skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To be fair, in 1970 those 2 digits were very expensive.

More than just "very expensive". Often, you were limited to exactly 80 columns for each record. If you had for instance three dates on one record, using 2 digits instead of 4 digits saved 6 columns, which is over 7% of the available space.
I'm scared of the legal stuff. Every time I get an offial-looking letter, my heart pumps and I think I'll need go to jail soon.

I don't like doing sales or marketing, either. I'd be full of doubts all the time because I'd know the code that the product runs on.

I want to continue working for the early-stage startup I'm currently at. But I'd consider starting my own company at some point as long as I have cofounders who take care of legal, sales and marketing.
Being critical or skeptical is easy. It's a low-effort approach to encountering new ideas. It's fine most of the time because most new ideas aren't going anywhere, at least not anytime soon. So there's little-to-no cost in rejecting them.

But it's a boring way to go about things. I can't speak for anyone else, but it certainly doesn't engage my intellectual curiosity, which is the purported purpose of this site.

A few years ago I made up an exercise for myself. I resolved to look at every startup in each YC batch for that year. I went to Tech Crunch and read their Demo Day reports and the short blurbs they had on each company.

For most of them, my reflexive response was that they were dumb or pointless or unworkable. Fine. Noted.

But then I made myself come up with best case scenarios for each of them. What if this does work, what's the best possible outcome? What's the bigger picture that this could be the entry point for? If I was given this startup idea, what would I do to make it work?

This was of course much more difficult than simply dismissing the ideas. And it was ridiculously time consuming since there's now 50 bajillion YC teams every season.

But it also turned out to be very enjoyable. I got hooked on it. Letting my imagination and analytical skills run in optimistic, problem-solving directions. And now I have a much fuller and more capable toolset to use when I approach new concepts. It's paid off for me in concrete ways in my professional and personal life.

Considering the best case take and how you'd make it real is a habit I very much recommend.
EU banks don't want US citizens as customers however residents have a right to a basic payment account. Details at https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/financial-pr...
Software is the most toxic environment possible for freshness bias. Every month it seems like there's a new framework/ecosystem/whatever and everyone's migrating to it and you're behind the times if you're not using it.
As a Canadian, I think this is shameful and a despicable act by the "leader" of our country.

But let me get one thing straight, Justin Trudeau is no leader. His actions throughout his leadership have played off as one of legacy and self-preservation. This is the same person who corrected someone from saying "mankind" with "peoplekind" while extending dinner invitations to extremists.

Four Premiers (nearly half of them) have dismissed Justin's invoking of the Act that permits him to do such things as seize personal bank accounts. The opposition parties have essentially shat all over his lack of leadership and handling of this whole mess.

The Convoy is refusing to even speak to Justin and have asked for other leaders to step into his place. That in itself should say it all.

The Emergency Act itself is being invoked inappropriately, and is essentially Justin throwing his hands up in the air saying "I don't know what I'm doing, so let's try this!"

Really the way forward is for Justin to hang his head in shame and resign, and have a more capable leader installed without resorting to the "Emergencies" Act.

Sources:
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/caution-must-be-taken-a...

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2002879555581
Reddit search can be hit or miss, but overall the content is higher quality than the numerous garbage quality articles that you will get for searching a broad term. You'll also often have access to a broad community and maybe wiki if you search a popular enough topic. Reddit really shines on niche topics though, like what capacitor do I need to replace in my 1996 CRT monitor. Often if there is any information to be had you'll get the best explanation through reddit, of course this doesn't apply for all things but it's good enough that I'm guilty of adding reddit to my google search terms more and more.
I wouldn't say that either is overpopulated. Arizona, in particular, has plenty of water and is sparsely populated. It has more square miles of mountains than Switzerland.

