skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best way to make money in software at the moment is to sell subscription for what most considered a "valuable value-add" at the top end of the stack.

Examples of value-add:

* Much better UI or API experience.

* Much better installation or maintenance process.

* Much better scalability story when data becomes huge.

So unfortunately, it is usually hard for low-level tools to make money (except databases. They have a clear path to make money).

But there's a prior art to your effort: Aerospike is a legit company now but it started from a proxy & SQL layer OSS project on top of Redis. See:

* https://code.google.com/archive/p/redisql/wikis/CommandRefer...

* https://code.google.com/archive/p/alchemydatabase/

But... what does giving up mean here?

* The opportunity to make lots of money in a hot market?

* The opportunity to get a great health insurance? Which you will need when you have a kid.

* The peace of mind knowing that paycheck will always come in every 2 weeks?
> $3.5k/m which is not actually all that generous. You're lucky to get a studio for that these days in Manhattan.

Pshh.
They won't let you see much without the app. I've never been back.
We're already seeing ruthless city battles; see https://t.me/uniannet/34755. They said 33 civilians are reported dead from Russian air strikes. And in Irpin' outside Kyiv, heavy fighting for the city continues - here (1) they've destroyed (in the words of the soldier "f'ed up") 4 Russian vehicles and are "Holding out".

1: https://t.me/uniannet/34752
The internet was never finished
> Trump loves Putin and the power he wields.

That doesn't really mean anything on the ground. The situation in the US is 100% different. Some dumb-ass president can love authoritarian shit all they want, but don't have a ton of actual power to lock up journalists. Russia just today shut down its last non-government owned TV station. That just can't happen in the US legally, and the courts are quite protective of speech and property here. The Trump years saw numerous cases of supposedly friendly judges telling him to fuck off. And the few avenues he did have to legally attack journalists, like prosecuting their sources, he didn't use unlike the previous administration.

Frankly he's just a stupid demagogue, and a symptom of the erosion of trust in institutions. But he didn't wage war on the press. THere's no evidence to support that outside of his bluster. He belongs in jail, but not for this.
Keep your job and work on as side project until you demonstrate product-market fit and can raise seed funding.
Sounds great, but how do we enforce it? Invading the countries that don't want to give up nukes will make them "give them up" in a bad way.
I think remote work actually helps in extending how long one can be burnt out and still working - at least for as long as you are still functioning.

You don't need to put on your poker face all the time and can hide the depersonalization ghost in the closet for a little bit if there's a meeting. You can go hug your dog afterwards or do something else to keep on trucking.

Then some companies mandated a return to the office. Ghosts won't be in the closet for an entire workday in a bland office setting full of people you don't want to be around, so people finally quit.
It sounds like you've started building a solution before you've verified a problem exists. Other people in the comments thread have said as much, so I won't belabor the point. I do, however, want to recommend two books on the topic of customer development (the skill set that would benefit you most right now). One book is "Four Steps To The Epiphany" by Steve Blank ("The Startup Owner's Manual" is also great), and the other is "Marketing For Developers" by Justin Jackson.

TL;DR- my understanding of the customer development process is:

1. Talk to people who live and breathe the market you're targeting.

2. Get to know their pain points.

3. Zero in on a pain that they're a) willing to solve using software, and b) willing to pay to alleviate, and then

4. Iterate on a potential solution (starting from a very low-res mockup), getting feedback all along the way.

There are other resources out there on this same topic (Steve Blank is another amazing author in this domain).
Welp... now i understand why I've only encountered like one other person that seemed to immediately understand what I was talking about when I used the word "thought-shapes".
Most of what you hear about sequestering carbon are too simplistic of strategies and models, and usually do not take into the account the bio-availability of carbon.

Carbon that is eaten and used by plants, sequestered in soil are bio-available in the ecosystem, and if designed well, then there can be many kinds of yields useful for human. Healthy soil -- not dirt! -- with living organisms holding it, has a dramatic effect on the microclimate of the area, and helps regulate the microclimate across the solar cycle.

When you have bare dirt, and no plants or anything living there, then the area gains more temperature variability.

Because of the way we farm in the modern world, we leave a lot of bare dirt around. Thermal satallites show a rise in temperature every year during the planting and harvesting seasons. The idea of reducing carbon emissions from industrial processes and cars will not reduce the climate extremes we are seeing. Having better land management, tightening up carbon and water cycles in microclimates helps a lot more, and have many beneficial side-effects (such as reducing weath inequality gaps, having stronger more cohesive communities)

But an example of what I am talking about. The film is focused more on better water management, but it's integrated with bringing fertility back to a wasteland. The water harvesting strutures discussed in the video are dug in a way that also accumulates organic matter so that topsoil can rebuild on what is otherwise bedrock. https://youtu.be/KtHuIlfyJao
Another thing that's going to hit them is that the leasing companies are looking to get their leased aircraft back: https://airlinegeeks.com/2022/03/02/lessors-look-to-repatria...

