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Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
A friend pointed out a bunch of the 'tell us about your successful side project' threads suffer from a survivorship bias. They're still great for inspiration, but I suspect we could learn a lot about challenges and wrong approaches from each others' failures.
So what's a side project you built hoping to generate revenue from it, that hasn't actually earned you much / any money?

Why do you think it hasn't been as successful as you thought it would be / what would you do differently if you did it again? How much time/money did you spend building it, and what kind of iterations / improvements did you make to try and salvage it?

Appreciate any and all answers!
Those are good points, it's probably just the people I've seen in my local comminuty that makes me doubt this..

No money will go to healthy food, all of it to alcohol, drugs and tobacco, and whatever is left, will go to expensive (but not the kind you can show up in a job interview for) pre-worn-out designer clothing and cellphones that are way above what is needed.

You get these "rich-poor" kids who are unsatisfied that they're merely the top 10% instead of the top 1% without having ever lifted a finger for any of it.

I think part of this dissatisfied complacency (yes, I know how this seems opposites, but really what it is: "My life sucks, I've watched all there is to watch on Netflix and HBO so now I'm just browsing youtube and getting drunk and high most of the day, life is so _HARD_") stems from the lack of real consequence if you "fail", it breeds a special type of mentality that is hereditary, see Norway, Denmark, Sweeden and Finland for examples.
> I am sure ... many would have taken the chances

So you never asked anyone. The problem is, if you ignore ethics, which of course says a lot about your priorities, still two fold.

First, you have development. That was arguably the fastest vaccine development in history. Not sure what could have been done faster here.

Second, you have production and distribution. Ramping up these two doesn't make much sense before you know whether or not the vaccines work. Now they are ramped up really fast. Going "fast and breaking" things may have resulted in more people being vaccinated early on. But this small benefit would have caused tremendous issues in a couple of weeks / months. The goal is to get millions vaccinated, not just a few elderly so that some people can go out partying again without feeling bad.
If I could do one thing in my life, it would be to visit the Cueva de las Manos in Argentina[0][1].

Every time I look at the picture of it I just get overwhelmed with emotion.
It's the artistic level that goes on in kindergartens, and yet I think it is among the most beautiful, most profound pieces of
human art in existence.

Here are the hand prints of people who lives over 10,000 years ago, and they are still so understandable. So seemingly touchable. So very human.
Nothing of these people remains. Not their names, their voices, or even their bones. But their
hand prints are still here. A simple "Hey, we were here!" message, across millenia and continents.

[0] I wouldn't actually visit it though, every breath nearby causes damage, every moment of exposure to the world
deteriorates them. Tourism means destroying the very thing you are observing. To place my hand on it
would be an act of reverence, To place my hand on it would be sacrilege.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cueva_de_las_Manos
Not right now, but I'll add this to my list of things to do :) thank you for the suggestion
https://de.amaxshop.com/index.php?route=product/product&prod...

Nothing special.
Deaths attributed to Covid, or excess mortality in general, take your pick.

For example:

Sweden:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-deat...

Norway:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-deat...
A record-shattering #20 on https://deathlist.net :-/
Because fashion stuff has little to no value itself, the whole 99.9% price is the brand/name. As a fashion designer you become famous first then sell just that if you want to earn big money.
I have no education, merely firsthand experience in virtual economies. The actual policies that have to be implemented might not be the same but the basic mechanism by which they solve problems is the same.
Thank you! I'll check this out
Pierre Cardin was a pioneer in licensing his name and brand to pretty much anyone, so much so that it ceased to be a demarcator of quality but instead signalled the opposite.

The lesson here, if you want to safeguard a legacy, is to never stop caring about quality and your customers. People with no regard for your reputation will think nothing of destroying it to make a quick buck.
I don’t really see what you’re objecting to. Locking up a part of the population is strictly better than locking up the whole population. You could even make it optional! “High-risk individuals welcome to go to protection centres”
I think it is funny that these oh so fringe white nationalists are able to influence society at large on a global scale. I'm starting to think that the way they keep being framed as "fringe" is just a way to try and dismiss their impact on society.

If they really were fringe, they wouldn't be able to set the tone on subjects so immensely as they do.
Since I don't live in the U.S. either, I don't see why we should include the U.S. in this discussion. I'll happily comment about the prison-industrial-complex or legalized corruption or about the dangers of militarized police... if it is the topic at hand.

The issue at hand is how China and Apple are profiting from slave labor, how much this is by design or by neglect and what to do about it.

Let's keep the discussion limited to that.
I'm (only) 50 but have no intention of going inside a pub or restaurant or non-essential shop until vaccination is widespread.

The economy was going to take a hit whatever so pretending everything would be normal if we shipped all the old people off somewhere is just silly. In reality that strategy would have been as imperfectly implemented as the current one and the outcomes would have been similarly flawed.

