skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OptDuty [0] is ramen profitable in my place (like $1k per month) after 4 months from launching. Although it's still side project for me.

Everything started from a Show HN post and one comment on HN. Majority of paying clients are from HN too.

I started the project in May, and launched in August. And after 2 months I was thinking it's total failure, because target audience is too specific and my marketing skills sucks.

But by keep talking to a few early users I finally managed to convince them to use the product and than paid for yearly subscription.

[0] https://optduty.com/
assured the vaccine is safe for everyone? Ha. Not a chance. Politicians and Scientists wouldn't use such definitive language. We were assured it's safer than the virus itself (or the benefits outweigh the risks). And that will hold even when some people have adverse reactions.
Sorry, see my post above. Her personal page indicates she is director of engineering at GitHub but several have told me she left last week. Regardless what she tweeted is still wrong.

https://www.ericabaker.com
Please don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN. We're trying for something else in this community, and it's getting harder.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We need to stop the excessive focus on very rare events.

We know some people are going to have an allergic reaction, which is why some people don't get vaccinated and it's why the protocols include a minimum of 15 minutes monitoring.

EDIT: 10 million doses have been administered.
One can also use shallow transformer models if inference throughput is important.
I don't think you need an add-on for this if you're already handy with CSS, just edit userContent.css and use a domain-specific query:

@-moz-document domain(https://news.ycombinator.com) {...}
> What did they gain? How did they capitalize?

That they violated international Law and got to illegally occupy and then annex a major financial Hub, isn't that alone enough? I mean I go into detail about how it all took place.

They then got to quell dissenters and hunted them down in order to re-affirm Pooh's (Xi) stance as the tough man of the CCP. 3 high profile activists have been jailed for nothing more than being involved in a protest, a previously Civil Right in HK, 10 of 12 Hongkoners were captured for non-crimes and sent to be tried on the mainland, essentially bypassing the need for the extradition bill that got rejected due to the protests as was intended, but worked anyway due to the perverse nature of the National Security Law.

I'm not sure what more to say to the rest of your response, and I'm wondering if you even bothered to read any of it; are you not familiar with amount of money that flows through Hong Kong's Capital Markets at all? The value of the real estate in the most expensive place on Earth?

Also, I properly used paragraphs: so it's hardly a wall of text. Lengthy perhaps, but not a wall of text as its properly structured.
And if you are on battery only, with Wi-Fi over tethering, try to find relevant issues to solve problems of your customer... Or trying to file new Jira on the same setup...
It’s so painful
Macron got humiliated by Erdogan, so he wants a bigger toy now. Also, envy, as the British will have two more modern carriers. That's why....

In more sophisticated words: France's naval forces are kinda weak and don't have power projection capabilities. You can't pretend to be a world power, if you don't have the force to back it up with.
Org-simple-timeline – org-mode export back end for vertical/horizontal timelines
This decision has been years in the making, seriously doubt that a single incident is more than a small building block for making that decision.
At the same time, the measures that matter - Healthcare, education, housing, have all gone up.

I literally listed those three categories in my comment as components in the CPI calculation.
It seriously makes you wonder whether they even use it internally, because not acknowledging or fixing those issues while pretending you have a fast system doesn't make sense.
They’re huge, slow targets though. If war breaks out they’ll be the second thing to go after satellites.

Great for these times when there isn’t open conflict between major powers, though. You can easily park it next to some middle east country and bomb the crap out of them.
Even if they're not much use against China, we haven't had a symmetrical war in 80 years now.

I suspect if these hypersonic ballistic ship killer missiles are more widely available in 20 years, countermeasures will also exist by then.
I really doubt the inevitable failure of all of these predictions will be the "end of the line." Messianic cults and movements are surprisingly resilient to unmet expectations. "When Prophecy Fails", etc.
> This does not work when one with the slightest bit of discomfort in arguing wants to cease and put an end to further discussion.

