skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for writing Micheal, I’m also 30-something ex-Google SWE and currently all-in on solo dev bootstrapping, so your blog is one of my (many) big inspirations.

As you note, I do think if your primary objective was to catch up to SWE compensation, your project idea filter was probably not optimal. But it’s still great that you have the spark of something with TinyPilot. One thing I see repeatedly in
the indie hacker community is hockey stick success where people struggle to get the engine going but often once they find the spark it takes off. The ten year overnight success.

Also worth noting many indie hackers add part time stable income such as contracting as their finances require.

If people are looking for a straightforward path where they leave their SWE job and quickly get similar stable income as a bootstrapper, they’re in for an unpleasant surprise. But if you can “make it” you control your own destiny , face unique challenges demanding true creativity, and have uncapped upside in a way you’ll never get at BigTech .

I do think content businesses are an easier launch point . Adam Wethan of Tailwind and Nathan Barry of Convertkit are both examples of bootstrappers who self-funded by starting with info products. I think one mental trap for solo devs is to over identify as SWE and not as online entrepreneurs with SWE skills as a particularly helpful asset.

Wish you and TinyPilot the best of luck and look forward to future updates.
Fear of nuclear is distrust in the government.

I believe in nuclear as a technology, and I believe in mankind's ability to perform science and engineering tasks.

I don't have a lot of faith in the role of the government in properly and adequately regulating a booming nuclear industry.
It seems like a nice balance might be a compiler config that accepts a list of paths to unconditionally compile, so that users can enforce stricter checks in their own project without forcing authors of their dependencies to do the same.
That seems like a risky rubric. Are we to conclude that anything the Pentagon denies is true?
I've always felt that South Lake Tahoe is my ideal town for this reason. You can get a 15 minute cabin in the woods!
Ask HN: Where do you go for help when you're using all the things?
I keep finding myself trying to figure out problems within a more and more complex software stack and not knowing where to go for help because I don't know which particular component is causing the problem.

Where do you go for help in situations like that?

For example I'm currently trying to configure an environment specific setting in a vue application but my custom .env files are not being picked up. Is it a Vue problem? or Vite? Or Yarn? Or Node? Maybe Docker? Docker-compose? Helm? Kubernetes? Github? The list goes on.
Yes, I think that tuitions need to come down as well.
Doesn't seem that bad to me, the virus doesn't need Molnupiravir to mutate. It can do very well by itself, in the billion people and animals it infected. The fact we are seeing convergent evolution shows that it is naturally very good at this.

By increasing the mutation rate way beyond the sweet spot (that what's Molnupiravir does) the virus may get some desirable mutations, but won't be able to hold on to them. And if, thanks to the drug, the patient is cured, it is bad news for the virus, those who are not infected can't produce new variants.

But like antibiotics, I think this is an "all or nothing" drug. Either give maximum dose to do as much damage as possible, or don't give anything at all. Too small a dose may promote building resistance instead.
Perplexity.ai provides explicit sources:

https://www.perplexity.ai/?s=u&uuid=2921714c-3614-41ae-82d1-...
Why does the post title omit OpenAI, so it no longer matches the article’s title?

> OpenAI, Microsoft want court to toss lawsuit accusing them of abusing open-source code
Restaurant regulations in EU do not mandate any special education for cooks. Also I don't know what you mean by "certified kitchen", it is not really a thing. There are regulations around handling and storing food, ventilation and what not in EU countries.

And those do apply to small stands and full kitchens. But if you want to claim they are unreasonable, then you should argue by existing ones rather then made up ones.
Ask HN: What Are You Building?
I'm curious to see what cool things everyone's building. It's helpful if you include a link to a screenshot of it, too.
I don't know if they were directly funded by the oil lobby, but I'm not sure that they needed to be either.

