skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The templates are in his "Notes" page. Open one of them and click "Get a copy from here."

Notes: https://rohitgupta.site/blog
The booster shot gets you to the highest immunity but a single shot still gets you increased immunity. Several countries in europe are considering single-shot strategies, as was discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25579393

And yeah not everyone is high risk but getting a shot into every health care worker, teacher, every person who interacts with lots of people etc will greatly reduce the impact of the virus, which includes reducing risk to high risk people.
It hits home with me, and the TL;DR is: Don't bother setting up "proper" DevOps (but you still need it, just to get going), Don't bother building for scale, Don't bother proper code lifecycle... Until you have some traction. Focus on your MVP. Your truly scrappy MVP.

Applicable most (only?) when there's only 1-2 tech guy. More than that, you need some structure (communication issues).

Technical debt? Yes. Server will crash with angry customers? Definitely. Will never experience those problems because you product will fail anyway? Most likely.

Also, refrain yourself from using that latest JS framework. Use what you know like the back of your hand.
No, what they are all saying is that issuers of Tether tokens are buying bitcoins with their proceeds.

They so know because of bitcoin's stupendous price rise. And as the reasoning behind it they are pointing to Tether issuers' imminent facing of regulatory and criminal scrutiny.
Also another case where

"Researchers’ patents are often held by the institutions where they work."

I wonder what the law is around that ... what percentage are the discoverers legally entitled to?

If the answer is obscene, what efforts have been made to fix that?
For a recent counterexample, consider the Dengvaxia campaign in the Philippines [0]. Quite a few children ended up in the hospital. It’s impossible to attribute any specific case to the vaccine, but the numbers are fairly compelling.

As far as I could tell, all documented affected children are alive and well, but that doesn’t rule out children who weren’t noticed by researchers, and I’d consider being hospitalized to be a fairly severe side effect.

So, yes, you need to test vaccines, even for COVID.

(Consider the UK’s dubious Oxford vaccine campaign. The data is muddled because AstraZenica screwed up, but the UK could easily end up in a situation in which the virus still circulates in a large population with weak vaccine protection, resulting in selective pressure on the virus to mutate to escape the vaccine’s protection. This would be bad news indeed.)
To quote the paper:

> Our model is supervised with paired input and target
views of a scene (along with their camera poses)... The model then needs just a single image at test time.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but: Given a novel scene, it seems the model must be retrained on multiple images of that scene? It seems disingenuous, then, to say it works from a single image. No doubt the interpolation is state of the art, but the title seems misleadingly magical.
Ironically, based on the original comment, the issue is that East Asian countries (like Germany, which was the archetype industrialisation model for East Asia) are largely run economically for the benefit of large corporations. So developers are hired en masse like every other employee (in particular, skilled labour is hired once after graduation), there is a stigma against switching jobs (even if you could find somewhere to move), employees are essentially interchangeable, and there is almost no innovation.

The original comment is hard to understand. Germany and Japan are two of the absolute worst places on earth to be a consumer/worker in the developed world (the IMF even produced a paper on this in an attempt to put pressure on Germany to improve standards for workers). The US is nowhere close to having a management aristocracy because the system is open. Even in the UK, which has a similar economic model, the low-level of competence among managers is actually a major factor behind weak productivity growth. People just long for systems that aren't like the one they have, low levels of employee turnover are not a panacea, they led to heavily rigid management and are often linked to a high proportion of unproductive, family-owned business that are managed by birthright...professional management is, innately, open. If you look at Denmark, high levels of employee turnover actually lead to higher wages because it creates so much more innovation (most countries that have any other model, including Japan, are trying desperately to get away from it).

Afaik, France is the only country that has the aristocracy model: it is usually literally impossible to be promoted into management if you didn't go to grandes ecoles, and most of the top jobs in govt and business are just rotated through this group of people. Unlike the US, the curriculum of related courses often has no relation to reality, and is designed to be as complex/abtruse as possible so entry to the higher reaches of society can be limited. It is difficult to understate how envied the US system of management is compared to this...it isn't just that the US does this slightly better, it is that the US is at 100, and everyone else is at 10. It isn't close.
We were talking about adtech.

You are allowed to think differently, but personally I'm fine with the banners on Wikipedia (except IIRC and AFAIK they pretended they were short on money while in reality they were expanding).

I'm also fine with YC running job ads on YC.

I'm however not fine with 100 - 1000 [1] ad and tracking networks pretending they have reason to log my browsing habits on a typical site.

[1]: based on copying the list from "cookie banners" to Libre Office Calc and checking how many lines I got.
In mature markets with many organized competitors MVP type products fare poorly and provide little useful information, perhaps even misleading information.

