skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah you are absolutely not alone. I was lucky enough to have a startup make it about seven years ago. I do not think I could do it in today's environment AT ALL and also don't know how to use any of my past 'success' to repeat something. Starting from 'not that' would be infinitely harder, that's not fair for anyone, and that sucks.

I completely agree with the whole problem of how social media and tech 'influencers' have ruined the ability to get ideas out there. I also think that the zeitgeist of what is possible and popular today is very limited, and made worse by many end-users being burnout and uncurious.

This website glamorizes startups and should not. It's not a golden path for most anyone. It makes people think it's remotely easy, and it's 99.999% chance for most good people that are well rounded enough with a great idea and 99.999% rich people connections for everyone else.

It requires (potentially) a ton of life force energy expenditure - if you're an honest person - that can potentially, quite literally, kill you. If you aren't honest you might make it in whatever grift, and wouldn't have as hard of time being around people that you aren't ethically compatible with.

I can see without a platform to launch exactly the right idea without the absolute perfect timing how much harder or nearly impossible this would be. Those platforms are not really available to people who don't know "the right people" and act appropriately greasy and self-important these days, IMHO, so there's even more of a luck coefficient than there was 10 years ago.

I want to say "happy thoughts" but we really need smaller communication paths, more diversity of tech approaches and alternative methods, and more funding that attempts to create stable profitable businesses and not unicorns. We need twitter to die so tech influencing stops being a thing that gets followers, and instead projects and ideas get that attention (and participation) instead. Even then, I'm not sure it's going to be "fixed".

Right now, surely though, it does create some terribly bloated technology.
How do you find your way around your home town? The brain's ability to handle that problem is so deep, most people don't even notice. It's taken for granted, like breathing.

Graphic representation can plug into that brain system. We all want tools that get out of the way and enable us to focus on the problem at hand, to help establish the much desired state of flow - nobody (I know, anyway) likes to continuously put the business problem on pause to navigate some tool's odd conceptualization of the work space.

At least for some users, the value-add is smoother work flow.
The list also looks useful to "translate" existing corpspeak.

But on the other hand, it can be misused as well by reversing the left and right sides...
I hope you're ok.
Not a big deal. You can edit a PDF programmatically, a la pdfcpu [0] or similar.

[0] https://pdfcpu.io/generate/create
It takes 10 years until success
This doesn't strike me as something inherently part of entrepreneurship in a world-wide context, but rather something particular to anglo saxon countries, and especially Americans which are big on neoliberal ideology. Americans are also the most anti-government of any people I know.

The Netherlands is split in this I think, but the entrepreneurs I know are nothing like this. They appreciate the safety net and often happily pax taxes, its more that they hate the labour involved. And everybody I speak to has acutely aware of the possibility of failure. Maybe its my circle though, there are also more radical libertarians in my country, but they are a rarity.
Your work really positively impacts this community. Thank you, dang.
I‘d say it is still a buy recommendation

https://money.cnn.com/quote/forecast/forecast.html?symb=TSLA

I‘m not an expert, but probably down because Mr Musk has been selling quite a lot of stock this year and also again this month, apparently because of Twitter.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/15/elon-musk-sells-another-huge...
Was going to say exactly this. People always discount luck in their own stories, but you can always find it there - even if you look at a societal level and it's just luck that the person in question was born here and now, rather than in Mao-era China or wherever.

There's a reason why a lot of businesses fail, and it's not that the people who start them are lazy, stupid or lacking in skills. Obviously some are, but there are a great many people with great ideas that never make it, just like there are brilliant musicians, artists, designers, and anything else you care to name that you'll never hear of but who are very good at what they do.
Ive heard in a German startup podcast, that the biggest owner of Tesla currently reduces his share on Tesla. His name: Elon Musk.
Thank you dang! I often see your comments while browsing and always find them informative and reasonable. Good quality moderation.
When he came along it was nothing more than an idea and a name. Of all the things you can speak negatively about Musk this is the weakest.
Sounds like you've worked hard on this. Sorry it's not worked out. I hope you're ok.
I hope everything levels out next year and we are not all in a constant state of infighting and can start to work on something better than the tyranny of "Breaking News". thx dang for keeping it civil in the last years.
“I quit my job to focus on a highly profitable quantitative trading system”
It was a question, not a statement.
I’m working on AI of this type: essentially retraining and fine tuning existing systems.

