skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These stories are reminding me of the "Doctors hate this one trick!" Ads in the 90s. Or the influencers who start selling content, dropshipping tricks or ebooks on how they have succeeded.

There's a lot of merit for entrepreneurs sharing their journey, like a lot of the other comments here I just wished it was less about being "successful" or making money.
Considering Work from Office is the norm, good jobs that have career growth are largely on the East Coast i.e. Melbs, Sydney. Both are "too expensive" ... so where else should people move where it's less expensive and they can easily find a job there?

I am genuinely curious where you moved.

> The thing that strikes me about Australia's property prices are, who will be the generation to pay prices like this again? I personally can't imagine the prices to eventually go anywhere but down.

I imagine the opposite. Price will keep going up and up. It's a ponzi scheme, it's literally "too big to fail". The government cannot allow a fall in prices so it will simply never come.

Regarding who will pay again? No-one, land will concentrate amongst the few who already own land and can use that equity as leverage, while the rest of us will live via rent. I am 80% sure that most people born after 2000 will never own a home.
Honestly, I admit I've never tried to make uBlock behave like uMatrix. A quick look at the UI suggests maybe (?). uMatrix allows me to granularly select types of resources like scripts, iframes, and images from every domain/subdomain on a page, though, and that UI didn't look like it was set up for that to be possible easily.

I think I actually started out with uMatrix first so I've mostly relied on it to do most of the heavy lifting.
A moral is a teaching you obtain from reading a story. That’s what the noun means.
And the list of what you can/cannot buy with a Mastercard or Visa varies from country to country. And doesn’t necessarily follow the law.

Still a lot of US banks that block card usage in Cuba, but they don’t need to from what I can see: https://ofac.treasury.gov/faqs/738
Meanwhile, all GNOME-based terminals are still capped at 40fps:

https://github.com/GNOME/vte/blob/master/src/vte.cc#L10770
The solution is not to use feature flags. Or maybe have them expire. Oh, also, discipline the developers who do this.
What's the difference between an email spammer and an ad company like Google? One of them makes its money from intrusive, deceptive, malicious, unwanted advertisements, and the other is an email spammer.
Their (cobalt blue’s) bite is extremely painful! Causes severe muscle cramps and inflammation. They also happen to be very aggressive if you try to handle them, so you’re likely to get bitten.
If enough people stopped it might influence Youtube to change. Youtube is in the drivers seat. Some products change rapidly based on feedback and others never change. Youtube has the right to not make changes and not get your business back. If they make too many of these decisions and run out of money the will close. This is indirect.

You save by not paying for youtube. You paying someone else for similar services has a better return because your money endorses someone elses vision. When you buy a product you give a thumbs up. When you don't you don't give a thumbs down..
Sure. Snakebites however can't suddenly mutate to become 10x as infectious or 10x as deadly.
It seems to me that the actual relevant innovation has to do with a better chip than with the blockchain.

Ultimately, there's a single source of truth: whoever certifies the cheese to be authentic. And there's the requirement to shoot a laser at this thing. It's a device you have to physically interact with.

So this at best requires what, a standard cryptographic signature emitted by a trusted party? The blockchain part is complete fluff.

The main point of this seems to be that for a third party it's hard to obtain this very specific chip to insert into their non-authentic cheese, which is why they use a physical chip instead of printing a QR code on the rind. So that'd be what provides the benefit, not the blockchain.
Can we not derive this information by looking at adoption of these APIs across the web?
I read through the HackerNews discussion on the article before sharing. It still felt worthwhile to me to share this here. Please don't make assumptions in bad faith.
I sell a $10 app on the App Store and it sells quite well. My co-founder and I personally block time every evening to reply to support emails and interact with our users on discord. We could easily hire someone to handle support, but we derive a lot of pleasure and satisfaction from being able to deal with our users ourselves. Our users seem to like it too. And we couldn't care less about building in public. We build for ourselves and our users.
I’ve also been around for years, but I don’t see it as a recent phenomenon. I’ve noticed that usually most top comments (for most topics) contain contra-arguments, or critical comments of any sort against the article. Sometimes it’s useful to learn about other perspectives, but often it feels forced or just plain negative/ego inspired. I could go back years and check old posts and notice that same trend. One famous example is the Dropbox post.
Marketing either costs money, or time. I've blogged before, and I've also ran ads before (on Facebook, Google, paying influencers, etc) which is basically outsourcing your marketing. If you don't want to do it yourself, you can always pay for the problem to be solved. However, most indie hackers don't have the money to pay for ads so they must inevitably spend time marketing instead.
> Jitted C# or Java are faster than AOT in most scenarios other than startup time and initial memory consumption.

