nix, a lot. But I'd currently recommend it for a pretty narrow type of user/use case. Like Git.
Not really, I think you would have more success with sketch up or similar
It's a hard game. This topic will fill up why all the failures were because of lack of privilege, and the successes are privilege and luck.

Luck comes to the startup founder who takes the difficult and hard steps to starting a business and iterating on finding what works.

Edit: the game is hard. Really hard. And it's not just luck, but some of it is. Luck without lots of hard work means nothing.
One big conceptual problem is that you can't use the technology of today to trade on 1980 prices.

So showing big profits on decades old prices is meaningless, the market was much "softer" back than since there was little machine learning, large clean datasets, very accessible computation power, and so on.
I spent 8 years trying to be a professional musician, running my own music project. I gave up opportunities, travel, etc. for it. Lived with family a lot of those years to save money for the studio, and to work part time so I could write songs and make demos. I made some things I'm really proud of. But it didn't pick up, I didn't get signed, I made no money from it and lost many thousands of dollars from it, etc.

By the end I was completely burned out, and saw I gave up most of my 20s for that. If I were to go back I wouldn't change anything. I gave it my best shot. But like OP here, I am burned out and need to just enjoy life now.
It is not defeat and you did not fail. Running a business is incredibly hard, and I think the entire HN audience would applaud you for even trying and give you our support.
> A police unit parked outside a guy’s house and confirmed it was him in the real time chatroom, by cutting his internet and seeing him drop off.

I guess I'm going off of too few details probably, but this doesn't seem like a very sound strategy to me. It's certainly not impossible that the real criminal lost internet around the same time as some suspect's was cut by the police. I know I've shown up as online to other people for up to several minutes after losing internet in real-time situations (e.g. games). I suppose police just need "reasonably likely" to take action though, not definite reasons.
Despite I don't need a second feature phone (only smartphone because I need some apps) and I don't talk that much anyway (sometimes even 0 hours/month), but I still sometimes have the urge to buy a rugged flip, just for the sake of it, be it Moto Tundra or this one.
This reminded me of the same thing, I think - I remember reading about a big game like that in an old PC Gamer but I don't remember it ever actually coming to market. Though it's possible it just went under the radar. I shared your apprehensions about the commitment and potential expense. It's strange to think about now in the era of iPhones and social media giants.
Almost all of the successful “entrepreneurs” I know are just rich kids who had the time and space to figure things out over the course of 10-15 years after college without worrying about money. Same thing for all of the successful people I know who work in media. It’s a racket.
at least I won’t defend atleast.
> Does this kind of pseudo-self-help-tough-love help anyone?

Yes, there is a lot of research in this area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset#Fixed_and_growth_minds...

I interpret is as being able to ask yourself "what did I learn" when you fail; and realizing that most success comes from trying over and over. ("Most" because some people are lucky and succeed the first time.)

In general, people who adopt the growth mindset, (see the link,) are more successful.
Thanks!
Not sure I follow regarding the name. It is a cad program, it is tiny, it is built with pico - picoCAD! :)
My simple solution is to filter them all into a "News" folder that doesn't notify. Then I can just open it whenever I have some spare time.
I never want to accept popup that isn't required. Why do we even have that.
Ah ok, so premiums to rejoin the public service are higher as you're over 55? Vs say continuing to pay?
Digital nomads and internet hustlefluencers have definitely skewed the perception of what entrepreneurship is like.

You mentioned Product Hunt, Indie Hackers (the website I'm guessing), Twitter, Substack.....these are all marketing channels, and marketing is a lot of work. But are you taking your message to the customer, or to other entrepreneurs on the same grind?

In 2022 I started a paper magazine on a niche topic (URL is on my profile). I have a full time job, so I don't worry financially about how the magazine will do. I also definitely do not compare my thing to what someone else is making. I have around ~100 customers, probably acquired at a loss.

I couldn't care less about the absolute numbers. For me, the minimum number I was trying to reach is 1. I've exceeded that and can talk to customers about what they'd like to see in the future. I wouldn't have been able to do that had I been focusing on acquiring thousands of subscribers first.
I'm not sure what you are saying. Do you mean that calmly stating my position and reasons could perceived as a dishonest "shit sandwich"? If so, that is what my friends and I came to in the end. If they didn't give me reasoned argument, I would ignore them regardless of their passion, and if I wasn't sure enough of my opinion to act upset that it was being challenged, they would ignore me as well. I say act but it is more me allowing myself to become emotionally attached to my position for the purpose of truth finding. With maybe a few expletives added strategically if I know they value them. So a bit of acting too.
> I don't really like ads either but would you really be okay with paying out of pocket to remove every ad you see?