I can assure you, I am not one of the world’s best minds. To me, this feels like gluing APIs together, with a bit less cursing than in my PHP days.
Bezos would not have kept Amazon in the US if it adopted Nordic welfare levels of taxation.

The fact of the matter is that the EU has a staggeringly low output when it comes to tech innovation compared to the US. Their policies and regulations shape this.
Thanks and uh, sorry for any headaches, I know I'm a unconventional guy with some ideas that particularly recently aren't the easiest to defend. I never intend to create a moderation burden but I fear it may have happened on some occasions this year.

Also I believe that it may be more than Dang behind the scenes so thanks to the rest of the team as well.
It's gonna be a big loss for HN when Elon Musk signs him to moderate Twitter.
Market valuations are essentially meaningless and have been wildly inflates due to low interest rates. Tesla was never worth its peak market cap.
Many a long time forum has come and gone, degraded in culture, succumbed to featuritis or any of the many possible ends such gatherings online can face as the years slip by. It really is special how HN has stayed on balance a place one can discover fascinating new things and people who stimulate the mind. Moderation plays a huge role in tending that spirit, and I too am truly grateful for the work you do here.

Happy holidays to the whole of HN as well. Moderation tends things, but the great people far more knowledgeable and from far different backgrounds from me who submit and discuss are the meat on the bones! Thanks to all of you, you've helped me through quite a few challenges!
So what's your point? When people say linux. You take it to mean GNU/Linux. And that honestly comes out of nowhere. At my work we use a ton of embedded devices that don't use GNU but instead use things like busybox. Everyone refers to them as Linux systems.

Android is Linux system in every single way. It's not however a GNU/Linux system. But the comment you originally replied didn't claim that.
best moderator, thanks dang!!
All the Nordics combined have less population than California and have actually produced some decent startups.
Of the people who love culture wars and hate liberals, and yet at the same time also believe in climate change and want to buy an electric vehicle, aren’t they much more likely to buy the new electric f150?

In general this combination of beliefs seems like too small of a segment to build a company with a market cap like Tesla’s around.
I don't really understand why did you expect different result? The vast majority of startups fail, the odds are against you. I could understand trying once, but try two more times and be surprised by result? But maybe there is something wrong with me for not following any influencers and stay down to earth.
Thanks for putting up for those of us whom are too rebellious! Promise changes in the coming year. Happy holidays!!
I get the general idea, but at the same time, I don't have the time to write my own libraries from scratch - all modern web standards are complex and most libraries filled with years to decades worth of experience of all the edge cases that crop up, particularly as most standards don't carry a "compliance test suite".

It's one thing if I were paid by my employer to re-invent the wheel, but for personal projects... I don't have that much free time for them in the first place any more, I want to get shit done and not shave yaks all day. When I want a good grind, I'll pack out Factorio or one of the LEGO Switch games...
This is cool. I guess it's possible to this all in single multi-task NN
How did you sustain yourself during periods of failure?
This stuff is hard whether it's crickets for what you're working on to there's people knocking but you can never seal the deal. That has happened to me with various technologies (some require lots of capital from our pockets we aren't willing to put up) I've created with technical co-founders a few times. When it does it's time to take a mental health break. After a 3 to 6 months to over a year break I'll come back and start working on one of those technologies yet now it's only for fun.

Never do I now give it much thought of it ever making much to any money rather it's all for personal enjoyment.

