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Concurrency can be done on a singular thread
Rust would still benefit from this with unsafe code. & on that front they need to do some changes since Rust code assumes pointers can be converted to/from usize/isize

https://faultlore.com/blah/fix-rust-pointers
He's not, he's explicitly saying the value to him of his finger is more than £10. The finger is clearly a case where the utility disparity is obvious.
Doesn't that depend on whether time is quantized?
We likely won't see any real effects of this until the next generation of consoles, but I think in 3-4 years it is going to be very interesting to see what happens with gaming.

Putting Nintendo aside since they really don't compete, they are kinda just in their own "Nintendo" space and that isn't a bad thing.

But Sony having some real competition is a good thing. Sony has a bad tendency of anti-consumer tendencies in their gaming space when they are the leader and they get cocky. They did it with the PS3 and they are repeating some of that with the PS5 generation.

Not that Microsoft hasn't engaged in some of their own practices, but at the moment we have a basically unchecked Playstation and that is bad for the gaming industry. We need real competition in the gaming space.

We can argue all day that Microsoft could have built their own studios, but IP is also very important. So are established developers with a certain style of game associated with them.

Will this actually be good for the gaming industry? I don't know. But I know that the current situation isn't good either.
When you take a look with strace to see what is happening it blocks on 'openat' of the file. So it is not the same.
Thanks for checking it out and for the feedback! Definitely agreed that map creation would be nice - something I'd like to get to.
Yep clearly two unbiased sources of information, really a whole variety of worldviews and opinions on those platforms /s
I mean you can plumb that into your diesel truck if you really wanted to. Ever see a RAM Fifteenhunnerd run in vacuum?
Mostly its because Activision/Blizzard is such an obviously shitty terrible company that any deal that sees cool IPs taken out of their hands is seen as a positive thing.
The egodicity term is misused there to begin with.

Ergodicity is not about unequal distribution it is about all every part of the system having same chances of finding gold in the long run.
No. Live them.
That probably depends heavily on the field, there is certainly a huge difference whether you are trying to better understand established physics or whether you are trying to come up with a new theory in an area where we are lacking experimental data.
Did YC have a board seat?
Gumroad is a major exception. They fired almost everyone and took on part time contractors instead.
> now I am using Obsidian

Me too. Ever since starting on plain text methods that I read about a professor using on here, I have experimented with capturing a log of my todos using emacs along with other methods such as iOS Notes, Excel and email.

At the end of the day, I settled on Obsidian because I can sync the vault across my iOS devices and even create separate vaults for work to isolate notes or reminders. It has become a repo for a lot of my notes, ideas and is also designed well.

For day to day, I am able to keep reminders and tasks in the Things app (which shows my calendar, creates tasks from email and make tasks linkable)
And let them eat cake.
Boston Commuter Rail round trips to South Station

https://www.get2sostation.com

https://www.get2sostation.com/test

The latter link renders test buttons with sample addresses.

Basically I solved for my own problem: I live outside of Boston but with family logistics I could be using any one of 5 Commuter Rail stations for my commute to downtown. I needed an easy way to search, visualize, and plan the return timing.

Half baked: I'd love to extend it to North Station too. There's some UX I'd like to resolve. I lean on PositionStack which does not have a great up-time record. Otherwise I enjoyed using the MBTA v3 API, a fun project.
To be clear, I mean that when you apply for jobs, try to convey these trusted people in your life as much as you can about the role - conversations you've had, things you saw on a site visit, public info about the company, and ask whether they see any red flags, esp. as relate to your incompatibilities. Not that you use them as actual connections to find a job.
I used to track things in Evernote, but now I have fallen in love with Obsidian and never looked back (migrated all notes there).

The UI is simple, so I focus on the content. As it is Markdown-based, I am not afraid to be locked in, and I back up everything with git.

I use the Calendar plugin, making creating daily (and weekly) notes easy. With each daily note, I write things in the style of Bullet Journal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hLnY9L1c-M) - all things to do, but started from scratch (so I don't accumulate any TODO debt, which is a nightmare for many of us and people with ADHD in particular). I add all I did that day anyway (whether planned or not) - sometimes an "unproductive" day was full of chores and errands that I had forgotten about but were necessary.

Also, I have folders for drafts (of blog posts and long emails), practical notes (e.g. checklist for traveling), the archive (of re-usable things (e.g. my FB posts I might want to keep).

For me, large files containing everything make me feel lost and confused - all in all, you can easily search Markdown files - be it with Obsidian built-in search, Visual Studio Code, or anything else. YMMV.
Mac OS 10.7 was a downward turning point. That’s when the iOSification started.
Thank you! But I've already done it. I have been constantly refactoring over the three years I've been working on it. My tech debt is minimal at this moment.
That's a fascinating way to live.

I'd love to know what other things you saw one part of and then dismissed fully without further investigation.

