skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My take is the VC world will split into three

- Million startups - put loads of cash into thousands of startups globally and play a huge vegas lottery - there is a lot of work there for the BC companies but played well it will have influence at the levels seen by newspapers or major consultancies used to

- the current much maligned approach that is going to creep further up the series A B C tree supplying capital to companies that have developed the model to just churn

- your one. The one I and half of HN is looking for :-) Honestly this confuses me - there is a large chunk of people on this very site that you could have convinced to leave what they are doing and set up a company with the risk of doing so mitigated by "nice VC" cash.

And since everyone in the industry claims they invest in people not ideas then they are turning away people because they won't raise their price to meet a new point on the risk threshold curve.

So yeah something like VCs that fund profitable non IPO businesses seems a good idea. I mean if you stop asking people to make moon shots maybe more of them will just make 20% per year ROI
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Money to burn?
Hacker news is great for many reasons and one of them is that it hasn’t become a place for nazis and other to spread their insanity. (No idea what the comment was)
Sane moderation is good. Thank you Dang for your work.

You’re free to go on « uncensored » forums and see how enjoyable it is once they reach thousands of users.
> I hate that dividends have such disadvantageous tax treatment in America

What do you mean by this? Qualified dividends are taxed at long term capital gains rates, which is an enormous advantage compared to nearly all other forms of income.
To continue on the “Go-inspired” C#, .Net has System.Threading.Channels!

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/cha...
> The downside of synthetic testing is that it's relatively expensive. Doing it in staging is one thing, and personally as a SRE this is where I'd put it

I actually have the exact opposite opinion. It is _because_ synthetic testing is so expensive, you want it running in production where the value can be maximized. We abolished our staging envs completely because we realized all the effort put into maintaining them and duplicating all production changes to staging as well - was much better spent in making testing in production safe. Far too often an issue only exists in staging and not production, or staging doesn't catch something because of the plethora of delta that will always exist between different envs.

When I was in QA - I found myself caring less and less if an issue was present while testing locally, or in some sandbox or staging environment. I only cared about production, so that is where I invested time into testing.

If a synthetic test breaks production in some unanticipated way, that is incredibly valuable because one user shouldn't be able to break production for everyone and you just found one heck of a bug to address.
> On the other hand, my first self-funded startup got destroyed by a VC funded venture. They had a worse product but far better marketing and they used every dirty trick in book to tarnish my company’s reputation.

Would you be willing to give a few more details about what happened? I'm not interested in the identities of the companies or people, just interested in a high level overview of what happened. We don't hear these stories often.
I haven’t kept track of the strength of the last coronal mass ejection, but I know you are wrong in this regard, because coronal mass ejections take around 3 to 4 days, sometimes even longer to reach earth. Other effects from solar flaring, such as x-ray particles, and high charge electrons arrive, basically, instantaneously along with light (~8m)
You guessed wrong. I am not ignoring "thousands of news articles about the expected animal migrations", but this is not my field and that is why I put the question of the additive factor of illegal immigration of millions across our Southern border from areas known to have Malaria coupled with climate change of a few degrees. Also, "expected migrations" not confirmed as directly caused by climate change of a few degrees, correct? And these "thousands of news articles" (not science journals or papers?) factored in more than just climate change? On the topic of news articles, I've read of the coming ice age in the 70s, so I wouldn't base most of my knowledge on news articles.
I recommend starting or looking into worker cooperatives, or organizing your peers at work. Hierarchy of command is responsible for a lot of modern ills.
I'm not sure this was ever a National Park, but rather a National Monument. Pedantic maybe: but National Monuments can be declared by the President under the Antiquities Act (and it seems under Trump easy to be demoted), a Park is a little harder to establish.
Want to explain? I doubt bank loans were that much easier for startups in times of low interest and if anything the inflation hurts bootstrappers worse.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/07/wall-street-fed-bai...

The Fed selected BlackRock to run a groundbreaking program to buy hundreds of billions of dollars in debt from large companies slammed by the coronavirus crisis.

Certainly these connections help?
Why are Prometheus queries hard?
(1) SOC2 is somewhere between $10,000 and $20,000 if you do it cheap.

(2) That's a dollar amount that most bootstrappers can swing.

(3) Critically, you don't do SOC2 until you have a critical mass of purchases requiring it.

(4) Many (most?) of your customers, especially your early customers, won't require it, and/or will have alternate paths for companies without a SOC2 attestation.

