skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Solo founder here as well (launching my first product in a week, so keep in mind that I don't have much experience). My process looked something like this:

- Analyze market (Can this make enough money?)

- Chat with target market (Will anyone use this?)

- Build MVP as fast as possible (I didn't look for any feedback during this process.)

- Run first beta (Lasted two weeks, constant contact with customers, mixed with some bug fixing and developing some smaller features. Called all beta users with a short survey.)

- Build larger feature requests

- Run second beta (This one lasted one week, and I signed up 10x the users than the first beta. Similar interaction with customers. Goal was to discover usability issues and any obvious gaps. Called all beta users with another short survey.)

- Build larger feature requests

- Prepare for launch (Built: payment processing, beta user benefits, etc...)

- Respond to your post on Hacker News

- Launch!

This seemed to have worked well, as many of the beta users still use the product almost daily. I'd say overall, roughly half of the time was spent doing product management (user feedback, planning features, etc...) and marketing (landing pages, ads, help content, guides, etc...), and half of the time was spent doing development. I didn't put much thought into this initially, but it feels right in retrospect.

I don't use social media, so I didn't even think of that as an avenue for product feedback. This is probably a personal failing. My approach relied on building a landing page, driving traffic via ads, and then chatting directly with any users who joined our Slack. Not sure if this would work for everyone, but it worked well for me.

Unfortunately, I can't really think of a system for striking a balance between these two activities. For me, it mostly came down to starting the day by asking myself, "What is my biggest risk, and how do I reduce it?" The answer to that question increased the chance that I would move the needle during that day.

Sorry if that wasn't very helpful. I'm new to this, so it's hard to differentiate between activities that harmed productivity from activities that helped it. Either way, good luck with the grind!
Terraform-Compliance: BDD for Infrastructure as Code
Have you checked out Florida, Arizona, or California lately?
No, it does not provide total protection against malevolent third parties, nothing can. It does make it harder to catch each and every person who dares to step beyond the set boundaries of the narrative so it is a step in the right direction.
what you do, is stablish a kernel of libraries, that are common to both systems.

this is called a "software product line" it has been studied for decades.

here are some studies from Carnegie Mellon on the topic.

https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?assetid....
Don't forget to also catch other sigs.
And validate the transient data really carefully when you load it back in.
Spreading Out the Cost at 3nm
Or use jsonnet or something like that.
Less companies are focusing on user level tracking, as it’s an invasion of privacy and compliance doesn’t allow it
Sure! I'll consider doing this before the next post
Hetzner's Cloud division runs separate from their root server division, it was an acquisition. The night shift can only handle root servers, if a Cloud VM is non-responsive it takes until 7am the next morning (Germany time) for a Cloud engineer to solve the issue. Source: friends run 100s of VMs at Hetzner and had calls with Hetzner's team.

"This is not sponsored in any way and I have received no compensation from Hetzner." But the main comparison is against Digital Ocean "since they are really the servers to beat" and there's referral links on all Digital Ocean links.
I did specify "average user". Obviously some people have needs that can't be met by just any old operating system.
Docker Network – Complete Guide
Show HN: The webworkers driven UI framework has officially ended the Beta phase
It's like you're not even bothering to read what I wrote. You picked some prefabricated framing through which you've interpreted my comments and then proceeded to criticise things I didn't say.

I sincerely weep for the transgender community that they have people like you purporting to defend them.
Hmm. What level do you want to start from, and do you want to start from a practical/experimentalist viewpoint or go straight to the mathematical models?

How comfortable are you with "lies for children" oversimplifications of things that are extremely complicated but mostly irrelevant except in edge cases? (This phrase sounds perjorative but isn't, most of the time you don't need the complicated version and it actively impairs understanding what's going on. But it can be the only way to properly answer some questions like "what is electricity?")

I've occasionally considered writing my own, based on answering questions at electronics stackexchange, e.g. https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/245610/is-vo... / https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/272694/how-d... ; probably I would target explaining how the electron is a big source of "lies to children", and mostly an irrelevant distraction for beginner/intermediate work.

If you want a large book, The Art Of Electronics is the undisputed classic.
I use gTile for gnome. I had to play around to find a setup that I like. I eventually settled on ignoring most of the features that were offered out of box. Now I have configured a few simple keyboard shortcuts.

For example, Super + Up Arrow will move a window into the central third section of the display. Pressing it again will expand the window a little bit.

Nice and simple. Makes working with large displays pleasant.
Something rarely mentioned with SSH, but which there have been a few recent articles on HN about, are SSH certificates and the fact that you can use the PIV of a yubikey to do certificate management.

e.g. You can create a certificate which you load the public key of in to your servers (using initial access or baked in to some image) which the private key is loaded in the PIV of the YubiKey. Someone can then generate an SSH keypair and provide you their public key and you can generate an SSH Cert which allows them access to that server for the time and specific users you specify in the certificate. It requires using OpenSSH instead of something like libSSH2 (which most iOS clients are using instead unfortunately).

