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I can’t imagine dealing with physical books again. No interest in owning and storing them and no interest in going back and forth library to borrow.

My kindle is incredible. Wonderful screen, easy to pay money to read the books I want when I want.

I don’t get the people who fetishize printed books. I like reading, I don’t like books.

If I want the book smell, I’ll buy a scented candle lol.
What you could do is have one version for all buying customers, but you have a feature state depending on the purchase date.
Customer X buys Version 1.1 on 2024-04-20 and receives all new features until 2025-04-19. after that, bug fixes and new versions are delivered, but new major feature additions require a license renewal after the cutoff date. So, it would be decoupling major features from the app version. I have seen some Apps doing that, for example Halide.
Apple requires Alt stores only distribute apps suitable for all audiences (age 4+), so NSFW is out.
Yes, EU decided to hand over their markets to China even though Mercedes and Audi sell more cars in China than all of Europe combined.
Care to share examples?

Accelerators can be a great fit for some people at a certain stage of their life, development, or understanding of these systems; it really depends on what your end goal is too.
Here in continental Europe I've found email effective at all levels, from national down to my village.
Lutes and other fretted instruments in western music back in the renaissance used tied on frets. Each fret was a piece of string tied in a loop around the neck.

This meant it was relatively easy to change the position of frets if you wanted to try different temperaments. They could also take small pieces of string and glue them on, so at some places on some strings have an extra option, so that say fretting at the tied on fret would give say Db but fretting on the little glued on fret next to that would give C#. That sounds like what that viola da gamba player might have had.

Here are a couple of videos where Brandon Acker (guitarist/lutist/etc) and Marshall Brune (luthier) played around with doing this on a modern Spanish style classical guitar. In the first video [1] they take a guitar Brune was building but had not yet had frets put on and tied gut frets on it.

In the second [2] Acker explores moving the frets to better tune the guitar for specific pieces, and then explores adding those extra small frets to some notes.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--y_vf-Kg-w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiKCORN-6m8
My understanding is that the standard deal is more like $2MM at 20%. Raising that at 5% is an insanely good ideal.
I'm not really a fan of posting rants.

Not because I don't have about 10,000 foaming-at-the-mouth rants in me, but because I don't feel it's professional, which is an indicator that I'm not very "new school," in my approach.

It's actually pretty on the point, but I'm not sure that I'd get "Don't Apply to YC" as the result of reading it; just that I should calibrate my expectations and approaches. I probably would find other alternatives, if I was a "lots of small squares" digger, but that's me. I'm not a rich serial entrepreneur, so I guess my opinion isn't particularly relevant.

This part stuck out to me:

> The second bad lesson from YC is the focus on the upside. Because if there’s any formula for success in business, it’s to focus relentlessly on staying in the game rather than on hitting it big. Focus on the downside, and let the upside take care of itself.

I think that's critical, but seldom actually practiced, these days.

I have a friend that is a marvelously smart person, who has created a great product, that he is planning to market and sell for thousands of dollars. It's likely that he'll get it.

But the real test is what happens after the sale. We need to determine things like service, support, parts, and reliability.

Things shouldn't break easily, and if they do, we should be prepared to handle the calls. They may be irate calls, if the device costs a lot of money.

That's where I have about 35 years of expertise. I've spent my entire adult life, making things that last, and can be serviced, if they break. 26 of those years, were at a top-shelf company, producing some of the world's finest optical equipment (expensive as hell, but worth it). A lot of the software we wrote, was to work around hardware deficiencies, or add service points.

So I was giving him tips like "What happens if you get dirt in this fan?", or "How do you test the firmware?", or "I'm not sure that part should be printed with that kind of plastic," etc.

I was politely told to fuck off, and stop being a "dream-killer."

So I keep my mouth shut, and I won't say "I told you so," when things go south. Instead, I'll help him to clean up the mess, because that's what friends do.
I'm not sure why you'd want to include AirBnBs and second houses in your measurement vacancy measurement — they aren't available for rent.
What's the background on this latest "beef"?
>So it's the "stickiness" of DC causing these problems, eh?

Yes, but it's more than just sticky in the sense of welded-contacts. A DC Arc is a continuous plasma that is conductive. That means the arc continues even with a significant air gap. The arc stretches as contacts are separated and yet the arc continues. That means that fuses can burn out completely but still conduct. Breaker-switches can trip and then catch fire while they continue to conduct rather than safely interrupting the arc. So fuses, breakers and relays all need to be designed specifically for DC or significantly de-rated compared to their AC voltage and amperage ratings.

