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Re:The Schwarzschild Defence on Sunday January 22, 2023 @06:13AM (#34476269)
> Time dilation goes to infinity at the center of the black hole - at the singularity, not at the event horizon

That is incorrect. The inside and outside of the black hole are causally disconnected. For someone who passes the event horizon the entire future history of the universe plays out above them as the universe warps down into a single beam of light as the black-ness engulfs you.

From the perspective of someone outside, nothing ever "crosses" the event horizon - it just slowly redshifts into darkness and appears to take infinity to "touch" the even horizon.

There is nothing "happening" inside of any black hole right now that has any corresponding time in the outside universe. From our perspective, it happens in the infinitely far future.

Imagine working hard your whole life that you get to a point that most cannot even dream of getting to and having some schmuck on an online forum who knows nothing other than some headline hoping that you would fail.

It appears the trend is becoming that just by being negative and short on everything is some kind of lazy hack to appear intelligent.

Re:Having 170 competitors in not an obstacle on Sunday November 15, 2020 @12:18AM (#25098473)
Again, how do YOU plan on overcoming the marketing/word of mouth barrier?

What can I do to protect myself in case Google randomly bans my accounts?

I feel like my whole life is somewhat dependant on all things Google.- Personal email- Work email- Side projects- Admob, Adsense, Play store console, Google analytics, drive, calendar, firebase etc.- Android phone- Authorizations to I don't even know how many services via Google sign-in.- Countless apps and SaaS productsLosing access to all of these would be so devastating, it would be akin to...

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Thanks, I'll check it out.

Can you provide a granular breakdown of why I would pick this vs Stripe atlas?

Hi Peter, thanks for doing this again.

I'm a startup founder from India who'd love to learn more about how to gain access to US capital markets and startup ecosystem. (e.g. Annual VC deal volume in US is typically 25x that of India).

I'd love to know what you think are some practical ways of going about this, any common gotchas etc.:

1. Opening a delaware c corp via stripe atlas, any common mistakes you've seen?

2. For a small bootstrapped business (<$100K ARR), are there any realistic ways for the founder to immigrate to the US? (mainly to access a better ecosystem, community)

3. For setting up a remote team: Say that I keep the tech team in my home country, what's the best way to, for example, set up a sales team in the US? (common use case for B2B SaaS)

Not very professional to just point the user to a google doc/sheet.

How do you manage collaboration (i.e. allow users to add features but not make any random changes or delete the whole sheet)? Feature upvotes? Do we ask people to raise a number by 1 in the "upvotes" column.

A proper solution should come with a dedicated frontend.

Like a FOSS alternative for canny.io

Ask HN: What are some no-code tools for the back end?

Off the top of my head, I would love an add-on kind of tool that I can point to my database and all manner of CRUD APIs are generated and managed by the tool itself. Although I'm speaking as a developer.Just brainstorming here, what kind of no-code tools can exist for the backend?- Simplified drag-drop schema builder- CRUD API generator on top of the above- Templatized plug-and-play schemas for...

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Ask HN: What are some good FOSS solutions for building a public roadmap?

What I'm looking for, ideally, is a FOSS solution which gives a docker image, that I can just point my website to and boom- Free public roadmap/feature upvote stack. (like one of those status page thingies but for roadmap)The solution should let users sign up, add feature requests, upvote other requests, comment on them etc. Bonus point for letting the dev add different tags or put it in a...

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Ask HN: Any project management apps that focus on reducing cognitive load?

For personal use for my own side-projects. I normally use trello/jira/text files, but feature creep eventually leaves me looking at dozens of unfinished tasks across categories.Then my project's "second 90%" starts looking insurmountable and I start losing motivation and inevitably burnout. Which is not very good as the second 90% usually involves marketing, talking to users, figuring out...

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They typically have a person's different social media account links and work history. Isn't that personal data?
Is crunchbase/owler/cb insights and every other public data aggregator/lead generator service also illegal by the same logic?
I want to know how many of the total 3600 engineers are just maintaining the main uber app and how many are off in other ventures (self driving etc.)
Re:Firefox 78 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @10:53AM (#23690648)
Hate to be cynical, but I feel like they're just releasing a new one every week just to stay in the news.
Re:Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @12:07PM (#23629656)
I am starting to think everything is an ad for Hey on hacker news these days.
Re:Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:26AM (#23610198)
Welp, now Google will lock this API down soon.
Re:nCino S-1 on Monday June 22, 2020 @11:57PM (#23609769)
We're living in an age where twitter rants on Apple draw more attention than the entire lifespan of a quite fintech unicorn.
I'm a software developer myself. For me, its more like a disengagement from the whole thing.

