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This is such a backward way to make music. Sorry to be critical but the point of musical software is to help the musician, and not hinder him with complications

For example take a look at ableton live, it changed the music panorama worldwide because even a 12 year old kid from united kingdom can create grime music with it

It's not pixelated, like yours.
Most of the libraries I use include compiled C/C++/Fortran/Rust code. Pandas, scipy, scikit-learn, … if I were limited to pure-python libraries, I would probably rather swap languages, or at least package manager, at great inconvenience.

That being said, I don’t think PyPI would be «useless» - this was the state a few years ago, and we had to compile all the libraries ourselves. I don’t want to go back.
No idea but I’d love to see data…

Eg
- academic breakdown of founders

- % founders that already knew a YC grad personally

- founders that knew YC investors

- etc
First of all, you are not alone. Most people who try to become entrepreneurs do not succeed. Thankfully, you are self aware and willing to face the facts of your reality.

A lot of people will say that success in entrepreneurship is primarily driven by luck. But what they leave out is that it’s input luck, not output luck. Inputs like a “small” $10k gift from a family member. Clean water and high nutrition during childhood that lead to above average intelligence. Literacy, citizenship, family wealth, and more. Not to mention having no mental or physical illnesses and a high capacity to endure stress.

I completely agree with your last sentence, “It’s ok to admit defeat and move on.” In life, you got to play with the hand you were dealt and not the hand someone else’s. It’s unfortunate that some social circles encourage self damaging behavior in pursuit of some idealized lifestyle that can never be accessed by everyone, and it wouldn’t even be good if it was.
I love that! Needs to be more known, it’s like SSL certificates when LetsEncrypt didn’t exist.

Edit: It has been posted 7 times in the last year.
I tried to be my own boss, but I was really bad at acquiring new clients. I was broke and then really learned to appreciate being a salaried employee. It’s much easier to build something when you don’t risk homelessness or something similar.

You seem to be really bad at marketing. HN frontpage and you don’t say anything about what you tried and what your skills are.
Are you talking the country that gained its wealth from years of capitalism and centuries of colonialism? Yep, it will fail soon, like it always do.
This is too far the other way. Hard work and good ideas are necessary but not sufficient. That's all.
Real sales, yes, but this is why comparing sales by units doesn't mean very much relative to stock price.

Tesla has ~25% margins, VW has 3% margins. A recall, unsold stock or component shortages can quickly put VW in the red. This is what I mean by downturn risk, economic downturn is not the only potential problem manufacturing companies run into.

> Really, three out of three, why bother?

This level of communication isn't constructive.
I'm from Ukraine, and as other post-soviet countries, Ukraine had all the typical soviet issues with alcohol consumption. It wasn't unusual to go to school in the early morning and see people (neigbours) vomiting at the street in a heavy hangover. My classmates (13-14 y.o.) were bragging how they were hospitalized with some acute form of gastritis from drinking too much vodka. That was how you gained popularity in a class. In (ex-)USSR countries there were no culture of healthy drinking whatsover.
Their biggest slap in the hand was the reputation hit though.
Also you failed, maybe
you're just 5 feet 6 and can
never ever become a
professional basketball
player no matter how hard
you try

Muggsy Bogues is 5'3" and played 14 seasons in the NBA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muggsy_Bogues
Driver interventions, on a few streets, with highly instrumented cars. But compared to public roads warehouses are easy. There isn't fog or rain or snow. There aren't potholes. The light doesn't change. And to prove my point: look at all these self-driving cars on the streets today.

It's a peculiar case of Bay Area Tech brain. "We very rarely kill pedestrians in SF and Arizona. I'm sure this tech will work fine in Ohio."
You could get robbed of your physical key. simpler than an actual burglar. however they could not even do an autopsy of your brain to recover your cloud keys.

I don't feel too strongly about this, just replying since you were being an absolutist.
For commodities, i.e., like bottled water, TP etc., you can just try them at random based on price (low to high) until you find one that absolutely works for you. This decision is rational since it is not a one-time purchase you have little to lose in the grand scheme of things.

If you are cost conscious, using a membership like Sams Club or Costco can help you narrow down a lot of the choices. You may still have to make some choices, but the search space is narrowed down quite a bit. You can rationalize your decision because you already paid for the membership and every choice you make to shop at the warehouse helps amortize your membership cost. (This is also true of an Amazon Prime membership).

When you have to whittle down choices using Quality and Price are good factors (assuming the products meet your other functional requirements).

For one-off purchases, really plan them out, do comparison shopping, add them to your e-commerce shopping cart and leave them for a week or two (you will get reminders from them with enticing offers asking you to come back).... You may find something better just by going through the process and delaying your decision.

