skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your people aren't acting in good faith, you're screwed. Nothing can fix that but working on the culture, and process can't fix culture.
I too did this in 2016, for about 3-4 months. Mine was a single excel sheet, 30 minutes each. S for Sleeping, W for Work, D Drive, F Food eating & cooking, N for Bathing Cleaning etc, F for Fun, W for Time Waste. Simple conditional formatting. Last column counted the Ws Fs Ns & all. Next Sheet had some bar charts. My job was in Excel, so it was easy to log data. I used to use an A6 size simple printout to mark things. It was fun while it lasted, but I thought it was too much work.

Now, as I learnt Google Apps Script, can use a simple HTML app, with GAS to easily log the hours or time slots.
Some people I know lecture me about drinking too much soda while their kid chugs cup after cup of orange/apple/grape juice.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nancyhuehnergarth/2015/12/14/wa....
Using cloudflaire doesn't give me confidence this will in anyway not track me.
It's not C, it's GLSL shader language, which is used in the browser through WebGL.
Apples and oranges. How about Rust vs C++?
If you trust Google more than your browser and your own self, surely they deserve to make money off the hard work they put in to earn your trust.
ORM that fully maps all OO concepts
This is the only ORM that fully maps class abstraction, inheritance, instant variable, polymorphism and etc. It make programming more natural by leveraging on Java's OO capabilities. For the concept http://shujutech.mywire.org/corporation?goto=ormj
Most fruit juices sold have very similar amounts of sugar to non-diet sodas.
I can't remember if I talked about peeps with money, but they don't really relate to my problems - I have enough to get by and care for needs of those closest to me and that's all that matters at the end of the day.

Next steps are 10 customers, you got it chief. I can have that by the end of February. Putting the Software-Developer-Estimation-Error in play, I'll have that count by Christmas next year.

Manually. Got it.
Learn to sell -- > How/docs would be appreciated

Don't Automate: Agreed, the human element is nice and makes me feel like I'm heard and understood.

I don't have enough domain knowledge to know what ICP is in detail, but I know that I want to create things that help me and help those directly around me - VFX, developers, people who want to code but cannot yet, managers that want to streamline process, but cannot because current process and detail knots prevent them, Architects who want to make changes, but are ignored, and best practices not followed due to neglect of being heard and understood.

Ah, next sentence says I don't need to worry about it until its big ... and previous sentence above says Walk before you can run...

Okay, well, thanks for your context/ advice. I appreciate you taking the time to comment on something that I've been thinking about for awhile, but never really doing because I haven't had context or domain knowledge and every time I tried to look it up I got firehosed and overwhelmed with TMI. Thanks for lessening my scope to a high level (level 1) rather than directing me back to detail level (level 4) info I need a business degree and hours to describe https://c4model.com/
As of today, Computed goto is still much faster than switch, both on x64 or arm64.
Dated a Greek girl. Through experiences with her family.. Can confirm.
Lying to consumers. Puffery is the legal term of art.

The "reasoning" allowing advertising/advertisers to lie is that it is assumed consumers do not believe it.
You are conflating value of the marginal ad with value of any ads at all.
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I don't think Go lies about what it is. It is just a victim of its popularity.

The authors clearly say that is designed for writing scalable networked services. And they definitely don't care about GUIs, Windows, embedded, etc.

Overzealous programmers are constantly taking Go where it is not meant to be and complain about its shortcomings. Go's simplicity means that it makes a lot of assumptions about the system. I think authors should have been more upfront and explicit about this.
Serious security vulnerability discovered in Zyxel network devices
Thanks. I've wanted to do this. Didn't know if there was some account overhead or other fees.
it's rare to get anything styrofoam in Oregon, but the last time I visited Florida, it was all over the place - take out containers, everything.

it really depends on the state, since those regulations are currently at the state level. a lot of states frown on federal mandates, and a lot of cities frown on state mandates. we're a huge country.
Second this. I read a few chapters of the book and put it down. I was quite disappointed by its irrelevancy to the current state of the academia. Nothing against his time. It's just that the world has changed dramatically.
found a checklist. Will assume Google is my friend unless otherwise noted: https://www.atomic-squirrel.net/startup-checklist/
System guarantees should be a part of your mvp. Code quality may or may not help you get there.

