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People give all kinds of wrong advice when you start out:
Take risks when you're young.
Fail fast, break things.

Here's the reality I've experienced as a startup founder. Its not the holy truth, but its been my life and my experiences.

If you shoot an arrow even a few degrees off-center, it hits somewhere far from the board.

Similarly the decisions you take early on are so much more critical to your life.

As an Indian student these are all of the decisions you take:

Age 15: Science, Commerce, Arts

Age 17: Medical, Engineering

Age 18: Computer Science, Electrical, Mechanical, Civil engineering etc

Age 22: US Masters or Local Job

Guess what?

If you want to realistically be a millionaire by 37-38 you have to take 5 correct decisions in a row (Science, Engineering, CS, Masters).

You have to do 5 very difficult things to be a Google level engineer.

Even if you do four out of five correct after 20 years your life will be in a far lower orbit with respect to finances. Its sad but true.

This is why you should do your startup after you clear this early minefield of difficult decisions. Once you can comfortably have a good job at your whim. I'd advise people to startup only after 30.

And remember, one misstep and the outcome can be wildly different after 20 years!
I met these two mobile devs at a conference.

They survived several rounds of cost-cutting at a large company by constantly convincing management to let them rewrite their mobile app in some new framework because of X.

Start out with the native implementations, then they did Xamarin, tried PhoneGap, went back to native, then to React Native, and now on to Flutter. The pair of them keep their jobs constantly rewriting an app.
Servethehome.com has some subforums with a lot of info, particularly the Napp-it one which is a management UI for ZFS like FreeNAS is
Reddit.com/r/ZFS
Reddit.com/r/datahoarder

I'll try to think of some others.

Honestly the best way is to start tinkering and see how it works for you as it can depend heavily on what you're using it for.

But yes there is a lot of FUD out there.

One thing to beware of, RAIDZ1/2 is limited to the IOPS of one drive per VDEV... Can be quite limiting for some things.
"You can't have the same UX for both handheld touchscreen devices and M+K laptops/desktops" seems like an absolutely 101 level no brainer to me. How are big projects/companies still attempting to make stuff like this happen?
...except that you can go to a store where you can simply BUY for CHEAP far far more and more diverse foods than you could ever dream of growing.

No one who does this thinks it's efficient. It's just a fun hobby.
windows 10 is the same, there is lag between when the screen with the input box appears and when it accepts input. so if you start typing too quickly, fail. and don't get me started on their auto update policy (i agree with automatic updates; i do not agree with them forcefully hijacking my computer with no means to stop it. its actually what brought me back to linux as my dd. no regrets!)
Yes. The system is inherently unproductive. Pumping more money into it like giving a sedentary person more calories and expect their physique to end up like an athlete's.

But you can also pump that money into the hands of people and have the same problem. If you give everyone 10K you haven't change affordability. If you give everyone 10K you haven't changed relative food prices. There are more fundamental problems to be solved.
I think I'll go live in a cave if I hear privacy debated once more!

I'm too inundated with this stuff!
IME it's all down to the implementation these days, which is a low-bidder-gets-what-they-pay-for kind of affair. My phone is cheap and the Bluetooth is nearly unusable on it(it can only really support one device at a time and that device will periodically drop out), but on my laptops, which have more of an emphasis on build quality, it's pretty solid, with few to occasional instances of audio tearing.

Regardless I still find grief from things like the volume resetting on one or both ends after pairing. There is a lot of attention to detail needed to get this stuff right, and most companies can barely manage to ship - that's not on the standard of the spec but the standard of the marketplace.
Please don't post flamebait to HN. Generational flamebait is among the dumbest and most wretched sort we see here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why does it have to have a little http API? Why not just spawn the python tool?
I suppose you could, but I believe that there are direct bindings from Rust to Pytorch at https://github.com/LaurentMazare/tch-rs. I haven't used it personally, but I've heard fairly good things about it's correctness and responsive maintainer.
It’s not.