I would happily pay $5 a day to never see another advertisement, assuming it applied to IRL ads too somehow.
Mh, I found this article really strange:

- firstly tie ourself to a service is the best thing to do to get lock-out of something "belonging to us" but not under our control, A TOTAL NO GO. We need to own, in person, not give something to others pockets "because their are safer";

- secondly I do not want to use ANY not-personal password managers and recent attacks prove very well why;

- thirdly the most simplest form of being "locked out" is that a service we depend on does not work anymore, the simplest form of protection is NOT depending on third parties.

Have your own files, on personal hw, with offline LOCAL copies and a good backup strategy (of course on encrypted storage, but that might prevent a thief access the information NOT ensure the availability of something) is a good lock-out prevention. Having a personal mail infra is hard, but owning a domain name and have a LOCAL mailserver at home that just use someone else service as a replica ensure you have the mails and the domain, being "locked out" means just being offline until you restore, still being able to read your mails and eventually move your domain somewhere else and that's far less harder. Having a personal website instead of using some platform is another nice way, especially if you advertise you have also a ZeroNet and similar P2P systems copy, so even if the website is hosted by some provider your readers know there is a LIVE copy in a P2P distributed system and eventually they even have a local copy.
Hardware Accelerator for Fully Homomorphic Encryption
I used to be a big fan of RSS readers, and I even built one, of sorts, as a startup at one point in 2009. But these days, I tend to just use Instapaper.

I have the plugin installed in all my browsers, and if I'm looking for something to read, I swipe thru my saves using the Instapaper Chrome web interface, Android app, or (most commonly) iPad app. I have Instapaper and Readwise synced up, which adds a little extra incentive (highlights) for doing things that way.

How do I find stuff to Instapaper? These days, it's TechMeme, Hacker News, Lobste.rs, Reddit, Twitter, Google News, Apple News (on iPad). Heavily weighted to the first four sources, with #1-#4 being maybe 80% of my saved links that come from aggregators.

Recently I have been beta testing Readwise Reader. It's probably as good a reading experience as I could currently imagine (it's sort of Instapaper on steroids, and it even syncs with Instapaper). But, even still, I find the entire category a little tired.

The big issue is source quality. It's harder to find a small group of regular bloggers that might make a curated RSS reader experience worthwhile. When I was younger, I'd read Joel Spolsky, Paul Graham, and dozens of developer blogs, and that was "enough". These days, to get the same sort of volume and quality, I'd need to curate hundreds (maybe thousands) of sources. It's also sad, but true, that the average blog on the internet is simply no longer publishing new posts. That is, the typical blog with an interesting archive is likely abandoned in terms of new posts going online, or has the publishing rate reduced to an annual trickle. So it's not worth my time to predict and curate the exceptions.
The influencers you see are the 1% who made it, and given luck plays a role it's indeed possible they made it "easily" and therefore candidly but erroneously preach that story.

I've failed a half dozen times too, but only at side-hustles, and that discouraged me from going all in, but I've also been successful once (albeit very moderately) and that was with the least effort of all my attempts. So I think the lesson is to keep trying only if you value the journey as much as the intended destination, that way even if you don't reach the target you'll presumable still get some fulfillment from the journey (for me it was learning no-code tools, learning to produce professional quality print materials, etc.)
Ceph actually does manage its own backing filesystem too these days, after the bluestore migration a few years age.
>Would Dijsktra, for example have adviced teaching for or against teaching Assembly language?

Dijkstra makes a distinction between Computing Science and Computer Engineering. The former is the Theoretical Science part i.e. Mathematical Logic, Automata, Algorithms, Computability, Complexity etc. The latter is the design of practical machines where we can realize the running of algorithms from the former domain. Dijkstra did both but his interests/focus were more in the former domain.

However, he called the General-purpose Computer "A Radical Novelty" from the pov that it allowed us to do any computation that we can think of (subject to Mathematical limitations/Computability) unlike any other previous man-made inventions. Many of his EWDs talk about this. Given that Assembly language is the native language of a Computer and all Higher-level language abstraction constructs have to map to it there is great value in learning the structure of Assembly language and how to program using it. There is also the beauty of Engineering involved, where layers of abstraction come together in a harmonious manner to give you a Machine with almost limitless capabilities. Also note that Assembly language is the Computer Architecture view for a Programmer while Computer Organization is the engineering implementation of it.

