skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did you overcome 'Trough of Sorrow' period?
A trough of sorrow is the period after started, many startups get mentions by the media, caused the number of new (curious) users to spike for a short period of time. Then they have little or no new users, and the spiked users don't come back.

If you have experienced and overcome the situation, can you share your story? And how?

I have been struggling to continue to grow my product, and hope to find some inspiration

Many thanks
The article carefully points out VC funding receding even before the pandemic, which is simply accelerating what was already trending. Reminiscent of how 9/11 and its aftershocks sped up the dot-com bubble popping, which had already been in motion.

The examples of "fake tech", startups assuming easy entry into markets due to mass adoption of internet computing (via smartphones) and then running into fundamental problems with their business models, and the valuations based on creative accounting also sound familiar.

This really is the dot-com bubble 2.0, isn't it.
I've been using MacBooks for many years and I love them. BUT it's amazing how many problems they have compared to how expensive they are. I have a problem with a battery with my Mac now. I've had problems with screen with my last Mac. My coworker has issues with keyboard. Investment? As in penny stocks or junk bonds?
https://try.popho.be - tech stuff, and reminders for myself. Just in case my machines spontaneously combust. r/homelab and r/selfhosted did appreciate some articles: WireGuard, email self-hosting and usual VPN pitfalls.
There's a flood of student & ex-Airbnb apartments for rent in central Melbourne, currently ~6300: https://www.realestate.com.au/rent/in-melbourne,+vic+3000/li...

I can't see international travel restrictions to Australia being relaxed until a vaccine is developed, so universities and landlords are going to be in a world of hurt.
18650 cells seem to be a good standard for things like torches and bike lights.

As a plus you can pick them up in e-cigarette shops, apparently vape units use them too.
Thghts on Gautret ea paper on Hydroxychloroquine, Azithromycin COVID19 treatment
EU here, things seem pretty good here.

* I ordered 20kg of oranges from sicily, no shipping costs, arrived in 2days

* Coffee, same thing

* a bass guitar, same

* groceries are delivered in a day from local shops

* for electronics i bought from many shops, usually takes ~1week. still OK for a washing machine or those big items

...seems that "the infrastructure" that amazon required for ups/dhl/* are being used by any other (even tiny) buisiness.

My only complain is Ikea. Ikea doesn't cooperate.
https://reiwaembedded.com/
Some hardware, SBCs, FPGAs topics. Latest project is building a simple mobile satellite ground station.
Here is a puzzle for today - should we post links to articles that have significant content, but are behind a paywall? Should we post all links behind paywalls? Should we just say - it's ok, you can steal it by disabling JS? The slider has many positions here. I looked in faq, but could not find anything about it.
Seconded. I don't know what I'm going to do when my Pebble Time gives up the ghost. I'll probably buy a dumb, mechanical watch for a change. There's still nothing on the market remotely comparable with Pebble.
I know the two countries are relatively closely related (with something approaching freedom of movement, etc.), but why is the Australian tertiary education marketing specifically a concern or source of exasperation for NZ?
In case of technical websites, you have to know English anyway, because even if there is a broken translation of the documentation, function names, enums and all the cool stuff remains in the original language anyway.
No, I Won't Link to Your Spammy Article
Yeah, I don't understand how there is still no simple smartwatch company without any fitness bs, with thin light >1 week always on screen. Years after Pebble did it. Does everyone but us really want and oled screen and heart rate monitor?

I'd don't understand where Casio is with cheap BT smartwatches that can just show texts/notifications.
"We suck at public speaking" so what is the point of learning or practicing with you?
It is not clear if this is a free software project. Can it be installed locally? I see "open source" written here and there, but no link to the actual code (besides gitea).
If the goal of the game is to complete a level in the fewest possible number of moves, you have to show that number and show a counter of how many moves I've made so far.

(And allow undo. See my other comment.)
Worth adding that anyone with access to a university account should check if they can’t log in to the economist via their library service, and users of local libraries can often access magazines on tablet for free via digital lending.
Right, but over air broadcast hasn't been a primary mode of media consumption for decades at this point. The "censorship" on cable broadcasts you refer to are private companies keeping their content advertiser friendly not government restrictions.
When do you need blockchain?
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These things are the worst. There was a YC startup that was building hardware to hack into these and make them smart but it seems like they have pivoted to pure software: https://www.doorport.com/
> what he’s saying sounds interesting even to a physics PhD I’d imagine

Why would you imagine that?

> The scientific community doesn’t know why there’s 3 generations of particles, heck I’ve barely heard anyone in my life even mention the fact.

Your random encounters with information are not a good guide here. The generatation issue is often described as one of the main open problems in particle physics.

Here are some links about particle generations:

https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/august-2015/the-mys...

https://particleadventure.org/three_gen.html
https://particleadventure.org/beyond_start.html

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/generation+of+fundamental+part...

