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I started sharing what it's like to build our startup
Hi HN, I'm the co-founder of a Series A startup called Jam.

I think not enough founders talk about what it's really like week to week, trying to build something from scratch.

So this week, my co-founder, 2 teammates and I started a podcast. It's called Building Jam and it's a real conversation with the team about what it’s actually like to build our startup each week. No fluff, just real decisions, moments and challenges.

We recorded the first episode this week at our team offsite. On it, we discuss:

0:00 This week’s offsite and building in person

4:32 Bringing up difficult or confrontational topics with the team

7:18 Choosing what to focus on when there’s a lot going on

8:02 Finding the right format for team retros

10:11 Breaking the news that a beta product needs more iteration

11:51 Trusting your gut vs. data

12:29 Excitement and uncertainty about an upcoming launch

14:15 How to make hard-boiled eggs in Bogotá

You can listen to the first episode on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or RSS.

YT: https://youtu.be/VEb1Z3eeUzU?si=v1A07B8kO723aARX
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7s55TAjknbXw9zOROGSsmQ
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/building-jam/id1743414087
RSS: https://share.transistor.fm/s/62086a01

I really hope it's a fun and cathartic listen for those of you building startups too to hear our challenges, efforts and problems (it was certainly cathartic to record!). Let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions. We'll be launching a new episode every Friday at 10AM ET for the next few months.
> the recalcitrance of reflexive C++ haters.

I don't reflexively hate C++, just all the implementations of it.
There's a Secure Folder on Samsung phones. It requires a pin code to access & you can store a lot of apps in there, but it pretty weak.

Since reading these police access reports from the US I tried using the Secure Folder.

As a digital nomad for past 9 years I visit 10-20 countries a year, so lots of border crossings.

Secure Folder sadly doesn't allow you to hide all your disclosing apps inside.

Certain apps like browsers still need to be run inside your main section, and therefore accessible from a fingerprint login.

And a phone without finger or face login is too cumbersome for digital entrepreneurs in this day & age.

So the idea of shutting off the phone as you cross borders seems to be the best approach for us nomads.

I note the court case wasn't about a border crossing so I'm still looking for practical solutions.

Not being American I, like many, am almost paranoid visiting the US with all its foibles.
Most likely for 0 days, then no one would be able to for decades or centuries, because there will be other much more important priorities. There will be unaffected countries, but they won't do much because supply chain for advanced stuff intertwines the whole world.
People would reuse again and again scrap parts and old computers, z80 cpu would outlive everything else. There will be all sorts of flee markets for things like that.
I grown up in post soviet crash, I've seen a lot of stuff, local postapocalypse basically, and how people, economy, society adapt and behave in such circumstances.
I also read the book. As far as I remember, it will be a relatively big problem to manage fields, to operate - for example - the „three-field system“* and to exploit the harvest properly.

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-field_system
tens of billions of dollars and ten years of effort for fewer than ten million monthly active Quest users. it's a joke.
That doesn't really make sense as I pay for GCP and Google Enterprise. They specifically refer to me as a customer and in a roundabout way I pay for their bills. Your statement, while a neat adage, doesn't reflect the complexity of it all.
Well, as a non-citizen US resident, having to do my own taxes definitely makes me think "They can't even build a tax filing system? What the fuck are they doing with all that money?"

I guess the difference is that my mind immediately goes to "Who are those people who think government not doing its job properly is a Good Thing(TM), and why do Americans keep electing them?"

It's as if a wannabe entrepreneur claiming "Capitalism does not work! Make me your CEO and I'll prove it to you!" - and then the board keeps falling for those guys.
I guess the lesson here is that none of us can really make any general statement about the quality of customer service between the US and Europe.
The future is self-hosted (as it was) and federated (as it partially was) and redistributable (as it mostly wasn't).

Fuck full centralization.
A web interface for infrared remote controls
https://www.instructables.com/Web-IR-Remote-With-Esp8266-Nod...
The problem with planning to pull out is that people don’t follow the plan.

Unplanned pregnancies have been declining rapidly over time.
They can fix the mess by fixing their politic driven culture. There are some really great technologist there but they are held up by politics.
You need to get permission from your employer obviously but I think most are fine with that these days.

I'm not talking about open sourcing something your company has made from scratch and is their core product but just contributing (usually small) imporovements made to some open source used so the "giving away IP argument doesn't really hold water".

In my experience that's an easy sell to the company on purely practical / selfish terms ("we can keep it in house and have to spend time reapplying our changes to each new upstream version that comes out or we can submit it upstream and have easier updates in the future").