I have gained something awesome through from my startups I've help build and that is tech skills I learned/now use to make a decent living in tech.
All things end. The trick is knowing when to move on to the next thing -- quitting when things are bad, but also cashing out when things are good. Don't get stuck in the well.

I know it's frowned upon these days (perversely, in my view), but wow what resilience. @wakana should realize the value of that and how powerful that can be in the next endeavor. Maybe battered and bruised, but survived! In this case, maybe it was the wrong matchup - entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, or [bad] luck. Biggest mistake made was maybe hanging on too long -- resilience can be double-edged, too.
I think you're confusing social media attitudes with the general population. I go back home and most people I know don't even use Twitter or even know much about Musk beyond his name.
I plan to use this line of thinking to my advantage when I am able to employ people. I will deliberately call myself a programmer, avoid formal titles and just call everyone programmers, emphasize that the job is about solving hard programming problems and so on. That will attract creative people for whom the difficulty of the work is a perk and not a cost.
What I have seen from others (I have not been able to do so) knowing that you can afford to fail beforehand is one of the biggest factors to succeed:

- Objectively is not an issue to fail and you know it

- It gives you the security to take risky decisions and at the end it is a matter of expectation, bet and see if you win. To me this goes along with the mantra that failing is not bad and you have to do so few times before you succeed. Obviously, the more you try the more chances you have. If you are not a casualty.
The Plain English Campaign's list of examples [0] (linked in TFA) was quite amusing. My favorite:

'the hours of non-hours work worked by a worker in a pay reference period shall be the total of the number of hours spent by him during the pay reference period in carrying out the duties required of him under his contract to do non-hours work.'

[0]: http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/campaigning/examples
Scribd should be on that list, I’d think.
So if I'm reading this right, it was wrong only because they were spying on Americans. Spying on others is apparently still ok.
Are there other moderators? I only know of Dang, who does great work, but don’t want to omit anyone else.
You da man Dang, thanks !!
..."We haven't opened a 'one-stop shop' as we're not a supermarket. We've probably launched a website."

Have you really launched a website, or just started one? Since the same article rejects the use of 'drive' and 'land', I'd say that 'launch' is fairly comparable.
So what do we do?

Some geeks with some kinds of internet connections could set up their own server to sync passwords. But what does literally everyone else do? Re-use the same password everywhere?

What is your alternative to password managers?
If I was an US taxpayer, I would be so pissed off to know that I'm paying for assholes buying a somehow luxury car and Elon getting billions in margin so that he could afford to crash twitter...

As the U.S. government plans to introduce tax credits to spur EV demand starting in January
That used to be the case, buy the Opensearch fork forced them to include it in their free offering
It just means that a better solution that fulfill all their needs doesn't exist yet, and they decided to take one trade-off rather than another one. Maybe in that setup a possible RCE is not that dangerous.
The Hobbit: Riddles in the Dark – The Lost Version (2001)
How about integrate AI to automate comment moderation ? So you can retire now ?
Flask seems to be a very stable and feature-complete framework (I see about 3 commits per year for the last few years).

At this point isn't it easier and just as safe to manually review the code, pin the hash in a lockfile, and manually review the rare changes than it is to rewrite everything?
Might be wrong, but my understanding is that Dang is now the only official moderator, but others do help out unofficially.
Spotify: Sweden
This is gonna be bad for crypto
Getting one of my comments banned by dang in his calm and substantiated manner was a wakeup moment for me. I like my discussions hot, but this was the time where I realized that keeping a discussion valuable and on point is probably more important than winning it in the grand scheme of things.

Incidentally, it also gradually managed to cure me from free-speech absolutism. (By now, I think almost all Xisms and extremes are nonsense, but that‘s a different hot discussion to be had).

This forum wouldn‘t be the same without him.

Thanks dang.
It might be obvious to you already, but saying it anyway just in case: every single explanation you get here, however nice of a story it sounds like to you, is pure speculation.

