skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extracted the list for people's convenience and reference

- Is this an exciting product?

- Does this solve a significant enough problem that people will pay for it?

- Will customers regularly use and see value from this product?

- Does this product provide value to companies at broad stages of their life cycle?

- Does this product align with your values?

- Do you like your potential customers?

- Will you be able to stay motivated to work on this product?

- Can you build this product in a reasonable amount of time?

- What is your moat?

- Is this product easy to distribute?

- Is downtime a life-or-death emergency?

- Will you spend a lot of time doing customer support?

- Will this product be all-consuming?

- Does the person who gets the most value out of your product control the credit card that will be used to pay for it?

- Do your potential customers regularly pay for products, ideally for this kind of product?

- Is your market a large one with a lot of upmarket competition?

- Is there demonstrated demand for a downmarket competitor?

- Is the market still growing?

- Is it easy to reach your audience?

- Is there a powerful distribution channel available to reach this market?

(i run a paid creators community where we discuss this stuff)
Excellent walkthrough, love boto. We’ve recently been using s5cmd which we’ve found is ridiculously faster than boto without any extra boto tricks.

https://github.com/peak/s5cmd
> the lighting market was fairly large by the time Edison’s bulbs showed up

Not really, as Edison needed to install a generator even to light up his bulb coming-out party, and needed to come up with a central generator to electrify city blocks because people wanted his bulbs, not arc lamps.

Edison's bulbs, with their high resistance, used far less electric power than arc lamps.
I like this analogy. Why should I be concerned about the collapse of an industry whose dominant effect is to make the world a worse place? Especially if, as in advertising, that effect is the intended outcome, rather than an externality, as in coal production.
Unless you have them actually work with you for a month, they're certainly the best predicators available for new grads with no portfolios right?

FWIW, the most effective colleagues I've worked with all scored really high on standardized tests. They're a great predictor imo
The other incandescent bulbs at the time used low resistance, high current bulbs, which consumed far too much power.
> In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26763944 you used the exact words "meant the same".

That's right. I assert that the term "alcoholism" is most widely and commonly used to denote "alcohol abuse". That's what I said before and that's what I'm saying now. I'll say it again if you'd like :)

And again, I have never in my life heard a pattern of harmless and controlled consumption of alcohol referred to as "alcoholism".

Regarding the notion of dependence, I assert that (1) there is such a thing as alcohol dependency that does not result in or qualify as alcohol abuse, and (2) that in practice all alcohol abuse involves some degree of chemical or psychological dependence. I understand there is semantic debate about this, especially among cognitive scientists, and I'm comfortable taking a side. In DSM-IV, dependence and abuse are diagnosed by completely separate criteria. In DSM-V the criteria are merged under the diagnosis of "Alcohol Use Disorder".

Regarding binge drinking, I'll argue that all regular binge drinking should be considered disordered or abusive. Both DSM-IV and DSM-V guidelines appear to allow some amount of binge drinking to escape a clinical diagnosis, but in my experience regular binge drinking is always abusive in the ways that matter. I bet you every addiction counsellor you'll ever meet will agree with me on that.

> Don't throw around terms like "pathology" then.

Like I said, the word pathology is widely used with a broader meaning outside of hospitals and doctor's offices. But if you're really intent on policing that particular word, I invite you to take up the debate up with a clinical psychologist. Tell them that they're using that word all wrong, and they should use it only the way MD's do. Let me know how that goes.

> If you have moral opinions about other people's drinking, just say so.

No, I have no problem with alcohol, and I'm regularly around quite a bit of drinking. I have no problem making a run to the liquor store for dinner or a party, and I'm always glad to be the designated driver.