Why are is so many people saying this, as it doesn't seem to be true. At lest from what I have seen so far. I know that theoretically jitted can be faster, in in practice it's almost never. From C# benchmarks I have seen, in case jitted is faster than AOT, it's only by minuscule few percent. But when AOT is faster it is often a lot faster. And I am not talking about startup time.
At its best, money is a terrific measure of satisfaction you’ve provided to other people. This man builds products people like and shares the story of his success for free to build an audience. These are all good things. You respond with bitter vitriol, that is not a good thing. If this is how you approach life you will not deserve his success or money.
I feel the same...and often, when i feel that, then maybe i'm not the target audience for said tool/app.? (Which is not bad either way, simply that as good as the tool/app. might be, its just not for me.)
Why not ?

It's a really cool spider! And I say this as someone that is pretty terrified of all spiders.
Since you're talking about business specifically, then no it's not the best piece of advice imo. There are plenty wonderful things and works of art that nobody really wants to buy or pay money for.

You could make a really great website with a lot of cool animations, but if it serves no utility then people will probably not pay for it. Maybe a 1-month subscription or a one time payment to take a tour of the website, but that's probably going to be it. So it's not sustainable on the long-term, or in other words, it's probably not a good business.

"Make something people want" (YC's mantra) seems much more fitting for business intentions.
Foot has sixel[0] support. Is there more robust image support in Kitty and others?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel
I’m half-way through the article and Sweet Jane is stuck in my head. I listened to “The Very Best of the Velvet Underground” so much on my Walkman in the late 80’s that I wore the tape out.
This is clearly some very bad news, these will lock-in fossil fuel removal and will prevent decarbonization.

I was thinking that the full gas+renewable strategy was over but indeed maybe not yet...

I guess the visit of Von Der Leyen to the Azerbaijani dictator also sets up the tone of the strategy for the future, swapping one dicatatorship to the other to keep the gas running.
Interesting, how did you find that out and which product was it for (if you can say)? They recently (as in this year) assured me that the safety certified compiler was home-grown. I'm inclined to believe them given how broken the parser is and how many features it lacks.
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Indeed. This whole post is a nothingburger since the "attack" requires the attacker to already be on the wrong side of the airtight hatchway.
You don't. You have no leverage or bond to influence them. Just leave.
New users are more likely to be positive, actually. HN has always been more negative, it even has the infamous Dropbox comment by BrandonM.
if this was the main cause, the expected result would be lots of highly-upvoted bad answers, as opposed to lots of scarcely-upvoted bad answers that somehow rank highly in Google searches
Doesn’t mean that it needs to take the exact form of special reactivity though, especially when we know when it breaks down.
Business advice is often just someone handing you their winning lottery ticket. It worked perfectly for them but will probably be totally useless and not repeatable for you.
It’s worth noting that gambling and crime (of the evading money transfer restrictions variety not the stealing kind) are perfectly useful applications for a technology.

That’s all crypto has ever been and all it will be. But that’s pretty big. Gambling is one of the most enduring and appealing activities humans engage in. Lock people in a prison with only walls and cigarettes and they’ll figure out how to do it. People will populate an empty desert to do it.

So there’s that.
This existed well before Unicode's dopey multiple kinds of space character.

Leading or trailing ASCII tabs and spaces, or the Windows carriage return aberration would often trip people up. I have a habit of quoting "%s" in C printf, or using "%q" in Go fmt.Printf calls because of that.
The only reason is if you have a bunch of micro service apps that need their own small db that can be quickly spun up, and you already run everything else in kubernetes. A very niche use case that doesn’t apply to 95% of shops.

All the rest of replies just make my eyes roll, it’s like reading promotional pamphlets devoid of any context.
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This was written by a company selling feature flag software. Use that information as thou wilt.
The benefit to “how I XYZ” for me is not that I can copy them. It’s ideally to see a path, obstacles that come, decisions that were made, and try and understand why they made certain decisions and took certain actions.

If something becomes so straightforwards that it can be replicated straightforwards, the value of it becomes a product of skills + time. So if I want to open a business mowing lawns, this is a very commodotized and high-competition industry, so I will earn a profit that is pretty much correlated to the unpleasantness of the job and the time it takes. Very little opportunity to earn a premium, and the only tactic is hacking around how quickly I can complete each job.

If I want to create a brand new product from scratch (one that is not glorified consulting), then it will by its definition be totally unique and the journey unlike all others, including my previous journeys. The best I can do is take all information I can and try and make the best decisions and take the best actions.
You need permanent revolution to seize the productive forces from the communist-capitalist firms by the state and redistribute them to capitalist-communist firms and so on and so forth.
> I'd like to hear from the other side.

side note: I just wish that everyone that was "trying to keep an open mind" wasn't so impressionable and susceptible to the most unsubstantiated theories

one of my side projects just sells merchandise to conspiracy theorists, such a predictable lot
Nationalize the Oracles (like Link) basically
_"Is it imba, or do I suck?"_
Yup, that was the one.
I run the Gitness Project at Harness (also Founded Drone, on which this is based). It was mentioned by another Harness employee, but we have been dogfooding Gitness internally for the past 6 months. The project is entirely self-hosted at this point.

