skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's why I put the range starting at 1000 simultaneous users funny enough, but I also wasn't sure if 100k was comically low (I suppose if you just wanted to serve static pages with a jpg and one line of text it might be) or high so left it in. That's already some insight to work from, but you may be mistaking me wanting to serve 100k simultaneous T shirt buyers with an actual expectation of needing that much margin: I don't, but I do want to know how/why the back of store infrastructure for such a large number of users works, and more about what a solo developer/small team would realistically want to choose instead.

To be clear I am not trying to create a business, I'm wondering what the ecosystem of best practices, tools, and frameworks to solve an open ended problem like this is so I can try them out before trying to build a real one (which I think you're right, would require an actual business to justify its existence) For example: could you elaborate on some possible benchmarks to try reimplementing, to this end?
I don't see the raw numbers, but the chart seems to indicate Americans waking up slightly before 7, maybe 6:50am? Not too far off from the source I found of 7:09am, and is still approximately 2 hours after you wake up.

And congrats at being disciplined. The vast vast vast majority of Americans aren't. And changing the habits of hundreds of millions of people is a pipe dream and really irrelevant to this conversation.
> if you are a founder's friend, it's not your job to do the heavy criticism

What will your product do that Google doesn't and why can't (aren't) they do(ing) it isn't heavy criticism. It's reality checking.

The article posits questions asked in bad faith. ("You, for some reason, do not really believe in his idea. You, with some self-righteous zeal, also want to save your friend from some tragic failure.") The questions aren't the problem. The motivations of the person asking them are.

The takeaway isn't "don't ask founders existential questions." It's don't surround yourself with "friends" who don't believe in you, won't tell you that to your face and whose conversation consists of backhanded criticism.
Farmers don't care about the clock, neither do the cows. Work traditionally started when the sun came up, and cows got fed then too... since cows still can't read the clock, they still get up and want food at sunrise, DST or not.
For what it's worth, I built a service that allows you to use Google Maps and a dictionary over SMS: https://gistsms.com

I've stopped working on the project but would be curious to hear if there's still interest!
I've had a great experience with hot desking, where every team in my building at Google had a hot desk at the end of the row. This allowed every team to have one person in from out of town all the time, and when you had more than one, it was likely that one of the other teams within spitting distance had a spare desk. Those desks got like 75% utilization, which was pretty impressive.

Basically anything else? Terrible.
> You kinda know what is going to happen when signing

In fact, many performers say they do not, and they are taken advantage of. Many say they are lied to. I've read them talk about using safe words, and the men ignorning them and cutting them out of the footage.
China has one time zone for the whole country if I'm not mistaken. the country spans 5 geographic time zones:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_China

Permanent standard / solar time proponent here: I'm reminded of that quote about people believing you could get a longer blanket if you were to cut a foot off top and sew it onto the bottom.
"...then they just leave work earlier."

I don't like when people accuse others of living in a "bubble", but this is a particularly egregious example of being deeply out of touch with the lives of most working people.
since you cant see me nod at you i am typing it nods in agreement i am pretty sure all these people had some terrible opinions and bad habits no doubt
All totally correct.
Thanks for commenting.
Link to the diff? I always learn better by concrete example than by docs.
While a part of me would be pleased if social media companies went to oblivion, practically, I don't think large states can operate totally truthfully without collapse. Running a state is sometimes messy and most people have a very simple morality (reinforced by years of superhero media) which is incompatible with international statecraft. That said, I don't think this excuses constitutional violations, but those of peoples generally held (lowest common denominator) morality
Designer is shocked to find out that the corpo-minimalist-copy-paste design isn't universally beloved. So it must be about age or gender or race or something ...
> Because we are still farmers who need to wake up at 6AM in the morning?