(5) When you finally do hit the big deal that absolutely demands an attestation, you can often cut a contingent PO: you sign the deal, deliver the stuff, but you don't get paid (or you don't get the last tranche) until you get the SOC2 attestation.

(6) You can get a SOC2 attestation real, real quick.

There may be other things keeping people from bootstrapping SAAS businesses, but this isn't one of them.
Ipads are regularly shared in families and vision pro is more expensive than a top range tv which is shared in households. It's a hard sell if if can't be adapted to be used by multiple family members at its price point.
That was harrowing.

There were a couple things I didn't understand:

1. What changed about China's surveillance systems or procedures to make them ~20x more effective at catching refugees in a couple years?

2. There's a bit about how North Korean refugees can apply for asylum in South Korea. I was under the impression (from Barbara Demick's book Nothing to Envy) that all North Koreans are more or less granted asylum by default. My recollection is that she put it even more strongly in her book: that SK in effect treated fleeing North Korean citizens as de facto citizens of South Korea, because they are meant to be one country. Is the asylum process mentioned here a rubber stamp, or did the process get more strict? Would a refugee from North Korea ever be refused asylum in South Korea?
I have been a happy user of an /e/OS Fairphone 3+ for two years. I just use it like my Samsung before, nothing special to do (other than choosing non Google apps, obviously).
Ride either of them down, preferably the plane. Don’t fall out!
There are also natural long period climate cycles that global warming is on top of. Solar changes, small orbital and axis changes, long period climate resonances caused by many other things as well.

Basically everyone ever for thousands of years experienced different weather patterns as adults than as children. Also perception of weather as an adult and what actually gets remembered…

Climate is not naturally static and you can’t attribute every change to humans. There is a lot going on.
We took one round 20 years ago a none since, still private. Then again, we’ve been profitable every year.
This one does require an account: https://www.police.uk/
You have to select an area and then select crime map.
Yeah I remember discussing this with friends back in 2004 and concluding that Don't be Evil was dead. Took a little longer than I expected but they got there in the end.
Judging from the photos, not unless "touched" means "was pulled back and rolled about 7 turns downward".
User defined functions require a function call pre- and post- amble to be added to the machine instructions that execute the function behavior. Typically this consists of growing the stack, adjusting required pointers at the top and then undoing that at the end. In C the operators defined by the language implementation do not involve any adjustments to the stack frame and do not invoke a ‘call’ or jump instruction in the assembly. Once operator overloading is possible this difference immediately becomes blurred.
if you look at their accounts they spend a vast amount more on sales and marketing than r&d

not very amazon like at all
Professionally I do Python. From my experience the breakages occur due to an over-reliance on libraries to do trivial tasks. Do you find a different case?
> nor do my colleagues and our clients are happy

Your colleagues can get better jobs elsewhere, so you are constantly competing for talent.

Your customers can get a better deal, or product or service from one of your competitors, so you’re in constant competition with them too.
This is just broken window theory for the beach.
The companies that remove the human touch from hiring will rapidly wither and die, leaving the real talent for the rest of us who value people over process.
GitHub did this, and took VC later on.
It's also at odds with how people consume content.

If you cram every social interaction a network has in a massive common distributed store (which is what using a bittorrent like protocol would entail) you have every node requiring to consume gigabytes over gigabytes of content, despite being interested in a fraction of a fraction of it.

I don't know if nostr or scuttlebutt resolve this issue, but if they don't ... how do you imagine a mobile app for keeping in touch with your grandma, requiring gigabytes of data transfer and storage would work?

At this point people saying bittorrent is a solution for social networks are basically just the guys who know about hammers and seeing nothing but nails.
I assume this is about USENET
Yes, precisely. If fine tuning is the preferred method of modification, then under the GPL the weights are source code.

Personally I think the truth is greyer than black and white.
Not surprised. If they can't have you, then no one can. It's sad that startups either die quickly a hero or live long and be a villain.
I try to remind my kid of that every so often, when the opportunity comes up.
Well, directly, no. But QE and ZIRP were pretty fundamental in their current ubiquity.
It's an availability bias. You're noticing the worst founders and VCs, because the worst of them work to be noticed (some good ones, too, but all the worst ones). But as long as you understand the modality, it's also fallacious to write off a whole financing model just because its douchiest practitioners rub you the wrong way. Remember Sturgeon's Law!
But I am in the EU and we all do better money than what I hear here what most American devs make. But sure; my colleagues just will never leave here so it would have to be better paid, many vacations, no stress, wfh and more money.
The ucrt is included as far back as Windows 7 (if you install updates).
We also study middens; it doesn't mean it's okay to dump your garbage in the park.
> Good luck turning those into silicon with any kind of performance.