Fwiw - I can relate to the authors mindset after having spent a lifetime working in "enterprise software". As a team lead / lead engineer you're often judged on code quality metrics (did you clear code scans, security scans, code coverage scans, etc.). I'd have gone down the exact same rabbit hole as him.
work is definitely out there. I don't like to be unprepared :\
That was an amazing read! Thanks for sharing your experience.

The obvious feedback is to let go of perfectionism and ship a real mvp. If you're spending 2 years on it, it's not a mvp.

Before jumping on a new idea, I'd suggest to think how you're going to sell it and test the market by talking to people in it.

Getting better at finding cofounders (as in, cofounders who would think about these problems while you build the product) would be good as well.
Personally, I gave up on that last one and I'll just fly solo and smaller, but you may be more optimistic.

Also I'd recommend you to pick something smaller and easier to sell.
A generic B2B SaaS API to solve a small problem can help you build a passive revenue stream and free you from worrying about money and plan bigger, better, more interesting projects.

Funnily enough, during uni I made an app which was making a decent amount of money in advertising (netting everyday a daily rate of a mid developer contractor rate in London) but didn't have a future.

I decided to start a company doing something bigger and better and failed miserably.

Some contracting, some more working and a few kids later, I'm back at square one building more small passive revenue streams.

Look up Pieter Levels's presentation Bootstrapping Side Projects into Profitable Startups.
Reminds me of former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei.
He also disappeared for weeks with every one looking for him.
Turned out he was in a Chinese prison...
Shrewd Business Decisions That Transformed These Companies
Oftheday – Learning made simpler, better and distraction-less
I honestly think of Go as Java with an appeal to C programmers. And of course much better performance/memory usage than Java.

Go is a high-level language. It is not meant for low-level programming. and yet the authors keep claiming that it is.
Are there any other shows that are on par with The Wire in terms of complexity, realism and visual story telling? I haven’t seen anything else that even comes close.
Just start. Build MVP. Got it.
Thanks :)
Completely depends on where you live. Many countries have sane defaults for simple cases.
Common law fraud is hard to prove in the US.

All of the elements listed below must be proven. However, some of the comments here describe behavior that comes pretty close.

(1) a representation of fact; (2) its falsity; (3) its materiality; (4) the representer’s knowledge of its falsity or ignorance of its truth; (5) the representer’s intent that it should be acted upon by the person in the manner reasonably contemplated; (6) the injured party’s ignorance of its falsity; (7) the injured party’s reliance on its truth; (8) the injured party’s right to rely thereon; and (9) the injured party’s consequent and proximate injury.
This is the only ORM that fully maps class abstraction, inheritance, instant variable, polymorphism and etc. It make programming more natural by leveraging on Java's OO capabilities.
Cloudflare docs [1] recommend using an ‘AAAA’ record with the value ‘100::’ for the dummy DNS entry.

1. https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/getting-s...
The “Today View” (swipe left on the Lock Screen, Notification Center, or Home Screen) would also be a great place for this
You'll be happy to know I implemented the n-body benchmarks game in zig 0.6.0 and it absolutely thrashed the rust version. Submitted it, but they don't take PLs not on the board currently.
Mission to the Planet Grocery Store
(Astronaut looking at planet Earth) "Wait, it's all trackers?"
Makes me wonder how many days he had cumulatively recording this data...
I’m not saying Facebook, or online advertising is perfect, I have not run Google ads because most of my audience hangs out on Facebook and Instagram.

