skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being forced to bootstrap with your own funds is the best bullshit business filter I am aware of. I also think it says a little bit about the founder's ability to maintain some amount of stability in their life and put their money where their mouth is. Everyone can come up with ideas. How sure are you of yours? Are you willing to use some of your own money to prove it out? No? Then I guess I'm not that interested either.

The way I am trying to do this now is to only ask for money if I can obtain at least one paying customer who is willing to vouch for me. If I can't market an MVP to at least one small shop, I don't know why a non-fraudulent business partner would want to work with me. In any case, I wouldnt feel great about that relationship.

I've done the burn someone else's fifteen million bucks thing on tech stack shiny rabbit chases. It's really not a fun time in retrospect. Mostly just a sick feeling all the way to the bottom.
I have often ended up working on the billing system - nobody cares if it functions and I don't know why. It pulls in the money every month and if it makes mistakes the company loses money.........!!!!.....

In the same companies people do care about the UI ...even when it has about 2-3 unique users per day. I won't explain how this translates to being able to function as a company at all - just to say it does because most selling is actually through salespeople.

So what I get from the OP's dose of "realism" is that everything is about perception and hopes for the future etc. The things that are making money now are assumed to be able to carry on doing so forever without attention. Just as some people buy a car and never look after it. When the day of disaster comes they're surprised.

Some companies implement new features to make a sale. So there's a continual struggle to complicate an already complicated system......but you're not allowed to refactor or spend time upgrading from gcc 4.3 or whatever because that's not work that leads to a sale. So each new feature takes more and more effort of course....and when you lose developers their replacements don't understand the convoluted codebase so bugs can't be fixed and customers don't renew their contracts.

So you do need to work for profitable companies rather than the kind of slow motion car-crash companies that are trying to do something which cannot really support itself.
damn, 1800 a month? What am I doing paying rent? /s
The comment you were replying to already addressed this point.
To be fair, the US exports a lot of services to the EU. For some reason these weren't included in the calculations shrug. As an aside, it's hilarious to see loads of Europeans saying that they never use any US products on a bunch of US owned products.
This doesn't surprise me in the least. I wouldn't want to get locked up in a ICE jail either. Not to mention support an immoral administration or country that is essentially blackmailing the rest of the world.
The difference between EU and USA is: "can" vs "is happening".

And as you describe in the EU it's "up to 24 hours". And in the lawless authoritarian regime? That Canadian girl was detained for 11 days and was told to prepare to be held for months: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jasmine-moon...

A friend's family flew into a EU country with a letter, they thought this letter was their visa but it turned out to be a rejection from the EU country's consulate (maybe it was a request for more information for their visa application). They were denied entry, but there was no indefinite detention, they were just told to get on the next plane out of the country and had to wait in the "international area" of the airport until said flight.
maybe Americans semi-permanently abroad assume other countries will employ reciprocal craziness, like a trade war, and are running home before they get locked up too?
I travel even more than you and only got robbed twice in 40 years on earth: in Johannesburg, South Africa and Stockholm, Sweden.

You can claim it's rare, but it happened on 100% of my trips to Sweden. Therefore, I will never travel back to Sweden. It's just not worth it and I have no idea what could happen (stabbing? murder?). Nothing in Sweden is worth the absolute fear this country provokes.
The Shiller ratio is still terribly high. There is room for a great deal more decline.
This brings me back. I'm 23 (born 2001) and my father is a techie. Reading these kinds of funny stories about sysadmin shenanigans in the late 2000s and early 2010s is a core memory of my childhood. I miss this kind of writing, it seems to have largely tapered off in the era of cloud managed infrastructure.
I mean, I'm a US citizen and I'm not doing foreign travel any time soon because I don't want to fly into the US either. With the way ICE is acting, I'm not going to count on my citizenship to protect me from violations of my constitutional rights.
I'm waiting for conservatives to buy Teslas as an "FU" to liberals.
>Because all PowerShell objects are .NET objects, they share a .ToString() method,

Congrats, PSH, you did what TCL did ~30 years ago, but worse. With TCL everything it's a string, even numbers. Yes, it sucks you need to [ eval ] math operations, but well, the advantages outnumber the quirks.

If you came from Lisp, you will be at home in the spot. Use the l* functions as you were doing the same with Lisp lists, but without juggling with car, cdr, caar, cddr and so on.

And there's Expect which is utterly underrated.

Yes, I hate upvar sometimes, but with namespaces you can almost avoid that issue.

On TCL done for serious stuff... if people have been using Excel with millions of rows for covid patients and census, TCL/Tk with SQLite would outperform these by a huge margin.
There was a post on HN a few weeks ago from the Recurse Center immigration advisor, and a decent proportion of comments were about the alarming situation in the US. I probably would have applied, but I won't travel to the US while conditions are as they are.
20,000 Americans turned up to a Nazi rally held in Madison Square Garden in 1939.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_Nazi_rally_at_Madison_Squ...
That is perfectly reasonable, when it is literally your house.

