I cannot unsee this and it is forever now an additional burden of unwanted knowledge on the existing reality of Japan’s declining population and fertility crisis.

Each time there is a glimmer of hope of a trend reversing or going back to normal, a headline like this just unfortunately confirms in some sense what I already know.

Now this news made this situation even worse.

Happy for them, hoping this is a super strange outlier, But holistically unhappy for the course of humanity.

Sad.

Luminar was an exit scam in the SPAC era, they went public during that time and they have been struggling.

Also Lidar is hugely expensive.

Their Lidar deal with Volvo fell through and now it's bankrupted them.

That seems backwards and hellish when you want to grow your content and marketing team as they have no clue on how to use this arcane tool.

Now the engineers would need to be bothered by the marketing department time and time again to add blog posts, wasting engineering time.

This is the reason why CMS's like Sanity, Wordpress, Directus exist.

using Git as a CMS doesn't make sense at scale.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46260975

Points: 2

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Citation Needed.

More importantly, benchmarks needed.

Cannot claim something X is better approach than Y without benchmarks, it is an idea but needs to be proven to be better.

Until then, this post is nothing more than yet another opinion.

https://postimg.cc/6ykTmSPD

I don't understand why the PSF is begging me to donate by showing an intrusive (and borderline manipulative) banner ad disrupting my reading flow.

If this was supposed to be the "point", it has made even more less likely to give money to support them.

I understand that sponsors are needed and the PSF have already been paid massively for this with their many PSF sponsors. Because of these generous sponsorships from these companies that use Python, you wouldn't need donations from me.

I just wish we can stop the enshittification of almost everything by polluting the web with ads.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46255172

Points: 9

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1 and 2 are now trending essentially to 0.

3. Will get harder to get a job in the years to come.

Stay at your role, build a small side project if you can. Don't leave.

Stars can be faked and botted. It is not the lock in.

The lock in is the distribution of GitHub, (issues, outside contributions, sponsors, etc)

I hope they get help at some point.

Doesn't Google and others do this already?

Is this really a massive problem with humongous 1000x growth potential upside or an IPO?

I hope the VCs and Angels asked the serious questions and not invested because she is the daughter of the Microsoft founder.

I only wonder of the many 99.9999999% of startups were turned down by VCs of funding because "they don't know them", "they didn't go to the same school as me", "too much risk", or the infamous and vague "not now".

Alas, in this brave new world it is great to support our new underdogs.

They are psychological, manipulative, influencing tools. It's like an annoying wasp that appears out of nowhere and follows you around.

Nobody asked for this.

When this comes to StackExchange, use a PiHole and protect yourself from this barrage of irrelevant ads.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46231493

Points: 269

# Comments: 501

"Before I raised money I had one product, after I raised money now I have two products"

You've now got two products to sell man, the hard work begins.

Good luck.

Please stop with the false urgency and borderline lying to people saying there are 17 spots when they most likely aren't.

Doing this to sell more is unethical and dishonest.

I think if this project didn't do this it might work and go far.

> The lifetime membership + launch discount was a good marketing bait I felt for.

The negativity here with me is because it feels like clickbait and like a scammy ad to manipulate me into purchasing.

It is almost lying. I find it unethical and I don't think there are 17 lifetime access spots, it's just artificial hype that doesn't make sense to me.

Marketing (at least like this) is basically lying.

Sigh.

If Daring Fireball had this membership subscription model and not selling highly and questionably expensive ad slots I would definitely subscribe, even if the price would be $20 a month or $200 a year. (I would argue he can make more than he charges for ads does already given this model.)

But $11K (a week!) is outrageous to support Daring Fireball.

I have no interest for anything sold in ads in their RSS and I assume they are tracking in the links that you click too (otherwise why spend all $11K for no results?)

> He claims to never look at his server logs and got rid of Google Analytics ages ago.

That is a good start, hopefully he should consider switching to a community supported model rather than rely on advertisers.

For me an ad is an ad, in graphical or text form and I very much didn't ask for it.

I feel it is psychologically trying to convince me to buy or make me be aware about something I don't want or need and very much not want this ruin my flow of consuming content.

On his links Daring Fireball IS tracking, they all do tracking in the URL of the sponsored post otherwise it doesn't make sense for the sponsor to pay $11K (a week!) for the spot.

> It does one tiny graphical ad on the web page and has a weekly sponsor post, both of which can be easily ignored. The graphical ad does not even appear in the full RSS feed.

I mean, yes I could ignore them, but would massively prefer if these ads didn't exist at all, I have no interest in anything that is being advertised there. Luckily Ublock Origin blocks Daring Fireball ads by default and not sure if his advertisers would be happy about this, but if I spend $11K a week on ads to find most people block them by default, I don't think I would bother wasting another ad slot.

To be fair maybe it is a sign that instead of ads, a membership, patreon or whatever would be much more sustainable, freeing, less scammy and more profitable than running junk ads that people don't want.