I have been running Facebook and Instagram ads for 2 years now for my small business, and what we do is we hyper target the audience, from their age, sex (the business appeals more towards female demographic), to their schools and job (people who work at an office or get a higher income is more likely to purchase)

From this hyper targeting we are able to generate a good amount of sales, sometimes more sales than we can handle.

And since we didn’t do any advertising during the pandemic, we can really see the difference our advertising makes.

I believe these companies maybe targeting a broader audience which maybe diluting the quality to a point where there is no difference between the organic reach and paid advertising reach

(A broader audience may expose your ad to fake accounts, bot accounts) etc.
True, but what's the alternative? India cannot do something radical like endorsing SciHub or Libgen and risk derailing progress in academic scientific publishing.

But it doesn't mean India hasn't done anything in the past to disrupt absurd greedy licensing regimes e.g. Generic medicines vs Int'l Pharma Patents. I see every day lives getting saved by generic medicines from 'generic medicine only' stores in India and not to mention India's generic medicines being the lifeline for other poor countries. For this, India's generic medicine industry has been facing the ire from WTO to Interpol[1].

[1]https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/Generic-maker...
You are conflating value of the marginal ad with value of any ads at all, and also exaggerating what those articles say

One of them said tracking cookies only boosted conversion 4%, and another said P&G did better with some traditional media advertising than some digital advertising.
It depends on the user's privacy settings. You can set who can see the profile photo: everyone, your contacts or no one.

But I don't know what is the default setting.
As a non-native speaker, it's definitely impossible for me to understand every detail of the conversations in The Wire. Especially the jokes.

But it's an interesting show anyway, even without the details.
(Stallman) "Always has been"
Downvoting for disagreement is okay? That is new to me. Well okay then. I will proceed accordingly.

Thanks.
Why cant we just use scihub to host these "open access" stuff...
What is the benefit for an end user like me or to the author or to the reviewer to necesarily pay a third party like a publisher in 2021 ?

Why cant we just let them die in their circlejerk copyrights with only old content?
Doesn’t all content exist to receive attention?

I think there would be exceptions, like test sites, personal experiments etc. that could make it on to the internet without seeking attention, but any content designed for consumption is attention-seeking.
Are You a Prepper Dev?
I'd argue it is sneaky to put the competitor's name first, as most people will click quickly to move on to the website.
> For ex, one ad network launched “battery saver” style apps in Google Play, giving them root access to your phone.

> When you type the word “Uber” into your Google Play, it auto-fires a click to make it look like you clicked on an Uber ad and attribute the install to themselves.

Isn't above an example of a criminal intent of deliberate fraud?
You have made this comment twice and I'm not sure I understand from it what you are looking for that is different from the information provided.

The only thing I can think of is you are looking for the split of the negotiated amount paid by the insurer vs the patient. This of course can vary based upon the particular level of coverage the patient has with the insurer.
The scientific community has long operated without proper regard to ethics and bigotry.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumfights

Despicable group of humans who went on to do such quality things as stealing body parts of dead babies to try smuggle them into the US.
That's one way, for sure. You can do this with IDs, dates, etc.
This has been going on for a while, good to keep related investigations going

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25570247
The most productive people ever focused on productivity.
Great read. Thanks for sharing!

I too think your definition of MVP needs to be adjusted. It sounds to me like an excited user came up with the MVP feature list, not an experienced developer, like "it's gotta have rich text editing capability and pdf export and offline support and nice ui!" because how can you not highlight important notes in bold and download your notes later, right? And it's got to be pretty to look at, and obviously needs to work offline when the wi-fi is down, right?

No, wrong. Everybody I know gets dreamy at first. It's your job to bring people down to earth. Simple text editing at best, and I do mean 'at best'. Basic UI, online only, unsexy solution. If you can't sell that, then you are either not solving the right problem, or it's just not that big of a problem to begin with.

Kubernetes, and Docker and CI? Cool tech, I suppose, but time wasters. Your release process should be scp-ing and extracting a zip file on the prod machine, or git checkout the files.

