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I mean its the same reason most corporate Windows laptops suck also - not sure why Apple gets a free pass but Windows cops it when similar issues only happen on corporate devices loaded with junk.
There was once a time when I would have written a comment like this one, but now I'm down-voting it. There are two ways to read this message, and both of them are not something I would encourage, of different reasons, and being ambiguous between them is not in it's favor either.

A. You are trying to highlight that the poster is technically incorrect, so that they learn a new fact. That is mostly fine, but it doesn't add a lot to the conversation, and distracts from the point that they are trying to make.

or

B. You are making a point that some people succeed despite handicaps, essentially that there are often exceptions and hard work can make up for lack of talent. This is true, but it's a mindset that I think should not be encouraged in the OP. They are clearly having problems with how hard they work, which had lead to them being institutionalized. Telling them that they could have succeeded if they tried harder is not what we should do here.
ive seen people that haven't so your point is invalid
I believe, unless the role is understood at the top and given some slack to do properly, data scientists are setup to fail.

The expectations are generally wildly unrealistic and the work may touch on many departments. It is a minefield politically, unless it is a very clear priority for the company.

If the value is understood at the top data science can provide immense value.

When the media mentions x job being sexy or a shortage of x workers there is usually an agenda. I would not take those assertions at face value.
Actually governments don't guarantee anything about fiat money value.
> I didn't know there are many techniques to mitigate this

A trivial idea - you can use GPT-3 to inject bullshit/hallucinations into real text. Then train the model to solve the reverse task, of detecting bullshit in input text.
Twitter's self made entrepreneurs are the worst, the endless threads how they make $50kPCM FROM THESE FEW TIPS. It's just modern day self-help gurus cashing in from a bit of influencing and self brand.

As many people on this thread have said, this stuff is hard, and mainly about luck and of course all the stories that we hear are about success.

I wouldn't discourage people to try though, if enough of us try one of us will make it. Just know that you'll probably fail, and as the op says, protect your mental health.
They're simply different companies. VW is fairly broad spectrum when it comes to cars, even a Mercedes 'A' class (or a Smart for that matter) is fairly expensive compared to an entry level VW (say, an 'Up').

Tesla outperforms VW because they are riding a wave and have been very successful in maintaining their lead in BEVs. That won't last and then the likes of VW and possibly Toyota if they ever get with the times are going to eat Tesla's lunch, especially if the chief twat is going to be distracted by his new toys.
I get the impression that it kinda is like Minecraft: you have a 0,0 position and a scale factor. On a 1440p 100% scale display the bottom right corner would be position 2560,1440. When you zoom the position becomes 2560* scale factor by 1440 * scale factor.

Then, during rendering, all size values just hit that scale factor.
Yes, Sennheiser Momentum 4. It's rather comfortable, and once you remove it, the unbelievable low HUM of electrical appliances deafens you for a moment. IMHO Sennheiser's sound signature is much more natural than Sony XM's. It works well under Linux too (Sonys do not support aptX).
Not if you fine-tune your bot on your knowledge based and past solved issues. If it is a known issue or fact, the bot could solve it. If it is outside known solutions, the bot should decline. This can be trained as well.
You know what helps (me)? Coming from the start with knowledge the success rate is about 10%. Some may say such "negative thinking" dooms your endeavour from the start. I disagree. One can be really committed and still know in the back of your head it is most likely to fail.

This mindset not only means you'll not put your last savings into a venture that is very likely to fail, but also that you remain sane.

Also, sometimes one just needs a break. If you can, take a year off. If you have to work to support yourself, try to take it easy.
I will add that it's only about luck if your entering a certain kind of industry, where your succes is dependent on popularity.

If for example you start lumber company selling timber wood, the only thing you need to have an edge is to undercut the market with 5% on price. Of cause you won't get rich quick or maybe even slow, but it's a tried and tested strategy. Before starting a business you should ask yourself is my business luck depend, or is my success guaranteed as long as I undercut the competition on price or quality.
Standards and requirements will change, bits will rot, and im not expecting any ecosystem, to keep up with comming and going demands.

A better solution imho would be project level capabilities, so you can pull in a dependency but restrict its lib/syscall access, so it would not compile when it turns malicious.

Maybe it will solve at least something, maybe some day.
This article linked near the bottom is pretty interesting w.r.t. the origin of eukaryotes. IANA biologist, but it seems to make a pretty good case that taking on mitochondria led directly to a lot of the other eukaryotic complexity. I wasn't previously convinced why it couldn't have gone the other way. https://elifesciences.org/articles/81033
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Completely agree. Am on my 3rd company, all of them have reached profitability fairly easily.

If you don't want to rely on luck, you have to work from the bottom. The VC, top down approach is very risky indeed, but a different game exists.

