skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite sure I exactly have FU you money, but I never have to work again, own multiple properties free and clear, have no debt, etc. i’m not sure if you understand this, but there is no 100% reliable formula to get there without taking risks, which means you might fail and end up worse than where you are right now. If there were a 100% reliable formula, everyone would be doing it. Getting a FAANG job, staying frugal, and buying EFTs is the closest.

I did it by raising angel capital for a business that sputtered out after five years, taking time off to write a Web server that went nowhere but which taught me a lot, going to work for a FAANG company in a frothy stock era similar to this one, leaving with $1 million after 4 years, and finally buying a company whose services I used but which couldn’t monetize. I then monetized it successfully. I chose not to patent anything and ended up with several competitors who copied the idea and were able to create similar lifestyle startups.

Starting from an early age I read a whole lot about entrepreneurs and money management even though I had no money. I understood I would have to take risks. About 70% of my businesses succeeded, and 30% failed. None of the risks would have bankrupted me, but I also knew I was batting doubles instead of going for home runs. My research showed me that becoming a billionaire almost always seems to cost entrepreneurs their first and maybe even second marriages/ brood of kids. I chose to tune down the risk, which also tuned down the potential rewards. My wife would much rather be worth $10 million than $1 billion for the same reason.

Why my trajectory sounds fairly straightforward, you need to understand that at every step of the way I was zigging while other people were zagging. That means I was always going against the conventional wisdom. That can be really hard because most people think what you’re doing is wrong. Which is obvious, but it also means that you have few or no peers to discuss things with.

I believe I won’t be able to help you because no one I’ve talked to with the kind of thinking you’re exhibiting here has reached critical mass. All of the companies I started, including the failures, addressed holes in the market. I had a deep faith that I had what it took to fix those problems. I wasn’t always right, which meant that I could spend months or years worrying about whether I’ve made the right decisions.

I didn’t think about things like “salary addiction“. I thought about solving existing problems that I understood personally, and bet my own time+money to do so.

I suspect that for someone like you the best way to reach your goals would be in investment banking or working on high speed trading. The reason I didn’t take that approach is because these jobs appear to be soul crushing. People only seem to last five or so years in those jobs and they seem to hate those jobs with a passion. So I made less money than most investment bankers but I still have the same wife and kids.

It’s not really clear to me why you think general advice like owning equity is not actionable, by the way. I did that too.
santiagodebus.com
My parents grew up in depression-era rural and small-town USA, and us siblings were really into milk as well, a lot of cold, cold milk. In Latin America where we mostly grew up we stood out, neighborhood friends thought it strange we'd buy four one-liter bags of milk every couple of days for four people (only two kids still at home at that time).
Certainly less of them, yes. (E.g. because comparatively few men could or wanted to leave the country). Longer-term, who knows.
These 'overlords' also tell us to take the vaccines instead of Ivermectin. Blind disrespect for authority is no better than blind respect for authority.
US Speaker Nancy Pelosi Reportedly Coming to Taiwan Sunday
I do feel as though communication was a big fault.

They needed to be comfortable with saying : "We don't know that yet."
Is Ethiopian and Somali food taking off in the UK?

I discovered Ethiopian cuisine a few years ago, and once you know about it it can be found in large-ish cities in the US, but the businesses all seemed like they were on the edge of collapse. It makes no sense because the food is incredibly delicious, approachable, and unique.

And I guess by taking off I mean: likely to be present in small communities, present in abundance (competition, market segmentation) in large communities, and available (not in an exclusive way) in a form tailored to western lifestyles (on DoorDash/ Deliveroo, available as supermarket kits comparable to the taco shell kits or pizza-making kits, or made into fast food like Taco Bell, KFC, Burger King, Panda Express, etc).

It seems like it’s about time for a new cultural cuisine to be mainstreamed in the US, IMO.
Tell that to Github, Shopify, Gitlab, Zendesk etc that have been doing fine.