The one thing that went right was sticking with Couchbase imo. The world is filled with people who regret rewriting the persistence layer for an MVP under pressure. I am one of them. Several times over. Do not doubt the decision. It was the right choice.

Finally, schools and restaurants don't have money for software. I know folks who wrote school software. It was a travesty - the government gets involved at a certain point and wastes your time, the school budgets are razor thin and will not throw money at you. Restaurants are usually low tech as well. Most pay only for basic websites. Find markets with deeper pockets.
I will try this when I get to my mac but such apps in the past have caused significant CPU load for me.
This describes why I have had a Mac for the last 20 years. I used to build my own machines (before laptops really became commonplace, of course) and then install Linux. I loved the learning experience and the almost total control over my system that such an exercise provided.

After awhile I realized I just wanted to write code and not have maintaining my system take time away from that. The fact that the Mac provided easy access to Unix was a major plus. Also, at the time, none of the Linux desktop environments could match the polish that the OS X GUI provided.

I've been saddened and frustrated by the state of macOS of late (hopefully Big Sur is better) but I'm still not ready to go back to the old days. As you say; it just sounds exhausting.
I don't blame him. I love the content on NPR but I always feel like Prairie Home Companion seems a bit 'out there'.
In most cases you can find out whether an account with a specific email address exists by trying to sign up with it, though.
Every time Clojure comes up on HN there always seems to be a lot of negativity.

Frankly I'm just sick of hearing "Why you should use Clojure" over and over again. Posts about other languages center on some problem that language solved for them, or some problem they have with it. Clojure posts are always cold-call cheerleading about how good it is in a general sense. Tell me something cool you did with it. Tell me how it saved you a mind-blowing amount of work. I'm not interested in hearing for the Nth time how someone think it's an overall excellent choice.
Show HN: Hunt Short Domain Names
It would be fascinating if true if the big "brand name" companies whose entire business is based on charging more for the same commodity product as a generic store brand, but using advertising to justify the higher price in the customers' mind, weren't buying ads from people doing the same thing to them...

The question isn't are the scientists good, the question is if the vendor is honest.
> Easily 2/3rds of the ones I visit work, FWIW.

I started blocking JS a few weeks ago, and this has been my experience as well - a pleasant surprise.

For a long time I thought that would be a step too far, that browsing would become so annoying and unpredictable because of it. Any annoyance from having to turn on JS for individual sites is easily outweighed by the number of annoyances I avoid - news websites are actually readable, blogs open with their content rather than with an in-your-face pop-up, and as a bonus, I pay attention to things like: how many 3rd party domains is it trying to connect to? does it require 3rd party JS to be enabled to function at all? did they even consider the possibility of disabled JS and bother to write a noscript message? Things like this translate to a measure of trustworthiness to me now, and I've been both horrified (by simple blogs trying to connect to 80+ domains) and pleasantly surprised (by complex-seeming websites that don't use 3rd party JS at all).
You don't know until you try. Computed goto is great by itself, but it can disable some optimizations. Large functions can also disable some optimizations, so splitting opcodes out into separate functions can sometimes be good. Sometimes an array of function pointers will beat a switch or computed goto. Something like switch(opcode & 0xff000000) is far worse than something like switch(opcode >> 24) because gcc will think that it is sparse (and generate a tree of branches instead of a jump table) even if all possible cases are present. Marking the default with __builtin_unreachable() can help.
I always interpreted as "The Full Article" (as opposed to just the title).
Please note that blog posts regularly can't be Show HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
One of the more memorable comments I’ve seen is “this is a terrible hack that should be fixed as soon as someone is willing to pay for it.” It’s been live for over 10 years. Reminder that in the greater scheme of things, it’s all about money.
If it doesn't fix perspective distortion then in what sense is it a document scanner and not just a camera app?
Distributing all the doses now doesn't make sense.

