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Ask HN: Work on a VC funded project for which I do not feel strongly motivated?
I was recently approached by a person to fund a side-project that I worked on a while ago.

Being from a third-world country where you hear stories of VC funded CEOs making lots of money and changing lives (theirs as well as the customers') makes me want to accept the offer.

However, there are a thoughts that I have:

Say No:

1. I do not feel very amazingly motivated by the idea. I worked on the project a while ago as a prototype but I just found it ok. I do not feel motivated that I would be doing the world any good if I do create the project. Risking my current lifestyle for something that I am not motivated for does not look like a good idea.

2. I currently work full time as a software engineer that a place where I love working. Although I am in my 20s, I do not consider myself to be a risk-taking person and prefer slow and risk-averse life. Same as 1: Risking my current lifestyle for something that I am not motivated for does not look like a good idea.

3. I do not really like VC-funded software products personally. Trying to capture the market initially and then the enshittification to somehow artificially pump valuation and increase the revenue is not something that I agree with. I have always believed in bootstrapping products that are simple to build. I also already have a few side-businesses that earn slow and steady income. Doing something that I do not believe in does not look like a good idea again.

Say yes:

1. I am young and I have changed my beliefs over the years. How do I know that I will not change my belief about VC in some years down the line. If I work on this project now, I will have an 'in' in the network that can help me later.

2. Since my student life, I have believed that whatever I am today is because of the fact that I said "yes" to everything that came my way (which didn't use to earlier). Although I do understand that I had way more free time as a student compared to now.

I wanted to hear other people's thoughts on this too
Can we imagine it?

The lottery of life gets you born in a place that from one day to the other witnesses the arrival of foreign soldiers speaking foreign languages. They roll in your strees in big trucks with big guns always loaded.

They came for the War Against The Axis of Evil, they say.

Whatever, you think. You try to continue living your life. You grow up, enroll in university, fall in and out of love, graduate, marry, give birth, build a career, establish a family.

You almost forget about the foreign soldiers with their guns always loaded and their War Against The Axis of Evil.

One day you come home from your job and are met by the screams of crying family members who mourn the bodies of multiple of your nieghbours and family members. It could have been you. Instead it's your parents, your best friend, your partner, your kids. You learn they were cold bloodedly shot through the head by the foreign soldiers with their big guns always loaded. They were unarmed, civilians, innocent.

Meanwhile, no one gets punished. No one takes responsibility. Investigations die a slient death. It was the War Against The Axis of Evil, the foreigners say.

Can we imagine it?
Indeed, the bar is understandably high but C++ being above the bar is questionable. Maybe the reasoning was backward: any mainstream C compiler needs C++ so C++ had to be in the base system.
I'm not talking about viral/bacterial factors here, clearly a better filter with a better humidity system doesn't cause you to end up with a dry throat.
I'm not talking about exposure to people your in the same goldfish bowl as, that's a guaranteed to happen when you bump into people getting your bags outside...
That’s why the replacement is so expensive, each unit is handcrafted.
Yes. They also have AIS
I think the philosopher who had the most influence on Einstein (and on other physicists of the early 20th century) was Arthur Schopenhauer:

> Schopenhauer was well read by physicists, most notably Einstein, Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli, and Majorana. Einstein described Schopenhauer's thoughts as a "continual consolation" and called him a genius. In his Berlin study three figures hung on the wall: Faraday, Maxwell, Schopenhauer. Konrad Wachsmann recalled: "He often sat with one of the well-worn Schopenhauer volumes, and as he sat there, he seemed so pleased, as if he were engaged with a serene and cheerful work."

> When Erwin Schrödinger discovered Schopenhauer ("the greatest savant of the West") he considered switching his study of physics to philosophy. He maintained the idealistic views during the rest of his life. Wolfgang Pauli accepted the main tenet of Schopenhauer's metaphysics, that the thing-in-itself is will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer#Influence_...
> Or expand the station.

