skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey guys. I’m curious as to the community’s thoughts about the video (and YC’s advocacy in general) with requiring a co-founder for startups in most cases. YC claims that many of the most successful startups were co-founded (probably statistically accurate), and highly supports co-founders as crucial to a company’s success. There are many successful co-founded companies as well as many successful solo founded companies (ex: Amazon). What are your thoughts about the true importance for a co-founder? Is it as far stretched as YC claims? Can a company not move forward sufficiently given that a solo founder is sound and resourceful in filling gaps otherwise handled by a co-founder? The reason behind my questions are that there are some challenges to co-founding companies and finding co-founders at later stages, the top of which (in my opinion) are finding people who are a true value-add, complementary, and committed. One major example here is with a co-founder leading marketing and distribution. In the beginning, is it not enough to use a marketing agency, lead generation, and/or consultants to bridge the gap till reaching a point of obtaining traction to raise a seed round in order to bring in someone full-time? My position until recently was as a full-time employee, and so time constraints were a factor in deciding to spend time developing product and talking to customers, or trying and do both as well as take on looking for a co-founder.

What if you’re capable of developing an MVP on your own (which I have done), and have decent domain expertise to plan and drive distribution? Then, is it worth taking the time to search for a co-founder? I'm interested to hear perspectives from both solo and co-founded startups. What has your experience been?
I'm not sure what you meant when you said "without JS". To actually use templates you need JS. Yes you can declare them, but what's the point?
If I went and checked commits, I’m sure there are a lot of business critical IOT/controller type processes that now rely on Raspberry and therefore engineers backing support out the gate
Isn't intel SRIOV getting mainlined with Xe driver in 6.12 or am I mistaken?
It's fine right up until it isn't. The chance that "this time it's different" can't even be reasonably inferred from the inside.

Induction from the perspective of the seasonal turkey: https://mashimo.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/bertrand-russells-i...
I don’t see what’s unfair about it if every employment agreement is voluntarily entered into.
The article isn't a generic rant against capitalism. It is about monopolists' misuse of academic experts to protect themselves against antitrust legislation - which is designed to protect free markets, not replace them.
Leaving his terrorism aside, I wonder what HN readers think of his ideas and writings. A glance at what he wrote makes it look pretty interesting. But I feel whatever he wrote has been dismissed and shadowed by what he did, so the ideas within never got much of a debate.
Same with people fleeing from school systems that were still locked down to ones that had since reopened.

I don't think this is about wokeness per se though, just people literally leaving institutions that are closed in favor of ones that are open. Like switching up your regular bar if it stops being open on one of the main nights you used to go there.
Quantum computers are a superset of normal computers, so im not sure what the fuss is here.
Thanks for the tips. We have a comparison with message queues and unix domain sockets [1] on the repo on github [2].

~~It's nice to see that independent benchmarks are in the same ballpark than the one we perform.~~
Edit: sorry, I confused your link with another one which also has ping-pong in its title

We provide data types which are shared memory compatible, which means one does not have to serialize/deserialize. For image or lidar data, one also does not have to serialize and this is where copying large data really hurts. But you are right, if your data structures are not shared memory compatible, one has to serialize the data first and this has its cost, depending on what serialization format one uses. iceoryx is agnostic to this though and one can select what's the best for a given use case.

[1]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx2/r...
[2]: https://github.com/eclipse-iceoryx/iceoryx2
Being a small manufacture means you go to the bottom of the list for the vendors of the sensors. I'm sure the best sensors are pretty much already spoken for, and the lower quality ones are what's available to any one not the likes of Sony, Canon, Nikon, etc. Any other reason is pretty much an excuse.

We could just go back to full sized cameras with 3 CCDs. j/k
I don't care about your pots or kettles. Me and the guy are autistic enough to not really be capable of intentional lying. Which pretty much encompasses the term.

You lie all you want. It won't make you liked among good people. Like here, you just look like someone trying to win internet points from other dishonest people on the back of actual efforts toward freedom of speech. I don't even want to think how shit the world would be with the old Twitter still around, with their way of "steering" conversation (hard banning speak they don't like)
Is it really any different from what we see these days with protesters? They don’t care at all when they block highways and bridges and tunnels. Lots of people get impacted - including those needing to get to hospitals or loved ones. What about when protestors use physical force and violence to destroy businesses and property. In my opinion, all of it is terrorism based on the definition, but we just stopped using those labels.
Any tips on prompts for o1? I'm struggling to figure out how much scope/detail/context I should include in my prompts.
Just a note that "stratification" as described in this article is not what is traditionally meant by taking a stratified sample. The article states:

> Stratification lowers variance by making sure that each sub-population is sampled according to its split in the overall population.

