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Today in HN: A billion armchair rants about Windows 2000 being the best UI forgetting just how much it actually sucked at usability or accessibility features.
I would add some things to the framing:

There's two axes. One axis of the matrix is what the founder wants. The other axis is what the business needs.

The business needs axis is continuous:

- Some businesses obviously don't require outside capital (e.g. founder is equipped to get a sellable product built by themselves).

- Some businesses require tons of outside capital and cannot be bootstrapped; self-driving cars is an obvious example.

- Some are in between; e.g. many b2b products require a baseline level of features / complexity with active competitors that's hard to achieve by bootstrapping.

If a business requires a significant amount of capital AND the maximum outcome is e.g. $500K a year, then it shouldn't exist. This is why VCs ask what the market size is.

Some founders think raising outside capital is a "win". They want that external validation and then convince themselves and/or VCs that there's a big outcome on the other side (or, in the ZIRP 2021 era, get convinced by VCs). This is a mistake -- the only external validation that matters is market validation.

Instead, founders should think of outside capital as a necessary evil, and make a clear-headed decision as to whether the benefits of capital for their businesses is worth the cost (in the form of preference and control -- or at least influence). And it should be worth the cost by some significant margin, because outside capital is often optimizing arithmetic mean outcome whereas the founder is often optimizing something closer to geometric mean outcome.
Apple has stopped signing older version of iOS for devices that could upgrade to later versions. The case you linked to is an iPhone running iOS 9 when Apple will happily sign iOS 11 for that device. iOS 11 is that latest version of the software that will run on that device.

Do we blame Google for not allowing Chromebooks to stick to an older version of their OS?
Activision just needs to close its UK branch. It is gone anyway.
Well, I already bought and gave up on my Macbook, so I'm a lost cause ;)
It’s a bit boring but I really like GTD. I’ve never read the book or gone too hard into the “rules” of GTD, but just using Omnifocus for a decade has basically got me into the habit of:

- do things that take less than 5 minutes when you hear about them

- throw things that might take longer than 5 minutes or require deciding something into an inbox

- sort thru it when you have a moment

- have an auto generated list of old tasks that haven’t been reviewed to ruthlessly delete

- have an auto generated list of tasks possible to do today

And that’s about it.

I don’t think it needs to be anything strict or super comprehensive; people are right in saying that you shouldn’t fully plan out your life. I don’t track anything bigger than “vacation” or “user story” as a project, just the tasks/checklists I know I need written down and want to get floated by me when actually relevant.
Blue Frontier and its energy-efficient AC
Say you have a GitHub Action that pushes a container with your app and deploys to a Kubernetes cluster. Where is your config file going in this step? How do you inject that YAML/HCL/JSON file into the app to configure your app?

It just seems far easier to have your kube config inject the env variables from your kube file and that way you don't have to worry during deployment how to add that file and you don't check it into the source. This applies to basically any way you deploy your app, especially containerised ones. Unless you're running your app in an EC2 machine where you can go in and easily edit the file (not that you can't do it in a container), it just seems like extra steps. I've found the happy medium to be sourcing default configs from a file that can all be overridden through env variables
Its not exactly reassuring that Google is "using AI" to send scam emails to my inbox and articles that keep repeating the keywords they are ostensibly about to the top of the SERP
I write small utilities to automate my infrastructure, yes, but they're not numerous as this. Instead of writing my own utilities, I automate workflows and write tools which sends me e-mails or push notifications when things go wrong.

The aim is to never receive notifications, actually. :)

I'm trying to reduce unnecessary time in front of computers, not maximize it. :)
As a programmer, it ended up being useful for a few things in the beginning, but I don't even use it anymore. Maybe every other week to reformat some text or make some boilerplate code.
The Mario games knew all this time.
But how do we prove the cooks aren't talking to each other outside the kitchen?
I think too many people with OCD are getting into tech, I’d have nothing against them if they realised they have an issue and would not destroy everything around them, like remove bad looking but essential for usability elements or having to align vertically everything making it a challenge to understand what line is what, that said, I curse you guys, unless you get help or get out of usability/ coding
I upvoted your comment because it's true, and important to keep in mind.

However, in this case, it would be very naive to think there wasn't some intentional orchestration going on.

I like to bring up the recent massive intentionally orchestrated conspiracy by "dozens" of major tech companies to defraud their own employees with "no poaching" collusion. It's estimated that they may have effectively stolen over $8,000,000,000 from their own employees.

> The defendants were high-technology companies Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...

