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> How can people ... adult, not in their early 20s etc ... afford to quit their job, and still feed themselves and family and pay mortgage ... to go off for months to a year to build a product to bootstrap something like that?

They can’t. That’s why bootstrap capitalism is largely a myth. When you scratch the surface what you often find is inherited wealth. If a person starts with a free house or a million dollars they have a massive advantage.
Microsoft under Satya has really stepped up. Gaming is now larger than TV and Movies in terms of revenue. I know their cloud rollout didn't work as anticipated, but if they get this acquisition right they will have a money printer for the next decade.
>submarine startups out there sitting on top of full downloads of Common Crawl, archive.org, etc. who are only too happy to let OpenAI be the first penguin off the iceberg.

Not sure any startup would be ok with sitting on a potentially gamechanging model.

Google/Facebook? Maybe?

Amazon's LLM efforts are pretty much in shambles
Your project looks really neat. I wish for a browser that only connects to localhost and never makes network calls under any condition, so that it’s purely the interface to a desktop app without compromise of security or privacy. A less important wishlist item if for browsers to render a DOM from an extended markdown instead of HTML so that accessibility and semantics are always correct by default.
Large plain text file, with Things app to take on-the-go notes.
Are you suggesting the recipient found another Activation Locked laptop, presumably stolen, that somebody was keeping "for parts", swapped the keyboard for a Japanese keyboard, sent OP that locked laptop and wiped/kept their laptop?
I am not persuaded by this article.

I am not 22 and I have never gone through YC, but many friends have. I would urge any young founders to try to do the same.

The reason most successful CEOs are older is due to experience and networks. YC, even if your startup fails, gives you both in spades. It also gives you some financial stability you might not otherwise have to attempt this moonshot. If you don't have capital to spend on pay-to-access communities let alone fund a startup then YC makes a good offer.

If you manage to fail and pivot multiple times, you've just had a crash course in multiple areas, maybe even multiple industries. If you can't get lucky, you can at least get wise.

So the "you" in this article might actually apply to me. I'm older, I could self-fund my own work for quite a while, and be happy with a modestly successful business. But the "you" in this article is not general. If "you" are young, hungry, willing to sleep on floors, eat ramen, and want to pursue your dream with a possibly naive passion, then yes. You should join Y Combinator.
Well, Congress wanted it to act more like a private company...
This is ignoring the whole tanker full of liquid oxygen part of the equation.
That's true, but only if you actually have a rocket. You probably don't: you have a VW bug, or maybe a BMW. Almost no one has a rocket.

You're right, I think. What I get reading this thread, and other sources, is that VCs will trash perfectly good VWs and BMWs trying to turn them into rockets. The reason being that only rockets have value to them. VW and BMW business are failures. E.g. a .1% chance at $1B is actually worth far more to a VC than a 100% chance at $1M even though the EV is the same.
Was a graphics and lead app engineer on many of the Kai line of products at the time.

So much fun. And polarizing for sure - but more fans than detractors, and the business didn't fail because of lack of interest. Way more sordid/gossip-y and sad unfortunately.
In GNOME you can switch off overlay scrollbars in Settings > Accessibility > Seeing.
Apple didn't support Vulkan at all so that would be an easy task :p. Asahi's OpenGL support is now extending farther than Apple's on macOS though, which is problematic if you don't want to use Metal or one of the comparability layers for it. A big difficulty was dropping 32 bit, and now having ARM as the primary architecture (though Rosetta 2 will work surprisingly well).
Lots of people don't make it past by basic algebra, let alone basic calculus.
Hmm I wonder if that could just be a simple keyboard replacement given the modularity of the Frameworks.
> Personalized learning can feel isolating. Whole class learning can feel personal.

can, can

Can't the author say anything more definitive than can?

> Whole class work can feel personal. I consider it proven by Liz. QED.

This is transparently misleading. Anybody who has been in school knows that every school has a couple of gifted, charismatic teachers who can make just about anything feel exciting and compelling to students.

Name a learning methodology that can't feel personalized and stimulating if you find the teacher charismatic. I just proved everything works. QED.
Yup, my high school's "CS" courses were: typing, Microsoft Office, and HTML. The only programming lesson I got was from doing one chapter of "Learn Visual Basic in 24 hours" that I bought. I didn't know what programming even meant until I went to college and CS was the degree for "computer people". Even then, I thought it was going to be about becoming a sysadmin, not a programmer.
This is true of most debt instruments but explicitly not SAFEs, which do not have an interest rate.
Isn't "champignon" just French for "mushroom"?
HN is quasi-subjectively run, which IMO makes it better.
I wondered about that. My understanding is that the models were trained to look for letter shapes, not words. And that the models couldn't produce known words unless they were trained on the language. If it wasn't trained on a substantial text body, a model producing letter sequences that form known words means it found something and didn't hallucinate.
Rich parents; Google, Amazon et al were started in a garage.