My experience leads me to believe that addiction is a disease, not a moral failure. I have the disease of alcoholism, a disease that is diagnosed clinically on the basis of my behavior. Not on my genes or brain structure, but on my behavior. I will never be "cured" of this disease. The best I can hope for is remission, and that's why I can never touch alcohol again, not even a single drink. But that's just my approach. I know there are others, and I don't judge them.
good luck competing with 1000 other companies on that existing category
> foul mouthed children

Luckily you can now report accounts for this, and with enough reports they will be auto-muted now.
Then fix fingerprinting. "But fingerprinting!" is yet another pretext for just trying to make advertising in general non-viable for aesthetic or ideological reasons.
That's hilarious, because when independent, unfunded web devs make the same calculation to drop Firefox support, we get screamed at.
> In the latest Economist/YouGov poll, three in 10 Americans who have received at least one vaccinate shot (29%) believe it is safe for them to travel within the United States today.

This is important. This isn’t referring to vaccinated adults, but adults with at least one shot. Only 60% of those adults are fully vaccinated [1], and the official messaging is that you need to wait two weeks after your second shot to be protected.

Let’s assume that 50% of adults with at least one shot are two weeks after their second shot. Let’s also assume that all 29% are in that group.

With that context, these results look more reasonable. It’s still surprising that only 58% of protected adults believe that they are protected, but they’ve weakened their argument significantly by misreporting the data.

[1] Source: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations
I'm a registered user of a weather prediction suite of software maintained by someone from the NWS SOO STRC. I'm not a meteorologist and have only once barely got the thing to work, but I stay subscribed because the release announcements are pure fun.
DIY bike fit with MyVeloFit app
> It's also really difficult to build a mastery of things when you're constantly moving from one piece of code to another

Conversely, it's surprisingly difficult to get engineers to master things they aren't intrinsically interested in. We've had a stable tech stack and core architecture for 4+ years and one of my major challenges is to stop employees constantly trying to introduce $new/$shiny or major refactor X because it wasn't built how they personally would have done it and get them to just learn and understand the stack we already have - which addresses all our needs at most 5% less optimally than $new/$shiny.
The Red Faced Cube
> I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

Then you did not make it for her. You made it for you. Sounds like this can be fixed.
The ecosystem is broken, add work but many products have marketing costs built into them that are over 30% of what you pay for, in some cases, over 50% of your monthly fees are marketing expenses. In fact, in SaaS software, a world class company spends 33% (3:1 CAC ratio) on sales and marketing. I don’t mind ads or even having embedded marketing costs in the products I buy, what frustrates me is how long and hard I have to work in addition to all of the waste on marketing to find what a product does, what it costs, what it’s strengths and weaknesses are. And google does nothing to help. I get millions of pages to read, thousands of reviews (many of them fake) and at the end of the day, everyone of us has to waste our time figuring these things out. Go shop for auto insurance or a mortgage or a new piece of software or anything that costs over $1000 annually and you will see what I am talking about.
It's easy: you can use React Router and push a new route/URL when the link is clicked with onClick. This breaks middle/right clicks.

I actually did this mistake when starting with React, now I try to make everything as close to a native link as possible.
What dissapoints me is that it's not even available on Android TV/Google TV. Sure you can sideload it, but the controls are tailored for the Amazon Fire Stick remote.
curious if you've keyword-searched 'refactor' on contracting sites like dice.

maybe just start out part-time.
I think LuaTeX may have been sort-of capable for a while (with enough effort/workarounds by the user), but in 2019 or earlier, there was some work (initially by Khaled Hosny, who was also one of the major XeTeX maintainers a while ago) to have LuaTeX use HarfBuzz. (See http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb40-1/tb124hosny-harfbuzz.pdf) So (after some more work by the LuaTeX team) there's a LuaTeX variant called LuaHbTeX, which is the program invoked (since TeX Live 2020) when you write `lualatex`. The end result is that, to the best of my knowledge, LuaTeX can handle many of these things just as well as XeTeX. (See http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb41-1/tb127fischer-bangla.pdf for an article from 2020, focusing on the case of the Bangla script, which is not right-to-left, but like all Indic/Brahmic scripts has some other issues related to complex text layout.)
> YouTube is constantly breaking, probably on purpose to thwart youtube-dl.