But Pando Daily dug into the court documents and found that the practice had spread to "dozens" of other major tech companies.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200304045453/https://pando.com...

The conclusion is clear: however moral the individuals, as a class these folks will do whatever they think they can get away with.
I do wonder why letter carriers in these areas aren’t simply allowed to do their delivery in the evenings or overnight when temps have cooled. Seems a more cost-effective solution than a whole new vehicle fleet.
We could do with a president that actually cares about making life better for US citizens than being involved in someone else’s wars.

Other democracatic countries that want to buy US weapons can do so, but we shouldn’t be spending billions of our own money supporting them if we are continually raising debt ceiling.

With high inflation, low wage growth, increasingly expensive housing, healthcare, education, we gain little from other wars.
Caution advised for people jumping early, the Release Candidate 4 was released only ~10 days ago and didn't have the usual long testing period (usually month). More, the devs introduced major refactors late in the release cycle.

RC4 changelog includes bump to major components, most notably: hostapd, ucode, ubus, netifd.

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-23-05-0-rc4-fourth-relea...
Like Buffy the Vampire Slayer!

(Now just wait for that to pop into your head at the next work meeting)
I'm not sure I agree. If that were true, the security of the user system itself would also be a bad joke and it's not. Regardless, what I meant is that the OP made it sound like they're using the same server and user and container for multiple applications, but if they did things correctly, the risk of sharing environment variables across applications wouldn't exist.
I make (sigh) AI for a living, and arguably have been since before we started calling it AI.

Based on my own first-hand experience, if the first thing a company has to say about a product or feature is that it's powered by AI, that is a strong signal that it isn't actually very useful. If they had found it to be useful for reliably solving one or more real, clearly-identified problems, they would start by talking about that, because that sends a stronger signal to a higher-quality pool of potential customers.

The thing is, companies who have that kind of product are relatively rare, because getting to that point takes work. Lots of it. And it's often quite grueling work. The kind of work that's fundamentally unattractive to the swarms of ambitious, entrepreneurial-minded people looking to get rich starting their own business who drive most attempts at launching new products.
I disagree, in any case, publishing deals offering money to studios for them not to publish on XBox like came up on the trials.
>> Maven repository, etc are a wild west.

I'd disagree with this one being characterised along with the others. When i want to publish on Maven Central, i have to:

1. Prove i own the domain i'm about to upload a package under, e.g. if i claim com.myname - then i'm going to need to prove that to Maven Central by creating a DNS TXT record on com.myname

2. Sign my release - every jar i publish needs to be signed by my (or my org's) GPG key

3. On top of the automated mechanical controls, there's an actual human sign off in the loop for the registration process at least

This might still leave attacks like typo-squatting potentially open but not an easy thing to do and it effectively stops most of the other horrors like replacing an already published artifact with a malicious version, or "brand-jacking" my library's name and pushing up a new malicious release.
Turn any WordPress blog (incl free wordpress.com blogs) into a Fediverse server
Partially true. If I will not organize eating I will be hungry. If I will not organize sleeping I will be tired, because I went to sleep too late or can't sleep, because my mind is on full rev.

Sleeping and eating (though a tasty meal can be) are not my goals, but I need them in order to do interesting things.

Among those various ways to "reach it" is organizing things.
This is cool! It felt really satisfying finally getting shots after trying a couple times. Makes me want to play billiards again, it's been a while now :)
> I think the bombings are terrible and don't help the Israeli cause one bit. But I can't really blame the leadership here. After watching the photos there's a rage going on here which is exactly what the Hamas wanted.

Funny how I could use the same logic to defend Hamas.

I think the shootings at the music festival and attacks on other civilians by Hamas were terrible and don’t help the Palestinian cause one bit. But I can’t really blame the Hamas leadership here. After watching the violent dispossession of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem and incursions into the al-Alqsa mosque there’s a rage going on here which is exactly what the IDF wanted.

But if anyone actually defended the attacks on Israeli civilians they would rightfully be called terrorist sympathizers.

So, I’ll hold you to the same standards. Do you stand by your words? Do you think that the Israeli leadership is not be blamed for the hundreds of dead infants and thousands of dead kids? Does the genocidal IDF have no responsibility for telling a million+ Gazans to leave their homes or be bombed to dead? Do you support the ethnic cleansing of Gaza?
As an aside, the opening frame of that video is, I think, a touristic bird's eye view map by Hatsusaburō Yoshida. He made thousands of these maps (with assistants), including one of Hiroshima after the bomb.

https://www.spoon-tamago.com/birds-eye-view-maps-cartographe...
That still requires majority vote of board members which implies you've sold at least 50% of your company.