Are iPhones unacceptable because they suggest you set a 4 digit pin for access? Aeroplane safety demonstrations? Languages with gendered verbs?
The amount of revisionist history here is a bit absurd.

Let us make it clear. Israel outright denied multiple partition maps. Israel had the advantage of being on the side designing the UN maps too. It is incredibly well known that most of the maps proposed by Israel included Jerusalem as exclusively Israeli territory.

They also allocated more land to Israel than the Arabs, despite having less than half the population.

On average, 60% of the land, going to less than 30% of the population. No fucking shit the Arabs were having none of it.

So no, that's a completely stupid and nonsense argument.

Egypt closing the border? You forgot the time period. Everyone has closed borders. Egypt was one of them. And either way, this is irrelevant. Israel kicked out Palestinians, not Egypt.

Further more, you claim the increase in education is some sort of Israeli achievement. It is not.

It is literally the global trend in literacy throughout at the time. You could literally say the same thing about Japan, China, India.

Finally, Gaza itself.

Look at the west bank. Do you see hamas attacking from there? No. It is from Lebanon and Gaza. Why? Because Palestinians can actually have a life in the WestBank.

Because Gaza is a literal 1:1 open air prison.

Digging wells is illegal, all Gaza water is owned by Israel
Fishing is illegal. All water rights are owned by Israel. (Not a joke)

Exports are almost completely illegal. Imports as well.

Business is mostly illegal, primarily to "stop hamas from acquiring funds".

Immigration is also illegal. You are only allowed to leave with a work visa. Good luck getting one.

Education is practically non existent. Ironically, Israel has literally demolished multiple schools in Gaza.

People born in Gaza basically cannot leave. So you have a poorly educated, frustrated population.

Tons of spare time, nothing they can do. And then along comes Hamas. "Hey kiddo, wanna see the outside world?"
>If you lie to them and keep going for 500k, they can sue you for scamming (or whatever legal term is).

They'll just boardroom coup you and replace you with someone who will hyperscale up.
No one ordered anything. The stores didn't know about KPT.

So they couldn't even take orders for it when the calls hit them.

The intention of the phone-bombing was that the stores would order a bunch of boxes each, of KPT, so that they hit the shelves.

KPT was one of those things that as a Photoshop user, you just had to have in your toolbox at the time.

I.e. even if you just did boring graphics design or classic compositing, there was always a moment when some filter from the plugin would come in handy.

After that KPT hit a critical installed base. I.e. word of mouth and piracy did the rest as far as marketing goes.

Shelve space for software was auctioned-off at the time. Microsoft was number one in buying shelve space ofc.

The closer to the entrance of a shop (or the software area of a department store) and the higher up the shelve your boxes would end up, the more you had to pay.

Now KPT wasn't on any shelve anywhere at all when Uwe pulled this one off.

That changed after.
Not really true. From 500/500 to 1000/1000.
This doesn’t ring true to me. There’s plenty I want to do in accordance with my values and emotional priorities that I fail to do because my organization could be better. Planning to do things further ahead with family and friends would be “living” and yet I often don’t because my planning could improve. I’m sure others have different challenges.
If you enjoy C++ and are productive with it, I don't think there's any need to force yourself to use Go unless you for some reason feel that's a more lucrative job market. I much prefer working with Go over C++. Its test tooling, straightforward syntax, strong opinions, and lack of clutter makes it efficient and enjoyable for me.
yeh and a natural way to remind me to pick up drywall from lowes is to use a reminders app, you know because I have a poor memory.

I'm not sure your method is going to help there.
It's not at all detached. People are manipulative all the time, including using themselves to reduce overall utility. Emotional blackmail is a name given to one variety of this.
wait how do you disable the panning effect? I hate that. I just want the workspace to switch I don't need the stupid visuals that just slow everything down.
If they actually cared about making society better over making a buck, then they wouldn't use an SaaS business model.
"Gimme a high six" is a nice joke considering that neural networks are notoriously bad at generating decent hands.
Kind of true, however Microsoft under Satya really killed the Windows desktop, burned bridges with the Windows developer community, that now has decided to re-focus on Win32, Windows Forms and WPF, ignoring pretty much anything else.

Windows is still the best alternative to expensive Macs (on mosty countries for common folks), or the Year of Desktop Linux right around the corner, but not thanks to Satya.
It's work in progress: https://github.com/Mbed-TLS/mbedtls/blob/development/docs/ar...