According to [1] nineteen national rail trains will depart from Euston in the next hour. And according to [2] Euston has 16 platforms.

Can a station platform really only dispatch 1.2 trains per hour? Fifty minutes per train? Seems kinda low to me.

I guess they need time to clean the trains, and space for trains that arrive well before their scheduled departure time. But still, it seems like a lot of platforms for the number of trains.

[1] https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/live-trains/departures/london...
[2] https://www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Eus...
Review driven development for ML / LMM applications
Author here. The article seeks to answer the question "How to make ML / LMM development faster with higher quality?"

The long format article seeks address the pain points in current tooling (Jupyter Notebook, unittests) used to support intelligent application RnD. It proposes a new approach for tooling and development, which combines the benefits of notebooks (review driven process, caches) with benefits of unit testing (repeatiability, regression testing)

The tool has been succesfully used to support the developmvent topic models, analytics and GPT based functionality. Here's an example of how to create a simple test that both creates a snapshot for results that also snapshots the environment and (e.g. GPT) API calls so that the test interaction can be replayed e.g. in CI.

import booktest as bt
import os
import requests
import json

@bt.snapshot_env("HOST_NAME")
@bt.mock_missing_env({"API_KEY": "mock"})
@bt.snapshot_requests()
def test_requests_and_env(t: bt.TestCaseRun):
t.h1("request:")

host_name = os.environ["HOST_NAME"]
response = (
t.t(f"making post request to {host_name} in ").imsln(
lambda:
requests.post(
host_name,
json={
"message": "hello"
},
headers={
"X-Api-Key": os.environ["API_KEY"]
})))

t.h1("response:")
t.tln(json.dumps(response.json()["json"], indent=4))

https://github.com/lumoa-oss/booktest/blob/main/getting-star...
It's for crew leisure and windows update.

And even the Fed owned options have vendors
The smarter way to comment online: Read the article before commenting on how to best understand it. As the other reader mentioned, that's not what the article says.
My understanding is that no one's asking them to take on that burden. What seems to be being asked is for them to explain the current semantics of the API, because it's unclear what they actually are.

From the sounds of it, some of them consider this request unreasonable.
> railways through Europe are a state monopoly

The situation is much more stupid than that: there's a set of "private" companies, some of which are substantially owned by states and some are not, all of which are quasi-monopolies.
If only saving a quick dime wasn't the main goal and maybe improving the comfort of cattle class.

Most systems lead to a dry throat due to bad filter designs and improper humidity regulation which is a shame.
Are you saying it's a lost cause? If so i'm totally switching back to Windows 2033 so I can play Simnpc in full res and buying one of those smart cars.
I did, I'm actually puzzled he referenced this.

You have a minority who wants to impose a change, and the concerns outlined in that video by the audience member reflects genuine concerns from many other maintainers and contributors.

That this discussion repeats itself can only be taken to be either:

1) Evil C programmers are stodgy and old, and can't/won't get with the program, boo!

2) The Rust minority has, as of yet, failed to properly answer what happens when C APIs change in either signature or semantics, either of which can break the Rust bindings. Some questions:

* Who tests to avoid this?

* Who's expected to fix it? The one changing the C code, who might not know Rust or a separate bindings team?

* Is there a process ? A person to contact/raise the issue with? To get help or to have the work done?

* What happens if the bindings cannot be fixed in time for the next Kernel release? Put differently, will Rust bindings changes hold back changes to the C code?

If broken bindings indeed can hold back changes, then C changes are held back by Rust and indeed then the onus is on the committer to either forego improving/evolving the C API or pick up Rust and fix the bindings also.
In that case, yes, the Rust bindings will either freeze the C API or force the individual contributor to learn Rust.

That people repeat their concerns isn't an expression of stupidity any more than a result of the people driving Rust into the kernel have yet to properly communicate how they envision this process to work, I suppose.
>home cinema is pretty much purely an enthusiast thing these days (the casual user won't plug anything into their smart TV)

Except a gaming console, a laptop, a roku, apple TV...

