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Show HN: I created an AI board of directors for founders
Most of us founders won’t publicly admit it:

We’re very lonely and stressed.

I know from 20 years of building 4 companies (1 failure, 3 acquisitions).

We can’t be truly transparent with our team, board, investors, twitter, family or friends.

We want to, but can’t.

No matter what we’re thinking or feeling, we have to project strength.

During my entrepreneurial journey I longed for a group of always-available experts that met these criteria:

1. Experienced
2. Trustworthy
3. Kind yet extremely direct
4. Available and affordable

Obviously now with LLMs like gpt-4-1106-preview, we’re unlocking potential to solve this for founders.

As a step in that direction I’ve created a set of 6 GPTs that can act as your own private, confidential board:

CPO, CTO, CRO, CFO, Investor and Coach.

I’ve also open sourced the system prompts so you see how they work.

I’m hoping that this helps founders avoid some of the pitfalls and dark valleys I’ve encountered.

Notes:

* If you want greater privacy you could try running these prompts locally with something like Mixtral-8x7B-v0.1

* The GPTs are free but you need a ChatGPT Plus account ($20/mo)
Would a userscript running in Greasemonkey/Violentmonkey help in this case?

I inject code into every site I visit.
“The evaluation virtual machine includes:
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Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 enabled with Ubuntu installed”
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> Problems start very easy on day 1 (sometimes as easy as just asking for a program that sums all numbers in the input) and progress towards more difficult ones, but they never get very hard: a CS graduate should be able to solve all problems, except maybe 1 or 2, in a couple of hours each.

I think this wildly overestimates the programming skills of the average CS graduate. My estimate of the fraction of CS graduates able to do that is closer to 1%.
Wealth taxes have all kinds of major issues. Many countries have attempted them, such as Sweden, then reversed them, because of adverse outcomes. Primarily, wealth flight. The wealthy can live wherever they want. They often pick Switzerland. In a perfect world we would have an international wealth tax agreement, which would enforce the same wealth tax no matter where the wealthy fled. Because we don't have that, wealth taxes usually result in adverse outcomes.

I think land value tax is much better, and solves a number of other structural economic issues at the same time.
Mostly ones related to text transformation (e.g. changing text style) and feedback (e.g. giving suggestions for how to improve text). A year ago, the ones I tried were useless and dumb. Right now, they work quite well.
While I also don't think autoregressive LLMs will ever gain sentience, I also don't subscribe to the other side of the argument that it;s all a dead end and true(tm) intelligence can never be achieved. Fact of the matter is, we don't know. We don't know why we are sentient, so how can we argue what may or may not lead to sentience when we have a lacking understanding of the inner working of current gen LLMs? A little more humility on what we don't know is in order, from all sides.
RSS is a RFC MUST for it to be called podcast.
Except for if you want to use dual monitors, etc. etc.

Every time I've tried Linux, I've had to dive into the terminal and paste commands from the internet to get normal things to work.
Some years ago i was listening to Viktor Tsoi / KINO music on YT. KINO was a russian band that disbanded in the 90ies.

So several times a week, i got YT Ads in russian. I did not understand a word.
Why are you choosing to ignore the observation that many residents in Vienna report being very satisfied with social housing?

I'm in the US. In the US, you really "have to" buy for the reasons that you enumerate. That doesn't seem to be the case in Vienna.
SGSG = Svelte and Go and SQLite and gRPC
Well, that entirely depends on if the theory and models being used are correct. This article seems to indicate that many of those beliefs did not match reality. I think we should keep looking rather than discount out of hand. There are more things in heaven and earth, after all.
They also provide Parallels Image (but no arm), which is an official authorized solution to run Windows ARM on Apple Silicone https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/options-for-usin...

