skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Devs should spend a lot more time on research to select the problem they want to solve. This is "top of the funnel" in the sense that it will affect everything else, from product to marketing, and has the highest impact on the ultimate success of the product.

> Finding a customer category that regularly spends money on the kind of software you're intending to build can make it signficantly easier to actually sell them software.

I want to point out that this applies to the market, and not necessarily the product. An oft-repeated suggestion is to charge more, but free products are great for lead-gen. Case-in-point: indiehackers.com is not a paid product, yet it sold for 7 figures. Traffic from a targeted, lucrative demographic is inherently valuable, and one of the easiest ways to get this traffic is with a free product.

When starting out, the biggest risk is 1. making something that no-one wants 2. making something people want, but not being able to reach those people. The easiest way to derisk these categories of mistakes is to simply copy the market (ie. what problem to solve) and acquisition channels of competitors, and differentiate on product.

On moats: Markets with moats are typically already dominated by incumbents with moats. For indies it's better to target markets without moats, precisely because you're in the position of a "fast follower"
Britain’s Factory Laws were created to prevent 8 year olds from working 16 hours per day with only a single break, but weren’t really enforced until automation made child labour obsolete.

If we had the technology to force people to work 24/7 but proved to it was detrimental to people’s health, somehow I know deep down that society would just bite the bullet and people would burn the midnight oil for a few more dollars.
RClone: https://rclone.org/s3/
When someone’s future salary is tied to acquiring $new/$shiny skill then you are going to get this sort of rational behaviour from the engineers. Smart people respond to incentives.
NumPy does auto-seed the RNG if you don't pass a seed yourself, using platform-specific code to pull some entropy from the OS. So that common case is handled reasonably well, unlike with C. In fact if you want exactly reproducible results (e.g. in testcases), you have to seed with a known seed, to avoid that default behavior.

The issue here is a little more subtle: if you fork 10 copies of your Python process, all 10 inherit the current RNG state, and will thereafter produce identical random number sequences. If you were manually forking, you might guess that was a potential problem, and re-seed the RNGs after forking. But PyTorch's data loaders fork a bunch of processes to do things in parallel, so users might not realize that they're using duplicate copies of their RNG state.
short afternoon naps at the workplace improved an
overall index of outcomes by 0.12 standard
deviations, with significant increases in
productivity, psychological well-being, and
cognition

Is it possible to learn that? To me it seems impossible to do a "short nap". Even when I feel low energy, I don't feel like I could just lay down and sleep during the day.
RClone does this and much more.

RClone: https://rclone.org/
S3 Backend: https://rclone.org/s3/
FWIW, you can't be classified as salaried and exempt from FLSA if you're getting paid minimum wage and working 40 hours/week or less. The federal limit for salaried exempt is equivalent to like $17/hour, and many states tie it to a multiple of minimum wage (e.g. 2x minimum wage in California)
As to 2; I don't follow cable news, but The Atlantic and NYTimes reported a lot of this relatively early (April 1st)

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/coronavir...
Quote: "The study, released on Saturday, compared almost 400 people who had tested positive for COVID-19, 14 days or more after they received one or two doses of the vaccine, against the same number of unvaccinated patients with the disease"

14 days is too early. Do the study properly, 21 days after the 2nd shot. Now you can claim that indeed the variant pierces through, otherwise I'd file this study under FUD.
This sort of thinking is corrosive to society at large. It’s not a zero-sum game.

But, if you must, take heart in the fact that the teenager will never make more than $minimum in that job, where presumably your income will continue to rise commensurate with experience.
I have a two step process for building a software system; I haven't got to the second step in practice, but some day...

Step 1: Build a proverbial "ball of mud", adding things left and right until all the shifting requirements are met.

Step 2: Write a minimal description of all the logic from scratch, by surveying the existing code, and then, essentially, write an interpreter for it.

If I got to step 2, and did a good job, future projects would become much easier.
Yes! I can clearly remember the early publications on how long the virus can survive on various surface types. In hindsight these might turn out to be not relevant, but if we consider that all public health guidances still emphasize hand washing, I think this really is a failure of science to perform the relevant experiments and ensure results are disseminated properly.

With a lot of pieces of knowledge we got stuck and a follow-up never really happened. Seems as if our capacity for adding more information to a complex area is limited.
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Marketable skills, what a concept.