Every single person I know has some external media source plugged into their TV, even my tech illiterate mother.
Documentation is not great I admit. The problem is that we don't have anyone who is a capable tech writer in the team. It's not something that you can improvise.

However, all incompatible changes are documented and also announced at least 8 months in advance.

https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/about/removed-features.html

https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/about/deprecated.html

It may seem like there are many, but in practice they are in very old, mostly unused or very badly designed corners. For example configuration of audio was overhauled last year, and is now the same as basically all other backends (e.g. -audio pa,model=sb16; compare with -nic user,model=e1000 for a network card).
I understand how they work. If you’re going to make bad-faith arguments, we can drop it here.
Or just [$] like Linux Weekly News does to tag its social posts that have paywalled links.
I had an idea to analyze markets movements for day-traders. I had the data. I had the idea. I had a anecdotal-proof that my idea was working.

I was missing 1) the python/Julius machine that would do the work for me (yeah it would have taken less years to learn Python) and 2) the ChatGPT to help me with the code for writing the actual trading code. I couldn't test my theory in Excel (difficult to make 3D calculations on 2D tables). I was too laze to do it in Access. I could have done it in SPSS but I haven't used it since 2003, so... no.

Once "AI" came out, I knew I could offload this to a Py-AI machine, throw a some $ at it for a subscription and see if that works (and in which timeframes, instruments, etc) so I can then fine-tune and make niche predictions (e.g. Gold in Januaries, on Tuesdays, between 14:30 to 15:30 it goes up $5 with a 90% rate of success)

(yeah it would have taken less years to learn Python)

(yeah it would have taken less years to learn MQL4)
Ah the old Oliver Cromwell approach!
Great question! Timing is definitely a huge factor for startups success. And for sure, tech advancements & social trends are the easy ones to spot. But as someone who chased his share of tarpits, it’s also good to keep your eye on a few other things:

- Regulatory changes
- Economic changes like recession or inflation
- Lower costs - allowing a business model to suddenly work.
- Investment climate - money matters, so look for surges in particular sectors
- New gaps in the market - due to maybe shortages in some material, maybe a competitor drops out, maybe there are disruptions due to pandemic, weather changes.
- New collaboration & partnership opportunities.

A final note; Often the ‘why now’ only becomes apparent in hindsight. We’re great at building a narrative after seeing success or failure. It’s a lot tougher to leverage “timing” in advance. And timing is rarely the only factor!
What makes you say that? Have you read serious arguments against this view (ideally from academic philosophers, not somebody like me on HN!)?
How California Became a New Center of Political Corruption
If I was against VC funded businesses in principle and did not strongly believe in the core idea, I’d pass on the opportunity.

That being said, I’d consider it if the comp offer was extremely compelling
Thanks. So they're fairly confident about most of it, them.

I wonder about this: «Fourniture d'un moyen de cryptologie n'assurant pas exclusivement des fonctions d'authentification ou de contrôle d'intégrité sans déclaration préalable,» Do you happen to know what making that declaration involves?
> reproduction doesn't usually happen unless you go to extra lengths to make it.
https://archive.ph/AOrW6
Executives and managers do actually contribute useful things to large-enough firms. But the failure mode of engineer-driven companies is Juicero; the failure mode of MBA-driven firms is killing people for profit (lying in order to sell poison to third-world mothers, sending death squads after labor organizers, lowering passenger airliner quality until they start falling out of the sky, etc.).
It's exactly like this. I also don't agree or condone anything that the past government did. In fact weren't the previous governments corrupt, complacent and power hungry it would never have created the conditions for a far right extremist like Bolsonaro to rise to power.

Seeing the coup for what it was doesn't mean we forget or downplay what happened before, but these circumstances were clearly different.
If you purely value scientists with some sort of Value Over RePlacement metric on their scientific contribution alone, I would like to think Einstein is tier 1 along side another 20-50 people.
Posters are just a charade.

