skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is also something that I feel when trying out a new hobby like gamedev or music or art. I know it is definitely possible to have success on those, but I feel like it was such a reach.
> In an Emacs file, Gackle collects ...

I would love to see this "Emacs file" :D

Jokes aside, a nice article
Not before Musk builds CloneX to make a couple dang clones to manage the whole of Twitter. But I reckon he'd want to rewrite the whole thing in Arc :)
It already is.

Even a fractional reserve exchange that’s “doing ok” (whatever that means when you play with other people’s money) is still gonna buckle under the weight of a run.
Forgive the typical HN metacomment:

I click the link and I get a full screen pop up with the sentence in my face “cookies enable core functionality”

I’m trying to read some text man. All this tech and we can’t send a frickin link that opens to some text. Cmon.
>What is your alternative to password managers?

Its not about password-managers it's about trusting a cloud service who tells you to encrypt everything.

Use pass or keepassXC..or hell an encrypted plaintextfile, do i really have to write that here?
Something worth thinking about in this context, is that businesses simply must exist in a community of some kind. When you start a small business in your local community, you have a pretty good idea of the appetite, and space for, the product you are selling, you just have to win the popularity contest and then make the financials work.

For digital nomads, that community has to be online, which is a difficult landscape. You are competing with every online business across the globe, and it's difficult to gauge the desire for what you're selling. Just being online won't do it, and even if you find some customers, have you found all of them? Maybe you missed a connection to a broader community that needs what you sell. You'd never know.

But from my thrown made of failed SaaS products, the biggest mistake I see solo-entrepreneurs make, often they don't know what they're selling. They know what they're building, and they conflate their solo-SaaS business with venture capitalist powered startup. VC startups aren't businesses yet, they're proto-businesses, they can afford to be a lofty idea and the money can happen later. Solo-entrepreneurs, you don't have that luxury. You have to have the "business" part, the money flow, figured out already.

My advice for someone who is trying to bootstrap a solo-business on the net: have a product that someone can buy as soon as you quit your paying job. If no one can give you money, you're just counting down the days until you can even begin being a business.
>After three failed attempts at building a successful startup

In many stories I read authors said they've done 20+ attempts before getting a success.

>I tried everything

Besides hard work, luck and connections also play a role. Maybe even the most important one.

>Building a startup is hard work and it takes time.

I am not participating in Twitter but think here in HN this is the general consensus.
>Trump's attempt to shut it down.

Believe it or not, Trump’s policy was more nuanced than what are getting now. They were in the process of forcing a sale of the company to a US owner.
Look all these influencers do is get advertising revenue from their content. Which might be easy enough for them. They don't own a real economy type business.
You can see the price of a share (if the market is efficient) as the sum of the future discounted economic production. The issue here is the discount.

When the FED is changing the interest rates up, that means the discount rates of market players go down. A safer alternative investment has become available. So economic production in the further future is worth less today than it was last year.

For which companies does that really matter? For companies where a large part of their value came from economic productivity that they were expected to have further in the future, and have relatively little of their value coming from present economic production. Tesla and Meta are two such companies, but it is a tendency in tech to believe companies will grow.
1988 pic: "... for 1.200/2.400-bps service at $12.50 per hour ..."
Is this the book? https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2146200.PC_Undergroun...
Definitely. There's nothing wrong with using Flask. It's actually quite pragmatic.

In my case, replacing Flask is purely preference.
Dang, thanks for helping make my most oft visited website stay true to its values. I really appreciate the work you do.
1. Finland doesn't have oil, you're mistaking it for Norway.

2. Progressive taxation is the basis on which the best places to live were built. This is an empirical observation, make of that what you will, but it's strange to give your gut feelings of "basic economics / human nature" more weight than objective reality.

3. Why do is the word "rob" applied to taxation? Without the state to at least enforce laws, enforce property rights, and physically protect you, there wouldn't even be any wealth creation. Your current life is only possible because you are inserted in a society, it's only far you have a debt to pay society back.
The vast majority of healthcare is provided to outpatients so numbers of staff to beds is a fucking weird ratio to look at.
Indeed, this has been a topic of many discussions in the past and I do believe that connections and privilege form a more important factor in success than many would like to admit.
If by 5x the power you mean 1kw then your up into the 70kg/150lb range for the panels and brackets which isn’t that easy to shave.
As others have said. What you’ve built could be your product, if it means I can deliver my product without worrying about everything you’ve mentioned. But that means I need to be able to seamlessly do so.

So your product is enabling me to forgot all those problems exist.

At the last startup I was working with platform became a significant blocker (primarily due to lack of people resources) and it was a primary reason the product tanked. Platform people are hard to find.