The clue is the fact that no government on the planet has seriously considered it persuing it for any length of time. It does not withstand scrutiny above the level that random commentators on internet message boards can provide.
It's the only software in the world I've tried to actively avoid buying and failed. At least 7 times now.

It's the shopping channel of software. Whether or not you wanted it it comes bundled.

I'm pretty sure it'd be a lot less popular if every OEM had a check box that said Ubuntu that deducted the license fee. MS frowns upon that sort of thing, though.
Thank you! I often refer to our national trails website in the UK for local hikes https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/
You’re deriding this approach as “nonsense” but your reasoning seems illogical to me. And washing it with words like “empathy” and “sociability” doesn’t help, since it comes off as the worst kind of virtue signaling, employing shaming disguised as a moral superiority.

I agree being locked down would be tough. But that’s what we are asking EVERYONE to do right now. Why should the elderly or vulnerable not have to bear the burden of THEIR evaluation of the risks, by being quarantined, instead of subjecting the entire rest of the world to lockdowns just so they can have a better (sooner) path to normal for themselves? That just looks to me like a selfish imposition on everyone else.

I don’t understand what point you’re making about challenging people to lock themselves away for six months with only basic interactions. That’s the current situation we’re in. And yes it is especially bad for the young, who need socialization, education, play time, and even simply to see faces/emotions without a mask. We are sacrificing their well being and future to do what - give the elderly a faster path out of their own quarantine or a few more years towards the end of their life? It’s a bad trade off and is highly unjust towards the young.

Lastly, we should gauge a society based on how we treat people’s fundamental rights, especially in a difficult situation. A society that gives up those rights easily and advocates for coercive governmental controls is not a great society.
The mistakes made by Google Cloud and why they should be larger than AWS today
Again, I don’t think people understand the difference here and are trying to derail the argument in favour of Apple.

Being “forced to seek employment out of poverty” is different than being forced to labor due to your ethnic background. Necessity vs. discrimination.

Ex: https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/global-devel...

It is a very simple and clear difference, yet it is a common tactic for a debater to change the narrative and manipulate the argument away to prove some other point.

Honestly, you remind me of “Thank you for smoking”. I will not be surprised if this is how lobbying or CCP’s campaigns work.
I can confirm that Google appears to import data from OSM.

I added a placemark in OSM in the middle of Bali, Indonesia for an Internet cafe a few years ago, and it's currently also in Google Maps. (The cafe has since been closed for a few years.)

What's interesting is that's why I added it to OSM - to get picked up by Google Maps. :)

What's even more interesting is that when I told people in SV that I was doing that, they told me since it was a copyright violation, Google Maps wouldn't do that. :) :)
Thank you! I spotted this comment late but I think the issue should be sorted now
In the UK, All vaccinations are prescribed. Any medicine that is not over the counter needs to be explicitly prescribed before it can be dispensed. (this is what my doctor friends tell me anyway)

> Normal vaccinations you just go through some questions on risk factors before the nurse gives you the shot

there are nurse prescribers, that have the power to prescribe a limited number of things. That aside, the prescription doesn't need to be done with the patient present. it can be pre-filled with the nurse/other arranging the dispensing.

this doesn't mean that the rules can't be changed. I suspect that in time there will be special dispensation given to allow non medical staff to prescribe, dispense and administer jabs. However until the first million or so have been done, they'll want to keep an eye on things and monitor the number of "yellow card" incidents that occur.
Similar population density, similar climate, similar lifestyle. Denmark is to far south and to small for that. Denmark more closely resembles, say, Belgium or some northern states in Germany.
Alright, and who is going to invest and build future apartments if there will be a high risk their properties will then be confiscated for "the greater good"?
I wonder whether there will emerge some design patterns in apps to enable easy switching between on-premises and cloud infra.

Thinking about it logically, the safest approach is always going to be build for on-premises infra first (or standard VPSs), then modify the code to support cloud services in addition, to get the added benefits of scaling at cheaper costs.

That way you can always switch back to on-premises if the cloud provider starts behaving terribly. Perhaps there is a performance hit, but at least you have an option.

Worth mentioning that there are some use cases that are only possible using cloud infra due to scaling constraints.

This is the approach I took building my SaaS. It’s more difficult initially, but I had an infra that could easily be moved. I was using my own version of backend queues etc, so modifying the code to switch to Amazon SQS would theoretically have been possible:

https://blog.markjgsmith.com/2020/11/26/looking-back-at-link...
It cannot be stressed enough how limited job mobility is here when compared to somewhere like the US.