The following two books are highly recommended for further understanding:

1) Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold.

2) Structured Computer Organization by Andrew Tanenbaum.
It’s a preference for choosing simpler more common words and expressions. This makes writing easier to understand for more people, but perhaps more importantly it prevents the writer from using some bizarre circumlocution in an attempt to sound sophisticated.
Last weekend I was talking to one of the initial employees of a relatively well-known monitoring SAAS here in the Netherlands. Apparently their founder/owner had just decided that ~30 employees was perhaps a few too many and that he would like to keep it more lifestyle-business-ish. Fair enough, he's the owner and is allowed to make decisions like that.

This early employee was doing some real heart-searching about what he was going to do though, now that any hopes of personal growth at this company had been dashed. He could probably stay a developer there forever, of course, but any career growth would not be in the cards for at least several years since all management positions were filled and he was already the most senior engineer around.

I don't mean to imply that stable businesses who make employees happy are impossible, but at some point you will just not be able to make everyone happy at the same time.
Designing for Multiple Die
You empower people by making sure their basic needs are taken care of so they have the freedom to fully pursue these projects.

It’s no wonder projects like GIMP don’t take off because these developers work on it in their spare time. They don’t have the time or energy to fully commit to it because they’re busy being forced to write someone else’s software.

Linux, for example, was built over the course of 8 years while Linus Torvalds was in college. He was able to do so because his college in Finland provided room and board and the freedom to pursue his interests alongside his studies.
No, it makes sense because my values are good and I happen to be American.

This is exactly my point. You’re saying “because the US has done bad things in the past, it has no moral standing to do good in the future”. A lot of bad happened in the Middle East, some parts caused by the US, so that means we can’t ban the evils of China in our country and minimize their harms abroad?

Try this: focus on increasing the good in the world. Don’t be hamstrung by “well the US has done bad things before”. “We can’t do good anymore because we’ve done bad before” is not a valid argument. And no, none of this makes China equally good.

It’s not your job to weigh all the countries of the world on some balance to decide who’s been the most good. That’s that detached observer mindset again, and it does nothing but occupy your mind and sap your agency while bad things continue. Your job is to increase the good in the world. If you don’t care to do so, then get out of the way
If they want to hire you as CTO but are reluctant to give you shares, that should be a meaningful red flag. Bonuses for a rewrite being successful are pretty questionable territory - they'd need to put hard metrics in place to define what success means in order for you to get your bonus, and that's tough. Commercial success? You could do an amazing job rewriting the site and not see that due to aspects of the business that are completely beyond your control as CTO. Technical criteria, like, I dunno, pageload speed? They shouldn't want to do anything like that because they're weird and can be gamed.

In terms of the percent of the company you should ask for, there's not enough information in this post to give a useful answer. How's the salary relative to the market? What's your experience? What do they anticipate the impact of the rewrite being? How much business do they expect country B to drive vs. country A, which is already established? If it's a market leader but only valued at €15-20M, then it sounds like it's in a niche category and isn't likely to see explosive growth (unless that's coming from country B and future countries, in which case your work will be driving most of the growth, and you should be rewarded accordingly).

Your description of the work makes it sound like you're being hired more as an engineer than a CTO - they've already decided what the strategic direction is and what work needs to be done, and you're just there to write code. The lack of willingness to give equity to the second- or third-most senior position in the company adds to that impression.

You should figure out what you could get in a more traditional engineering role, then demand some form of compensation that will have substantial upside to that in the event of success (with the amount of upside being directly proportional to how much less you'll make vs. working as an engineer if the company is not successful).
CmdrTaco was/is a good person [1], but as a moderator he had biases and faults like many others.

Before Slashdot, there was Usenet, and Mr Spafford was one of several there who helped explore what "online community" might mean.

There's a few BBS sysops I could list too but they're not as widely famous and in some cases were always pseudonyms anyway.

[1] insofar as a vi user can be
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Read the proposed ANTI-SOCIAL CCP Act. That’s how.
I use an RSS-to-email service to email them to me. Then most feeds get sorted into folders for reading later. A few got to my inbox for more urgent response.

I currently use an RSS-to-email service that I operate but I used other services for almost a decade before that. There are a handful available ad supported and paid or you can self-host.
Far too many so-called libertarians are jealous of the government’s power to oppress people instead of being lovers of liberty.