Not sure how that helps. But it’s a space where value can be created. Good luck.
Tesla 3 owner here and currently holding Tesla stock - I think the times when Tesla had the only electric car option in the market are over. Many other great companies like VOW (https://markets.sh/symbols/XETRA:VOW) also exist and build fantastic cars(Audi GT). Have you seen the latest BMW electric cars ? I think a correction in TSLA valuation was overdue…
Let me explain it like you are a (very smart) 5 year old. Prices go up when more people want to buy something than sell it. They go down when more people want to sell than buy.

With Tesla, more people want to sell than buy for a multitude of reasons: cashing out on the 2020-2021 rally (20x), seeing it as over valued in 2022 or just seeing Elon not paying enough attention to Tesla.

With Meta, people are selling cause we’re in a recession and Ad spending goes down hard in recessions. Additionally, you have Mark burning money on the Metaverse which no one thinks is a good idea (he’s not selling anyone his vision on the metaverse but since he controls the company with more than 50% of the voting shares, he can do what ever he wants).

Long story short, investors have lost confidence in these stocks.
Dang! Another year flied away.
Political activist moderators ftw
says a random internet dude who never did anything useful
You’re thinking only about infotainment updates, where for example recently Tesla pushed out an update that increased charging rates, allowing you to charge up quicker.
...and lots of other factors, like access to risk capital.
Docker VPNKit, fast VirtioFS, Much lower background CPU usage

Are there some new Linux drivers involved, or is this "just" a better tuned VM?
Thank you to everyone participating in HN. pg, dang, but also everyone posting and commenting: you're the part of what makes it a unique place.

I've learned a lot from HN. It's been a source of distraction feeding my ADHD, but it's also made my knowledge a lot more vast and thorough and my thinking sharper. I'm grateful, and I'm sure I'll continue revisiting it almost every day.

May everyone's holiday bring you all that you cherish in this period.
This more or less describes my career trajectory up to the point of belated moving into architecture roles. It’s encouraging to hear that such a winding career path can eventually make its way $BigTech. Cheers
The US is prized because of its large market… not because it’s a tax dodge. The US dan cut off access to any company unwilling to pay local taxes just like how China forces any foreign company wanting to tap into its large market to give majority control to a local entity.
I have 0 expertise in phone battery replacements, but I have one recent experience of a neighbour in my apartment building recharging his electric scooter, and a dodgy (or cheap or both) battery in the said scooter blowing up at 3am in the morning on a cold winter night decimating the neighbour's apartment and with sprinklers flooding two stories with water. Residents from both floors could not return to their apartments for a day (the floor above) and two (on the floor where the explosion happened).

The fire brigade attending the scene told me that the only reason the neighbour survived the blast was due to him recharing the battery in a spare bedroom. The explosion nearly vapourised the bedroom door, threw what remained of it out, and it blew the window frame out as well. There was a gaping hole on that side of the building. Luckily, the ordeal took place seven stories below me, but, no, I do not want the same thing to happen anywhere in the nearest vicinity ever again.

No, it doesn't console me that phone batteries are smaller, and the physical damage would be less. If a dodgy battery in someone's phone explodes whilst their are handling the phone in their hands, I do not want to wish anyone to be that person who could lose a limb, an eyesight, an eye (or both), or a permutation thereof. People do stupid things, and some will do absolutely them one day (i.e. manually installing a dodgy knock-off battery into their phone and accidentally shortening the contacts).
I like the sentiment and I'm usually first in line to ridicule the 'npm install left-pad' crowd, but this doesn't always fly. Python is a great glue language to mash high performance C/fortran components together. One does not simply write sklearn or pytorch from scratch.
You might also enjoy "Misused English words
and expressions in EU
publications": https://www.eca.europa.eu/Other%20publications/EN_TERMINOLOG...
A compromise is to audit and then pin exact versions, or even copy and paste the code into your project. Yes, this is a clear tradeoff in that you'll lose access to newer updates, but it's certainly worth thinking about. I do it with relatively trivial libraries for things that I know the package has solved various edge cases, is small in scope, and probably won't be updated again, for example.
Meta agrees to pay $725M to settle lawsuit prompted by Cambridge Analytica
While I love our cold winter (10C), but this (-18C) would be too much even for me.
Why did it go up? Certainly not on fundamentals. Why did it go down now? Nobody knows either. It's a chaotic system with often only a thin connection to real world value.
Seriously, of all the things you can say about linux, you need to mention that it's a pain to just keep it updated?

I am a .net developer and run Debian linux on my work laptop since ages. Keeping the OS and most of the software up-to-date is just "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade". Microsoft has Debian packages for teams, skype, powershell-core, .net (core), azure-cli. Google has Debian packages for chrome. I use a lot of JetBrains' tools and keep those up-to-date using the JetBrains ToolBox. Where I work, we use Google workspace and Slack and I use those through chrome.

