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Ask HN: Why did you become an entreprenuer?
Hi HN community,

My first try at being an entrepreneur was during my third university course. That’s when I realised I didn’t want to be a Civil Engineer.

In 2008 (I was 20), the crisis hit. Housing and building developments were put on hold.

In high school, it also felt like a tough choice. I thought I had to pick a career for life, and switching later seemed difficult.

Everything is possible these days. Now, we see astronauts becoming movie actors or vice versa.

It was a crucial moment for me, almost life-changing.

At that time, no one mentioned that you could easily switch careers. No one told me that sticking to one profession for life is not critical.

I remember when I was at university. While my peers attended lectures, we stood at the university entrance drinking tea and discussing business ideas with my good friend.

I used to think a business idea's uniqueness was the key to success. I was so naive! It’s funny how my mindset has changed. Now, I believe you need to create distribution/community first, then focus on the product, not the other way around.

This evolution is fascinating. While we brainstormed, I realised that entrepreneurship is really cool. You have many ways to grow, so you don’t have to stick to one profession. You don’t even need a higher education to start making and selling products to others.

It also lets you start fresh if you fail. You can test new ideas, so it's more about ideas than a specific profession. It seems like a way to alleviate the burden of choosing just one career.

Oh boy, I didn't even realize at the time how much uncertainty you have as an entrepreneur. With all these ups and downs, constant waves, pivoting, finding the business model, dealing with customers, dealing with customers who are not happy, ... (you name it).

I can’t picture that time, but being an entrepreneur boosted my confidence and gave me certainty back then.

I'm joking when I say, "I'm too old for startup sh*t." But then, I dive back in, full speed, to execute my new idea :)

Starting a new startup is easier after you've had both successes and failures. You've learned to set aside the constant hustle and even find time to enjoy your work.

I'd love to hear your stories on becoming an entrepreneur and what your driving forces were at that time.
This is really incredible work. And the fact that you are 15 is blowing my mind. You have a really bright future ahead of you, and your parents must be really proud (at least I would be if you were my kid.) Hit me up if you want a summer internship finding security vulnerabilities at a hotel software startup (access control, property management, etc)
We had serious reliability issues with USB versions that were only solved by switching to the D457 model with GSML connectors. Those needed other hardware vendors to build in support for it to work but once that was all done we never had an issue again. Happy times going from alerts daily of the camera dropping out to alerts never.
If only a few engineers are using it out of their own volition that I don't think that justifies trying to imply that Google is a customer.

Pretty misleading and underhanded I think.
China's ultrashorts are now being crafted by AI, from script to special effects
I balked when I saw it refer to the makers as "stakeholders". It sounds like something a "policymaker" who's never set foot in a makerspace would say. Good luck, I suppose.
Instead of high density housing this will do slightly higher density in low density zones. You cannot really increase density by that much with it, but you for sure can cut the yards... And parking space.

I'm pretty sure this won't make housing more affordable by much. Or will even have an opposite effect.
To build these houses a pretty serious investment or Amish-sized group is required. Who has that?
One of the most repulsive and eye-opening experiences I have had is sitting in my local traffic court for 4 hours. It became clear to me that court was filled with people trying to go to work or live their lives but end up being saddled with thousands of dollars in fines.

The worst part of the experience for me was agreeing to pay my $150 fine. This was the amount stated by the judge. But of course when you actually go to pay, the cost if $400 because of the fees. I'd rather just pay a lawyer next time.
Yes, I agree, there's definitely that. I know I would not be alive now if I had easy access to a gun.

But the parent is talking about the USA having more self-defence freedoms, and gun ownership is definitely part of that. It's not about suicide, it's that weird "you gotta protect your family" that non-Americans find a bit worrying - what are you so scared of? I've lived in a few countries and nowhere I've lived has this level of fear. I've never felt that I would be safer if I owned a gun. I have no idea who I'd use it against (except myself, obviously).
She's also tweeting "This entire story was another hoax" this morning.

https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1904875629612331123
That matches my experience with this sort of makerspace. It launched with much fanfare and I was really excited. However it was far too expensive for me to use as a private individual, and didn't have enough high end or specialised equipment to make it worthwhile for most companies in the area. It was very disappointing all around. I walked past it on my way to and from work and never saw anybody there. A couple of years later it closed down.
Educating Our Children in the Age of AI
We all know where the middle east strife comes from. America has supported it, but not America alone. Is Germany going to stop providing financial and military aid and hardware to Israel?
>A linguist could write a PhD thesis on your comment alone

I have a feeling you're just tickled by someone using language you consider low-brow to express a thought that you consider high-brow. It doesn't seem that deep to me, but maybe I'm missing the fun. Can you help me understand?
$7k for IRA contributions in TY24 and TY25
The model in which the DNS was developed (back in the mid-80s) was CPU/memory was a more expensive resource than sending/receiving a small datagram to a centralized location within a campus over a local LAN (external connectivity off campus was also considered expensive but necessary).