I start work at an office starting around 8:30-9:00 and I wake up at 6AM. Not quite sure what that time has to do with farmers.
I got click baited :(

The title says `Please don't ask founders existential questions`, but the article tells me not to berate my friends with pessimism about their startup ideas. Thanks for the tip!
I'd love to see remote shell over SMS. Seems a pretty fitting mapping. Not very secure, though.
Oh look, instead of teaching people financial skills in school, we will eventually have an FIN.AI

It will automatically calc our income and priorities and allocate our spending as such, which will happen automatically via CBDC.

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Seriously - this is where we are headed:

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John works as an SRE for BigTech.com, he wakes in the morning on April 1st 2030, payday.

His automatic payment system is activated, providing him a summary of income and active debts, bills and payments that are payable.

His screen shows him that he made $5,000 this pay period, before taxes, but he has $3500 in his deposit.

From that deposit, he also has these fees due, and expected to deduct from his pay:

Insurance, Rent, Groceries, subscriptions, etc...

He will select auth for payment to each fee due via the app.

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FF: John lost his job.

Now its Oct. 1st and john reviews his "Due Dash" -- which shows him he needs to pay X services.

John has no income, and his auto-pay for things has already hit his account whilst he was sleeping and John basically already auto-payed a bunch of services he should have canceled.

John is fucked. Because he paid his netflix bill automatically, and thus he is insufficiently funded for his Rent.

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John has a traffic ticket which he is indignant about and vows NOT to pay such. Methodfi.AI automatically makes him pay that ticket.

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HERE is my question:

Every time I leave the house, I am bombarded with every aspect of marketing to get me to SPEND.

How about creating an environment/thing and business model that MAKES me monet(y) as opposed to creating the tech that makes it EASIER to SPEND.

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So, in conclusion, please ensure you have the most exquisite controls over allocations and spending behavior.
When there's an obvious reference city for at least one side of the conversation, I just use that. "Talk to you at 3pm [New York, SF, Tokyo] time." Apart from avoiding any possible confusion about what PST/PDT means, this is also less likely to suffer from typos, and it's more likely that the recipient actually reads it and notices any mistakes. Easier for people from different countries too, if they aren't familiar with each other's timezones.
this has happened to me. there are no resources for recovery or recourse anywhere in the world at all. google won't help you. law enforcement won't help you.

those accounts are lost. close what you can and open new accounts with 2FA.
Romas Kalanta in Lithuania 1972. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romas_Kalanta
I was there, Charlie.

In the winter of 1973-1974 I was carpooling to college, leaving the house about 6:30 to get to campus before 8. I could have done without the DST. It was imposed with the notion of saving energy after the oil shock. Did it really save energy, though?
https://pastebin.com/raw/VUipfsTB
I had just that conversation with one of the founders of Cuil. Anyone remember Cuil? Search engine company, 2008-2010. They actually got it running, but not very well. I asked what the revenue model was. They didn't have a good answer. They ran out of runway before finding more investors or revenue.

Cuil was a nice demo, though. With under 100 people, they got a search engine going that did its own crawls and was roughly comparable to early Google. But this was before Google started to really suck, and there wasn't a market.

Google hired their key people to keep them off the market.
I've used it briefly in someone else's IDE (who swears by it) and it blew me away. It pretty much removed ever having to google syntax or snippets from SO in a language I wasn't totally familiar with (python).
Just get some labelled data
Demand for ornamental plants is ravaging South Africa’s rare desert flora
> can be construed as offensive
...
> loyalist's denial of reality

Uyghur student adopting State Department propaganda that XJ is genocide is offensive to PRC nationalist who doesn't view XJ as genocide seems pretty straight forward. One sides facts and morality is just another sides definition of useful idiot / propaganda. "Crimes they did not commit" is not about answering for their nations "genocide", it's denying there's any crimes are being committed at all.
No idea. However, every sufficiently complex project will become harder to manage with the accumulation of changed requirements, refactorings, and unavailable contributors. For this reason only the automated analysis of code could benefit an organization by transfering part of the work outside of the human competency domain.
> And at that point, we are back where we started.