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-why-are-ther...

I could go on.

The reason Weinstein focuses on it is because he's a crank, and cranks are attracted to notorious problems.

> Some of what he’s saying is undoubtedly true.

Such as? I'm reminded of the quote, "What is new is not true; and what is true is not new."
Ask HN: What are you building/learning during Covid 19 lockdown?
Scored too high in the #fellowkids scale to work out.

Especially since it seems a fine example of design by committee. Test markets, reports. Gee I wonder why Gen X was cynical like that.

Oh and they even had a "manifesto" that was in some ironic way a "selfawarewolf".
https://stronglyagainst.com/
I started writing speculative and opinionated pieces about anything that catches my attention.
Also I translate P.Graham, just to pick up the mojo.
Not sure how long I will keep this up, but if it's interesting to you, then please give some feedback.
My quote is literally what she said. (She later claimed it was "dry humor plus sarcasm")[1]. Perhaps she meant something more like what you said.

It doesn't matter.

"The world is going to end if we don't take action within 12 years" is also false, and not at all what the IPCC report says. When O'Rourke said something similar, the AP fact checked the claim:[2]

> THE FACTS: There is no scientific consensus, much less unanimity, that the planet only has 12 years to fix the problem.

> “This has been a persistent source of confusion,” agreed Kristie L. Ebi, director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington in Seattle. “The report never said we only have 12 years left.”

And no, I'm not going to cut the AP and PBS out of my life just because some alarmists are delusional.

1: https://apnews.com/1c663bcb294c1752573f45fc5bf5e0f9/

2: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ap-fact-check-orourke-...
the only advantage this might give teams is remote workspaces. I don't think any developer would set it as the default IDE on dev machine
Good advice for freelancers in times of Corona from patio11
Totally OT but where did you order the oranges from? I am in need of a few kg for juicing and it's expensive from the local grocery delivery folks around me...
https://curious.gent/

Only just started so it's ended up being about quarantine in Hong Kong more than anything else. Ultimately I hope to write about a wide range of things that I've done of interest to me (music, software engineering, automotive modifications, hardware hacks, fitness, mental health and reflections on working in/running startups)
Mercedes EQS: electric luxury limo to spawn AMG version
Wear OS Application Development Tutorial. Part 1
Here's what is happening and what the Govt response will be in the near future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFSuxQhURuU
Definitely have to make it a habit not to wipe your face with places you used to open the door, which is why you scratch your face -- if you can't wash your hands -- with the inside of your shirt.
Of course I want it. History is history. Furthermore, why should PRs, bug reports, and build artifacts not be able to refer directly to source objects and revisions, and vice versa?

A simple way to represent it might be as an ASCII dump of one or more databases representing it all, so you could roll back to any day's state; or as an update-log transcript, so you could roll back to the state after any given transaction. Both amount to successive diffs, so are reasonably compact.
You have to read, so you know how to kick off your own blog in 2 hours! BOom :D
https://www.tarasmatsyk.com/posts/1-how-to-start-a-blog-in-2...

A year ago I kicked off my engineering blog which I abandoned in 2 months :D

To be honest, I write either about my engineering struggle, however I'll switch back to indie making in the next months, so feel free to send me a note if any topic resonates with you

It's good to have it around in case I want to share knowledge and ideas

Medium ref: https://medium.com/@tarasmatsyk
Uploading a 16GB file (less when compressed) doesn't sound too much fun. I prefer just using a local tool
My college's digital storytelling class would appreciate this a resource.
I believe a more appropriate way to think about this sort of thing is asymptotically.

Sure, your 10th worker might revolutionize the way your company works. Your 9 workers work on a very specific thing and suddenly your new hire makes it more efficient or does away with a bottleneck.

Maybe at 100 people you have a specific team of 10 people that's a bottleneck and the right person comes along and solves their issues.

At 1000 people, your teams are already working on things different enough that a person revolutionizing the way one of them works is unlikely to affect the others, as your work has inevitably diversified. Again, because you have 100 teams, each team has a smaller impact percent-wise on the total output.

At 10000 people it's easy to imagine all these inefficiencies have already been mostly solved (you had after all hired so many competent people who have tried their best to do so).
Location: Sydney, Australia

Remote: Yes

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Technologies: UX Design, UI Design & Research. Figma, Sketch, XD, Jira, Confluence, Notion, ProtoPie, Principle, Adobe Creative Cloud products

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Sounds like it’s not that important for this job.
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[0] https://github.com/shiyanhui/libcsp/blob/48782baf0e63cbf2914...
thank you so much for that deep dive into the history and issues involved. I hadn't considered that it's tricky to have multiple -dev headers floating around. You can have packages link to different versions as needed, but you don't wanna hard code version paths into source code. Sounds like a tricky problem to solve cleanly.