It doesn't have to be the hardware ISA, nothing would prevent the hardware manufacturer from including a compiler.

> Because string comparisons are slow. Non-standardized hints are not a basis upon which software can be built.

The comparison will only happen once, I do not think that we should argue about 2-3 string comparisons heating our CPUs. And you can definitely build software this way, you just need to work on the way the user map its hardware to the software.

> I can write a library that implements all the APIs needed to run discord on older versions of Android

But the hardware is there, the problem is that the mapping must be done through low level code.

> Your OS can't design a GUI for you, unless you're assuming the OS is also an artificial general intelligence.

I am not speaking about AI, but I do believe that our OSs could help us draw an interface from data. There are many UI creation tool, but they aren't meant to be real-time.

> GUI apps are complex to make because their behavior is complex.

They are complex to write, but very simple to describe (if you accept to give up on some details). I could describe my HN page layout to you way faster using english than html/css. GUI apps are complex because we are trying to map them to weird standards. Good luck implementing a CSS parser.

> You can totally port discord to an arduino! Get it to boot linux, run a web browser and open discordapp.com.

You can theoretically do it yes, in the same way developers could in theory port their apps to every single platform current and future. But in practice it isn't the case, and my calculator app will likely stop working in 5 years because of some weird API change.

> I think the core issue you're trying to address is fragmentation. Unfortunately it's a natural result of people interacting with one another, not something you can fix with good design or software. It ends up leading to a lot of wasted work, but it's also a massive drive to innovate.

I believe otherwise, instead of fighting against new platforms by exposing restrictive standards, I want to embrace the different platforms by allowing developers to write what they app should do instead of how. If your apps want to draw pixels, they should just draw pixel. How the windows must open is completely irrelevant and the OS/user should be able to figure that out.
> Notesnook provides almost everything Evernote provides, with encryption, better publishing and syncing.

In the two years I've used Notesnook, my biggest issue is the slow syncing between devices: A change I make on the mobile app takes minutes to update on the desktop app, whereas a similar change on the Obsidian mobile app is nearly instantaneous. Additionally, Notesnook doesn't allow external editors, like vim or emacs, to edit files. Sure, you can extort files to Markdown, but those do not get synced anywhere. Obsidian gives a user the flexibility by editing files directly without the app.
No need to click on the link then.
I agree with what you said.

> which is to grow faster than (or as fast as) their competition

But I also work for a privately held company and there has been a whole series of companies pop up outgrow us … then fold … It’s like a parade of VC failures. They weren't bad people or bad ideas, they just had so little time and sometimes were so focused on their one cool trick, that was it.

Velocity also means velocity to failure, and arguably less time to learn from mistakes or just make money. I've seen a few who didn't even have time to learn.

That might work for some ventures, much less for others. Just gotta know what you're signing up for.
B-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma following BNT162b2 mRNA booster in mice
This sucks but it is not that big of a deal

Jet bridges can fail that way and doors get ripped off exactly to not make a bigger mess in that case

Insurance, maintenance, etc are all there for a reason. Plane should be back into service soon
That list sounds right I think their is nuance for this one

>3. "You have to focus on large markets with many (or large) customers"
>Yes you shouldn't take VC money if you don't want to go big eventually.

One can want to grow to a point of organically understanding the problem domain before going big.

The VC and the company may differ on the short term but agree on the long term.

Which is a distraction. If the company is doing everything else suggested and the VC pounds on this issue.

I would think the ideal time frame for the use of VC funds is probably about 2 years. If the company can't make productive use of the funds and return it in 2 years the timing of the funding is bad. If funding is needed for some large capital expenditure that will depreciate over decades should have existing revenue support.

I think Wall Street has created a different industry that is a business model of its own fantasy.
That illustration is directly from the paper and has a packing density of 35.77%.
Wow this is great, thanks for sharing!
Holy crap that's a heavy story.
""As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one’s experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way."" -- Brian Kernighan
> Not to mention the applications that require you to turn on your webcam (!) while you do them.

I don't understand what this means. Did she have to turn on her webcam to upload her cv? How does that even make sense.

Also, how is that legal? I thought requiring a photograph to apply for a position is illegal (except for stuff like acting).
Ok yeah, looks like they recently added OIDC support: https://docs.digger.dev/cloud-providers/authenticating-with-...