Things are not looking great for their airline industry.
Or you can just use dc3dd that features a progress bar by default.
You're proving my point. None of those bullets are even considerations - they're problems in search of money. The initial solution was implemented by someone who didn't bother to notice everything else on this system was using scheduled tasks (or services and Quartz) to do their work. The didn't bother to notice that there was already Serilog setup to do reporting to another system that the customer was already using to monitor processes. They didn't bother to look for the local storage that was available. Instead they purchased a Kafka instance at the company's cost and threw tech at it. Oh, and then quit and got a different job, before writing any docs.

My solution integrated with current tech, didn't have any of the problems outlined in those bullet points, and has required 0 maintenance and or updates for over 4 years. I don't want to even think about how many Kafka and couch releases there have been since then.
Yeah giving them the EU passports and just attributing them to „EU“
OP should probably try over a cellular connection, to control for that blacklisted-ip possibility and the MITM one as well.
I think the difference here is Microsoft's client security story has been universally a hellscape so no one trusts it.
A bit of counter-historical facts.

1. Russia wants to eliminate Ukraine, and Armenia is the sole explicit supporter

2. Russia did the same in 1915, arming Armenian Dashnaks to kill 500K to 1million of their neighbors; Turkish or Kurdish civilians unprotected due to Ottoman war against Russia.

3. Russia in 1990 punished Azerbaidjan protests in Baku and used Armenia as a puppet which occupied not only Karabagh but an additional 20% of Azerbaijan land and killed and displayed 100K to 1million people.

4. Ataturk's presence and war against occupants from Italy, England, Greece, France starts in 1919 long after the world war 1. So your interpretation is wrong.

Finally yes I'm sad for the deaths, like everyone in Turkey. But we're sick of people who omit 5 million Turkish deaths in Balkans and Caucasus.

5. My several best mates in Turkey are Armenians. I love their everyhing. But I think Armenian nationalist heritage of Russia supported aggresiveness hurts all neighbors including Georgia too.

Armenia's sole friends are Russia and Iran - and that is not a coincidence.
Surely they started with the fake special forces then, just as a prank for Ukraine?
Surely the ukrainians just killed the general of those decoy/fake spetsnaz?

Surely they asked for cechen, mercenary, bielorusian and even Kazhatanian troops just to join the 85% of non commited troops, because it makes perfect sense to bring troops from thousands and thousands of km instead of using your non-commited troops that you have already staged.

They did not commit all, and russia doctrine is recon by fire and they don't give a fuck about their conscripts lives, but what you see is what Russia got.

They didn't switch to demolish cities because they are evil.

They ran out of precision munitions and the ukrainian had their asses handed to them so they switched to siege warfare.

You are seeing the true face of the russian army, subpar by all standards, but enough for the butcher in Kremlin.
And this is exactly why I’m always playing the damp squid when people advocate for more features being supported via shell escape codes.
I will!

I even have a video: http://jeffrey.io/AdamaPlatformInTenMinutes.mp4

And I'm building it as a SaaS which I've made available: https://www.adama-platform.com/ for "early access".

I'm still trying to figure out how to explain it. Basically, take an IDL like proto/thrift. Then add in the ability to transform the data. Then add in a sense of privacy of who can see what. And boom, the foundation is laid for a document transform language.

The reason to do all of that is because the state of the board game requires a great deal of care. For instance, wouldn't it be great to offer Undo? What if you hook a socket directly up the document and then differentiate state changes after privacy checking?

Right now, it's a mess, and I'm forking efforts to work on a board game web ide where people can build board games online. Adama is the foundation for the IDE such that it starts collaborative from the get-go.
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic, but I upvoted this because that is a point of view I have never heard before.
Step 1....I'm assuming this is what's happening with my company too.

We announced April offices are back open.

Step 2. will be hybrid for supervisors/managers

Then returning everyone.

My guess is all back to normal by October.
As others have said, you seem to be focused on the deep technical aspect of your projects, with no clear customer or market.

What is the driving force behind your attempts to start a software business ? IMO, that is the most important question that you need to answer before thinking of "what now". I'm not clear if you want to be your own boss, if you want fame and glory, if you want to be filthy rich or any other reasons. None of them are worth feeling bad about, really, but it's important that you're honest about it. Only then will you be able to forge a path that fits that goal.
Yes. There was information in russian news that the satellites are ”under arrest” because UK is a state ”hostile to Russia” and OneWeb is partly owned by UK.
> intelligence services are super advanced these days

If that were true, how do you reconcile every Western intelligence agency being 100% wrong about the likelihood of Russia invading Ukraine?
Allowing technical debt to accumulate like that will, with near 100% certainty, damage your development activity sooner or later. The only exception is if you've already damaged it critically in some other way.