Weird that they would not include ARM version, considering that Visual Studio for ARM is available too.
In Marx's model, inequality indeed increases. But so does absolute poverty. Marx predicted a future in which a tiny handful of people own everything and subject their workers to slave-like conditions. The latter part hasn't happened; working conditions have improved dramatically over the past few centuries. The middle class, which most Americans are part of, is not something we see in Marx.

There's a fundamental lesson here that Marxists still don't seem to understand: an economy can have lots of inequality and very little poverty and, while not perfect, this is a good place to be.

> I too fail to understand why it's so polarizing for the 99.5% not benefitting from it.

Normal people see a rich guy and think "good for him, he worked hard, is smart and lucky" not "he isn't any better than me, it's unfair that he has more than me". For some reason Marxists think the second thought is admirable.
War is also excellent for business if it disrupts your competitors, and especially in liquid commodities where any shortage immediately bumps prices.

For the major oil exporters any conflict happening in countries involved in oil production or transportation is a benefit, as it greatly bumps their profits at the expense of the oil consuming countries. Arguably some of the conflicts in places like Syria or Libya have been worse than they 'should' have been simply because there's a large financial motivation to send money and weapons to simply stir up trouble so that the global oil price hikes upwards; a major oil producer doesn't even prefer one side of a conflict, it can simply send some weapons to everyone involved and profit because the country and their oil production gets disrupted.

For the major grain exporters, a war happening in Ukrainian wheat fields is a big boon as it raises global grain prices. There IMHO the other interests are even larger, so this is not the decisive factor, but it does add up to many billions worth of incentives that likely are taken into account.

Now on the other hand, disrupting global trade is pretty universally bad for business, so if somebody (e.g. Houthis) attempt that, then we can expect everyone powerful treating them as 'hostis humani generis' i.e. enemy of all mankind, as piracy has been addressed since Roman times.
I suspect that having two WAL files means you can freely checkpoint the one that isn't currently being written to, but that's just a guess.
If only there’s a way to transfer my win oem license which comes with my laptop, I’d totally switch around the host/guest setup and shrink my host windows to a guest vm.
Of course there are always some people striving for power over others. And of course the current billionaires are not as bad as Stalin or Mao. That's not really the question. The question is whether society should strive to prevent individuals from acquiring great power over the masses, and my answer is yes. In other words, even though billionaires are not as bad as dictators, billionaires should still be discouraged rather than encouraged.

What I was arguing against was this: "If one person's ideas and actions brings up the standard of living for everyone else, I'm fine with that person having more wealth." It's not clear that they do bring up the standard of living for everyone else. For example, poor people can't afford to buy a Tesla, so what has Musk done to raise the standard of living for the poor? Let's be honest: Tesla caters to the wealthy. Moreover, as I argued, it's not just about material goods. It's about power. It's also about personal freedom for the masses; how much personal freedom would you trade just to have more material goods?
According to UniFi, my LG washer and dryer have each used 15.9MB in the last month. LG Dishwasher used 3.8MB.
I keep all IOT devices like these on client-isolated WiFi on their own VLAN with a speed limit of 250Kbps. They don’t have access to all the bandwidth they can eat, so they can’t participate meaningfully in a DDOS attack when compromised. 250Kbps is enough for “laundry is done” and “grill is pre-heated” push notifications to squeak through.
No thanks, I'm good.
Birds fly very differently from planes, yet both fly.
FTA: "Showing an unhelpful error message and then requiring a user to delve into the world of the command line to fix things. What is this? Linux?"

What did the author want, a button to push for each solution to every possible exotic error, even critical ones that would require to resize a system partition from a running OS? Seriously!? Of course one solve this through the command line.

Or, if that wasn't what the author meant, then he may have to upgrade his Slackware 4.0 install, because a thing or two have changed in the Linux world.
> Even those of us dabbling in stocks must find this increase mind-boggling

No, those of us invested in tech stocks have also seen large double digit returns this year alone.
It's abstractions all the way down.
> My experience with Emacs is that it is a giant kluge, whereas Smalltalk and its kind are much more streamlined and simple.