This is what I don't get about today; just owning a house with some extra space, an internet connection, and being young and not having to work because your parents can support you into your 20's already gives people a huge advantage.

But loads of people enter their 20's deep in debt, living paycheck to paycheck, etc. Little or no innovation can happen in those conditions, let alone starting families and the like.
Likely because they thought it was the one they were most likely to be able to win; these are usually pretty narrowly focused.
Charging for insecure systems incentivizes selling those same systems to customers.

Soon you’ll have sales guys regaling how this unified root password system is extremely convenient and you’re one of the few companies who provides this single-signature-security-system (S4 compliance). Next thing you know someone will gain an software patent on this to ensure no one else can provide it.
How can people ... adult, not in their early 20s etc ... afford to quit their job

Depending on what you did the first 20 years of your career, it isn't unreasonable to be 45 and have enough savings that going without pay for 12 months is feasible, especially if you come from a well off background. This is doubly true if you have a partner that also has a job. Also at 45 you hopefully have enough professional contacts that getting a new job if your business fails isn't impossible.

Another option is to bootstrap in your free time and then quit your job once you have your first customer. I've had at least a couple of colleagues that have done that.
What is your dream exactly? To have a startup idea, get funding and live the scrappy life of building a billion dollar company? If so, probably don't do it.

If your dream is pick up a skill like web development and join (or build your own) company, then totally give it a shot.

You don't need to do it in the valley either.
Ultimately the courts and police enforce. Many laws aren’t enforced.

So if you think the knuckle shaped screwdriver is actively harming the population, then you can go to court.
Fire the guy that dug the hole he was told to dig.
For an anecdotal story Bingo Card Creator was a lifestyle business having a large amount of customers and a stable cash flow. Then he moved forward an SEO consultant like business model which was rather successful after making Bingo Card Creator and eventually tried to do a startup with Y combinator trying to gamify hiring but then failing (and IIRC he downsized his lifestyle during the startup) but I think he moved forward and is doing well.
ok, so spacex knows where you are, who you are, etc, but not what you are doing. traffic is fully encrypted, so they dont know if its a phone call, text message or web page your hitting... add in Tor or something like that and things are a little more private... yes, the knowing where you are and who you are is iffy, but at least the end data is encrypted...
That's a problem with YouTube's business model then. If a business wants to make money, then charge for it, just as businesses have done for thousands of years. Don't tiptoe around the issue and hide prices by presenting it as "free" and get mad when people take that literally. YouTube can very well be Premium-only and they'll see how much their service is actually worth to people.
Notice that the areas allocated are not continuous most of the area is a desert (the entire southern region). It also doesn't mention who owned the rest of the land so the 7% number isn't valuable.
Distros SHOULD be theming all applications. Once thing a distro can do well is create a theme for their distro so everything looks the same.

Maybe distros are not doing a good job of this, but that is one thing they have the power to do. QT, GTK2, SDL, wxwidgets, and more toolkits I can't even think of should all fit together on my desktop and look the same. xfce, gnome, and kde all have some nice apps, they should mix and match. This is a HARD problem, but that isn't an excuse to not face it.
Online payments have become the norm and this presents business' with both opportunities and challenges for payment processing.

The way payments are managed can significantly impact a company's bottom line, customer satisfaction, and overall success. This is where payment orchestration steps in.

Imagine a scenario where a customer visits your online store, browses through your products, adds items to their cart, and proceeds to checkout. As they're about to make a purchase their payment gets declined! Frustrated and confused, they abandon their cart, and you lose a potential sale. This situation is not uncommon and highlights the critical importance of payment orchestration.
Yep OS X wasnt til 2000/2001 and absolutely NOT smooth even on relatively new high end Macs at the time.

OS 8 and 9 were winXP like in terms of desktop effects - no soft anything.
Back then we would talk about UI when we meant UX. The KPT plugins had a very odd visual design but the way that you could iterate patterns and processes on an image was unheard of.

People also look at the designs that the filters made and didn't think about how they could be used as selection channels and other ways of manipulating an image. Kai's original work was about using selection channels in Photoshop to create stunning effects and while you could use his tools to create a background or a texture they could also be used to manipulate the colour and tone in images in really incredible ways.
You can get 500k as a normal employee. Why bother with the startup risk to make that amount?

It's just glorified contracting at this point.
ML feels like an overkill for a single signal. If you want to process large, wideband scans, you could iterate over peaks and check things like: does phase shift create any interesting set of points, does PLL find consistent amplitude keying, does the frequency move around the centre. That covers 99% of what you're going to find in the wild. The first part (transform the signal) is definitely not great for ML, but the second part (does the result look like set of points / digital on/off key / voice) could be classified that way.