The fact that this model is still largely assumed is due to inertia.
I suppose the London 1990s equivalent would be the "Buy! Sell! Exchange!" Music and Video Exchange bag? https://www.twee.net/misc/bags/list.html#id91
Power ball on transmission wires lowers electricity bills
>> I’ve long suspected a lot of supposed economic progress since, especially, the 1970s, has just been goods getting worse.

> Go look at what it costs to get a chambray work shirt (where we got the term “blue collar”, so, made for physical labor, not something fancy) made with similar-quality fabric and construction to a common 1940s or 1950s offering in a Sears catalog.

> How do you know they were better made back then?

I think it's pretty clear based on what I've read about purchasing behavior back then: people would own a relatively small quantity of clothes (compared to today), which they'd wear for a long time. That just wouldn't be a tenable strategy given modern quality.

Also, historically, stuff in the Sears catalog wasn't super special high-end stuff. It was common mass market stuff.
> The Trump administration is arguing that the military information contained in these texts was not classified—as it typically would be—although the president has not explained how he reached this conclusion.

It's been a minute since the classified-documents case was surreptitiously scuttled by the <checks notes> Honorable Judge Aileen Cannon — so The Atlantic must have forgotten that Trump can change the law by thinking about it, and that he did change the law by thinking that he could declassify documents by thinking that they are declassified, even later in time than the point at which that later thinking about the declassification actually had the effect of declassifying them.

We have concepts of a justice system.
Using signal with auto deletion is illegal. Creating a fork of Signal for CIA (or whichever) use and then deliberately not removing auto-deletion is really illegal. I think that's the thought process, at least.
The page says in the following week, which is disappointing. It’s likely we will see openAI favor their own product first more and more, an inversion of their more developer oriented start.
At 11:44 a.m. eastern time, Hegseth posted in the chat, in all caps, “TEAM UPDATE:”

The text beneath this began, “TIME NOW (1144et): Weather is FAVORABLE. Just CONFIRMED w/CENTCOM we are a GO for mission launch.” Centcom, or Central Command, is the military’s combatant command for the Middle East. The Hegseth text continues:

“1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package)”
“1345: ‘Trigger Based’ F-18 1st Strike Window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location so SHOULD BE ON TIME – also, Strike Drones Launch (MQ-9s)”

Let us pause here for a moment to underscore a point. This Signal message shows that the U.S. secretary of defense texted a group that included a phone number unknown to him—Goldberg’s cellphone—at 11:44 a.m. This was 31 minutes before the first U.S. warplanes launched, and two hours and one minute before the beginning of a period in which a primary target, the Houthi “Target Terrorist,” was expected to be killed by these American aircraft.

The Hegseth text then continued:

“1410: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike package)”
“1415: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP, pending earlier ‘Trigger Based’ targets)”
“1536 F-18 2nd Strike Starts – also, first sea-based Tomahawks launched.”
“MORE TO FOLLOW (per timeline)”
“We are currently clean on OPSEC”—that is, operational security.
“Godspeed to our Warriors.”

At 1:48 p.m., Waltz sent the following text, containing real-time intelligence about conditions at an attack site, apparently in Sanaa: “VP. Building collapsed. Had multiple positive ID. Pete, Kurilla, the IC, amazing job.” Waltz was referring here to Hegseth; General Michael E. Kurilla, the commander of Central Command; and the intelligence community, or IC. The reference to “multiple positive ID” suggests that U.S. intelligence had ascertained the identities of the Houthi target, or targets, using either human or technical assets.
Care to elaborate on which changes do you consider a mistake?

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To me the goals are sensible the flagship goals (for 2025H1 for example [1]) are all about DX and focus on downstream devs and their needs (all hands, Rust in the kernel).

The usual problem of "compile times" [2] (usually link times and LLVM throughput and so on) are things that are being worked on, but fundamentally they all can only be solved by caching, incremental compilation, and better developer tooling that are not language problems.

[1] https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-project-goals/2025h1/goals....

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1if5wpm/high_hopes_fo...
I was referring to Google's AI since that was the topic at hand. Nice to hear that OpenAI has references.
> Kotlin is also much more popular than Scala.

That's not what (at least some) numbers say. Both Scala and Kotlin are 14th.

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2024/09/12/language-rankings-6-2...

Kotlin may be more popular, but not much. It's nowhere near the mainstream languages like Java, Python, JavaScript, C# or PHP. Not even close to TypeScript.
No it's not, a major technological advancement was a machine that sews for you, there is very little hand sewing done any more. The second perhaps more important technological tour de force were the weaving machines, there is even less hand weaving than there is hand sewing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewing_machine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loom

The problem with the term "hand-made" is how vague it is, you would not a call a car "hand made" even though most of the parts are put together by hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTZ3rJHHSik (Model T Ford Assembly Line) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQPFVouph-w (honda factory tour) here are two car assembly lines 100 years apart notice how many people are still required to do final assembly.