I’m being flippant, but there really could be constructive share ownership amongst the general population.
I was always told to avoid naps, but if you must do like 90 minutes. But in general you ideally want regular good amounts of sleep daily at the same times.
> classic clueless business people

Why you think that FB is managed by clueless business people? They are clearly not clueless, just with completely different priorities mismatching mine and with completely different opinion about ethics (AKA "they are evil").
That makes sense, although sadly it brings the scaled minimum wage down to only around $140/hour
That's an interesting division, because I also think of "first" and "second" hunger, but differently.

What you describe as "actual hunger" is what I think of as "first hunger", which is just triggered by mealtime, and goes away after 30 minutes to an hour as you describe.

If you ignore that sensation of hunger for about a day, you start to feel a deeper sensation of hunger which doesn't go away, it just keeps growing.
Isn't two weeks the CDC's definition of fully vaccinated? However, it definitely was wrong to make a claim based off first shot only and worse to throw the first-only vs full series data together into one statistic.
Minimum wage increase fuel underemployment and under the table work and wall street bonuses don't?
Remember when they said 10 trillion in debt would cause a massive crisis?
I worked at Facebook from 2009-2012 and again briefly in 2016. "Answers" like this are why you will not read real answers.
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I use php(7.4) and python(3.x), works great. Alternatively, perl is also a great choice.
Congrats. That works really well. Now just let me pay a small tip for every image I want to download in full resolution so you can cover your bills. Results were ahead of those produced by remove.bg.
well if there's still evolution skeptics I give up because people will now get to experience it in real-time. Any given strain that is even moderately resistant against vaccines will quickly become the dominant variant, and with enough new hosts evolve further, and so on and so forth.

If there was ever actually any hope of quelling the disease distancing measures would have been needed to be sustained throughout the vaccination campaign as to avoid having to roll to many dice.
Which is good news for the vaccine manufacturer...

Now instead of reaching herd immunity rates, you need to vaccinate everyone.
cloud magic has shown us that “one day” we will need to scale up to an extreme count of “instances” and that suboptimal solutions can be negated with horizontal scaling.
Privacy or any other illusion of it on the internet, is mostly a game of musical chairs. If it's not GAFAM getting your data, it's 3 letter agencies. Or worse, both.

True anonymity has no place on the clearnet. The sooner we come into acceptance with this fact, the better we'll be able to protect ourselves from this rigged game. [0]

Tor is the only place you can go to find anonymity. I agree, if your goal is not to be tracked, by any of the above adversaries, go offline. We tend to laugh at guys who attempt this and call them looney, but it won't be so funny in the not-so-far-away future given how communication tech is advancing at such a fast pace with things such as 5G and IoT. It's easy to see governments achieve total surveillance within the next half-century.

I also agree that not enough spotlight is shone on government's ability to coerce tech companies to hand over user data, whether live monitored or subpoena'd. These tech companies like to play-act all tough e.g Apple, but the reality is they apply for business licenses & other similar considerations from the govt. It wouldn't be far-fetched to deduce such favors esp ones that come with competitive advantage in an industry come with hidden strings attached. Am not surprised to see govts such as UK's brazenly attempt to put backdoors into encryption technologies. [1]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/04/02/capitol... (LONG READ ALERT)

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/uk-trying-to-stop-facebook-end-t...
The value of wages are a function of average and minimum compensation.
I always randomly log a sample of my inputs to TendorBoard to manually review what my training data actually looks like and (hopefully) pick up on bugs like these. Similarly I find logging high loss inputs very informative.

Coincidentally I find this article timely as I was recently reviewing PyTorch DataLoader docs regarding random number generator seeding. It’s the kind of thing unit test don’t pick up since it only occurs when you use separate worker processes.
"Won’t governments ban Signal now?
So far, we haven’t seen any indication this will happen. It has been possible to install open-source Monero wallets in the App Store and Play Store nearly anywhere in the world for many years now (excluding authoritarian countries — but they’ve already banned Signal anyway). For the most part, non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets are easily accessible."

Really...? Edit: "excluding authoritarian countries" doesn't help your case in the way you think it does..

"Some jurisdictions have gone even further and imposed restrictions on investments in cryptocurrencies, the extent of which varies from one jurisdiction to another. Some (Algeria, Bolivia, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, and Vietnam) ban any and all activities involving cryptocurrencies." [1]

Signal being banned in Iran. [2]

Signal being banned in China. [3]

They also mention that this isn't a money grab because Signal needs funding. Signal has a 105 million dollar "loan" with zero interest with a repayment requirement in 2068.

This opinion piece is a joke.