Thank you again for sharing your unique unsight. This is stuff that's really hard to find otherwise. I just wish all these details where in the package descriptions. It would be so incredibly helpful. Especially in -dev packages where the description isn't going to be seen by "casual" users anyway
I think I've never been in a project where standups were before 10 in the morning. At some point you have to decide if you're working in a team or not -- first people will leave the office around 16 so there's only a limited time window.
> Is this really helping Walmart/NewEgg/Amazon/etc vs them just selling the same products directly themselves? Why do this -- are they just trying to avoid these sellers starting competing no-name e-commerce sites?

My thought would be this allows them to pivot from being a "logistics" company to being a "tech" company, providing a "platform" for others.
We're still building the platform and adding new features.

And glad you liked the fundraiser!
Also, in the UK cars have to be insured unless they're SORNed, and that's not something most people would not bother with for a couple of months.
Curious if someone has tried this, and if so, what their experience has been like?
Personally I don't like links behind paywalls. I also respect the desire of the publisher to have a paywall, so I don't read the articles even if I can find away around the paywall. But, I can't really see a downside to posting the links. Either they will be voted up and I won't read it, or it won't be voted up and I won't read it. But if it's voted up, I guess large numbers of people want to read it. The world doesn't have to revolve around me. I think that the best thing people can do if they see an interesting topic posted is to try to find an equivalent non-paywall article and submit it. Frequently I've seen paywalled articles replaced by non-paywall articles, so I don't think there is really a problem whatever you do.
I was wearing mine until it fell apart and nothing on the market seems to be a decent replacement... everything else is really clunky and weird looking.
What little I know of history has indeed convinced me that major ordeals are quite often the logical conclusion of small or past things unaddressed, gone out of proportion. "Bubbles" are such a thing. Real "black swans" are incredibly rare; and this (CODID-19 pandemic) isn't one.

Indeed, the current dotcom situation is a bubble, and it was long due. Meanwhile, let's hope investors become better at identifying real value, real innovation, real game changers. It's often the boring stuff.
Someone usually links to an archive, so hey. And if they don't, you can just ask for one.
YoU ArE SuCh A gReAT HuMaIN!
Ha, that's my city's TLD, first time I see it for other use :)
This train has left the station already. It's more and more difficult to actually buy software these days, and million ways to rent it. And even if you manage to buy it, you often need an online component.
He just comes across as an arsehole, this sort of nonsense has stopped me listening to whatever else he has to say.

What we all do with spam is ignore it.
An interesting hint could come from this pre-print study: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.29.014407v1
They tried different administration modalities of HCQ to in-vitro infected cells: some cells got nothing (control), some got HCQ only before infection, some got HCQ only after infection, some got HCQ both before and after infection. THe cells that got HCQ only before or only after infection had just slightly better outcome than control (they appear as heavily infected), while cells that received HCQ both before and after contagion were in much healthier conditions. If that would be the same in vivo as in vitro, that would entail that it would be possible to use HCQ as prophylaxis, given that the patients never stop taking the drug. Of course the caveat is "IF that would be the same in vivo as in vitro", that they didn't (yet) tested.
It would be nice if we could use the C FFI to allow seamless interaction between MRI ruby and Crystal.

Allowing us to profile and easily port parts of an existing rails or ruby app would be really useful.
From the perspective of the developer there is no difference. They just configure kubernetes or docker to use a different Container runtime and keep using the same compose files, etc.
Yep, the only item they can dictate is where the estimate is done.
There's a broader picture though, like over tourism. It brings money but it destroys the product.
This is very region/system specific, the US and UK adhere more strictly to what was written than most of continental Europe. In Europe there is more weight on "reasonable" interpretation and consumer protection compared to the literal agreement. That makes things more vague, but the result is also that going to court with the claim "the terms are too unfavorable to me and I was forced to click OK" is accepted by the courts as a reason to ignore the TOS.

So a mandatory arbitration clause can be written here, but you would fail to stop your customer from going to court if they disagree with the arbitration outcome.

Similar for things like excluding warranty, you cannot legally decrease consumer product warranty below 2 years in Europe. You would loose that case, because the courts have ruled that less then 2 years (or less than the reasonably expected economic life of the product if that's longer) is unfavorable to the consumer and thus null.
Description of reality :D

I am trying to have a bigger lunch-break for both me and my kid. I.e. "No screens for at least next hour" and usually she finds something to play with that is not a screen.

And I bought a Nintendo Labo, so there is a screen-adjacent activity at least my kid really likes.

"Dad can I play the Goose Game?" ... No, but we build the cardboard house for the fluffy creature, you could color it in maybe? ... "Ok, give me all of the stickers, I will make it the best house ever!"

