skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume you're not interested in hearing the obvious ones (zero to one, lean startup, etc., etc.) so I'll recommend two.

At the early stages when you're defining your strategy? "Good strategy/bad strategy" by Richard P. Rumelt. "Strategy" is thrown around a whole lot in business, often by somebody who is talking about a goal, as opposed to how to reach it. This book can get a little repetitive but the overarching teachings are valuable and will serve you well throughout your entrepreneurship journey.

After the startup phase (growth/acquisition)? I recommend "The messy middle" by Scott Belsky.
I'll just leave this here: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

"That was true in 2003 and is not true in 2023" might be a reasonable response, but having a solid idea of why would probably pay off.
The problem with the Brits is that we keep voting in slimy incompetent leaders. The country is completely at the whim of The Sun and The Daily Mail.
Ironic you blame the Tories, since all those industries primarily died of during the 70s, after the collapse of Bretton-woods; when unionist Labour ruled the country by marxist-economist principles.
> Qubes has some next level issues

Speaking as one daily driving Qubes, the opposite is true. Whenever I have problems with Linux, Qubes allows to backup and restore it in a few clicks. It doesn't matter that Qubes is not really Linux. It runs Linux apps fine.
> Coming to a largely startup/business news website and complaining about the investments that celebrities make doesn’t make a ton of sense

nor does responding to a complaint about the investments that celebrities make, but here you are

the site is called "Hacker News" btw, not "Business News"
A banking cartel of Congress' own making and Congress has the authority to shut it down any time they choose. It's just the banking cartel has been doing a better job of running the nation's economic policy than Congress has - which should surprise no one. For example, I trust the "banksters" on these matters more than I trust MJT.
Steve Blank's blog (not a book, I know) + The Startup Owners Manual also by Steve Blank.

Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen.

The two helped me understand what it meant to 'get out of the building'.

7 Powers + Good Strategy Bad Strategy helped me think long term about the business model and evolution of the company.
Not the OP, but I assume they are holding them in TreasuryDirect.gov.
Not before exporting the idea over the whole continent.
I've thought about using Cloudflare workers to build a proxy that would do user tracking. Not sure if that is something people would want to do but it effectively gives you a JavaScript free way to track your visitors while still using whatever CDN host like Netlify they want. The challenge would be getting users to change their websites DNS records to a visitor tracking service.
I don't disagree, but as someone who uses T-Mobile, the only thing they have going for them is their cheap prices and freebies. And even then they're barely worth it. If prices rise their customer base will disappear.
We cannot do that yet because not all systems come with venv install, thanks to linux.
> T-Mobile's security, however, I am not comfortable with.

I've seen anecdotal reports on HN, but is there anything more substantive about how they do in relation to other carriers?
I use a throwaway because I'm afraid of cancel culture, not because I plan on throwing it away. I mean, I DO throw them away somewhat regularly, but still.
This will get much, much more ugly very quickly.

Oh your daughter is spending her gap year in South East Asia? Find her social media -> download the videos with a sample of her voice -> generate audio of her asking you to help/send money because "she was robbed at a gunpoint" -> message your phone number/WhatsApp/Facebook account etc.

These scams are possible now, but their quality will increase exponentially given that you won't need to know perfect English or be well versed in tech to do this.
Depends on if his parents were US citizens when he was born.
Well because it's true. It's beyond clear that the rich get bailed out. It's libertarianism on the way up, socialism on the way down, but only for the rich.

Would that we respond as fast to the needs of ordinary people as to SVB depositors.
Setting up harbor as a docker proxy-cache is actually quite simple
Has anyone tried to apply GPT-4 to solving captchas?
From your very link, 1983's GNU Project was not the first piece of Open Source software.

From your link: The first example of free and open-source software is believed to be the A-2 system, developed at the UNIVAC division of Remington Rand in 1953
‘The Millionaire Fastlane’ by MJ DeMarco. Laughable title aside, the content is life changing.
Why would they scramble. They would have the market to themselves.
Ruby's object model is based on Smalltalk's so I wouldn't expect much of a difference. And Elixir, courtesy of Erlang, has a "model the world through communicating processes" model which strongly mirrors the Smalltalk model. So developing a program in each of these languages can be, though doesn't have to be, very similar in style. With a focus on communicating entities (be they processes or objects) allowing them to manage their own state over time in response to messages from other entities.
Politicians of every nation increasingly understand that domestic chip production is a matter of national security (if not outright national sovereignty). In the long term, the upper bound on funds for chip production is "the entire defense spending budget".
Not sure what is more worrying - that people lost $10.3B or that this money is now in the hands of criminals who can do some bad things with it.