There are some existing projects like https://github.com/randaller/cnn-rtlsdr (that one tries to identify more specific tv signals though)
How media amplified an unconfirmed story [video]
This video is excellent. About halfway through I was thinking, "Oh so this is like RAW for video" and then seconds later he gets to explaining how it's not exactly RAW.
Email. All my notes, plans, todos, reminders (via snooze/send later) are in the email. I also use calendar to keep the family in sync. My current "life database" (i.e. inbox) is on the iCloud (like everything else, so it is good for Legacy Contact, when I pass away), though it was in google workspaces before and it can be on anything else in the future (including self-hosted server).
Does it then pay a service and cheap the change?
Depending on the frequency and source maprad.io may be more useful for identifying signals.
As a fellow YC founder, I agree with everything you've said here. This article wrongly characterizes the YC experience. I think the author is attempting to apply a normal VC incentive structure to YC, but YC positions itself a little differently in the landscape.
Whatever the monitor, you will want to adjust it after buying. Default ‘showroom’ settings are much too bright unless you're working outdoors. Start with something like https://www.photofriday.com/info/calibrate or http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test

For me, with (mostly-corrected) astigmatism and some (uncorrectable) higher-order aberration, dark on light is the only thing I can read fluently. The worst case is ‘black holes’ on a light page, as are fashionable for illustrating command line examples (and f—ing github's CI log view), especially combined with Las Vegas syntax colouring of varying brightness.
How does that solve the problem of links pointing places where you don’t expect them to, or any of the other issues in this article?

The problem here is trying to cross a security boundary where your only tool is shell scripting. That’s just basically impossible to do securely.

Use a real programming language, follow the rules required to make it secure and do all the checks you need to.
I have been working on a a bunch of disconnected "smart" bicycle dashcam ideas.

See https://www.hotelexistence.ca/bicycledashcam/ for version 5, which was just blind spot monitoring. I've also played around with license plate recognition and depth mapping.

Primarily, for me, this is a just a fun exercise.

Looking at exploring:
- Recognize the license plates of the cars around you. From a picture, it would look at the plates on all the cars, and then associate a plate number with the picture
- Record the speed of the cars around you
- Record the proximity of the cars around you
- A driver readable display, ie: “Driver ABCD1234, your current speed is 45”. Like a mobile Toronto Watch Your Speed program sign. Would a driver allow a cyclist more space if they were aware their actions are being logged?
- Log this data on a remote server
- Share this data, with a group. Perhaps associate “near miss” data from many cyclists, and identify troublesome areas, or troublesome cars.

Offtopic: this is a cool project, not mine, that crowdsources car passing distance https://www.openbikesensor.org/en/
USPS will make you deliver in hurricanes so yeah.
I'm running jellyfin server on an old NUC (but you can use any piece of hardware or even your main computer). My android and iOS devices (including 2 TVs) have the jellyfin client. I can watch movies/TV shows anywhere and resume on another device anytime.
> ” I can't afford to rely on 26 lifetimes. But maybe you think you’re special. You’re not like those 3,950 dummies who failed. Maybe you are in fact special, but I wouldn’t rely too much on that. Business is much more random than it seems. If business was predictable, YC wouldn't have a measly 1.25% success rate, or thereabouts.”

This argument is very disappointing and dishonest. The piece repeatedly implies and assumes that every YC-funded company that isn’t currently valued at over a billion dollars is a failure for the founder.

This ignores the fact that many companies are still growing and will cross that threshold in a few years. It’s also not an honest representation of all the smaller acquisitions to call them “failures”.

Twitch’s acquisition wasn’t quite for a billion, but it was a massive success for its founders. There are many other companies that exited in the 9-figure range, for which this is true. Plenty of others excited in the 8 figure range and were still better outcomes than if the founders had just remained employees. Even those whose startups went to zero usually end up fine in terms of career.

What percentage of Daniel’s students have built unicorns? Have any or are they all, by his own metric, “failures”?
Maybe parent is referring to "Launch HN" posts (https://news.ycombinator.com/launches), which features YC startups.
I know a lot of people who have covered their camera with tape. Some laptops even come with a physical shutter. This is something company policy often recommends - if the camera is physically covered an attacker can't see the next product we are working on.
I realize the CMA is a UK agency and we might be talking specifically to that. Now, with that said, I don't think anyone in the US should take it seriously. Even if they fix latency and the jank, there will still be data caps. Most of the US lives with them. Game streaming will not be able to take off until we fix our infrastructure and regulations thereof.
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Maybe a better analogy is nitromethane. If you put it in your honda civic, you will blow up your engine. You put it in a top-fuel dragster which cranks out thousands of hp and needs an engine rebuild after each race.
There's a massive number of small businesses in the US owned by immigrants that came to the US with fairly little. It's fair to say you prefer a regular job or VC money to the hell those immigrants went through but that is different than it being even close to impossible.
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This is not a very good analogy because it assumes there is only one option if you build a rocket.