YC gets 7%, they have zero power to make you do anything.

Selling enough company that you loose 50% control is such a rare thing that it's not relevant to what most founders will experience.
As it happens in Europe, one company cannot just close their branch willy-nilly.
1.5% chance of becoming a billionaire per try is good odds, actually. Also doesn’t take into account all the outcomes you become merely a millionaire (likely over 5% in the case of YC?)
I yearly upgrade on the iPhone for the better modem support. I always buy Apple leather case, also a yearly upgrade, to protect the phone. A number of years ago I had a screen break and I mentioned at the Genius Bar how I did the best I could using the Apple Cases, and they ended up replacing the screen, a $150 charge, for free. This is Apple.

You may have had a firmware incompatibility problem. That is what had happened to me when a few month-old AirPod Pro v2 earbud battery lost charge. I have AppleCare+ (I recommend that for all AirPod purchasers because the batteries wear out after 2 years of use). I used the Apple Support app, selecting my device, and selected for Apple to call, which they immediately did. Apple did the CC hold sending out a replacement. When I received it, it did not work, and the reason was that the firmware on the case and airpod earbuds was recently updated and the earpiece sent to me was not. It is a kind of race condition that occurs whenever Apple updates firmware.

In the process of trying to get things to work initially with the replacement earbud, I disconnected my AirPods from the phone, following instructions. When I could not get it to reconnect, I tried to contact AppleCare+ for the AirPod Pro with the Apple support app as I had done 2 days earlier, and this time my device was not showing up in the device list, even though I still owned the device. This is an Apple bug.

So, I called 800-APL-CARE, but had to wait on hold to talk with someone a couple of minutes. Then I asked to be escalated to 2nd tier tech support. I explained the firmware incompatibility problem to the advisor. I expressed my annoyance since Apple has known about this problem since shipping Airpods, yet never fixed it. The tech rep had me go through a couple of more steps, including the 30 minute charge of the case with the earbuds (they called me back after 30 minutes).
Then they resolved the issue for me.

So, Apple had 2 repeatable bugs.
1. Firmware incompatibility with parts replacements.
2. Even though I still owned the AirPods Pro with AppleCare+ support associated with my AppleID, when disconnected the phone, it no longer showed up on my device list.

But overall, Apple has been great at support.

With AppleCare+, you don't have to go to the store for replacements. They send it to you with a CC hold and then have a prepaid label for Fedex Pickup returns. Call Fedex for the pickup, and that is that.
"due process"???

but we've gotta update this now that the law will turn to software
> "Infinitesimal" is just an idea, as far as I know. Nothing real is infinitesimal.

The unreal (re: abstracted) aspect is what places it outside the confines of “language” for me.

Are black holes real? Do they have singularities? If yes, that can be an example of your “real” infinitesimal.

My opinion is that infinitesimals are more than real they are essential. They are the building blocks of all that is “real”.

Ultimately, what we’re talking about is a philosophical debate that would require one to step “outside” reality to confirm or deny outright so we are just providing our opinions on an unknowable concept.

What is “real” in this context?

Is pi “real”? Is the plank constant? The former was my path to the essentialism of infinitesimals. The latter my path to the essentialism of discrete counting.
AFAIK there was a hiring freeze mandate from the board and the previous CEO ignored this. Hence was fired...

The new CEO had to rectify the situation. Its a horrible situation but at the end of the day, it was going to happen
One would have thought that people within tech and all this "entrepreneurialism" would have a bit more of a rational and common sense, but it really seems that you can actually sell shit to everyone. I'm sad to see this shitfluencers on Twitter gaining so much traction.

But it is a great filter to whom not to listen in this virtual flood of opinions and advices.
I often wish we had more analog control in the digital world. I wish there were turn knobs instead up/down buttons with 10 steps (where it is easy to accidentally leave a menu... When trying to get back to where you were, you are suddenly adjusting something else entirely). Manual control with digital devices has become too digital and too cumbersome.

It used to be easy to adjust contrast and brightness on a display, volume on an amplifiee, an analog TV, a termostat, a car radio, etc.

I realize that we are not really on course (yet?) for reintroducing a lot of analog controls, but in the end, our world is analog. Input is analog via speech, muscle motion, etc. Output is analog, via light and other vibrations that reach our senses. Why isn't control more analog? It's probably a cost thing.