Some contrived example where you might lose significant money because you made a generally good change but it had a bug and that bug was somehow missed by your entire review and testing process and the consequence of that bug was able to go unnoticed for a long time in production and then the result was disastrous isn't really a very compelling counter-argument.

If you subsequently hold weeks of post-mortems, meetings, process improvements and outright terminations, the person who made the otherwise useful change that had a bug should be among the last to get called out, somewhere after the entire management chain who utterly failed to competently organise critical development and operations activities, everyone responsible for QA who couldn't spot such a critical problem early, and everyone involved in the data science who ran such a hazardous experiment without taking better precautions around validity.
Just speaking personally, but a lot of the feelings of "burn out" I was experiencing since the start of the pandemic were actually not attributable to the work I was doing, but rather the bad habits I picked up during the first year or so of the pandemic.

Doom scrolling about news, a little too much time spent every day on social media (including hacker news), overloading myself with information and not really creating enough. It is especially easy to fall into these bad habits in a work from home environment where it is easy to get distracted if you don't have the discipline.

What worked for me is actually identifying the patterns of my behavior everyday, and cutting things out. No more phone time from 8am to 12pm. No more reading about news after 12pm. Even those two things cut out a lot of nonsense time out of my day and after just a week I felt re-energized and re-focused.

I wonder how much of the creeping burnout that seems to be affecting the workforce is a confluence of bad habits encroaching on actual productivity - social media addiction is a huge one, with people spending way too much time reading and interacting about people and news and events which have zero impact on them.
You mean like a NAS?

I've had a good experience putting a technologically inept client on a Synology. Their support which was pretty alright as well the couple times I had questions.

I wouldn't use that at home though. FreeNAS or Nextcloud on ZFS only, thanks.
Totally agree. Both very good points.

In one instance (literally this morning) "You have to be more specific" was exactly my approach and immediately got to the core issue. In this case there was nothing to be done about it. Our differences are irreconcilable and he's not my responsibility.

In that case trying to understand his deeper motivation was still helpful. It allowed me to have empathy and us to part amicably instead of getting into a shouting match. I consider that the best possible outcome.
The treatment administered to minors is reversible.

Studies show that gender-affirming treatments and care can reduce thoughts of suicide and self-harm.

No one is pushing these treatments on unwilling minors. To take away peoples' rights to these treatments is unconscionable. And to direct people to be charged or investigated for child abuse is even more so. It's just another point that puts people in fear of the authorities.
I had success building a SaaS company, the secret (and it was pure luck) was from the very beginning I had a great business partner, who is passionate about sales, operations, business strategy etc. Its not a billion dollar unicorn by any stretch of the imagination, but we employ over 70 people.

In the beginning I did all the coding and he took care of everything else. Nowadays, I have to get somewhat involved in the business aspect but its more to give my opinion or help come up with solutions.

The product you described sounds amazing as an Open Source project, but I think it will be hard to get a non technical person excited about it enough to go into business with you.

Also, not trying to dissuade you, but when I started my company I was 25 with no wife or kids, not sure I could find the time to build a business now that I have a family.

Thats my 2 cents, I wish you the very best of luck and success in whatever you decide
People shouldn't get butt-hurt over this unless they are willing to put the same time and effort in.

Asian parents for the most part aren't spending money to guarantee their kids entry into schools like this (though some are), the vast majority are just doing a better job of parenting because they don't have any other option if they want their kids to have a better life than what they came from.

I spend a lot of time in Asia so I have come to know many people that have saved up and made the move to Australia or the US in the hopes of giving their kids a better chance in life. They make every sacrifice to this end. Upending their lives, moving away from their social support network (often leaving grandparents behind which is a massive deal for Asian culture).
When you understand this it makes much more sense why there is so much pressure on the kids to do well and for the most part they accept that and most come to appreciate it once they are old enough to understand what it cost to get them where they are.

It's easy for a bunch of rich white folk to look at a nerdy Asian kid and think they have an unfair advantage but in reality an entire family worth of resources is likely behind that kid, trying to make them the best they can be.

Maybe instead of being racist dicks we can learn something from Asian culture here, atleast understand the tradeoffs and don't pretend it's not hard work and time that is powering these results.
> It works when the team is used to and knows how to connect with each other online and to keep those connections going through the day/week.

My company always had offices spread around the country that worked close with one another, so going full remote was a change, but honestly not a huge change.

We have regular coffee/tea breaks every afternoon, no work talk allowed. A variety of online social events helps round things out.

