skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote about morality here and business in another thread, but the gist is:

The stories that you hear with hard work, finding a niche, product market fit, build a great product are all lies.

The true secret is what I think of as "dirty business".

Think: spam, sex, gambling, money making, scraping data, connections (which are not dirty per se but often not mentioned in stories).

Examples:

LinkedIn: spam Snapchat: sex Google: money making Facebook: sex, spam Slack: connections Uber: connections, money making Airbnb: spam

I can go on and on and almost any large scale success (over $10 million ARR) have had these things.

The only time these can be broken is when a new paradigm starts:

Examples:

PC Internet Mobile LLM

These usually happen every decade or so and you have ~2 years to make it (Dirty business also helps here to go really fast).

The other key insight is the way the capitalism system works, if you achieve the initial growth, you almost always will succeed. To go from $10 million ARR to $100 million ARR is easy as pie.

So, the bottom line is if you are a normal, moral person, who is righteous and thinking I will make something to help others and disrupt the world, you will fail.

The alternative is small tech businesses which at the most you can sell for a few million dollars. That is still achievable and easy. You must hyper focus on a location and a niche and just sell to them. But I don't think of them as a startup. They are more like your local salons and restaurants. A mom and pop shop which is instead dealing in software.

For B2B software you need to have at least 3 - 5 customers willing to sign $10,000 and above contracts before you write a single line of code. This is still possible but you need the connections and the deep insight of the industry to make something meaningful.

I do not know why so much of the literature and teaching stuff discounts that initial spark which causes startups to grow. They are all lies. Focus on connections with local politicians (donate $10,000 to the up and coming politician?), movers and shakers, buying large amount of scraped data etc. Think dirty business and then maybe you will have a chance of succeeding.

Would love any counter arguments and comments. This is from a very long, over a decade research into why some businesses succeed and others fail.
That’s sweet of you to say, but it’s because I’m pushing 40 and my eyesight isn’t what it once was.
That's really the only proper solution for this problem.
Me too. I think I bought it in middle school because I thought computers were cool. I don't think I ever flowcharted anything.
Most things like interstates are actually concrete highways with an asphalt overlay giving the best of both worlds. Concrete is noisy, insanely so. Having asphalt over concrete gives a much smoother and quieter driving surface. Also most repaving of this type of road involves a rolling lane closure these days. They'll setup and operation generally at night that reclaims the old asphalt, sweeps the highway, sprays down a new sealer and then covers with new asphalt in a single convoy.

When you have actual lane closures for any amount of time it has little or nothing to do with asphalt/concrete itself but actual infrastructure repair of the subbase.
FFS - talk about missing the point.
It's not perfect, but it's tolerable, and not unlike some real-world calls where there's a slight delay. There are some "Hmm ..." and "well ..." scripted in as well to make it feels natural if there is a long response.
I've been "self-employed" for the around 3-4 years now, mostly building UXWizz[0]. It's not really sustainable at the moment, due to the lack of marketing. I still get sales somehow by focusing mostly on the product development, but this year I will try to market it more. I don't plan to grow it into a huge business, just enough to be comfortably sustainable ($10k/mo from the current ~$2k/mo).

[0]: https://www.uxwizz.com
It has to be going on at least a decade right? Is it really a trend?
Like exposure therapy for people afraid of sales. Very nice idea.
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I would say you should pay attention to who you're talking to. Some cops are that cartoonishly bad. My wife worked retail at TMobile and had cops come into the store at times trying to get information about customers. Most of them would accept the corporate policy and go talk to legal about the information they needed. One police officer started having a meltdown, sweating profusely, got visibly angry, and made her present her ID whereupon he wrote down her driver's license number, address, full legal name, etc.. She spent the next month or so dreading what he was going to do in retaliation. All because she redirected him to their legal department for information about a customer.
It is all about priorities. Do you want a feel good law that requires final price, or to pay less? I've just priced same import car in US and Australia. Yes, the manufacturer website in Australia lists all junk fees (Appointment fee???) upfront. But I'd rather deal with a surprise "doc fee" and pay 33% less.
Solitary confinement is commonly accepted to be a form of torture, and that usually involves rudimentary sanitation and nourishment. A confined, solitary, starving child living in its own excrement is being tortured, and I defy anybody to argue otherwise.

Also, confinement is not an "act of omission" any more than punching somebody in the face and then leaving them alone forever after is an act of omission.
Asphalt roads cost about half as much as concrete roads to build, and are vastly easier to maintain (you can resurface asphalt, while concrete requires slab replacement).
> And I don't think it's OK to incept a sort of unqualified counter-meme of "look here, a woman with fake achievements".