In common practice, the main way that stratification lowers variance is by computing a separate estimate for each sub-population and then computing an overall population estimate from the sub-population estimates. If the sub-populations are more uniform ("homogeneous") than is the overall population, the sub-populations will have smaller variances than the overall population, and a combination of the smaller variances will be smaller than the overall population's variance.

In short, you not only stratify the sample, but also correspondingly stratify the calculation of your wanted estimates.

The article does not seem to take advantage of the second part.

(P.S. This idea, taken to the limit, is what leads to importance sampling, where potentially every member of the population exists in its own stratum. Art Owen has a good introduction: https://artowen.su.domains/mc/Ch-var-is.pdf.)
But it's not out of the gate, it's been almost a year.
You are correct, a Google search failed me sadly. I have had corned beef sandwiches around the world but LefKofsky's is still the best I ever experienced.

Eastern Market was amazing in those days, you heard fifty different languages being spoken, the aisles were so crowded and it was Detroit at its peak of prosperity.
Starving can be voluntary.
Better that way than usual startup bullshit about changing the world to a better place.
> many of the "extension" courses at universities are taught by people with at least a minimal affiliation to the university

This is true, but it's not necessarily an academic affiliation. That isn't inherently a bad thing though, especially for more practical-minded courses. In the mid-aughts, when I was employed by Harvard FAS as a web developer, on the side I also TA'ed for the Intro to Web Development class at the Extension School for a few terms. The instructor and most of the TAs worked for various parts of Harvard IT.

The course material was very current and high-quality as a result of being based on our hands-on day-to-day experience working in web dev, and we generally received very positive scores on student-submitted course evaluations.

Granted, at my day job I also wrote a majority of the online course evaluation system used by FAS + Extension School, but I swear that didn't impact our high marks :) The underlying Oracle DBs were appropriately locked down anyway, as we took privacy laws like FERPA quite seriously.
It's artistic.
If you aren’t young, you aren’t worth Paul taking a moment to write a sentence about you, though, so go to hell.

Apparently.
People also dont realize that this will kill SAAS margins. If anyone can quickly build working software, the whole moat is gone.

If you dont think this will not happen, you have not used cursor.sh with sonnet 3.5. I am working on a startup that is effectively a copy of existing products. My flow goes:

1. Screen shot competitor UX

2. Drop screen shot into cursor.sh, ask it to code it (there will be issues)

3. Screen shot individual components in the above screenshot

4. Have cursor.sh fix each component one by one

5. Go back through and tell it each issue by highlighting the code

6. Iterate a bit

7. 90% of the UI has been copied in one day, with a working backend.

This is with a next.js/supabase app deployed on vercel. For complex B2B saas.

Its over. In a year the models will get so much better
In their last 10-K, Bristol Myers Squibb reported an operating income of $8.4bn on sales of $43.7bn, giving them a gross profit margin of just over 19%.

https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/14272/000001...
My point is, what's stopping me from creating yet another IPC standard?
cute article, whenever I hear about someone “raised by the internet” I usually think of a negative result but glad to hear this is a positive one
Any garbage collected language avoids a lot of disastrous undefined behavior.
Value is directly affected by ease of piracy, or alternative distribution. People paid $12-16 per CD for decades, yes it felt a tad expensive but that was the deal and people were generally happy. Napster then torrents lowered sales, Spotify has pretty much killed it. The value of a CD hasn't changed, nor has affordability (in fact many more people can afford than in the 80s-90s) - but nobody's buying because other distribution exists. You can argue Spotify doesn't pay artists fairly and all that but they do have deals and contracts in place. The pirates don't, didn't, never will.

And the "significant effort and risk" argument is garbage when multiple methods of transmitting pirated content (and checksumming it) is easy as cake.
It's easy to make an SPA blow out of proportions and exponentially ruin UX.

Think cascading requests, you need to render a list of user saved posts, you fetch the list, then you fetch details for each item, then you render them (n+1 problem). In a simple SSR app even if you do some inefficient backend queries, the overhead is trivial compared to the equivalent SPA logic. This is just an example, but I think in general is way easier to screw up an SPA than it is to screw up an SSR site.
Working on Perseid (https://perseid.dev), a framework that allows web developers to ship full-stack apps in minutes, using their favorite stack.
> What russia calls a "provocation" is no excuse for russia's invasion and subsequent 3rd genocide of Ukrainians (the 1st being the russian-perpetrated Holodomor starting in 1932, the 2nd being the russian deportation of Crimean Tatars starting in 1944).

Yeah the liberal use of genocide isn't going to help. Killing thousand civilians per day in east Ukraine by their own people is closer to that. And killing thousands of civilians was also a reason for the NATO to intervene in Serbia.