https://gleam.run/faqs.html#how-is-message-passing-typed
Windows hello is such a nice experience (at least just for local login), but I will never use it because I don't trust Microsoft with my data.
There is also selection bias in whom Facebook will show the ads to due to Facebook's CTR models, other bidders' bids, and who is browsing Facebook more to see more impressions in general. They should have worked with an ad platform to run the ad as a PSA so they could use the ad platform's own randomization instead of relying on having the auctions they win result in anywhere close to a usable sample.
If we took those measures every time there was a 10% chance of a pandemic would we be better off overall? Honest question I don't know the answer. It's easy to say we should have acted sooner, but should we have also done more for ebola, zika, SARS, MERS etc in the US as well, even though those didn't end up having much of an impact here?
They are to some extent. The US has some... unique problems[1] in this area, sure. But general bureaucratic decay is everywhere. France and Germany are seeing the same PPE shortages, the same hospital equipment snafus, and pretty much no one in the world outside the Korean peninsula has figured out how to do enough testing to contain this thing.

Again, it's true that the US has fallen farther (consider the federal coordination of industry in WWII and compare to the disaster today). But no one is doing "well" here.

[1] I despise that I have to euphemize that here on HN, but those seem to be the rules the community enforces.
You lost nothing, he even proposes curing it with "waves" that i assume based on the other weird stuff is EM waves "Luc Montagnier added that with the help of interfering waves, we could eliminate these sequences and as a result stop the pandemic."
Elementary is a superb linux distribution: you don't know at all you're using linux!

More seriously, I installed it on several relatives laptops (from 15 to 70+ yo) and I never heard anyone complain. In general, it just works.
A local bakery spun up an online sales site for pickup or delivery. They sell cakes but also groceries. I bought flour and raspberries from them. When I went for pickup, they had dozens of bags prepared in the window. Clearly doing good business, all online.
Ask HN: Who would like to be my cofounder?
Hi all, I'm actively looking for a co-founder to join my team, my startup is a service to meet new people, the difference with others is that i created a new moderation system so the quality of the people in my app is better than the rest of apps the main problem to resolve is the 90% of users in apps to meet people are scammers, spammers, fake accounts, stalkers and rude people
so the users are happy using my app because with my new moderation sytem they can know who are good people and who are bad people and my moderation system can detect and delete and block the bad people automatically, that is my competitive advantage

traction :

50K+ sent messages by day

1.5M+ sent messages by month

150K+ downloads

50k+ monthly active users

app : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=schan.main i am looking for a cofounder with experience getting investment and experience growing the user base with marketing strategies

if you are interested or you know someone who you believe could be interested in being part of my team please send me a message here in the forum or my email schateen.inc@gmail.com thanks....
That's an extreme nitpick. The whole argument for time shifting is to be able to record something while you're not at home.
The League of Nations was disbanded because it was entirely ineffective at achieving what it had set out to do, as was evident from the outbreak of WWII. The UN had the same goals as the LoN, and has been equally ineffective at achieving them. It has failed to prevent a single war, it has failed to prevent a single genocide, it has failed to resolve a single territorial dispute, and has not had a single successful peacekeeping mission (and given the human rights abuse committed by UN peacekeepers, there’s a compelling case that the peacekeeping mission as a whole has caused more harm than good). Those are the primary reasons that both of those organisations were founded, not as a winners club of the previous world war. The argument for why the LoN was disbanded also applies to the UN, but to an even greater extent. The only difference being that the UN has chosen to continue existing, in a state of total irrelevance. Given the 75 year track record, I see no reason to believe that failing to prevent yet another war would somehow become the tipping point for this organisation.
You need to look at the work of Mark Shepard. His work is all about farm scale permaculture.

He has a book Restoration Agriculture you can find on Amazon, etc.
> If they couldn't make it easier to set I think the clock should have been less prominent. It's necessary if you're doing a scheduled recording.