At a minimum, it seems that (thanks to ignorance) they lapped up all of the anti-nuclear FUD that was generated by the oil lobby and others.
Lyft drops 35 percent following earnings five and lower revenue guidance
What? You could repair the damage to the pipeline. If someone could replace Putin by promising to sell gas to the Germans, the fact that the pipeline is currently damaged would not be an obstacle.

It's also not the case that Putin needs false flag terrorism. For one, he is already in power and has already started the war. Two, if he needed an example of US or Ukrainian forces blowing something up to galvanize his position - he has plenty of real world examples of Russian things getting destroyed - he doesn't need to manufacture a new one.
Why would the trucks need to charge at the job site if they can charge at home?

That depends on how far away the job site is. In my state that could be a long drive. For jobs in or near city/urban areas it's probably fine. I have a very difficult time as it is getting any contractors to come to me. This article is specific to Cali, but Cali does things first then others follow if it works out. Even Cali has some seriously spread out towns once one leaves the big cities. Actually let me correct that, Cali is massive. I've driven all over it.

And why would solar be required to charge an EV?

It is not, I added that as Will is kindof the Master-of-all-things-solar(c) and power at home is of no concern to him, but the video I linked helps clarify what I was referring to. The video is about getting free power when not at home however he was unable to do that.

Any additional range on top of a there-and-back trip could be used to power the tools.

Agreed. With a safety margin added in of course which the lightning does have a configuration option for. That said I am leery of new tech getting the measurements right. I would set a large margin of error until I knew for certain I could get to X place and back without risking needing a tow-truck.
You claimed: we must have it one way or the other. This is false. Game theory says you are wrong and has proofs that you are wrong in the form of proofs of mixed strategies being optimal equilibrium strategies. In these strategies we have the assumption of having it both ways - the probabilities have to add one, but they don't have to be binary.

Lets use a much simpler decision problem to show that you are wrong to not think of things as happening in both ways.

Consider rock paper scissors.

If I want to pick rock, because I'm worried about them picking paper, it doesn't mean I can't be wary of scissors, because I'm worried about them picking rock. For, were I to not be wary of them picking scissors, they could always pick scissors, and therefore, because I had it only one way, I would be exploitable. So now I have to be wary of them picking scissors, but what if I am only wary that they pick scissors? Then I will now play rock. Yet now they can play paper. So what if am I only wary they play paper? Then I must play scissors. Yet if I do, they play rock. So what if I am only wary they play rock? Then I must play paper. Yet now if I do, they can play scissors.

So actually, it isn't that you can't have it both ways, but that you must have it all ways. Anything else and you can't reason properly about the expectations.

> People on HN are always talking badly about companies that don't allow work from home

This is also false. People on Hacker News are not always doing this, they are sometimes doing this, and then sometimes doing other things. There are also many people on Hacker News and each commenter may have a different opinion. Some people on Hacker News prefer working from home. Some people on Hacker News do not prefer working from home.

I feel that you are trying too hard to set up a 'it has to be one way' dichotomy to make your decision problems simpler, but it isn't actually true that making your problems simpler and easier to reason about means that you are doing more correct reasoning. Demanding that others simplify their thinking in a similar way is a request, not for correct thinking, but for use of a time savings technique that you prefer.

Being very clear on that will probably make it more obvious to you that what you are requesting is not as necessary as you seem to think it is: for he calculated his expectation with regard to how exploitable this could make us, then gave you that expectation. This cost you almost nothing to incorporate into your own estimates, so on the whole, it saved you time, at the cost of his time, a cost which you are not paying, but which you benefit from in expectation through correction of the estimates of your faster to calculate yet more exploitable false dichotomy.
“Apple is doomed any day now”. That’s been the narrative for over 40 years.