There was a lot of discussion internally about what message it would send if we also published the source code on GitHub. I was very adamant that we need to host on GitHub because this is where Open Source collaboration happens today, and we need to meet developers where they are today.

No shame here.

It is important to remember that Gitea is a very popular project and is a success by any measure with tens of thousands of installs, and they host on GitHub. I don't think that detracts from how awesome their product is. GitLab also hosted on GitHub in the early days to grow their community.

I definitely hope that one day, developers will love Gitness as much as they love GitHub, and they will choose Gitness to host their Open Source communities. But that will take a lot of time and a lot of work. We are here for it, but today is just a humble day 1 launch. We have years of work ahead of us.
Good luck making something as big as cattle if you can't even make dogs, or mice.

Good luck avoiding burn out, making nothing but cattle all day long.

Sometimes, making a peacock will get you laid. Sometimes, making a dove will being you peace of mind.

Sometimes making a turtle will teach your child how to make (eventually) cattle too.

The market sure is a conversation, and I'm impressed by developers that can create cattle AND peacocks, doves, turtles and dogs.

A guy that makes only what the market wants, is kind of boring? Or have I overstated it?
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> IMO we need financial alternatives. If you see what happened in Argentina, Turkey, Lebanon...people's life savings being stolen overnight.

And we see the same happen with cryptocurrencies with astonishing regularity.
Arthur, despite agreeing with your thoughts, I think it's easy to not care about money when you have money that grows without your time investment.

The rest of us have to place a dire importance on it, lest we end up destitute, unemployable, homeless, and so on.

Though if you would like to write something up about "I made enough, and now I enrich my soul with leisure and nature walks," that would go further to disillusion some of the need to keep getting more and more money. But publicly decrying greed (and fear in greed's skin) will not achieve anything of lasting value.
There's not a strong reason to use Mojo over cython right now, but if Mojo can deliver on their claims, I think there will be. A borrow checker, better IDE support, function overloading support, and better SIMD support are things that stick out to me in Mojos favor.
Especially since the natural tendencies of such systems are that the few end up having almost all. You could distribute everything evenly and in a 100 years, without redistribution, we'd be back in the same place.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016726812...
Why isn't there enough revenue to support other devs? Lots of people have money to spend, they just don't want to spend it on bad products. Induced demand via increased competition is a real phenomenon [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
> Finally, the sheer obsession with money saddens me. The great entrepreneurs of our world are hardly motivated by money – to them, money is a tool that they factor in as they work to realize a vision, not an end goal

This sounds great until the bills arrive or you realize you need to save extra for retirement or home buying because your business’s income is unpredictable.
Not the person who posted this, but there is a very, very clear line that can be drawn between school and industrialization, both essentially came into live during the same time. Sometimes the same people who owned the factories where the parents worked advocated for schools to which their kids could go (totally out of the kindness of their hearts ofc). The way school has been structured historically was (and in many parts of the world: is) still stemming from that time.

And this was a society that didn't need free thinkers, but people who did as they were told.
Workshop that forged the one ring
>The most moral thing a parent or teacher can do is to ensure students learn so they are prepared for the future

How much of what students learn in school actually helps them in future? Personally the only thing I learned in high school that I ever actually use is mathematics. I didn't learn anything about how to manage my finances, how to handle emotionally challenging situations, how the economy works, how to start a business, how to avoid toxic people/relationships, how to drive a car, how to eat healthy, how to exercise with good form, how to pay (or minimise) taxes, how to invest, how to save money, how to cook healthy food, how to sell/market products or myself, how to analyse ethical issues from multiple perspectives/philosophies, how to negotiate, how to wear a tie. The vast majority of things that actually contribute to someone having a healthy, happy and productive life are not taught in schools (or at least the schools I'm familiar with), although they certainly could be.
I concur with this assessment. I don't want to discount the hard work of the author of the post, but this post could have also literally been "My slot machine win: $3 to $1.2M with one pull of the handle"

I'm under no illusions that my success has a lot to do with being in the right place at the right time, a lot of luck, and a lot of hard work.
I scale it vertically. Cache refresh is non optimal and takes a few hours. I could make it better by having the instances talk, but frankly the service may never actually need to scale. It can handle thousands of rps off that single container.
Thanks for the context; I wasn't very familiar with that expression or with its current usage, hence my surprise.
:) I'm making something nobody wants right now and it's going great. It's giving my life the most purpose it's had in a few years. It's a financial disaster, of course, but trading money for personal fulfillment is a sweet deal IMO.