On the contrary, the clock needs to be super obvious precisely because it's a pain to set. Otherwise you wouldn't notice until your recordings were messed up.
UI/UX is just one side of the problem, talk about app sizes...specifically those Electron ones...I’m not kidding, the other day I saw a modern day Note taking app promoting itself as stellar Note taking solution which comes “featured packed in a single install file, just shy of 100MB“...and I thought to myself, oh gosh! Am I the only one that thinks WinAmp, an approx. 2.5MB install, is still the most kick ass app to date?!?!
It has a very similar-looking Apple computer but the movie predates the model in the post.
Sorry can you explain what it does?
I don't get it from the example..
just my small quarantine project. It occurred to me that there are a set of colors that designers like to overuse, and recently there has been a design trend of picking "ugly" or uncommon colors to stand out (eg. the dropbox re-brand). This app basically generates color combinations that avoid the common clusters in palette space.

the raw data for this was sourced from dribbble, here's a tensorboard visualization: https://poolors.com/projector/

the visualized data is composed of dribbble designs which predominantly uses 2 colors, forming a 6 dimensional vector space in CIE Lab colorspace. After running t-sne for a bit, some interesting patterns emerge: https://imgur.com/AusbusY - there's a pretty distinct cluster of dribbble intro shots, and to me it looks like most designs use analogous or monochrome color schemes with little hue variation.
I just hang it. Does that work?
Not like I could sue, since it was hosted in Ireland :-(

And in effect they could do whatever they wanted.
> doesn't work 100% of the time

From the About Us: "Do One Thing and Do It Well." I am surprised that there are no samples showing the filter working correctly. Is it just pasted in the center of the image frame?

We're going to be seeing a lot of face masks before this is all over. I am betting the joke does not age well.
Sheriff threatened to jail teen's family for posts about coronavirus
Good designers don't work for free. It's kind of strange that programmers have a culture of working for free (or at least of employers agreeing to open-source contributions), but we do, so gnarly algorithms get open-sourced all the time.
Ask HN: Anyone move from GraphQL back to rest?
Interested in hearing stories of organizations who went from graphql back to REST.
Next: How to run wordpress on ENIAC
"Claim that coronavirus came from a lab in China completely unfounded, scientists say."

https://www.newsweek.com/claim-that-coronavirus-came-lab-chi...
Covid-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County California
I don't get these fake persona things I see in portfolios and on Behance and stuff. Are these a legit thing or just something that is taught in school so students do and put on their portfolio but isn't used in practice. I get the basic idea behind it but a lot of the time it comes off as quite pretentious, or filler work.
There seems to be some work on that here: https://github.com/gleam-experiments/otp_process
I didn't go full LitElement because I didn't want to add build steps (I'm waiting till they figure out ES6 module path resolution) but I found that the templating/rendering library LitHTML is great and easy to seamlessly and incrementally integrate in any webapp. It's just plain html, it's very fast and it just works. Javascript literal templates are a very elegant solution, turning strings and statements into lists of objects which can be efficiently cached, diffed and recursively traversed a la Lisp. To me JSX felt like a crutch to compensate for browsers being behind the curve. We no longer need a second html.
Explorers was actually using a IIc, not a IIc+! The main difference is that the "plus" is much faster (4 mhz, I think?) and has a 3.5" floppy. I had a IIc growing up... only 1 mhz, 5.25" floppy.
No, it's the same with urbanism for example.

If I look at what was built in my country before, say, WW2, it all makes sense, even if we just consider private housing development: numerous streets around small blocks, which guarantee many communication options and no concentration of traffic on single exits, streets on the outside of the blocks, so that it can be used by outsiders too, and so that it allows future extension without compromising any communication. This could be made simply for working-class neighbourhoods or company towns, and yet it was well designed, and has aged well.

But in the last 40-50 years we have had gazillions of educated, graduate, certified, professional urbanists and architects, and those have produced all those closed or almost closed subdivisions, which are bad to almost everything related to communication by any mean (foot, bike, but also by car, because it unbalances the traffic between places), and forbid any kind of evolution (extension, inclusion, change of destination).