So which customers aren’t satisfied? The people on HN that want to run Linux on the Apple Watch?
I use Hckrnews.com, which is convenient on my phone and allows me to filter posts in order to be focused with my time.
This honestly shook our family as we were included in the 8%.
We have been with them for over 17+ years and were treated very well throughout our time with them. I've read the news stories and the "public statements" so many times and we still can't figure out the why.
The morning after the layoffs, they hosted a townhall assuring the lucky remainers that profits were up, and there was still security in their jobs.
So again, we go back to the question of the why. We were mid-projects that needed to be handed off to contract workers, as our access was taken away almost immediately.
Climate-related shocks and other stressors associated with depression, anxiety
Was a bit embattled due to the numerous downvotes for supporting the post, likely due to shills.

If you honestly want to learn about the subject I'd start with the PBS Frontline documentary called "The United States of Secrets."

Next, learn about "surveillance capitalism." The Facebook and Social Dilemma, on Netflix are eye-openers.

Another milestone was Apple giving their OS away for free. Combined with Linux always being free and popular on servers, that made expensive Windows a much harder sell. There's a big cost to develop a modern OS, so there's a great incentive to "monetize" away that cost. In practice that means advertising and surveillance which is exactly what you are seeing here.

This is a story developing for over ten years. That a few pieces of the thousand piece puzzle are not delivered on a silver-platter is immaterial to the discussion.
Not sure if it counts, but Steam maybe?
> I mean yes, you can use the Backlog for that, as a sort of idiot pacifier

Again, that's really condescending. PMs will have ideas. Some will be good, some will be bad. QAs will file bugs. Some will be good. Some will be bad. The backlog reflects the bad ideas. There's nothing wrong with that. If you feel like your QAs and PMs are idiots, i.e. you're the smartest person in the room, then perhaps you're standing in the wrong room?
Without knowing much about (f)MRI scanning, I wonder how they get so much detail when the resolution seems so basic.
> That has been working well, stored well and safely without issue.

Fukushima Daiichi. In case those two words aren't enough to jog your memory:

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

> "leading to releases of radioactivity and triggering a 30 km (19 mi) evacuation zone surrounding the plant"

> "the Japanese government approved the dumping of radioactive water of this power plant into the Pacific Ocean over the course of 30 years."

I'm hopeful that when/if fusion reactors become prevalent that we will prioritize burning up the fusion waste radioactives. https://cns.utexas.edu/news/fusion-fission-hybrid

But, of course, that's an if: https://www.science.org/content/article/fusion-power-may-run...
Actually just by russia.
A heat pump is an air conditioner that can run in reverse. Put another way, an air conditioner is a marketing term for a specific kind of heat pump. Your correct that there is no inherit efficiency different. Perhaps what was meant is that they are much more efficient than traditional resistance heating?
Terrific and succinct observation. How does competition not prevent this? Does lock-in prevent competition? e.g. Medium's suck-factor will always hover at the level where it's just not quite worth it to use something else if you already have many posts on Medium. New users will still pick Medium because it sucks, but is still popular/accepted.
Okay. So you agree, it seems.
TFA is about why it is not obviously a catastrophically bad idea.
Fossil shows complex ecosystems existed on Earth earlier than thought
What do you mean by "any query will read everything from disk"? Is that when you do text search or even when you lookup by labels Prometheus-style?
But it's pretty clear from the start that Copilot is neither criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, nor research which are covered by fair use.
> I’d think that -as long as you believe there is a bug- this should be fairly straightforward to spot.

This is the power of continuous integration.

There's a certain amount of optimism needed to keep going as a software developer, and then there's the crippling amount of optimism that a lot of people have which makes for difficult team dynamics. CI says it doesn't matter if it works on your machine, it's red on a neutral box so fix your problems or it's not going into the release. It's much harder to ignore Jenkins than to ignore David.