Personally I think the sewing machine was a trickier problem than the weaving machine, We take them for granted today but it took 100 years and a real stroke of genius to figure out how to invert the process in order to make it simple enough for a machine to do it. while weaving has always utilized complex machines to make it possible.
Cortland is about 30 minutes from Ithaca. The situation in Ithaca is mentioned in the article, but I think his version is incomplete.

Ithaca still has a daily paper, the Ithaca Journal but it's a joke. Sometimes the front page has a "local interest" story which is not of interest at all, like how some chain of stores that isn't in Ithaca is closing stores in other upstate towns a few hours away. I used to always buy the Journal the day after an election to see the local election results but now the Journal doesn't even update their web site until about 2pm the next day. The Journal used to send one of two reporters to every public meeting, now they send nobody.

The slack has been picked up by four civic-minded publications that are either weekly or online only: The Ithaca Times, The Ithaca Voice, 14850.com and Tompkins Weekly. All of them are free but advertising supported.

I'd say that the daily cadence makes no sense for a paper in a small town. Most days nothing really happens, but if something does happen, why wait? I think Ithaca is well-served in the new environment, but it is an unusual case since it has Cornell University and Ithaca College which bring in a large population of idealistic and underemployed people who can work on things like that.
The thing about being “poor” in Europe is, you can be “poor” your entire life by American standards of income/assets, but still never take on medical debt, travel more than a month out of the year, have a couple kids and educate them in good schools, and retire.

Most Americans cannot.
They aren't being hyperbolic, they are accurately describing the reason you would use the new product.

And no, not all models are intended to push the frontier in terms of benchmark performance, some are just fast and cheap.
In China I recall that "the burden of proof was on the parties" and both sides were asked to submit all relevant evidence to the court. Then there were a couple of meetings where my lawyer met with the other side's lawyer to review the evidence.

If you're the plaintiff and you have evidence that supports your version of events, you give it all to the court. If you're the defendant and you have exculpatory evidence, or anything that shows that the case is frivolous, you give it all to the court. The judge can then ask for more evidence, or utilize what's provided.

My legal team didn't need to sift through ten years of emails in order to find a few needles hidden in the haystack. The process wasn't adversarial. The parties can't use "discovery" to get trade secrets or proprietary information.
And the costs were near enough to zero.

I wouldn't even say that it's a "better" system. I'd characterize US-style discovery as simply broken, and the Chinese system as something that works in a common sense way.
Gen Z on why they stopped trusting experts in favor of influencers on TikTok
The Future of Corporate Governance Part I: The Problem of Twelve (2019)
You’re not kidding, I can’t friggin’ believe how bad $70 sneakers can be these days. My shitty wal mart kids’ shoes for $10 or whatever in the ‘90s held up way better than a lot of these.

Oddly, the low end getting worse while prices also go up has made $200+ good leather shoes more attractive, LOL. Though I expect we’re about to either see most of those companies go out of business, or hike prices $100 or so in a short period of time, given post-2021 labor price increases. They’ve got to be hurting for margin right now.
Vibe coding a typing tutor with kids
Not this again...Limiting it to a % of something will just make the current system increase costs to the point where 10% becomes enough to continue paying fat checks to all these leeches.

It doesn't work.
Certainly the very low costs that are quoted for solar energy depend on centralized installation that have economies of scale. Rooftop solar doesn't come close, although it doesn't have the land use problem that centralized solar facilities have.

As for nuclear, micro != cheap. As with solar, larger nuclear plants have better economics. One of the reasons why we've struggled to move from FOAK (First of a Kind) to NOAK (Nth of a kind construction) is that when we successfully build a reactor we think "gee the economics aren't that good, maybe we have to build a bigger one" and had they actually built a NuScale they probably would have come to the same conclusion.
Right, but OP was suggesting that fish didn’t need history search because of.
Testing right now, seems to be working okay. Clients report that they are missing a single button mute. Yes, they do have volume control, but that requires several clicks and drags in order to quickly mute and unmute (when phone rings, for example). So a dedicated mute-unmute button would be appreciated. Thank you.
Yes, I agree: your trump derangement syndrome is very terminal
This warms my heart in an otherwise bland day :)
You can simulate mobile screens, toggle light/dark/print/other media modes, edit css, debug layout, run a11y and lighthouse tests, and download all the framework-specific devtools you want.