The same also have validated the opposite: totally un-organised subdivisions, which produce the exact same result: for each group of 2 or 3 lots, you have a lane to the main road, perpendicular to it, and of course making a dead end on their side. With the additional penalty of blocking the vision for anyone going along the road, by a never-ending streak of artificialisation. Example: https://www.google.fr/maps/@43.4593112,1.3756329,1321m/data=...

And they kept on doing that despite the evidence that it has almost no pro and plenty of terrible cons (otherwise said, it is utterly stupid shit). And they keep on doing it everyday, still.

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In my opinion, those situations have a degree of similarity: the advent of a horde of graduate professionals, who do worse than what has already been done, despite having been exposed to more experiences and more results of those decades of experiences, and having studied them.
Why aren't there projects amongst the standard library maintainers to make some standard tests and maybe even APIs? That way you'd know that every library implements each algorithm correctly.
I think there is an additional problem with "1 in 100 year" events: it looks so small that a lot of people don't realize that they are more likely than not to see it in their lifetimes.
I can confirm this. I've brought in masks recently and some shipments have been stuck in Chinese customs for over two weeks now. It's crazy.
Creator on the sales of this:
"From $0 to $20,145.92 in 2 months with a side project

A thread... https://t.co/8Sb9ZprsQT"
Strategies for Migrating to TypeScript
JAL is one of their planned customers that invested. I make the SFO to Tokyo flight every month. This takes that flight from 11 hours to 3.5. It is not about being rich. At the same cost of a business ticket it means that I do not have to leave on Saturday in SFO to make a Monday meeting (leave Sat. at 3pm and land in Tokyo at 7PM Sunday). I get more time at home with my family.
Developing a Smartthings device handler to control a WS2812B strip light managed via a Particle Photon [1]. Going well, but Groovy language sucks big time.

[1] https://store.particle.io/products/photon
Yes this is a preview of an EV future.

Of course we are bailing out oil companies, old car companies, and giving the shaft to alternative energy.

Jalopnik of course is publishing almost daily wish-screeds that Tesla will go bankrupt.
The React team has been pretty clear that Concurrent Mode needs rendering to be pure, as render methods may get called multiple times but have the results thrown away if the render pass isn't completed and committed to the DOM.

The case of user input is particularly relevant here.

Say React starts a render pass for a relatively low-priority update. It walks through the component tree asking components to render themselves, runs out of time on this tick, and pauses the half-calculated render pass. While paused, the user types a key in a text input or clicks a button. That will be treated as a much higher priority update, so React sets aside the half-calculated render tree, does the complete render pass based on the input event, and commits it to the DOM. It can then "rebase" the half-completed low-pri render pass on top of the new tree that resulted from the input update.

If components go kicking off side effects while rendering, whether it be as simple as mutating a React ref object or more complex like an async request, those side effects will likely result in unwanted behavior because they might happen multiple times or happen at the wrong time.
Glue is sort of the wrong word. When you hear glue you maybe imagine the general purpose glue that you can buy, like Elmers glue or Super Glue. This is a chemical adhesive designed specifically for the surfaces that it's holding together (i.e., they will use a different glue for composite-to-metal bonds than metal-to-metal, etc.) and it's very strong.

Many things you wouldn't expect are glued together. Many weld and rivet connections on cars have been replaced with glue in the last few years.
Ask HN: What is the recommended/straightforward GCP option for data processing?
What is for you the most fitting and straightforward solution for performing data processing tasks (cleaning raw files and pushing it to BigQuery)?

1. Cloud functions with Pub/Sub: for each file that comes in, execute an isolated function that cleans and stores the single file

- Pro: simple to setup, great for parallel requests (eg send with Pub/Sub 1000 requests for 1000 files), error reporting included

- Cons: max duration 10min of a single task, maybe expensive as Ghz consumption increases

2. Dataflow: create a pipeline and trigger it using GCF/Pub/Sub

- Pro: seems to be able to handle heavy computing problems, and the name/explanation indicates its designed for setting up proper Data processing pipelines.

