skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing, I just quit my sideproject after a year of coding and find posts like this helpful to learn from that experience.

> Then I stopped, took a step back and looked at the product from the perspective of someone who would want to pay for it.

Though I think this is dangerous advise. You do not know what this perspective is like (unless maybe when your product is a “scratching your own itch”-type product) and therefor making design changes makes no sense. You will never know if users maybe even preferred your first “design”, or that there is a different blocker like landing-page, installation-instructions or anything really preventing them from starting using it.
With enough flags, the comment gets automatically killed (hidden). Though I assume the mods still review if the flagging is appropriate.
Lessons from a Failed SaaS – Building SaaS #37 · Matt Layman
Remind me of this https://empwaynek.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/draw-an-owl.pn...
In this particular case, I'm seeing a bunch of bad actors shooting each other in the foot, so no that awful in practice ...
As a hockey fan who only kept playing until the junior years, I don't think I'll ever understand why anyone would play without the cage. Wouldn't you adjust to the vision distraction really quickly?
Hi makomk,
(author here)

Indeed, Galileo has nothing like this. The GPS solution sounds exceptionally fancy, and it may go a long way to explaining where all those billions of USD/year go :-) Do you know if it has ever been tried for real? Thanks!
Stargazer is a great demo.
Article could have included a few other great examples. Titan Gilroy of TITANS of CNC for example. Among many other programs, he has helped building a huge CNC school/shop at San Quentin State Prison.

https://www.youtube.com/user/titanamericanbuilt/videos
I think you referencing to past projects, or things you did would be a good start. Nowadays online portfolios are a thing. Since you said you have programming knowledge, you can create a website and showcase what you can do there. ^^
it's not even that surprising when you consider that basically all of earth's energy through its lifetime derives from the sun in some form.

the main exceptions--radiative exchange with the rest of the universe and energy from earth's core--are relatively insignificant sources compared to the solar influx of energy.

fossil fuels are just solar energy captured and (inefficiently) transformed over hundreds of millions of years through plant and animal intermediaries. wind and hydro (weather-based energy) are also intermediated forms of solar energy.

the sun is effectively unlimited energy for billions of years, mostly being radiated away right now, so the closer we get to transforming it directly into useful forms, the better off we are.
Swift has no GC, just ARC (automatic refcounting).
I would actually agree with you there, but I suspect that wasn't your point.

A hammer is such a simple and obvious concept that it should not need to be googled. If anybody needs to do that anyway, you should not put the blame on the carpenter, but on the guy who "designed" the hammer.

On a related note, I still very much am convinced that Don Norman's Design of Everyday Things is a great read for anyone who designs APIs; types in this argument function both as affordances and force functions, which are the exact reason why a hammer is such an obvious tool.
Brainfuck is also turing complete, but it's not Tetris complete. That's a very important distinction for possible attack vectors.

PDFs on the other hand are tetris complete.
That's laudable, and what most people in the justice system probably work for. But go and talk to the people that system serves, i.e. the public, and I think you'll come out with a different understanding of what purposes punishment in the justice system serves.

Not to mince words, we've managed to humanize the justice system to a large extent, but by no means have we been able to remove the desire of the public to see criminals humiliated and deprived of their freedom, even lives, on tit-for-tat moral grounds. So, while the justice system in many 'civilized' countries does the best it can to be rational, in order to keep the public happy, it also needs to be seen to be sufficiently harsh on crime.
The early investors in Uber are very thankful that they had faith in Travis Kalanick.
Mirage is a standalone VR system, not an add-on.
People in second and third world countries also use phones. And view social media, read news.
And will not work in the real life, because they are not paying attention to biology, just copying it without understanding the ecological processes.

Anything with tiny pores put on the sea will either be covered in life in weeks, or will need anti-fouling painting to avoid rust and life (distroying the effect), or this pores will be filled with lime and mud in no time. A ship hull that is not easily cleanable and can't be polished is creating many new problems.

I could be wrong but translating this to the real life applications seems really complicated to implement. Specially when you can just create a sealed metal box filled with multiple air cameras or a buoy.
This is a 2014 article and no, it doesn't threaten human nutrition. The macronutrient profiles (carbs vs protein) slightly shift (between 2 & 14% depending on the species of plant). Meanwhile yields increase under higher CO2, so it more than makes up for the macronutrient shift. This is why CO2 is pumped into greenhouses at 1200PPM, 3x the current atmospheric levels. The endless alarmism has got to stop.
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The C128 is a lot more convenient to develop for. It has a built-in sprite editor and monitor in ROM, has really useful BASIC with graphics and sound commands instead of having to use obscure POKEs for everything (it's Microsoft BASIC 7.0 instead of the ancient BASIC v2 on the C64 -- Tramiel finally splurged for a renewed license). It's really a shame that more software did not take advantage of its capabilities.
Wish someone would actually look at this because NYT content is on definitely rise and often it has little to do with hacker news.