Besides the multi-pane synced windows I don't really see a new feature here. It's a lot of advertising of little-known features that are already built-in to Firefox

I'm not trying to shit on your product. It seems polished and possibly useful. It just seems insincere for you to advertise browser features that are built in as features of your app specifically
Yeah, it's quite annoying. foo.bar.svc.cluster.internal even reads better. There is also home.arpa for LAN stuff if you don't own a domain.
Year 2008 was like world war 2?

That's an interesting take...
> We're really not. Just the health care issues, which can be directly seen in the life expectancy figures, make us materially richer, never mind anything else.

They don’t. Americans earn something like 1/3rd more than the average European. They have substantially larger houses and own more cars.

> And I much prefer not needing to exercise my rights to self-defence in the first place

The vast majority of people will never need to use a gun whether they are in the US or Europe. The position you’re taking is one that it is convenient for you to take because you are not currently the victim a violent crime. This is akin to someone talking about all of the money they are saving by driving without insurance.
So they are not going to even address that someone in the group apparently had Goldberg's personal contact information saved to their phone?
Industrial knitting machines can make entire garments without human involvement, but a person will probably still fold it and sew a label onto it.
Not surprising, llama.cpp code is a mess.

It's sad that hacked things that emerge first are way more popular than properly done projects that come later.
> Does this actually work? Yeah, somewhat! Could it create scripts that erase your drive? Maybe! Good luck!

Love the transparency lol.

Cool idea though! I imagine the "erase your hard drive" risk could be mitigated pretty well by adding an extra LLM step to double-check the generated script and explain each part of it (maybe add an `# explanatory comment` at the end of each line), and then an extra human step to confirm before executing the script.
A code comment can tell you why the code is the way it is, but it shouldn’t tell you why it changed. That’s what commit messages and/or PR descriptions are for.
I think Scala had a big momentum 10 to 5 years ago. Many people were choosing Scala for new apps and many were rewriting existing apps in Scala. But something happened, Scala lost its momentum and nobody is interested in Scala anymore.
> Where will the cars go?

Half of some cities' downtown space is parking.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/resilience/smart-cities...

Every apartment complex in my area clearly has way, way more parking that needed - at no time of day are they more than 50% occupied.
So? The issue is, are they living better than (most) Russians - the Russians who see them as "one people"? That's the issue in lawn's post.
I do it because it's the only way to both earn a living and retain some real control over that aspect of my life while doing so.
You can't even get Amazon to give you the right results based on filtering items by title. I was searching the other day for lithium rechargable AAA batteries and it gives you a mess of mostly AA batteries. Including ni-cad.
Ask HN: Will YC fund startups by all AI cofounders?
And if so, how would that work?
Take a look at https://jibril.garnet.ai/readme/theory-behind so you have a better understanding what we are doing. As long as there is 'a resource' and 'an action', we can track it. Full memory (file-backed or not) introspection is tricky due to performance reasons (like checksumming files, picking entire content being read/write to pages, etc). Still, we would be able to do if we wanted (specially considering we can add uprobes on-demand for binaries being executed). Hope that helps.
That, TBH, is probably the least surprising fact of this saga.
I'm surprised the article does not mention that there is a privately operated jail in the county.
Hahaha, I admit I posted in part to get the “HN is better than Google at finding things, as long as you claim it can’t be done” effect :-)

Not quite the fabric I had in mind, but those look damn good, really close style-wise, and are on the short-list for the next time I sit down to look over my next batch of clothing purchases. Thanks!
Private CA's are a thing, it's not even rare in organizations that control their hardware. There are plenty of use cases to go that route.
Yeah, everyone is talking about free markets. But no one likes the idea of a transparent market.
>Arm64 is a far more pure RISC

I guess we have a very different definition of RISC.

Edit: Actually found the argument [1] back then. Time flies. These debate has been going on for years if not decades so I wont go and rehash everything. There was another long thread on Realworldtech as well where Linus said something similar. But I cant find it right now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19327276
Once AI can derive an access model by crafting packets, it takes a lot of imagination to say that bank tellers will still have jobs.
Which software are you using and what is the process !??
This works for suburbs I'm guessing - I don't see how it helps out in metro areas? Where does this work best for? Buy and re-develop for friends?
Yeah I am not a lawyer either. I think it will be interesting to see where all of this lands. I appreciated the discussion and everyone's time. The thread was flagged so I must go get some chores done. Thankyou for the discussion.
> coders, energy experts, and biologists

Bill Gates these days lives in a liminal space and as a result I rarely listen to anything he says. He doesn't share insights, just hand-waving and platitudes.
> two hours and one minute before the beginning of a period in which a primary target, the Houthi “Target Terrorist,” was expected to be killed by these American aircraft

Which, by the way, is sufficient time and targeting information to down a F-18.
"My secret is, I don't write these for anybody. [...] When you put it out there, can point people to what you do, people will start to come."

That's absolutely the way to do this. Believe it or not that's still
the way I think about my online writing.