> applications where the DC could temporarily be converted to AC

Yes and that involves an inverter.
> these employees genuinely thought that they could spend their working time advocating for social causes and staging protests while staying happily employed and cashing their paychecks/vesting RSUs

Reading the interview, there's no indication the organizer thought this.
Interesting that 1/3 of this money is us paying ourselves to buy munitions.
I sell onions on the internet, and I approve this message.
When I was a child, print media was a thing and so MAD magazine armed me with the tools for surviving in the world. What's the current equivalent?
Many of these points are just common sense. Does America really need a major party that's insane on one of the important issues?
Yeah that’s too bad since it’s free everywhere else in the world on the App Store.
People just toss comments like this around as though they were facts when in fact it’s completely paranoid made up q-anon level nonsense.

These laws work a very specific way and have very specific controls in place to prevent shit like you describe from happening which you could go and read up on if you wanted to but it’s much easier to fear monger amongst one another because it plays to your ego that somebody who is important enough to be under surveillance by an intelligence agency.
Debugger writers have dealt with different calling conventions for decades. The notion predates C even. They can handle it just fine.
"Beautiful. Unethical. Dangerous."

So says Morgan Freeman's character Lucius Fox in 2008 in The Dark Knight[0].

The rest of the tech imagined in that scene is plausible today too, considering the density of WiFi/5G and research demonstrating the potential for its use as passive radar [1]. That paper metions a cooperative base station, but I am wondering if there is any value gained in knowing exactly what the traffic is (such as some of the intelligence community does) in modelling how the waves propagate and performing an even more passive observation.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRELLH86Edo

[1] Samczyński et al. 2021 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=966...
Once government takes power they very rarely give it back.
> Would’ve made them more hireable in the future

I think you're overestimating how much this harms their career prospects outside of FAANG.
Yattee, an alternative to NewPipe, has been available on the AppStore for over a year. Well before there was any pressure from the DMA.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629
>How ironic that you would say that in a thread about Daniel Dennett's passing. You have obviously not read "Consciousness Explained."

I mean, Dennett is denying the existence of qualia altogether, as I said, via philosophical argumentation. The argument that science tells the full story here is itself a philosophical one.

>You should watch this:

Yes, the bottoming out of explanations is exactly what's at stake. The idea of a necessary explanation is that the answer to the question of "why?" is that it must be that way, that it could not have been any other way---that's what it means for an explanation to be necessary. And there are arguments why there must be such a thing that could not have been any other way, and arguments against it---it's within the realm of philosophy. Feynman is right to note that scientific explanations can go no further past a certain point. It's a bit ironic that Feynman was so anti-philosophy when he gave a rather philosophical answer to what might seem like a straightforward scientific question at first glance.

>Yes, obviously. There are arguments for why the earth must be flat too. Why should I care about either? They're just wrong.

Well, the discipline of philosophy also includes people pointing out reasons why such arguments don't work, which seems worthwhile, just like science includes reasons why arguments for the flatness of the earth are untenable and reasons why the roundness of the earth is a far better explanation for the data.
That should be the goal, right? Good ideas get the funding they need as if by magic, yet nobody is sitting on the sidelines collecting rent.

The best thing that AI can do for finance is eliminate it.
Highways are well defined spaces. You wouldnt need much computation at all.
I strongly agree. NixOS is a league above things like Ansible that are highly mutable. Also getting started with NixOS really isn't that bad. Just read the wiki and set a few options. https://search.nixos.org/options

The hard part about NixOS is when you need to package something yourself. That can have a bit of a learning curve but since nixpkgs is the largest package repository you rarely need to do it.

If you are running custom stuff you can always start by just using NixOS to run a Docker container. At least that will be a reproducable OS and if you pin a specific image it will be fully reproducible. Then when you want to you can dip your toes into native Nix packages. (It really isn't that bad, just an extra thing to learn that you can defer to start)
I see some recommend it as as the top option; it isn't at all?
> It’s neither ethical nor unethical, nor is it a corporation’s job to decide whether it is. That’s the role of government.

The government does not define ethics. Abiding by laws does not factor into the ethics of a choice. It is up to everyone, including corporation leadership, to pursue ethical standards.

You do not seem capable of recognizing that you support unethical actions. You appear convinced that choices you support are de facto ethical because you've deemed them worthwhile. This is a cancerous worldview. It's ok to say that following a law is unethical but still worthwhile. It's deeply harmful to say that it is ethical because you think it is worthwhile.

Everything you're saying boils down to "I'm just following orders" or "I'm just a part of a system" as an argument that you have no culpability to your actions. Or perhaps much more toxically, "I'm a good person therefore my actions have been good".

I don't really care about banning whatsapp or tiktok personally. Your rhetoric is the disgusting thing here.
Apple waves fees for non-profits (both developer annual fee and core technology fee), so at least qualifying free software organizations don't have to pay anything for either the app store or alt stores.

https://developer.apple.com/support/fee-waiver/
Sounds like your body already had the right level of magnesium.
Jump from completely out of context here... Wait, bluetooth devices are USB ones tunneled over bluetooth?