How often do you hit ‘that certain size’ when velocity starts to degrade anyway?

X works well until it doesnt… is not exactly a compelling argument. That can be said of simple and complex architectures, or just anything at all
The problem is that with DNA sequences you dont have good training sets.

With text and images you can leverage “ground truth” data (verified by humans) to train your model.

The DNA sequences I would look for methods that don’t require good ground truth data.
Saying it was a mistake elides responsibility and glosses over alternatives. How would you have articulated it, and would you have responded differently?
Literally just finished the first draft of my personal website last night: https://www.spencerharston.com/

Pretty empty right now, hopefully I'll get it filled with stuff. Just wanted to claim my name's domain name and have a little something there.
https://fh.cx

I recently rebuilt it with Kirby CMS, which I can highly recommend: https://www.getkirby.com
The Yesod web framework for Haskell makes it quite easy to ship your entire website as a single binary. I was doing that for some time.
> To be fair, the lead dev of graphene os has been crying wolf about stuff like this for ages.

We aren't crying wolf. The abusive behavior has been ongoing since 2018. It wasn't happening in any significant way from 2014 through 2018. It started with the events which led to the creation of CalyxOS in 2018. You're linking to a highly dishonest and abusive video where one of the most prominent abusers tied to CalyxOS spends an hour lying through their teeth and engaging in these highly abusive personal attacks. It's a character assassination campaign which you're participating in yourself

> Now, i really like Graphene OS. I consider my Pixel 3a with Graphene OS one of my, if not my most secure device. And the work they do is great. But man, Daniel Mackay would be well advised to reorganize how he interacts with his community and perhaps take some mental health help, i don't think he's been in good place mentally for quite some time :(

You're participating in a highly abusive harassment and bullying campaign targeting me. You're spreading fabricated claims and libel about me and are participating in the attempt by Nicolas Merrill (Calyx leader), Techlore and cdesai (CalyxOS lead developer) to portray the abusive behavior which you are yourself demonstration as the delusions of someone mentally ill and crazy.

> I consider my Pixel 3a with Graphene OS one of my, if not my most secure device

A common tactic from the CalyxOS and Techlore folks engaging in this abusive behavior is to pretend to use GrapheneOS and to do exactly what you're doing. Whether or not you use GrapheneOS does not justify this abusive behavior.
Except when you are operating in a niche with no competitors...
https://yulian.kuncheff.com

Simple blog that I wrote one once in a blue moon. Uses Hugo on Netlify behind Cloudflare

I plan to write a few new blog posts soon.
https://nsirap.com/

DevOps oriented blog, 11ty site generator, firebase website host.
https://aster.kz
Cars marketplace in Kazakhstan

Very challenging project, been working on this almost a year now. Love the feeling of being unconfident in having required skillset before starting the project, and having the pleasure of gaining those skills along the road
Laundromats are no longer the sweet deal they were 20-40 years ago. They are definitely not a reliable way to FU money anymore. The ones that get the most business are in dense urban environments, which in most major cities are now infested with homeless people.

And in the USA, if you manage to luck into one that is lucrative, you are very likely to end up sharing the business with partners you didn’t want in the first place.
American thing. I'm Canadian, but good point.
I was the first in our office to go permanently WFH in February of 2020, three weeks before our offices closed, because I recognized that SARS-Cov-2 would be a huge problem, when pretty much everyone was in the 'just a flu/cold' mode. Here's the news that did not pass my bullshit detector:

1. Virus is not airborne (as initially claimed). I thought the water droplets claims were true for a while until I saw how fast it spread. It didn't make sense to me that a virus that is dragged onto the ground by water droplets would spread with such speed.

2. CDC (I believe) was claiming that N95 masks won't help as much as other masks. Later it turned out they just didn't want to create scarcity for N95 masks because hospitals need them.