As for myself, I struggle to find stuffwithout screens at home, but fortunately, we don't have a strict shelter-in-place, and while wearing masks, you can go to parks and forests, so my bike keeps me company :)
https://hachibu.net/

I mostly write about front-end programming and JavaScript. I try to write short, catchy, educational posts. I also draw an illustration for each post, since I used to be a cartoonist a long time ago.
I guess I was wondering what make a fab open source. I.e. say you did have a 3D chip printer, but you didn’t know how it worked and you couldn’t look inside, would that be open source? If that printer counts as open source then I would argue fabs like MOSIS are the equivalent.

You can get all the tech files for their older stuff, with no NDA, from FreePDK. It works fine with VLSI layout tools like magic, which one can git clone the source of.

That said, there isn’t really a lot of mystery in the larger technology sizes like 0.18um. Plenty of universities will tell you exactly how they do it if you look into it.

The big problem with DIY fab ideas is chemical disposal. This will have to be addressed first. Parts of Mountain View are still a superfund site because of older fabs. HF is no joke.
Tesla is making improvements to Fremont factory
Someone has upset troy today.
Why need websites and apps for your business
Very on-topic username, FreshFruitGuy.

Here are a couple more citations that have more data behind them, if somebody wants to dig into it (and has the journal access):

* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030881469...
* https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4615-5975-7_...
* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jsfa.2825
Please try to avoid soft drinks by the Coca-Cola company and its local subsidiaries. It is infamous in several (many?) countries for strong-arm tactics - from squeezing business owners to only carry their products through artificial price hikes and withholding certain benefits, to the likely assassination, yes I said assassination, of union activists in Colombia.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jul/24/marketingandpr...
And if you want to have artifacts you also need a way to build them... Running containers is just one third of the features that docker offers.
There is no generally workable way to pay, in that it'd cost at least $1000/year for all the popular sites.
They need to make an exact replica on all their controllers that are wireless. The ones available now are slightly smaller and not even made by Nintendo. The quality just isn't there.
Well this is highly misleading then and pretty irresponsible. People could have multiple severe issues and yet this states that there is little risk.
Worked on the ecommerce and marketing teams at Pebble. I can tell you we tried to tell people about our strengths: 1 week+ battery life. Always on screen. Readable in sunlight. Water resistant up to X meters. But what gets people to buy isn't what gets people to stay.

I can tell you that by far, most people wanted the fitness angle with smartwatches. And all those features that you love about Pebble, while great, wasn't all that convincing for people after we ran out of die-hard fans like yourself.
Service Workers and Rails Middleware
A Kubernetes Helm Controller
An in-vitro pre-print study ( https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.29.014407v1 ) showed that administering Hydroxychloroquine only after Covid-19 infection is not helping much, while administering it both before the infection and after the infection gives great outcomes. They tried different administration modalities of HCQ to in-vitro infected cells: some cells got nothing (control), some got HCQ only before infection, some got HCQ only after infection, some got HCQ both before and after infection. THe cells that got HCQ only before or only after infection had just slightly better outcome than control (they appear as heavily infected), while cells that received HCQ both before and after contagion were in much healthier conditions. If that would be the same in vivo as in vitro, that would entail that it would be possible to use HCQ as prophylaxis, given that the patients never stop taking the drug. Of course the caveat is "IF that would be the same in vivo as in vitro", that they didn't (yet) tested.
Wow, I hope I have self-esteem like him to react to a simple mass-produced spam like this.
This reads a lot like Webb and Mitchell's gift shop skit. https://youtu.be/7MFtl2XXnUc
I had a very similar issue with trying to get a replacement part for a JL nursing chair. The JL customer support staff seemed to see their job as being to find reasons to justify not helping me, presumably to save their company a few pounds.

I am happy even to pay extra to buy from Amazon because I know that if there is a problem they will delight me with their response.
I thought it was funny I read this line:

>(but who cares how many, like I don’t need to see your tweet telling everyone you read 100 books.)

shortly after I saw this line for one of the other blogs:

> I generally have read >50 technical books a year.
I understand where Troy is coming from, and I agree with his point of view, but how is it that the community aspect of the web has atrophied away to dust?

Many years ago sending links to site owners and asking for a "linkback" was part and parcel of how you grew your website on the internet. When I got random emails they tended to be a bit less obvious than the brash "I think this would be good for your blog" and more "If you like this please link back.", but the fact that commercial SEO has ruined the process entirely is just so depressing.
I don't see how the consequences of the pandemic aren't going to last a year, possibly much longer.
>By us I mean the US govt so we're basically fucked.

I'd imagine Mr Trump tweeting: "Google is broken. I am the only one that can fix it."
Not quite the same, but I got a Withings Steel HR when my pebble died, and I love it! I charge it once a month, and it handles the most important notifications quite well. Far less hackable though.
> What we all do with spam is ignore it.

There are two kinds of people: those who ignore it and those who fight it. The former can afford it because of the efforts of the latter.