They should update the main readme to include this under Features, and also call it out in the demo files.
How does that work? If the organization goes bankrupt, or ceases to exist, how would the land not be treated as an asset?
Perhaps counterintuitively, this is exactly the sort of usecase WASM is meant for. A VM that needs to be simultaneously lightweight/cheap and very high performance (because it's being used to do the heavy lifting for a slower/heavier runtime), but is still expected to run untrusted code and is therefore thoroughly sandboxed.
There are plenty of other ways to exit that don't involve an IPO. Acquisition, selling shares on secondary markets or privately etc...

Doing VC the wrong way can make your life hell, but taking all the risk yourself and bootstrapping is in its own right a special kind of hell if you're not careful.

IMHO, it's all about time horizon. Working on a startup for 3-4 years without a clear product market fit or some kind of exit is a waste of time unless you're a Jensen (which most of us aren't anyways).
It’s talking about Twitter, Threads, and things like that.
The internet IS the town square. Social clubs are like VIP (or more pedestrian) popular pubs
Selling part of your company to venture capitalists is a status symbol, and lots of people will chase the status symbol even when it's not required and they don't have a plan for how to spend the money should they get it.
"A dividend is considered to be qualified if you have held a stock for more than 60 days in the 121-day period that began 60 days before the ex-dividend date"
Failure is definitely the commonality. The BLS reports typically that 1/2 of all new businesses (in the US) will formally fail within five years. One can safely guess that at least half of those remaining are something between zombies and hanging on by a thread. 1/4 or fewer will make it 15 years or more. And of course it varies by sector, restaurants notoriously have an exceptionally high failure rate. For all businesses the failure rate is around one in five in the first year [0]; for restaurants the failure rate is ~60% in the first year, and ~80% fail within five years.

[0] And again, don't forget to assume the figures are even higher because the figures will never fully account for zombie businesses or quasi-zombies and the equivalent.
I bought a FP3+ a year ago and run it with LineageOS (with microG). I don't have any of the issues you list except for LED and brightness. However I do have random troubles with location, but that's probably due to being de-googled.

Regarding WiFi, did you try disabling the "battery optimizer"?
https://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/

Maintaining this blog for more than 15 years. I share free software to do X things along with free Android apps, iOS app, and problem-solving via How tos.
> Infuriating

Idiots together should make anyone itch.
Iirc, he dropped $44 billion on his own mic not long ago.
> that's entirely a function of the developer.

I would argue the same of sed/awk; you can write an unmaintainable mess, but you don't have to.
Exactly, if it bleeds it leads and boring VC stories (of which there are many) don't make for good headlines.
They did add support a short while back: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-activity-pub.
monthly/annual growth?

To be honest, startups play on another level than most SMBs. With a SMB, you can double your growth every year for 5-10 years straight, and do very well, but not be interesting for VCs. To be interesting and relevant for VC money, you need a business that can scale to millions of users.

If you can show that you're able to double growth every month (or similar short-window metrics) with an idea that could scale to a billion dollar company, you'll get the interviews all right. Hype is a big part of growth.

The problem, so to speak, is that you'll be competing against other startups - and if you they have the VC money, but you don't, there's a good chance they'll outpace/outgrow you.

I think it's very noble to grow as much as you can organically - but realistically speaking, it's difficult to compete against those that are funded.

And you don't really need to use the money you get - being funded also comes with a signaling effect. You get lots of publicity, and get to signal that serious investors are willing to back you.
Yeah, it seems fairly obvious to me that the underlying issue is that you're not being appropriately attentive to your partner. Whether that's because you're looking at a smartphone, addicted to meth, out of town on business constantly, working 20 hours a day on your new startup or whatever else is secondary.
This isn't about policing or labeling anyone. It's about opening a dialogue for potentially more inclusive terms in our field. No intention to make you feel excluded, only to make room for discussion.
E2EE strictly means that it is encrypted between endpoints. It makes no promises about how the keys are handled, how the data is protected at rest, or how secure either endpoint is. TLS is a version of this, but also demonstrates how useless such a version of encryption is if either endpoint is malicious.

This is one of the reasons homomorphic encryption is interesting. It should enable this kinda of "total user control" over your data, but it's highly unlikely consumer systems will implement it.
Another design to accomplish this same goal seems to be called the "safety shoe" [1]. I believe this is a horizontal bar placed under the open door which moves the airbridge down if it gets too close.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ir5b0GzfiE
If you feel that way, don't start a product company.