And once you make a decision, don't keep revisiting it or have buyer's remorse.
I a have a feeling that most influencers live off the story, not off the actual product they built. They sell coaching for how to live the great life. this works well, but in the end is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme or MLM scam.
Pfff. If you are a professional, fail at your job, and blame the adversary then it you are an incompetent professional. Incompetent because you do not understand where the problem is.

I wonder how my boss would say if my answer to being hacked was "hey, blame the attacker - I am the victim here and should be consoled. It does not matter that I should have known!".

Then there is the "skirt case" - something as a French I am sadly aware of. My personal perspective is that the police should aggressively react to such harassment. And punitions should be drastic. And that deep changes in the way we handle ghettos we built ourselves should be undertaken (this is much more difficult than the first two ones but effectively the only way forward).

With this said, I will not go to a cité (more or less a ghetto) with a "Fuck Allah" shirt and wonder why my head was chopped.

We live in a world where there seems to be a contradiction between "common sense" and "justice". Justice and equity is the most important but it does not mean that we should not think WHEN WE KNOW that the world is not ideal yet.
From the FA:

> Cook has in the past expressed his personal excitement for augmented reality and has hinted that Apple is working on AR/VR products. The company's first AR/VR product, a high-end headset rumored to be called "Reality Pro," is expected to be announced as soon as January.
He gets crazy whenever there's a crash crunch, but when it was the Model 3 ramp up period it was much harder. Now he should just do nothing and it would be better for all companies involved.
It was in fact not anti Python debugging but just run of the mill checks for IDA Pro and the likes.
+1 on the nest egg. That's how I "bootstrapped", unsuccessfully, during Covid. And I got that close, some better timing and I might be running my own fleet of two leased feeder container vessels by now (seriously so, I already had offers for those). Bad timing kicked in, my prospective launch clients project fell through, and being bootstrapped meant I didn't have anything else in the pipeline. Which brought me to the single pivot I had budget for, and that resulted in, at most, a single person consulting business. I didn't want that, realized I like running operations much more than running a company running operations, burned the allocated nest egg and went back to employment. I am almost happy ever since!
I don't understand why so many people seem to disagree with this point.

If you're a specialist that's one thing, but a normal software stack should be generalizable?

I got hired at all of my jobs so far without having major prior experience with the languages they use, and definitely not the frameworks.
thanks! some of those consideration I made in the article I linked at the beginning of this post: "A History of WebAssembly" https://evacchi.github.io/posts/2022/11/23/a-history-of-weba...
I was lurking for a while on indiehackers and i noticed it being a closed off, somewhat “toxic”, self reinforcing bubble where the main goal seems to be to sell stuff to other “hackers”, or maybe it just evolved this way…

Many of the products target other indiehackers, like courses how to grow a saas, “masterminds” to speak to each other, resources for being a digital nomad, etc.

Most of the actual business ideas presented there are micro saas, like basic online tools to send notifications or some form generator.

Most of the people talk about being on twitter in the indiehacker scene, as if retweeting and liking each others posts would make their business grow.

But in the end its a bubble where theres a lot of talk and “nothing gets done”

Instead of concentrating on being looked up on in the “community” these people should go out and talk to actual customers and solve real problems, thats where the money is.

But of course this doesnt sound cool like being a “digital nomad indie hacker” sitting on a beach in bali and coding away.
I thought the one capital, one strange character, at least 8 characters, etc. policies were mainly so that whoever programs the web page can later claim to have taken proper measures when the site gets hacked.
> But most successful entrepreneurs I know started their first successful company in their 20's or 30's, rarely 40's.

“Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45”

https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-succes...

Discussion on HN here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18212409
I thought digital nomads were mostly remote workers who just wanted to travel.

What is an indie business?
> but it's a light way to learn to accept failure

Everyone should do sales at some point to learn about failure, and build a thicker skin. Sales is about getting told no over and over, not taking it personally, and continuing to keep trying. Sounds very familiar to entrepreneurship, which at the end of the day is about selling customers, investors, and yourself on an idea.
Author here.

The prices are the cheapest that is offered. Some providers offer only one option, so finding a common denominator is useless. The main point of the post is to find the cheapest IPv6 only server. Choosing one that fit the user it up to the user.

> You have signal transmitter in there twice.

Its for 2 options LXC and KVM. I added LXC keyword where possible. If the keyword is not there it will be KVM one.
> But what they leave out is that it’s input luck, not output luck. Inputs like a “small” $10k gift from a family member. Clean water and high nutrition during childhood that lead to above average intelligence. Literacy, citizenship, family wealth, and more.

