skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. There are plenty of 1 person businesses. I have run basically a 1 person software product business for 18 years (with a bit of help from my wife with admin). I never lie about it being just me, but I don't shout about it either. A lot of my customers seem to assume that I am a team of people in an office in the US.

2. Just concentrate on getting those first few sales. It may never happen.

3. It depends. If you want to raise funds and recruit lots of people, you should probably be in a big city. If it is just you, you can be anywhere.

4. Big topic. It isn't enough to do stuff, you need to also tell people about it (marketing). The best marketing channels vary a lot depending on your product, goals, personality, budget etc.

5. Big topic. I prefer not to deal with investors and bootstrapped my business with my own savings. Venture capital allows you to launch bigger and faster, but with a lot of strings attached. I suggest bootstrapping, at least to start with, You can always try to raise money later, if you have some customers.

I have written various stuff about marketing and running a small software business over the years. You might find some of this useful:
https://successfulsoftware.net/starting-a-microisv/

Good luck!
The StrongARM upgrade was phenomenal, but clearly pushing the machine to the limit. Acorn seemed to have a dangerous disinterest in floating point performance though.

On some level I have grown to believe that Acorn were deliberately not producing competitive desktop machines so as to keep ARM off the Intel radar. It has become clear from some leaked documents from Acorn (and discussion on here) that they appreciated the game was up, except for the niche enthusiasts, long before the Risc PC was announced.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8373758>
How is shipping OS with preinstalled apps shitty?
What city? The Costcos I've visited in the SF Bay Area usually carry lamb rack and lamb chops (both of which are delicious!), but I've never seen mutton. I'd love to find it.
ASDF
depends-on ("parenscript"
"alexandria"
"cl-ppcre"
"global-vars"
"serapeum"
"trivia"
"trivial-gray-streams")

That doesn't seem excessive. I didn't look to see how many imports each gets.

Need the utility libraries? Probably not. Embrace the NIH.

Need both trivia and PPCRE tho? They both pattern match.
Early readers will often attempt several sounding-outs of a word, out loud, one of them correct, and fail to recognize that they have just spoken aloud a word that they know. Sometimes they’ll do it when it’s the only attempt they make. They just won’t process the sound the same when they’re sounding the word out, as they do when they say or hear the word naturally. “Hooking up” those two parts of the brain, if you will, is part of how you get them to be good at sounding out words (aside from memorizing the various sounds letters and letter-combos might make) and usually just comes to them as they practice more.
Because someone needs to challenge the law and pre-Bruen court acted like the 2A didn't exist.
Yes, Americans are very accustomed to the taste of grain or corn fed beef as that's what you get in supermarkets and restaurants.

If you are used to that and then try a steak from a strictly pasture (grass) fed cow, it will have a distinctly different flavor.
I think the threat of rival app stores is highly overrated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33978081

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30808926

I don't think they have the product gumption, nor do users have the patience, to deal with multiple app stores. They'll just end up abandoning those apps, at least on iOS. Also regulators will not be amused by other companies forcing users to use their own walled gardens if those gardens are going to be full on data-mining operations.
macos sodoma?
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You seem knowledgeable on this. Why is only chrome supporting this feature and other browsers aren’t? Was this feature pushed by the chrome team?

As for your second point, how is this not a vulnerability in the browser? The security intent is clear, a page should not be able to inspect an iframe. I can’t take a screenshot and read the pixels of the iframe. The fact the chromium supports a published standard is irrelevant. The browser exposes information it is not supposed to and is vulnerable to attack.

The intent of the css feature was not to allow reading iframe pixels. If that cannot be avoided, then the feature is insecure and any browser implementing it has a vulnerability. If it can be avoided then chrome has an insecure implementation.
> Because if you're buying it for personal use it's presumably for consumption, and if you're buying it for business use it's for business use.

Most of the biggest expenses in people's lives - housing in cities, cars for commuting, food - are for the sake of maintaining their job, or just staying alive. In a fair world they'd be able to deduct those expenses just as much as businesses can. (This doesn't just apply to VAT).
> I wonder who lobbied to have that date extended

According to the FDA, the manufacturers are doing ongoing stability testing, and as they find the tests are still effective after the date they initially estimated, they can contact the FDA to share their results and request that the FDA authorize a longer shelf life. This actually costs the manufacturer money since they'd be paid when people replaced the "expired" product they threw away, but they're doing it anyway because not everything is a weird conspiracy (and maybe also because the most shelf stable products have an advantage when it comes to what people order for their stockpiles)
> warships (25111708)

That's 3366113 in the US and Canada:

https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p3VD.pl?Function=getVD&TVD=...
This argument holds less weight, when you consider things like iMessages, where there are network effects and no cross-platform support. Also, there are a number of apps that are only available on IOS, due to its higher market share and greater user spend. So there is a high switching cost, which is a direct function of Apple's dominant market position.
"This is the result of commoditizing 'starting a business' to the point of near-worthlessness in the bottom 50%+."