The only bullshit I wasn't able to capitalize on was SPX crashing. I calculated that it should have fallen to less than $1000/share (closer to $500), based on past panic sell patterns, which was obviously not a guarantee, but the government stepped in and I missed out on quite a bit of money. I still think bailing out rich people's money in the stock market was complete bullshit on behalf of the government (but what do I know?).

I know it's all in retrospect now, so it seems like I'm tooting my own horn here, but at the time, it wasn't easy to be the guy who said "see ya guys, I'm going to hide from a virus that's going to turn into a global pandemic and you should all be doing the same because it's the logical thing to do based on the known facts". Even my manager (who approved my request to WFH) looked at me like I'm the token crazy guy from sci-fi movies holding "the end is nigh" sign.

I wish more people thought critically and had healthy skepticism towards all the information they receive, not just the part they disagree with. I was never a fan of blindly trusting anything. I trust, but I verify.
https://drhenry.org

Simple health blog, but not native.
I can imagine that customizing AI solutions in an automated way is quite important, but writing that as the next wave is probably an overstatement.

Of course few shot learning is important for models, but for example for Pathways it was already part of the evaluation.
I don't get why not. How do you think this was achieved before lambda? Or even before aws?

It is a news site not Facebook. The feed would only ever be a subset of all the articles in cache. It can itself be cached, there are only so many permutations. Different people will have different feeds, but there will be people with the exact same feed as you.

Crunch those recommendations however you want wherever you want and spew them unto S3 at your leisure. Have your varnish cache sit on top of that. Set your personalized subscriptions via a cookie. Varnish on each request will decide which one out of n (probably n<10000) feeds to include in your html response, in under 2ms.

This is all stateless. Have two servers in two regions. Done.

Maybe you'll reboot them every couple of years.
how about not calling anything misinformation until you're pretty damn sure you're right yourself?
Ask HN: Hybrid/Remote software team rituals
Hi HN!

I'm curious what unexpected team rituals have been helpful for your software development teams as you've been working remotely.

Rituals that are expected:

- everyone on the team writing up weekly summaries.

- record every video conference

- have lots of 1:1 meetings to maintain relationships

Rituals that have been unexpected:

- Posting once a week about what I did for fun over the weekend, usually with photos.

- Setting up longer phone call 1:1s where both attendees are walking.

I think the future of our working relationships will be increasingly remote, but I'm struggling to see interesting creativity for tightly integrated dev teams.

If new ways of working aren't established, I struggle to see how remote teams will compete with teams that meet in person on a weekly/daily basis.
Agreed, piling on to the matter will hardly improve things.
I was referring to the consciousness. What it means to experience reality with awareness.
> Is it though? If someone makes an unfounded guess and states it as fact isn't it fair to call that misinformation even if that turns out to be correct?

That's perfectly right, if you yourself aren't making guesses.
1) learn how to live of 500$/month globally and calculate your time to live as cash in bank/500. nomadlist.com.

2) get into crypto (building projects not speculation)
So the answer to buy vs. build is to build, then?

No, the answer to buy vs. build is always to buy if you can -- building is a lot like buying from a startup, which one wouldn't do, only you own the startup and you won't be selling its products. You'll spend a few years looking for a product that exists, has a track record, and can be integrated into your environment with not that much effort. And buzzwords -- the product has to have those in its marketing, because you too have to sell it: internally. Oh, and it has to not be too expensive. I've seen godsends get adopted then dropped and replaced with a hodge-podge of in-house + cloud solutions just because the godsends turned out to cost way too much as deployed. Meanwhile the companies that would exist and have such products for you don't exist because no one wants to buy from startups (because probably fly-by-night), but also the bigger players won't build niche products either. Mostly you'll make do with whatever you have already in place, no matter the suckage. Then some day there will be an open source version of the product you wanted, and you'll still wait a year or three before you decide to use it, and you'll have to put a decent bit of effort into integration and maybe even participation in the upstream community.

This stuff ain't easy. Anything that is infrastructure is just hard to monetize. There's a tragedy of the commons sort of thing going on.