However, it may not have enough water to keep the huge cotton, alfalfa, and other water intensive crops growing. Agriculture is a huge industry in Arizona and it takes a lot of water to grow water intensive crops in the desert. This is done because water is extremely cheap and the sunshine gives you more harvests per year, and the lack of rain doesn't damage cotton. That's an issue of depleting aquifers via over-farming rather than too many people moving into the state and wasting too much water on showering and cooking.

Another issue for the Phoenix metro is sprawl. But again, that's not a question of too many people so much as too many wanting to live on large per-person plots of land all connected to the Phoenix metro. You can be rural and have large individual plots in the Verde Valley or other more rural areas and you can have urban areas with higher density, but trying to make low density urban areas doesn't scale very well.
What are you trying to research? If you have the idea already, are you trying to find out if it exists already? Are you trying to find potential customers? This is very vague.
Not exactly. Most people require mortgages. The original owners might be underwater on their mortgage. People who can make it work generally aren't going to sell for a loss. The people who can't make it will be foreclosed, providing some affordable options but probably not enough.

So yes, prices will move with demand, but it won't be quite as simple due to the debt instruments involved. Essentially, prices will drop due to the lack of demand from a lack of affordable debt. Just my hunch.
I wish he would have delved into the cost of finality or reversals - this is a core driver of the cost of an entire system, either in time or in money.
I'm starting to think the concept of something being "toxic" is borderline nonsensical. It's sort of a word that has been repurposed to identify the inherent tragedy of the commons. It's like a non-religious version of "fallen" nature of man. I'm not religious, but I grew up with that term thrown around with a sigh.

To illustrate what I'm thinking of... things that are "toxic": people experiencing road rage and people who cut in lines of traffic and the people who honk at them in anger, people who talk during movies and the people who shush them overtly, hecklers at shows, etc...

Any situation where there are quasi-anonymous status, and challenges to any social transgressions are powerless at best, and unhelpful at worst, will lead to "toxic" culture. Yea, it's not all good vibes, and people can be assholes. The reason I'm still on hacker news and reddit and NOT on twitter is exactly because the voting mechanism and reasonable moderation is the best defense against the amount of insane sociopathy on the internet.

It is interesting though, for people here like the author, for whom there is no expectation of the tragedy of the commons that I do worry a bit about. If you find the city intolerable because other people can be assholes, move to the suburbs. If you find hacker news intolerable because of the assholes, sure get off the internet, but the problem isn't the internet, the problem is the human condition.
Yeah, major wtf by this author. Clearly didn't do their homework.
You're making a huge assumption that the owner is not also providing labor. In some cases this may be true, but I would imagine that it's the exception rather than the rule.

For instance, I can be a freelancer and have to handle client interactions, billing, taxes, etc. in addition to the technical work that I perform; OR I can go work for somebody else and just focus on the technical work and make approximately the same amount (which is to say that the person for whom I'm performing the technical work is handling the other non-technical work that I don't want to have to care about).
I'd wager it's mostly fixed string indexes, regular expressions ("\d{2}"), and things like that. Maybe also some people with a "varchar(2)" column in the database.

A lot of software is written by junior programmers, not infrequently in a hurry. It's an easy mistake to make and if you've been bitten by it once you'll remember it, but many people have never been bitten by it.
For future instances where you give up trying to figure out the wordle, I built a site to make that easier: www.wordlespoiler.com

Word of warning: it has the answer to both today and tomorrows wordles.
The price is crazy only because you're used to not seeing the price you're paying (ads). I spend $10 on things way less valuable very often. A good search engine is at least as much value as intellij to me, and my company pays 5 times more than that per month for intellij.
I'm surprised the writing did not mention cash. Was the first thing I thought of. Digital transactions can be toyed with, but cash has no record, and no automated means to reclaim it.

"Payments" perhaps means "Digital Payments"?
I wonder if this app will even have M4M/F4F. It'd be ironic given Thiel's orientation if it didn't.
The Unbundling of Airflow
SLS is more like $4-5B per launch including sustaining costs. If you gave spaceX that money they could move whatever the equivalent needed mass was to orbit today on existing F9 solutions.