Yeah, and guess which one is *actually* widely used and still relevant today?
> eaten by you, taxes, and inflation

Taxes and inflation one can measure (reasonably) objectively, but personal spending is always going to vary wildly. Say one gets 10% in the stock market over the long term, let's say inflation is 4% so that's 6% after inflation, and say 4% after taxes[0].

Median personal income is $40k, and median family income is $75k (2022 dollars). That means an individual would need $1M in savings, and a family would need $1.875M. Which is a fair bit of money, and anybody who accumulates it will probably be accustomed to a higher-than-median lifestyle.

>As a society, we should prevent "escape capital" to be a thing.

No, we shouldn't, because in normal language this is called "retirement". Somebody who has saved enough to retire has reached "escape capital", and this is something we should be trying to encourage more broadly. As you say this is out of reach for most, so what we should be trying to do is get more people to reach this threshold, not less. Many have suggested a wealth tax; I'm personally in favor but I think it's unconstitutional (in the US)[2].

[0] If one is funding their lifestyle they would need to sell stock/collect dividends, which would be taxable.

[1] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/SEX255222

[2] I am not a lawyer or constitutional law expert. Although I'd be willing to bet that the current SCOTUS would find it unconstitutional.
Was this in the past decade or before?
> a fourth one replaced by a voucher for a 450km taxi ride

When can I move to Germany ?

In the UK if your train gets cancelled its either:

1. "Tough shit. Suck it up buttercup"
2. The infamous Rail Replacement Bus Service

Most of the time option two doesn't even get offered.

So yeah, you would not find me complaining if the train company offered me a taxi voucher if my train was cancelled !
Bushfires, cyclones, floods, extreme heat and the biggest thunderstorms you'll ever see. Yeah I'd say that's severe weather.
Note that there are tools to restore the win10 taskbar in 11. I use startisback, but there are more. Also be sure to use a privacy tweaker!
There can be many readers simultaneously, but only ever one writer at a time.
I had issues with GCP too, including bricked projects, but I appreciate more about it than Azure, the permission model in particular is great if you want to limit the damage fully independent teams (with... an inventive spirit) can do while making resource sharing much easier across boundaries than AWS accounts or Azure subscriptions. And even though the first answer to a ticket is always useless, at least you get something useful within 24 hours, whereas Azure support feels like I'm talking to ChatGPT sometimes, inventing issues in services I didn't request support for that sound similar (VPN Gateway turned into API Gateway) and then going silent for a week.
Looking forward to see if this helps other founders.
Nice explanation, and the contradiction kind of blows away. Or does it? Strength everywhere seems to guarantee peace, but only on certain time scales. It's like playing go, where one should not throw oneself at strength. Yet turn by turn, the board shrinks, and conflict is inevitable. Perhaps strength does kind of tend to minimize the total amount and duration of conflict though
When governments arent printing money to dump into military contracts and war-making they are doing it for green energy, and guess what vcs are chasing after. Vcs aren't the origin just the benefactors. If world peace was on the us bidget they'd be chasing after those dollars
I remember those. I was more of a noob back then so instead of all the fiddling I often just used Browsershots.
Here is one more: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/patterns
That's usually not the full error message, and you can still easily find the number's meaning by opening the man page of wathever piece of software terminated with that exit code.
The OP wants an solution that scales and propagates the config fast.
Kubernetes uses etcd to propagate config changes, and that uses the raft algorithm. Like kubernetes the OP can use etcd or another application to propagate the data to the relevant applications.
For anyone taking this as inspiration, I would recommend spending good money on a comfortable ergonomic chair and a decent headphone setup instead. 95% as good as an S-tier speaker and room setup, for about 0.005% of the price, and you can go from nothing to audio bliss in 6 months or less instead of 60 years.
> but one or the other must be true.

they are neither mutually exclusive, nor even related.

You have a key that opens a door to a house you dont own. Do you have permission, just because you got a key, to go in?