Is it the same as working in an office together? Of course not. But while I have worked on some great teams that gelled really well, IMHO the majority of work teams don't have deep bonds.

What WfH really did kill was the ability to create informal connections between teams, the types of connections that help Get Things Done faster than usual. I feel that is the one true, huge, drawback of WfH.
Almost all of my professional work has been on AWS - that is simply what companies that I have worked for use.

For my own use, I massively prefer GCP, with an admittedly small monthly spend.

I worked at Google as a contractor and really loved their environment for internal developers and using GCP has a little of that “flavor.”
I do the same by having my resume in latex which I’ve checked in to git. Been meaning to write a GH action to generate the pdf artifact automatically.
Eh, f*ck you. Free software it's for any purpose. The more tech alternatives we have, the better. Elbrus, RISC-V, Loongson... we need heterogeneous environments to avoid attacks.
Which Python implementation is fastest?
The book is nice, and really eye-opening, but in the practice, the bomb will probably be dropped when people are living their life, so probably the people that you love won't be all at home under the shelter. So imagine the scenario where your kid is in kindergarten, your wife/husband at work. You can survive the drop on your little basement, but you will want to go out to save your beloved as soon as you can, instead of stay 14 days there eating tuna, drinking bottled water and cranking your little shortwaves radio.
This lecture is by a former Finnish intelligence colonel. It is in Finnish but has English subs.

Try to watch it despite it being in a foreign language. The subtitles give all the necessary information - and I cannot recommend this lecture more, it is just excellent.

Even as someone who's lived right next to Russia and recognizes a lot of the tropes mentioned, Colonel Kari puts everything into culturally logical context which was mostly foreign to me.
perf is all about making loading fast, scrolling & animations smooth, and interactions responsive. The classic RAIL model captures the scope of perf well. perf and speed are synonyms.

CLS is a bit of a loner as there really aren't other metrics these days that also capture non-perf signals. But again, this distinction of CLS as a non-perf metric is for webperf nerds only, IMO.
Yeah, really hoping he got a big fat severance for that.
Did happen same day though. Not proof, just signal. And it happened across a broad range of topics. I'll be the first to admit this is anecdotal. I would love a study.
> Putin does not roll a dice every morning and launches a nuclear missile if a six shows up.

You wish! The problem here is that Putin is not rational.
I appreciate that comment, thanks.
It does feel a bit like a catch22, that I am definitely trying to solve.

ARGOS does have early paying customers, and of course they are heavily discounted (and they know).

You mention not telling a price is an issue (and so have others, point taken), but also say I shouldn't focus on price right now. I'm trying not to.
So, what's your recommendation? Should I remove the page? Rename it to something like "Plans" and not "Pricing"? But then I'm still not telling you how much it will be.
I know how to deal with this when talking to someone, but what I'd be really interested in what you would expect on a website, knowing what you told me.

Seriously, thanks!
This is why the Olympics have different classes of medals for achievement...

These days though, we reward far too many bronze medal winners with the most profit and investment.

Praising and being content with small victories is not the way to achieve gold... Praising large victories, and noting when they aren't happening enough is the way to inspire more gold medal winners AND the way to generate a lot more silver and bronze medal winners.
god bless the ccc
Xi will survive anything, he's the leader for a life term until he decides to step down, nothing will happen to him. Putin is a fool if he believes that Xi pull put Putin's personal interests in a barbaric part of Europe ahead of Chinese corporate interests. Documents like these are filled with language that means nothing. Chinese government always publishes these things and then does something completely different.
I don’t think a phone number being associated with spam calling would be enough for Fidelity to black-list you but I suppose if they’re only blocking your online login (and not your transactions) it could be a possibility. You could get a pre-paid sim card/phone number and try signing up for Uber and Instagram with your same address, email, credit card details, etc. and see if your account gets blocked.
We need to remember this every time some politician says "if you're on the terrorist watch list, you shouldn't be able to..."
Can you elaborate on self hosting map data. Which stack are you using, what kind of hosting provider etc?
> Are you talking about the nasopharyngeal swabbing? I’m not aware of anyone doing that anymore for COVID. And for kids they stopped doing it pretty early on because, yeah, it’s fucking awful.

The test in the UK says you have to insert the thing and push it up the nose until it meets resistance. And then twirl it around like ten times or something.

By the third or fourth twirl, I personally want to tear my nose off my face, and my sensitivity issues have reduced over time. As a kid I would not have been able to tolerate that, and I do not have special needs, or a known hypersensitivity disorder. It's just shockingly unpleasant for me.

For kids they have at various times recommended doing this in both nostrils so as not to need to swab the throat. Ain't no way you'd have got it up my second nostril as a kid.
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GenX 80's kid with Deja Vu ....
those paywalls have security implications