Just to be clear, most of my development is currently done on Linux using Rider, but I do have a Windows VM (on KVM) for older projects that run on .NET full.

The issues I come across, are related to our customers. For example when I am on location and need to connect to external hardware. One example is to connect wirelessly to a WiFi Direct display: this does not work for me and I did not investigate if there are drivers available or not. Another example is DisplayLink to use an external display through a dock: this I checked and there are drivers available and I did have it working at some point, but it broke after a kernel upgrade and it's too much bother to fix it again. Also for some customers we can connect remotely to their systems over VPN, but not all VPN solutions are available (or work out of the box) on Linux.

In any case, for my day-to-day work, I don't have any issues at all on Linux and I believe it's very very capable for coding, tooling and other work stuff. I definitely prefer it above Windows and Mac.
You are both right: hard work is a requirement. To make it really big (and sometimes to just make it), luck is a requirement as well.

A simple "proof" using logic is finding someone who worked really hard and failed (called a proof by contradiction): this is not hard, many have worked really hard and don't have much to show for it. Thus, hard work does not lead to success. But it does enable it.

Similarly, there are plenty of cases where someone was lucky but still blew it up (FTX anyone?). So just like with hard work, luck does not mean guaranteed success. It does, however, enable it.
Also Facebook completely blew its original "what are my friends doing?" market. Very few people use it for that anymore.

It still has some value - Groups and Marketplace are pretty popular, and a decent number of businesses use it as their website. But it doesn't really have the "all my friends use Facebook" moat anymore. That's moved to Whatsapp (at least in the UK).

(And yeah Meta own's Whatsapp too, but Whatsapp is not really monetised at all.)
I'm boycotting MSG over this, and it's an easy call: I didn't bust my ass for 30 years creating tech to have companies pull nonsense like this. Among the issues, this is a violation of their own written policy, stated that this is for "safety" when this clearly about retribution.

MSG, you want retribution, you got it.

I'm really hoping the CEO faces personal penalties over this, causing other companies to take notice and setting de facto limits on acceptable use of this tech. Normally, I'm not one to take reactionary stances, but the CEO absolutely knew about and approved this policy and exercised __extraordinarily__ bad judgment unbecoming of a public company CEO. A fifth grader would understand that this policy doesn't work at any scale.
This is the fifth post of this article in two days, just saying
I certainly do not use backend services that need to be hosted (if I can at all help it, which I usually can). Open source databases like Postgres and Redis are easy to install on macOS with homebrew. You can even have multiple versions install simultaneously, although I've found that Postgres tends to be backwards compatible enough that I just run everything on the latest version.
Who knows, your game may become the next internet sensation haha [1].

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N5hgp0SMwM
Hate to say it, but you sound like you're victimizing yourself. You're not a victim. And victimhood mentality likely played a large role in your failure. Try to change your mindset and try again when you feel you're ready.
Your examples are like telling everyone that smoking and drinking can be deadly but then jumping off a cliff....bravo!

jumping off a cliff = giving all your passwords to a 3rd party

smoking = showing the starbuck-cam your single doted password
I troll this site so much and he warns and bans me on all my accounts but I still appreciate his attitude, there’s no inconsistency to it and all his arguments for why he enforces rules are always well-reasoned.
>People who say things like "you're putting your life on hold" have no discipline.

Imagine trying to extrapolate moral superiority from having had the luck of finding a high paid job.

>I set out on this path at 17. I'm 36 now.

Yes, I too had dreams at 17. I even had an entire notebook with journaling about those dreams. None of them came to life. NONE. I guess I wasn't worthy or disciplined enough like the morally superior: the rich.
I know bureaucrats, this guide will not be read, it will be actively ignored.
Programmers like to flex with one liners, and crazy Rube Goldberg style design patterns. Bureaucrats versions of this is documents and wordplay.
> This violates a few assumptions about "end to end" and the network as a dumb carrier, but in reality this is nothing new. ISPs have taken it upon themselves to enforce copyright law at the packet level as well.

> The net will become a safer, more pleasant place in spite of the network oldbies who whinge about "muh end to end" and "muh freeze peach online".

This is a horrifying proposition and would set a dangerous precedent.

ISPs already have a history of over-reaching and acting in bad faith. Do you really want to live in a world where no one in states like Texas can access healthcare resources (e.g., abortion) because someone in government or at the ISP decided that material was unsafe or unpleasant? People tend to forget that granting broad powers for something they support means it can be used for something they don't support down the line.
What is an ERP system and why would I want one?
if 5 minutes is the upper limit you just have figure out how to delay the next cycle for 5 minutes, giving you a 3mHz clock.
I already am afraid of leaving people who have wronged me bad reviews on Google and other services when they know my address.

