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Author here. I think "looking" is indeed not the right term for this.

Most problem discovery in any market happens through careful qualitative analysis that happens during and after interviews with prospective customers.

Looking at their behavior is a first step to getting a glimpse of what the day-to-day work looks like, and where you as a SaaS could interface with that.

The second step is figuring out customer intent ("what do I want to get done"), problem awareness ("what could be done much better"), pain intensity ("what is unbearable about my work").

Some of those come directly from the prospect, mostly problems where they have high pain and high awareness. Others, you will have to find yourself, such as low-awareness problems. Then, there are problems to dismiss, such as low-pain and non-intent-aligned ones.

To me, a niche represents a group of people you select out of a more general population.

From what you wrote, I understand that we agree that niches don't "exist", they are "defined". That is both a result and a starting point, which makes this whole exercise so hard - it's an iterative approach: you define a niche, you explore their problems, you re-define the niche, explore again, until you have found a critical problem worth solving.

The point is that you can't find problems without communicating with those who have them. Looking won't do. You will need to listen.
As few others have said, for me it is structuring my learning to get to the end goal. Say I want to build a website or any other idea, I need to destructure things I need to learn in order to build this idea.

Currently I use Trello for this: https://trello.com/b/cu32qF3q

In future I want to build a website ala Goodreads/Google/Roadmap that lets you craft optimized learning paths for creating any idea. Sad this doesn't exist yet.

https://docs.learn-anything.org/roadmap

https://roadmap.sh
I like the EFF but Doctorow but sometimes they're just get things wrong. They want to blame the law for problems that are just economics. He says that creators get a raw deal because they're forced to sell at too low a price.

How will weakening copyright make it easier for creators to negotiate a deal? It won't. They'll get an even weaker deal because they've got less to sell.

The plight of small producers is felt through all industries. At least copyright gives the creator a HUGE amount of power as soon as the work is rendered into fixed form. Doctorow should check out how the small wheat farmers or small fishermen get treated. They're in commodity businesses and they have nothing unique to sell and little legal protection except for the laws of theft.
This is pretty standard for IEEE-754 floats/doubles. Try entering 8.95 into Float Toy [0]. It's about 1 * 2^3 * 1.11875. If you look at the red part, you see there's a "repeating decimal" 00011(1100)(1100).. that gets truncated, just like I can "recognize" 0.33 as "one-third" but if you want to multiply it by 10 I'll (probably) give you 3.30, and it's no longer special. There is always a lossy "compression" when you move across co-prime bases (pretty sure) and truncate the repeating decimals.

What's really hard is printing a floating-point number. Since you have to print "8.95" when all you really have is a base-2 rational very close to it, you want to be sure you don't actually need to print 8.94999998. If you miss the last couple bits in the red part in Float Toy, you'll see the print algorithm shifts away from the 8.95 answer.

[0] https://evanw.github.io/float-toy/
> In one of many robust internet debates (as is prone to happen on Twitter)

Maybe I just don't get Twitter. Every time I look at a thread it starts with some coherent conversation, but then devolves into a bunch of tangents that don't coherently follow each other.

HN and similar seem much better suited.
Funnily enough recently I've started using tweetdeck on my phone too. I use Firefox and an addon called better tweetdeck to adjust the column width to the same width as my phone screen. There's some jank, but the value of having a Twitter client on mobile that's not the official mobile app, and not crippled like many third party apps are now, it's enough to compensate for that jank.

I would say as a heavy Twitter user my needs are probably not typical, but imo tweetdeck with its live updating columns is the true nature of the firehose that Twitter is, and I love it.
Ahh, thanks for the correction.
Fair enough, but "real pros duplicate code indiscriminately" got voted to the top of this website two weeks ago.
The problem I see is that no one can agree on what is right or the truth any longer. What one side considers the truth might not be the same for the other, look no further than the impeachment proceedings.

I'm amazed that we've reached a point in the USA where we can't agree on some simple truths anymore.
That's a question that I'm still asking myself :P

Here's an example of what's wrong with my state management system:

- Let's say that state A places the teapot at position X.

- Now let's say that we need to transition to state B, where the teapot needs to be placed at position Y.

- Since both states share the same teapot, and since the teapot stores its own position, it's as if its position is a global variable, so both states needs to maintain variables external to the teapot where they store its position.

Now imagine the same situation, but with dozens of different variables. It makes the code difficult to understand and maintain.

One way to fix that problem is to give each state its own teapot. By not sharing certain objects between the different states, the code is simplified enormously. But I made the decision to share things to reduce memory usage.