As a personal anecdote, I have been threatened with legal action by two CEOs when I gave them my notice. The first time it was because I mentioned that I was interviewing for positions at local competitors, the second time it was because I gave them a week's notice instead of two weeks, even though I wasn't required to give them any notice. It is that ridiculous.
Pierre Cardin owned one of the most interesting homes:

- https://www.palaisbulles.com/dream.php

- https://www.challenges.fr/luxe/visite-guidee-du-palais-bulle...
I'd just progressively tax them so that it's more economical to sell those empty apartments then to hoard them, which is currently incentivised. I know. I own 3 apartments not used for anything and keeping them off the market costs me less than single minimum wage.

I'm sorry for that. I intend to fix them up and rent them eventually. I just can't get my self around to actually doing it recently.
Rotating Kubernetes kOps Etcd certificates
All Toyota has to do is build fine Corolla EV. Then all they have to do is install fast chargers at their dealerships, which I can only imagine the number of.
There seems to be an early-onset but also long-standing effect, maybe due to circulating antibodies inducing the autoimmune response over time.
Build fast and easy multiple beautiful resumes and create your best CV ever
Marketers send these emails because they are free and they see some engagement. There is no metric to calculate whether their customers are upset receiving these mails. Whether it‘s an effective method is not clear.

But it is not intelligently used (only send follow ups if e.g. not created task in a todo app) by almost anyone.
Unless you want to redefine the word "stealing" it totally is.
The last thing we need in the world messed up by Covid and the military industrial complex is more war machines and normalisation of meaningless wars (all of which have an undertone of neo-colonialism, where we use buzzwords to justify our acts by painting the other side as less of a human).

We could use the technology though, in solving real problems.
Government debt.

https://tradingeconomics.com/sweden/government-debt-to-gdp

For example Sweden where I live has reduced their government debt to GDP ratio pretty consistently the past 25 years, and I haven't noticed any problems with it. People saying that we would have problems if governments balanced their budgets are just big fat liars.
I particularly like how the Get Started button jumps out from under your mouse. It's like playing punch the monkey.
More importantly, you’re implying that it’s not surprising that people don’t read articles whose titles they’re commenting on. (I don’t disagree.)
I can vouch for this also, they are a partner of Firefox DOH feature so good enough for me
Wait ... "imagine" - you can't currently do more than one? That's kind of the essential point with templates.

(I scrolled through it and assumed you'd just do "#define lst list_charp"?)
I was wondering how much Covid impacted the "place card me" project, but then stupid me realized the numbers are right there :D.

And indeed you can really notice the impact.
I'm building a very simple solution for this. Checkout https://blogstreak.com and I got recently featured on betalist.
I was in Taiwan in 2013 and there it is absolutely common to wear a mask in public. Also, at the entrance of the 101 tower, there is a mall which had hand sanitizers at every entrance. Both things should become standard at all larger venues and would help a lot with all kind of infectious diseases.

I also hope, it becomes the new default to stay at home and work from there, if you have any symptoms. I don't know how many colds is picked up in the office in previous years.
They already do.

I was looking at a sensor package (light, temp, humidity, particulates) earlier and it comes with a cellular modem and a free SIM with a modest data allowance for 2 years to send readings to the cloud.
In the Netherlands we have signs like the one below. Telling you to stay on the highway and turn off your GPS. Because Google Maps and other software makes you take all these weird short-cuts. Putting trucks through small towns etc.. I think they also have them in Belgium.

(https://images.trafficsupply.nl/imgfill/800/800/i-114795-69c...
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/2/16868838/el...

I'd never heard of this before. This is the most interesting thing I learned today. Thank you.
> And its chief executive, Dr June Raine, said on Wednesday that "we have been able to authorise the supply of this vaccine using provisions under European law, which exist until 1 January".

The full summary is below. But the short answer is the regulators who did the work are saying it makes no difference

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/55163730
Can it? Is there a study confirming that sexual development can be altered that way? Maybe to some degree, I have no idea, but in the past people also thought homosexuality is "learned" which proved to be false.
Covid-19: Asymptomatic cases may not be infectious
The only way Brooks's argument makes sense is that we naturally tackle problems as big as the resources available to us permit. So, our daily load of programming hardly changes, because as we get better equipped, more is asked for.

But in that interpretation, none of his supporting detail applies.
I think you should clarify what you mean by "links" as it wasn't clear to me. I assume you mean random things people want to share?
JS provides powerful number formatting with the standard built-in object Intl.NumberFormat, but we found its API a little verbose and hard to grasp. We took inspiration from older libraries like numbro.js and numeral.js and built a string based pattern for interacting with Intl.NumberFormat.

Example: numberfmt(1234, '0,0.00') // → 1,234.00
"Army Warfighting Experiment (AWE) event hosted by the Ministry of Defence’s Future Capability Group."