A founder should get funding through selling equity (to VCs) if the risks are high. If the risks are low, the founder get funding through debt, even if you're "building a rocket". Or bootstrap, if possible.

What every VC dreams is to get equity in a low-risk venture. Because the return is high, but the risk is low. That's why there is so much marketing that convinces founders to pay with equity.
You don't need to do those things though. I'm almost 40, I like programming. I do it for fun in my own time. I've got couple of projects that earn around a 1/3 of my salary every month without doing too much more with then. I plan on making a few of those. Some will fail, some will succeed. I still get to pick what I work on and enjoy doing it. If they all fail then it doesn't matter too much.
Rohde & Schwarz ran a contest on this idea a while ago. I can't find a link with a quick google, but I'm pretty sure I'm not making it up -- if anyone here knows more I'd love to know what came of that.
> what authority do they have

Board seats, which are often a condition of investment at series A and later rounds.
Sorry, but your reply is very misleading - you're linking the blog post of the release of the original DALL-E through OpenAI's own website (which was in 2022 - centuries ago by the current AI trends). The one integrated in Paint is DALL-E 3, and there's no separate pricing for it yet:

- It's available to most ChatGPT plus subscribers (very soon to be all of them), the subscription costs the same as it did before

- It's available for free in Bing Image Creator, with optional "boosts" that speed up generation (more can be redeemed with Microsoft Rewards)

- And now it's available in Paint as a part of their Windows Copilot update, for which they have not talked about pricing at all (Microsoft 365 Copilot has pricing, but it provides different services and is meant for companies)
I am giving away my code as FOSS, so I'm doing the following, in this order:

1. Charging for bug reports or feature requests.

2. Support. (And I have great examples of public support as marketing.)

3. Consulting. (This would be exclusively to help companies trying to use my software, but unlike support, it would be about writing the stuff that uses my software and ensuring the client understands it so that I could do a handoff. The result would be carefully commented and documented code, probably just short of literate programming [1].)

4. SaaS. (If I did this, the server might not be FOSS, but the client would be, and it would use encryption.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
Already joined HN.
Perhaps my answer is a bit unconventional. I try to run my life around the idea of "challenges", and internal/external obstacles I need to "overcome" to get to the next stage. I try to put everything I am doing under a larger "overcome challenge" framework. When there is a concrete story I want to complete, something I wish to accomplish, it is just much easier to get going. Also, I encourage the people around me to identify and take challenges seriously. Humans are natural problem solvers and story addicts.
It’s very funny and strange that one of the defining characteristics of modern GUI design is that everything is very large. Lots of whitespace, buttons twice as tall as the cursor, windows that have to be maximized in order to see more than seven lines of content, and yet the scrollbars are the size of a toothpick.
Email + Calendar on my own domain, with Google Workspace.

Edit: domain is .com (I don't trust ccTLDs) and paid for 10 years.
It's hard to take advice from someone peddling their own course.

I will say I'm probably somewhat biased as, we went through YC, and yes if you don't want to be VC-backed, then don't do it. Maybe the title should be "You shouldn't raise Venture Capital, buy my course instead!"

That being said, the beauty of YC, SAFEs, and seed funding is you don't have anyone on your board. You get to decide what you want to build, how you want to build it, etc... The point of joining YC and raising money is because it helps you figure out what to build/not to build, and to build faster, and YC is REALLY good at helping you sort that out.

There are founders out there who realized they've built a product that doesn't have the unicorn potential and pay back their investors. I'm pretty sure Daniel worked at Gumroad for a bit, and that's what Sahil did.

Again I find it really hard to take advice from folks who have "something better" to sell you.
Joel is not wrong. Sometimes using a tool that Kai had input into was troubling at first. The KPT and MetaCreations tools were always about creating an intuitive way to create and iterate and the UIs attempted to do that. The dialogs etc did look weird but then most UIs back then looked like hell to be honest. Or at least boring.
If you own a business with $500k profit then you can sell it for a multiple of that.

You also have the option to automate yourself out of a job or hire someone to reduce the time you need to spend on the business.

As an employee you trade time for money with no ability to sell or reduce your workload.
The fact that they mentioned it means they haven’t otherwise they wouldn’t have said it. All the VCs I know want to make money but ALSO want to leave a positive impact on society and the world. The “Do Good” is on the forefront of their minds.

Sustainability. Renewals. Finding more novel and safer ways to do something risky. There’s a lot more that goes into decisions than money. Faith in leadership is another.