Is this not just a market effect of saturating the market with competition because suddenly running a business is comparatively easy (communications technology, platforms and existing logistics and production networks) to any other era.

I can probably start a company drop shipping crap on Amazon in a short amount of time with a smartphone from my bedroom. The barrier to entry has dropped, rather quickly.
It won't be an alternative store, the game will get pulled from the app store.

Now, despite the fact that I bought an iOS device to avoid having to deal with shitty third parties, I'm forced to use the epic store and whatever else.
Amazon is basically allowing sellers to carry all the risk while product testing and marketing a product.

If it does well enough, Amazon can use the same manufacturer and release a branded "Amazon Basics" version that pops up in the same search for the same product but cheaper as Amazon doesn't have to pay someone else $112 for the listing and warehousing, and the original seller that did all of the actual "work" (as far as making it a profitable venture) is SOL.

Throw in a few dozen word salad named drop shippers who undercut Amazon in exchange for increased shipping times and the originator is wedged out of the market or cut to razor thin margins for years of effort.

Rinse and repeat.
Maybe not surprising but if you read the comments on the website there seems to be only Apple fanboys commenting who are butt-hurt about it. You can not make this up, consumers who root for a monopoly.

This reminds me of gamers who hate the Epic Games Store with passion even though they give the actual devs of the games a bigger cut.

Competition is always good for the consumers. And I get the security part when it comes to Apple BUT it does not justify that they take a cut of 30% from every dev, its basically a money printing machine they do not deserve AT ALL. The same for Valve, they only take 30% because they can, not because they provide any value for it. All the do it provide some servers for distribution and a discussion forum, that hardy costs 30% of a games profits.
I am glad that the postal service has chosen to release commemorative post-pandemic covid tests, it will be nice to display on my mantle as a reminder of the time past in which covid was a serious health concern for the country.
I buy iPhones, but I'm not okay with it. Android has some of what I want, but a lot of what I don't.

The market is not competitive enough to actually be able to vote with my feet/dollars. Options are give up control (choose Apple) or give up privacy (choose Google). That is not a choice consumers should be forced to make.
I think this is one reason why 1Password is pivoting to enterprise.
It's not about personal choices, it's about enabling fair competition. If you sell a general-purpose computing device and market it as one, you should relinquish any control of it once it's sold.
Oh and if you want your inventory isolated so that it doesn't it mixed in with counterfeits... that's another fee.
Spinneret is better than CL-WHO at least in it's string escaping policy. All values are escaped by default whereas with CL-WHO you need to wrap with CL-WHO:ESC all string values.

Thus CL-WHO is vulnerable to XSS attack by default.
Safari on iOS does have support for extensions or am I missing something?
It’s strange you write this comment, but then in another acknowledge the US rat race culture and time poverty.

Why are you in such a hurry? Europe is to live slower and enjoy life.
The point is choice. As a consumer, you can choose to only get your apps via the official Apple store, which comes with all the "Apple rules" you want. As another consumer, I prefer freedom and hate monopolists so would choose another store. Everyone is happy!
I hope it finally sped up the slooow animation when switching spaces... but am not holding my breath...
Do you know that slavery too was justified to be just human nature and now it's fairly niche in richer parts of the world? Your argument is essentialist, so I find it weak. And both Russia and China are capitalist countries actually.
Grew up eating goat meat in India, but can't handle sheep - it has a strong flavor which I can't handle.

Even goat needs spices to make it palatable and flavorful - hence it's a big part of Middle-eastern, Carribean and Indian cuisines which use a lot of spices.
This was the release that got me to migrate from 1P to Keychain. Keychain finally has enough features and the 1P’s browser extension has been finicky for me and the UX of 1P8’s desktop app feels like a considerable downgrade from 7.
There's also underfunded research on far-UV light, which at the right wavelengths kills pathogens without apparently affecting humans. It might really be that simple.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/could-uv-light-red...

https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/new-type-ultraviolet-lig...
I get how explosive these issues remain, but please make your substantive points without crossing into flamewar. It's always possible and will make your arguments more effective.
This reply signals two things. This person is working for Tinder, or this person is rich and dumb.
Microsoft's anti-trust problems were not primarily about Netscape. If that's all it had been it would have been a trivial resolution.

They were about vendor abuse, vendor contracts. Which is one of the key ways Microsoft tried to maintain its power over the tech industry.

And of course as another person noted, Netscape was not in any manner blocked off of Windows. Netscape lost because it was charging for a browser while IE was free and usually installed by default. Then Netscape compounded the disaster by producing a couple of particularly terrible browser versions in a row while IE kept improving.

