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"It's so funny when I hear people being so protective of ideas. (People who want me to sign an NDA to tell me the simplest idea.) To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.

To make a business, you need to multiply the two. The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000. That's why I don't want to hear people's ideas. I'm not interested until I see their execution."

https://blog.codinghorror.com/cultivate-teams-not-ideas/
Imaginary Property Rights don't exist in Nature. A purely man-made construction.
Love the pizza boxes an arm's length away.
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What makes you say that? SSH, RDP, even hitting a web service are all valid cases of authorized remote code execution. It's not the remote or execution parts that are bad.
Two separate things:

- I don't think that the suggestion was to remove the filesystem outright, just that if you run everything over NFS or 9P then you don't need drivers for ext/xfs/fat/...

- To the broader "why do we even use filesystems" - because those other options are less powerful while offering marginal benefit. Also because backwards-compatibility and interoperability with other systems is useful.
>You may ask - why? Why, for heaven's sake, do I need to make paper backups, if there are so many alternative possibilities like CD-R's, DVD±R's, memory sticks, flash cards, hard disks, streamer tapes, ZIP drives, network storages, magnetooptical cartridges, and even 8-inch double-sided floppy disks formatted for DEC PDP-11?

Ah, the good old days! It is amazing what we have at our disposal now for very little money. I really do like the concept behind this however. It catches you off guard because you do think, just as they wrote, "why in the world would I use paper for a backup in 2024?" ... then they explain it in one sentence and it makes obvious common sense.
For dealing with larger data I would probably split the input bits into 63 bit chunks, which can be encoded in 19 decimal digits. 63 input bits turn into 19 digits which in turn is encoded in 63.33... output bits on average. This has an overhead of 0.53% instead of 0.34% of pure base10, which I think is acceptable. But then you don't have to bring bignum libraries into the picture, as each chunk fits into a 64bit integral type.

64bit chunks are a little bit worse, with 4.16% overhead, so it might be worth dealing with the little complexity of 63 bit chunks.

I would also output the decimal digits in little-endian order.

edit: If you are willing to go for larger chunks then 93bit chunks would be my next candidate, there the overhead is 0.36%, barely more than pure base10's 0.34%. I don't think it's worth going any higher.
Earn double, tripple, quadruple or X times more as software engineer in US vs Europe (depending on location) <- that cannot be emphasised enough and compensates for most of the downsites in this article. It's an apples vs oranges comparison.
"The most capable models don't fit on most personal devices at present" Come back in 3 years, most phones will have an AI co-chip.
Perhaps something like colored rMQR or HCCB is helpful?

https://hackaday.com/2023/07/28/color-can-triple-qr-code-cap...
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/28/color-can-triple-qr-code-cap...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Capacity_Color_Barcode
But most "idea founders" fail to take that even very low hurdle and don’t make to a Wordpress site with a mailing list. Or money.
Biden's Trustbuster Draws Unlikely Fans: 'Khanservative' Republicans
yes there is, it's called git clone.

:)
I think is the one you are looking for:

https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/index.html

Also posted on HN awhile back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23005140

Edit: yep, here are your Crash Cows: https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/crash_cows.html
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That's artifact dead, then.
https://archive.is/W1HiL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaffir_(racial_term) which is pretty much like the N-word with hard r in America.
Open source could be BETTER
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And you get to take home far more of that X as well.
> “Limit WIP” is a well-known recommendation in agile circles. It’s great except for the situations where it doesn’t work, eg. you have multiple customers with must-do features, you have support commitments and bugs to fix, your work doesn’t cleanly divide into [team size] pieces, etc.

This is exactly where you want to limit work in progress and have your management or leadership earn the big bucks by managing your multiple customers with must-do features expectations.

The way you get work to done is to focus on getting it done, not adding more work. Limited work in progress doesn't mean they can't be parallel efforts and most teams do that. It means that we figure out how much the team can do at once before it slows work delivery down and stick to that. Nothing is exact so some leeway is expected.

Kanban does have the possibility of expediting bug fixes or other work disrupting priorities, but it does mean that other work is done later and that needs to be managed by leadership with your customers and stakeholders.
High-fidelity spin qubit operation and algorithmic initialization above 1K
Not an expert, but... The WWII German codes were mostly broken by the British GC&CS at Bletchley Park. While breaking the Japanese codes was the US Navy's signals intelligence folks (with quite a bit of foreign help).