This is all the same thing actually as running your own TLS CA by the way so you can also use a yubikey to securely store a sub-CA used to create certificates for internal use.
And you have a very vocal crowd that claims "noscript" and "password management" extensions are MORE secure.

Probably some significant overlap with people that claim autism is an advantage.
To be clear on this one:

The new architecture which enables you to to optionally use SharedWorkers (to create Apps running inside multiple Browser Widnows) is in place now.

The main readme got updated including the multi window covid app.

There are still more guides & tutorials missing.

There is still work left on the Component side of things.

Your help is appreciated!
The person you replied to is not the same one from the original story. And there are many reasons to prefer one bank to another; in the poster's case, switching to an Apple-supported bank might have introduced more obstacles to go through than it would have avoided.
This seems to clearly be a case of a person who succumbed to pre-existing mental health troubles, not someone driven to desperation by (the appearance of) financial troubles.

That said, Robinhood is evil.

> shower of colorful confetti Robinhood routinely deploys after customers make trades.
Get laid?! Wasn't the Bay area the worst place for dating for straight males?
Just switching is a few tens of instructions. Tens of microseconds should be more than enough to also build a non-trivial page table.
UK virus-tracing app switches to Google-Apple model
Contributions would be great! Open up a Github issue or come join us on Discord (link in the readme) and let's talk about it there :).
Russian-Ukrainian Radio War Continues
General domain is modeling and simulation
Show HN: App Store – iPhone Vat Filing App(UK) Making Tax Digital Compliant
There is a fair amount of research into group dynamics and group decision making, specifically in the context of alpinism. For example [1], written in English, from the "Berg und Steigen" blog.

In general, I can't recommend German-language "Berg und Steigen" magazine enough. It's focuses on safety and risk management in mountain-related activities (mountaineering, indoor/outdoor climbing, skiing, ski touring, mountain biking, ...). Older issues become completely freely accessible in their archive [2].

[1] https://www.bergundsteigen.blog/human-factor-and-decision-ma...
[2] https://www.bergundsteigen.at/?module=archiv/ausgaben
We’ve been building this as an option too. It’s a cool feature that a lot of people will like. Good luck
Pretty sure the E-Ink on the snowball devices are set up for UPS tracking label format.
U.S.-China tech war bigger risk than coronavirus, EU chamber chief says
Tox.chat

with added bonus of no central server
Ask HN: Fastest/easiest way of building a web application in 2020?
I'm curious what people consider the fastest/easiest way to build a full-stack SaaS app in 2020.

Assume the following:

- Can be picked up by almost anyone (assume basic HTM/CSS/JS understanding), doesn't require any deep CS understanding.

-Has full-stack capabilities, not just front-end

- Is open source and can be deployed anywhere

- Is complex enough to rule our no code solutions like Bubble or Webflow
I have a few ideas that have worked for me in practice.

1. Work 12 hours (or more) per day and use your energy levels wisely. The reality is (IMO): you're simply doing a 2 man job.

I'd always start of coding, since I had the most energy then. In the evening, my brain would be beaten to a pulp and then I'd go the social route. Socially you suffer a bit because of it, but coding simply becomes impossible.

If I felt tired the whole day, then I'd be social the whole day. If I'd feel energetic the whole day, then I'd code.

2. Get another person on-board to do the social stuff.

I knew this one person who was very social and loved it. I like being social but this guy was infatuated with it. He did all the social things, so I could focus on coding.

3. Do it based on your mood

There have been days that even when I was energetic, I didn't feel like coding or I was working on a thorny coding problem. To simply get some variety in my day, I'd switch to social activities (e.g. posting in Facebook groups).

Note: I'd use Toggl for this stuff to ensure that I'd spend enough time on both.

---

Full disclosure: I like replying to HN questions (see my history), but in this particular case I'm also replying in part because I have a very sligthly related issue [1].

It's unrelated enough to warrant it's own topic. So, dear HN'er, if you're interested in this then you might like my question as well (I could really use the help).

[1, Ask HN: Diverging products: fork codebase, create config file or other option?] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23562286
There's only one way this all goes.

People will donate/subscribe to journalism which claims it faces an existential threat. They will only subscribe to journalism they think is most antagonistic to the political entity they despise (as those are now the TOE for having political views now). They aren't subscribing for news, they are paying to shore up a vaguely legitimised view of their prejudices.

This will mean journalism will have to become more biased, more unsound, more toxic and more representative of the various political echo chambers on social media as they court donations.

