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Ask HN: Where to find co-founders for “lifestyle” business startups?
I am a software engineer with a decade of experience. I quit my previous job and am considering starting my own business. I've recently been browsing Y Combinator's Co-founder matching platform (https://www.startupschool.org/cofounder-matching/). This has many people who have a) impressive credentials and work experience, b) good ideas based on their real work experience and c) a desire to grow these ideas into a $100M+ business.

Sadly, the last of these is where my interest wanes. I don't have dreams of being astonishingly rich or successful (why, I'd be happy with a measly $1M business - if it wasn't too much effort to run). I don't want to take on lots of funding and staff and the pressure that entails. I'm more interested in a "lifestyle business" - perhaps one that I can run part-time after an initial period, that doesn't have lots of deadlines, but still nets me a decent amount of money each year (let's say £50k a year, for a concrete figure). This kind of business still needs someone to give domain input/product direction, do sales, think of new features, etc.

It feels like there should be some supply of "business" co-founders for these kinds of businesses. I expect they would probably work part-time/be an adviser (and therefore take a lower amount of the company). For example: management consultants/MBAs who don't want to take the plunge and quit their regular jobs, but would be happy to do a few days a month to get a feel for startups. Or small business owners who have a specific problem and want to see a solution built, but have no interest in making that their main income.

So far, I've tried asking my friends in various fields (some polite interest, but mostly lacking what you might call 'product vision'), and some small business forums (mostly contained lunatics with questions like "I've just taken out a loan to open two restaurants; any advice on how to put together a menu?").

Where could I find suitable people? Any ideas gratefully received.
Why does everyone like usb-c? It is inferior to lightning. With usb-c, the connector on the device can break or come loose (male), with lightning the male connector is on the cable, so easier to replace and maintain long term!
I think this is the parent comment's complaint, no? Go back a decade and the rate of improvement in phones meant there was reason to be buying a new one every year (just like computers in 90s). Now that innovation is slow, it's just this year's update to a consumer good rather than a leading edge of a tech revolution.
The extroverts and the highly confident tend to dominate that type of discussion.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230911170024/https://reason.com...

https://archive.ph/9upWX
I haven’t owned an an iPhone or iPad since they dropped the 30 pin connector and headset jack to proprietary lightning instead of USB-C. I bought my first iPad once Apple finally adopted USB-C and I look forward to switching back to iPhone one the iPhone SE has USB-C. I refuse to give any company money when they are being egregious. It was a pure profit play, and I’m not interested in wasting my money on high margin, proprietary, lightning accessories that I knew would be sent to the landfill in due time. Apple held out a lot longer than I thought they would. It’s shameful really.

Nothing attracts downvotes like criticism of Apple. Their decisions are guided by the hand of the divine, so anyone that won’t follow is clearly an unworthy heathen.
I wouldn't exactly call the HP "obscure", but it does support unit calculations too. And "units" is more than plenty when I want infix operations.
$2.70 supermarket wine wins gold medal at international wine contest
Yeah, the faster but is also a bit of a non-seller, they have to integrate the world/deal with bad build times that can't easily be parallelized (what if there are no modular dependencies, that your tool can understand?) except by tools that have nothing to do with their product.

But there have been many times when debugging a CI has been necessary, having to figure out what has gone wrong on a remote system is often an issue...ofc often the remote system is itself the problem...
The 2020 or 2016? Yes stupid naming scheme. I’m super happy with my 2020 especially for the price. It’s plenty fast, not obnoxiously big, just a basic iPhone
This is just FUD.
Study finds vaping renders frontline immune cells unable to move to meet threats
I agree, I had my blog on Django, and the dynamic stuff was just minimal.

Then again, with Django-Distill (linked above), you can get the best of both worlds.
Aha another Play user.

I took over a rather large Play project at work and it feels like the worst parts of Rails, then there's a poorly-implemented, old ReactJS + bootstrap frontend on it.

Would highly recommend taking a look at Sveltekit [0] with TypeScript and drizzle-orm if you want a full-stack experience.

[0] - https://kit.svelte.dev/
I'd be willing to bet the vast majority of consumers do not buy name brand cables.
> The Pro lineup is built to last, combining the strength of titanium with the toughest back glass in a smartphone and the industry-leading Ceramic Shield on the front.

The back panel is made of glass. This is a user-hostile design choice. Apple tries to gas-light us, claiming that it's a "Durable Design". This is deception. I hope FTC sues them for false advertising.