To her credit, she was very open about how little she had done and the fact that she was little more than an observer who was present (at least in some of her most noted stunts). She does have significant achievements as well, but these are greatly overstated. She was poor and ungifted pilot (by her own account) that happened to have the fortune to allow her to be idle and spend a lot of money to keep trying to become an adequate pilot (she required far more training than others by her own account), and who ended up getting herself and others killed in a stunt designed entirely to produce media attention.

You seem to want to frame this as an attempt to attack women. It is not. This is about class. The women who were great pilots, and who demonstrated that women can achieve and even out achieve top men are passed over again and again to pay even more attention to Earhart.

The counter meme is: Look, a person from the top social class with some real and some dubious achievements who completely eclipses contemporaries who were far more impressive (but less rich).
I wonder what is a safe acceleration to get to light speed for long periods without hurtin too much
If you have a choice between admitting you did something you didn’t do and get a lighter sentence or know you’re going to be railroaded by the justice system and still lose, which one are you going to do?

And the “defense attorneys” are going to be overworked underpaid public defenders while the prosecutors have what amounts to an unlimited budget
Like with big data I think most orgs (>80%) just don't need it due to the extra complexity. They might as well just use something managed like fargate and go back to building their own products.
Seconding this. I learned a little rust and really liked its philosophy. I was then working on a small project that needed to avoid the big data science python libraries because they're miserable in terms of portability to air-gapped networks.

We had re-implemented a few mathematical and curve finding functions and even with the newest python they were uncomfortably slow.

PyO3 made it so easy to implement a runtime switchable rust library exposed to python, it was almost unnerving. By writing those handful of functions in rust we got something like a 30x speedup.

Note this was a small project with limited funding for r&d so the level of effort for performance speedup was really nice.
I wonder if we really need an explicit syntax or if the compiler just need to disable monomorphization for functions that don't use the interior type e.g., only passing around references like this example.

Without trait bounds there isn't much you can do with it anyway besides generic code like this. I guess the question is 'does Rust emit' or elide an unused generic function with unused interior types?
Better there than here I guess!
> as it doesn't harm the innocent

The whole point here is that the person at this stage is presumed innocent.
Which is getting to the root of the problem. That governments should provide identify verification tools as a service.
Ah yes the tried and true scientific approach of "if we don't check it we won't find any problems puts hands over ears lalalalalala"
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I've used BankID, I think its a fantastic system.
By this logic - Never interact with strangers. It is always fine, until it isn't.

I can't believe you would do something so dangerous as to post a message on a message board.
Fantastic!

This is what I've been waiting for for 10 years, since Google removed the feature: a search engine which realizes 99% of the time, I want to search Discussions, and gives me the option to only show those. (reddit, forums, mastodon etc). This cuts down the SEO crap by 99.99%.

That said, the results aren't great, hopefully it's something that improves as they index more pages. For example reddit doesn't seem to be indexed, why not? It's a goldmine of user content (even if the frontpage is 99% astroturfed US neolib propaganda).
Ah thanks and sorry for guessing wrong! - this does happen sometimes. Usually not with smaller publications; more often with NYT, BBC, etc. who frequently change up their titles.
The small shareholders don't have enough shares to make an impact and the large shareholders view it as a cost of doing business. Remember, they aren't investing in moral outcomes, just profits. With the DoD funding Boeing in perpetuity, there is zero incentive or consequences, so it's still a "good" investment...for now.
About once a year I ask myself why they don't recycle cobble streets. We recycle asphalt, we're trying to recycle concrete.

If you look at the cobbles it's relatively clear that the wear patterns have something to do with the hardness of the stones/bricks. If you sorted the recovered stones by height, and built a new road with matched cobbles, you would still get wear of course, but the variance would be less, right?

Take three city blocks of cobble. Sort them into three groups, one containing the softest and the broken cobbles, then use each of the remaining to pave one block each.
EDIT - (can't edit now).

"Impossible" to have one single price that is applicable to every single potential buyer in all cases.

Easiest example: if a computer is advertised as $2199 "including all taxes!" and a buyer who is tax exempt is buying... they wouldn't pay the $2199 advertised price (or... shouldn't).
dev meetup lightning round?
I think, motivation would have been, if they were able to sell themselves as 200 person company, the CEO and Board would gotten a bigger piece of the pie in the landing space.
Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100M+ IPv4 address stockpile
I suppose you would also have to worry about surviving the trip - every atom in the interstellar medium would damage your ship, likely penetrating the entire way through, and electromagnetic repulsion would only work with charged particles.
> The problems begin when externalities (pollution) and rent seeking (middle-men) enter the room. Both of these distort the price signals, which should (but rarely do!) convey the true environmental cost.

This is my opinion as well.
Sure, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions overwhelmed by the reality of incentive structures. This is like the venture capitalism version of "real communism has never been tried".

