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Ask HN: Strategies for successfully transitioning from MVP to “second system”?
From the lean startup perspective we have the principle of MVP, a really compelling and attractive idea for early stages SAAS-based businesses. On the other hand, for more mature stages of businesses, we have to be aware of the danger of "second-system effect" and have reasonable plans in place.

Now I come to my main question[1]: as a technical founder, how one can better prepare to avoid unnecessary and preventible (self-created) big technical problems while successfully transitioning from a (successful?) MVP to a good-enough (second but non-MVP) system, without endangering the whole SAAS business itself?

Thanks everyone for your thoughtful comments. Happy holidays and (in a few days) happy new year, 2022.

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[1] - We know a new business faces myriad of challenges that it needs to overcome; however, here, I focus on a single problem only for the sake of focused group discussion.
Okay but, can I play Legend of the Red Dragon and Barren Realms Elite? Been a few decades since I had my fix...
Thanks for the link. No temperature data, that's ominous?
I’m satisfied that the situation has been, or at least will be, resolved.m however there is still the unanswered question of who audits the changes the bot makes.

There is a definitely lesson to be learnt here that bots aren’t infallible themselves and thus need reviewing too. Automation undoubtedly enhances our developer experience but we do need to ensure that automation doesn’t make unchecked changes. This is something a great many engineers can learn from too.
Copyleft has more process, since we absolutely need our engineers to understand the obligations we have, and for some of us, it may be the first time we're being introduced to open source communities and licensing, so we have to do more education in the GPL case.

Our process revolves more about _using_ open source than forking specifically.

Whenever a build runs at the company, we have a detection task that identifies the open source that is used, storing an inventory. We evaluate the open source licenses for that inventory, and have automation depending on the license that will help inform a team that has taken a new dependency with specific legal obligations - could be to get business and legal approval for something, to take training and learn about copyleft software and licensing, or that they need to post third-party buildable source. We're also able to use that inventory to help with incident response and blast radius analysis.

To scale, we need to make sure that our guidance and policies are in front of people, but we know that engineers want to get work done (or will find a way around what we have in place), and so need to be efficient and straightforward.

Not all situations will require a business or legal approval. Our motto has been "eliminate, automate, delegate" - eliminate onerous bureaucracy and policies - automate licensing compliance and inventory and approvals - and delegate to business leaders and others when there's a need for humans to be involved.

Sorry for the long answer.
Does anyone know of non energy generation related things we've learned doing this?

Seems like space research in the same way that just trying will yield dividends.
If you're willing to share your time and talents, there are organizations in some larger cities that offer volunteer opportunities with no commitment. For instance, New York Cares https://www.newyorkcares.org
Has this been proven in any sort of way? As far as I know, some suckless developers like to pretend to be "software nazis" (similar to "grammar nazi" but regarding software) and hence joke about that, but I don't think the conclusion is that they are actually nazis. Happy to be proven wrong though, haven't looked into the matter more than that and wouldn't be the first time I would be wrong.
It has an obvious flaw, aside from being super annoying - just leave the queue and rejoin in front of the other person. Then they'll do the same to you. Get it going fast enough and perhaps the spin will generate free energy.
First order effects surely should not be ignored merely because second order effects exist. Starving because someone might be upset they are no longer a lord is illogical.

You should read some history books, you appear to have instead accepted western propaganda.
The people chasing him were responding to what they thought was an active shooter situation, in a country where active shooter situations are a common occurrence. That's also a consequence of American gun culture.

There's a reason you don't see protests and hockey riots turning into gunfights north of the 49th. People don't bring guns to them, because they know that if they use them, they are going to get an absolute world of shit dumped on their heads by the courts.
What I've started this week is this:

* One each of push-up, sit-up, burpee, star jump, squat, and run up and down the stairs;

* Every week, increase by 1.
> The car is simply not as viable without proper infrastructure and implicit subsidies.

Cars work fine on dirt paths. Not as good as on roads, but they still work. Sure, it's tricky to go through a forest, but otherwise they're ok.
You could, but it is harder to break your existing patterns of behaviour, and easier to slip up if you order a coffee at a cafe, for example.

I have also quit by starting with a teaspoon of instant coffee without mixing it in hot water, then slowly decreasing the amount of instant coffee until zero over a couple of weeks.

Now I know it is so easy to quit, therefore I restart a coffee habit without fear, which means I don’t stay off the coffee!
Whoa, you can't attack other users like this on HN. We ban accounts that do this sort of thing.

You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines in other places too. I don't want to ban you, so if you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I think the key word that makes it perhaps slightly negative is "the". Take that out and it's totally fine. The "the" specifies it and implies the jobs that take Christmas off aren't as important.
FYI, coal is still absolutely huge:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_supply_and_cons...