People learn through trial and error that the Wally Filter works on bugs, so denial is their first and best defense. Prove to me there's a bug. I won't spend any time on it until you do.
I mean it is public information how much Apple makes from services. It doesn’t take much research to realize you are wrong.
Lol. Maybe is Seattle or SF. Biking in unplowed snow/ice is far slower, when it is even possible.
Weed is also much cheaper than beer in many states. I'm an almost daily smoker and a years supply costs me less than $300. Meanwhile when I was drinking more I would easily spend $100 a month on alcohol without even going to bars or restaurants. Makes a lot of sense to substitute in the face of budget tightening.
In the past I found freelancing in the UK highly dependant on personal network. I believe it is possible to find work if you know enough folk who are happy to work with freelancers. I built my network by attending interest/tech based events and networking.

An alternative might be contracting but these usually require setting up as a LTD, getting insurance, etc. you’ll also have to deal with corporation tax and other admin. The work you’ll get is more or less the same as perm work but with more risks (usually 3 or 6 month contracts, you’re the first to get fired if things get tough)

However day rates in excess of £500 are normal outside of London (£750 in London) so if you can deal with all that it can be lucrative. I use 220 as the number of working days in a year which can put your income north of £100k (ymmv).

Hope that helps, and hope you work it out.
What a fantastic example of how costly monopolies actually are.
Sorry, who is Wi?
Don't forget the legal team that has to deal with your company getting sued if you make a simple, honest mistake somewhere in this complex process!
Nuclear power is only "5x" higher cost if you utterly ignore the environmental catastrophe of fossil fuels.

Global warming will cost countless trillions and displace, sicken, and/or kill billions in the coming centuries.
This article is (and when published, was) a highly revisionist take on Clark's impact on the surfing industry, and on the portion of surfboards made and sold by individual shapers.

Board shops in SoCal were already selling mass-produced surfboards in 2005 using cheap mass-produced (non-Clark) foam blanks. I learned to surf on one of those boards.

Clark's customers (mom-and-pop board shops) asked him to make improvements to his blanks and his process so they could compete with the mass-produced boards and he refused. He started losing business to cheaper, better competitors and decided to just break all his toys and go off into the woods instead of changing how he did things.

This caused a relatively small disruption to the supply of surfboards, because cheap mass-produced boards were already available in many stores and high-end boards never used his foam to begin with. This really just affected the middle-tier mom-and-pop shops that had based their supply chain around his foams. Luckily for them, the market for boards is highly seasonal (even in SoCal), so they were able to find replacement blanks by the time the 2006 surf season began.
People should learn that using an intermediary other than AWS or Google Cloud for convenience is risky. All depends on your level of risk vs. screwing around, but if you want to go cheap then you should run your own instrumentation on top of bare Linux instances from commodity vendors that can be cycled out easily, and use multiple vendors to ensure outages at one are easily remedied.

Heroku is another example. Can’t trust your business to shaky foundations. The moment they started to have frequent outages your company should have been migrating ASAP.

As a side note, I would never use nor invest in brand new databases. Database tech needs to soak for 10+ years before I trust the software is stable and the organization behind it will exist longterm. A startup using a shiny new database is evidence of weak engineering leadership. Similarly, Terraform / Cloudformation is easy enough that needing something other than AWS tooling itself is making less sense from a cost vs. convenience perspective.
> If your response to the above is “these random technical points are correct, what’s the problem”

I don’t disagree whatsoever that the fossil fuel industry is up to tricks. What I’m saying is I don’t care what their intentions are. I care about results. If Hitler came back and found a way to fix climate change, but his intention was in order to create a better planet for Aryan people, I’d simultaneously despise him and support the fix.

That’s an extreme example of course, but trying to make my point that when we’re facing extinction, we shouldn’t take solutions off the table. We should ignore intentions and look at results.

To me, all this arguing about their intentions is a distraction that keeps us from solving the problem.

We have a slim chance of fixing climate change, and I have yet to see a single fact to dissuade me from believing nuclear is our best hope. Even if the people behind the push turned out to be scumbags.
What if you got 100 back instead of 150?
Your original claim, which was an opinion stated in the form of a fact, was that it is a Nothing Burger.