If a HN contributor actually could explain market movements, i.e. really grokked the causal network underlying equity prices, then they would make millions exploiting the ignorance of everyone else, and probably not sharing their secrets with the rest of the world.
> you really not remember?

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/coal

Looks like a black swan to me, prices steady and trending downwards over the previous 20 years until Covid/Russian invasion which resulted in insane Euro demand

> Not moving on, as record production and demand shows.

https://opennem.org.au/energy/sa1/?range=all&interval=1M

We can see that renewables are soaking up a lot of the increase in demand, for example you can see South Australia go from coal and gas making up 100% of supply 10 years ago to just gas making up 16% and with the installation of new batteries and hydrolisers in the next few years to drop even further.

It just so happens that SA went hard on renewables because they had some of the most expensive power in the world. I'm sorry that it's not impressive to you. :(

You can also see my home state of Queensland: https://opennem.org.au/energy/qld1/?range=all&interval=1M

Increases in power demand are being met by renewables and it's now taking a bite out of fossil fuels with the largest ever investments by a long shot this year. I've never seen so much money thrown at an issue.

They are also all connected to an Australian grid which connects SA, VIC, NSW, QLD and TAS together, so when for example SA has excess cheap renewable power it can export it to another state reducing their power costs and thus their fossil fuel usage.

> obviously that state is still burning a lot of gas to generate electricity.

Yes but the point is that it has gone down significantly over the last 10 years and this is happening all over the world.

We'll also soon be helping power Singapore:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-30/nt-sun-cables-austral...

> is not going to cut it for climate change though.

At the end of the day if China/India/Vietnam and Indonesia seek to continue to build coal power plants then that's on them and I will continue to push against buying things made in those countries.

Is coal dead? no definitely not, will renewables have replaced significant amounts of coal in the next 20 years, I'd bet the house.
How many digital nomad influencers vs would-be entrepreneurs who keep wasting time on IT social networks? This ratio alone should make it very clear to you that most of that world is fake and just here to entertain you when you feel alone in front of your machine.
I've always taken it to be a portion of a website that takes you onward to different areas of the website. Like, at least in Wikipedia, a portal is generally a list of links to areas related to a topic. In sales software, a sales portal generally leads you to areas in the website like sales flows, or something else.
Nice to see some humor thrown around in this thread :)
You're not wrong. Somethings are fine to keep on someone else's server but a record of every password you have probably shouldn't be one of them.
Can we know for sure? Probably not. Here are my guesses.

Tesla

1) $TSLA was overvalued based on unrealistic assumptions about competitors and Tesla's ability to stay on top.

2) $TSLA was sort of a meme-stock that has just run out of comedy runway.

3) $TSLA is now a meme-stock and ordinary investors don't generally want to hold meme-stocks.

4) Investors are genuinely concerned about the behavior of the Twitter CEO, who as we all know is the Tesla CEO. Is it really surprising that making bad decisions in one arena will affect outcomes in another?

I have no idea which if any of these are true, but they all seem somewhat plausible. Really, each of these plus more are probably contributory factors for different investors.

Meta

1) Social media as a profitable enterprise has not especially proven durable over the long term. Plenty of entrenched incumbents in all sorts of industries fail after decades or centuries even. Meta is running out of good ideas. (Again, just my guess.)
Yeah, if this one really fails I'm going for this Makita [0] or similar, I have a bunch of those batteries + double fast charger already and the price seems right, although perhaps it will function less well, it seems to be a lot simpler of a device (plus, I love anything with those batteries, it's an addiction ;)).

[0] https://www.makitatools.com/products/details/XLC02ZB
>so that consumers can easily remove and replace them themselves

Completely idiotic and out of touch. Phones are glued shut for a reason. User replacable batteries are not compatible with slim waterproof phones.

My last phone lasted almost 5 years. It survived that long because water didn't kill it. Yes, I would have liked to just replace the battery at some point, but if I could have, it wouldn't have lasted as long.