Capital-intensive infrastructure (i.e., tied to hardware) is easier: you up-charge on the HW. Think storage, where you can charge a pretty penny for chassis and drives (SSDs, whatever) and backup solutions, but the real hard and expensive part is in the software (it'd better not fail). It's like paying very little for a printer but being locked into unnaturally expensive ink, except backwards.

Of course, some places do end up doing all the in-house building because they are too dynamic to do anything else and they can't afford to wait. We call these places FAANGs (or is it MAANAs?).
It sounds like FAANG has reinvented tenure and promotion processes from academia…and the resulting inherent pressures.

A moment to reflect on Han’s critique of publish or perish academia?
The 'definition of done'is great but sometimes can be harmful in planning out large projects.
That sounds like "humanity of the gaps", retreating in smaller and smaller human only spaces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
At least with comcast, if you get just internet and buy your modem, the actual price is the same. If you bundle TV, all hell breaks lose because with TV, there can be any number of fees (broadcast, license, content, HD, technology, anything imaginable under the sun). If they threw in a nuclear fusion fee, people wouldn't even notice.
> OR is perfect when you can describe explicitly what the decision space is and what the restrictions are.

As opposed to having to figure it out later from the outputs of a black box?

> Quality control with machine vision is a good application for ML.

I can't imagine CV could be an actual replacement for actual SPC in many industries. There's a reason we need to take samples and stress test, analyze composition, etc.

> NLP for PDF documents is a huge field for manufacturing as well.

NPL could be big everywhere... if it provides actual value, which is not a given. ML has a lot of tangential applications (you could also say, better forecasting), but how will directly improve manufacturing processes?

I apologize for being abrasive, but I'm so tired of cs people descending upon all industries, plugging shit data into pytorch and doing shitty ML like it will automatically add value. Even more so in industrial engineering, which in my experience is full of people way better at math than computer scientists and requires a deep understanding of the product and the manufacturing process.
Your "Why and How I Built This Site" is fantastic. Best of luck in the trail, we'll be rooting for ya.
Google Says AI Generated Content Is Against Guidelines
ARM Cortex M0+ looks nothing like ARM v8.

ARM Cortex M0+ has more similarities with the ATTiny84 / Arduino chips than with cellphone-sized ARMs.
The most Sr and influential ppl tended to come from web search and core infra, with no link to revenue in sight.

If people on engineering teams that don't have an attributable impact on revenue believe they'd be rejected because they can't show an individual impact on the bottom line then they won't submit a packet. That could be why you didn't see it - people who think this is necessary don't go for promotion. As the author of the Twitter thread states, they change team, or leave their role, instead. You'd need to look at why people move to revenue impacting teams, or why people leave the company, to understand this.

Looking at it from the perspective of the promo board obviously isn't going to work. "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"...
Went for a Notion look
https://davidedicillo.com
Do they stay on waiting lists if they can afford to go private? No. They certainly care that their likely path to a fix is not going to bancrupt their family, if they elect to stay on the waiting list and when they get to the top, the surgeon who sees them is the same as the private one, and the anaesthatist, and the nurses, most times.
Hm, thanks for letting me know. Looks like I can reproduce the issue on desktop using Firefox's Responsive Design Mode set to a smaller iPhone. The mobile layout could definitely use some love. Since the last rework of the site, I've used bulma¹ for styling and really liked it. Might be a good excuse for a weekend project. :)

¹: https://bulma.io/
I actually address that directly in the blog post. I do use Markdown and Pandoc. But going extremely lean on the HTML, editing the documents directly is pretty refreshing. I'd go so far as to say it's a joy to do.
Ask HN: What are good alternatives to Google Docs for collaborative writing?
I’m trying to move away from Google services this year, but I still have to find a good alternative to Google Docs.