I find that to be a positive outcome :-)

Of course, if your goal is to change their mind, then my strategy won't work well (or at least is not sufficient on its own). However, paradoxically, the first rule in influencing people is You cannot change people. You'll see this in most communications and negotiations books. The more they sense you are trying to change them, the greater the walls they'll put up. Change almost always comes from within, and you can only help them be making it easier for them to change.[1] Instead, you have to bring down their defenses, which includes accepting them as they are, whatever their perverse beliefs. That itself will be a major step towards change. The sort of person who cannot stomach a climate change denier is the sort of person who should exit the conversation first - their prejudices will usually do more harm than good.

> You can't muscle through it with logic, reasoning and data.

In that sense, they are merely ordinary people. If you've studied the discipline of influence, you'll find that changing people via logic, reason and data is the exception, not the rule. From my time in academia, I can tell you that even amongst highly respected academics, it tends to work only within their narrow discipline, and mostly not in other areas of their life. It's not hard to find someone who is in the top of their field adhering to weird beliefs. And my former academic self who knew little about influence in those days can assure you that logic, reasoning and data almost never swayed top scientists from conspiracy theories. I know because I tried, as did many of their colleagues.

> Public embarassment, mockery and comedy are the society's ways of dealing with this. Not saying this is a good idea as it bolsters them even further, but this is all we've got.

It may be all you've got, but it's a really ineffective way, and simply closes them off to you. If you read the handbook, they too caution not to use this. Not only that, it alienates even those who are on your side. As an exercise, go find people who used to believe in a conspiracy theory and changed their mind. I'd wager at least 80% of them did not change their mind through mockery and embarrassment. For bonus points, ask them what they think about that strategy.

[1] Ridiculing does the exact opposite - it makes change more difficult in their minds.
My comment was really only about Outlook itself (using the web vs the desktop version, I prefer the web version).

that said, I hate Adobe products with a passion. When I build identical computers for my wife and I, the moment I install the Abode shit on hers, it becomes noticeably slower at everything. I don't truly understand it.
> Postgres never worked for example natively

We (postgres) did fix an ENOSYS (missing syscall) problem at some point so WSL could run Postgres. The surprising thing for me was how long it took for anyone to tell us it was broken/spewing warnings. That was forced when we changed a warning to a panic.
> The most active author wrote 896,337 words, twice the length of the Lord of the Rings trilogy

This can’t be a “normal” person, right? This has to be a paid actor.
Gigabyte you mean? It should work, but note that you really want a GPU that supports DSC (RTX 20-series or newer)

The two paths for 10bit 6k60 are either HBR2 + DSC, or 2x HBR3 streams. The 2x HBR3 streams have several gotchas - not daisy-chainable, limits the XDR USB-C ports to 2.0 speeds, requires a TB3 controller with 2 displayport inputs, and I'm not certain it even works with non-Apple TB3 firmware.
I'm glad to see this on HN. Francis Godwin's story is worth a read for anyone interested in the history of science fiction. The part about using geese to fly to the moon is fun, but it undersells Godwin's scientific imagination. A lot of things happen in the story:

- The narrator asserts his agreement with Copernicus that the Earth rotates on its axis

- The narrator discovers that the force of gravity is less on the Moon than on the Earth, allowing him to leap around and also allowing creatures there to grow very large

- The narrator reasons that gravity is "a secret Property of the Globe of the Earth, or rather something within it, as the Load-stone draweth Iron" (an insight probably inspired by the work of William Gilbert)

- Although science in the modern sense was still being invented, making this "proto" science fiction, the narrator becomes probably the first character to assert his speculative fiction isn't magic ("finding in all my Discourse nothing tending to Magick")

- So when the narrator is given a stone made of "Ebelus" and finds that he can control gravity depending on which way the stone is oriented, that's probably the first appearance of a non-magical anti-gravity technology in fiction

- It's also probably the first proto SF to borrow from linguistics, because the narrator finds that people on the Moon speak using a language based on music and he makes an explicit analogy toward the end with tonal languages such as Mandarin

My feeling is it's also a much more readable piece than de Bergerac's later story, which is inspired by Godwin but adds to it a bunch of dry old 'natural philosophy.'