I see no other way this evolves.
Industrial stuff has traditionally been proprietary and high priced. I suppose the volume is so low they have to charge such high prices for the development. I was once quoted 15,000 USD for a windows based HMI from a laser manufacturer.

Also, to may, "open source" is still a phrase which to them means anything from low quality to "pirated". Seriously, someone thought open source was cracked pirated software.

But the good news is a lot of the protocols and standards are opening up and open source stacks are common now. Many manufactures are also using Linux and even FreeBSD. But their software remains proprietary.
How to not binge eat while working from home
Luckily 12 has been out a while now, and future versions will continue to not have this issue.
I feel the same way.. mostly. I want one thing from GA and that is user flow. I've first hand seen this help a startup run landing page experiments and very quickly to improve their conversion rates. (The startup was selling a luxury consumer product)

This won't work for everyone and will be of little value to many. However that tool just doesn't seem to exist on most if not all of the lightweight alternatives. Matomo is the only alternative I have seen implement this feature, though those with more experience with the alternatives will hopefully show me I am wrong on that.
The United States government called them criminal. My guess is Visa took the easy road on this.
That really tries to fit into the same model, and fails.

Almost every browser extension operation is this scrub non-entity, some blowjob hack loser that's drinking from a fountain of fly-by-night accidental success, and 99% would sell you up the river if only they could.
That's interesting about the cloud division hours. I've only ever had to deal with Hetzner support for dedicated servers. I should add that to the article.

You're right about the referral link. I've removed it.

Update:
I've added your information to the article. Thanks!
Not from my experience.

Linux does run better than Windows tends to on old HW, sure, but comparing that experience to macOS on new hardware is less than fair.

There's plenty of new hardware Linux runs great on, I am not sure what you call "experimental" hardware, but I am using a Surface Pro 7 as my main machine with exclusively Linux on it, no problems.

Any recent standard ultrabook should also work fine, heck I even have a random, no-name Chinese UMPC that works well.
To clarify: I mean I have no idea why Mac OS doesn't let ME select that resolution while SwitchResX does.
As long as your measurement is a random sample everything is okay. Even if it is not, it is much more information than you had before. You just need to keep it in mind when evaluating conclusions. We are not talking about drug tails here and no one dies if the measurement is not 100% accurate.

I am able to measure everything 100% accurate. But this is really really expensive. It's a trade-of.
Ah ok, I only got into Assembly when moving into 16 bit computers, on my Speccy I hardly did any Z80 coding, just a couple of Timex Basic stuff and mostly playing.

So I never got to play with 8 bit Assemblers.
Øyvind Nydal Dahl has lots of good resources on his website and mailing list.

https://www.build-electronic-circuits.com/category/basic-ele...

His mailing list is high quality but also high volume
No more security for Linux when the Dictator says stuff like:

Calls OpenBSD "Masturbating Monkeys" for the security mitigations.

Thanks Linus..good job
Which is your preferred TTS engine or product for this purpose?
An overview of the process here in Norway can be found here[1]. Basically the rights to all your possessions go to the trustee or court in charge of the case, which will then try to liquidate assets and pay back the creditors.

However a big difference to a corporate bankruptcy is that if you're unable to provide for yourself, you can apply to the trustee/court to get some money for essentials from your previous assets. You can also claim that certain assets are "essential", so you can keep them. This could be clothes, furniture etc. You also get to keep tools, means of transportation etc that you require for your work or similar. Your home is also protected to some degree.

Once the case is settled you pretty much continue your life. You can't start a company for some time, but AFAIK nothing huge hanging over you.

[1]: https://www.konkursradet.no/?cat=304773
Just because the choir couldn't select its members on the basis of lower immunity, doesn't it mean it didn't select them (or they self-selected on) the basis of some characteristic(s) that happened to correlate with lower immunity, e.g. age, biological gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, etc.

The same is true of any other sub-population this is not a true random sample of the global population, like prisons, care homes, even settlements like towns and villages. If you can make any prediction about their members with greater confidence than you could with a random member of the whole population, then they are not random in the sense that matters.

Explaining how and why the characteristics of those sub-populations could correlate with greater natural immunity is certainly a challenge to those advocating for the idea of some level of latent immunity. But, likewise, substantially different outcomes in sub-populations that engaged in similar interventions is a challenge for those advocating that only interventions matter. For example, I've not heard a convincing explanation for Germany's relative success based only on the quality of its healthcare system and interventions. That isn't to deny that they played an important role, just that they may not have been the whole story.
Here in Germany there has been a lot of lifting of restrictions for weeks now but still everyone wears masks in shops/transit & a lot of people work from home (that didn't before). No large gatherings (like concerts or conferences) & international travel is a small fraction of what it was pre-corona.