What I’m looking for is an online writing application, that supports sharing in-progress work and allowing reviewers to comment inline. What do you use, if you’re not using Google Docs?
Please tell me your being sarcastic…

This is arguably the most insipid and stupid crippling of a powerful tool for content creation I can think of. It’s worse than the adobe updates using every cpu core and locking up my machine once a week.

What counts as “political” hm? Want it to look like that Obama poster or perhaps you want a Soviet Union flag for your retro 80s punk… oops sorry “political”… let’s go to adult… hmm that’s even dumber is the model showing too much ankle? What about the obvious fact that this is just designed with a heterodoxy view of pornography and likely does nothing to stem the wildly various fetishes and other sexual proclivities that exist in the world…

It is effectively “we got squeamish and have done a bunch of stuff to stop you doing stuff that makes us squeamish, please don’t make us squeamish, we’re so worried we’re even checking for it in case you sneak something past us”…

They should comply with the law, try to prevent and also check for child porn… but otherwise just let users use the damn tool, if someone wants an Obama hope poster of a sexualised Mussolini jerking off onto a balloon animal… why the heck do they feel the need to say no to that. It’s a deeply repressive instinct that should be fought against whenever people start to “police” what is acceptable in artistic mediums.

I look forward to the reimplemented versions of this from efforts like EuletherAI and others.
I think there’s still an amazing potential thriller miniseries or decisions-matter video game around really difficult public health strategy. The game theory is terrifying. It plays out locally when the water company issues boil water notices to deter usage. This is a ‘lie’ meant to prevent the need to issue a real boil water notice.

Perhaps our protagonist realizes that lying will save countless lives, but he must fall on his own sword when the deception is revealed. Then, according to plan, he is publicly shamed and fired in order for his agency to retain any credibility.
Pretty interesting. Mr. Ng claims that for some applications having a small set of quality data can be as good as using huge set of noisy data.

I wonder if, assuming the data is of highest quality, with minimal noise, having more data will matter for training or not. And if it matters, on what degree?
>Soviet forces were basically pushed into battling the Germans while subsisting on what could basically be called starvation rations, but they managed to crush the Wehrmacht piece by piece.

But the Soviets lost more solders than the Germans.
One place I worked at did contract with a startup and whose product I was involved in integration, and that vendor later failed. We had a source code escrow clause in the contract. That's a lot like using an open source product whose upstream dies, but you're still using, and now you get to be the upstream if you really want to.

Source code escrow is an option, at least for proprietary software products.
Lol you Ivermectin folk are STILL at it???
Azure and AWS k8s offerings aren't a meaningful usage? Asking earnestly.
Mark Andreessen wrote a nice article on how to get lucky: https://pmarchive.com/luck_and_the_entrepreneur.html
https://pythops.com
My personal blog
No way you're in tech.
Airline reservation systems didn’t use JCL (something from OS, MVS, etc). They used a special transactional OS called ACP/TPF instead.
Where do people learn this common knowledge? https://xkcd.com/1053/

"The Graphing Calculator Story" is common knowledge. That doesn't keep people from posting it to HN a couple of times of year for the past 15 years. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=pacifict.com .

FWIW, most people seem to link to the Eurion Wikipedia entry, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... . The linked-to page has details, like how Kuhn was in grad school at the time, which aren't in the Wikipedia entry, making this a step above those frequent repostings.

I liked the second video on the right, which shows how some money can be copied, including at least one with the EURIon pattern.
I have a tech blog: https://adl1995.github.io/ and a travel blog: https://adl1995.github.io/wanderings/

I spent quite some time on my travel blog but it still needs a lot of polishing, e.g. I really want to make the images cover full width of the screen.
> When C99 introduced the restrict keyword this argument fell apart.

1) Nobody puts "restrict" everywhere, and in C it can be very dangerous to do so unless you're exceedingly careful.

2) The fact that few codebases use it means it's riddled with compiler bugs even if you are exceedingly careful. Just look at how many times Rust has had to disable noalias due to LLVM bugs and regressions.