Try to remove dangerous aggressive dog from transport, and see what happens.
There are a lot of people who basically believe in a conspiracy of stupid people while at the same time believing anyone who believes in a conspiracy is stupid.

It is an amazing trick of modern propaganda. These people are so manipulated they can't even see the completely contradictory double think they are engaged in.

It just always happens to be the "dangerous" ideas are those that they don't believe in lol. How can anyone be so fucking dumb.
Read replicas come with their own complexity as you have to account for the lag time on the replica for UX. This leads to a lot of unexpected quirks if it’s not planned for.
I thought there had been enough discussion recently about how the plaque isn't the trigger of but probably just another effect?
Yes, this amount of work costs about $1697. Perhaps more, with corporate overhead included. This is why they suggest replacement parts.
> quality and consistency of HDMI experience

For me the experience is not so good, given that HDMI signals always require at least 2 very long seconds to be recognized by a monitor, often even more.
Chrome extension automagically does the work with one additional click:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/archive-page/gcaimh...
This is really cool, thanks for sharing. I’m getting glitchy cyberpunk vibes from this.
It runs ImageMagick 7.1.1-Q8 compiled to wasm [1]. As such, some conversions that do require external data or programs wouldn't work.

[1] https://dynapik.com/static/wasm/magick.wasm
Everybody knew that could happen with HDMI based on their legality setup.

And it did.

That said, those guys usually play a "back and forth" game on the long run... so stay tuned.

You should have an eye on MPEG too, because those are the same "type" of people (and ARM ISA is not far behind...)

Even if I despise big tech on nearly all fronts, sometimes we can agree, and this is AV1 and DisplayPort.

And this type of behaviour namely not having a DisplayPort port could be a perfect regulatory (anti-competitive) project for EU, like they did with apple...
The first snapshot of Hacker News on Archive.org
When I see large capacitors (for me it’s more girth than my little finger), I have alarm bells going on. One « soda can sized » can definitely kill you. It should be discharged before messing with it. You can buy capacitor drains (basically a big ass resistor) that you put across the capacitor’s legs to drain the energy in it.

Some do it with an insulated screwdriver but that’s dangerous because it’s a short, can ark, fuse the driver to the capacitor, and result in a bad day.
You think stumbling drunk people are helped by signs and announcements?
This can be approached in various ways.

You propose a purely technical solution. Somehow links that point to a paywall are marked as such by the system. As sometimes happens with purely technical solutions, this presents some difficulties, big or small. The main one would be knowing which links go to a paywalled site. You could have a list of them, but it would be hard to maintain it complete and up to date. Maybe there's someone out there who maintains such a list, but again it requires effort and, more importantly, it places all that effort on one single point.

There are other types of solutions that may distribute that effort more evenly on the community. Such as the one proposed by pureheartlover. Or maybe asking people that when they submit a link to a site they know is paywalled, to please include an alternate link. Maybe a suggestion in https://news.ycombinator.com/submit above the form. Or maybe readers generous with their time can comment with the alternate archive link (and maybe such comments can be pinned first).

This last one option is almost what we have now. Obviously, as most solutions that rely on the generosity of the community, it won't cover all cases and will fail sometimes to some extent -i.e. someone can still submit a paywalled link and it may not get the alternate archive link before you read it-. But, as an easy to implement and maintain solution, it's probably the best or close to it.
From what I understand, Einstein’s education and cultural milieu was very influenced by Kant, but Einstein himself was personally more interested in Schopenhauer.
FAA is doing their job. If the investigation turns up nothing then that’s fine. If they find something like SpaceX didn’t follow their quality processes then that’s time to pause before someone gets hurt.
Dude, do not favor ARM64 interop, but RISC-V interop, because you know ARM ISA is worldwide PI locked!
First, take a deep breath.

All other companies are investigated if this happens. It’s news because SpaceX launches so well and so often that it’s out of the norm.
How do we know this isn’t currently systemic?