Don't get fooled by stats from rich countries as those countries "cheat" by importing goods and materials with large entry footprints embedded into them.
Because those "arbitrary" dates are agreed on by many. So everyone can leave their works on the same day and gather together.
For my grandfather, I started with a combination of Chrome Remote Desktop's assistance feature and later Windows Quick Assist. Windows Quick Assist was easier because the helper needs to sign in and type in the one-time code, not the helped.

However, in the end, even walking him through launching Quick Assist was too error-prone, so I ended up installing Chrome Remote Desktop with a Google account that I controlled and enabled remote access, allowing me to connect without requiring him to do anything.
Another option is zoom. While screen sharing you can request remote control from the other side.
> NOTE: temperature data will begin updating 1-2 days after launch. Displays will read "---" until that point.
Assuming your store location is your current location just wanted to say its cool seeing another Bow Valley resident on HN!
Doesn't matter. Consumers like the specs, and showing off how quick they can get to 40mph on a residential street.
I'm ok with having

x:, y:

but couldn't they drop the : if there are braces to indicate this is a hash?

{x, y}
Extracting useful energy from the plasma, and protecting the reactor (magnets, control etc) from neutron bombardment are also hugely difficult problems.

Not to mention, trying to fool public opinion about how far away we are from any chance of a fusion power plant is still ethically wrong. Let's not forget that even if ITER achieves all of its goals and milestones, we will be able to start on the power extraction problem in 2030.

And let's also not forget that inertial confinement fusion, while also being presented as a potential fusion power plant concept, with great fanfare occasionally, is simply a weapons research program with no imaginable way of progressing to economical power generation.
Show HN: Need a quick GitHub test infrastructure? GitGoat will do it for you
I wish we could do this for most holidays. There’s a lot of US holidays I really don’t care about (like thanks giving). Just give me PTO instead! My first manager allowed me to do that, I thought that was really cool.
https://archive.fo/5qr8T
https://www.goabase.net/ can be a good starting point to finding events. Facebook/Whatsapp/Telegram groups (focused on music) found from your local subreddit can probably point you in some direction too. Once you've attended one or two events and gotten to known some people, they'll happily help you attend more ones, including the ones that are not advertised as publicly.
Why wouldn’t they just use a stack overflow subdomain for this?
> Satya says we're all in on open source.

You're not, just as your competitors aren't.

None of the secret sauces are Open Source: Windows, Office, Visual Studio, SQL Server, the Azure control stuff, and I don't expect them to be.

You're half in, at best, only Red Hat was all in. And they were bought out by IBM, so here we are.

Edit: I guess the truth hurts :-)
If I was in my old apartment(s) in downtown Seattle today, during COVID, I’d probably be up on the rooftop with a small cooler of beverages, warm jacket, and a good pair of headphones.

Pre-COVID, I’d be somewhere like the 5 Point Cafe or another dive bar.

Or, I’d be working on one of my hobbies.
It is both. :)
So your simple solution is to not have the bug. Wish I’d thought of this for all the bugs I’ve ever shipped.

Disclosure: Microsoft employee who sometimes writes bugs.
I got PTSD from shrooms. It took 6 months before I felt mostly functional, and another year after that before I felt “normal.”

My impression is that all psychedelics have serious negative effects for the unluckiest users.
The same would be true for the Torah, Quran or any other major religious text (including non-Abrahamitic ones) - would you have brought the same defense, if only one of those had been quoted, if you are perfectly honest?
Reith Lectures 2021 – Living with Artificial Intelligence
Alcohol is a depressant. It reduces your awareness. It even reduces your awareness of how drunk you are. It gives you pleasure and then you feel the need to drink more to stay in that pleasurable state. The idea that your actions might have consequences doesn't much enter your mind because alcohol depresses your thinking. You think less and you observe less when you are drunk. That is dangerous.
I usually go to the movies. You can often times find theaters that are empty, which can be a good thing right now
Humans already have trouble processing new stimuli well though; if we're simulating a human-level brain I don't necessarily think we can use any more bandwidth than we'd get from e.g. watching a video.
> people literally get angry watching us, will take clandestine photos, and call the police.

What is it you are doing?
Nope. It says it’ll start reporting temp data 1-2 days after launch.
Seeding focuses on recent or popular content with a particular preference for popular recent content. Seeding is a LRU model so does not reliably serve long tail content. The age or popularity of content is not necessarily a measure of its value.
consumers don't prefer oil, but what matters is whether their properly had a gas line.
Is nuclear fusion this centuries perpetual motion machine?
Last year, we had to work from home and do other kind of work, it was sprung upon us we were working on Xmas — no room for negotiation.