Do you remember when android/ios were new and there were all new and fun games coming out like angry birds and such? Everyone was into it for a couple years.

Now, if you look at those same games (or even apps from the same era), every single thing about them is made to suck money out of you. It just does something to you, and I've noticed this in most people I know too, it just makes you sick.

Rather than constantly worrying about how not to be a sucker when searching for a new app, I now frequently decide that whatever it was that I wanted to do, I could do some other way or not do at all rather than be subjected to the constant victimization by aggressive monetization everywhere you look.

The hard truth that we, the tech industry, are currently not accepting, is that the value of a lot of the software out there, is actually zero or close to it. The industry has matured. Commoditization is imminent.

Software will be like auto, energy, medicine. Just another industry. Software developers will be like plumbers, advertisers, electricians - It'll be just another trade, but the past gold rush and the remaining few nuggets still out there will blind us all to this fact for the next decade at least.

Wow, I find it amazing how some innocent founders find their posts/tweets/etc blocked, ignored or shadowbanned and somehow, if you're someone, you get attention everywhere for free.

Doesn't seem very fair. I thought at this point hacker news' spam detectors would flare up and stop bumping everything 'Hey' to the top.

Not trying to put on a tinfoil hat but, there is simply no way in hell to get this level of PR and attention unless a significant portion of all Hey activities have been carefully and methodically planned for weeks and months.

I deal with the same difficulties myself and the App store mafia cut is a real problem but I just don't think I'll ever be able to trust them again with such aggressive PR tactics.

Re:BountySource have turned evil – alternatives? on Thursday June 18, 2020 @02:16AM (#23560282)
Welp, looks like it was removed? I'm not sure what's going on here..

The plot thickens.

Re:LibriVox: Free Public Domain Audiobooks on Thursday June 18, 2020 @02:13AM (#23560271)
As an android user, I'm so jelly. Those screenshots look delicious, well done.

I feel like amazon literally hasn't bothered updating their UI since the 90s. I love audible, but god damn their UI is depressing and actually makes listening to audiobooks a worse experience. There's no better alternative either :(

Re:BountySource have turned evil – alternatives? on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @12:10PM (#23553040)
They were actually acquired by a crypto startup:

https://coscout.com/organization/canya.io

Seems a bit shady if you ask me. Looks like the founder has also moved on (as per linkedin). So yeah, this just looks like a cash grab.

It's really disheartening that when you don't even have any twitter/blog following, stuff like this happens to thousands of people and nobody ever hears about them.
Re:AWS’s Share of Amazon’s Profit on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @01:22AM (#23536163)
To anyone who wants to learn more I highly recommend https://www.profgalloway.com - Basically a bunch of idealogy around why the big four need to be broken up.
Welcome news!

This guy is trying to emulate x86 in the browser and run the actual Flash player within that:

https://medium.com/leaningtech/running-flash-in-webassembly-...

If you're looking for market/competition research, I'd recommend https://coscout.com as well, for info about companies, funding, competitors, tech stack etc

It's in alpha right now, so you'll have to get in the waitlist, though they're only a few weeks away from launching AFAIK.

Full disclosure: A friend of mine is building this :)

Agreed. It's definitely up to the user to make smart decisions.

However, it's not so cut and dry either. In my last company (B2C mobile app based), we were pretty much getting beat by several competitors. And it showed across all metrics, ratings/reviews/downloads/web traffic/retention/engagement - what have you.

And later on we found out that the founders had been fudging up the metrics and presenting to investors which is why they actually were never able to raise the round, but came very close. By straight up lying.

If some form of business/product intelligence is used to identify such red flags, it can save a lot of bad decisions and heartache from ever happening for everyone involved.

In that regard, I welcome more empirical evidence based decision making (aka statistics/machine learning etc.) where it's appropriate.

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