Unless of course HN holds content promotion deals with big titles - then users who care are *.
Al who?
Honestly that's no different than realizing that AVFoundation or CoreGraphics is Apple-platform-only...

Network.framework is an Objective-C framework (I'm honestly surprised I don't seen any C++ symbols in the binary) – it was never supposed to be a cross-platform framework.

SwiftNIO is the official base of the OSS Swift cross-platform networking toolchain. It's the equivalent of Java's Jetty package.
Is Python the Best Programming Language for Startups? – ITChronicles
The 17% reduction in depression was statistically significant. Healthy daily activities was p = 0.057. I agree it's not the be-all & end-all study, but its promising.
What does that say about the quality of Nature?
Zero targeting. Why would the message change based on the audience? I can't see any legitimate use case.
Coincidence - I'm watching Slap Shot right now.

I'm amazed that only the goalie wore head gear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slap_Shot
Linux is great for that feeling. It subsides when you upgrade your firmware and spend 1.5 hours scrawling forums and tinkering in the terminal. Either way I’m happy to be a Pop!_OS user.
That’s why you do a time boxed spike, ie a fixed amount of time to do the investigation so you can work out your preferred approach. After you have sufficient knowledge then you can estimate.
This is absolutely amazing. When I first saw Piper I assumed they were cutting real video of the water and beach is was just so realistic.
I remember this on a flight to an airbase in Catania, Sicily. Overnight flight, we were given drinks, then turbulence hit with the hand of Thor.

I'm pretty sure we dropped about 500 feet straight down, but all I remember was being amazed how my cup of pepsi stayed on my tray and didn't fall over.
Surpass Firewalls/NATs and host apps from your local machine – NGROK
This was a fascinating and humbling read, and only after reading did I realize this was almost 3 years old… What are they animating now? Snowstorms with individual unique flakes?
> Why are you interested in keeping billionaires rich?

Probably because billionaires don't stay wealthy, probably because politicians are generally really bad at spending tax money, probably because how would Tesla exist.

There needs to be a class of people that can say 'f*ck it' and bet the farm to make moonshots.

> However, wouldn't it be even better if the benefits were not just received by the public, but steered by the public as well?

You need to consider real world politics and not only consider political ideology. Right now if you were to implement your plan you'd give Trump more money to build his wall. I don't imagine that is what you'd want. Don't think about what you want to do, also think about what you don't want to happen.

Plus you are proposing shift money (power) from 607 individuals (billionaires in the USA) to 535 individuals (members of congress). You've not solved the problem, you've just moved it to an a group of self serving individuals that wouldn't understand the value of money.
I understand that. What I'm pointing out is that the small farmer already needs to cover all expenses through their sales price, which already is competing with conglomerates capable of much higher economies of scale. An expense increase for both parties won't affect the dynamic already in place.
If I recall correctly you either have to mail in your passport with application form and photos or you can go to post office where they can verify ID for your fist provisional license.

One of the step to get full license is to take theory test in person at test centre. They check your address and verify ID again at this stage.

We have small driving test centres in most areas. You prebook the slot and turn up. They’re fairly punctual.
The problem I was alluding to is exactly one of requirements - requirements aren't always exact, and they may change in unexpected ways as time goes on. In my experience, this is relatively common when building products that have a long time to market: since there are no hard requirements to begin with, just guesses on what features would be useful to have, it is easy for different marketing and product people to have different opinions and change their minds on what is or isn't an important feature.
None of these facts differ between a before/after of the discussed scenario.
My guess is that this shift is due to the limited supply of other compounds when growth is increased by the extra CO2.

I.e. that with adapting formulas of fertilisers no shift might be observed at all.
The view in my company at least is that even if you have a strong differentiator feature, if you don't have more or less all of the baseline features that all the established products are doing well, people will take a look at your MVP because they like your killer feature, try to use it, find out that it doesn't do all the things they need, and never look at it again, even if you do fill those features later on.
Having done hundreds of small to mid sized projects I take comfort in the fact estimating is a very distinct task that even the best of developers learn last.

I've got three tricks in my pocket that at least help me with this:

The first is that I go by the formula mentioned in "The Mythical Man-Month" — which is that the effort in larger projects is distributed as follows:

1/3 planning
1/6 coding
1/4 component test and early system test
1/4 system test, all components in hand

Developers tend to mainly estimate their coding time, which leads exactly to the effects mentioned. It also explains all the annoying situations with all the holdups once the project is "almost done", this is simply a systems test and will add another 25%.

The other is that I simply add 5-10% on top for each person involved into the project (dev, stakeholder, anything) for communication overhead. It usually holds true.