Anyway, it's available online:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Strange_Voyage_and_Advent...
My guess is the license is the key differentiator.
Can you explain why you say that? What's the source?
Niceerr
Z3 had a timer to stop the solve if it takes to long and that used a specific option of clock_gettime that wasn't supported. I hacked around this and it otherwise worked fine.
Congrats! I’ve meant to ask you/Brent: what do you think holds ptex back in VFX and animation?

(For games, it’s clear that ptex is basically a nonstarter, since GPU texture mapping hardware can’t / won’t deal with it)
In “The Hidden Fortress”, which Star Wars plot and characters (minus Luke) is mostly based on, “Obi Wan” humiliates “Darth Vader” by refusing to kill him after beating him in their duel. The Emperor horribly tortures Darth Vader for losing, which convinces him to switch sides and help Obi Wan and the princess escape, and the ending is the three of them rejoining the rebellion, ready to fight another day.
> If you're a technical user, you know it's unlikely that update == "more crashes and slower load times" so saying the opposite isn't helpful, and a list of things might be helpful.

Umm, no; if you're a technical user, you know it is likely that update == "more crashes, slower load times and useful features breaking or disappearing entirely", regardless of what the changelog says, because you've observed exactly that happening with eg your webbrowser or image editor.

> "Bugfixes and performance improvements" [(]is a given[)], and [(]helps no one[)].

Well, you're half right.
I'm a recent Rust fan (via AoC), but for "easy things hard", I would offer input/string processing as an example— regexes, string operations, grammar, etc. I know that Rust is forcing me to be correct and handle (or explicitly acknowledge that I'm not handling) my error cases, but from the point of view of just wanting to get the happy path working, it's a lot more noise to deal with compared with what it would look like in Python, eg:

let re = Regex::new("(?P<min>[0-9]+)-(?P<max>[0-9]+) (?P<letter>[a-z]): (?P<password>[a-z]*)").unwrap();
re.captures_iter(&contents).map(|caps|
Input {
password: caps.name("password").unwrap().as_str().to_string(),
letter: caps.name("letter").unwrap().as_str().chars().next().unwrap(),
min: caps.name("min").unwrap().as_str().parse().unwrap(),
max: caps.name("max").unwrap().as_str().parse().unwrap()
}
).collect()
Well, you certainly need "tips and tricks" to make Arch Linux fully usable. Every powerful tool needs to be adjusted to its use (Github is full of dotfiles and macOS bootstrap repos). Doing so is a sign of professionalism (craftsmanship).
Why not bring in their current carrier to project power?

It’s not like Turkey has better stuff and their economy is in the toilet, so they can’t afford better stuff.
Is the tilde part of the name?
> Selective responses against the vaccine are only selected for if those pressures persist during replication. It's not enough to have that pressure at the very beginning, it needs to persist all the way. This isn't really the case for a vaccine.

I disagree. You have the weak vaccine response the entire duration of infection applying selective pressure. What you say seems to disagree with the consensus of the literature, e.g.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.17.20233726v...

> The UK variant isn't better at evading the immune system from what we know. It's simply more infectious in general.

The mutations have been broadly described as "immune escape mutations" and are thought to have emerged from pressure to escape low numbers of existing sterilizing antibodies within the host, e.g.