You lost a key to a house you have already been given permission to go in. You found out that there's actually a master key that you can get in the black market, which you buy to open that door to go into the house.
It's something, sure. But it is still a major fuck up, so them seeing fit to throw us some scraps (for a paid product!) is nothing to appreciate. Maybe I'm reading things into your comment that you didn't mean to say, in which case I apologise.

We should hold Microsoft accountable for borking installs and coming up with a half-assed fix even if it is a complex problem. They're in the lead on the desktop OS market and make billions upon billions of dollars that way. They should do better.
Yes, it make less sense 15 years ago. I got some help from the government with the loan. IIRC, I calculated the break even in 7-8 years. In fact, I also bought a sun tracker, because at the time it was cheaper than to buy more panels.
Because it would be the regular themtube and not YouTube.
Thanks for adding detail, but the idea would be to avoid having to group them into a trains at all -- the containers would powered (like a rail gun) and be "shot" straight through the rail system as they're placed on the track.
I think you should maybe be less confident in your statements if you actually don't really know. Highlighting _deliberately written_ when it was anything but.. well, that's confident bullshitting, LLM style, ironically.
Hey! Some of us still use Linux the old "hacker command line" way
Also our Penrose 3.0 release post from July 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36746047
You are reinforcing a market driven by incorrect principles, it's got nothing to do with you. You are voting with your money and you are voting for something that shouldn't exist in the way it exists.

Easiest way to be a revolutionary is to not do something in this case. The market will self correct if you show them it's wrong. At this point you, an informed technical user, are doing a disservice to the uninformed public by continuing to support products that are arguably evil by design.
This article is a plagiarized copy of one of the “citations”. Pretty sad
And then it becomes very tedious to service them. Or some guy digs a hole in front of his house and suddenly half of the county is without power, with that guy in intensive care. To say nothing of the fact than in 20 or 30 years' time everyone will have forgotten which cables are buried where, because that happens all the time, almost everywhere.
The main database file, the WAL, and the second WAL. Though I do agree with you that I also think about this as double-buffering, as I think of the database file as the screen.
Yes, but the corrupt people running that shitshow try to prevent anyone from doing such things because it makes them look bad and might cut into the profits they're extracting from the lifeless body of South Africa's infrastructure.

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023-04-06-frankfort...

In that instance or another owners of a solar farm even provided their excess power to the town free of charge.
Animating 3D models isn't safe from AI either: https://youtu.be/8oIQy6fxfCA?si=8Vy0p4LNAm6r547D

It's not just NVIDIA, Ubisoft also has some very impressive research in this area. I believe Ubisoft has already implemented some of the new tech in their recent games - it makes sense, they have hundreds and hundreds of people work on their games and they require huge amounts of animation, any savings there are going to be huge for them.
It's "surprising" how bad the important metrics are even when it's technically so easy to get better ones. "years in the making"
The Big Ring Circus
Making them? Sure. Sharing them on chinese owned social network? I'd be very very surprised.
I totally agree with you that YT has enabled a lot of really talented people to be successful and creative in a whole new way, and has opened up opportunities for many people all around the world to live profitable lives, where before TV channels were the gatekeepers of that creativity.

But the ad supported model seems to have slipped past the fair-to-viewers into the completely obnoxious and unbearable to nearly all viewers, so something has to give. Additionally it seems like content producers are getting a smaller amount than they used to get so it's less of an attractive platform, probably more so since the competitors showed up.
Interstellar travel is only going to work if we're using much more powerful propulsion techniques than we currently are. I don't think gravity assists will help much in that case. I still think it's a boon to have a lot of interstellar bodies though, they are certainly easier to reach than the nearest stars and they could be just as interesting. Who knows what kind of weird, icy worlds might exist out there heated only by radioactive isotopes and tidal forces?
You should learn more about evolution if you think there aren't any similarities.
Fedora with Gnome is a good choice.
I've been living in Puerto Rico for 5 years now where power outages are so common (monthly at a minimum) that I decided to go fully off grid and its been an eye opening experience.