Vs. the NSA was only created in the 1950's, out of the SIS - which was very closely associated with the US Army.
But isn't vulkan made to run cross platform? And why can't they write it in dx12 as well? Aren't those made to be more portable while offering more low level access than previous apis?

What is stopping you from implementing fast math using compute shaders or just hacking with those interfaces? Or are they just too slow when they go through the api layer? Or is that just a myth that can be worked around if you know you are writing high performance code? Pardon my ignorance!
Ask HN: How to Launch
People who have launched a personal small project in the past: Knowing what you now know, what would you do different if you launched today? Is there anything specific for HN?
I am not sure, but I'd expect the FBI's cyber crime division.
I'm amazed more people aren't talking about the "off list" part or asking Colin if he's willing to provide those emails/conversations.
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I've personally stumbled upon two - obscure hardware and GUIs.

It's really difficult to evaluate a hardware product with only a C(++) SDK using only Rust. There are of course ways around this but those are a significant amount of effort.

In terms of GUIs - there's simply no "Qt-Rust" that would work in a Rust-y way without causing massive headaches. Handling all that state is incredibly difficult in Rust, at least for me (but I recall others describing why as well).
I feel like release tarballs shouldnt differ from the repo sources. And if they do, there should be a pipeline which generates and upload the release artifacts....

Can somebody write a script which diffs the release tarballs from the git sources for all debian packages and detects whether there are any differences apart from the files added by autotools :)?
> Do you think Jobs was a hands-off idea man who let others sweat the details?

Very much not the case.

I was on the iPod software team 15 years ago, and let me tell you, we got plenty of detailed feedback from periodic "SJ reviews". My manager (a line manager of a small team) went to those meetings and came back with lots of very specific things we needed to change.

One year (fall 2008) Steve was going on vacation to Italy for a week or two, and asked for a development version of the iPod shuffle we were working on to take with him on the trip. (We were terrified, because it wasn't really ready for that level of scrutiny.) That was at a time when the iPhone 3G and the original iPad were also under development, and yet we got a bunch of feedback on the humble little iPod shuffle when he returned.

He really was in the details, to an astonishing degree, and not just for the headline products, either.
This is an evergreen subject. Again we see discussions of this about the xz exploit.
I didn't say he wasn't a jerk. Totally, and it wound up infecting every company after the iPhone success because that's the lesson people got from him - be an asshole and find success. Not the good part about being insightful, having good instincts, and seeing beyond user feedback to what people will actually want, etc. etc.

I'm simply pointing out he's not the same category of non-technical founders being discussed in this post
Stormfront targeted 4chan because the "not your personal army" crew could be easily turned into whatever the white supremacists wanted.

All you had to do was say "this will offend people" and 4chan rushed off to do exactly that, over and over.

4chan was originally just a contest to show how much something doesn't bother them, because they were still competing with each other like a clique of schoolkids, and any feelings were viewed as weakness.

Also, 4chan spawned QAnon. That was absolutely "starting a movement".
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The article misses the obvious. You don't become a technical co-founder to make bank with the equity or salary. You'll get diluted, replaced and kicked out the moment traction starts gaining.

You become a technical co-founder to trade in your technical skills, learn about a new domain, figure out where the pain points are, and eventually jump ship and become a captain of your own vessel.

Also, the article is an obvious pitch in the likes of "don't get a co-founder, order an MVP from me instead".
That would be true if you could ban the person from using new emails, but I don't think that's true when the thread if rife with sock puppet accounts. You ban the first rude email account, then there will be 2 new accounts complaining about both the lack of commits and the "heavy-handed mailing-list moderation" stifling differing views.
I think it's still true. Bootstrapped businesses need to bring in money to pay the bills. They can't just dump VC money into growth. Sales is just as essential if not more with a bootstrapped business.
It was due to a pipe connected to the rain gutter in the house. At the beginning of the rain, the amount of water streaming through was hitting perfectly a joint in the internet cable. So it was happening only when the rain started, and stopping when the little stream got stronger and consequently jumping it and not hitting the cable joint anymore. It was discovered by the technician. He found it somewhere in the 100m of the cable coming out from the street pole, not an easy task.
Interest rates and vehicle prices too high, must come down to expand TAM. Future benchmark rate cuts should improve affordability (most people finance and buy a payment), but Tesla will need to navigate burn rate until central bank pivots.
>> But...what are you bringing to the table? There's 27 million software engineers.