Time to take a knee and pause then examine what went wrong.
OEIS is amazing and in the same "spirit" I also love factordb. Another "Web 1.0" look which also exists since immemorial times.

It contains, well, factorization of many numbers.

For example here's RSA-250:

https://factordb.com/index.php?query=21403246502407449612644...

I hope sites like these continue to exists for a very long time.

I'd link to one or two other useful oldschool sites that I do still use but I'm not sure they could handle the /. (well, HN) effect.
If there are parts that specifically you'd want to have better documentation for, please let me know here.

Generally we've been moving command line towards a scheme where each option describes an aspect of either the guest (a device, the board type, the CPU model) or the interface to the host (a file holding the contents of the disk, the network bridge to attach to, how to show graphic contents), with some options providing both as a shortcut (for example -nic, -audio, -serial).
MySQL doesn't do this anymore; the ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY mode became default in 5.7 (I think). You can still turn it off and get the old behavior, though.
A similar result for superposition would be huge, I guess, after a century we could finally understand what qualifies as a measurement device, why we do not observe quantum effects at macroscopic scales, what actually saves or kills Schrödinger's cat.
Am I understanding correctly that the angle between each mirror segment and the backboard is fixed once during construction and then not dynamic?
> Producing copyrighted things isn’t illegal.

There's no difference between producing and copying. Let's take a real world example: music samples. There's an entire clearinghouse process for music sampling, more or less forged after the 80s/90s when sampling blew up. Record companies and artist were like, "hey that's my song", courts agreed, a market was created.

This is pretty analogous to what's happening now, which is code samples. Developers are like, "hey that's my code". But that's where we're diverging, and this is probably because big companies aren't involved. People were sampling Atlantic Records' stuff. People aren't sampling Microsoft's stuff, they're sampling random GitHub OSS project guy's stuff.

But to your point, you're basically arguing that it's fine as long as no one listens to "Bitter Sweet Symphony". Most people think it's not the end user (listener) who's infringing copyright, but the party doing the copying (The Verve). Even if we accept your principle here, you're putting way too heavy a burden on people who use services like Copilot. Am I supposed to check that everything I autocomplete is properly licensed? You more or less said "shut these services down" in so many words.
I really thought you were joking, will buy this.
A tragic consequence of people being homicidal cretins. Nothing to do with localisation.
> Everything the Brazilian Supreme Court has done is illegal. A Supreme Court that initiates investigations on its own, is an interested party, and at the same time is the judge. In other words, everything is wrong, everything is illegal.

Context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966382

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36543423

It is 2024 and the "fake news" inquiry is still ongoing.
> The Turkish newspaper Hürriyet reports a tragic consequence of the failure to localize cell phones. . . only to be attacked by his wife, her father, and two sisters. He was stabbed in the chest but succeeded in grabbing a knife, stabbing his wife, and getting away. Emine died of her wounds; Ramazan killed himself in jail.

Sorry, I don’t think you can blame this on technology. Stick and stones and all that.
... Nothing?
Being forced from your home and into moving abroad and into a new career might work out for him, but it's still seems like a lot of unnecessary turmoil for him and and his familybecause he chose to do the right thing.
Funnily enough that's also often the issue with engineers - good at technical things but not so good elsewhere. There's a reason we all have different jobs.
I don't know, at least here (Europe) VGA has pretty much died out in all but legacy applications. The true pro format would be SDI using BNC connectors.

But I guess HDMI is going to be replaced by USB-C in the long run. Especially since the "everything-connector" also doing Video makes more sense than the video-connector also doing everything.
Oh, Reilly? He should write a book. :)
There's a result in quantum information that demonstrating a superposition of two states is at least as hard as switching between those states.

So designing an experiment to show that a cat is in a superposition of alive and dead is at least as hard as bringing a dead cat back to life (obviously in real life it would be much harder, this is just a lower bound).
> But the failure mode of engineer-driven companies is Juicero; the failure mode of MBA-driven firms is killing people for profit.

This is one to hang on the wall as an office poster!