I wonder who was allowed to attend... And how those were selected....
Can You Find This Man? (video)
Some will forget, some won’t realise they need it, some will get symptoms the first time and not want it. I don’t expect it will be widespread but humans will be human
This is the typical “moat-and-bayley” characterisation. If the first side (pro-woke) were actually fighting for a better world (and not just in the name of bullying and vengeance), they’d have actual suggestions. “Defund the police” is a braindead 100% retarded and completely unrealistic idea. Reasonable alternatives are e.g. “stop the drug war”, “stop plea deals”, “reform the sentencing system”, “stop civil forfeiture”, etc. but clearly nobody is interested in actual solutions.
“Find Satoshi” PerplexCity puzzle solved
The name of the concept is price skimming. The rationale mentioned by the parent is also stated in its Wikipedia entry [1].

Many may not know that behind the scenes, Amazon hires economists just like their big tech peers MS, Google.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_skimming#Reasons_for_pri...
Yes, that part of the readme:

> STL std::map will not be implemented in CTL because maps only provide slight syntactic improvements over sets.

makes no sense to me.

It's the other way around: a set is a map with a irrelevant / ignored value (or singleton / ZST if available), with built-in functions for set-oriented operations (union/difference/subset/superset/disjoint). So if you're only going to provide one of them, you provide a map (that's what Go does).

You don't have to implement sets in terms of maps though, it can be useful to provide different implementations of them as their usage patterns can be different and thus it might make sense to use a different underlying data structure (not sure about trees there but definitely a possible consideration for hashes).

It also makes sense to have a bespoke set implementation if the language doesn't have ZSTs, to avoid wasting space (between 1 byte and 1 word per key depending on the storage details).

Finally it can make sense to have a bespoke set implementation due to language visibility rules, so you can e.g. hit the hashes directly (rather than have to recompute them) when performing operations involving multiple sets.
I recently learnt that Jobs would ask people in the elevator what they were working on and fire people then and there if he didnt like it.

Now I hear that the next week he would take these ideas as his own.

Ruthless.
Still doesn’t really explain the contents of any of the linked courses or why you need to take them.

The only decent teach yourself computer science program I have come across is https://teachyourselfcs.com/
The group which doesn't mind to loose free speech probably think that it doesn't work. They see that western society had freedom of speech for a relatively long time and still far from perfect. But they tend to ignore that countries without free speech are generally worse off.
China claims it’s quantum computer is 100T times faster than any supercomputer
I'm not well versed in the whole distro-verse.

What is it about LibreELEC that makes it have good playback performance while others don't?
MultiK: Multidimensional Array Library for Kotlin
Why do people miss their flight?

So much so that airlines can oversell a substantial number of tickets on any given flight and usually the plane departs with empty seats?

Why do people get divorced?

Why do...
The community does :)

Google owns the copyright, as can be seen in the LICENSE file and headers, but the totality of the project is open source (Apache).

I own https://anagora.org in particular and plan to run it as a public service.
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Red Hat OpenShift to Support Windows Containers from 2021
> Additionally, calling them "mustache-twirling villains" it is downplaying danger turning it into the light comedy piece,

My point is that the author's reliance on hyperbolic and emotionally-charged language is what makes the article read like a light comedy piece. It's exactly the sort of rhetoric employed by anti-vaxxers and chemtrail believers, and it cheapens the message.

The facts are damning enough. Let them speak for themselves.
The cheaper routes are often ones that are slightly slower and/or less busy. So the idea behind offering cheaper tickets with specific routing isn't only about revenue allocation, it's about encouraging passengers to use less crowded routes and services. Often it will be the same TOC operating both routes so it doesn't make any difference to them in revenue terms.
By the way, are there Raspberry-compatible GPIO adapters available as USB dongles or PCIe cards to use with x86 computers?
>So you never asked anyone. The problem is, if you ignore ethics, which of course says a lot about your priorities, still two fold.

This is offensive and I suggest you re-read my post (as well as the HN comment guidelines). I am not ignoring ethics, I specifically mention informed consent. I also have no idea what you mean by 'so you never asked anyone' - this is a hypothetical??

>The goal is to get millions vaccinated, not just a few elderly so that some people can go out partying again without feeling bad.

You're also strawmanning me pretty hard here.

> But this small benefit would have caused tremendous issues in a couple of weeks / months.

Not even sure how you come to this conclusion (you seem 100% certain that distributing the now-proven safe mRNA vaccine early would have caused tremendous issues, somehow).

You seem to want to be aggressive to me and strawman me as somebody who doesn't care about covid victims (my grandmother is 85 and has serious comorbidity risks thank you very much) so I am not going to respond further but I suggest you focus on arguments, not insults and dismissive comments. You can go to reddit and much of the rest of the internet for that.
Intercom is the worst of the lot. To the point I've adblocked it haha

Do they still do that godawful beep while you're trying to read?
>But technology should be about the code.

Should it?

Technology doesn't exist in a vacuum, it is used by people.

Ignoring that fact doesn't make the ethical implication of the technology magically go away.