Hm, no, even if all of those things are equal the expected outcome is still failure. Your comparison works on the world stage but say within the population of a wealthy country and even just one wealthy city if 100 people were to go down this path only one or two will have a success that offsets their opportunity cost.

The kind of luck that entrepreneurs are talking about in this context is more related to markets being ripe just as your product hits them, technologies going mainstream, meeting the right business contact or partners early on and so on. Those little things can make - or break - a business depending on if they happen or not.
Or did Apple give them a nice deal in exchange? ;)
crazy talk, much better to measure in t-shirt sizes or points and then constantly convert back and forth to actual time.
Influencers are selling a dream, which can be a part of the big picture, but you have to remember, much like the people who used to sell pamphlets on tv about how to get rich, you have to ask yourself why they are selling pamphlets instead of just doing whatever their pamphlets say.
+1 for The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker. That book is a joy to read.
I went through a similar realization. Check my history of Show HN. I also have another HN account with even more failed Show HN. Keep in mind that there is luck involved. It is not the world that’s against you, it’s the chances. Also, the world of high interest rates is very different from the current world where money is not that cheap and people antecipate recession. That matters for indie hackers also, not just VC.

From your post, I feel I handled the mental health better. When I realized it was not working for me, I was ok with it. I got a job. Actually, during my indie hacking tenure, I decided to learn to code and got a better and better paying job than before as a software developer.

Also, I was never under any illusion that my chances of earning millions working a few hours a week were any better than very tiny. Expectations matter.

Finally, with a well paid job, I can keep a side project that I care about that’s not only about the money. In my case, being a fiction writer, with an accompanying digital product to pair with.

Any, try to relax for sometime. Then go back and rethink what you want with your life. What you learned will make your life better going forward.
> Not sure you'd necessarily need to rely on contrast

This was just an (extreme) example - what I meant is a way to make the users of the documentation pissed off enough so that they react, which in turn forces the author of the doc to update it.
Yes, I saw that when it first hit.

I'm sure they did a great job at researching that but it really does not match my experience at all. And I see a lot of start-ups (up to 50 / year) from the inside, at least a few hundred founders if not a 1000+ by now over the last 15 years. The bulk of the successful ones is late 20's to mid 30's.
China estimates Covid surge is infecting 37M people a day
Which influencers?
Maybe now I can convince my employer to move away Lastpass. I hated it on sight because of the GUI. Look at this thing, it's like Attack of the Fifty Foot Whitespace:

https://files.catbox.moe/d81urx.jpg
Couldn't agree more. I learned that the hard way. Building a business with a nice funding cushion and salary is way way way different than bootstrapping.

Edit: Timebox it. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
> The research seems to show that those who seem to have self-control are actually just good at creating an environment with fewer temptations.

I think the actual notion of “self control” is kinda fake but I also don’t believe there exists research to defend your point.

There are lots of people who all have brains that work very differently and lots of type of “work” to be done that requires wildly different environments. If it was true that controlling distractions was straightforward through environmental management then everyone’s office would be a strike while room with no seams or windows.
Interesting how you conveniently ignored the second half of my sentence. I will paste it here:

> in anything but the most trivial of patterns (like the one demonstrated here)
> I believe that all sales are about selling into peoples dreams.

Nah, there's selling the dream of quitting the 9-to-5, financial independence, control over one's own time. That is what this is all about. It's on a totally different level than selling the dream of, I don't know, running a marathon (by selling you a running shoe) or stopping the flow of your period with a tampon. These are actual useful products.

IMHO, selling the dream of quitting the rat race is financially extremely lucrative – and a somewhat cheap shot.
There's no shame in giving up especially if you've tried before. Many people go their entire careers without having the courage to do what you did. Think of this as a tactical retreat so you live to fight another day. You tried and I've got immense respect for you for doing that.
No, it can't -- QEMU's usermode emulator translates Linux-to-Linux only, it does not let you run Linux binaries on macos. And since it's an emulator it's arguably taking you even further from the bare metal than running a VM, which (assuming hypervisor.framework or equivalent) is at least executing the guest instructions directly on the real CPU.
Not everything has to be simpler/better/faster/easier.

Music makers/artists need constrains/influences and some times to mix things up by taking a harder/weird approach.
Winter storm in US and Canada will be quite cold
> 1. Cross platform integrations. The way MacOS can intelligently switch AirPods over or share with your tablet is nice. Linux doesn't really have that.

KDEConnect (and its compatible Gnome counterpart) is pretty good, though I understand it's not exactly what you asked

> 2. DirectX that's compatible with Windows DirectX. That would slay Windows gaming. For now, there's Proton.