Thankfully, this year, unlike last, I was able to visit my family not only for Thanksgiving, but also Xmas — I only have to work the 26th.

Happy Holidays, everyone!
I'm not obsessed about "working for my passion" or anything like that. I have a good life outside of work, supported by my high paying programmer job.

I did a lot of job-hopping the past few years looking for the right place to work, and I finally found it. I look for companies that respect work-life balance, don't want me to work too hard, and have excellent engineering culture that values high quality work and has managed to retain their senior employees. I deliver great work, they make money off of the code I ship, everybody is happy. I can crunch every once in a while but we all understand that it sucks and isn't a long-term strategy.

My father was a funeral director & coroner. He would NEVER claim he "loves what he does", but he used his career to build a life for him and his family. I look at my career the same way.

What do I ACTUALLY want to do? Develop video games, make music, write fiction. But nobody is shelling out for that, and even if they are, I'm not good enough at it to compete. I know if I pursued any of my passions, I would have to work much harder for much less pay, and be treated much more poorly by my employer. I know my limits and I know that I cannot thrive in a situation like that, I've done it before, no thanks.

Part of growing older is mourning the person you could have been. If I had a time machine, I would have stayed in better shape, practiced guitar more, invested my time more wisely. But I can't, and honestly my life has turned out pretty great by trusting my instincts.
Would you judge a diabetic person for taking insulin? That's a somewhat similar situation, but it doesn't have the stigma of mental health attached to it, and there most definitely is such a thing. Your brain is part of your body and bodies can be born with all kinds of issues which we try to fix through science and medicine, whether it be an issue with your dopamine or with your insulin.
Just don't shoot down the poor schmuck, mistakes happen.

The pitchforks will come down, anyway :-)
This is my instinct working with Perl. Test the input with a regex and move on.
I did some live-stream programming this morning. It's something I started trying out recently. There were a few people to chat with, and I made a little progress on a personal project.
xev is indeed very useful to debug issues with input devices and keymaps.
My mistake. One of its founders has a PhD from there (thus my mistake), but k8s was actually created while he was working at Google, after his PhD (which has nothing to do with k8s..).
Commonwealth Fusion Systems has addressed all of those issues:

1. The higher field strength from the new HTS magnets eliminates turbulence.

2. The ARC reactor will use a FLiBe molten salt blanket to capture energy from neutrons and breed tritium to be used in the fusion reaction.

3. The ARC reactor is designed to have a swappable 2cm thick vacuum chamber, which is the component subjected to the most neutron radiation (everything else is shielded by the molten salt blanket). These chambers are expected to last a year, and while they are moderately radioactive waste, the amount of material is relatively small and they should become safe in the order of a decade.

I highly recommend watching Dr. Whyte's talks on YouTube, he discusses the challenges, design, and performance in an approachable way. There's a timestamp index in the comments on this video:

https://youtu.be/KkpqA8yG9T4
The pattern appears to follow stock market hypes. First China markets: construction, then child education. And now nft/metaverse, a US hype. Given there is no actual underlying product or business, it looks like a vehicle for pump and dumps.
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thanks for posting this. had no idea about the "use it or lose it" clauses! what the hell, america?
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For better or worse, I would never know unless you told me, and to use your metaphor, the very fact that you can socially interact here on HN at all more or less puts you in that camp of being 1/16 Cherokee and then stating "people like us".

Of the individuals I interact with on a daily basis, some can't vocalize or interact in any meaningful way beyond grunting, but of the ones that could, most would likely end up banned or shadow banned if they tried socializing on HN.

I don't discount your experience in the least, but for the individuals I personally know, work for and with, one of the most valuable things they can receive is someone taking the time to empathize with them. Most people don't and they end up having no or very few friends and/or otherwise being social outcast.
I should have chosen my words better. The point is, given that there is limited capacity for MIQ slots -- some citizens will inevitably be bounced by pay-for-visa holders who are also in line.
That's not how you get promoted
If you’ve ever been curious what William Gibson’s later novels are like, this gets you pretty close.
I used the word “independent” on purpose, and I was being a bit disingenuous since I already knew there wasn’t any independent data. I clearly failed to give the hint since you ended up giving a Tesla link.

Please do not put your safety in the hands of the marketing department and their misleading stats, they will be the first to point the finger of blame back at you when something happens.
1997 Asian Financial Crisis
This makes very little sense. The complexity is an implementation detail. PHEVs are cheaper than EVs by a wide margin, complexity be damned, and are more practical to boot. Building PHEVs does not in any way reduce the amount that will be spent on battery R&D; PHEVs will consume all the batteries we can throw at them because we will still want the biggest battery pack available.
It goes from less-something to more-something as frequency but more-something to less-something as wavelength. "colour" is a mix of power at each frequency, and everyone has different retinas, different optical cortices, and different cultural contexts.