Both of these things are true: founders (and leaders of VC-funded businesses in general) have an incentive to focus on investment rounds and runway, and VCs have an incentive to tell them not to do that.

I think this mismatch is fundamentally due to the asymmetrical cost of failure. For VCs, it's a bummer if the goals of the current round are not met, leading to the company folding or an acquisition on disappointing terms, but it's arguably even worse for the company to sputter along, barely staying afloat from round to round, but never really catching fire, because they have to keep funds tied up in it, without ever getting the return multiple they're looking for.

But the people who actually work at the company have a much more concentrated investment in it simply staying alive, even at the price of short-termism.

It's just fundamentally different risk profiles!

Maybe VCs should gift founders enough wealth up-front to be financially independent. This would go a long way to align their risk profile :)
From the Reddit AMA "I am Andrew Bustamante, a former covert CIA intelligence officer and founder of the Everyday Espionage training platform. Ask me anything."

> "Does the cia use child prostitutes to control assets?"
> "I plead the 5th. The things we use to control assets are unsettling enough without going into details."

https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/a8c03j/i_am_andrew_bus...
I think the pipfile should specify only the ‘readability-lxml’ package and not ‘readibility’, which does unrelated things.
A search engine that saves me time by detecting SEO spam, downranks results containing ads, and summarizes click bait descriptions away

I made it available to the public aisearch.vip
Very fun.

What does y represent?
>no real transparency

>There is currently just very little incentive for anyone (employees, managers, FAA, etc.) to led things slide.

What is "real" transparency?
Thanks! I guess they're related at the glibc level and not at the CVE level.
Chris Wanstrath "defunkt" GitHub cofounder and former CEO is banned on GitHub
~9.8 m/s sounds pretty comfortable.
I'm autistic and this sounds very familiar in regard to my issues with executive function. Most of my friends who are also autistic have thrived in fully remote positions or where they work for themselves or with a small group of others.

I think coldtea's example of partnering with someone else to handle the soft skills and marketing is a great idea.
Where can I read more about this? Frankly I'm a bit surprised that I've never heard about this considering how shocking it sounds.
Yikes. At around 90%c, it's starting to look like a sunny day. Any physicists care to weigh in on the accuracy of this? I can search for the energy density of starlight in interstellar space... but how fast does one need to go to hit that "sunny day" point?
Careless recreational shooters[] regularly start fires when using tracer ammunition. There would definitely be downsides to mandating that all ammunition be tracer rounds.

[]Also routine training exercises on military ranges.
> The DRM also doesn't allow you to take any screen captures while Netflix is visible.

I remember when I first hit this and was shocked. I was going to send a funny still to my friend and tell them that they should watch the show. But Netflix apparently doesn't want free advertising.

DRM really does seem to harm the customers and the content owners far more than any pirate.
they are but you might need to book a time slot
Other commenters specifically mention this happening in Chicago (wrt HS admissions) [1] and Texas (wrt UT admissions). [2]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39266951

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39266262
So the last time I talked to a cop was last week, when one knocked on my door. My neighbor's car was stolen overnight, and the officer wanted to know if my security camera was recording and if anything was captured during a certain time frame.

Are you telling me that I should have shut the door in his face, and called my lawyer?
>In Stephen King's case, I'd say "no".

Haha! I his case I don't think he has anything figured out. I think as he's writing it, he's discovering what the characters are doing and is in just as much shock as we are.
No, the opposite. They're either specialized (when they can be) or (effectively) existential (when they must be). That is, the compiler either inlines the specific definition of the type class methods if it knows them, or passes them around at run time.
Here is an interesting and relevant context: there is a huge amount of evidence that Roscosmos is taking an active part in the war effort. There is a great source about it from Eric Berger of Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/06/it-appears-that-roscos...

Take that into account when reading news made from state press-releases like the one in the post.

P.S.: For the full context, the Roscosmos ex-boss also has had his own private military company for a while.
How is r=0.15 to r=0.3 a strong correlation? Especially when the correlation is very strong in one direction (low IQ, low income) and weaker in the other.

The educational achievement correlation has to be thrown aside completely because the SAT and GRE were largely an IQ test until the late 80s.

I'm not saying that IQ tests are completely useless. But clearly, the correlation isn't strong, and the whole hypothesis that it measures a g factor is not borne out by strong evidence.
> It's probably well past time for legislation prohibiting anyone else for using it for that purpose, preferably with some teeth.

No, it is time for legislation prohibiting people from being held responsible for a business’s lack of due diligence. If the lender wants to use SSN to give out thousands of dollars, that is entirely on the lender.