The third trick is meticuluous focus on lean delivery, which involves scoping down, early testing on as much as possible, hidden and pre-deadlines and setting tractable sub-milestones.

Unfortunately, all of these techniques don't accelerate the project, they just help you be more realistic. If you find something that accelerates complex projects, let me know ;-)
Yeah, but are they made out of ants?
Yeah, what's been said already is pretty much on point with my experience. I think I mostly just recognize weird or bad behaviours of mine once I can analyze myself with significantly less ego.

It's absolutely possible while sober, but it can be quite effortless and accidental on a trip. I'm also not so sure all people have these experiences while sober, even if they could - it takes work. Psychedelics can be good at breaking down mental patterns and guards, exposing the things you typically miss or avoid.
Read my original guide: "This is not to demonize dopamine; it’s an important brain chemical, and people who are low in it (whether naturally or by taking antipsychotic medications) can be lethargic and anhedonic (taking little interest of pleasure in things). Also, properly-prescribed dopaminergic medications can help people with ADHD & Parkinson's improve their ability to focus and regulate their behavior. Rather, my point is that we may be getting too much of a good thing, especially when dopamine reinforces behaviors that are out of line with our values."

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dopamine-fasting-new-silicon-...
That's why greenhouse vegetables taste like shit
Where I live, you bring your own photo – there's some basic requirements to the photo, though – to the police station. Then you'll get a temporary license while the real one is in the mail.

You go to your doctor and get a proof of health. Costs around $100.

Typically the tests are arranged with your driving instructor as part of the course. Each attempt is also around $100.

When selling a used car, you just give the person the registration certificate when you've received payment. Then you reregister the car on the tax authority Web site.
I do something similar to the OP when working on established systems.

The trick is to treat everything that you can't break down to a triviality as an area of research until you've solved that problem.

So, say, you plan three days in a sprint to research a certain requirement, the results being a set of small east-to-estimate features and maybe more tricky features.

If you're working in an area where your team have absolutely 0 experience then there's no way you can estimate anything accurately. In these cases I hope that you're working with a small team (2-3 developers and a BA/PO) who are highly experienced and work well together. Then you should run flexibly with features. Work Kanban style and implement the 80/20 effort/win features - and don't be scared to drop a feature if it's looking like it's not part of the 20% effort group of features.
People willing to pay for it says content is valuable, or at least valuable enough for a few hours of time.
Problem is that more things actually get done but this comes at the expense of burning out people because they don’t get to breathe anymore

If you sprint continuously you will collapse from exhaustion. The clues in the name! But I doubt the Agile crowd thought it through when choosing the name.
Often it’s the assumptions that go into an estimate that are critical, and defining them along with the estimate. Often it’s problem and delays at the client side that delays things or makes them harder.
The LGBTQ-movement, for example, is extremely vocal about any technique that could potentially be used to determine the sexual orientation of a person. They've spent a huge amount of time and resources in order to get society to redefine homosexuality from an illness and into a personal matter which should be included in societal norms.

If someone discovered a reliable way to detect the future sexuality of a child then those efforts would suddenly be contradicted, because 1) it would be harder to argue that it's not just a condition, and 2) no matter how controversial, there would be a demand for such screenings, and the LGBTQ-community would most likely interpret it as an existential threat.

Obviously, I chose sexuality as an example as it's an easy metaphor that most people get, but this reasoning can be applied to quite a few other things that are (possibly) caused by genetical factors and where there's a community involved. As an example, I've heard people mention an on-going "genocide" of people with Downs syndrome, simply because pre-natal screenings are quite effective at detecting it and that parents therefore terminate the pregnancy instead of having a child with Downs.

EDIT: Simply put: If you start screening for X, thereby allowing it to be prevented or treated in any way, then you imply that the X is something negative. People with X might take offence to that.
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This is a 2014 article, the links points to an "authors correction" section and it's an update from 01 October 2019.
They wanted to add very relevant references not listed in the original paper. Because scientists usually have to back their statements. And while in the linked article we have independent groups coming to the same conclusion (which doesn't necessarily make it right, but enhances the chances), I don't see you citing your sources.
Are you a 14 years old girl?
> Hyperbolic tldr; Don't be old and crotchety. Join us, lead us, or die.

I know it was hyperbole but this sort of attitude is what got a generation of technologists and end-users to blindly accept oversharing their personal data, having that data used by nefarious third parties, and to be spied on. We're now in the midst of that same generation realising this far too late and having the monumentally difficult task of convincing their technologically-illiterate friends and family to move away from the shiny reality they promised but never delivered.

I'm happy with softly-softly-catchy-monkey rather than driving off the side of the cliff at 100 km/h, thank you.
You seem to be implying that a dev who doesn't understand enterprise DDD is unqualified.