Except only for people at latitudes where it's worth doing. Those people are precisely where they started, and everyone else has a much simpler year-round standard time.
Initial thoughts:

At the end of your intro video you ask the viewer to imagine what could be possible with such a system. But that’s putting the onus on the viewer, who has likely never thought about such a system, rather than the creator who is selling the vision. I’d encourage you to give some concrete examples on what could really be achieved here.

When everything is related to everything, it’s hard to get anything actionable out of such a model. Further qualifying the edges should also matter a lot… is something correlated? Causal? Indirectly related? How far does the causality propagate? For example, could changing the formula for toothpaste affect obesity? I’d imagine it would be easy to draw a graph connecting these things, but it’s probably difficult to know if a causal change is likely to produce the desired result.

This reminds me a lot of cybernetics, which ultimately failed. I’m be curious for your thoughts on that field and it’s relationship to your endeavor.
> But yea sure whatever. Here's 5 seconds of Google search [1].

That's neither a French citizen nor is it anything beyond an anecdote. If you can show me France's equivalent to Pakistan [0], then we might be getting somewhere.

> I think that's a bizarre distinction to draw. Why would a military operation justify anything?

It's not bizarre at all; Weapons of war being used in a conflict of war is something very different than dropping weapons of war on a civilian population you are not officially at war with.

[0] https://drones.pitchinteractive.com/
As a founder you are fighting an uphill battle every step of the way. I'm not sure trying to convince the world to stop with the middlebrow dismissals en masse will bear much fruit. If the naysayers are getting you down you need to find coping strategies like spending time with more positive people, or just not talking about your startup with people who aren't helpful. There's a reason incubators are a thing.
They care even more about Year-round Standard Time:

> We therefore strongly support removing DST changes or removing permanent DST and having governing organizations choose permanent Standard Time for the health and safety of their citizens.

* https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07487304198541...
Does SailfishOS run on phones available in America? I seem to remember considering it but then realizing it wouldn't be feasible for me (I'm in US)
Rubio literally said they did this after talking with airline/hospitality lobbyists.
No. They're really not. They're later than most people go into an office and they go into the (early) evening.
> dynamic scoping by default

This is not much of a problem in practice these days. As you probably know it's trivial to enable lexical-binding for an entire source file and many (most?) modern packages do just that. It's even on by default in the scratch buffer. Emacs is just more user friendly than most other systems when when it comes to backwards compatibility.
Not heard that, but Alder lake has taken back most of the market share the Zen 3 managed to take from Intel. So a response sooner than later will help protect marketshare. In particular they are doubling down on the lower power chips that ADL is having problems competing with. ADL is fast, but power hungry. Thus chips like the 5700x with a 65 watt tdp instead of the previous 8c/16t chip with a 105 watt TDP.
> Also, an expression of sympathies about the victim will only bloat the text and weaken the point I find important.

The point being about optics. Not about the suffering caused by torture.

> What's the point of everyone repeating how horrible torture is? I think that must be given.

It hasn't been obvious ever since the start of the War on Terror. At least not according to the Bush regime and people like Sam Harris or shows like 24. But me making that point might undermine the moral high ground of W. Civ.
I work in another time zone and have to shift my hours pretty aggressively so I get >3 hours sunlight total, most of which happen when I'm working.

No idea why it's preferable to have the sun go down sooner... lol.
As far as I can tell, this kind of thinking (the best people leave first and you're stuck with the lowest performers) _is_ accepted common knowledge.