I would totally buy a display or a laptop with analog controls. I don't even care if the turn dial actually has 16M steps, so long as the response is pretty much immediate and feels like a real potentiometer. It should feel like direct manipulation and like you're in control, instead of these digital roundabout abominations.

As to the subject, I imagine having some knobs that I can adjust under different circumstances to quickly vary intensity or cycle through alternatives in order to make things more readable or audible.

90% Of what we do is in the browser today. Browsers could have an "accessibility" API such that turn knobs (bluetooth? whatever) could be used for control. Like scroll wheels but on steroids?
Thank you for sharing an easier start to Plato. And yes, Parmenides is typically treated as one of the hardest dialogues. Nevertheless, the core of the dialogue is quite simple, where Parmenides discusses the relationship between the One and the Many. It’s really quite simple, yet it is fascinating and a great example of Platonic dialectic — it ends in mystery, but along the way makes you think really deeply.

Here’s a short segment from the dialogue:

“Then the one cannot have parts, and cannot be a whole?

Why not?

Because every part is part of a whole; is it not?

Yes.

And what is a whole? would not that of which no part is wanting be a whole?

Certainly.

Then, in either case, the one would be made up of parts; both as being a whole, and also as having parts?

To be sure.

And in either case, the one would be many, and not one?

True.

But, surely, it ought to be one and not many?

It ought.

Then, if the one is to remain one, it will not be a whole, and will not have parts?

No.

But if it has no parts, it will have neither beginning, middle, nor end; for these would of course be parts of it…”

http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/parmenides.html
> The goal of such a platform should not be to make money, but to make the market more efficient.

This. Proponents of fully free markets often conveniently ignore that it’s almost always cheaper to sell products of unethical means, absent outside intervention. It’s always cheaper for nestle to sell slavery-produced chocolate than not, and nothing in free market capitalism can effectively address questions of ethics.
I try to write what I think my values are close to every day. They are often not the same, and writing it down helps me consciously align to my values.
GPT is really good for finding insertion points into large-breadth topics where you don't really know where to begin. I've found great joy in asking it particle physics questions. I don't know the math to google the right terms, but it's been really good about taking my layperson questions and translating it into answers that are digestible.
AI gold rush is the new underpants gnomes: https://imgur.com/a/x9isuwO

Nobody's got any idea how that's actually going to turn into a profit but everyone's busy stealing underpants.
Yes, that's fair, Maven did start with a better story than others in terms of authenticity of sources, etc.

Crates.io doesn't even have the concept of an organizational namespace. It's ridiculous.

But Maven still has the broader cultural problem of automatic dep resolution: it's just too easy to go adding deps for every little utility and nifty function or feature or framework.
https://www.sunnynests.com/

Niche real estate portal for foreigners looking to buy a property in Spain.

I’ve built it in Ruby on Rails and hosting on Heroku.

Running free trials for realtors in case anyone’s interested :-)

But I would mostly appreciate feedback about what you are missing from existing real estate portals.
Neat, thanks for sharing. I've forwarded this to all the friendly product owners and other management.
Say Goodbye to False Positives
In the case of USPS, there is a section of the American population who wouldn’t necessarily support better conditions. A relative of mine was a letter carrier. That whole branch of family, who you would think would, qua family, be sympathetic, regularly scoffed at the relatively decent working conditions he had at USPS. Comments like “You can’t tell me that he should be getting over $20/hour just to deliver the mail”.

Some of that was possibly jealousy. But another factor is that unions for public-sector employees have always been more controversial in the United States than unionization in general.
Part 3 :)

Ok so let's talk about your land itself. First time entrepreneurs just kind of randomly end up on a plot of land, due to their prior experience or friends or personal challenges they want to solve etc. Maybe that will happen to have oil under it or not. Maybe the oil is plentiful and close to the surface, or maybe it's deep and small anyways. But often the choice of your land is kind of happenstance.

Meanwhile, hype-driven 'founders' hear some piece of dubious folk wisdom -- "land that has coniferous trees on it tend to have oil underneath" (akin to 'blockchain is the future!!!1') and go buy the first patch of land with conifers on it. Then struggle and struggle.

In contrast, seasoned entrepreneurs spend a lot more time deciding which plot of land to buy in the first place. They'll pick one that has good indications of having oil underneath, although they still won't know how close to the surface or how large the patch might be. They'll conduct surveys and other studies prior to really buying the land. Once they feel like the odds are in their favour, they'll buy the land and start the process of proving there's oil.
You make no sense.
:-) Thanks. And for the lunch I believe it was the correct time but then it added a later event to book it (i.e. after the lunch), maybe at 5pm.