Newer version have okay-ish support, I'd guess the next OpenWRT release will have it again.
From the outside looking in, it seems to me that the biggest benefit of YC is the people you get to meet and build relationships with along w/ the advice and feedback and accountability to focus on the things that actually matter to growing a business. These are lessons and relationships that will carry through even if you decide that VC-backed hypergrowth isn't for you and you want a small lifestyle business. Joining YC does not preclude you from doing things differently, but it does provide access to some amazingly smart and capable people that would be hard, if not impossible, to replicate somewhere else.
https://archive.ph/2GyYs
They did allow it previously. They no longer do. I wanted to close it because I don’t want people to find me on GPay and make payments or ask to. It’s become inconvenient as I use a different UPI method. Just because a few don’t care doesn’t mean everyone else shouldn’t either. And any privacy policy must include as a good practice to be able to delete the account as well.
I strongly disagree with the post. YC is the most founder friendly investor I’ve ever met, and they do have founder’s best interest in mind.

Also, their deal allows them to have interests aligned with founder’s if you just stop and read what’s publicly available.

I will always recommend YC.
If you’re a business in Moscow or St. Petersburg and want accurate time, how are you supposed to sync your GPS clocks?
Hey guys,
I'm doing my 1st PH's launch today!

Mystoria is an app that creates fully personalized bedtime stories for children, thanks to AI. You can then generate the audio of the stories and add you own voice!

I would love to have your feedback about it (and support if you like it)

Thanks a lot
> Those who already agree with the indie hacker/no-VC style approach and Daniel's writing appeals to their confirmation bias

Indeed.

Maybe old founders of YC can chime in but I do not think that someone that has that entrepreneurial spirit to have a start-up would gave up to a small-bet approach.

If we count all skills/perks/network of being in a YC program (seeing from the outside) it's a very hard sell to this folks.

There are several folks that at the same time could not take the BigCo. 9-5 could not take the solopreneurship/bootstrap as well.

Personally the idea of small-bets would not work for me due to the nature of my job (low-stress environment, high pay, a job that fits in my lifestyle and transitivity around countries with my set of skills) but I see the point on the approach.
Yes, there are companies specializing in this:

https://www.deepsig.ai/
It is the other way around, as part of a large company you can take 2-4 weeks' vacation without any material impact to your career or companies' performance not so in your own startup. In many cases you can take 1 year sabbatical and join back where you left, with a startup you are tied to weekly and quarterly result.
Ooof sorry about that load time. I had been monitoring the site for most of the day and it seemed to be holding up pretty well. It was probably under a fair bit of load because of this post. Or maybe it happened to be while I was doing a deployment. Do you recall what page that happened on?

As for a direct comparison to Roll20, that makes sense. Maybe I could make a specific landing page for it, as I do want to keep things very welcoming for first timers too.
> But Sony having some real competition is a good thing. Sony has a bad tendency of anti-consumer tendencies in their gaming space when they are the leader and they get cocky. They did it with the PS3 and they are repeating some of that with the PS5 generation.

I'm curious about which "anti-consumer practices" Sony is responsible for, that Microsoft isn't.

So far it seems to me that Sony did acquire some gaming studios, but mostly smaller ones. Microsoft has recently bought two big studios with massive franchises, of which some are already not available for Sony platforms.
My wife is the breadwinner right now, so no missed opportunity from a steady paycheck. It did take me longer to get to this point, though (about three years once I got serious).

I will have spent in the very low 5 digits for lawyers, to comb through my new FOSS licenses ([1], and we're still working on that, so they are not ready yet!) and to set up standard contracts.

Beyond that, less than 5 digits for two beefy computers over that time and longer.

[1]: https://yzena.com/licenses/
This is how bootstrappers market stuff. If we have something interesting to say, we write a blog post and plug our own product, and the blog post is usually not even related to a product. That Joel Spolsky or DHH were writing their posts out of boredom, you think?

People on HN, they first complain about paywalls and then about entrepreneurs mentioning their stuff.

This is not exactly a place full of selfless altruist types.
Tainting the CSAM client-side scanning database
> The reason most successful CEOs are older is due to experience and networks.

What about resources in general? Like, settled and more money to burn?
> Ha'aretz: "The disaster that befell Israel on the holiday of Simchat Torah is the clear responsibility of one person: Benjamin Netanyahu." [0]

Are you seriously thinking Ha'aretz editors don't blame Hamas for what happened? Hamas' blame in this doesn't even need to be stated since its obvious. They brought thousands of "militants" in to murder, maim, kidnap and (allegdely) rape anything they came by.
Placing "the blame" on Netanyahu doesn't absolve Hamas of anything even in the eyes of Ha'aretz editors who are far to the left.
Evaluating GPT-4's Proficiency in Addressing Cryptography Examinations
I feel like this would be easier to read and interpret if the land were darker colored. The yellow and the land colors blend together when some solo hexagons are present.
Dig deep because that's the highest chance of a single or few people hitting gold.

There's not enough time for a single person to dig everywhere and it'd likely be a low payout if they did.