So I can imagine there's a large effect still of even these milder (and partially voluntary) measures.
You haven’t lost it yet...
Nothing in that link supports your assertion that just showing up typically suffices.

> Victims often have "long legal struggles to get their money back".
I also don’t think google analytics is that useful. It’s one of many possible tools for user tracking, and far from the best one. Thought it’s “free” so I guess that’s why it’s more popular than much better tools.

But the fundamental problem is that analytics provides data and information, when what people want is knowledge and wisdom. But you need to do the work to get it. No amount of analytics is going to tell you that your Facebook ads are underperforming their potential because your buy button is hidden by an overlay in the built-in Facebook browser, especially if Facebook is your best performing channel overall. Analytics can’t tell you what’s not there. There’s no substitute for having developers and marketers actually purchase your product, themselves, on the channels your customers use. And too many companies don’t do that.

Just a hypothesis I have, that most e-commerce companies are leaving millions to tens of millions of dollars on the table by not giving all their employees a corporate credit card and having them purchase their product on it, say, once a month. They’re losing out on far more than they’d end up paying for the few instances of fraud.
Scooter giant Lime didn't disclose a braking issue that resulted in injury
No more security for Linux when it's Dictator says stuff like:

Torvalds calls OpenBSD "Masturbating Monkeys"

for their mitigations,

Thanks Linus
Yes. Slavery is illegal. The reason interest rates are sometimes so high is that lending money is a risk for the lender, not a life sentence for the borrower.
I just want to weigh in and say that fantastic as _The Art of Electronics_ is, it is _not_ geared for learning about electricity and electric circuits. The first 13-ish pages (3rd edition) deals with electricity and then quickly moves on to signals, electronics and everything else needed to _develop_ electronic systems.
Some issues with GA version going self-hosted:
- Privacy of your users: For a specific user, Google knows all the website he visits
- Privacy your data: If Google knows the visitors of most websites, your competitors can leverage that advantage (using Google Ads for example) to steal your potential customers.
- Google Analytics is bloated and slow (both in terms of the tracking script and the dashboard UI, where it takes several seconds for each graph/page to load).
- You don't own your data, at any point Google can, even though unlikely to, block your account (for breaking ToS of some other service of theirs) and you lose all your data.
- If everyone uses GA, it will become (already is) an analytics monopoly, which has many other drawbacks (lack of innovation for example).

I do think that for the average user, using GA might be fine because it's free, easy to set-up and does its job. That is unless they care about all the possible consequences.
Click the city name a few times to cycle through alternate videos the creator selected. Found one for LA that was more in line with what you described.
U.S. Meat Plants Are Deadly as Ever, with No Incentive to Change
So glad you love it :)
You should look for the better source for your claims than some podcasts.
It is already estblished that those who had COVID develop immunity for it, just not entirely clear how long lasting it is. But given its similarity to the original SARS it should last quite a long time.
Click the city repeatedly to get alternate scenes for a given city (didn't see anyone else mention that yet).
Restarting Live Music: Band Members Must Wear Masks, No Wind Instruments
The Minecraft mod Electrical Age is surprisingly useful to (literally play around and) get a feel for things. It was originally designed to teach electrical engineers once upon a time. Currently it's been a bit gamified -sure-, but the core MNA solver is still there.

Still somewhat surprising to me, this kind of simulation actually does help. It turns out that you actually do pick up a lot of intuitive feel that can serve well in an industrial context. I guess no matter how much theory you study on, it's still really insightful to just blow up some circuits. ;-)

Note that Electrical age currently works with older versions of minecraft (1.7) , though a rewrite is in the works.

https://electrical-age.net/
I'm not sure what Philip meant there, but I don't see this as a particularly notable weakness of Haskell's type class system. We can already encode an open world through the standard "HasX"-style classes. There's a good reason that we don't use them much, though: type classes are typically not just interfaces but come with laws expressing how they should behave. It's not clear to me how those laws interact with an open world.
And funnily enough it looks like the top end of town is at it again:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wirecard-shares-slump-over-mi...
20 Years to Overnight Success
It’s worth noting that for “SSH certificates”, the leaf certs are not x509-based, and that you can’t put a CA-signed SSH user key onto a yubikey.

When yubikeys are used for SSH auth (either in GPG or PIV mode), they’re using the raw private key (either via GPG-agent or opensc, generally). The SSH client/server doesn’t get context about the identity, its trust relationships, etc.

This limits usage to trusting individual keys, rather than being able to trust “all keys signed by the CA”.
what platform ONLY let's you install apps through it's official store?
I can't speak for DOS support but I love building COM binaries on Linux which exceed 64k thanks to SFX which allows us to respect the GPL with source code bundling.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jart/cosmopolitan/master/a...