That this causes them such confusion makes it difficult for me to empathize with muggles.

"Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity."
-- Herman Melville, Billy Budd

What I love about this quote is that violet and orange are so far apart in the rainbow.
Can you please stop posting unsubstantive/flamebait comments like this to HN, and also, can you please stop posting primarily for ideological battle? Your account has become close to a single-purpose account (arguing about one thing) which is not allowed on HN—it goes against the intended spirit of this place, which is curious conversation on unpredictable things.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Something is really busted with this site and Firefox on the mac. I cannot read it at all.
Thank you–very informative answer.
Do you never write code with bugs or do your employers just judge you much less harshly than you judge others?

> If you yourself were creating such automation wouldn't that be one of the first and most obvious things you would think of?

Probably not, because it sounds like this was not intended to ever run on forked repos at all.
Probably what you would worry more about, in a situation none of us can begin to imagine, is not a useful guide to the actual risks.
Answering a question with a question is a time honored tradition. Just because it's rhetorical doesn't mean it was negative. If the person I responded to answered those questions for themselves, then it might lead them to realize how their question totally missed the point of the post they responded to. Teach a person to fish blah blah.
Good job owning the mistake and planning to prevent it in the future.
It's quite possible that they are reversed; I'm sort of guessing. PMOS transistors are usually bigger, so I think it's the one on the left. The chip could have n-wells or p-wells, so it could go either way with the extra diffusion.
Lol “draconian measures”. Yep we’re all under house arrest down here it’s awful. Basically the same as Stalin’s Russia.
Ask HN: Which software company did you think could never fail but did?
There have been a bunch I have witnessed. Novell, Wordperfect, Borland, Lotus, Sun Microsystems, & DEC (last too were mixed HW/SW).

Which are today's bunch that seem unstoppable that may disappear? Oracle? IBM? Facebook?
My shed cost me 3k in building supplies. It is 160sqr ft and has flooring…etc.

We could easily build enough units to house homeless but they won’t meet our zoning and permitting process.

City’s like San Francisco don’t actually want to solve the problem. Instead they just want to profit off of it.

The issue is government, not available funds or land.
You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly. Did you not see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29601700, just a few days ago?

We ban accounts that post like this. I don't have the impression that you're doing it deliberately, because you've also posted good things, but the problem isn't just this sort of post—it's what it evokes from other users. It basically leads to the degeneration of the forum, which is the outcome we're trying to avoid here, or at least stave off.

I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules, that would be good.
1) bot changes license

2) bot2 takes data for copilot

3) we are "sorry" for bot 1

4) bot2 took data
> wouldn't this also mean that the error would be easily detected based on public feedback alone

Please see the entire public feedback you’re a part of right now.
Yes, but they're made based on economic conditions that were set in place decades ago. This is a point Rayiner has made about other equity issues (for instance: about the need to explicitly correct for the underrepresentation of women and minorities in the professions); this is simply another instance of that.

You can raise the standard of living in the redlined neighborhoods, and that does happen at the margins, but it happens slowly and only when economic conditions across the city are good.

So no, it's not the case that Whole Foods or Pete's is just going to spontaneously site a new store in K-town. They're not avoiding that area because they're racist, but they are avoiding it because of racism.
Using Set terminology, religious knowledge and scientific knowledge are just intersecting sets. It's not necessary that one of them contains the other. As such, it's not surprising that there is no mention to Dinosauirs in religious textbooks.
Go figure - but I wouldn't be surprised if that changes sooner rather than later. Attitudes toward natural psychedelics seem to be rapidly changing in both political parties.

The Shroomery has a a spore exchange board, and plenty of people would be happy to send to CA, but you have to be registered for 30 days and make 50 posts to participate. They try to discourage drive-bys in favor of building the community.
People on HN are completly crazy and uneducated... Whenever there is something like this you can be sure you will find hundreds of insulting or mean comments on the commit or PR... It gives a really bad image of the community.
Also Ardour and LMMS for audio!
Leave one headphone out, just in case :D Hope a cute guy approaches you one day soon!

To answer the question, I've heard anecdotal stories of atleast a few of my friends, how they got "adopted" by a random group of people celebrating in the city. Always be safe of course.
What would your best advice/tips to someone considering creating their first udemy course?
Thanks for writing this. I’ve been feeling mournful about “giving up” and returning to a “normal” software engineering job, but the things in quotes here are a matter of perspective. Ain’t nothing wrong with doing good work and using the fruits of it to enjoy your life. Thanks for sharing your perspective.