That's not like a carpenter who can't use a hammer. It's like a carpenter who asks for a sketch of a project and instead receives a phone-book sized list of vague instructions that no one can agree on.
Making things available universally have already been tried in USSR. What it leads to is everyone being equally poor. And it also disincentive hard work, because most of the fruits of your labor will go to equality, instead of going to you. And because everyone gets things equally you might as well as work as little as possible - you will get what you want in any case.
I understand the ‘why it’s done’ part about wages/service; it’s the nuance of tipping (when, where, how much) and the invisible social pressure that’s the issue to me.

For example:

- Person unloads TV I ordered off a truck and puts it at my door for me. Do I tip cash for that? Isn’t that just their normal job routine?

- If I go to a restaurant and order $20 of food and $200 of wine bottles, am I supposed to tip 15-20% of $220?

- If I buy a bottle of juice from a coffee shop, does that still warrant a tip?

- Does one still tip restaurants for carry-out?

- What % do people tip for deliveries or rides?

- If someone is dressed nicely, are they expected to tip >20%?

There may be more things I’m missing. Moving from EU to US when I was younger, these are just different adjustments I noticed in tipping for stuff.
Yeah... but I can see how the name "Dopamine fasting" can get people confused
This reminds me of the Blockbuster video/Netflix gloves off battle, similar commentary. Hopefully Disney has more sucess than the current TGI Friday’s CEO who was on the wrong side of the fight. It’s good reading if you aren’t familiar.
Need this for DuckDuckGo
The Levandowski case is focused on just nailing him on the things they're super confident about, so I don't think it's surprising that the software in this case is part of that list - not least because they had no way of knowing Levandowski stole it until this independent expert verified it.
This submission seems to rely only on the title.

The original article was not linked but an author correction.
The author correction seems to only add some missing references.
I don’t have a problem with people finding comfort or something of value in religion, but also don’t think that a rationalist community like HN should assist in promulgating religion any further into society than it already is.
I think you are taking the title a bit to literally. By "dopamine fast", what is meant is abstaining from activities that give you "cheap" dopamine hits, such as participating in social media and receiving likes in your posts.

This is absolutely safe. If you brain is healthy, it will produce the dopamine it needs either you want it or not. Abstaining from Facebook, or even abstaining from all activity and spending the day staring at a wall will not change that.
The title is bait.

Plus if you read the what's linked it's a minor author correction on the 2014 article.
Read the original guide, it's pretty clear: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dopamine-fasting-new-silicon-...
> Just like Amazon Prime. Let's not pretend most people are actually subscribing to it...

People outside the US may actually do that, because they don’t get Prime and thus they don’t get Prime Video as a free rider.

Personally I subscribed to it for The Grand Tour alone. For $4 a month, I find that worthwhile.
xHamster is Russian owned and controlled. I know all of their C-levels, they are here in Cyprus. It is really a brilliant company and they perfectly know what we are doing.

Quite unlike Facebook - there is a Russian company that makes and sells fake Facebook accounts, and being used correctly, they can live for months and even years without being banned (used to buy ads advertising dodgy stuff). Facebook is really helpless to stop it.
You're right, I guess I just haven't used Markdown like this. My usage has mostly been within plain text editors which have the limitations you're talking about. I don't personally find the need for including HTML in my Markdown documents, but I can understand this expectation since many have known Markdown from (for example) WYSIWYG editors which do handle a mixture of formatting types.
10% of the world "well educated" about AI, that's not how I would usually use that term.
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Of course, but no theologians are telling laypeople to learn Greek, ancient Hebrew, Aramaic and vulgar Latin before reading a translation in their first language! Or at least not since post counter reformation.
Completely off topic, but somehow I find a daily commute via boat seem like a nice and cosy way of going to work. Where did you go from and to, if you mind sharing?
> message myself on [...]Facebook.

I didn't even know that was possible!
Looks less menacing than it sounds. https://mobile.twitter.com/mceleney/status/11925194405181071...
No, it's so that they can work even more, because "they can't allow themselves NOT to work on weekends".
Sure thing:

1) Login to settings and enable multiple inboxes. This is my setup:

has:red-star URGENT

has:orange-star Important

has:blue-info Pending on someone else

has:purple-question For reference

Panel position: Below the inbox

2) Still in the settings, enable stars in the order above.

3) When you check your mail, send off instant replies, archive or star the rest accordingly. To get the orange star you just click the star icon twice, three times for the blue one etc. The purple ones I use to store things like documents I may reference later etc. In practice, I focus on the red stars every day and try to work through the orange ones maybe once a week. You could proberbly do without the blue, but its handy when your in a project management like role. You can run through them once a week and ping people for updates.
What about when they ask "what is this person's biggest weakness"?