Look at all the companies contributing to the Linux kernel in each release, most of them do it for precisiely this reason.
The article is not just about unionization, but goes into some background on the tech industry and how it evolved to become worker-unfriendly.

So, it's far more interesting than a pro-union rant.
There's a lot more that goes into building CPUs than lithography machines. A lot of it also hard to replicate across spaces and may not even be possible to note. That's why Intel's strategy for making new manufacturing facilities is called "Copy Exactly" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_Exactly!)

Even if you have a mandate to build baby build, TSMC Arizona looks like they are taking around 3 years from groundbreaking in 2021 to being operational in 2024/2025 (src for groundbreaking: https://www.tsmc.com/static/abouttsmcaz/index.htm. src for operational: googled it). You could make an argument that some of this was delays due to government regulations around how the funds are spent, americans are slow to build etc etc. Cutting it in half is still ~1.5 years.
Agrivoltaics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrivoltaics

I wonder who paid for this article.
Yes, production code is C++, but the way the models are built is Python code, colab, save via Orbax/TF SavedModel, etc and then serve in C++. All (most, to hedge it) development is done via Python.

I don't directly develop the models, I played with some for fuzzing [1] and I'm working on security for them [2]. And, before joining GOSST, I was leading the OSS DevInfra team in TF. I still have the most number of commits made by a human [3] even after 2 days of leaving the team, though I see the next person only needs 4 more :)

[1]: https://security.googleblog.com/2023/08/ai-powered-fuzzing-b...
[2]: https://security.googleblog.com/2023/10/increasing-transpare...
[3]: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/graphs/contributors
Is that the same Microsoft that thinks it’s okay that the whole company gets owned when an admin logs onto a single compromised computer via RDP?
> While we have been unable to identify the initial attack vector, we have identified two vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-20353 and CVE-2024-20359)

So update but probably remain vulnerable - there is no reason to think CISCO has fixed the original vulnerability.

Irrelevant aside: CISCO could have just reported a couple of zero-days they already knew of. Maybe vendors will start stockpiling zero-days ;-P
That really doesn't jive with this description of how much they were doing. Let me guess, this mythical two person team could also build Twitter and Uber over a weekend?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40176338
I wonder if they went through school and just didn't retain it, or if they were simply not educated at all.
No need for .ein source files. We just need a programming language that allows the definition of embedded DSLs without shoving them into one-line strings. A language like Common Lisp.

Here's einsum in 200 lines of Common Lisp. All einsum expressions are statically analyzed, checked for errors, and AOT compiled to machine code: https://github.com/quil-lang/magicl/blob/master/src/high-lev...
Rather than repeat myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182940
And, to be fair to both sides, politicians who have received money from taxpayers should not be allowed to speak.
I think the takeaway from this is you can hide your origin from a web server, but if you use an uncommon pathway to the server, your traffic sticks out.

My memory of this case is that Harvard was able to easily determine who had recently used tor, possibly through netflow logs.

Same sort of thing used to happen with Signal traffic to their servers in AWS. I've been in countries where Signal does not work at all because the local government blocked Signal traffic after lobbying from companies that profit from expensive SMS charges.

I've read privacy activists stress that it's great that e2e encryption exists, but that intelligence agencies are mostly interested in the metadata (who you communicate with, how you communicate with them).
Bound to offend someone who found out their father was the milkman.

Make it idontevenknowanymore()
What is real hype?
No, the pressing issue of the Willy-Nicky telegrams was that Russia had mobilised her troops against Germany. Speaking about the Hague conference while setting troops in motion is hypocritical: you should wait out lengthy proceedings while we are invading your country. In the telegrams, William II tried to convince Nicholas II to stop the mobilisation. But Sergey Sazonov shortly thereafter made Nicholas II restart and escalate the mobilisation. At that point, a major war was inevitable.
Hey everyone - check out the discord here: https://discord.gg/8vhcmyckNw
There is no world where laws exist that are not subject to that problem. Cops fucking plant drugs on people.

Just because all locks are breakable doesn’t mean that you stop using locks.
In principle I like Apple being legally forced to crack open all their walled gardens, and I hate how far they've come from the open and hackable original Apple computers.

In practice, I worry that they're going to imminently pivot to a more Google like model of selling their customers out to any third party with cash. Right now they have the means to do that, but they're selling privacy as one of their features and they've been largely benevolent with your data. The end result of opening up the walled garden could be the rapid Enshittification of Apple.
You could power the entire US using less than 1% of farmland for solar. I can’t see this being a huge issue?
Isn't that all politicians? Or is their paycheck not counted?
The real issue is that taxes are unreasonably and unnecessarily complicated to allow politicians to pander to specific voting blocks (both rich and poor) at the expense of the middle class.