That aside, to use the classic stick reserved for complaining conservatives, it's a private company and venue and they have a right to choose who they want in there.
He'd have to moderate Trump oops I mean Musk and Musk isn't one to be moderated.
I looked up taxation in Norway, it looks very similar to ours. Personal marginal tax rates cap at 48% and corporate taxes are 23%. What am I missing?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Norway
Luck and connections. And PR, like, tons of it.
I'm always proud of the UK government web services. A lot of work is done to make high quality accessible tools to explain: the law, regulations, health (nhs website), travel guidelines, tax services, etc.

Related to this post, the EU guidelines for inclusive language was a nice read for me.

https://www.scribd.com/document/543481333/Woke-commission-eu...

(The tables on page 10, 14, 17, etc, being for me the main point of interest)
Disclaimer: solo bootstrapper, currently growing reasonably, but still way below 1M ARR.
I did start with a pilot / first customer and then started doing cold outreach, while trying SEO/ads/social without much success for a few years.

I tried combining both product-led and sales-led, and addressing a lot of different kinds of businesses, but this ended up making my go-to-market more complicated and resulted in almost zero sales.

Second half of this year I finally switched it to sales led targeting a very specific niche, and ended up with a very clear and simple offering for a very specific kind of customer.

This feels counterintuitive because you exclude a huge part of your TAM, but it allows you to be the perfect match for a very specific profile.

Instead of getting a lot of leads with a gazillion questions because they don't trust you, they now start thinking about if/how they can afford it after the first online session.

To get the path of the least resistance, you need to address the exact problems of a certain kind of prospect, conveying your value as easy as possible, and making it a no-brainer for them to commit.

But, don't take my word for it, just ask me again by the end of 2023 whether this all worked out of not.

(I did get some very positive feedback from somebody who bootstrapped, scaled up and sold his company, so I do have high hopes/expectations.)
You're not reading it right. The FT journalist in this story is not American. But, as a general rule, nations seek to protect their own citizens.
> if they can afford to fail, it's because they have that other job.

Citation needed. I’m quite sure that working a second job does not go down well with VCs. In most cases the networking required and high risk of failure is only achievable through having well-off parents.
There's a difference in values between those who reinvent the wheel and those who leverage opensource. It sounds like you value time-to-product whereas I value ownership of said product.

There are always risks associated with building on other people's land, platforms, and codebases. However, there are also risks when reinventing the wheel. Both perspectives have advantages, disadvantages, and use cases.
Unexpectedly interesting socio-economic snapshot. Baseball replaces war as the male proving ground in a matriarchal culture. Worth a read and discussion.

I’d be curious to know how many really good teams a population of 20,000 can support.
and an obligatory NewYorker alt link:

https://archive.ph/DfXFL

Best wishes to all.
Agreed.
Thanks a lot Dang!
Sure, the rich have more advantages than the poor. Always been that way and always will.

In our culture there is an immense preoccupation with the unfairness of this but the reality is that if you don't come from wealth and privilege, you need a different playbook. Dwelling on the inequity neuters you. If you want to win you need to figure out what the playbook is and then do the right things.

I found a playbook that worked by reading all the self help and business books I could (preferably from the public library because that was free and I was poor). My playbook ended up being: move to a country with a lower cost of living, and get good enough at freelancing online that I essentially had a safety net and a long-term runway for other pursuits.

I then tried a few different business models, each failed a bit less than the last until I hit a winner which bankrolls about a dozen people on my payroll.

A rich guy wouldn't have had to go through all that but I don't care. It's totally irrelevant to the requirements for success in my reality. Which were build my own baseline from scratch and then fail until I succeeded.

People born into easier paths than mine have sneered at many many elements of what I did over the years (living in a "shithole" country, working with a "shitty" tech stack, taking "shitty" Elance gigs that didn't pay enough, etc. etc.). Other people who were able to tolerate remaining victims of the system tuned out my story and focused on other things, like bitching about politics. I'm worth more than most of the people in both categories now and I feel like this is just the beginning. I haven't had children yet but if I do they will have fewer disadvantages than I did.

There are different and easier playbooks than the one I used. If I was starting again I would probably go into a more conventionally profitable vocation and save for 15 years, studying business and coding on the side, and then start a business.

But either way the point is your playbook if you start poor needs to be different. It's not as easy as the one the rich guys have but that fact is a distraction. You should be too busy figuring out your plan to care.
It is OK! Well, the selling of distorted dreams by others is not, but what I mean is, that it is OK to not be a founder or entrepreneur!

For some people it is the right thing, for others it is not. There are many factors involved. Things like "How much can I accept to not do what I want, but to do what I am told by an employer?" or stress resistance.

Best wishes!