The push is that YC won't find the exact same idea and none others. It's a spread to maximise the tiles of people digging.
The IRS works out payment plans and reduced payments very regularly, for both citizens and corporations alike.
Sophists have an unfairly bad reputation, if you'd just take the time to listen to them uncritically then I think you'll find much of what they have to say very convincing.
I considered that as an issue with being a vc funded startup founder. I could have made that part slightly more clear.

Once again, a much broader issue than just YC! The author could have written the exact same article, just with VC instead of YC.
>The key for me is to reduce tech debt before I release.

Also an indie founder, and I've had the opposite experience.

Early on, I focused a lot on elegant code that would minimize my maintenance burden long-term. Then I read Rob Walling's book, Start Small, Stay Small,[0] and he talked about how programmers are typically afraid of ever taking on tech debt because they've been in orgs that don't allow them to ever pay down tech debt. As an indie founder, you can pay down tech debt whenever you want.

I've found it more useful to accrue tech debt early on in a new project or feature because it's likely that the product will fail or that I won't end up having to touch the feature for years.

Every time I have to work on code that has tech debt, I pay down the tech debt a bit, so eventually the parts of my codebase that see the most change are the most flexible and maintainable. But a lot of my code has tech debt in ways that don't matter because the product flopped or I never ended up having to extend the feature beyond the initial implementation.

[0] https://mtlynch.io/book-reports/start-small-stay-small/
> GPT/UEFI are standards, they are not ruled by Microsoft

- GPT partition uuid's with the "mixed endianess" from Windows COM: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220928-00/?p=10...

- ESP is the FAT filesystem, developed in 1977 for DOS

- LFS vfat extensions so the ESP can have directory entries with lowercase letters or longer than 11 characters. This also pulls in the UCS-2 encoding. Stuff from Windows 95.

- EFI executables are actually windows PE executables

- ... which are hacked on top of a MS-DOS MZ executables (The "This program cannot be run in DOS mode" thing)

- ... and use the Windows64 calling convention

So formally, UEFI is not ruled by Microsoft. Somehow yet all this Windows/MS-DOS stuff ended up in it.
I personally use Obsidian without any community plugins across two vaults, and it works absolutely fantastic. I do not plan to add any plugins to my installation(s) as long as they lack on some aspect pretty horribly.

I was able to consolidate 7 years of office notes divided in two applications in a week, 25 minutes day, into a new hierarchy, and did it with Obsidian as-is. I can't look from the perspective where one needs a month to optimize an application even before writing their first note in it.
Unless you fail to remember about paying bills, taking medications, picking up deliveries, attending meetings, registering on time, filling taxes, not overbooking oneself, etc, etc.

Even though something is one's core value, it is still challenging to focus on executing it. This is especially true for people with ADHD. But most people who accomplish things are able (one way or the other) to organize themselves.
I recall a particular phone app controlling thermostat settings with a beautifully styled row of buttons:

Ⓢ Ⓜ Ⓣ Ⓦ Ⓣ Ⓕ

Wednesday Thursday Friday, indeed.
I've been watching too many Baldur's Gate Youtube videos on how to build a character, and one guy talks about the "power spike" when your character gets a particularly useful ability, like an extra bonus action per turn.

The biggest power spike of genus Homo may have been attaching a rock to the end of a stick. The spear changed our ancestors from sub-apex prey to predators ready to take on a lion in its cave. From meat to masters of all we surveyed. The next power surge of that magnitude may have been nukes.

Yet it couldn't save neanderthalensis from sapiens.
Is the vcs offline first?
The "FAANG bubble" itself employs like 100k engineers and many many more startups and Fortune 500 companies pay >90% as much.
I use text files.
One text file per day, named `yyyy-MM-dd.yml`.

YAML!
Shudder!
But it's the best way I found to enter Markdown with some metadata at the top.

Each day file has multiple Yaml documents, with ids like `yyyy-MM-dd/number`.
I use [ ] for todos and turn them into [x] when they are done.
This way, searching/grepping for `[ ]` gives me a list of stuff not done yet.
I sometimes have a list of things to do in my day.
I move the `[ ]`s to the next day at the end of the current day (or start of the next).

I use Visual Studio Code snippets to enter the metadata.

Example:

---
id: 2023-10-13/1
links:
tags:
project:
text: |
This text field is **Markdown**, not **YAML**.

- first note
- [ ] todo 1
- second note

The `links` item points to other notes by id (it's an array).

The idea of having ids with daily counters is from https://www.soenkeahrens.de/en/takesmartnotes.

[edits: formatting the yaml, mention 'how to take smart notes' book, mention that the `text` is Markdown]
What if a company goes out of business, and fewer remain? Should it be even allowed to close? :)

Mergers are different because they create fewer giants in the place where more smaller companies used to be. In extreme cases, it may have seriously bad consequences for broader public, and this is a reason to prevent a merger, or even split a monopoly. But this should be a rather extraordinary event.