The whole question is irrelevant. From what I've seen, it is Business Co-Founders chasing Technical Co-Founders. If i'm getting unsolicited messages and getting cornered at hackathons, I'm not sure why I would be answering these messages. I can just walk away.
And what "like snow" skin is ancestrally passed along?

You might want to consider also Lamentations 4:7 as well before dismissing the notion of an endogamous subpopulation with ancestral pale/ruddy skin.

Or 4Q534 from the Dead Sea scrolls claiming Noah had red hair.

Also, the leprosy descriptions seem like they may have been skin cancer:

https://www.thetorah.com/article/tzaraat-as-cancer
> coming up with good properties is not always trivial

This is difficult, but one technique that (might) make it easier for real-world applications beyond simple invariants is to take the approach of building a simple model of the system under test and, in the PBT, checking that your system's behavior matches the model's [1].

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3477132.3483540
Well, that is my whole point - do you research, talk with people, understand willingness to pay to be confident that it is worth to pursue your idea.

So many times, looking for a technical co-founder is caused by the fact that the "business founder" doesn't know how to verify the idea otherwise that by building the actual product.

Hence being in the black about the market for such product, they obviously want someone to do it "for free" as the risk is high.

Anyone who did a solid research and even sold his product to people before it even existed won't be worried about putting their own money or taking a loan to finance the development.
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Show HN: Automatic Type-Safe CSV
A compiler plugin enabling seamless CSV access -- your CSV files are types. Use CSV directly and type-safely.

// Type-safely use resource file "../org/examples/Sales.csv"
// without writing extra code or running code gen build steps
import org.examples.Sales;

Sales sales = Sales.fromSource();
for(Sales.SalesItem item: sales) {
String customer = item.getCustomer();
...
}

Comprehensive support for CSV resource files, supporting extensions csv, tsv, psv, tab.

CSV resource files are the single source of truth. Use CSV-expressed types directly without maintaining a separate set of classes or wedging a code generator into your build.

Additionally, supports JSON Schema to provide constraints for your CSV files.
Then Buy A License.

Most code today with AGPL is dual-licensed.
Literally any productive feedback loop where more resources produce better results centralizes power, any form of productivity improvement devalues human labor. Control is better described as a delusion in the first place.
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IMO I think the 3Blue1Brown video is a good place to start to build intuitions about how things work generally if you're new, and Andrew Ng's courses will help you dig into more detail, experiment, and implement things to build on those intuitions.
https://github.com/BerriAI/liteLLM-proxy
Another point relevant on the timeline is when downstream starts using binaries instead of source.

I think people are flying past that important piece of the hack. Without that this would not have been possible. If there is a trusted source in the middle building the binaries instead of the single maintainer and the hacker this attack becomes extremely hard to slip by people.
U.S. tells Iran it "had no involvement" in Israel strike
Know who your target audience is and go where they are, use their language, and speak to their problems.
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The concept is cool and I like the clean look and feel; easy choice to sign up.

Curious about the monetization plan, if you’re comfortable sharing.
I added it to my catalog of RAG retrieval tools.
https://shelbyjenkins.github.io/blog/retrieval-is-all-you-ne...

A database that scales to billions is cool. Feels like k8s though. I'm curious who needs it.

Right now I'm interested in in-process retrieval options. We're going to use our own document databases anyways, so having the retrieval database in it's own server just adds an extra layer of complexity.
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It’s a VC fueled project around something you can set up in a few hours if you took a few hours to learn. Imo.

But for large companies making millions or billions it’s a convenience that saves engineering costs.
That seems like a bad example. The Apple iOS keyboard only added swiping in 2019, well after the competition.