Finding people who have problems that could be solved through better software is not hard. Listen to them. Make their life easier. Generalize, improve, start selling to other people who have the same issues. Spot opportunities related to your market, your tech, your customers.

There is a ton of demand, especially at small/local scale. If you are efficient, a moderate amount of upfront work can provide ton of value to countless people. They will gladly pay for it, especially if they feel listened to.
Quora's UI is abysmal. The real question and answers seem to get interleaved with ads and other questions and answers, yet the site keeps trucking. What gives?
Tesla has 25% margins because they are in a different segment. If Tesla sold a large number of very cheap cars they would not be able to command 25% margins. If you lop off the top portion of VW's sales and look at their margins they will be much higher than the margins on the smaller stuff. But in absolute numbers those figures certainly help and they also help to protect VWs income stream during slow years.

Their premium brands tend to be hit very hard during those years (Porsche, for instance).
It's neither. I'm saying you're too dumb to understand that your language doesn't cover every other language.
(being a little US-centric here, sorry)

> it's equalising what the state (and other institutions) provides to each person

Well, a couple of things about that:

- That's not equality of opportunity, it's anti-discrimination

- Generally the point of these programs is to create a more equitable society, i.e. when bad stuff happens to you (cancer, slavery) we drop a money bag at your door to catch you back up. People at least say (and indeed the Declaration of Independence starts off by saying) we want an equal society, and this is how we do it. If we give the same bag of money to everyone no matter what happened to them, that doesn't address the inequality, it just causes inflation. Indeed, you can't fix inequality by treating everyone equally, because life doesn't treat everyone equally.

> changing the treatment based on the individual would also be equality of outcome.

Why aren't we concerned with outcomes? Whenever I hear the opportunity/outcome framing this is my immediate question. Aren't outcomes the only thing that matters here? Of course we need to consider tradeoffs and costs, but if the goal is to make a more equitable society, how can we not consider outcomes? Can you claim to be an equal society when none of your policies discriminate (let's stipulate this is the case in the US, but it definitely is not), but 2/3s of your people (women and minorities in the US) are effectively an underclass? If that's the definition of equality, it doesn't sound very useful. I think we can do better.

Again this sounds like an excuse to ignore life's basic unfairness, as well as bad stuff our society has done in the past (slavery, the chattel system) and currently does in the present (the war on drugs, the gender pay gap). It's like, it's fine if we deprived people of opportunity in the past, even last year, as long as we fix that opportunity inequality sometime in the future, as though that didn't permanently set millions of people back. How do we make up for past, current, and existing and future inequities of opportunity?

Or put another way, how will we compensate the people today who will be victimized by:

- a vindictive immigration policy

- a racist carceral system

- a misogynistic reproductive rights regime

- a transphobic... everything

Will we just fix the glitch and ignore the damage those systems and policies have created? Again that doesn't sound like it really addresses the full scope of the problem.
Written in a non-emotional, detached, and non-sensational style.
I was even wondering if it was written by chatGPT
One of the privileges people don't often think about is being able to afford to fail.

If you don't risk destitution after your startup fails, you can try and fail many times, learn and try again.

It's like continuously rolling two dice, and you only need to get double sixes once, and after that it's private jets until you die.

One of the many reasons the rich get richer and the poor, well you know how it goes.
For what it’s worth, your next venture will be more successful (and your mental health much better) if you turned off all social media and stopped comparing yourself to other entrepreneurs. It seems like what you’re seeking is acceptance and recognition more than business success. That’s fine and entirely human, but as you’ve discovered it’s an incredibly precarious pursuit. It’s not just business, you might start a family and see all the happy, positive posts by other parents which are also often lies. You have to find a way to be enough for yourself.

The good news is, while it’s very hard to settle on the magic formula that gets you lots of followers and subscribers to your brand as an entrepreneur, actual entrepreneurship is quite straightforward if you are able to separate it from your identity. It does take perseverance because it’s a stochastic thing. But customers will tell you what pains them far more directly than someone could explain how to become a public figure. Forget about getting into the club. Concentrate on customers. Expect failure but don’t compare it to other people’s heavily curated success.
If you can write a test (or other combination of measurements, metrics etc) that actually measures whether someone is well educated, and tells us how much of that is down to the teacher and not the overall school, family, home life, culture, etc, and cannot be gamed etc, then you will have solved one of the worlds longest standing social issues.

Then you will just need to convince people to vote to (more than) double what we pay teachers (and eat the resulting tax rises) to fund the resulting bonuses for at least some of them.

Clearly grades are worthless here. But that doesn't mean there is a better system. Especially given what people are willing to pay and the complex other inputs...
Ask HN: I have an initial platform but not a product. Any SaaS ideas?
Recently in my spare time I've coded a small initial platform on AWS. I've set up IaC, CI/CD dev/prod, management (sso, billing alarms), frontend hosting, api, logging, tracing, database, auth etc.
Since it is mostly serverless, I don't pay anything for it (because there is no product/usage).