A real durable design would have a durable back (metal, plastic, or composite) and a raised lip around the screen. I would buy such an iPhone immediately and gleefully use it without a case.
Researchers say chatbot exhibits self-awareness
My deepest thanks, I owe you one. Overlooked this completely. & spent dozens of hours learning way too much to still fall short of understanding how to make it work in ONNX.
Convergence.

No longer have to think about a separate cable for phone charging, can plug your iPhone in for some juice wherever.

That’s basically all that really matters.
And when i see the lightening bolt how do i know its 20, 40, or 80 gbps? Count the jaggies?
I much prefer Ninja as well. Is it active, these days? It feels like it's got much less of an ecosystem than FastAPI.
I want to be able to hit edit on the post, do it right there, save and see my change immediately. I could set that up with a static site system but.... the admin I made for editing the post would remain the same. Furthermore the editor I have has a bind for CTRL+V that checks for images and automatically uploads them but also inserts an html tag for the media I just uploaded. This is something that is a terrible experience when editing a git repo having to manually link images and other media.

Code:
https://github.com/hparadiz/technexus/blob/release/public/js...
https://github.com/hparadiz/technexus/blob/release/public/js...
If only mobile gaming was like that still...
I don't think anyone here personally asked for your opinion of other posters. To answer to what you wrote though, is that the only bar? You have to say sorry for slandering someone as a pedophile (I'm sorry, "reacting poorly") to an audience of millions? At what point do we actually get to say someone is being shitty and not "uh oh this poor billionaire did another fucksie-wucksie and is sooo sorry! how relatable!"

Forgiveness is such a powerful, raw, human emotion. Forgive me if I bristle at a billionaire debasing the concept because they've never faced any real pushback a day in their lives. Just spitballing here, don't shoot the messenger, maybe they could focus on accountability and restitution rather than make excuses about reacting poorly? It comes across incredibly tone deaf. "But I apologized, why are people still talking about it?"

I'm not that invested in Musk vs any other billionaire like Bezos, but this is clearly a pattern of which you cherry picked one example. Has he said sorry for not paying contractors? Or rent? Reminds me of the joke about how narcissists "apologize":

That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it.
> sitting of a money printer

This is a pretty recent phenomenon, isn't it? For most of it's existence net margin was 0-15%, and only blew up to 25-35% with the push into data center around ~2016.
That's only half of the story. A lot of those people are mentally ill. There are also a lot of "hidden" homeless people who live diverse lives. I knew some travelling kids that rode freight around the country, they were typically sheltered by friends. They did odd jobs and could busk, and yes they did drugs, but they weren't shitting in the street and boofing heroin in plain sight. There's people that are down on their luck, and there's people who just gave up the rat race - and there's a good chance they aren't slamming meth, but they can turn into drunks fast.
there's a difference between bugs and being actively malicious
>He’s a former government official who openly changes his messaging based on polling data, not scientific evidence. It’s not unreasonable to discount his public statements.

What nonsense. OP and you either have actual useful information that contradicts what OP specifically called out as inaccurate or you don;t.

You don't which is why you fixate on something else.
Kagi has a simple fix for this. It’s not a hard problem to solve, they just have no incentive to solve it.
I've spent countless hours reading and experimenting with this. I cant regurgitate all of it here.

What do you even need all this fiber for, especially for 90 days? You're not eating heavy grains or meat that you need help pushing through.

Lol to the idea of eating tons of vegetables not sounding great.
Why teach them to write at all? Why teach arithmetic, just hand them a calculator. Why teach poetry? Why teach history -- if they need to know it, they can look on Wikipedia. Why offer band class, will it help you write tighter Javascript?
Didn’t they just switch the MacBooks back to some version of MagSafe? Universal Apple cables seems like their ultimate thing to avoid
> It felt quite soul-crushing after a busy week to have to spend mental efforts writing up a report to someone 1-3 levels up... especially if you had no idea if it was ever read.

There are ways to test that.

You could just not submit the report, and see if anybody complains.

Or prepare the report, but intentionally corrupt the file before submitting it, and see if anybody complains.

Or prepare the report, and in it ask if anyone is actually reading it, and ask that they contact you if they are.
It's like when your windows vibrate when you turn up the bass.

The energy comes from the amplifier, it's being put into the ether by the woofer, and then the window pane collects it.

Energy is neither created nor destroyed.

The thing is, we don't have general purpose "windows" in this EM world, until now.
The decline of Apple presentations is not a new take.
Oftentimes the installer needs greater system access than the code you're running, particularly on Windows

IME most of the randomly-downloaded software I've used does what it says on the tin. But there is a whole screening process: where did it come from? Does the originating site look legit? What are the possible motivations for the creator?