[1] https://www.loc.gov/law/help/cryptocurrency/world-survey.php

[2] https://signal.org/blog/help-iran-reconnect/

[3] https://www.protocol.com/is-signal-blocked-in-china
The government of Québec mismanaged the crisis to a phenomenonal level. Literally thousands of deaths were directly caused by that mismanagement (from the catastrophic handling of nursing homes) even with a population that was (and still is) one the most compliant to the restrictions.in the world . But we still are blamed and pusnished by the government for "slipping up" and not being responsible while we all know no one in the government will be held accountable for the CHSLDs collapsing and Quebec having some of the worst outcomes in the world. That's who's gas lighting here, not a very tiny group of fringe weirdos with almost 0 impact denying covid.
Seems like different for each person and activities / health.

For me it's easier if I was sleep deprived after several nights, and when I've not exercised for long.
Learning to live with low systematic risk is also a way forward. We have learned to live with the flu and other diseases - and people still die from them.
Here was me thinking most people ignore security alerts and don't care about any of that stuff until it stops working
While 27 minutes nighttime sleep didn't affect outcomes, another effect they observed was that afternoon naps DID increase productivity and well being. So it's not that more sleep can't help -- maybe it depends on specific type of work / life situation?
Wouldn't it be more efficient to send imaginary data instead of completely blocking telemetry? Blocking your own telemetry data results in Google collecting just a bit less info about you. They can still make decent profile about you from data they collect from other user devices.

On the other hand if you poison the well you compromise other user data as well. Detecting and filtering out invalid data takes time and effort and by the time it is detected the bogus data has already been replicated and used to drive decisions. BTW would it be legal to inject bogus telemetry?
Probably too few people to be any hospitalised in any gruop.

But yeah, the article is missing many details - how many people were infected at all for example...
Take care when interpreting this kind of data. Even if it were true that Covid-19 is the number one cause of death for 2020, you can make a strong case that this number contains a significant number of unhealthy people which would have died from heart disease & al in the near future. This means that covid effectively "steals" death from a category in the short term. Which would mean that heart disease is still a bigger long term/overall issue than Covid.

Plus this doesn't take into account the reporting bias that seems to have been (be?) prevalent in 2019.

(Although it seems heart disease was still bigger than covid for 2020 [1] if compared to 2019 [2] in the us)

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=number+of+death+covid+2020+u... - 561k covid
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm - 659k heart disease
Possible "misaligned" is a better descriptor? I don't know about most people, but according to a sleep app I've been using for a while now, my REM cycles seem to be around 1.5-2 hours. Waking up at between cycles works well, adding a half hour does not.
NeXT and Apple open sourced more projects under Steve Jobs than they have since. A world where Jobs went for Google CEO is a world where Jobs has a different aesthetic worldview entirely, and you can’t know what would have happened.
It's interesting that you always preface your arguments with a conclusion. I wonder if that's how your thought process works as well.

You get paid for already owning money... that you had to earn previously. There are many other examples of something similar. If you do a really good job on a particular month, you might still get the same wage at the end of the month. But you might get a bonus at the end of the year. Or you might be promoted next year when a position becomes available. However, you will not get a bonus and will not get promoted if you quit your job/get fired in the meanwhile. Do you also consider this unfair?

I never talked about the difficulty of doing a particular job, be it meat-packing or customer service; I meant the emotional difficulty of leaving a bad job and the mental difficulty of making the right choices and being excellent in what you do. Working not for others, but for yourself.

If there are indeed 'low-effort, high-income' jobs, why isn't everybody doing them? Why don't you personally those low-income workers that investing in the stock market (to give an example) is 'easy' and 'guaranteed' to yield high returns?

In fact, many manual jobs are already being replaced by robots/AI. Yet people are complaining about losing their jobs. If you took my high-effort, low-income job away, I'd be eternally grateful.

In the case of billionaires, they don't get to spend all their money, so the comparison between them and a minimum-wage earner is not apt. Jeff Bezos is surely holding lots of paper, but until he spends it, it has no value. Do you have proof his spending is out of line? Besides, when you're rich you overpay for everything, which means higher income (with arguably the same amount of effort) for those who provide goods and services to you.

And I've never heard of children using their inherited wealth to... lobby against inherited wealth. If anything, they'd be more in favor of it. But I see the point you're trying to make. You're not part of the 'aristocracy' (whatever you mean by that word), which you means you hold a grudge against them. Little do you know that people poorer than you hold a grudge against you too (you're considered relatively well off) and would use the first opportunity do redistribute your wealth amongst themselves.
It could be using system timezone and locale for it.

Try changing system timezone and language settings and restart machine.
A lot of trouble originated in advice being adjusted to market availabilities rather than science (e.g. don't recommend masks so people wouldn't stockpike them).