There was no scenario where a $49 browser was going to win regardless.
I think you're justified in this case - this isn't about not supporting Chrome or the features it offers, just saying that it has some issues that make it not great as a browser for many end-users. This is one such case that hopefully has a resolution. But, as for any platform, I think it's fair to take advantage of additional things one platform gives you over the other. That's so long as you properly support the others still.
Parenscript is other tool. Mainly it generates Javascript. However it has support for CL-WHO like templating for generating HTML on client side.
I question the assumption that simply letting more small players compete is going to improve outcomes for anyone who doesn’t happen to own one of these smaller businesses.
Yes, F-Droid offers some really high quality free software with full reproducible builds to boot.

It's amazing to see how fast and efficient software can be when it's not spending most of its energy on datamining the user or showing ads.

Apple currently misses out on such an ecosystem because even to release a free app, devs have to pay.

On F-Droid there's a ton of pearls offered for free or some voluntary Patreon or ko-fi support.
Pretty cool, I made something similar (lambdaprompt[1]), with the same ideal of functions being the best interface for LLMs.

Also, here's some discussion about this style of prompting and ways of working with LLMs from a while ago [2].

[1] https://github.com/approximatelabs/lambdaprompt/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=34422917
Disclaimer: Former FBA seller here.

> So every time you think you've got just the right size/weight/price balance you get screwed. And where else are you going to go?

You've skirted around the obvious question: Why did you pick FBA to begin with? Amazon sellers existed long before FBA. They did their own shipping, so almost none of those fees apply. Many sellers continue to do well on the Amazon platform while not being part of FBA.

If you can't succeed without participating in FBA, then all that's happened is Amazon created an environment for previously unviable businesses to succeed, and has merely tightened it.

Edit: Amusing that this comment is being downvoted, whereas my other comment saying pretty much the same thing is being upvoted.
It should be serviced is much different than it has to be serviced.

If you're in a position where, your airfields are getting holes blown in them, getting forces back up in the air is more important than having a guy double check a bunch of things that are probably fine anyway.
Like the person said, the real thing. Brave and Firefox browsers you mention still use Safari engine underneath.
If you were that concerned you’d use web version of all of the above.

Would be nice if Apple required you to have a functional web app before installing app. I.E.FB Messenger - the only reason why it doesn’t work on mobile browser is so that FB can track you more via their App.
I wish.

I suspect that's an Android problem, as I have playback randomly stop in the middle of an episode both on AntennaPod and using mpv from Termux. I suspect Java/JVM memory shenanigans, but have no insight into specifically what's happening.
Isn't that just evening the playing field with non-Apple phones? Isn't that what the EU is trying to accomplish?
Reference types technically already allow for calling directly into the browser APIs as reference types allow wasm to pass JavaScript objects around. So if you import all the relevant web apis, you don't really need any (almost any?) intermediate JS anymore, because you can just forward the JS objects between the individual API calls.

The only real need for JS would be to initialize the wasm module in the first place.
Your name couldn't fit your argument better. It is naive to think one can develop fun games without constantly playtesting them during development.
Prime is both a fulfillment service and an exclusive marketplace category.

I do think the FTC should be more direct about prosecuting the vertical integration of Amazon's marketplace, fulfillment, and delivery services.
Do you have an example implementation of reimplementing the core of these?
Maybe knowing or finding (primary/ultimate) truth is overrated. We search for, and find an answer. If we apply the answer and it doesn't work out well, we dig a litle deeper. We learn the fall and get up way. It might be a primitive way of learning, but a proven one.

Ultimately... the ultimate truth does not exist, let alone it could be known or found. Every answer is wrong, some statements are less wrong than others.
My phishing pals tell me that this is a great bait for the elusive catfish!

I'm guessing the intersection between the amount of people who are able to pay for this (1% according to Tinder) and the number of people who are willing to pay for this/haven't thought the consequences through is extremely small.
The Kindle has support for side loading books so I’m not sure how it’s locked to only reading Amazon purchases.
If only there were phones that did exactly what you wanted
Hm I just checked again. I appear to be using:

- 1Password 7 desktop app

- 1Password 7 Safari extension, which seems to work fine (or at least the same way it always worked)

- The latest Chrome extension, which I believe does everything in the browser

So I don't know how well 1Password 7 works with Chrome.
If running gecko instead of webkit is one of his requirements then, no, he’s not currently welcome to make that improvement.
This makes me wish there were more e-ink smartphones… Really nice execution on the hardware and software!
Well, for one thing people still sell sparc machines. But beyond that, they care to catch bugs that an architecture monoculture misses/ignores. For example, the OpenBSD folks have said a number of times SPARC64 is a good way to catch memory alignment problems. Diversity in testing is a good thing.
The problem with a placebo is that it doesn't last or resolve the underlying cause