Stating one's opinions on social media is generally fine, but stating them in the form of facts is dangerous in that it can cause other agents in the system to have incorrect state, which can have very serious causal consequences, up to and including death, which most people claim to be "a big deal".

It is counterintuitive to think in this way, but many useful things are counterintuitive.
> take money away from people who do the wrong things with it

The quiet part: "Silly workers, thinking they could buy they're way into the capital class with some surplus hours of earnings. They don't even know how the game works! Ah well, back to the toiling for them I suppose."
We considered moving onto Fly since we were transitioning away from Heroku. We ultimately decided on just AWS for our core products and digital ocean app engine for smaller experiments.

Fly's overall experience wasn't as smooth as Heroku, from the dashboards to the weird errors for technical things that should work but didn't. The logging and error handling wasn't as informative as it should be. In essence we agreed with the value proposition of "give us PaaS magic with more control over the infrastructure than Heroku" but it wasn't sufficiently magical. The whole low-latency cdn-like distribution angle wasn't really relevant to our use-case.
His ad hoc speeches during the Abu Ghraib reporting were also not fact checked, and he said some things which he later admitted were exaggerations. Some reporters need the discipline of fact checking; Hersh has always been very good when he had that, and very bad when he does not.
Is it a software company? Or an energy company? Or a car company?
It was hard to find emissions data on the Rotax 912, from a Rotax support list [1]:

>> I am looking for emissions data for the 912 iSc powerplant. I am in need of data regarding VOC and NO emissions.

> I suspect you will have to measure this yourself. I cannot think of a reason why any user outside Rotax would know this, but good luck.

even harder to find emissions on an unknown road vehicle. Lead for autos was phased out in the US starting in the 1980s. I stopped using leaded gas my 1972 VW Beetle (designed to run leaded) in the late 80s. I know some piston A/C are running unleaded, but it is glacial progress compared to cars. Having been in the industry, I am well aware of the reasons (certification/safety requirements, politics and lobbyists). I just regret in my ignorance at the time I contributed to the problem.

(I would also assume you and your parents live next to airstrips, eliminating the need to get to one.)

I think our problem is more systemic. A better question than "Do I fly or drive?" might be "Why don't I live closer to my extended family and friends?"

In fact the computer industry uses more energy than the aviation industry [2]--cryptocurrency and AI are just going to add to it. When I design software, I try to keep efficiency and utility in mind--but the human mind is good at rationalizing what it needs to. Who needs software used to repair broken tech? Hopefully more people than need single engine aircraft or jets.

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[1] https://www.rotax-owner.com/en/912is-technical-questions/653...

[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3483410
What's more, the core facts of anthropogenic climate change are based on fairly basic thermodynamics, and were predicted with decent accuracy as far back as 1896. A great little book covering this is the recent The Physics of Climate Change.
The more I read the "cons" in this article's C++ section the more I scratch my head. Code style is something that should be uniform and enforced. It's bikeshedding, but unless you're using a language with opinionated formatting (e.g. Go), it's absolutely a must have, and should be one of the first things done even at a startup.

This really looks like a case of not seasoned developers throwing crap at the wall and seeing what sticks. I doubt their Rust implementation will go any better.
What revolutionary consumer technology has emerged since the iPhone, from any company?
In a randomly sampled million individuals, what's the probability of any of them surviving another day?

The gambler fallacy talks about a gambler who has won and believes that the cause that made him win is long lasting. But a living man is right to believe that he is alive due to forces that have a lot of momentum and won't vanish suddenly. The fallacy would be assuming that the man is exempt from accidents, that are unpredictable.
Interesting list of wide range of satellite platforms.
> Less than 1% is radioactive for 10,000 years. This portion can be easily isolated and shielded

How would this work? My assumption was that the pellets are fairly homogeneous. Does the decay happen faster in exterior of the pellet? Or is there some process to concentrate the radiation?