"The unusually high number of spike protein mutations, other genomic properties of the variant, and the high
sequencing coverage in the UK suggest that the variant has not emerged through gradual accumulation of mutations
in the UK. It is also unlikely that the variant could have arisen through selection pressure from ongoing vaccination
programmes as the observed increase does not match the timing of such activities.
One possible explanation for the emergence of the variant is prolonged SARS-CoV-2 infection in a single patient,
potentially with reduced immunocompetence, similar to what has previously been described [17,18]. Such prolonged
infection can lead to accumulation of immune escape mutations at an elevated rate"

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/SAR...
In case you forget, your country still has enemies, it's called Russia, and if you are not careful, Turkey and North Africa too. France has already way underspent it's NATO target of 2% GDP for many years, this is just replacing a rusty half-century old ship by 2038, in essence, merely maintaining France meager navel power.
Generally in agreement with most of this (and others takes that are similar).

Except that Linux containers are a huge regression on what BSD jails gave us 20 years ago. They’re catching up for sure, but it’s still just badly reinventing a wheel that already exists, for philosophical, political, or selfish reasons.
Is this where you get downvoted for hinting that the vaccine might not be completely safe?
Speaking English May Spread More Coronavirus Than Other Languages (2020)
>> if your vehicle detects the limit wrong

Welcome to one of the most basic and most difficult problems for AI-driven vehicles: What is the speed limit? Temporary limits, work zones, school/park zones based on sunlight, weather, children/workers present or not, emergency vehicles beside road or not ... it is complex but also something every driver manages every time they get behind the wheel. While it is possible to drive dangerously slowly, far more people are being killed by driving too quickly than too slowly. The default is generally, if unsure, err on the side of slower.
it means he was an asshole then. Thus, higher probability he is an asshole today.
Ask HN: Successful but unsustainable solo projects in 2021?
(Financial) success stories are posted regularly here, but many people work on highly successful solo projects that cost them money and are unsustainable in the long term, i.e. expensive hobbies.

Please present them here and describe the challenges, some users might have good suggestions for monetization, cost reduction or even funding.
I don't think it applies to us. Our employers can sign whatever they like and constrain us from speaking in official company-related capacities, but we're no more bound to that as individuals then we're bound to anything else our companies sign as individuals. As individuals, we're not in a relationship with Atlassian at all.
Why bother spending money on doors? They are expensive and you have to kill trees to make them.
Please keep flamewar swipes like "once again you show the conspiracy angle" and "I am not expecting you to" and "I am sure you will" and so on out of your comments here. As this thread shows, the topic is extremely activating to people. Everyone needs to take responsibility for staying within the zone of curiosity and respect. As a bonus, doing that makes your posts much more likely to be heard. Perhaps you won't persuade the person you're arguing with, but there are thousands of other readers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hi lostdog,

Thanks for the understanding! Indeed I haven't been at Atlassian that long, but that's not a good excuse: it's my problem to own.

I appreciate the reinforcement of "fix everything", and I assure you we're trying our best to do so. As a PM it is my natural instinct (and literal job) to prioritize, so I'm always looking for more details to do so.

I can understand that my request for details can imply that I'm either not listening or not believing the feedback, but that is not the case -> I do understand everything is slow and needs fixing.
Fair, I'm only using it on one account. Also, I have a special Firefox plugin to make notifications louder.
I've heard rumors that Pixar used to be able to render their movies in real-time :)
But no 9/11? Nothing about Building-7. I think that's a taboo
China has two now, and it's building a third.
What 'truisms' about software development do you think have been completely invalidated?
Service Now has an incredibly clunky UI in terms of actually finding what you want, but at least in our JIRA Datacenter vs Service Now (it's under a service now domain, so I assume some sort of cloud setup) setups with several hundred thousand issues in each, Service Now is actually pretty fast in the sense of "You click an action and it does it's intended purpose", where JIRA falls down. It's slow only in the "You need 5 actions to get to the thing you want" sense.
I don’t imagine private vehicle ownership will disappear entirely. It will just become even more of a luxury than it already is.

When autonomous vehicles halve the cost of an Uber/Lyft journey, many more people will weigh up the costs/benefits of private vehicle ownership and decide it’s not for them.

