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FTX violated ancient banker wisdom: don’t get high on your own supply.

For someone to arrived late to the party, what’s better / simpler when using classes?

This is very neat. One question, would you consider making a version of your service that works like discourse.org? I don’t mean changing the discussion software to match theirs, I mean allowing clients to embed your software in their page. Also, for what it’s worth, if you had plug-in authentication of users you might find some clients in in web3.

Does it support lighting effects?

My tinny laptop speakers will protect me!

It makes sense. It’s ridiculous to have to subscribe to individual news websites when there are so many; an intermediary that did deals with publishers wouldn’t be a bad idea.

Bypass paywalls would be kind of a big deal imo. It could eventually shape how we use the internet and move away from ad based revenue.

Are you suggesting that genes can leap from frogs to humans? /s

Yes, definitely. Have had terrible burnouts in the past, to the point of not being able to code at all. Recovery is long, and these days I will burn out more quickly if I’m in a stressful situation, but I’ve also made changes so that I am not coding under the wrong conditions and it’s made all the difference.

Exactly

Well, there are mastodon servers which are like that. But in reality, being open and socially curated should be good enough. Making the site invite only doesn’t preclude its eventual decadence, nor endure that you get the best user base.

I would love if indiehackers could help fill this niche. Since it is aimed at people trying to launch products, pragmatism should reign, but there are things about the presentation and site policy that would seem to hold it back for this use case.

As a new user of the site, im not allowed to post, very few of the posts inspire me to comment anything (mainly because I’m not that knowledgeable about founder problems, but if there were more tech conversations then i would comment more), and there is a low throughput of new discussions as well. I feel like it could be done better.

Only naive people who will get preyed upon. It’s a disaster waiting to happen.

If by keymap you are referring to default key bindings then it’s extremely similar. I’ll definitely be giving it a whirl.

What does that mean, preventing stress adaptations? Does it mean that the body wouldn’t get stronger in training ?

A critical variable here is the size of the frontpage.

Perhaps people tend to assume that the size of the front page reflects the volume of posts that deserve attention.

Maybe front page size should be configurable; someone could make a browser extension for that.

Perhaps you’re not a team player?

(This is aimed at programmers)

Being a programmer is hard in that respect. There are many professions and positions where the individual has much more autonomy over their part. A typical setup in a small company may have a team of programmers and many other positions which are a team of one; graphic design, legal, HR, business dev, etc etc. Sure, all of these can grow into teams at some point but most jobs in programming mean being part of a team, which means being able to compromise (sometimes even when it’s BS) and gain the favor of your peers.

Team programmers are not sought out based on their sense of artistry, by that point the job is basically a grind.

More webgl / three.js. There seems to be a lot to learn. Starting to look into shaders. It’s hard because my math sucks and alot of it is maths, albeit basic matrix calculations and geometry.

Proponents of fasting will love this, since the idea is that not eating for a while will cause the body to scavenge for this old / damaged cell material.

Code interview practical exercises. Ive been asked to do them maybe 6-10 times. Each time I completed the test to a high standard and got rejected for other random reasons. Once I spend a day writing a PostgreSQL extension in C to shuttle data between tables, at the request of a company, and I didn’t even get an interview.

Once I interviewed for a company and everything was great but they said my rate was too high even though I had told them up front.

Once I showed up and the interviewer wasn’t even there and they hadn’t bothered to let me know.

Once a dude got me to propose and diagram an architecture for their actual system during the interview and I didn’t hear from them again. Swindled.

Then there’s having recruiters breathing down your neck and asking invasive questions while protecting all the details about the client and the job…

Yea. Done with it

This is moving fast !

Obviously, it’s going to be an incredible boon for content creation. I suppose that in the future it’ll make creating videos an order of magnitude easier, which will allow a single person or a small team to make a high quality movie where all the assets are generated, so that’ll really give us an eye into a lot of people’s imaginations, for better or worse.

To leave a thought provoking example, what’s going to happen when every adolescent has the ability to make a convincing deepfake?

It’ll put nation states in a similar position than they already have with crypto, where they wonder if they should ban, or regulate… doing nothing wont be an option.

I’m not the type to self promote much, plus, a lot of bad experiences in the industry (due to maverick type behavior), so filling out profiles seems like a waste of time.

But, I’ll have to come out of hiding soon enough, have spent the last year+ developing a pretty unusual project. Actually I’m sure I should have been blogging about it already. But it’s hard for me to have positive expectations, and I know that alot of what I have to say is going to be divisive.

Now that I saw the first replies to my comment, I realize that I wasn’t really seeing the big picture in that moment, someone can’t really steal your open source project, the thing to do would have been to mention it in the thread and then just keep on developing it as I had been. Anyone who wanted to use it would eventually realize that the fork wasn’t where the action was at.

Truth is there is some kind of trauma at play, and actually there is for a lot of people, but trauma is still a bad word, we don’t really talk about it on HN, actually a lot of conversation in tech has been sterilized, the mindshare is highly sought after.

It feels vaguely on topic for me to speak about something that happened to me regarding an open source project I made.

It was the one time that a project of mine generated a bit of buzz on HN. But I hadn’t posted it myself, someone else did. But they posted a link to a fork, which no changes of their own, claiming that someone else had posted it. The fork got 30 ish stars and follows, and nobody in the HN thread pointed out that they were starring a fork with no changes.

This really sucked, since I would have liked to develop an open source project that had users, but this was my project and now I had to negotiate with some other guy I didn’t know who had probably just taken the credit for my work. It didn’t work out.

Anyone else had this happen to them? What’s a constructive way to deal with that?

If they have a machine which is good at identifying suspicious information, on a huge scale, they may also be able to control which information is suspicious, to a limited extent. It could easily be part of an effective apparatus of repression.

Facebook Truth Machine. Sounds dangerous tbh

Might need the money…

Hey, this was useful, thanks.

“If US Government ever make applications for Ethereum, it means I’ve won.”

Vitalik Buterin, probably.

No, the validators are anyone with a stake in the system, not just the Ethereum foundation and friends.

For anyone who might be concerned by the claim here; it’s really a political argument and not a technical one. Proof of stake as implemented by Ethereum makes a tradeoff which requires some small amount of trust (to identify the correct chain more quickly) which does not create a centralization risk.

But this is always the way; leveraging trust where appropriate can allow great increases in efficiency, this is how society works, so you have a political spectrum where Ethereum is “responsibly pro social” and Bitcoin is still a kind of super trust less money with enormous energy costs to enable this somewhat superficial security property.