I understand this is not just one scammer, but if they pooled that money together, this is kind of level of money that could influence elections in a small country or buy a small army or be used to take over legitimate businesses and use them for further money laundering while paying off politicians and civil servants.
Banks are slow moving institutions. I think most have not yet come to grips with the idea of a bunch of 20-somethings getting handed millions of $ for a nice plan but with $0 revenue. OTOH, SVB was supposed to be specialized in such cases.
Cache images locally. Docker has enough provisions for image mirrors and caches.

Downloading tens or hundreds of megabytes of exactly the same image, on every CI run, on someone else's expense, is expectedly unsustainable.
Lots of companies do this even some big ones. Mitigating vendor lock-in is a big reason. Using what’s effectively simple VMs makes it much easier to pick up and go elsewhere.

Not all businesses decide that’s a risk worth mitigating, but some do.
GPT-4 can generate flight plans
#3 might be something to try and like really hammer home. Be like "I would rather you ask me about 100 different scam attempts and save $1000s then just pay"
> > > > I am very frustrated by political arguments about desert

> > > What does "desert" mean here

> A deserving [...] merit

Thanks. As a native speaker aware of "desert"'s multiple meanings and "just deserts", I think "merit", "deservedness", "appropriateness" would have been much clearer choices here. Perhaps the jarring note alone (of "desert" in this context) should have clued me in that an unusual usage was in play. Thanks again for the clarification.
I was scammed $350 from one of the Zelle scammers. I know, I know, I was stupid for falling for it. My experience went like this:

Just moved into new house, had the cable guy over setting up internet. I get a phone call from "The Electric Company" (they used the real name) saying that I just moved in and I didnt put down a deposit, blah blah, I need to pay $350 now or the power will go off. I needed internet for work the next day, and wifey factors.... I panicked and sent the money. I know, it was stupid, but there was a lot of shit going on, and I just fell for it.

Literally IMMEDIATELY after I pressed the "send money" button, it dawned on me, I realized what I did, I hung up the phone and IMMEDIATELY called my bank asking them to reverse the payment. They would not do ANYTHING. They were completely useless, the person got my money and I had no way to stop it.

A month later, I'm getting trees trimmed, and the company wants payment in Zelle. Begrudgingly I oblige, and send my payment to them over Zelle. It took over 48 hours for the money to be delivered to them. The tree company kept asking me what the heck was taking so long, I had to call my bank several times to see why the money wouldnt send. It was stuck in "pending" for almost 48 hours, and the Tree guys wouldnt do the work until it cleared.

Moral of my ramble: fuck scammers, and fuck Zelle.
The actual conservative position, at least my interpretation of it, is something like, the whole point of civilization and being alive is to reach the height of human potential, build great things and make new discoveries. Cultural homogeneity and intellectual diversity are two sides of that coin. When everyone has the same basic values and assumptions in a high-trust society, it frees everyone to have the tolerance of eccentricity and the tolerance of the scariness of exploring new positions that you need in order to do anything great.

Liberals reading into this and seeing racism is itself an example of this phenomenon. They hear something like "diversity of ideas" and instantly a big red moral stop sign shows up in their head. It shows how when everyone has fundamentally different values, and everyone's different sets of moral landmines are overlaid on the same map, it becomes basically impossible to walk through the space of ideas without sooner or later stepping on one.
> I don't think you can separate the principle from its misapplication.

In practice you are right, but this is just part of the human condition. There is no substitute for experience. Wisdom can’t be taught. The map is not the territory. Yada yada.

Principles still have value as short-hand for knowledgeable practitioners though. In fact, they have outsize value in this case because strong programmers will recognize and reflect on both the upsides as well as downsides discussed here. Communication bandwidth is the single most important thing to scale teams working on irreducibly complex domains.
Docker had the ability to be baked into nearly every enterprise tech stack and extract money accordingly, instead they take time every 2 years to torment users. They will end up going down as one of the biggest missed plays in modern software.
But you can see with your own eyes that it does in fact, work. They just stopped telling you how exactly it works. Is this science? No it doesn't advance humanities understanding of anything. Openai research is pure for-profit, proprietary r&d, not exactly a new thing.
A semiconductor fab does not require that many people so the wages should not matter that much.

And the relative amount invested is probably not that important. For the US it's important that there is at least some fairly high volume produced of the latest manufacturing nodes.

Right now nothing is produced in the US of the latest node, as they are manufactured in Taiwan and South Korea.
Ruby was such a poor choice for Stripe they ended up writing their own static type checker for it...

https://stripe.com/blog/sorbet-stripes-type-checker-for-ruby

> Unfortunately we were starting to see Ruby come apart at the seams: new engineers found it hard to learn the codebase, and existing engineers were scared to make sweeping changes. Everyone faced a constant tradeoff: run the fast, local tests which might not catch many breakages, or run all the tests, even the slow ones. Ruby was becoming a source of friction more than a source of productivity.