When I come up with a solution that I'm satisfied with, I'll leave a comment here!
I still daydream, every day. I can't imagine what it would be like to never think inward like that. Every now and then I feel like I need to put more into my day, and I'll try to do lots of things and see lots of people, but even then I'll still inadvertently day dream. There's always time somewhere. Maybe I'm just well practiced so it comes easily.

I believe a lot of people don't know how to be bored, or how to be slow and engaged. The lack of daydreaming is just one symptom. They skim through every task just enough to get it done, so that they can move on to the next one. So not only are you never bored, you're never fully engaged either. If you are always moving fast you are often eager to move to the next task instead of being active and present with the current one.

Technology trains us that we can fill in boredom, and simultaneously makes us unable to appreciate the stuff will fill it in with. Our reward loops become so short that we don't even finish what we're doing before looking for the next loop to start. We distract ourselves from our own enjoyment.
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To what end though? Why do you even need to support the insecure protocol? I'm not aware of any widely used browsers that can't do HTTPS. If that's what you're worried about, then you should HSTS preload all of your domains, so that browsers that do support HTTPS will only ever get the HTTPS version, and aren't susceptible to an SSLstrip attack.
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The problem is geography. He wants to serve his constituents. Email makes it far too easy for people who aren't his constituents to take vast quantities of his and his staff's time.
I think there is a lot of merit to the idea of an open-source hardware and firmware platform for cloud-based AI assistant/audio systems. It seems like it would be wins all the way around. Google and Amazon can fight over features, stability, security, and UI. Consumers don’t have a brick if they take a chance with a small startup that goes belly-up. The hardware wouldn’t end up in a landfill. Network configuration and debugging could be standardized, making security and support much easier. And enthusiasts or people with special needs could swap out the OS.
I think the problem is that there might not be too much overlap between projects so simple that developers would completely outsource user accounts and data management, and projects handling data so sensitive that it’s preferable to completely lose access when password is forgotten (which is very common) than tolerate the slim chance that data could be leaked through hacking.
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What is soft kill and hard kill? Isn't this the real issue?
The products are also quite different. Even as TikTok rises, I do not notice that it would necessarily have a displacing effect on insta.

In addition, free marketing is straightforward on insta, it is not even remotely so on TikTok.
> think of Taylor Swift's battle to perform her own music at an awards show where she was being named "Artist of the Decade" shortly after rights to her back catalog were sold to a "tycoon" whom she has a longstanding feud with.

Her dad was a shareholder and sat on the board of said company that sold to the "tycoon". Horrible example.
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Just want to point out that while often manufacturing consent is seen in a negative light because it’s been used to negatively manipulate people that it is also also possible to be used to the better good (vaccinations, education, etc. of course this can get abused and thus the negative aspect).
>This fact is compatible with heliocentric and geocentric models. The fact on its own doesn't tell you which is which.

But the fact that the Earth revolves around the Sun does tell you which "model" is actually a fact. That's the point.

You're making an argument about which facts should be reported? The sun rising in the east? Or the phases of Venus? Or both? Or both and more?

But stating that you need an ideology or narrative to support your facts is a bit nonsensical in my own opinion. There really is only one conclusion that can be drawn from the totality of the facts. To state only a single fact, and then say, "here is an ideology or narrative so you can understand the fact I just gave you." Really is just stating an ideology or narrative.

Think of it this way, if you still need a narrative, then you didn't give anyone all the facts.
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interesting to see both "it won't change in your lifetime and anyway it is a giant natural feature that moves with the grounds" and "for every known lake in the world, I found a real example of this problem" under the same reply ! Both are insufficiently general ..

Precision request in, and precision model out.. the expectation and means of the questioner does matter.. A national boundary in many places is quite adequately described with "1 meter resolution" because.. the whole nation is what is bounded ! However, to a active combatant, ask how the border is defined.. not even close to one meter.. the enemy is in our territory!

On the Earth Sciences side, there are sudden events that can move Earth more than a meter, and there are tectonically active areas which moves in different directions, in different and relevant amounts, often, every year.

Does a lake in the middle of nowhere, move a portion of a meter in a lifetime? The answer is, who is asking and why, because the intensity of the precision requested is related to the intensity of the inquiry by the inquirer. Water moves constantly, you fool! It is the stability that is more a question.