I don't think they're trying to thwart youtube-dl, because there's so many low-hanging-fruit countermeasures that they don't employ. youtube-dl can download a playlist with hundreds of videos at 1000x playback speed. You can't tell me that's not distinguishable from regular users going through the website.

What's more likely IMO is that the constant changes that ytdl is catching up with are caused by good old CADT (Cascade of Attention-Deficit Teenagers) inside Google, driven by their infamous "build over maintain" culture.
All of the above! And also there needs to be a way of dealing with variable length characters.

This is the problem that language designers need to solve for.
You are suggesting that Chrome will ignore this header sent from a site. You are suggesting that sites will not be able to opt-out.

Seems like the easierst way to opt-out of FLoC is to use a browser that does not support it. I already do that. It does not even support CSS or Javascript. I love it.

With client-side header "DNT", sites can ignore it. With server-side header "Permissions-Policy", browsers or other programs that make HTTP requests can ignore it.
I don’t use iOS app to watch any series like on BBC iPlayer like “Line of Duty”

I use the browser. Today I watched using Chrome on my iOS.
There can be luck, too. Billy Joe BigAccount decides to give your company a massive contract because his daughter's diaper wasn't too dirty that morning.
There's still a dozen different Bonzi Buddy clones on the Mac App Store.
Too many folks commenting here seem to think that FLoC doesn't compromise privacy, when it is yet another bit of differentiation that can be used to fingerprint a browser.

It's a particularly granular one, as well, placing users into manageable cohorts of only a few dozen thousands in size, or so is claimed.

Combine FLoC with a handful of other fingerprint bits and you can track an individual.
ARM vs. RISC-V Vector Extensions
True, we have to make advertising non-viable, that's the point.

Id gladly pay for my content just to watch the ad-tech industry die, its not just about "ads", they are building the infrastructure for the surveillance police state.
that is because this is an advertisement for Metabase and not an actual article.
Prefer EXISTS to IN is also a bit odd, as the latter is trivially transformed to the former. The DBMS I work with does it universally.
> I have discovered interesting things in Facebook ads that I would not have discovered and bought otherwise.

I've never had this experience, between Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Every "targeted" ad I've been exposed to has either been for something I already have, or for something that's insufficient to my needs.

Because of this, and because I dislike the invasiveness and anti-privacy of modern advertising, I started keeping a log of all of the ads I can remember. Then before I make a purchase, I lookup the product on that list and pick a different company to buy from. If you, as a company, use invasive advertising, I will not be your customer.
V5 isn't actually a file path. It's a permanent part of the import path in go.mod that indicates the major version.
Do they come with other sensors other than smoke? I have a hard time believing google would not take the opportunity to monitor my movements.
Step one is becoming an Apple shareholder. The next step is posting about how great they are on the internet.
One of the main things that drove me away from Linux and to the Mac was the latter's superior graphical interface. Fifteen years later, as the Mac is growing increasingly locked-down and inhospitable to people like me, I'm looking for where to jump next. I haven't made a final decision yet, but one of my favorite things about Haiku is that it's simple and free of X11.
I hold the view that, on the contrary, this all mostly stems from people having been trained to expect everything they want to do online can be turned into a "business" by itself.
Thanks for talking interest but how do I check both points which you have kindly brought forth?

1. Making all my DNS requests are going through my VPN? (My VPN is on, 24*7)

2. Testing my VPN connection for WebRTC leaks? (I use NordVPN)
Yeah I can understand how it would be error prone, do you think it would work if it was integrated into existing systems?
The best programmers I know didn't go to college. It's been my experience that degrees and standardized test don't tell you jack about how well someone will do a job.
It is true that being a developer is not for everyone. That said, it is important to note that the environment you're in has a massive impact on job satisfaction. Personally, I've worked at small, medium and large companies, as well as those which have transitioned. Large companies do have the benefit of having more access to resources, but it takes a certain kind of person to fit into the kind of small box that they tend to put people into, as the corporate need to minimize risk tends to limit the amount of change any individual can effect. Small and medium size companies are the ones where an individual can make a difference in the code / product that is being worked on. Figure out what you want to get out of your career. If you're not happy with what you're doing, try something else. Being 3 years out of college means you've got plenty of time to find out what kind of work environment works for you.
> And sync is the second reason. Of course firefox would work too but they were just late to the game. I already had lots of stuff (bookmarks, history, passwords) to migrate to...