So what's the thought process that goes into triggering the good people to leave? Is there just no other option?
I actually wrote somethijg recently related to RPATH in Nix you might find interesting

https://fzakaria.com/2022/03/14/shrinkwrap-taming-dynamic-sh...
So you highlighted a few sentences? What's the point, other than advertising your project?
According to the folks that study this, that is correct.
Shudup son. There is a very special connection between China Tea and Finland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlMYrblsZp4

I have tasted genuine Silver Needles but was not impressed.
Well I guess the dream is dead in Canada now.
Personally, living in NYC myself, I don't understand why anyone here owns a car. Replace it with a bicycle and you are saving a lot (and as a bonus: saving all the rest of us from the noise, traffic, pollution, wasted space on parking, etc. too)
As a founder you have to be a little bit delusional in order to balance out all the naysayers in your life (especially the ones who are closest to you!). It's a lonely game until you "make it" - and then everyone suddenly wants to be your friend / family member.
I'm from the Netherlands, and I'll never get used to it.

I don't care about the hour of more or less sleep, I don't even notice it nor do I ever suffer from jet lags.

It's the torturous period from roughly October to March where daylight roughly aligns with the workday or less. Meaning I drive in the dark to work, sit inside all day under artificial light, then drive back home in the dark. Months without daylight, and the little you get to experience is moody, not direct sun light.

The flip side is that we get ridiculous amounts of light in the summer. All the way up to 10:30 PM and even around midnight there's still a hint of faint light.
I'm sure they will when US starts carpet bombing Canada's cities.
I hate daylight savings time.

I get up everyday at 6:00 AM, with a large segment of the population whose workday starts at 7:00 AM every day. They have no choice. And just as it was getting to be light a little at 6:00 AM, we just 'leaped ahead' back into darkness.

I would prefer that we just run on standard time all the time. You want more light in your evening? Get up earlier. Go to work earlier, so you get home earlier.

Daylight Savings Time sucks.
Yeah, I also thought that. Put a "pay $50 to pre-order a prototype" box somewhere. At the very least, it'll give you enough budget to negotiate on eye level with production partners.
All of time is an illusion. I mean yes, time is constant but our units of measurement are 100% made up. TZs are just as much of an illusion as picking DST/Standard year round, clocks are only "true" because we say they are. If you want to live in a world where time is not an illusion then drop all measurements except seconds, measure things in mega-seconds/kilo-seconds/etc, and remove TZ/Hours/Days/Weeks/Months/Years. All of those measurements only make sense on Earth. Once/if we become a starfaring species then this will get even more complicated. Maybe "day" will still make sense if only because we are used to that circadian rhythm but week/month/year? Not worth much in space.
Precisely. "It's about the kids" is never genuine. It's always about everyone other than the kids.
I could be convinced to put up with the lack of customer support if the price is right, but the price is higher than competitors. I'll stick with Cloudflare Registrar.
You mean..... I'm never going to get this hour back??
CheerpX looks amazing. Not blaming that project it in any way.

But rowhammer is still a thing.

There's a whole stack of abstractions, that all _may be_ vulnerable. I'm sure CheerpX is very good, but there's no way to _know_ that all the dependencies from the toolchain used to build all the way down to the running environment is actually bug free.

As a first line of investigation, I'd suspect cheerpX, just because so many eyes look at browser sandboxes. _shrug_ your milage may vary.
While he was snarky, expressing disdain for technology solutions to every day life problems on a website called... hacker news... is sort of counter-culture here. I get that you have some strong traditionalist views based on this and your other recent commenting, but it's also important to know your audience and that some of those views aren't going to be well received here.
But that shifts work schedules to later in the morning, which pushes lunch and dinner schedules, and bedtime schedules, and then you're right back where you started.
The real problem is designing tools for people who are not as smart.

Because it's not that simple, and no one likes being judged and talked down to.
There's no such thing as communication without ambiguity while using natural language. In your particular example, any interpretation depends crucially on what "that" might be referring to. It could refer to an animal, in which case you may mean that it seems to be suffering from a mental illness (maybe it has rabies) OR that it is unable to think clearly (it is insane with hunger, or excitement). It could be referring to an action, which may mean that it is either the action of someone suffering from a mental illness, or the action of someone being temporarily unable to think clearly, or it is an absurd action.

These are all literal meanings of insane. Of course, if we add figurative meanings we can increase the ambiguity further.