Last point in this pointless response on mapping.. Math and numbers are a fine tool, and remarkably useful, but the living, cycling, dripping world we live in, will not be revealed solely through better tables of numbers (as tempting as that is to YNews readers). Two hundred years ago this world was teeming with life of all sorts, and now, pesticides, pavement and poaching have seriously changed that, with no end in sight. Please act accordingly.
No one to easily ask questions about the materials you are reading.
Yeah, I like that idea. It’d be cool to have tests to ensure that you know enough about X to be able to apply it to Y effectively.

Also, maybe you should checkout Notion if you didn’t give it a try already.
As long as the modem is connected via SDIO/USB to your open system (which it is), how is this a problem? It's treated as compromised/hostile.

Encryption of IP traffic happens on the open system, so no problem there.

If you'd like to complain about encryption of voice calls happening on the closed modem, I have some bad news. It wouldn't matter if it was open or closed, since the network it negotiates keys with is also compromised.

The only problem remaining, on this particular device, is direct connection of physical sensors (microphone, GPS, etc) directly to the modem. This is solved by physical switches (or hardware switches controlled from the open system) between the sensor and the modem.

The only exception I see now is the GPS, which is embedded into the modem. If they solve that, I'm buying the phone.
Perhaps, we'll see!

My interest in this project was born out of wanting to do something similar for my own application. Didn't see any good options at the time and now there is one!
Well, we wouldn't be talking about Vine today at all if it weren't for that 7 second limit. Without it, why would anyone use it over Instagram, Twitter, etc?
I’ve used telemedicine (the proper name) for vision prescription renewal and to check with a nurse or doctor about some of my children’s various ailments.

The biggest problem is that there seems to be a pretty limited range of conditions that can be taken care of over the phone- been sick enough you might need antibiotics? You need to come in for a test. Injure yourself physically? Well someone needs to be there to patch you up.

The two exceptions have been when someone caught it pinkeye- it’s so obvious my pediatrician called it in based on a phone conversation alone, and the aforementioned vision prescription.

For me, my insurance company provides a free nurse line and a paid doctor line (still cheapish at $40). My GP and pediatrician are also very proactive over the phone, and they do it for free (that’s craziness right there).

I think the reason insurance companies and doctors aren’t pushing telemedicine more is that the vast majority of ailments are (successfully) treated with “take two aspirins and see how you feel tomorrow” or require on site tests.
Which field are you looking at? On the topics that I've been interested in - programming, math, statistics, ML - there many really good books that are completely free.
> caught on camera acting in an extremely partisan manner

I'm sorry, but even as political talking points go this makes no sense. He made a "cut" gesture during a live feed, but live news broadcasts cut from one feed to another dozens of times per hour, and the feed he was motioning to cut wasn't of any particular importance to either party (it was a Trump lawyer listening to someone off-camera asking a question). That's hardly "extremely partisan".
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What an absurd interpretation of that tweet.
I don't think this is that jargony. Anyone in the target audience for the article should know what "churn" means, and given that knowledge should be able to work out what "net negative churn" means. Probably the clarification would've been better if it had started "meaning the revenue from usage-driven upgrades" (and likewise "usage-driven" and "net" in "net negative" don't add anything) but overall it should still be comprehensible.
> the worst they can do is spread disinformation

From a seemingly reputable source that people trust. Now take a 4chan prank like the home grown crystals and put it on a site like the NHS'. Grab one of the blogs of these people who post about https not being necessary and if they have any tutorial where they have terminal snippets to copy and paste you can own their reader's machines.

There are so, so many ways to do mischief if not outright ruin the lives of people in these websites that "just display text".
Yes technically everything on this planet is natural including the creations of man. Unfortunately this is not a particularly useful definition of the word. When we talk about natural what we mean is the systems of the planet that have been around a lot longer than the tiny slice of time since civilization emerged. Things that evolved rather than things that were conceived. Things there due to instinct rather than rational thought and planning.

Words exist to draw boundaries, something cannot exist without its opposite. If everything is natural then what is unnatural? If your answer is nothing then you have discovered non duality which is fascinating but has no practical value. The practical value of defining what is natural is to understand our impact on the world and what that means for the future of the planet.
.... you propose that HTTPS is insecure because someone could compromise the website, server, or CA? That precludes... pretty much everything from being "secure". If an attacker can compromise a website and CA, we should assume that they can compromise every other website and every software update server, thereby compromising >90% of computers on Earth inside a week, starting with anything connecting to the Microsoft and Ubuntu update servers.
It's not an insecure protocol. What is insecure, in every single example I've seen in this thread and in the article, is the bad defaults of browsers executing javascript automatically. Without that terrible design choice, prioritized because of commerce and the desire to change the web of documents into a surveillance operating system, HTTP would be, and is, just fine.