If you want people to use their phones for long you have to:

- Not impede the manufacturers ability to create water/damage resistant phones.

- Force manufacturers to sell spare parts which can be used to service the phones.

- Mandate Updates for long periods. How is it okay for a phone to have 2 years of updates? At that point battery degrdaation isn't even that relevant.
The Instagram look of a new lobotomy-chic generation
According to Yahoo Finance, TSLA is on a PE of 38 and a market cap of nearly $400b. High PEs are only warranted by high growth, which is difficult for a large company to achieve.

The narrative over the last few years is that tech stock will grow to the sky. We were in an ebullient bubble phase. Psychology is a factor in market pricing. The narrative is shifting. Interest rates are going up, the economy is tightening, people may lose their jobs and investors are realising that companies in high valuations leave precious hostages to fortunes. People are beginning to realise that TSLA doesn't have a monopoly on the production of electric vehicles. Above-average profits bring in competitors, which of course reduces those supernormal profits due to market forces.

People go from "this baby's going to the moon" to "I don't want to be the last guy holding the bag."

They'll be plenty of experienced investors on HN who know exactly how all this goes down. But they'll also be a surprising percentage of HN readers who won't. Despite being highly intelligent, they'll fall for narratives (perhaps even more so than their lesser intelligent counterparts), and rationalise why absurd valuations are justified.

Falls tend not to be kind, either. It can take years to build up a head of steam, only for it to collapse in a few months. Crypto, anyone?

Rising prices tend to feed on themselves. The higher and longer a stock goes up, the more it seems like a "sure thing". But there's no such thing as a sure thing. The higher it goes, the more detached it becomes from reality. Reality wins in the end, though.
Surely this accounts for some of the crypto winter, too. Not as many big institutional investors in crypto, but big investors have the same incentives, no?
I own the Sony headphones, and the multipoint stuff isn't great. If I as much as get a notification on my computer it'll mute my phone playing music, I can't be in "high quality audio mode" while talking (Bluetooth ext that doesn't seem implemented).

It works, but in my day2day I Bluetooth with my phone, join meetings on both Android and Linux at the same time.
I don't either.
Ask HN: Tool to generate a simple web form from SQL
I remember seeing a while ago a project posted here that could be used to generate a simple web form from a SQL query, or the definition of a query. It would be perfect for my friend who's looking to build the simplest possible database interface quickly for a client.

Only problem: cannot for the life of me remember what it was called. I've tried searching Google and HN to no avail. Any similiar recommendations would be much appreciated.
Thanks for sharing your story. Your experience is key—there may be a strong luck component to success, but with enough attempts, it seems that your luck increases. Often, hidden behind "overnight successes" is a trail of failures.
It’s the lawyers right now. Next up it’s anyone who works for any company involved in litigation with them. Then it’s anyone who leaves a bad yelp review.
It's a horror show, and most of the third-party/partner sites look like they were designed and implemented by third-rate barely tech literate hacks. (Which I can say in confidence as I am a third-rate hack and should never be responsible for any tech that important.) Even their basic organization, public access, etc. is borked: I had to find out about my Medicaid eligibility by stumbling upon a BEM PDF which MDHHS had posted, then using their directory taxonomy to access all the other BEM PDFs (which are accessible but not linked anywhere; I'm not entirely certain if they're meant to be public or not...) and reading through them. That's an insane thing to ask of an average American.

> It seems like every city around here has its own little ecological disaster. Ann Arbor with the PFAS/PFOS, St Clair River with the no swim warnings, etc...

It's very f'ed up. Like, it's telling that back when I moved to Lansing, I lived near the Capitol because 'hey, they're probably not going to poison/give cancer to/etc. the politicians'. That's medieval peasant era reasoning: "If I live in the castle with the lord, he'll protect the castle since it's his house."

We're so fucked.