- The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine requires a booster shot after 21 days.

- The Moderna vaccine requires a booster shot 28 days later.

If the vaccine manufacturer recommends a booster shot then that's what should be done.

Then not everyone:

1) ...is at a high risk

2) ...puts others at a high risk

Therefore prioritization makes sense.

The success of Israel against COVID is not only due to vaccination campaign (which of course, helps) but also their ability to adapt to the current situation and mobilize against the virus.

We've had enough of people fighting sanitary authorities for months. Let them do their job. Unpublishing this blog post would be a better thing to do right now.
> Much like GOT, either it grabs you enough to continue in the first few episodes or it doesn't.

I stopped after the first episode. It seemed neat but it was just displaced by other stuff. Then around the third or fourth or so season was being aired, my coworkers were talking about it and I dove back in.

Now after reading this thread I'm thinking I should dive into The Wire next.
The quality of my comments lately is quite low, I'll give you that.

You're actually more than welcome to delete the account, aren't you guys supposed to allow that anyway under GDPR (for Europeans at least)?
Are large organization subnets sufficiently masked that this would not work? For example, a university network.
Ask HN: How to get a first customer when you only have hobby-level demos?
I developed over the past couple of months a tool for simulating embedded systems. I'm at a point where I could go to potential customers and demonstrate the product, however I do not have any real-world use cases to show them yet, only hobby-level small projects that I created with the tool. How can I get around this chicken and egg problem of finding a first customer to sell to while not having any industrial use cases?
Note that pigz only parallelizes compression, not decompression.
It's irrelevant whether one ad gets a better result than another ad, what matters is does any ad drive traffic at a rate cheap enough to build a sustainable business. The "ugly" ad cost $11 to drive a webpage visit. Is this enough to result in a profitable conversion? I'm guessing almost certainly not.

So what does it matter if the "ugly" ad performs better? All that means is you go bankrupt slower. Is there room to improve the performance of the ugly ad so it wanders into the realm of profitability? I'm guessing there's far less room than for the professional ad and, probably, there doesn't exist a design that will drive profitability with the current offering and more focus should be made in customer development to discover and communicate a clear value prop rather than mess around with ad copy.
"Penalty being that serious"? really?
> extreme focus into productivity makes me.

I see it rather sad when some people do nothing of their lives instead of investing a little bit every day in doing something meaningful. By no means I am advocating for 100% productivity at all times - but striving for a little less idle time is beneficial.
Thanks for this. It seems obvious reading it but I haven't thought about it this way before. I'm definitely going to explore these concepts!
Opinion – Are You an Anti-Influencer? (2020)
This was true in the past, but nowdays it’s much easier to try out a product and see reviews.

With Uber it would be so easy to penalize drivers who cancel because they don’t like where I’m going, but I’m still wasting 30 minutes quite often, because Uber spends that money on ads and UI rewrites instead of improving the core experience.
Pagination for a one-page-query is rarely the same cost in my experience, in real-world scenarios.

In very simple cases, like a single table sql query, absolutely - databases effectively have to compute the full result, sort it, and return a window. There's almost no reason to paginate here, at an API level, unless the consumer wants only a subset (say, bandwidth limitations). Sending it all at once can be a huge benefit for those that will use it all, it's both simpler and faster for all parties.

But in most real-world cases, there are at least two additional details that can add significant response time: joins (when not involved in sorting) and additional data-gathering needed to fully build the response (e.g. getting data from other systems, internal or external). Joined data is not typically loaded prior to computing limit/offset since it may be a massive waste, and external data is effectively the same issue but with far higher latency.

And that's before getting into other practical issues, e.g. systems that can't process the response stream as it comes in - a subset will load-and-return faster than the whole content in all cases, so e.g. a website loading some json can show initial UI faster while loading more in the background. Streaming is often possible and that'll negate a lot of the downsides, but it's far less common than processing a request only after it completes.