My idea was to use it to test some product ideas and maybe something will stick.

Do you guys have any ideas for a SaaS product? I know there are probably a bunch of people in the same situation, but it won't hurt to ask.
Thank you
Sadly, this amusing example of British understatement is not the actual title of the piece, instead Winter storm in US and Canada will bring frostbite within minutes

Nevertheless, sounds a touch nippy: careful out there ...
First, take care of yourself, then think about entrepreneurship.

I'm reminded of the pinned tweet from the Nomad List entrepreneur[0]:

> Only 4 out of 70+ projects I ever did made money and grew

> Over 95% of everything I ever did failed

> My hit rate is only about ~5%

> So...ship more

[0] https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1457315274466594817
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2015, for a year or so on insider builds, upgrated i5 to ryzen, migrated primary partition from SATA SSD to M.2 SSD

no registry cleaning, only cleaning temp files with built-in app in Settings
The hashing has to happen serverside, which means the server will temporarily have the plaintext in memory. While there, you can mutate the string by adding/removing/chanigng characters, to get a bunch of strings that are similar. Then you compare all of those to the old hashes you have stored. It will catch people doing common stuff like incrementing a number at the end on every reset.
Take some time off. Spend time doing something else. Clear your mind.
This year specifically is the Big Suck.
I always have to laugh when people say it was so easy to raise funds in 2020/2021 and no DD was done. Maybe if you have the right network at the right time with the right product. I..e, all stars are aligned. But for the 99.99% this is not true.
One of the most important things I've learned on the entrepreneur / solopreneur journey is that realistic expectation of failure is an important part of eventual success. That is launching ideas not because you are convinced that it will succeed or fearful that they will fail but with the mindset that no matter how great the idea, failure is a possible and even likely outcome. If you can cultivate a mindset of failure / feedback / iterate, you will increase your chances of eventual chances at something, not always the original idea.

Agree on the insta-influencers tho, we need to see beyond this and understand that for these folks the brand / lifestyle is actually the product.
> great inconvenience

It's a convenience/security trade-off, I see.

The only solution I've ever seen to that requires investing trust in
an "authority" which then becomes corrupt and censorial. One simply
expands the dilemma to a triad; security/freedom/convenience.

If I am not mistaken the PyPI "Cheese Shop" is owned by the Python
Software Foundation, a 501(c3) nonprofit organisation which
constitutionally values Software Freedom highly. It seems natural that
convenience would be sacrificed if security is of concern.
Isn't Bluetooth multipoint what you're looking for re: intelligently switching Airpods? There are a decent number of non-Apple Bluetooth headphones that can do that with any manufacturer's Bluetooth capabilities (it even works switching between an iPhone and a non-Apple laptop!). For example, the extremely well reviewed Sony WH-1000XM4 can do it — those are over-ear headphones, not the earbuds, but Sony announced that they're updating the earbuds (the WF-1000XM4, to use the nearly-inscrutable Sony product name) to support Bluetooth multipoint too — as well as earbuds and headphones from Anker, Panasonic, etc.
Do opportunities like these still exist?
Yes, the linked example falls in the category of "particularly simple patterns" I mentioned. This strategy only works for such simple patterns; add in a single alternation with a common base and the naïve iteration strategy falls apart. Implementing a sensible algorithm to evaluate such a pattern would require much more code than a couple of brackets, would not benefit from RegEx caching, etc.
If you have questions about building/repairing/modifying electronic devices, a great resource is the EEVBlog forums.

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/
I always like this comment:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15659076

"Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games where you throw darts or something.

Middle class kids can afford one throw. Most miss. A few hit the target and get a small prize. A very few hit the center bullseye and get a bigger prize. Rags to riches! The American Dream lives on.

Rich kids can afford many throws. If they want to, they can try over and over and over again until they hit something and feel good about themselves. Some keep going until they hit the center bullseye, then they give speeches or write blog posts about "meritocracy" and the salutary effects of hard work.

Poor kids aren't visiting the carnival. They're the ones working it."
Nicely done, I like the straightforward dedicated nature of the project. Even years after the Raspberry Pi has been out I still enjoy reading how people use it. I suppose the cat factor does play a role in it though.
> A candy bar isn't good for you

Oh it's very good for you, especially if low on glucose at the moment. Sugar is not bad per se. Glucose is the main molecule that transfers energy in your body, so we love sweet taste for a reason.

The problem with sugar is that we don't have a sensor that would say "hey, that was enough glucose intake, stop now". Historically there was no such concept as "too much food". Every molecule of glucose was meant to save you from death. That's why we love sweet taste so much.