Anyway, to directly answer your question there are browsers that can't do all of HTTPS because of false "security" enhancements being pushed for sites that don't need it like restricting the set of TLS versions that are accepted. ref: https://scotthelme.co.uk/legacy-tls-is-on-the-way-out/
It may work in in impressing people while speaking, where you have more attention and can elaborate on what you actually do later, and maybe people get trained to do this during the fundraising process, but in the online sales cycle... "That's nice. Ctrl-W."
Google search+ads are a once in a generation in the world phenomenon.

It's not at all strange they can't just pop out a few more of those.
>without censorship

"Byte gives conspiracy theorists and rightwingers a platform. It's our moral duty to censor it." - WSJ, WaPo, NYT and friends in about five years.
>I'm am amazed that we've reached a point the in the USA where we can't agree on some simple truths anymore.

I'm curious. Can you give one or two examples of the 'simple truths' that we can't agree on anymore?

>What one side considers the truth might not be the same for the other, look no further than the impeachment proceedings.

The impeachment proceedings are interesting examples because I truly believe that objectively, even if the facts are as stated by the Democrats, it would be a gross abuse to remove Trump from office for that. It's bonkers. Trump's conduct, at best, warrants a Congressional censure. But I take your point one two sides looking at the same event but interpreting it vastly differently. The Kavanaugh nomination was the same way, as well as coverage around Covington kids (could not believe as it was happening that news reports would profile children in the way they did).
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> It’s worth mentioning that LPDDR3 initialization is done by u-boot SPL, which is also open source. There are no blobs in there either.

That's actually pretty impressive, isn't it? I was under the impression that RAM setup was a mess.
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This seems to be more simply all the data about the physical orientations and positions of neurons in a fly's nervous system.

I'd guess there is still humongous amounts of data missing that would be necessary for a simulation:

- the exact biological and chemical makeup of each neuron

- the biological and chemical environment in which those neurons exist

- the exact physics that govern the biological and chemical reactions happening in and around the neurons (and the ability to accurately simulate those physics)

- maybe most importantly, even if we have all those above (i.e. the ability to fully and accurately simulate biological systems as complex as individual cells), we may still missing the electro-chemical activation "state" of the neurons that allows the fly to operate as a cohesive whole. (as if we had all of the hardware of a computer, but none of the software)
That is a great suggestion! If we allowed a CSV import we could easily decipher a flat data model.
And why bother with any of this if it requires reliable persistent local storage anyway?
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Solitude. Then, I'd say acceptance from friends/family, followed by a good routine.

I've tried learning alone, but after 6 - 12 months it becomes really difficult. Being around a self-learning community daily makes a world of difference, I'm about to start my fourth year and I'm loving it.

Being part of a program also reduces societal pressure. Any program really, just to be able to give a simple answer when people ask you what you are doing. Otherwise, it's easy to be met with doubt and cynical questions.

Lastly routine, I see self-learning as a day job. You want to clock N hours per day and don't spend any time procrastinating. I've been building habits for 5-10 years, and I'm reaching a point where I can be productive, but it takes time and patience.
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Ha! :-)

The latest iteration of the treehouse includes rails that make it much much safer for children!!
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That test was the entire basis of the concept. If it can't be measured or proven in any way then it's just an idea, not an actual "thing". Unconscious bias doesn't have any supporting evidence but lives on because people don't get the message that it's based on junk science.
I wonder whether the improvements in machine learning would ever be sufficient, so that for an article we could generate a quick report of how many points from the list are "checked".
The GPS is on the modem SOC, as I understand. Perhaps they should leave the antenna unconnected. Then use an additional GPS module?
I watched the youtube video. You need to work on presentation. Get better at that and you will be able to charge more than $499.
Do you want ISPs to inject random crap at the top of your website? Because that's how you get ISPs to inject random crap at the top of your website.

I remember getting a Vodaphone sim card (I think it was in Belgium or The Netherlands) and seeing their banner displayed on MY WEBSITE! It wasn't in a language I know, and it might have just been a bandwidth warning or something to indicate I need to reload, but it was still on my website, injected right in there.

HTTP is needed for static sites, if you want to ensure your readers see the exact same site that you made.
I don't know but I find the structure of the post pretty hilarious.

Basically the post says that the PinePhone mobile phone is, with the exception of the "mobile phone" part, a completely open source mobile phone.

It's just a funny way to write the post. If you remove the mobile phone part it's not a mobile phone. It's like saying a cake is, with the exception of the cake part, completely vegan.