There is no reason every legitimate employer can't send tax information to the IRS and the self employed can't simply self-report our taxable incomes. No more deductions, for anything, just simple graduated tax brackets. Easy for the IRS to calculate quickly and either send a bill or a refund by April. They would need a fraction of the staff they currently employ and we could apply the savings to the national debt.
"Ballpark Figure" means roughly or approximately. It is roughly around the average income. Within a standard deviation, therefore within the average salary range. A few dollars of benefits doesn't make a significant difference. Salaries have a distribution. It would be overly pedantic to say a salary is 1 cent higher than the exact average salary figure, therefore it is above average. That is not meaningful in the context of salary distribution.
Swedish views on privacy don’t necessarily apply outside of Sweden.

Are income levels not deserving of privacy?
Not sure the metaphor works here. For example most sites let Google scrape them as much as it likes, but go out of their way to block other robots. By doing so they are effectively forcing the whole world to use (or support, since smaller search engines have to piggyback on the big ones wih special status, and pay them) proprietary spyware.

In your analogy, most websites block everyone except the biggest pervert known to man.
Dangerous to think you cannot be tried for a crime you did not commit
We probably wouldn't even be able to source iron ore at that stage, let alone process it to make any kind of useful turbine, but let's say you make a working steam turbine from wood and clay, a DIY solar powered steam turbine is quite a few steps before modern CPU
Typically, yes I agree. But if you're evaluating someone's expertise in open source contributing, looking at their open source contributions is fair game.
Currently Turbotax is electronically submitting the government and you're okay with that, but you think that if you electronically submitted to the government in a system specifically designed by the government for the government that it would be a higher likelihood of the submission getting lost? The system with using the government is only removing one of the independent pieces here. How can you not conclude that the likelihood of problems wouldn't decrease?
Your surname surely seems to indicate that some of your ancestors weren't native English speakers. I hope they didn't get lectured or made fun of by people like you on their poor English skills when they first landed on whichever country you were born.
You seem to have forgotten that "Dodge swapped out the Chrysler engine for a Mitsubishi engine" isn't much of an innovation claim. Tim Cook is a bean counter. He's done nothing at Apple except add a couple of iPhone accessories and optimize the supply chain, which is all the M1 Mac was, a slightly optimized Steve Jobs creation.
Engagement != liking. You're gonna realize that soon.
Eurisko – Source Code
The view of Broadcom is that VMWare has low growth potential and the route to maximum short term financial returns is to extract as much money as possible from the largest customers.

So the strategy is to squeeze the 600 largest customers until they bleed, knowing they are so entrenched they cannot easily migrate. If the next couple of thousand stuck around as well that would be nice, but not essential. The long tail of hundreds of thousands of customers paying a few dollars a month they would gladly be rid of.
> Grant applications.

Inspired by a Wharton Business School study [0] I went down this road recently where I "primed" ChatGPT4 with an RFP (Request for Proposal from a US granting agency) and publicly available documents about the organization I work for. The ideas that it generated made sense, but were unfortunately way too generic to be useful. I am open to the idea that through better prompting, LLMs could be helpful here. As a first attempt in this arena, however, my initial results were disappointing.

[0] https://mackinstitute.wharton.upenn.edu/2023/new-working-pap...
Isn’t that problem easily solved by adding to your open source project’s license: “FAANG companies (like Google, etc.) cannot use or make profit from this project” ?

Better stated, of course, but you get the point.
Nice this looks useful, look forward to using it for a future project. Starred the repo
The M2 is faster and more power efficient than the 5800u. The display is 2560 x 1664. I think the Air display is better and brighter. The speakers on the Apple laptops also tend to be better.

Not sure about drop resistance or cost of repairs. I've dropped MBPs and they were fine (anecdotal) and the MBP I'm using was literally hit by a car and was slightly bent as a result and still works.

The battery life of the air is supposedly 18 hours and having no fan is also nice. No laptop I previously used compares with my work MBP m3 for battery life or performance. The air weighs 2.7 lb. I don't know which specific Lenovo you got at but the Thinkbook 14 weighs 3.3lb.

That said, I did pick a 13" Lenovo Intel i7 about 5 years ago when I was looking for a laptop for my other daughter. That laptop is still going strong. It did die about a year after I bought it but was repaired under warranty (still a quality question though). But I think today Apple has pulled ahead and the prices on the m2 these days are good.