> Had russia stayed within their borders and minded their own business, the current russian war of genocide against Ukraine would not exist.

The same could be said about the US in Ukraine, but also Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq - just in the recent time, otherwise I have to list most of the world. The difference with this and Russia is, that there was never a threat for the US, but it is an open threat to Russia if Ukraine is part of NATO.

> Had russia historically not been evil to its neighbors (example: the Katyn Massacre in 1940), its neighbors wouldn't seek protection from russia.

1940? What time is it?
The bigger trend is of course people leaving churches, period. The practice of religion in the US has taken a deep dive over the last 10 years, putting it on track to match the long-standing disposition of Western Europe.
To say nothing of the article itself, calling something that makes the front page of HN irrelevant is sort of how the US ended up in the situation it finds itself in today. If your only response to a counterpoint is to disparage it, you will find yourself with a large cohort of people that believe they have been shut out of the conversation.
In place of money, you can equally substitute status, prestige, or power.

When it comes to young people choosing careers in the US the money choice is more prominent.
If they commoditize us, then they will have commoditized themselves.
This kind of argument seems to always pop up in this context.

There have been 17 attempts that I'm aware of to create a government based off of the ideals that Marx preached.

Of those 17 attempts, every one has ended up creating extreme poverty for the masses. Every one has led to massive amounts of death and abject misery. Every one has led to a dictator that sees his people as just cogs in a machine, easily replaced.

No matter how great Marx's system is (and having seen the aftermath personally of one of those attempts to enact it, I'm inclined to think that his system of thinking is semi-articulate garbage), it's obvious that we can't do what he prescribed and get the results he claimed we would.

Frankly, the part where all of the power temporarily concentrates before redistribution is the problem area: no one can withstand the temptation to just keep it.

Or possibly they never intended to let it go in the first place.
You're being downvoted for using an easily google-able factoid incorrectly because you're pattern matching on "high drug prices"

What happened was Martin Shekreli purchased patents for existing life-saving drugs and raised the price for them from $1.50 to $30 to cover the cost of the purchasing the patents themselves.

This is an entirely different.
Members of society are not external organisms, they are the cells that make up the organism that is society itself. The most effective ways in which organisms fight these issues - take cancer for example - is to prevent the issue to bring with, not to supercharge the immune system against itself. Much like an immune system too eager to go after it's own cells can cause autoimmune disease, fighting antisocial behaviour primarily through repression leads to societal ruin.
Copying has never been a hard problem.
Building a little CLI tool that stores API requests and spins up a small REST server that allows them to be pinged. This stemmed from being on a flight, not wanting to buy WiFi, or the WiFi being slow and I just want to build something around an API.

I called it gofaux: https://github.com/tjb/gofaux
Romer's examples aren't quite the same as what this page talks about. He describes papers where the maths is valid - the conclusions follow from the premises - but it's not tightly tied to the real world via words.
A Look at Japanese Web Design (11 min video)
I wasn't raised (as a technologist) by the internet, but by cassettes, floppies, magazines and books. But we share at least one experience: the horrors of ndiswrapper.

20 years later, I recently tried to install Ubuntu on an old Intel MacBook Pro that I got somehow, and I realized that in 2024 you still can't install Linux on a laptop (at least, on laptop of a certain popular make) without jumping through hoops, due to, IIRC, lack of support for the particular Wifi chipset this computer uses.
Charge them more until it's worth it.

And sure, tell them they get disconnected first when there's a shortage. But a hard block is worse than taking their money and using it for improvements.
Nah that's crazy man
ANd you have to try the recipe to see if you get anything remotely edibile.

Not a cook? A little mistake in measurement is the difference between delicious and not fit for dogs.

I tried the 'original' recipe for brownies as posted by the hotel (still in business) that 'invented' them 100 years ago. It was a disaster. Dumped it into the compost heap.

Maybe don't put words in other people's mouths next time?
What if you want to make things that are new?
Trying to mimic mode 7 (Mario kart graphics) using canvas and JavaScript.

It is fun.
I'm still pretty early in terms of figuring out if this approach is better for larger projects. I can confidently say it works great on small things - for small changes on small files the AST approach works pretty well. You can say things like "add a click listener to the button that calls a function to tally the user's score" to a simple game and it will do it. That is, less than a minute after typing the prompt, you will see the code update in the editor and see your preview-webview update with your changes applied.

However, I have noticed that the AST code quality heavily depends on how common it is in the training set. I think I will have to add documentation to it through RAG or something - because OpenAI's models that I'm using seem to have limited experience writing esprima for JavaScript for example.

So it's hit or miss. In some cases I do feel like I'm throwing stupid compute at solving small problems and it's unnecessary - however, as I work on the project, it is getting better and better at successfully making the modifications. Some of that is me improving the prompts, some of it is OpenAI improving the models themselves, and some of it is the infrastructure I'm building for the project itself.