And they could do EXPENDABLE starships (or different upper stages) that would absolutely CRUSH SLS. Take the heatshield off and fly a cargo variant of the upper stage - for $4B per launch they would be raking it in.
> most well moderated free forum

It’s the most well moderated free forum that has a broad scope of topics. Many of the major domain-focused forums (for cars, modeling, collecting) are well managed by moderators and a community who like to see dense value for the topic at hand, low tolerance for unrelated conversation, and see their hobby as a refuge from the noise everywhere else in life. On HN, even though nominally focused, any and all topics make it on here.
I've come really to appreciate passwordless authentication [1].

[1]: https://auth0.com/docs/authenticate/passwordless/authenticat...
I'm guessing something like Metafilter's buy-in.
Check your Google ad settings here...

https://adssettings.google.com/
The installation instructions are "hidden" behind a weird company signup form (https://chromeenterprise.google/os/chromeosflex/#form-sectio...)

Here is the direct link to the installation guide:
https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11552529
Heaven forbid anyone asks you to do any explicit emotional labor in addition to technical labor! The horror!

"I get paid to write code, not to be a human!!!!"

It's pretty obvious the bias here if you flip things. We all know that both emotional labor and physical/technical labor are required to get the job done. If you said everyone would only be rated on hard metrics around their social abilities, and the programming would be left up to whatever each person feels like, it would lead to technical chaos. I doubt anyone would say, "That's so infantilizing. We're professional programmers we don't need these hand holdy forced "engineering architecture" meetings. Just let us code together and I promise we'll build the product the right way, and on time."

In the same way, if you don't explicitly plan and architect the culture at your company, it can lead to similar chaotic situations. People only associate organically based on similar background, similar interests, similar personality, etc. This leads to basically every single bias that everyone not a white/asian straight man has been screaming about for decades in tech.
HN has now been around a while, is really popular, and is starting to catch the attention of ad/marketing companies now, though - how do you know what here is genuine?

Even the heuristic of "only trust accounts older than n years" isn't perfect, as eventually a few people will undoubtedly sell their old accounts on a dark web market for a little extra cash...
It’s hard to tell without knowing exactly what the app is doing, but it’s entirely possible.

A lot of the guidelines are hard or impossible to police, and rely on developers following the “honor” system.

For example, Apple's App Review does not – and cannot – know what really happens to your data once an app has access to it.
For those in the field, the progress of model performance feels just as rapid. Language models today are incredibly powerful compared to language models in the early 2010s.

I think the advent of retrieval models (retrieval transformers) will continue this compute trend in a more efficient manner. They allow focusing of the compute onto indexing of the knowledge.
I'd also add that any search should be for metadata attached to that piece of content. If I search for Jackie Chan, I want to see Jackie Chan films (or appearances in TV episodes) vs. the only film with Jackie Chan in the title.
The reason that person's viral load went from 40k to 14k is because that's how HIV infection works. It would have done so whether he was fasting or eating 3 cheeseburgers a day. [0]

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Natural-Progression-of-H...
Do you apply this sort of thinking to your job?
These benchmarks are pretty crazy, especially as I presumed NumPy to do far better. Isn’t tensorflow etc already doing GPU acceleration? Is this actually a fair comparison?
Hacker News has helped my improve my online communication style considerably.

This has mostly amounted to developing a habit of excising or refining passages which seem: unkind, unnecessary or off-topic.
Maybe neocities? I haven't experimented with it, but you get a gigabyte of storage with the free version, you can use their HTML editor or just upload files, etc. Seems like it abstracts away the un-fun parts and lets you get down to just building the site.
I've hit this many, many times, but I'm not sure I can easily reproduce it. Tends to happen when there are more search terms, in my experience.
> uwu

Debatable part of hacker culture. I'd say it's more a part of postmodern culture.
If this were shark tank I would pass. very saturated market, not much margins or growth.
This fits well with my own worldview. I've been griping about Google results for years, and jumped for DuckDuckGo when it became usable. I'm sure that fifteen years from now, DuckDuckGo will be ad-infested crap and someone new will come along to replace it, just as Google replaced AltaVista.