The problem, of course, that we hijacked that pleasure response from glucose intake and started to pump sugar in our food like crazy. And discovered that it wreaks havoc on our metabolic fitness, health and lifespans, so now pushing back to limit sugar in our diets.

Bottom line, I try to balance my sugar intake (definitely not pouring it into the tea) and waiting for the non-invasive CGMs (Continious Glucose Monitors) to become mainstream, as they will be a game-changer for every person. In a way, the feedback loop between "food intake" and "what's happening to my body" is super slow now - 1-2 years (and is done using mirror in your bedroom). With CGMs it'll shorten to 1-2 minutes.
> AI support could have you keep trying less and less likely to work solutions until the sun dies

Use your own AI. My bot will talk to your bot.
BMW and Mercedes aren't showing any real YoY growth. They have some token electric offerings, but don't seem particularly committed.

This is HN, the difference in value between a growth company and an incumbent should be at the front of our minds at all time.
I've been more than happy to invest in a few of these 'lifestyle' businesses as angel investor. One of them is quite possibly going to be a breakout success anyway. We're all still amazed by it. Not a dollar of external capital beyond the friends-and-family round.
It is a variation of the Nuremberg defense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders

We pretend to be rational and as soon as livelihood is affected logic goes out of the window.

(not talking about the specific person, just about the logical argument)
For some there will be wave and wave of excuses and "someone elses fault" deflections, but in essence I think you have it spot on.
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You seem to be getting a lot of advice, some good some I disagree with.

But I would say that this post on the front page of hacker news is an amazing opportunity for you to promote your three failed startups. Maybe one will get the traction you need.
Yes, absolutely. Looking at one right now actually (NDA, so I can't tell you about it but it's a gem).
Have you considered stopping trying to be successful, and instead figuring out what would really make you happy?
Just a thought. The most successful products in the world have come from people following their heart, trying to share something with the world, not people trying to get something FROM the world.
Thank you for sharing this. Don't feel bad for failing after trying everything. I hope you get fully recovered soon, praying for you
Someone needed to bootstrap the charging infrastructure. At some point it will be a commodity and at that point Tesla is 'just' sitting on a big asset.
In our culture, we've created a space of less accountability around alcohol. We judge people less harshly for what they do under influence of alcohol. Mostly, it means you don't need to worry about mild social norm breaking, others (and yourself) will ascribe it partially to the alcohol rather than your inherent character.

Not all cultures have this. Cultures ascribe widely different attributes to alcohol. That's for another post, though.

I'm convinced this isn't a free lunch. This space of less self-control we've carved out, comes at the cost of MORE demands when we're sober. I think your shell, and mine as well, was in part a product of a culture where we, like Dr. Jekyll, sought to split off some sides of ourselves.
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> I just can’t go through learning/configuring everything from scratch in my daily business.

Well, you don't have to. You already have your IDE and Vim is certainly not a hard requirement for your job anyway so you can keep using your trusted IDE and learn Vim on the side, properly, at your own rhythm.

> So I “only” need to learn vim core editing syntax.

You can also do that _within_ your IDE.

> Reading the help does not help all the time when starting from scratch even more for non native English speakers

You would know this is nonsense if you had actually opened it.
I already really enjoyed your tutorial a while back with the pinetime and RIOT. This one looks amazing as well.

Well done!
Let me just give a few opinions.
First, social media is bad for mental health in general. From a business view it’s a marketing tool - use it as such and don’t follow anyone - why waste time reading stuff there anyway? As a founder you must run a business. A business is meant for earning money, not for fulfilling a dream.
All the shiny posts about how successful a startup is, is just marketing. Smoke and whistles. It should attract the reader into buying the product or service. Your failure and bad feelings are you not realizing you still have a consumers mindset not that of a business man.
Also there are endless business ideas and as such an idea has zero value. Execution is what adds value. Ideas themselves are worthless.
As soon as you understand that a business is just about money, and you accept that cold reality of capitalism, the sooner you will find ways to success.
Luck plays a role, too. But you need to be in places around people where opportunities are plenty. Successful businesses are built around successful people and their networks! Not social media networks!
Even with VC money, running a business is hard. Just look at all the VC-funded startups that go bust! The term lifestyle business is useful because it frames and contrasts a VC-funded business that must have explosive growth and then IPO or be bought out or else die, and a business that's fine just existing with no need to take over the world, ever. A lifestyle business is one that can be trusted because it didn't take VC funding; it doesn't have the dying need to sell out to Apple or Amazon or Google or Microsoft or Adobe or IPO.
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You can bootstrap a startup, but not every startup. And woe to you if you are bootstrapped and some VC funded club starts poaching your customers with a product subsidized by their financiers.

I wrote about these options long ago:

https://jacquesmattheij.com/three-roads-to-the-top-of-the-mo...
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