I did notice a huge improvement when o1-mini released. It is dramatically better at writing the AST code than GPT-4o or 4o-mini. I haven't tried Claude 3.5 yet but I've been hearing it does an exceptional job at code writing - not sure about my AST requirements though!
Other people exhibit psychotic behaviors because they're suffering from dementia. You wouldn't go with physical restraints if a chemical relieves the behavior?
Comparing this to net neutrality just poisons the well when discussing NN. Internet service providers being able to arbitrarily adjust pricing based on data source stifles competition. Is there competition in the power supply industry where a client can pick their source? Well, aside from having their own generation. In this case transfer is the service and if one day huge demand cluster disappears the capacity for it is left to rust.
Has anyone tried both Pagoda and GoBuffalo and can compare?

GoBuffalo recently archived their github project and basically become unmaintained, which is extremely sad for such a mature framework used in production by many.
Yeah but you couldn't copy major functionality in one day. The same can be done from a figma. This will bleed into every area of software
Right. By the time I’m automated we pretty much have AGI.
Does she (or anyone else here) use net/http's built in https support? Seems implied by saying the built-in web server is used in production.
Exactly. It’s always been possible to commoditize software engineering _if_ you could find the right developers overseas but the fact is we are where we are because it’s hard and almost impossible to manage.

And either way, talented developers from developing countries are often brought on with visas and end up with salaries close to the industry norm. I’ve been involved with large mergers with overseas dev teams and that’s how it’s always been.

At best, AI is just good documentation. This whole craze is the equivalent of saying doctors won’t be necessary because you can just google how to do x procedure.
Recent discussion (76 points, 3 months ago, 63 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40878900
Can you give some examples of embedded systems that run Gentoo?
One of my first blog posts was on this topic: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/47

I'm not saying that the job of developers won't change or they won't be forced to be more efficient, but the work of turning abstract requirements into something a computer can execute isn't going away any time soon, even in countries with expensive labor.
> Have you noticed it's only in our cities you seem to really hear about the homeless poor? It isn't the correlate of overall population distribution that it might intuitively look like.

I don't see that claim anywhere in this comment chain though?
I hate the term “woke”… and pretty much any other term that takes a heavily nuanced subject and condenses into one word for lazy minds to use and misuse. I hated the term when the left introduced it 10+ years ago, and I hate it now that the right has taken it over.
> every few years there are articles of pubs shutting down and it being a crisis. Happened as long as I’ve lived.

This is very consistent with there being a steady decline. (Likewise, some mock the perennial complaint that "people don't work as hard as they use to", but in fact hours worked per week has been steadily falling for 150 years.)

> You don’t have to go far precisely because your local craft beer haunt, gastropub, sports bar and boozer all serve different clientele.

I don't know what this is supposed to mean. If a country's is dominated by a certain establishment type I like, and then that type loses lots of market share to different types, I am worse off.
All of the teams I've been on have used one list. I've never seen a PM prioritize the technical work. I still think it's a good idea for it to be one list, but it's not sufficient.

For teams that don't have a good PM, you also need a tech champion. Failing that, engineers need to inflate estimates and do tech work under other stories. Then everything becomes less predictable and teams never develop trust.
Below the dupe threshold as there was little discussion (< 20 comments).
you can just… lie
So I can just make a threat of life to my national leader and make an early election and that is not a coup?
MVP Strategies – Techniques That Launched Tech Giants
>Gay people (myself included) don't feel "empathized with" when we see gay people reflected in modern advertising. We feel targeted, and rightfully so - people are preying on the unintelligent reactionary masses that empathize with or want to empathize with queer identity.

Speak for yourself. Some people just want to see themselves represented in media (Advertising or otherwise) just like the rest of the population. Even if it's just for their money, it's still better than being swept under the rug and forgotten about.

>queer media was better when it was an underground identity!

There's still plenty of great underground queer media, and it's also great to see some of it go mainstream.
A pretty incredible amount of work to make this possible. I'm very curious to see what this means for the future. Will the next NASA mission use Linux now that it's effectively an RTOS?

I found this link for others that are curious to dig in more. https://www.zdnet.com/article/20-years-later-real-time-linux...
Interesting! So is the marketing and sales process going to be even more of a differentiator than it is now?
We are going to see a massive creativity expansion with the many, many people who will have access to amateur level coding. Think of it like the expansion of visual images once the first personal camera was widely adopted. There are still professional photographers, but they are now dwarfed by the number of amateurs (everyone with a modern phone).

Except this analogy breaks down because photography is but a sliver of what is possible with ubiquitous programmability. It's going to be more, different, and somewhat unexpected.

Get ready!