Well... I'm not sure why you'd want that specifically, or what you mean by that. There's DXVK which is a compatible implementation, and which you can use natively. There's also gallium-nine, and the wine implementation of DX (including VK3D for DX12). All are pretty feature-complete, can be used for native apps, and there are a few more alternatives (like ToGL, which Valve developed a while back).
> the whole point of bump stocks is to make a semi-automatic fire like an automatic

Then the lawyer should say "we should ban bump stocks" instead of perpetuating the lie that automatic weapons are prevalent in the US.
Because Go designers don't like OOP and didn't want low-level system programming as core features. They also were not keen on generic programming. Basically they wanted a simpler language. (Then they realized generics are useful, ironically their constraints add complexity). Also they wanted a segmented stack and coroutines + channels as language features.
Something where you make a business that takes minimal commitment so you can spend your time on the beach.

The actual business seems to be taking photos of yourself on the beach and making money as an influencer, while telling people you made money from your startup though.

At least that’s my impression. Maybe there are counter examples.
^^ +10000

I think a lot of us have been there.

There's a big difference whether your service:

- is B2B/B2C;

- uses product-led/marketing-led/sales-led growth;

- targets a broad market or a niche (the more niche it is, the better it speaks to your target market, f.e. coaching vs developer coaching vs coaching Java developers VS coaching Java developers in machine learning vs coaching Java developers that use machine learning in the agricultural world...)

- uses different pricing models;

- ...

I've been on this route for 8 years with some consulting stints in between to pay the bills, and it wasn't until this year that my sales pitch finally started to land. Refining my target audience has been a big part of this...

There's a lot of nuance in how to present your offer, and you need to get everything exactly right to convert someone. You have to make someone an offer so good it would feel stupid for them to refuse.

In my opinion a lot of the "snake oil sellers" try to pitch the universal product-led growth approach to a very broad market that works for everything and that you can do from your computer.

In reality, they are most likely optimized to sell as much courses as possible, coming with very generic advice, and don't really care about the results for their target audience.

Another point: unless your target audience is on indie hackers, you should not be spending your time there at all.

I feel for you, so if you want to have a short chat, I might be able to give you some pointers. Feel free to reach out.

In the end, there is a lot of survivorship bias going on, and as the world is in constant flux, what works today will probably not work tomorrow, so you have to find your own path...

And, there's no shame in having tried and failed; by trying you're already within the minority that took action.

By the way, in my experience, people pay way more for an IT consultant that has lived and experienced the bigger picture of running a business, so even if you failed, you should be better off that someone that didn't try...

Update: formatting
Close call. And one other thing that nobody seems to mention either: success always comes at a price. Health, family & friendships, attitude, ethics. All of those can suffer when you're successful.
Anything but a FOSS license makes my life as an employed software engineer harder if I don't want to completely disregard compliance rules. So usually I don't bother.

Also, some developer tools want outrageous prices that are in no way proportionate to their value if you compare them to some standard paid tool (i.e. a JetBrains IDE)
This May. It was 2022.
UI Development in Rust
> Moderate to heavy drinkers seem to get stuck in a rut where it feels like everyone drinks as much, or more, alcohol than they do.

Well are they necessarily wrong? There's that "friendship paradox". Most people probably drink with people who drink more than them on average, since people who drink a lot presumably have more "drink with" relationships.
It's not that far away either. Once you get a projection on top of your real view, adding 3D elements and hiding that view is just an incremental update...

Besides Apple is already known to be working on a VR headset project for 2+ years now...
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It is fricking hard, and I agree that the influencers sell a rosy picture. Usually it's not just a picture they're selling, too — ever noticed how many of those influencers earn money on selling services to people like you and me? All those businesses helping with marketing, analytics, E-mail campaigns, etc.

Anyway, as someone who failed a number of times and then eventually succeeded in building a stable (what is derogatively called "lifestyle") business, I'm not sure if I have good advice to offer, apart from perhaps one thing: don't do B2C, a B2B business is the only way to go.

Otherwise, it's just hard. And I agree about caring for mental health: this is important.
Rent, dividend and capital gains are all income. I’m not sure what your point is.
Great for you to have that experience. Isn't that what's life is for? Many people are burnt-out and hit rock bottom without doing anything exciting. Life is boring, just enjoy whatever you do, and do whatever you enjoy. You didn't choose to do it because you totally did not like it. There is nothing wrong with not succeed. Many of us do not succeed in our boring departments. Congrats on the journey you had, wish you have come out stronger and better. Look at the bright side, you probably missed many funny YouTube hours while doing your startup, so what :)