I think if I moved back to the mainland, I'd still bring some of the preparations I do here like:

* Having a transfer switch for a generator that powers small parts of the house
* Solar panels -- They are too cheap not to. It at least gives you power for five or six hours a day even if you don't have batteries or a generator.
* Cistern for water. Having a few hundred gallons of water storage is a game changer when there is a power outage and the water can't get to your house.
I don’t understand why this is a controversy when frequent users of YouTube can pay for an ad-free version.
Why does it shut down every hour? If it ships with VS and all that, presumably they want me to develop on it? And if they want me to develop on it why would I want to be interrupted every hour?

Or is this so that I can spin up boxes for free (no Windows licenses) in my CI pipeline, so long as the build takes less than an hour?
Last time I checked the mailing list there was a bit of activity.

It hasn't got much activity there, but it's not dead.
> Paying for premium would go a long way to improving the situation for everybody

The recent change to Amazon Prime, where everyone using "Prime Video" was already "paying for prime video", which recently added advertising, with a new $2.99/month no ads option, implies that even if everyone "paid for premium" the siren song of advertising money would be too difficult for Google/YT to ignore, and even premium would then eventually begin to be infested with advertising.
No, I fully agree, the idea being that there’s a standard set of analytics and a way to report on them that apps can openly support.

Granted the odd ball out would be Apple and if they’d support the analytics in their podcast app, but much like Apple’s podcast directory is the defacto directory, there’s an opportunity for a better, OPEN, solution.

EDIT ADD: I’d be surprised if every podcast app doesn’t already collect a robust amount of analytics on listening, they just don’t report it where podcast owners could see easily.
It literally gave the wrong error message?

> Unfortunately, according to Microsoft, "because of an error in the error code handling routine," this might not be the correct error.
You can power it on over lan, right?
Yup. These are the people society put in charge with keeping us informed. They'll probably need to take jobs are janitors once ai replaces them, as they are prime candidates given how unreliable their writing is.
The duodecimal meme needs to die. Base 12 is not that much better than base 10. Yes it has more integer divisors (2, 3, 4, 6) than base 10 (2, 5) but there's only two reasons to care about that.

The first one is to split a batch of something: there's more ways to split 12 of something than 10 of something, but you can use base 10 and still do things in batches of 12.

The second reason is for easy divisibility checks, but for that all that matters is prime divisors. Base 12 and base 10 have the same number of prime divisors 2 and 3 versus 2 and 5.
But base 10 has an interesting property here, because 10-1 is 9, which is a power of 3 you get somewhat easy divisibility rules for both 9 and 3. 12-1, on the other hand, is 11 which is prime so you only have a relatively uninteresting divisibility rule for 11.

I think at best you can claim that 12 is about as good as 10. Base 60 would be strictly better than base 10 if it weren't for the fact that we can't easily memorize multiplication tables for base 60.
The traditional way of teaching dynamic programming worked well in the traditional CS curriculum that had a lot more mathematics than today. It leveraged what the students had already learned at that point.

Take the definition of the problem. Transform it into an equivalent definition that looks like the inductive step in a proof by induction. Look at the partial order defined by the dependencies between the subproblems in the inductive step. Solve the subproblems in an order that is consistent with the partial order. (For bonus points, find an order that is asymptotically faster in easy situations, such as when the edit distance is small. You may have to rule out paths that cannot be part of an optimal solution.)

That's first or second year mathematics in the traditional curriculum.

Today, and actually since the 90s or maybe even earlier, many CS students have no particular interest in mathematics. Classes that rely on mathematics have to spend less time on the actual content, as they have to cover the prerequisites and find alternate ways of explaining things.
Why not by outright taxing it? IMHO that would be the most effective and least overhead way to achieve what you want.