I'm not saying you can't make good products with inferior languages.
You are wrong about it not proving anything, as it proves that you're intentionally trying to trivialize the conflict into an event of its own, by hiding the context of the prior events caused by other actors playing on the same field in their chronological order.

Secondly, I'm yet to see a proof that it's indeed a fallacy, as you are yet to demonstrate how exactly OP's appeal to common standards is an unsound argument causing faulty reasoning. You're just evading the argument altogether whilst calling it a fallacy. I bet you're either cherry-picking definitions or not fully understanding the meaning of the term, especially when it serves your intent to hide your lack of consistency on the subject matter of military conflicts.
Developers aren't getting replaced until we have strong AGI. GPT still hallucinates it's output much of the time. You need someone who can review that output before you can trust it.

Maybe LLM's get to the point where they really help dev productivity, and we wind up needing less devs overall, but that hasn't happened in the past when easy to use frameworks like rails made it super easy to spin up a twitter clone. In fact, employment exploded.

TLDR: Devs won't be out of a job until we run out of things to automate. Sometime around the heat death of the universe or we're being crushed by skynet.
I used to love Mint, but since the population boom in Central Florida it is entirely unusable due to being a low priority network.
This means on many occasions you will have almost no bandwidth, I am talking cannot stream Spotify bad. The worst IMO is traffic jams, the one time I really want to listen to music and it will start cutting out.

If you're downtown there is a 80% chance you will not even be able to load a website or youtube, its basically unusable.

I know T-Mobile is working to up capacity, but I had to switch to Google Fi to get any real reliability.
Agreed. There are countless stories and it seems that every week we get a post here that reaches the top with someone trying to get some help and some attention from anyone at those companies, trying to get access to their funds.

I really don't want to see this normalized, although it seems to become BAU.
Please stop using green vs red like this, it's very difficult for many people, including me. Especially for thin lines.
I disabled ALL notifications (except phone calls), and developed routines for manually checking everything.

It’s done wonders for reducing my stress levels and increasing my meaningful output :)

[1] https://taylor.town/extinguish-all-notifications
The messy middle was fantastic. Only reason I didn't list it in my comment below was that I read it recently and I'm 11 years in.

Highly recommend the book.
Great. I spent all four years in highschool rebuilding car engines practically swimming in this stuff because my friends and I used it as a degreaser. We didn't swallow it, but we did get blisters on our hands and it turned our skin white and ashy.

Once I left highschool I stopped working on cars (discovered computers), but I wonder how screwed we are, or are going to be (we're all nearing our 60's even though we still have the maturity of 20 somethings).
Docker Hub's the part I care about the most.

If I can't use it as a daemon-focused package manager that works more-or-less the same everywhere with minimal friction without having to learn or recall the particulars of whatever distro (hell, on my home server it even saves me from having to fuck with systemd) and with isolation so I can run a bunch of versions of anything, I'll probably just stop using it.

Everything else about it is secondary to its role as the de facto universal package manager for open source server software, from my perspective.

... of course, this is exactly the kind of thing they don't want, because it costs money without making any—but I do wonder if this'll bite them in the ass, long-term, from loss of mindshare. Maybe building in some kind of transparent bandwidth-sharing scheme (bittorrent/DHT or whatever) would have been a better move. I'd enable it on my server at home, at least, provided I could easily set some limits to keep it from going too nuts.
The Divine Comedy and The Prince. Not joking.
In other words, white collar "criminal-esque activity" gets a free pass.
As I understand it, banks have some assets that are marked-to-market, and others that are assumed to be held to maturity. Their classification is determined when they are purchased, but there are rules governing the mix.

To some degree this makes sense, because if the maturity timelines and classification are correct the bank is only losing opportunity cost and inflation-adjusted dollars. Not actual dollars.

Meanwhile, if they need money from the fed it is offered against collateral based on mark-to-market value.
The github page has screen grabs of all the fonts in each stack: https://github.com/system-fonts/modern-font-stacks
I'm old enough that to me, "hack" doesn't imply anything nefarious. But I'd hope that people who answer this question with something unethical would be excluded from the program.
I think a lot of it probably stems from our specific voting system. Gerrymandering is only possible in a system without any sort of proportional representation. And it's these same systems which also tend to lend themselves towards "strategic voting" which motivates to vote for people they don't like, or even against their own self interest.

But this is something I don't tend really think about especially much simply because changing this would require both parties to cooperate to make major constitutional changes, that would result in both those parties losing power. The odds of this happening are probably literally zero. By contrast people dropping strategic voting is something that is at least viable to imagine, and could reasonably be expected to help move things in a positive direction. Thanks to the fact elections are basically 50/50 electorally, it doesn't even have to be many people to have a really meaningful impact.
"we have no plans to change our $15 per month pricing"

So nice of them to exclude mentioning "all plans". Ugh, here comes a huge rate hike. I'm paid up until November. $30/month for "unlimited" was a great deal. I am guessing it will soon be back to $85.