What you need to build is the minimum product that can steal sustainable amounts of market share from competitors, but that product itself won't be an MVP.
Having gone through Rustlings these past few days (via https://users.rust-lang.org/t/best-way-to-learn-rust-program...), I feel like the speed of the Rust compiler has gotten a lot faster since I looked at it a few years ago.

And the compiler messages (once you get the hang of it; and the investment in learning the syntax is so trivially worth it in the long run) are so much richer and more helpful than other languages. So it really does "feel" like a REPL or most of the way there as a REPL (and I have one of the few wikis at our work advocating for Common Lisp that I wrote a year ago, and still actively follow Clojure groups, etc.).

It's just Rust starts and runs so fast (and Cargo makes it easy and clear like Go); so that being able to re-run periodically really fast is like a REPL. Yeah there's no retained state or ability to keep a REPL running for days, etc. (though Tmux.. and nix as a repl.... more on that later), but it's reached a point where compilation is an OOM faster than before, so the loop of: read, eval, print now can include the compiler.

And you get this amazing boost where if you're operating e.g. on large data (if you're a senior engineer, like Dan Luu blogs https://danluu.com/, you're often scanning codebases or log files or other metadata to answer questions); so being able to tweak and re-run even without caching at OOM faster speeds than other languages is wonderful.

I can create complex refactoring scripts in Rust on GBs of data and constantly re-run them until it's just right.

To my knowledge you can learn the ins and outs of CL or Rust; both fairly specific-knowledge-heavy languages at first (Rust with some syntax, CL with its non-uniformity of functions). It just seems like Rust is the future. It sort of "merges" dynamic languages with REPLs and *nix (with tmux) as the REPL. Pretty exciting.

And if someone wrote a CL-like REPL with something like SLIME/SLY for debugging for Rust it'd be kind of game over. And I could see that coming in the next few years (https://github.com/google/evcxr seems cool, but perhaps the dependency on Jupyter complicates it a bit).
I'll reiterate what I said the last time it came up on HN - this is exactly why I use Firebase, and why OP probably should have done the same.

It's literally 15 minutes to configure/integrate, and you're done. You can then move on to building/iterating on actual features that matter to customers.

Until you've proved you're building something that people want to buy, your data layer only needs to do the absolute bare minimum (store some data). It doesn't matter if it's not scaleable, performant, extensible, etc. 99.9% of the risk is that you fail because you're not building the right thing, not that you fail because Firebase wasn't appropriate.

You have a limited number of hours in every day, and they are much better spent building features side-by-side with customers. You won't even know that Firebase is a bottleneck unless/until your platform is successful, and at that point you're in a good position to migrate/rewrite/whatever.

A couple of commenters smugly pointed out that they were contracted to fix Firebase issues later down the track, and that's why they would stay away from Firebase in the first instance.

First up, there's clear survivorship bias there - the fact is these businesses survived and were in a position to hire someone to upgrade their data layer. That's meaningful in and of itself.

Second, don't pay too much attention to people who have never bootstrapped anything from the ground-up. What works in a mature, stable, well-funded organization is not what works in a solo, early-stage startup that's strapped for cash, time and equipment.
> Doesn’t all content exist to receive attention?

Maybe. Attention can also be granted without it have been called there. There are also websites not designed for consumption.

If every website is advertising, then surely most of human discourse and activity would also be considered advertising. What's even the purpose of the word?

You're not going to convince me that everything is an ad, and I probably won't convince you either. I'm not interested in playing any further semantic word games. I'll read any replies you make if you choose to, but I have nothing more to offer in this thread.
But how much? Do you have an idea why?
1) Not if that goes to a place that isn't the best answer for it, as expected by a normal person not paid by Google or purchasing Google advertisements. Might this threaten the ability of Google to screw with smaller companies for money? Darn, that's a shame. They'll have to make only a transcendental amount of money instead of all of the money.

2) Related to the above: Google has decided they want to be a critical cog in the body politic. We as citizens get to have a say in how critical cogs in the body politic function. If Google doesn't like that, Google should not put themselves in that spot. We can help them with that if needed.
Uh ok. Gtk is maintained and he only said it has few maintainers.

Calling the adwaita theme “cringey” seems silly to me. The latest Mac default style is very similar. Windows “native” look and feel is a joke. A ton of popular apps don’t care about native look anyways they just want their branding.

Qt just tried to pull some crap again with their licensing too.

I appreciate the author because I like nim and gtk development. He even fixed an issue for me last year when I was trying these bindings out.

I don’t agree with his slightly pessimistic view though. There are a lot of new people learning it right now spurred by the new phones and mobile Linux desktop ends.

It’s true the main appeal is to people who like their default styling and the gnome desktop
Making a Lego car CLIMB obstacles
Transforming carbon dioxide into jet fuel using a Fe-Mn-K catalyst
Omitting an inventor from a patent is usually grounds for invalidating the patent.