But within the metaphor - elected leaders need to balance the short-term approval of voters who are angry/xenophobic, against the longer-term disapproval of voters who don't like losing "their" cuts of withering travel/tourism-related revenues ...and can figure out who is mostly to blame for that.
We live in an Orwellian world:

War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
Simplification is complication.
How new US tariffs are forcing Europe to rethink its entire tech stack
Because CISA recommended it and it’s preinstalled on some government phones.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-urges-sw...
Windows 3.1 released April 6, 1992
Most of those projects are from corporate settings and were created for corporate projects.
I shut down a couple of my websites that provided a service for free (streetlend.com and cointouch.com) because the GDPR was too ambiguous for me to be 100% sure I complied with - and in the past online I have encountered vexatious people who have to tried to damage my reputation. On one of my other websites, those people used GDPR privileges (eg making vexatious SAR requests) simply to make my life more difficult.

At the end of the day, I create helpful and fun websites for free in my spare time because I enjoy it.

EU regulation created jeopardy and friction that meant I couldn't justify doing this anymore.
There's a shocker.

Why would anyone fly to a country that's proud of shackling them and keeping them in detention without notifying their families? With the added bonus that next week they might be rendered to a slave gulag in El Salvador?
Because tariffs aren’t actually a good thing. If you hurt my producers by $1, I should hurt yours by $1 to maintain some level of credibility in our repeated game. If I don’t punish foreigners for tariffing my guys they have no incentive to reduce or remove those tariffs.

I don’t actually care about t-shirts being made in china. That’s not an industry that matters at all. I do care about china closing her entire market to American tech, for instance.
> (and probably China to prevent dumping)

But why does the EU even want a manufacturing sector, don’t you all realize that no sane person wants those jobs? I kid, of course.

It’s truly a sad state of affairs and I hope that we all come to an understanding this week.
GDPR is not complex because it is hard to comply with but because seemingly no one wants to.

EU-US data transfers have been declared illegal numerous times [1], but instead of supporting European cloud providers those decisions are barely enforced and quickly circumvented by a new data transfer act.

Cookie banners are not hard to implement if you don't try to share user data with your "864 most trusted partners", there are clear guidelines [2] now on how they need to be designed, but instead of criticising these not being properly enforced, the requirement for them itself is criticised.

How is it that Meta can regular break the law, with 7 of the 10 highest fines (or probably around a third of all fines) going against them [3] with seemingly no action taken to prevent this from continuing onwards.

noyb has managed to achieve more than a billion euro in fines with only 6 million euros in funding, we could be focusing on supporting NGOs doing incredible work for their budget and getting our DPAs to probably enforce the law.

The issue with GDPR is not the law but the seeming unwillingness to enforce it leading to unclarity what is expected and what not. [4]

[1]: https://noyb.eu/en/23-years-illegal-data-transfers-due-inact...
[2]: https://noyb.eu/en/noybs-consent-banner-report-how-authoriti...
[3]: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/?insights
[4]: https://noyb.eu/en/data-protection-day-only-13-cases-eu-dpas...
Fact is, I don't want to self-censor. But thank you for your suggestion.
LLMs are more miss than hit for me in the coding work I do. Yet I still try to use them as much as possible because they are a helpful accelerator when it works. It’s easy to review the code and either try again with some more prompting or just write it myself.

Currently I start writing myself while Claude is thinking through the result, like we’re both racing.

There’s a lot of hand-wringing about juniors shipping code they don’t understand, but that doesn’t logically make sense for why experienced people are avoiding it. It’s another tool in the toolbox. Use it like one. If your coworkers are shipping code they don’t understand then deal with that problem regardless of where it came from.
I’m by no means an expert on this, but I never assumed “startup” implies VC-backed. I thought “VC-backed startup” meant that and “bootstrapped startup” meant not.

That “startup” was an indicator of not being an incumbent in the space and using technology to disrupt things.

But in an increasingly tech-first world, it does beg the question what separates a tech first SMB from a startup.
>Photos of Lanfear’s work ID from Takeda Pharmaceuticals, where he previously worked, his driver’s license, credit card and a selfie were found on the brothel phone, police say.

I suppose if you're having sex exposing other things seems less of a big deal but still handing over that info is surprising.
indeed, this particular one though has the added complication of having part of it's meaning contained in the composition of the word.

It's usage is still changing, obviously , but for me it's a more difficult transition because of the 'deci'
Yeah your small business doesn't need to be a unicorn.