It is a nice "break" while it lasts, though
Around here most of the third-party repair shops feel pretty sketchy.
Same here. Side loading will open the door to a whole new category of malware/adware/crapware.
Yes of course the App Store is not perfect but at least Apple has control over it and can stop things when they are degenerating. I’m not looking forward to a new Facebook VPN that will “enhance my phone,” available through side loading only, that I will of course never install but which my grandma or another unsuspecting entity would…
Art Is a Two-Way Street
Don't move today, because the Sonoma release is not out yet. https://www.macports.org/install.php
inference at scale
Extensions that are less powerful and must go through App Store review. Which is fine, if you want that keep using Safari! But I'd like to run actual Firefox.
A big factor is language. Only the UK is English speaking and it's extremely difficult to get a job if you don't know the native language. It'srare for a Dutch, Swedish, French, or Italian company to hire someone that doesn't speak the native language. All communications (written and verbal) will be in the native language.
Nothing prevents you from buying from a different seller and reading the materials on your Kindle, other than the fact those other sellers have their own DRM locking you into their ecosystem instead.
I want to like Nix but those installation instructions for macOS (and their removal friend) are just crazypants as compared to the `sudo mkdir /nix && sudo chown $USER /nix` from the Linux version

And that's not even getting into the "waaa?" from `du -hs /nix` although I am open to that being a misleading number due to hardlinks and other trickery that du may not correctly surface
The Midnight Express theme song is pinned on my "strutting" playlist.

It's a great story but if Moroder is your only interest in it, you're probably going to be disappointed (I like crime/thriller/escape movies myself). The song itself plays in an early scene and the rest of the movie is pretty bleak.
At this scale they're going to need a huge amount of bigger unwanted expenses and unexpected losses in order to make this seem worthwhile.
WebView2 is what Microsoft Teams has moved to, replacing Electron. It's coming on Mac also...
Go look at America's budget and come back with that ignorance... The amount of money America spends on itself, its people, and its infrastructure, is embarrassing.

Taxes are often lauded as a necessary evil, but it's generally not JUST the tax people have trouble with. It's how it's allocated. And we can cutely sidestep or handwave that as "a voting problem", but it's interconnected.

I'd have no problem paying taxes to an entity who I could trust and know has my back, who invests in the infrastructure that makes life in this country better.

But we cannot trust that entity, it never does what it says it should on paper. It sends money overseas for pet military projects. It doles out countless frivolous contracts to fulfill the gargantuan military budget.

Collective pooling of resources only works when the spending of those resources is done for the benefit of everyone contributing. That currently does not happen.

I like creature comforts like anyone else, but I'd rather live in a country that gives a shit about me and puts my tax dollars to good use, instead of feeling like livestock in a rat wheel whose contributions to the country will never bear into a tangible benefit.
Makes it much harder for any similar apps to compete, even if they're better. So you end up with worse overall outcomes.
I suspect this is possibly down to the use of readPixels and how slow that is on various devices. The engine seems to run in a worker and render to an offscreen canvas then transfer the image data in JS to the main thread before drawing it to a canvas there.
He's not wrong. Lockheed used to build U2 prototype that could fucking fly from ground up in 150 days with like 20 people? Now companies will build a 200-person team to build damn UI. Of course, I'm exaggerating, but that's the idea.
I was raised vegetarian and married into Yorkshire, and I've tried to expand my palate over the years. Lamb is the one thing that just utterly defeats me. I can get through most roast dinners by slathering the meat in various sauces, and while I don't really see the attraction, I can survive family meals. But lamb is unlike any vegetarian food in that it just sticks around like bubblegum. I'm chewing and chewing and hoping it'll dissolve and it never goes anywhere, so you're left having to just force this stuff down against your gag reflex. Genuinely horrifying every time I've tried it. My wife claims slower cooked stuff like lamb shank is different but I'm completely off it at this point.
Flint wants to disrupt the battery industry with paper
Google and Microsoft got into trouble because they used their dominance in services and OS to strong arm manufacturers to only use their stuff. They used their clout to hurt competition.

Apple does very little of this IMO. No one is forced to use Apple equipment and no one is forced to work with them. It is trivially easy to avoid Apple either as a consumer or developer. If you don’t think you can make enough money publishing to the App Store then you can code for some other purpose. If you want a phone that allows apps that Apple doesn’t allow you can get an Android.

I do not understand the argument that Apple has to sell devices that work the way you want them to. There is no false advertising, nobody is getting fooled, and nobody is being forced to work with Apple or pursue their customers. Apple has made a very popular system, why do so many people feel entitled to change what they do?
Buying your competition is competitive? Bullshit
US v. Google: Joint Submission Regarding Public Posting of Trial Exhibits [pdf]
In addition to curries I make a New Mexican style posole stew with my necks - it is also delicious.