(and a shameless plug...)

https://ant.care/ if you want to derp around with a digital ant colony for a bit. The nest devolves into a mess after a couple of days tops right now.

If you think you've got ideas on how to improve the tunnel/chamber/nest expansion logic, or if you're better at implementing sand fall physics in Rust/ECS than me, I'd love to chat!

Discord: https://discord.gg/Ckm6m4A2
Code: https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants
you are describing just parts of a larger, complicated system. Everything you say is true no doubt, but that is not all that is going on, in the entirety.

On the other side, six hundred years of modern finance with insurance and performance-based outcomes, have been leveraged with top-heavy monopoly players. In daily finance on a very large scale, industry companies use "trust" or credit-ratings, or regulatory capture even, to hold on to transaction flows with a lot of overhead.

The promise of automatable chains of transactions is a kind of no-boss, no-outsized fee "free market." The largest currency issuers of the world know this, and have been busily building their own, controlled versions.

You are wandering among flea-market stalls and wondering where the sense is, one might say.
Link links to a better version at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC7l3V1nhWc&t=0s

Consider updating the link.
Which country are you referring to? You will find a lot of hope if you study a little history and see how this has always been the case. I would guess that in terms of rent seeking and of hustle and useless products things are improving and much better than they used to be. It’s too easy to forget the vast array of useless and even harmful crap people have been selling for centuries if you didn’t live through it and/or don’t know about it. How many civilizations in history had despotic kings that controlled all housing and income, and nobody was allowed to earn their own money? The existence of someone making a decent living on products you don’t appreciate isn’t evidence of rent seeking, it’s evidence that we have more freedom than ever before, and that people have a wide range of tastes and the ability to spend a few bucks on little things they enjoy or save them small amounts of time, no?
So much envy.
I guess Walter still hangs around here to comment on this, I hope.
Christian Hergert, the dev in this story, has posted a patch for vte related to these experiments, here https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/2553#note_185015...
I've been using Foot for a while now, having switched to it from Alacritty. I like it. I don't really require much from my terminal other than for it to "feel" snappy and to have some cosmetic customization, and from my own playing around, it does both well.
Well said, this is why working solo can be beneficial: only one idiot to look out for. :)
I don't understand how alternative research makes you a crackpot. If she was presenting her theories as fact without evidence then perhaps, but I haven't seen her doing that.

Overall, she comes across as a very clear communicator with criticisms (rightly or wrongly) of some current research.
I never realized the extent to which The Children's Television Workshop must have been fueled by psychedelics.

But now Big Bird is making a whole lot more sense.
I'd be curious on your thoughts on my entry: https://marceltheshell.org. (This website has lots of examples, so you can get a sense of how it works without installing.)
I'm just saying $3 million doesn't do much to the price. If someone suddenly cashes out several thousand times that much, then sure, price will crash.

I've personally watched sell pressure on Coinbase in the multi-million range get executed over the course of a few minutes, with only a modest temporary effect on the price.
Nothing new here. I remember when the Cubs stopped selling tickets via a line wrapped around Wrigley to a wristband "to cut down on scalpers". I lucked out and ended up 57th in line. You could only buy 4 tickets per game so in theory only 240 tickets would have been sold by the time I got to buy. I was only looking for bleacher seats (cheap and fun at the time) and there were about 5000 seats available. By the time I got to buy every weekend bleacher seat was sold out with the exception of April, May and September. Who bought the other 4700 seats? The answer of course was the scalpers. Back then (90's) bleacher seats were $12 and the ball park was down the block so it was a nice option on the weekend to go see the game, have a few beers (4 for $18), it wasn't much more expensive than going to the movies. Now it's $35 for the same seat and beers are $18 each, Wrigley is still down the block but at those prices I'll just catch the matinee for $12 and a $12 popcorn.
I think I am quite capable of developing understanding of a domain and building a tool to solve a problem in it even if I don’t personally care that much about it. There’s plenty of software out there solving problems it’s hard to imagine much of anyone feeling passionate about.
Can people ELI5 what an LLM or AI "Agent" is? Sometimes when I see the term used, it makes sense, and other times there seems to be nothing concrete behind it.

[not a comment on OP post]
Like with anything else with blockchain, the question is how that is any better than using centralized database. I don't even see any mention of a blockchain in the article.
All spaces are invisible :)

Hipchat would insert non visible characters when copy and pasting messages. I don't know if they still do. I remember spending an absurd amount of time replacing every single bit of a sql query until I finally discovered that it was the "spaces" that the mysql parser was yelling about.
He never would have been able to pivot if he didn't "Get Started" building tools in the first place.