But your small business that a VC has bought part of does.
I mean it's just me falling for hollywood seduction. The past ten years of media has been awful though and has convinced me of the opposite.
That's the last GPLv2-only version of rsync.
Many people make block lists. And asserting people adopt them blindly is begging the question.
Apple's encryption row with UK should not be secret, court rules
Pointer – A General Purpose AI Agent
What it takes to be a glyph-breaker deciphering ancient languages Essays
Network controlled PDUs are a thing. I’ve used APC switched rack PDUs several jobs ago to control lab equipment - we had a checkout page and if a unit was not checked out it would be powered off at the end of the day and powered back on if someone checked it out. It was as easy as an API call - could be sent by health check script.

Not sure how healthy that is for the circuits vs reset button though - we didn’t have any problems but some consumer hardware might be more delicate.
Maybe related - I noticed that hotel room prices in New York dropped, they used to start at $350/night just a few months ago, now you can get them for $150/night.
>there's never backstory given

There's no backstory that justifies indefinite detention without due process.
Thank you for the feedback! It is certainly not too harsh :)

The problem is that for any given problem, there might be some solution out there that does something like it. Except that there is no solution anywhere in which you can do all of these. So, we are showing Moldable Development because that is the goal and that is the proposition of the technology. I believe that masking it as something else would not be particularly useful.

We understand that at this point in time, most people do not look for Moldable Development. Most people will consider it once others have taken it and create large value with it. So, right now, we are interested in finding those people because they will convince everyone else :).

If you want to learn more about Moldable Development, take a look at the book I am writing in the open with Simon Wardley: https://medium.com/feenk/rewilding-software-engineering-900c...
Doing very well and having your expectations abruptly reset are two different things.
Spot on, although I'm not sure US citizens are in a much better position.
I really hate that companies are allowed to use "natural flavors" and I refuse to buy any products that say that unless they are able to specifically tell me what's not in it.

Lots of people don't realize that "natural" can mean pretty much anything that's not produced in a lab.

There is a trend though where some companies include in the nutrition facts the sources of their ingredients. That's how it should be.

In the US you can write "modified food starch" and that can mean a million different things. In Europe they have specific numbers for different types of "modified food starch."
> If the workforce is fired every time a new party comes into power

What if the workforce is never fired, and government jobs acquire a reputation for ingrained incompetence, promotion from within for the unqualified, and a management so frustrated by their inability to turn over poorly-performing workers that nearly nothing productive gets done anymore?

What if the workforce is full of appointments by the Old-Boy network, and jobs are personal favors or quid pro quo rather than based on qualifications or education?

What about that sort of workforce?
Really? In my country, CNN is Coca cola and Fox is Dr. Pepper
This is more like the sad case of someone who got out of their car and knocked on a door to ask directions, in Texas, who was murdered by the occupier who was paranoid and armed.
The public cruelty is the point. Make people suffer horrendously outsized consequences for the most minor of innocent infractions and it quickly sends a message that you're not welcome here.
If you haven’t worked in the federal government, this is an unserious take.

Experience and context matters. Especially this one.
When my son was six he found a girly magazine at a friends house and was sneaking away to look at it. When my wife caught him she told him the magazine was bad and he should not be looking at it. His simple reply was "But I like it Mom."

Even if Unix is bad, I like it.
My guess is that it is indeed because they're charismatic megafauna.
In fairness, there are still nazi rallies all across the country. It's them forcing their freedom of assembly and speech rights on everyone. Doesn't necessarily mean everyone in the US today is a nazi.

Even the Trump brigade are more fascists than nazis. Not that it's a good thing, just pointing out the distinction.
From the outside, it doesn't look like much of the rest of your country agrees with you.
Yeah, recent news are essentially raising this from "crossing US border is dangerous, prepare yourself" to "US border guards got a quota of terror to inflict, do you really want to gamble?"
Circuit breakers triggered during March of 2020. I believe the idea is that when the market moves that fast, a pause allows investors time to catch up and process the news.
Law enforcement is a monoculture.
A documentary from PBS's American Experience: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/nazi-town-...
If people interpret something you say in a wildly different way then what happened, then it's not simply semantics. People are talking about issues and other aspects of this that simply do not exist, because they're being actively misinformed by the article's headline. Obviously people should read entire articles and not just headlines, but of course that's not what happens in practice.
Toronto's University Health Network launches recruitment campaign for scientists
This pretty much. I've had a lot to do with GDPR in the projects I'm involved with. It's largely trivial if you aren't already doing terribly risky things, in which case yeah, it's a pain, but it doesn't change the necessity of fixing issues that put user private data at risk (with or without the GDPR existing). GDPR just puts more incentive on solving issues in regards to privacy instead of just letting companies shrug and move on because it's not their problem if data is stolen or leaked or letting them do what they want with the data without permission.
That story starts with her being refused entry to Canada. So, there's more than just "US border guards mean" going on here.