I've never had a good experience with Linux on laptops. The hardware support always seemed iffy. Power management also iffy. But I have to admit I haven't tried in a long while.
So what? How is that additional bandwidth relevant to 99% of phone users? All they have is photos, and most of the photos sit on internal storage for an hour before being uploaded to iCloud. UHS-III goes to 620 MB/s that's more than enough. The OS would be fine with 100GB internal storage

Similar to the lightning cable, generates an artificial market. Making design choices against the best interests of the customer. Not sure why anyone would be Ok w that. Restricting users options, taking advantage really
Wait, who is actually defending look and finger tap as primary interface?

Psvr2 can do look, and it is largely best used as a rendering optimization, not as input detection. For controls, haptic is so important that the most emersive game is driving, but only if you have a good steering setup. Indeed, driving doesn't even need vr to be emersive with a good steering setup.
A remote control for a ham radio antenna rotator: https://dk1mi.radio/remote-control-hygain-antenna-rotator/
Nevada has a ton of solar proportionately.

You need the power to be able to hook into the transmission grid reasonably close to where it’s needed.
I've read someone mentioning that in the UK such matters often resolve themselves by means of an accidental fire.
If you long press the power and volume down button too (as soon as the UI to shutdown the phone appears).

Five-times pressing is disabled by default now IIRC, and call the authority when enabled.
Netlify forms looks like it could be great, but the pricing is awful: 100 per site /month ($19+ when exceeded)

Cloudflare form plugin sets up a worker/handler, which is cheap and easy. It does require coding though, unlike the formsubmit.co link.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/functions/plugins/st...
It's not just withholding. Cost basis info on all stock market transactions are also provided to the IRS by your brokerage...
A couple of iPhone accessories is hardly innovation.
Khymani James probably isn't a provocateur; he was (before he was banned from campus) one of the leaders and organizers of the protest, and its media spokesperson. Just a day before the recordings were revealed, he gave a widely covered press conference.

If he's an agent, he's a spectacularly successful one!
i found this useful for related general background information as well as some interesting conclusions, though you should probably decide for yourself if you think they are something you agree with.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/corporate-open-source...

If you prefer video, this is actually a transcription of the youtube video here :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNcBk6cwim8
> if your family makes under $60k you are almost certainly paying no income taxes

How is this possible? Where I live, you can expect to pay around 30% of your income as tax almost regardless of how much money you actually make (as long as it's above something like $600 a year).
I don't really care one way or the other if iTunes let people set custom album covers back in the day. That first comment by OP just stuck out like a sore thumb. The guidelines are there because they make HN nicer to participate in.
I like how this explains the details.

One can easily dismiss use of this kind of stringly typed construct, but once you see how abstraction enables optimizations in implementation, it's kind of win-win.
If you think privacy can be achieved using CGNAT and not services like Tor or VPNs... then good luck.

I will be blunt: Long term, IPv4 and any technology that extends the lifetime of IPv4 will actually result in the death of online privacy.
that’s a common talking point, but that is not exactly true. they don’t know how many dependents you have, if you are eligible for certain tax credits, whether you use your home as a work location, etc., etc.
It is not the exactly same Microsoft since Nadella as CEO. He deserve trust.
Apple never got rid of SMS. And there has been no embrace or extend.

All they did was put an optional message service in the same app.

One that isn’t even the most popular making it strange to say there is no competition.
It’s still too much of a time sink and even staying away from the bad parts brings so much distraction that we forget how to enjoy the simple things in life that make it worthwhile. Reading a book or watching a movie offline are cherished experiences many forgot how to savor in peace. Or leaving some questions unanswered for a while without wanting instant responses.
Not to mention many forgo the outdoors entirely just in favor of time spent doing one thing or another online.
That's weird. The solar farms that I see in Europe all have grass under the panels and in some cases grazing animals.

Just let loose a few sheep.
Microsoft doesn’t care about any principle beyond money. You can see this in their anticompetitive practices on browsers or AI or “secure computing” or Teams or whatever else. The government should move away from them entirely like some others have, and spend their money funding competing startups or on open source.
I just made my own function but that sounds great, I'll check it out!
> lack of God

There has never been one :)
Honestly, this is like I am reading my bio.

I had several of these along the way (including having a proposal to create a company but I was too busy courting a girl - they sold it for around 100M€ and split in in three :))

I work in high tech (bleeding edge) and spend my time automating my home and writing open source (when not working). My wife, from time to time, mentions how much I could do and my son cannot understand why I do not want to go further up the company pyramid. But I am happy, I have all the money I need and can now sit in front of my screen answering to HN while keeping an eye on the dinner I am cooking.

So yeah, lots of lost opportunities but the partying was wild :)

And yeah, I am still ignoring bitcoins when the guys in my team are making money (but live on an emotional rollercoaster :))