However, your criticism applies similarly to words like "truly" - if I say "that is truly insane", do I mean that it is insane in one of the literal senses of the word? Or the figurative uses? Am I just emphasizing either of these meanings, or do I feel a need to confirm that I am not lying?

Either way we take it, though, "literally" can never be replaced with "figuratively" without altering the meaning of a phrase. In it's use as an intensifier, it does NOT mean "figuratively", it means "very".

Also, looking on Merriam-Webster, they clearly discuss this and reach the same conclusion. They also mention that this meaning for emphasis appears as early as the 18th century, in the works of Charlotte Brontë, James Joyce, Mark Twain.
Having lived in both Hamburg (55deg lat) and Seattle (46), I can say that northwest Europe daylight hours are _brutal_ in the winter.

The first winter I was in Hamburg, I think we got 10 hours of sun all of December.
The key positions are also different from a normal keyboard: all rows are shifted by 1/4, whereas a QWERTY keyboard has 1/2 shifts between rows 1-Q and A-Z, and 1/4 between Q-A.

From a psychological UX perspective, I'd prefer 1/2 shifts between all the rows, creating a hex grid.

Ortho is also logical and justifiable, although its packing is worse than hex.

But if convention is to be broken, it should not be the 1/4 that this product has chosen, which offers no benefit and creates an unfamiliarity cost. Better to stick with the standard key positions than this.
Optionals without do notation will be a bad time.
While true, it doesn't really disprove what the poster above is saying, since they lived in Beijing, the place that China's timezone is roughly centered on.
Leaving work in the dark probably causes stress as well. Not to mention that the constant DST switch in of itself causes health stress:

https://healthblog.uofmhealth.org/heart-health/why-daylight-...
I can't imagine that large latitudinal moves are common enough to be a notable driver of public opinion in favor of nationwide daylight saving time.
its been fixed, but now i wish it hadn't.
The change would only happen once, so it might take you a few days to adjust but afterwards it shouldn't matter.
Downtown Needs to Change to Survive
> Go to work earlier, so you get home earlier

Must be nice having a job where you can choose when to leave. Most people don't have that option.
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This is ridiculous. Why don't they make the DST permanent? And if people want to have more light in the MORNING, then they just WAKE UP LATER. Surely that is easier than permanent REGULAR time.
If you aren't handling string data from external sources then memory bugs aren't a big deal, I think most low level developers today don't deal with a lot of external string data so to them Rust doesn't really offer much. But for the roles where almost all you do is pipe or parse around data packets then I see the strong appeal, but to me such applications aren't very interesting. So crypto libraries, browser engines and the networking part of servers.
When I read articles like this, I suspect the submitter in many cases is posting with an implicit statement of "look at this fuckwit; let the comments begin!". I just wish, as you say, there were a way to get that out of the way upfront before I waste time on the article.

As a sidenote, your "written by a fuckwit" came very close to me having to clean Mac and Cheese off my monitor.
Yes they do. They take you child at X:00, when the clock says X:00, they do not care if Earth is at 90 degrees rotation or 105 degrees rotation.
> You want more light in your evening? Get up earlier.

It works both says... just agree on one time.
The worst part is that it was much better before the botched update (which was essentially push of a different browser) that they inflected on us one bright day without warning.

Firefox is the best browser we have, and it is really not that good, and the management is just terrible.
Some people will always try to downplay other people's success or misfortune then they stereotype them into a category that isn't themselves but it turns out to represent their unspoken views.
Does `podman trust` also work yet? Shell commands from the first Docker docs link above:

docker trust key generate jeff
# docker trust key load key.pem --name jeff

docker trust signer add --key cert.pem jeff registry.example.com/admin/demo
docker trust sign registry.example.com/admin/demo:1

export DOCKER_CONTENT_TRUST=1
docker push registry.example.com/admin/demo:1

docker trust inspect --pretty registry.example.com/admin/demo:1

docker trust revoke registry.example.com/admin/demo:1