This is the first time Ryan Reynolds has made me angry. *shakes fist*.
> Here is a quick exercise: imagine I announce the next Elixir versions will require at least $300/year to use. I bet everyone would be fine with it. The cost of running a business and all that, right?

That's not a fair analogy.

Docker is still free to use to build your own things today. You can run containers on your servers and pay $0. You can host images on your own registry and Docker makes $0 off that, you can still provide free value to the community by allowing the community to pull from your registry at no cost.

An accurate analogy would be more like Elixir officially hosting all open source Elixir apps for free for ~10 years and now 10 years later you want to start charging a relatively small amount of money to continue hosting things for the community. That doesn't seem unreasonable to me and that's what Docker is doing here.
I think it works best in Python, but I don’t have numbers to bring. It’s just how I feel. Other languages have more wrong answers.
Seems more like a long-tail thing... mega banks take all the standard things that can be bundled into megasecurities, let someone else worry about all the things that don't fit into a standard box.
They literally announced that they're testing this on a small sample of kids whose parents opt-in. I don't see any better approach, seeing how the sentiments of "untested" and "using kids as guinea pigs" are contradictory.
> Nope, he says this because Americans have a thing called the Protestant work ethic, whereas many Europeans have exactly the opposite of this.

This divergence is greatly exaggerated. Where do you think those hard working Protestants came from?

The main reason European countries are not as wealthy as the US is that they are all much smaller, and linguistic, cultural, and bureaucratic differences make pan European business much harder. You generally have very few large companies that operate in multiple European countries, in comparison to the US.
I mean, it sounds like the article is describing this, right? My takeaway was that the author didn't effectively handle their interaction with the banking system. The consequences seemed to be minimal in this case, but the takeaway for me was that interacting with the system as expected probably offers these benefits you describe.
He'd be better off just finding someone rich to front the cash and being the face, much like with Mint
Why is Python the only language for which this is such a headache?
Mozilla releasing a fluffy press release as usual while others are releasing product.
But you can have multiple virtual environments in the same directory, which one would it activate? You could also be using an environment that's in a different directory, or have one already loaded.

I like the concept potentially meaning less friction, but the implementation may make things more confusing for beginners when you're not explicitly activating an environment in your shell. I think maybe a flag to enable the behavior at runtime would be better than it'd be opt out.
The point I was trying to make is that a company's "headquarters" means nothing other than the place they're incorporated.

That "place of incorporation" is a very fluid thing, as it can be changed very quickly to adapt to changing regulations and optimize for rapid changes in the business ecosystem a company operates in.

And therefore: it doesn't mean much.

What really matters is:

- the company's assets financial and non-financial and what jurisdiction has sway over them.

- the people who control the company and what jurisdiction has sway over them

- the company's customers and what jurisdiction has sway over them

In 2023, the people controlling the company may be very mobile as CP has amply demonstrated, the assets can be very hard to control (damn near impossible if crypto, and still quite hard if cash and cash-like).

Where the headquarter actually is is IMO of precious little importance.
While I briefly ran a 'start up' with a friend (we weren't what most people here would consider a start up), we used the book 'Business Model Generation' almost weekly as we adjusted our business and pitched for new work.

I still go back to that when kicking off a new project.
The distance between Gyeonggi-do, Korea and the DMZ is approximately 65 km (40 miles).
> Time to market with the wrong thing doesn't matter at all.

It does, though, because it teaches you what the right thing is. The more you can throw at the wall, the more sticks.
You really need to look at China's demographic problems if you think the CCP is still a major threat a decade from now...
I have a question about overpaid execs. If execs are overpaid, why don't companies just hire less-expensive execs?
Maybe both metrics would be useful. “If we had to sell today, this is our situation. If these bonds are held to maturity, this will be our situation.”

Seems like that would allow an investor to see the state of the bank more clearly.
Who isn't a slimy incompetent leader? The system here seems to be that you have to be slimy & incompetent to get anywhere close to the top.
You can as well ask it to add up two unusually big integers and it'll fail.
Font Wars Spread After State Department Replaces Times New Roman with Calibri
It's different if dropping the salt crushes the animals, gets eaten and causes a heart attack, burns off their fur, causes bleeding, or causes Parkinson disease. That last one is so odd you'd take note of any high dose of anything causing it. Like TFA suggests, this is reason for further investigation.
Absolutely not. I had, and still have, my own small business in Poland and I was clear (in writing) that I am planning to visit my main client.
Some self promotion but I have built a project that aims to solve some of these issues in Kubernetes.
https://github.com/xenitAB/spegel

I have avoided a couple of incidents caused by images being removed or momentarily not reachable with it. It would at least mitigate any immediate issues caused by images being removed from Docker Hub.
Being angry is easy. Understanding is hard. Manipulating angry people is easy.