You probably know this but if you install Firefox now it will prompt you to import all your settings from Chrome. You can also set up sync between all your Firefox instances (including mobile).
Do you mind sharing what kind of programs?
I think the short-term vs. long-term topic is indeed part of it. But that already implies that people actually see and understand the long-term version.
This seems rather unlikely based on how quickly covid spreads in countries that don't take many precautions or slow to quarantine (like the USA and Russia) . Only countries that lock down fast and decisively like China, Korea, and Taiwan kept it under semblence of control initially.
I'm a little confused by this comment. Do you get the vibe that people here would be upset that innovation is coming from outside of the US? I haven't gotten that feeling, and personally don't care where a particular innovator lives.
I know this thread is mostly about Akoins but I have serious concerns about the viability of the community itself. Although I'm a big fan of new city development (perhaps even overly optimistic), charter cities, and the like, it really doesn't seem clear to me that the planned city idea is based on a sound premise fundamentally. The designs are absolutely beautiful... and look like a nightmare to implement (and also maybe not great for the local climate) and will be incredibly expensive. The main industry pitched to support the community so far seems to be tourism but Senegal only gets just a bit more than 1 million tourists each year (in comparison, Georgia got something like 111 million generating $37b in revenue). Granted, maybe this will be a huge attraction, but how many are needed to make it viable? Will locals really be able to benefit if they can't afford to buy properties (which seems unlikely for all but the wealthiest)? So, theoretically sounds really interesting and I hope he succeeds but color me skeptical.

I also recommend the recent WaPo article on his move in Uganda, I found it revealing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/06/akon-city-ug...
I bet if you gave them a standardized test (even any IQ test), they would crush it
> True, we have to make advertising non-viable, that's the point.

But why?

> they are building the infrastructure for the surveillance police state.

But FLoC is explicitly about doing ads in a way that does not lead to a "surveillance police state". So why is it bad?
UBC does, or at least did, implement it across many of their physics and math courses. I'm not personally aware of on-going discussions, but there are many faculty members there and collaborators working on this stuff, as well as many students who served as the guinea pigs.

https://cwsei.ubc.ca/
Parent comment was completely different at the time of reply.
Some anti-cheats like BattlEye try to detect if they're running in a VM.
Quite relevant here:

> Al-Khwarizmi also worked in astronomy and geography, and the word “algorithm” is named after him.
Your last point is my biggest bullet point for being skeptical.
Rob Wolf has some stuff on it iirc. Worth a look.

Sorry for being an arse, I had a rough day.
FWIW, I'm very sure third-party apps are already legal (and have always been legal): the issue was never that you aren't legally allowed to make them, it is merely that, once you do, the company making the product goes out of their way to break your client or ban your accounts; so, what you'd really need to do is to make it actively illegal for a company to prevent you from making a third-party app... even by any such technical means that they will absolutely defend as some form of "spam prevention" or "security mitigation" or "content restriction".
Jetbrains tools - specifically, PyCharm & Intellij IDEA - support this (gutter alignment) via the "Joe Celko" code style. With that enabled, you can autoformat you SQL to follow that convention.