(Unless they are careful to exclude all of your contributions from the claims -- which is almost impossible)
Surprisingly, this post made me really appreciate Go. I thought it explored solid design decisions towards simplicity, such as UTF-8 only.
- Learn MDM for macOS or Windows. JAMF, SimpleMDM, or Munki for the Mac. Intune and Autopilot for Windows.

- Go to a site like Hibid.com and find auctions to buy used working (9/10 times) equipment. You can get 5 year old Dell servers for <$200. Buy a couple of laptops (Mac and Windows) for <$300. I’ve bought equipment through there and have a nice home lab for learning for less than <$1k.

- Buy or reuse commodity hardware and build an Opnsense firewall for your home network. I did this during the start of pandemic and used it as an opportunity to learn and sharpen network skills I didn’t have in 2020.

- If you do acquire server hardware, you can run VMware ESXi and teach yourself that component of virtualization. When you have that server built you can spin up virtual servers to learn Windows Server or *nix server setups.

I personally feel if you have time to invest in buying equipment and setting it up, you can build a functional home lab to learn what you want. Start simple but have hardware in front of you to make the commitment.

20 years ago I didn’t have Google. Everything I learned was self taught. But over the years I gradually relied on Google to give me the answers. This is what scares or dissuades new IT folks from taking the plunge. Where do I get resources to become an It person? Personally if you have the home lab it forces you to tinker and research Google on how to grow your lab and automate it. From there you get IT chops.

The other thing I highly recommend is having good people skills. I’ll hire someone with light IT experience and good customer service background over someone with certifications left and right but no customer service background. You can learn the IT stuff on the job (with the right team and company), but people skills are a must because you have to deal with unruly people.

IT is just like going to the doctor. Nobody comes to IT when things are working. The only difference between IT and the doctor is the doctor doesn’t get pissed off patients. Having a way to diffuse and smooth over angry customers is what’s vital to your IT success. The skills come later.
I feel this way about all software.
Luckily bidding on your competitors name is illegal in Germany. We did get our competitors to not do that with some letters from lawyers.
i've been thinking about this a lot after my post-burnout brain has slowed considerably as i've gotten older (30). i definitely know i'm not as quick as i used to be.

i've noticed that even after 3 weeks, code that i wrote deep in the flow zone will feel completely foreign, so it's more like a linear curve up and then it plateaus. however, i feel like at my current trend, by the time i'm 50 code i write the day before will feel completely foreign.

i used to watch this trend when i worked with programmers older than me, but i never realized just how badly it would hit me.
When general media has some report about my specific field, they're usually filled with nonsense, then I realized the only logical conclusion is that other fields face exactly the same problem, it's just that I couldn't identify the bullshit in them.

I got that like 15 years ago.
If you already have the styrofoam in one area it's way way way way more efficient to just burn it.

The only benefit of the mealworms is they go and find the styrofoam on their own.
So you might ask why we have research universities anymore.
the stupid problem here is that he's saying "because monopolies like twitter, Facebook, etc exist, section 230 should be repealed", while ignoring entirely that those giant businesses would be the only ones able to afford to host user content at all, and would actively suppress all remotely controversial content, including, but not limited to, reviews, social commentary, political commentary, etc.

Or alternatively they censor absolutely nothing, so all the terrible content the author is complaining about would proliferate and be unblockable - goodbye "report tweet" button, etc that would be moderation that implies twitter is a publisher. Goodbye muting, etc because again: filtering the content risks making you a publisher. Goodbye spam filtering, that makes you a publisher.

No small company could afford this, so would necessarily remove all comment sections, etc.

It's questionable whether wikipedia could have any kind of restrictions on what people could say or do in articles.
Yes, we are exploring adding this.
True, but at industrial volumes it might be more space/cost/time effective to directly use the bacteria, combined with a mechanical or chemical pre-processing step.
You don't buy fire, you buy a furnace. The mealworms really are the functional tool here, even if the bacteria is what's doing the work.
FWIW, System 76 devices are fantastic out-of-the-box.

I'm typing this on a Pinebook Pro which, at least in my experience, has basically been zero-configuration with the default Manjaro release.

Ok, I lie, I added an m.2 ssd to it. But that's about it!
This is a late comment, but this helped me out a lot. Thank you for the detailed explanation and code example, I appreciate it.
We recently launched in the US. Nice that Dialpad has noticed us. All the best to them :)
You have no control over the browser or search engine your potential customers use.
If you spend most of your time on a computer you could use “Timing 2”. I’ve got down to the second tracking of exactly what I did during my last job for around two years. Easy to sort by work-vs-fun. If I had used it on my personal laptop I’d have near 90% coverage of my life. Then tracking the rest would require less manual effort. Probably could semi-automate that too by building an app that polls you every 15m with a few quick-add entries.