Besides there is no signing mechanism for your random install.sh. Maybe you check the SHA256 but if an attacker alters the script why not alter the website with the hashes too?
Ask and ye shall receive:

https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/12/new-icloud-big-pricey-storage...
That's true! It means no Unity game can come to Game Pass. Just that is enough to kill this proposal by Unity.
It’s worth doing the energy budget calculation as an exercise for that.
Selection bias, but when my phone has no case, I never drop it. When I have a case on it, I drop it all the time.
In theory, yes. Who has really reviewed and analyzed every line of Kafka or Spark? Even the bigcos.. don't.
Considering pretty much the only use case for USB data transfer on the iphone is copying pro res video to an SSD, which can only be recorded on the pro, this seems like a good tradeoff. No point raising the cost for casual users who will never use this feature.
True but this is a problem more generally. Unfortunately society is being turned this way whether we like it or not, with no thought to effective safeguarding, boundaries or consent.
Anybody has done breathwork naturally without even knowing about its existence?
I didn't know any of this (had 0 interest in the body/yoga/meditation before) and I used to do this pattern of deeply inhaling slowly and holding until I can't really anymore, then slowly exhaling. Then repeating for a few times. Very relaxing.
Although I know about breathwork a bit more now and the different patterns, I am not sure if this practice has a name (but I wouldn't be surprised to find out if so).
> To be clear, I oppose family punishment. Why? Because I am a retributivist. That’s right, I think that inflicting suffering on vicious wrong-doers is morally praiseworthy even in the absence of any deterrent effect.

He is using family punishment as a strawman. If you say he is bad because he thinks it's morally praiseworthy to inflict suffering, he will argue that if you like deterrence so much then why don't you inflict suffering on families that should deter them even more lol
I live in Saskatchewan Canada these days, and you can see -40C to -50C relatively commonly just about anywhere on the prairies.
I understand -40C isn't that rare in most of BC or Ontario either.

Around the places I've known (not Vancouver. Vancouver is special)
- Diesel gets idled, and starting back up is careful.
- Propane gets idled -35C and below and hopes it won't shut down.
- Gas tends towards long startups but unless it's been left out all day without a block heater, it'll probably be fine.
- Natural gas tends to need idling as per Diesel.

I've no experience with EVs though. But with lack of charging infrastructure throughout most of the Canadian prairies, it might be a while before it's a workable option here.
Nope. Developer skill momentum is a hell of a drug.
Because having a decent, workable standard is better than having a mess of incompatible cables. I can't wait until we're done with lightning. In almost all of our cables, it's not the connector that dies anyway, it's where the cable flexes at the connector attachment.
I still have part of a bottle that I bought earlier this year. I was pretty excited to find it after the previous shortage.

If I knew then what I know now, I'd have bought all of it and scalped it properly.

Alas.
I thought it's the exact opposite?

In Lightning the sturdy bit is the cable and the wobbly bit that grabs it is in the device.

In USB-C the sturdy bit is in the phone and the wobbly bit is in the cable.

It's the wobbly bit that breaks.
A lack of employee power at the workplace.

Due to manufacturing outsourcing, labor laws favoring employers, denigration of workers' unions, etc.

Once upon a time, in the US's 'golden time' of the 1950s-1960s an ordinary blue-collar worker on the production-line at Ford or GM could afford a good car, a good house, good vacations, eating out or at home on steaks, on a wage sufficient for all of those as well as support a stay-at-home wife and probably three children.

Today you have that guy and his wife, both working, and at possibly more than one job unable to afford to buy any house and a good car, living on cheap groceries and ground beef, and who certainly couldn't afford more than one or two kids. So obviously wages have not kept pace with the increases in the cost of living. To have kept pace with cost increases, a blue-collar worker would be earning at least about $150 grand a year. That ain't happening.

Which is stupidity for the big corporations. If their workers (and other companies' workers) can't afford their own products, sales will be nowhere. They haven't listened to Henry Ford who deliberately paid the workers making his cars enough wages that they could afford to buy the cars that they had built themselves.

Real wages haven't been STAGNANT. They have deliberately been REDUCED. And that is bad for the country.

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https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/employ...

"The average weekly earnings of factory production workers surpassed the $100 mark in June 1963," - in 1963 $100 was a touch under the value of three ounces of gold - in 2023 that amount of gold (at $1900 per ounce) is worth $5428 (or about $270,000 per year). In 1963 $100 would buy about 55 barrels of oil (at $1.80 per barrel) - in 2023 that amount of oil (at $89 per barrel) is worth $4944 (or about $247,000 a year).