Even DDG knows that it can't handle everything, and so it has its bang shortcuts. I've used the !reddit one, and I'd use !w (Wikipedia) except I do those from the Firefox search bar.

I've heard the "everything's a bot" theory before, but never saw a name put to it before. I'd have to guess that 99% of all SMTP traffic is spam at this point.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
> It's this intellectual arrogance where the commenter acts like he's some sort of hyper intelligent savant observing creatures of lower intelligence that is completely toxic. Whenever I see that type of garbage comment, I think dude... the other person just disagrees with you stop talking about him like he's some animal your observing in a laboratory.

Enlightenment ensues when the meta loop is closed. All criticism winds back on itself, including this comment and the next comment commenting on it...they keep wrestling to get outside or on top of each other.

The singularity of meta-commentary is a deep belly laugh.
Tineye has always been superior to Google reverse image search

(Assuming that's what they were going for, not sure Google really put effort into it)
Regarding the dropping of the user agent string, are folk not concerned that it would lead to future web development coalescing towards a Chrome "world view"?
Why spend billions of dollars on armies of PhDs when you can create a better organic intelligence in 9 months at a fraction of the cost?

Why try to beat nature?

I'm being only semi sarcastic here.
With the year so prominently in the title, i thought this was going to be about a technology that is obviously not trendy anymore, ie, JAX The Terrible Java XML Parser. I'm disappointed that it was just blog title spam about some non-controversial modern technology.
It makes sense to exercise some rights though a company or similar organisation, such as a charity, NGO or political party, and not others.

>This seems neither logical nor to have any legal basis.

As I said, it has a long history and sound basis in common law jurisprudence in the west going back at least to medieval law, and in other cultures going back even further. The very word corporation, or incorporation (corpus being Latin for body), expresses the principle of representing and acting on behalf of a body of people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood
> So, $10/month would be a steal compared to not using a search engine at $0/month.

But that's a fantasy dichotomy as long as free search engines exist, and there's plenty of them. If you could somehow change the world and wipe them all out in an instant, I guarantee that people would scramble to provide alternatives. We will never live in a world where your only option is $10/month or no search. (Free & open source search engines already exist and you could host one at home or on a cheap VPS; there are also P2P search engines)
If you saw the "technosociolegal" position at the top, you'd appreciate a broader perspective.

Why is the couple who held the bitcoin from the hack being prosecuted? How were those funds being unwound if the transaction is final? If all of the exchanges were to denylist coins from a hack, do they actually exist or have they been taken away?
B2B Supply chain startup Bizongo completes ESOP buyback worth $3.7 Mn
Just gently pointing out that you’re inviting the same heated discussion warned about above you.
Nice!

I've noticed on most dating apps, if you turn on the conservative filter, the matches/results become more attractive as well. Hope this pans out.
I don't get it. Is this some sort of research study? Take a few cat picks put them on a page and see how many email addresses you can collect?

If so V2 should have Social links too!
I did software dev at a marketing firm for about a year, and it was pretty soul sucking, so I know what you mean. I won't work at one again unless it's literally my only option.
>some times and places, is “no takesies-backsies.” Like much of the child law, it both rhymes

It doesn't rhyme.
Creating the First Adult Blockchain Game (NSFW)
15 years ago, I wrote a program to track which books I have read and automatically synchronize the list it with various library accounts. Then I thought I would start a company selling the program.

But that failed, because every library I talked to said, they cannot support commercial software.