> If you hug, hold your breath

Does this still hold with B117?

If outsides are so safe why are curfews still a popular measure?
The self checkouts counters are nice answer. If computers get cheaper than people, people will be replaced.

There is serious push in eliminating low skilled labor in a lot of places.
I haven't seen much press about this outside of South Africa, but our government just sold something like 1 Million AstraZenica vaccines (the first bulk order of vaccines we received) because of a local study showing they were ineffective here.

Then we ordered something like 10 million of the Pfizer to start again... Now this.

And you can guess which variant of the virus is doing the rounds here!
Oh, 100% yes. So much of the stuff being tossed around as "fact", even today, is simply lore. Once something gets printed in the New York Times, people just believe it -- even "experts" who should really know better.

But good science takes time, and opinions can be printed instantly, so here we are.
In a sense, you both are correct. The stuff on YouTube is terrible, but it is also used by many (some made a lot of money and so are very vocal about it). A 1000 YouTube videos promoting a terrible coin. The price is going up. Even the one who went to YouTube to consume the drivel and act on it made some money. 5 videos were top-notch production quality, measuring itself against the top paid analysis.

A crazy thing went on early with ETH bot trading. Of course, if you are going to download a bot from Github which works on a few trends and technical indicators, you should not expect to make a lot of money. But many did -- It is easy to predict whether a rocket is going up. The features the bot used are still indicative (at other timeframes), because so many were running them, influencing the price in future timeframes.

> misleading impression that picking stocks is very easy

At least picking a stock yourself is easier than predicting what stock someone else will pick.

> MBAs, and work in fund management every day for decades...and will never come close to being profitable

That seems like a cosy lifestyle not worth bragging about, good job security. Rooting for the night janitor at a small hotel though, who put a 1000$ on doge coin when first reading about the rememe potential.

But I agree with the gambling and financial terrorism for kicks. More as a warning against financial irresponsibility, less as in "stay of my turf!".
The data from 1979 would also have those same people who earned just over minimum wage.

Of course drastically increasing the minimum wage would affect a bunch of people.
They represent different things.

They article picked 1985 as the start date. The 80's and 90's saw a hedge fund boom, so it's not surprising that pay followed, and there was a shortage of people able to do that specialized work.

Minimum wage is a price floor that mostly applies to unskilled labor.

It does point out disparities, but minimum wage not tracking CPI and whether minimum wage is and appropriate and effective policy tool are more interesting discussions. Or on the Wall Street side, does the incentive structure serve shareholders' best interests and the best interest of the financial system. The comparison makes for good rhetoric, but they actual causes are very different, so it just makes intelligent debate harder.
So click baity. A proper title would be, be careful when using random numbers and multi processing...
According to this [1] (first thing I was able to find, no clue how accurate): Another major cost for McDonald’s is payroll and employee benefits. These account for 36% of its company-operated restaurant expenses.

I don't know in what world a third is "only a small part". The same article mentions According to PayScale, the average worker in the fast-food industry makes $8.50 per hour. Increase that to $44 and you end up with a much more expensive burger.

[1] https://marketrealist.com/2019/11/how-mcdonalds-wages-major-...
I think UUID is no longer possible on iOS.
How are posts analyzing gun statistics or election hacking off limits (and will instantly get flagged) - but discussing minimum wage okay on hacker news?

1. Increasing minimum wage suppresses minorities and the young

2. This has been known since the 60s

Here’s some recent discussions: https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/minimum-wage-h...

Wall Street bonuses are occurring because there’s a tighter labor pool. Basically, they have to compete for top talent. Money will be made on wall street regardless.

Don’t conflate minimum wage and wall street bonuses. Both can be an issue but aren’t necessarily connected nor would increasing the minimum wage lower bonuses.
If there was a significant % of salaried workers at minimum wage that would be quite a story. But this seems rather unlikely, unless you have some evidence to the contrary?
I think that most criticism comes from the choice to include their wallet into Signal, a private messaging app.

I'm pretty certain a MobileCoin wallet app in the play store would've been well received by those who are interested in the concept of MobileCoin. Users that are interested in both Signal and MobileCoin could just install both apps side by side.

The decision to link this coin to signal appears to me to be a decision to compete with other cryptocurrencies not by merit of being a better payment solution but by reach.

Facebook and Google frequently make this decision (reach instead of merit) and HN regularly criticizes them for it. I think it is fair and honest to criticize Signal for it as well.
The difference is that discontent is necessarily under the radar in China while it is not under the radar at all in leading western countries. That extra transparency makes things a bit more predictable in the west, while in China you really have to pay attention to rumors.