FACTORY PRODUCTION WORKERS ARE NOT EARNING MORE THAN TWO-HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS PER YEAR.
completely unrelated to what’s being discussed. If I don’t want my fairly anonymous HN posts to be scraped I can avoid posting on HN.

I cannot avoid every contact I have not using these services, unless I have no contacts. If whatever point you’re making is “who cares you can’t avoid it anyway,” that’s not only intellectually very lazy, it’s untrue - Lots of countries have regulated their way around these issues. The fact that one of the biggest producers of tech in the world (US) has this space fairly unregulated is not some excuse to capitulate to things that are fairly easy to regulate sensibly, if there is political will and knowledge. With uninformed takes like the parent I’m replying to still floating around out there, I guess it really is inevitable and unavoidable.
I agree it is poorly stated, but that is what they mean, no extra impact beyond reduced symptoms and the benefit thereof.
The brick is still USB-c and the macbooks still charge on all usb-c ports. The magsafe cable is just a nice to have. Also frees up one of your USB ports for use.
You're barking up the wrong tree: I communicated how SSO's value prop is defined by essentially the entire SaaS industry... if you have a problem with that value prop, Okta alone is 13B worth of short potential for you once everyone realizes they could just use a script with http access.
I wonder if centrifugal forces are useful for anything. For example, would there be any benefit in pressing battery cell plates closer together?
Awesome work. A similar registry is being worked on in Canada by the Vivre en Ville non-profit organisation (it is currently only available for Ontario and Quebec residents) : https://rentalregistry.ca/en/bumper
> "but it does destroy institutions and the craft of software by taking people and knowledge off the map"

Would you mind elaborating on this please @barrysteve - particularly how it destroys institutions and the craft of software? - thank you.
Just in case, in my Sciter horizontal margins do collapse in horizontal flows:

container {
flow: horizontal; /* single row */
}

container > child {
margin:1em; /* will collapse */
}

See: https://docs.sciter.com/docs/CSS/flows-and-flexes#flowhorizo...
They've finally responded. They've doubled down on their original stance, but now also claiming the change is for performance reasons.

Which makes no real sense when you read the details of their response.

Their previous approach was to provide feed events based on people's watched repos. Now they're doing it from people's starred repos instead, which for most people is a couple orders of magnitude more data items. And also happens to be the data items with no value in providing events for. :/
> quake epicenter

An epicentre is just a human generated approximate coordinate - it has little to with the physical quake itself.
Nobody reads the source code of all software they are running.
I hate that it's the reality just as much as you. Doesn't mean my cold hard look at the industry isn't true.
Drag cars are slipping a clutch for the first 800 feet or so. Totally traction limited, not torque/power limited.
And act as an active terminator too, none of this passive crap!
PwC puts partner pay on line in bid to boost faith in audits
Works good now - before it redirected to a register.com holding site!
In addition to their much more well known sriracha, Huy Fong makes chili garlic sauce, which contains no sugar. I believe that most Asian supermarkets carry it.
Tailoring biomaterials for biomimetic organs-on-chips
Supply Chain by Amazon sounds like Amazon Prime for manufacturers
Didn't that get cancelled shortly after their announcement?
It’s not that simple a falcon 9 upper stage on a 5g super earth would collapse from its own weight during takeoff.

It’s a double hit as your lower stages are also losing ~5g’s of acceleration due to gravity. So if you want to add 3g the entire rocket needs to be able to withstand an effective 8g, and you need a rocket engine + fuel to provide 8g’s worth of force. On top of this the time between each stage becomes extremely costly.
I’ve been saying this for years. Sure, USB-C has better shielding and can reach higher data rates, but I use my phone cable for exactly two purposes: 1) charging, and 2) playing music.

Meanwhile, dirt and sand can get into the new USB-C cables on both sides now, and the tube design is less resilient to being stepped on or rolled over.
One (of many things) to keep in mind when reading Vaclav’s work is that he is sloppy about distinguishing between types of energy; 1 kWh of energy in coal is “worth” much less 1kWh of electricity. They have the same units in the same way that an American dollar and a Canadian dollar are both measured in “dollars”.
Starlink Outage
Seems to be worldwide since approximately 4:40 PDT.
EU compelled the USB C standard, apple had to switch. I for one am glad they did.
That's a good thing. I suspect these people wouldn't want to lose their photos if their phone breaks.
Switching to a build system like Bazel can be a significant cost, though.

There's no easy solution to making your builds go faster, if they aren't already. There's hardwork and artifact management (dependency hell).

Unless you are asserting Bazel is a direct competitor to Earthly, I don't think the assertion is useful at all.