Then it turns out that she was using Workaway, which is like AirBnB or Uber but for foreign labor on tourist visas. They don't tell you that you need a work visa to work in another country [1], but you almost certainly do anywhere you go, not just the US. The woman in the story was working in exchange for accommodation, which is legal for citizens but not for aliens: work permits and visas exist to deter illegal immigration. She didn't have intent to immigrate illegally, but the scheme under which she entered the country was illegal, and she confessed to it in her statement to the border guards.

The real bad actor in this story was Workaway, and I'm surprised they haven't been shut down yet. They offer an alien labor arrangement that is almost certain to get you detained if caught with the wrong visa, don't give you advice on visas, and aren't there to help if something does go wrong at the border. I doubt there are many countries who welcome their alien labor arrangements, either.

[1] "Workaway is a listing site that enables contact between members, we are unfortunately unable to arrange or advise on visas. There are so many countries with different regulations or laws for different types of volunteering activity, so we would suggest directly getting in touch with the relevant embassy of your destination. It is the responsibility of the host and/or volunteer to make sure they are within the law." https://www.workaway.info/en/stories/workaway-for-newbies-co...
I suppose one could also use the headline How It Works (declarative), but the question mark has to be omitted. The phrase doesn't work as a question in this context.
> reliable way to keep social media nontoxic ... Bluesky has both.

BS is full of vitriol against anything outside of the desired narrative, I do not consider this 'nontoxic' no matter your perspective.
> believes SCOTUS will never condemn or find illegal a thing he has done

Well, so far, that belief seems to be correct.
As an American, thank you.
Yes, if you click through to the substack, that article links to this axios article. But as far as Hacker News submissions, the other one was submitted earlier, and has over 300 comments.

Arguably @dang or @tomhow might ultimately combine them, but for anyone curious you'll find better (or at least a lot more) discussion on the other article.
Musk Suddenly Distances Himself from Trump over Tariffs
You make a great point about values. It's potentially the biggest issue with the linked article. You got a weirdly large number of dissenting replies, so I just wanted to say that. I think it's irrelevant whether or not there are "two mutually exclusive" sets of values. What's relevant is that one's values can point you more in one direction than the other.
These days yeah, lots of home automation gizmos for instance like the SwitchBot line. Plus it wouldn’t take nearly the amount of engineering know-how it once did to rig up something with an Arduino and a little hobby motor, probably like a $20 project from Adafruit. AI for the code these days, or just a bit of googling. Crazy to think about how easy to get that sort of thing has become in just a couple of decades.
Although there are "unnecessary forks" of VSC, it also breaks the necessary ones like VS Codium which is the truly open-source version of VS Code which is MIT licensed instead of the shitty license Microsoft's VS Code is distributed under while packing tons of telemetry and spyware.
Related, without a paywall: "Top American scientists just lost their jobs. Canada is rolling out the welcome mat"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/us-scientists-canada-1.750252...
it's the "Dead" season right no, late march early april.

Great time to go to disney, nyc, etc.
Ethically, how is it different from (say) Kentucky Kennels LLC trying to breed some Great Danes which drool less?
Airports can manage their own security

Um.

I'm thinking this comment won't age well.
I feel like all CEO edicts, by nature of the fact that they are a blunt instrument have weird side effects. The general sentiment here is the right one, but it will also lead to strange behavior, goodhart’s law, and maybe in certain corners have the opposite effect intended (I think we’re going to start talking about “AI-think”, a similar effect to “group-think” as teams start to coalesce around an AI’s way of thinking.
"Some of my friends, who are criminals, were questioned by border police" is not what we are discussing.
The thing is: this isn't entirely new, it's just something that happens very rarely to Westerners who don't alert sniffer dogs.

The "kids in cages" Southern border immigration detention ran through both the previous Trump administration and the Biden administration. Some pretty horrific stories from then, especially during COVID.
Explaining the Tariff Equation
That's a common way of doing it, but Apple devices actively amplify the signal in card emulation mode as well, which gives them longer range than physical cards or "purely passive" devices.

But it also means they can't do the neat trick of paying with a completely dead (i.e. not even reserve battery power) phone that some early Android and Windows Phone devices could do.
And yet today's polling still shows a 43% approval rating for this president and administration:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-approval-rating-now-...

As a Canadian who normally travels to the US 3-4 times a year, that tells me everything I need to know about what "most Americans" think.
The comment I replied to is about US tourism. What are you referring to?
It's not spite, or doesn't have to be. Non US-citizens have very few ways of exerting pressure on the current administration, but money happens one of them.
I’ll be one to raise my hand and say this has been dramatically not the case for anyone I’ve introduced AI to or myself.

Significantly more informed and reasoned.
Maybe US business people are traveling to other countries to compensate for the resistance or refusal of international partners to travel to a fascist state.