Different services will compete based in part on the luxuriousness of the interiors and the frequency at which they are cleaned.

As private vehicle ownership becomes rarer, so to will parking, particularly on-street parking. People will look back and think it odd that we dedicated vast public spaces to the storage of private property.

Finally, as private vehicle owners become a minority group, they will become an easy target for even more punitive taxation and regulations which will see the group shrink even further still.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_in_s...

I can't see any metric by which this is the case
> Unfortunately our windows operations guys are severely lacking in diagnostic savvy and just reboot the machine over and over again

What are you talking about, that is how you diagnose a Windows box...
> In a dream world of course, everything would load in < 1s

It's important you understand that "everything loading in <1s" would still be unacceptably slow - that is still an order of magnitude too slow.

That is not "a dream world" - not even close. A well built tool like this, meeting standard expectations (i.e. table stakes), would hit <50ms for the end user - the vast majority of the time. A "dream world" would be more like 10ms.

You should be targeting <200ms for 99% of user-facing interactions. That is the baseline standard/minimum expected.

This is why people are saying the company needs to make a major shift on this - you're not just out of the ballpark of table stakes here, you're barely in the same county!

It cannot be overstated how far off the mark you are here. There's a fundamental missetting of expectations and understanding of what is acceptable.
> "Medicaid has extremely low out-of-pocket costs" is not a reply to "we didn't pay a fucking cent". Your (not-included) estimates of how much money a US resident definitely will have to pay is by definition never going to be as good as zero. It's almost like you're setting out to smooth over this also-easily-verifiable fact with "rhetoric".

This reasoning is absurd. If I have to pay $10/mo in the US, but I make $100/mo more in the US, then I'm still up $90/mo. No one cares about "not paying a fucking cent" if "not paying" actually means "I'm $90/mo poorer".
It’s not a broken assumption. You can still build and compile all formulae yourself.

But for the bottles, the precompiled builds, they’ve always had a lower boundary on which generation of Mac you need to at least be running, and as a consequence which instructions are available.
Should have said Gigafab GIGAFAB® is TSMC's trade mark.
The actual findings dont support what you said. The difference in variance is not that large, it was found only in some small areas. Both person who brought it up severely overstate it basically.

Had the difference been caused by variance, you would find slightly more men at some places. You would not find "only men" nor "almost all men" as your comment claims.

And also, the world was build by plenty of completely sane people of both genders. Majority of it, actually.
I want the shock and negative feelings. People need to get their head out of the sand and realize the true cost of your new iPhone 12 and all the other cheap Chinese junk.

We shouldn’t be supporting China, we should bring skilled work back to the USA.
A fair point, but I think when you compare Ray's predictions to Robert Heinlein (for example) you'd be more impressed with Robert's teleoperation [1] and mobile phones [2], predicted in the 1940s, than Rays singularity and his "AI will be mostly human led decision making"

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_manipulator

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Cadet
The rate of unarmed people killed by police has gone down, true. But that chart only shows the latest 5 years. It seems like historical context would be valuable. And if I recall, the sources for those numbers are disputable, as there is not a sanctioned body responsible for collecting and maintaining that data.
Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
For those who are still under lockdown, what are you working on / building / learning?

7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23170881
I suspect they mean core count utilization, not per core utilization.

Ie there's some headroom left for rush jobs and a safety net, because full occupancy isn't great either.
Europe’s nanobot startups are taking on cancer
> we haven't had a symmetrical war in 80 years now.

The First Gulf War is pretty much a symmetrical war in tactics and strategy, even if one side roflstomped the other. Arguably the Russia-Georgia and more recent Armenia-Azerbaijan conflicts would also qualify quite well.
Does their parallelism extend to rendering the movie in real time? One display rendering the sole output of an entire data centre.
Why apples as a product fails to compete with oranges - part 1/3
Haven’t heard those two in a while, played around with those while I was in uni 15 years ago :-O