Even the original iPhone touch keyboard was terrible compared to the hardware keyboards on BlackBerry devices. But consumers were willing to tolerate the keyboard because the iPhone was so much better in other ways.
Tutorial on Diffusion Models for Imaging and Vision
In my experience it was a nice reader, though it hyper-specialized a bit too much. I read a few articles about cars, and it fed me nothing but car articles. It became impossible to read anything else, further cementing its belief that I love to read about cars.
I’d recommend upvoting and commenting on the important points and adding your own useful comments.
I didn't notice many people here saying so. Can you provide some example links?
This was posted yesterday, seems related:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01369-4

edit: direct dataset available through here https://medialab.github.io/bhht-datascape/
Jigar was the same person/group as Jia. They were the bad cop and Jia was the good cop. Banning wouldn't have changed anything. Even if Jigar had been banned, the maintainer would still have appreciated the good cop's helpful contributions in contrast to the unhelpful bad cop. Jia would have become a maintainer anyway.
It's a global issue. Even BYD's sales crashed by almost 50% [0]

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/byd-ma...
Google doesn't make these decisions. Some local Directors do when they decide to defund something. Individually each choice might make sense, but in aggregate, maybe not so much. People like to think of big companies as a mobolith, but Google is more like a country full of SMBs and a few bigger ones. The big ones are stable, but SMBs go bust all the time.
These are different layers: trusted publishing doesn't know how you store your git credentials, and PyPI isn't able to be prescriptive there. The recommendation that you publish from a tag is just normal release hygiene stuff; PyPI cannot make you use the other parts of your computer safely.

The scenario you're talking about ("attacker has your SSH private key") is already a "game over" scenario, and is tantamount to the attacker assuming your identity. Trusted publishing is not aimed at that scenario; it's aimed at eliminating other scenarios (such as people using permanent user-scoped tokens everywhere, making it easier for an attacker to move laterally after compromising a single token).

Or in other words: not every attacker is empowered to assume my identity by stealing my SSH key (which lives in a security module for me, not in `~/.ssh`). That's a very strong attacker model; there are other, weaker attacker models that are still worth defending against (such as someone who opportunistically compromises a single CI run, or takes advantage of a one-time accidental API token leak).

Edit: and note: the documentation for trusted publishing encourages you to use a release environment on PyPI, which can be configured to require multi-user signoff. So you can use it to prevent a stolen SSH key from compromising your uploaded project. But again, that is the strongest possible adversary, and is not the most common one that users need protecting against.
Their target methane price is $10/kcf. That's not "an order of magnitude more expensive". It's about 2X current prices in the US and significantly cheaper than European prices.

Natural gas prices are dominated by the price of transportation in most places. Terraform's process can produce close to where it's consumed.

In other words, if the price of natural gas is $0 in Alberta, Terraform might be able undercut the price of that gas in Europe by setting up a plant in Spain.
I've been seeing a lot of buzz around the BYD Seagull. I'm doubtful Chinese cars will be allowed in the US market at all, since a $11,500 EV with a 200+ mile range would destroy domestic sales.

If Tesla ever actually releases their long rumored Model 1 with it a sub $20,000 sticker price that would sell like crazy. Car prices are insane and not everybody wants or can afford a $40,000 car to commute to work and back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izvdO-zdlKg
Beyond that, there’s a “skipping stone” effect of re-entry that makes it quite difficult to predict where a reentering object will land.
i hope elon's behavior is part of the drop in demand. i'm afraid it is mostly economic though.
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Right now its ads, as you may have noticed. We're looking to do more sponsorship deals, and then potentially explore a subscription model when we feel that we have enough to warrant it. (Though still keeping some free tier.)

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I’ve been everything

I work for other people right now

These were not the same roles
You will. Email me.
The door is that way, kind sir.
Sure, but stock market investing is no different. Once you’ve saved “enough”, you need a place to store wealth that isn’t cash. If you cash out on a winning stock, that money is likely going into other stocks, or real estate, or some other financial vehicle.

As an aside, all the punditry around a former billionaire president who can’t raise 450M in 30 days are playing on the fact that many people do not realize this. No billionaire has a significant fraction of their wealth in cash unless it benefits a short term strategy or they are rebalancing. Those with money put their money to work through investment. Net worth is based on the estimate of those holdings.
This may be related as well, in a smaller way: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/would-...
Same here, I have a couple of mobile apps that use Cloudflare workers + KV/D1, and it’s been great. I’m low traffic enough to be on the free tier, but would happily pay given how easy it’s been to build on.
The alternative is either know that person for a long time previously or "just trust me bro." Checking what they've been up to is a middle ground.