I can’t imagine doing this manually in a spreadsheet.
Israel is a country with 9 million people, with a highly disciplined population that can be effectively mobilized to do practically anything. That's part of the reason they're being successful against COVID-19, rather than just vaccines alone.

Vaccines help but vaccination alone will not get you to where they are now.

If you want to do a country-wide campaign to encourage social distancing, masks, washing hands, etc... it's much easier to do there.

For example, see how Israel erradicated Malaria and see what I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1chsYafMqE
This is the inspiration for that scene in the wire, I suppose. It also was A Prairie Home Companion. https://youtu.be/P8y3jbuuzDg
That is basically the whole purpose of that.
A kill switch used when everything is on fire.
Allows them to deactivate wide spread malwares when they discovered it.
Although I have no idea whether it works or it is ever being used.

On the other side. The chrome store starts to behave badly and ban extensions they don't like for random reason after they implement that.

About mozilla, i don't know. will they eventually be like that, or they won't?
> Maybe the "happily" part, but how does Google know that?

3 hints for Google:

1. I newer showed any interest in those ads.

2. I never sought out anything related.

3. I repeatedly put in the effort to mark these ads as irrelevant.
I've seen it a number of times. The company would rush to build a prototype, the product would be broken but looked like it's almost ready. Then the cost of engineering would grow and it would become harder to hire people. In some cases, the company had existing customers who were promised new features, so there was no time to fix the underlying issues, and they had to be built on top of. This cycle would repeat.

One might look at these companies and say that they are "successful" because they employ people, and some might even sell in the 7-figure range. But looking closely, each of the employees at the company could be more successful working for another company, where they don't spend their time firefighting, and instead focus on up-leveling their experience.
> No one is willing to run the experiments necessary.

Because advertising is like military spending. It takes a lot of money to maintain the status quo.
Would be nice to read the full thesis. This is a pretty naive question, but I wonder if retaining the current frame (just as pixels) and only redrawing when there are actual changes is a good middle ground? Is this something already being done in immediate mode GUI libraries?
This is a myth and you should be ashamed for believing it. Please go spend time with the rich, you’ll see they’re dumb as shit and the laziest people on earth. But yeah, keep kissing their ass, maybe they’ll let you in the club
> As far it seems to be a grim future, it is almost only way they can monetize.

Bitly charges $30/month (basic) which seems like an outrageous amount of money to me for what it does. How much more monetization do they need?
Nope. American management was created in the late 19th century with railroads.

In fact, management didn't exist before the US invented it. Most large companies in the UK were run by people who had no interest in management. They bought a factory then promised a piece rate to a labour gangmaster (this is an abtruse point but wage labour wasn't really a thing until the 20th century, the model was proto-industrial "business" structures which paid by output...wages shift risk to employers, and so that took time to develop). In Germany and much of Northern Europe, there was a very well-defined capitalist and worker class who negotiated through govt (because the capitalists mostly owned the govt and got their money to build stuff from state-owned banks, most unions ended up being allied to those capitalists/govt because revolution was taken quite seriously...left-wing unions didn't really exist). Again, there was no real concept of professional management...you negotiated with workers en masse, there was total seperation (and there is still is in Northern Europe, to a large extent...most billionaires in Germany got rich in the 30s, for reasons best forgotten, and have just passed it down unchanged which is why wealth inequality is so high).

So it was with the railroads that actual professional managers started appearing (railroads were undoubtedly a new kind of complexity but US ones were run far more professionally), and shortly after this that you see management training and the like. The US was, and still is to a large extent, one of the only places where you see universities actually relate to the real world i.e. you have universities teaching practical tasks like management (I am in the UK, management is still thought of as a "joke" subject by most academics...stuff like Classics and Politics is far more respectable than business, people who need to work for money are looked down upon as hopelessly gauche...it is kind of funny that people believe the opposite is true, but that isn't self-evident if you come from a society where practical knowledge is valued).

Btw, the defining book on this is Alfred Chandler's Visible Hand. He is probably the greatest historian of business (yep, he is from the US which is the only place where historians actually study this kind of thing en masse).
From my limited experience, resources are better spent to SEO to boost ranking. Also, you can request review on google ads keywords to prevent competitors from using your name, especially if you have a trademark.
Internal PSU adds heat that is noisy or expensive to dissipate or is avoided by throttling performance.
too late at night to lookup but i’ve seen this idea before around HN and I myself am drawn to taking a whack at building a tool like this. this is one of those ideas where whatever I can imagine as a UI almost immediately feels not good enough and it isn’t one of those UIs where you can iterate your way to a good solution.

after thinking about this for on and off i can’t think of anything better than nested lists combined with detail/summary in HTML
Who Moves to Music?