If that's the case, why does audio work so badly? (I'm guessing there's a list of exceptions that BT supports natively, none of which work.)
I fully agree with you. I witnessed numerous small & stable companies that decided to go with the "startup" route and pick VC money because "that was the way". As soon as the first funding tranche arrived, once stable business suddenly became a hectic mess of hires and crazy projects, and, ultimately, they ended up with MBA managers installed by the VC board to salvage things as much as possible. Won't mention founders that usually go from very happy, loving persons to coke/alcohol/xanax junkies.
What did you remember about the birth of your sister?
No, FISA should not be a thing. Wiretap warrants should be reasonably scoped and acquired on an individual basis. There shouldn't be a secret court issuing do-whatever-you-want warrants.
tax stays of less than 3 months by 50%
LLMs are Internet simulators. That is a simulation of a good response you would get on the Internet.

Is anyone still surprised by this? If so, let me repeat: LLMs are Internet simulators. They will give you simulations of good replies you might get on the Internet.
If you just want to make money, one of the most successful strategies is to learn how to manage, via MBA or otherwise, find a company that's losing money primarily because of management problems, and take it over on some deal where you get a cut of the improvement. Turnarounds can be very profitable for all concerned, and the success rate is reasonably high, maybe 50%.
I get that the perfectly efficient market is more of a model then something existing in reality, but who would be doing the arbitraging here?
I agree one physical box can do a lot. As you say though, if you want HA/DR now you're already expanding beyond a single box. You're likely talking multiple boxes in multiple locations. Now you have to think about how your data is potentially replicated across. You have to think about monitoring. You have think about how you upgrade your software and maintain your services. You have OS/package upgrades. Where do you test? Do you have a staging environment? How do you monitor all this stuff? Does your business only have this one app or does it grow to offer more apps? Internal services?

I'm sure plenty of things fit this model. But many do not. There's going to be a point where you're taking more pain if you chose the wrong model.
Folks have taken issue with calling out rampant shilling of the price to retail investors?
Oh boy, global consensus? That's a big ask.

Why not allow branches of divergence? You'll maintain a higher and increasing level of free help from a bigger base of contributors that way.
I did YC when I was 27 after trying to do a tiny bit of fundraising, and kinda agree with you, but I think you can replace "22 year old" in your comment with "anyone not super-well-networked in the startup scene".

The truth is, even if you have pedigree (top-tier college, worked at FAANG and startups), the very first time fundraising is going to be pretty hard and annoying unless you've already been going to a lot of founder meetups, want to start something in a hot field, or have VC's in your personal network. This is especially true after the money wave from pre-2022 receded.

I do feel like I probably could've raised on better terms, but I'm not sure it would've improved the trajectory of my life or expected value. YC taught me a lot about fundraising that I didn't know I didn't know. Compared to other VC's we've worked with (who have all been pretty great), YC has provided more specific advice to our stage, better technology, and a slightly better network.
Seems like the lesson Moscow is trying to teach scientists is that it's dangerous to be a top level engineer or scientist in Russia. Much safer to come to the US and do your research here. Fine with me!
I don't mind json outputs, but pls keep cli options as low letters, eg.: 'kubectl get pods -o json'.
450GiB is probably right.

I’ve worked on a bunch of AAA game projects and the “MAIN” stream is usually somewhat small because people often want to have multiple checkouts on one drive.
Being nominally a billion dollar VC backed company isn’t success until you’ve got a 7 figure exit, it’s just a number someone made up.

So sure, you can have a “successful” exist without becoming a unicorn, but that doesn’t mean the odds end up very good or you wouldn’t have been better off financially working for Google.
Getting into YC is probably one of the few cases where it does make sense to go the traditional VC route. It's like getting into an elite-level school. Most colleges are crazy expensive to the point that the value proposition of a degree starts to look tenuous even for STEM degrees.

However a degree at an elite school still has some currency plus benefits like a network of equally hard working, smart, and likely well connected peers that is pretty valuable.
I can't recommend nixops anymore. It is basically unmaintained. But I switched over to https://colmena.cli.rs/ and it is basically a drop-in replacement if you are just managing machines over SSH. (It lacks some of the tools to provision resources like VMs and DNS records)
I’m curious if that analogy actually makes sense. Why would you pay people to dig their entire lives in one spot? Why wouldn’t you just do the more efficient way and have founders mine their own 100 yard fields?

I agree the incentives of VC want are to swing for the fences and they get the benefit of diversification. I just don’t think the analogy works…
You can fuck all the way off with your opinion on my lifestyle or how comfy it is. I, and everyone else who doesn't live in some sort of anarchistic dreamland recognizes that denying resources to people whose priorities include terrorism and dictatorships is a good thing.