The businesses will automatically stop using mechanisms of identity verification that cause them to lose money.
Yes they also typically buy reinsurance (insurance that covers individuals whose claims exceed some amount in a given year, like say $150,000). The company will have some people in HR who administer this program but they aren't duplicating a lot of what the insurance companies do -- that's why they pay for administrative services.

They rarely have actuaries on payroll but there are several boutique actuarial consultant who serve these companies (e.g. "given the geographical distribution of your employees and the higher use of services X, Y, Z, you would save $xxx if you choose insurer A over insurer B").
Davinci resolve for everything. It’s amazing and free
I don't fly a lot but legroom and comparable CO2 emissions have become attributes that price search engines show. This flight emits 12% less than comparable flights etc.
Who can say! But those 'related' links are mostly intended for looking at past HN comments in any case.

Sometimes I add an archive link to old threads whose URLs have rotted. I'll do that there. Thanks for the link!
> And of course the most no brainer way to roll it out in a fragmented landscape of US is to let banks be Oauth2 providers, as they are already tasked with KYC stuff and have a license to lose.

Yeah, the same works in the Czech Republic, the banks provide an OIDC service, including document signing, see https://www.bankid.cz/en
I think it's because when they get the contractually guaranteed "golden parachute", the board thinks this CEO is gonna work out great so why argue, and since it's not at all uncommon it doesn't seem like a red flag at all; it's the norm. By the time it actually happens, they have a contract that says it will happen, which is rarely overturned.
What was on your four lists if you don't mind sharing?
Serious question, x86 has obviously gotten us very far, but has legacy baggage, plus licensing restrictions.

Is RISC-V so much better that the future (whatever long horizon) is inevitable? Or are we likely to continue x86 forever? RISC for specialized (matmul, embedded) applications and x86 will remain CPUs?

If China injects $$ into the problem, will Intel and AMD have to follow?
https://web.archive.org/web/20140912083558/http://www.docent...
I'm not saying Elon would be a good aerospace CEO, although he seems to do well at SpaceX. I'm saying that his attitude towards technical subjects ("this is ABSOLUTELY my problem and I should understand what we make") is what airplane-making CEOs should be going for.

Edit: airlines don't build planes
>According to the CEO's linkedin post, they were basically trying to keep up appearances of being a 200 person company until some greater fool bought them out, which appears to have failed.

That's probably pretty brutal summary of most of past two decades I guess?

Also, had it been bootstrapped, might have a different outcome, could scale down, pivot while staying a small profitable shop.
The Fukushima nuclear accident was not enough to change this culture.

And it is far too easy to state that a foreign culture needs to change. The Japanese could say that American or Western culture needs to change, just for example with the glorification of violent criminals in media.
> Powered by Atlassian Statuspage

seems to me a plausible reason why it might be silly

An alternative theory is that maybe 1Password defines unavailability in some nuanced way given their local-cache client model as well as this allegedly only affecting sign-in, with presumably anyone with a live session at 11:35 being able to use the rest of their API

Also, https://status.1password.com/incidents/3cqc0kx5qdzz is the actual thing, since clicking "history" takes some horrific amount of time to load, as a nod to the aforementioned "Atlassian Excellence in Execution"
It should be the Lorentz factor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_factor
> According to the CEO's linkedin post, they were basically trying to keep up appearances of being a 200 person company until some greater fool bought them out, which appears to have failed.

Because that is what startups do. 80% of startups that are "successful" follow this pattern

You shoot for the moon, if you don't take massive risks, then you won't be rewarded.

It sounded like they were about to be bought out or aquihired, but it fell apart at the last moment (It's not uncommon)

> Far better to be a growing, profitable 50 person company than a cash-burning Potemkin unicorn.

because probably they looked at the pipeline and realised that if they wanted to deliver the features/customer growth they needed, they required 200 people to get there.
Fascinating considering most ev incentives were cancelled

2nd sentence of TFA:
“All non-BEV powertrains faced higher taxes from January 1st”

(Granted, you did say “most…incentives”.)
I had read somewhere that supercritical carbon dioxide was used to extract caffeine, but when I went to cite sources last year, I couldn't find any.

I don't know now if that was misremembered on my part or someone's wishful thinking getting the better of them. "Everybody's doing it." Well, you and three other people isn't 'everybody'.
So is this fallout from Evergrand or are there other forces at play looking at undercutting Chinese mfg?
Been there, my experience can mostly be summed up by seeing how your work will become pointless due to internal issues of your clients. I was successful enough at it but it was killing me, I get too invested in the products I work on for staying at that kind of distance.
"C." means "circa", c380 means nothing.
This is amazing and very, very exciting!

It is wild to me, though, that if I have an SSD fail it's essentially unrecoverable, but a 2,000-year old, rolled-up, lava-burnt scroll of Papyrus can be read using Technology™! I love to see it!