Oddly, DataGrip doesn't provide this option.
I'm autistic myself, diagnosed and all. I don't know what you are taking about.
They did, but I called out GCE because you're not a serious cloud provider without (virtual) machines you can do what you want with.
The Chevy Nova was famous for its interpretation by Mexicans. In Mexico it means “doesn’t go” which is a less than ideal name for a car.
I haven't seen my formatting pattern listed, so here is the equivalent how I'd write it:

SELECT
a.foo,
b.bar,
g.zed
FROM alpha a
JOIN beta b ON a.id = b.alpha_id
LEFT JOIN gamma g
ON b.id = g.beta_id
AND a.id = g.alpha_id
WHERE
a.val > 1
AND b.col < 2
ORDER BY
a.foo;
You’re welcome to buy an Android phone.

iOS is the minority OS in every single market it operates in.

Try building a game for Nintendo Switch that doesn’t go through the Nintendo store and see how far that gets you.
Fearless Concurrency: Clojure, Rust, Pony, Erlang, and Dart
Most people are going with "bioweapons" research but with "accidentally leaked variant followed up by a coverup to save face"
I use Chrome for a few specific things (though Firefox is my primary browser):

* Netflix - I think I started doing this back when it wasn't fully supported in Firefox and now it's more of a reflex than for any major reason.

* Google Meet/Slack video calls. Every so often I try to run a Meet in Firefox. The audio works flawlessly but video seems to regularly freeze.

* For the few sites that the devs didn't test in Firefox and something weird happens :)
If you have an interstellar capable 5km long starship nukes are like cellphone batteries to you.
To complicate the benefit of an information advantage is that regardless of publicly available information, stock price is still set by psychology and that can be irrational. And that leads to the oft repeated "the markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."
Sorry I don't remember who the videos were from, and to be clear I don't personally use either YouTube or WallStreetBets as a source of investment advice - I tend to just stick to a super simple passive investment strategy. I just remember seeing some videos in my feed on YouTube and thinking "wow this is actually better than a lot of what I've seen on CNBC".

As an example, I did do a quick search just now on YouTube and a guy named Charlie Chang came up. [1]

I haven't actually watched any of his videos before, but I took a look through his introductory video and it all looks like pretty sound advice to me. He also does monthly videos where he recommends specific stock picks, and his fundamentals-based approached seemed totally reasonable to me. This is the type of content I had in mind when I said there are reasonable videos being published on YouTube.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giGcuofIYis
Exactly! I get blamed for cheating and reported (trust me I don't) so I whenever I play matchmaking I'm also in the "likely cheater" group. That's why I play on third party server with their own anti cheat system.
Ah and also, gave name to the word algebra
Absolutely ridiculous. Bitch to the dean. There's literally no reason to not allow calculators
Elixir + Phoenix

- Oban for background jobs
- Cachex for in-memory caching
- Tailwind for styling
- Hosted on Gigalixir

This stack is the most productive I've ever been
SuperBoilerplate: Generate custom codebase for web projects
Why not? Isn't a startup CEO basically an engineering manager and product manager in one?
Trans people do have all human rights - your gender expression does not change your access to your other rights.

So anyone saying 'trans people deserve basic human rights' is actually saying something else, like about access to women's spaces. That disingenuous advocacy of one thing to get another thing through under the table is more activist than principled. In a company or otherwise.
If you’re still using devices that lack IP control via a remote app in 2021, you get what you deserve.
They look like they have some super interesting podcasts in addition to this one, thanks for the recommendation!
I'm starting to say look at the silver lining and see how incredibly unprepared we are for a biological attack/pandemic that has a much higher kill rate. Maybe there can be some policy changes made now given the experience.
You don't consider tracking your location against your explicit settings a betrayal? Or the pushing of AMP?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/13/google-lo...
Fair enough. Wasnt intending to be snarky. I'll edit it.

The benefit of of open communication right there. :)
What I am saying is that Erlang is predictable. If it ships with a library that library will almost certainly be maintained ten years from now. And it will probably have been written by people with many years of Erlang experience.

It supports OBDC for SQL databases and has Mnesia built in.

But what about Mongo? Mongo says it has OBDC support. https://docs.mongodb.com/bi-connector/master/reference/odbc-...

In the Erlang ecosystem dependencies on random GitHub repositories is a bit of a code smell.