You want to push for reforms to the current system that makes it easier to bring wealth to developing nations then I'd be all on board. To throw out the whole system in favour of something that enables oppression and hoarding of wealth only benefits those who already have power and wealth.

Anarchism sounds great when you think of being free to do whatever you want. It becomes less fun when you remember it also means the freedom to die in a ditch.
Streaming services went right back to linear TV's consumer unfriendly model of bundling a bunch of crap in with the relatively few titles people actually want to consume.

Worse, they went full bore on cranking out largely mediocre, but expensive, "original content" that subscribers subsidize, whether or not they actually consume it.

But, if you want to actually select what you want to watch, then you pay the equivalent of a full month's subscription to "rent" 2-3 titles.

Plus fragmentation.

So, after a compelling, value-oriented start (think early Netflix), the streaming ecosystem has become the antithesis of what consumers want: selection (and selectivity) and convenience at a fair price.

In other words, they've enshittified like everything else.
Agreed. It is rather alienating to a demographic and large numbers of business owners that both parties desperately want to connect with.
I kind of think this will churn in the courts for a long time, and achieve only ill will.
Two common implementations of engagement farming are a) very contrarian/misinformed opinions to bait people to respond negatively and b) simple Q&A prompts like "What opinion about AI would get people mad at you?" which encourage people to respond. The organic discussion (positive or negative) is generally favored algorithmically so it gets boosted, and in the case of Twitter, there is a monetary incentive to do so, as Twitter Blue accounts can earn revenue from tweet views.

The tweet author performed the former very recently and caused a news cycle by complaining about MKBHD's Humane Pin review with a bizarre take: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/16/vassallo
> The nature of being nested, and also containing structures like lists, maps, etc. All of which makes it more complicated than key=value.

These are javascript objects, which are key-value. A list array is just keyed by a number instead of a string. They're functionally exactly the same as name=value except JSON is parsed depth-first whereas shell variables are breadth-first parsing (which is way better from shells).

Do you have an example of a CLI tool - intended for human use - that has output so complicated it can't be easily mapped to name=value? I don't think there is one, and it's certainly not common.

> You're reading into hostility where there isn't any.

I think "it seems you're determined not to use jq" is pretty hostile since I made no intimation of that at all.
The problems you talk about are deliberately created by Apple and only fixable by Apple. If you buy an iOS device you're opting in to whatever bullshit Apple comes up with that isn't explicitly regulated away, and when regulation is introduced Apple has made clear that they will do whatever they can to avoid complying with the spirit of said regulation.

The creator of Delta is pushing the first regulation-protected route they have for distributing their app. You started this thread saying you wish they didn't.

Dealing with notarization, timeouts, yearly developer account subscriptions, it's all terrible. The only hope to ever get away from it is to put up with as little of it as possible, which currently means an alternative app store. Or you can stop buying Apple devices.
A ratchet that physically prevents reversing, but still have the firmware support reverse scrolling. I love the idea of a digital product that if broken in just the right way behaves as expected given intuition from the physical world.
Why is this provided for free?
I wonder how to name this pattern, feeling like respecting principles but failing to reckon you throw them away on touchy subjects.
Modeling the world in a way that alienates or fails to serve people in specific places or cultures, creating undue technical burden on data consumers, causing pains that discourage mappers from contributing, dividing the already precariously small community, wasting volunteer time on later schema migrations
> What are you expecting exactly?

I don't know -- something. And it's not about the individuals, it's about the field as a whole. Classical music is not something I particularly enjoy, but I get that some people do, and so the efforts of all the composers and conductors and musicians who produce it have value for that audience. I can appreciate that even if I don't particularly care for the music myself. Likewise for Domino's pizza. Nascar. Cricket. Truck pulls. Rodeos. I don't get it, but I get that some people do.

Philosophy seems to have no audience beyond its own practitioners. That puts it on a par with things like yoga and homeopathy, and does not justify having entire departments at universities studying it.

God help us, it turns out that you can actually get a Ph.D. in both fields:

https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/yoga/

https://www.bircham.edu/doctor-phd-degree-homeopathy.html
Ask HN: What happens to a region if a hyperscaler DC is built?
Dear HN,

in the not too far future, Microsoft will build at least two Hyperscaler data centers in the region I live in.

I could not (yet) find any English-language info on this, but searching for “hyperscaler bedburg” and “hyperscaler grevenbroich” turns out those mainly German-language information that are already available.

I’m pretty exited about it in general, but also curious — what to expect for my region over the course of the next, say, 10 years?

Unprecedented economic revitalization (my region is in the process of shutting down its local coal/energy industry)?

Or basically just two new gray blobs in the landscape and that’s about it?

I would love to hear what you think or can report based on similar experiences.