Then I gave up all commercial software development and made it fully open-source, so I do not have to deal with it anymore. But that backfired, because too many people asked me to add stuff, and now I am forever stuck maintaining it, and cannot start a new project
Maybe a RAD tool like https://wappler.io
I suspect shills are aware that people like yourself are looking for negative reviews.

Example: https://old.reddit.com/r/eero/comments/mk0l1w/eero_vs_orbi/

This entire thread dumps on Orbi Wifi devices and praises Eero. Maybe Orbi is inferior to Eeero, but the one-sidedness of the discussion is a bit unsettling.

The top comment was created by a poster who almost exclusively posts on the /r/eero subreddit over the span of one year. Many of their comments are specifically in praise of Eero devices.
No automated means, but if you get a receipt then you could actually try to reverse it (depending on local laws etc.). So even there little finality in a lot of everyday situations.
https://github.com/muennich/sxiv

Well this is going to be confusing.
Great piece, but it makes me feel like I'm atypical in my field, and perhaps that as the product field has grown up it's become super boring. I have no doubt that some PM jobs are the way you stereotype web2, especially at big tech companies. But I would never want one of those roles.

I've been a PM by title for 15 years, longer by responsibility/scope. I've always been a 0-1, often pre-PMF, always shipping, always carrying water for ENG and UX, often writing prototype code and sometimes landing patches. PM'ing in these cases is always more art than science, there's never enough data, you have to make decisions, execute, and own it. I also currently work at Mozilla where our code, our bugs, and our community chatter is all in the open.

Product has matured a lot since I got into it. I'm grateful there are career tracks and resources for folks to grow and move companies. I have noticed that the PM role has ossified at many companies, and seen it at events. If the majority of the PM jobs are the way you describe the web2 space -- watching a graph go up and down, abstracted away from engineering and technical exploration, removed from the shipping process, writing TPS reports -- that makes me sad for the field. There will always be a need for 0-1 PMs (whatever the job title actually is) because small teams especially hit velocity (velocity = speed + direction) ceilings. It doesn't matter how fast you are if you're headed in the wrong direction.

Strategy gets a bad name because so many big companies do it so badly. Strategy is choices + execution. If a company decides to prioritize devrel (as rexstjohn suggested) that's strategy.
Ask HN: Is HN becoming more of an “echo chamber”?
Looking at the current top HN post "Google Search Is Dying"[1] on the HN front page and all the upvotes it's receiving and reading most of its comments, I'm kind of forced to ask:

In your opinion:

1. Is HN becoming more of an "echo chamber"?

2. If yes[2], how big of an "echo chamber" you think HN has become (or is becoming)?

3. How wide-spread is this issue? Is it limited to certain topics only? If yes, what are those topics?

...

My reason for asking this question is that afore-mentioned post[1] is referencing mostly YC personalities and HN post as answering its main question: "How do we know Google is dying?"[1] which I don't think is really very convincing.

Note:

I find it quite ironic that I'm asking this question on HN while knowing that one can't rely too much on the received responses. Still, IMHO, HN is the best place for asking this HN specific question than any other place on the internet (at this moment).

Edit:

1- Disclaimer: I don't have any investment or work-related relationship with Alphabet/Google or any of its subsidiaries. Just a regular HNer who loves mostly STEM or business related healthy/constructive discussions.

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[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347719

[2] - To some extent, I accept that all online social platform are inherently kind of an "echo chamber", in a very specific sense. However, I could not be alone here expecting a little more from the majority of HN users (compared to users of other online social platforms, like Reddit) when it comes to the issue of an "echo chamber" and its corresponding negative effects.
Its down to 38%
It doesn't have to be one or the other. It can start with Gmail and later offer a hosted solution as well.
It’s a modern Sysyphus scenario. I could do it, if I did nothing else, and it would not contribute to my doing any useful work and I’d be at the bottom of the hill tomorrow morning.
deep, real-time scans of digital media streams, subscription behavior, market responses.. things like that, where the inputs are digital already