- Cons: I personally find the startup time very long for individual executions. Eg when doing batch processing. I guess I would need stream processing to speed things up. The biggest issue I find is that it seems complex (many steps involved) to set it up properly (also with monitoring errors), in particular compared to to Cloud Functions and App Engine. For simply processing files it seems a lot of work

3. App Engine and Cloud Tasks: create a flask app with a route and parameters (eg file path) that when called processes a single file, similar to GCF logic. Run async requests background tasks w/ Cloud Tasks.

- Pro: can handle large memory computations and long duration tasks. Easy to setup and deploy. Auto scales up with flex env.

- Cons: I am confused that you need to setup a flask app, thus doubting whether it is intended to be used like I am doing?

4. Compute Engine and Cloud Tasks: same as App Engine but with a fixed non-auto scalable VM

- Pro: probably cheaper than App Engine

- Cons: no autoscaling capacity (unless you set this up). I also find it a lot of work to setup the deployment schedule (as apposed to App Engine where you can just run gcloud app deploy)
I always wondered where the image for William Gibson's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gernsback_Continuum came from.

And now I know -- the Horizons ride at EPCOT!

In fact the this article seems to have similar themes to that short story .. but not really sure ;-)
I want before/after shot %. Also someone should totally sell these. We already have short hero hoops, with this hoop we could all be Kobe every day, circus shots in the general direction, 55% fg%, legendary!
This is really cool. Have you looked at all at the constant Q transform https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant-Q_transform which is basically a Fourier Transform with logarithmically spaces bins so that it can be aligned with traditional musical notes. Miller Puckette (Max/Pure Data) among others, has a fast algorithm for its calculation.
Electric cars are still cars, but this is an incredible preview of how nice many cities could be without cars.
Haven't had the time to read the paper but spoke a lot about something similar with a friend.

In terms of crisis, the medical system just doesn't scale. You think leaders were worried about running out of ventialtors?

No! You can start pumping them in hundreds of thousands if you really need it.

The problem is that you have only so many doctors and trained nurses to work with. Limited capacity. Training takes 10 years.

No scalability.

It doesn't matter where the tech is right now. The world will push 100% for whatever can be done via apps, sensors and unskilled workers.

Check out Jonathan Rothbergs vision for a diagnostic kit by everyones toothbrush
Whether they have the chops or not, the Architect role has little to no skin in the game. The half-life for their knowledge of the system is on the order of a year, and it's a role you want some longevity in.

I've had better luck splitting architecture up between three or five leads (not four).
Yep. If you invested money into the stock market via an s Corp you can also apply for the money and I've heard the loans go through
Microsoft apparently makes symbols for Windows available, which is quite nice. On macOS you're often stuck with stripped binaries…
Weird to hear it described as "rare" because it was the only Apple that I had as a kid, but there were a _lot_ of Apple IIe/II+ around at the time. (I remember that we had a 300 baud modem, actual Bell equipment, hooked up to it.)

Still the IIgs might be more rare? I seem to recall the world had moved on by the time that came out.
Swiss fighter planes also shot down German planes that overflew their territory.

I'm not sure what this has to do with the linked story, though.

Regarding the 20mm shells, German fighters had a 20mm cannon that fired through the propeller hub. These were not big bullets, but were packed with explosives [1].

The linked story seems a little bit "too good to be true". A tall tale.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mine_shell_(projectile)
Part of Teslas proposition is that leaving out the combustion engine will also reduce maintenance cost and reduce TCO that way.
Usually when you think the solution is so obvious, other people actually thought of it too. In this case, the lawyers already added that to the agreements so they can’t do that. Same as with credit card companies saying you can’t charge a different price for cash vs credit (oil companies excluded because they have the power to refuse it).
Have you seen that F15 perform a carrier landing with one wing mostly blown off?

https://youtu.be/M359poNjvVA