Readit Newsguyfromfargo commented on Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance comma.ai... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
I was in the market for this for my Pacifica but I couldn't figure out what this does exactly.
Is it FSD basically?
Is it just lane assist?
Can I put an address in a map and it takes me there?
Very hard to just get these concrete answers, maybe they just take the newbie experience for granted and assume people know these answers. Anyone who owns one of these can answer? Thank you!
I have one of these and I really enjoy it.
No it’s not FSD. There is no navigation at all, you’re correct that it’s “just lane assist”. But the lane assist is next level.
I take a few 1,000 mile plus road trips every year and the comma pays for itself every time. Using the stock lane assist, I’m constantly correcting it. The stock assist tries to take an exit, doesn’t handle curves well at all, and any construction or unusual road conditions it won’t work at all.
With the Comma, on the highway it’s basically FSD. On my last 1000 mile trip I never had to disengage, only to pass and make turns.
The biggest advantage is Comma allows you to be completely hands off the wheel. Where lane assist forces you to hold the wheel at all times.
Founding Sales by Pete Kazanjy is hands down the best book I’ve read on sales. It has a step by step guide on how to implement a sales process in your business.
I keep it on my desk at all times. Whenever I have a sales question I thumb through and it always has the answer.
guyfromfargo commented on Ask HN: Good resources to learn financial systems engineering? · Posted by u/_1tan
I enjoy Patio11’s Bits About Money Essays. You’ll frequently see his posts make the front page of HN.
guyfromfargo commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm
Is it me or has there been a very noticeable uptick in large scale infra-level outages lately? AWS, Cloudflare, etc have all been way under whatever SLA they publish.
Don’t forget that Azure was down two weeks ago as well.
Here's a toy example that hopefully makes this clear:
In 2024, your business has $1m in revenue and has $2m in expenses. 100% of these expenses are R&D salaries (engineers you hire.)
Your company loses $1m/year. (You brought in $1m and spent $2m.)
Under the old rules, you'd owe no tax because you were unprofitable.
After Sec 174, what the IRS now says is:
You had revenues of $1m. But you only had $400k in expenses (because you now have to spread that $2m in R&D expense over 5 years).
So actually you had a profit of $600k! And you owe tax on that $600k profit (~$120k)
So you now have an additional $120k tax expense, making your business even more cash-flow negative.
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Amusingly, if you're pre-revenue, none of this matters (you have no income at all, so it doesn't matter what your expenses are.) You get hardest hit by this change when you have some revenue and when you do a fair bit of R&D.
I own a small SaaS and the numbers you presented are similar to my situation in 2023. I owed over $100k in Taxes and I’ve literally never had over $100k in my business or personal bank account.
How is this legal? I thought you could not use streamed music commercially? If you’re a DJ making money on a gig you’d be violating that law.
No that’s not a law. Typically when DJing the venue is responsible for paying the ASCAP and other licensing fees. As long as the DJ didn’t pirate the music they are free to use whatever source of the music they want.
The fun part is paying ASCAP and BMI doesn’t guarantee you have the rights to play any song, just most songs. So you’d have to look up if the song you want to play is in the ASCAP library before you play every song. And if they don’t have the song you must contact the artist/label and get permission before playing it. Obviously this isn’t practical. But it illustrates just how difficult it is to be compliant with copyright law.
guyfromfargo commented on Are you VC-funded? No, we're profitable twitter.com/jasonbosco/st... · Posted by u/jabo
I followed a lot of indie hackers and “build in public” accounts on Twitter over the years.
Most of them struggled for a while and then pivoted into some variation of being an influencer: Selling courses, selling services to other indie hackers, or just Tweeting trend-following engagement bait 50 times a day and then bragging about the size of their X payout checks.
Everyone talks about the levels.io guy as the epitome of indie hacking, but many don’t realize (or don’t want to admit) that his projects are making that amount of money because of his Twitter following. His current project is a simple vibe-coded game that sells in-game advertising, and the advertisers are paying largely for the novelty and to get in on the conversation. Nothing about that revenue model could be replicated by anyone with such a large Twitter following. Fantastic for him, of course, but it’s so far removed from what people imagine when they talk about being an indie hacker that it’s just not a relevant example of the space. Yet he continues to be held up as an example of what indie hackers can attain.
I think there’s space for individual entrepreneurs, app creators, and business operators. I just don’t see it coming from the self-described “indie hacker” space at this point because indie hacking has turned into a marketing and self-promotion meta game. The real independent devs are operating out of sight at this point.
This is me! I have bootstrapped two SaaS companies, and used to hang out on Indie Hackers all the time from 2016-2021. Then the vibe completely shifted, and the self promotion and influencers took over.
I had a modest following on Indie Hackers, and my posts always did well. But after 2021 none of my posts ever could cut through the “7 tweets you need to make right now to generate signups”. I just stopped posting and that’s when I came over to Hacker News.
I hope something pops up like Indie Hackers again, because there are a few of us who build small products and don’t want to be Twitter influencers.
guyfromfargo commented on Porkbun partners with Proton porkbun.com/products/prot... · Posted by u/unadvised2489
Porkbun is a great domain register, and proton seems to be good in it's field. This is a cool and welcome colab for me
I decided to try Porkbun last week, had a minor issue and opened up a support chat. Instantly I was connected with a guy named Richard who I could tell was a real person, who had deep knowledge of domains and DNS, and he was empowered to solve my issue. I was blown away. I haven’t had support like that in years.
"We'd like to say that the teams are currently investigating this and new integrations are currently on hold while we make updates to improve reliability and performance. As soon as we've got any other news to share, we'll let you know."
It has now been over a month since app creation has been completely disabled. Because of previous Spotify API changes requiring 250k MAU to publish an app, there are 100s of Spotify integrations that rely on users providing their own API key. I first came across this when trying to integrate my new Stream Deck into Spotify.
With Spotify's continued pattern of degrading their API, I wouldn't be surprised if this is the final nail in the coffin.