skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some people actually think you should do the reverse -- do 2 & 3 before you do 1 & 4.

If you're just looking for ideas that seem like they might work, boy do I have the shameless plug for you[0][1].

But jokes aside, selling before you build is basically the best advice anyone can give, and it's repeated quite often but you just have to learn it yourself.

There's also tactical stuff like The Mom Test to teach you how to actually figure out what people need (and will pay you for), but the best strategic advice might be building audiences before you launch.

This is basically what all the "building in public" people do, and while I don't know that I'm a fan of the execution, it's an excellent tactic.

[EDIT] Just to explain what I meant by that first sentence more -- a lot of people believe in not even selling before you build, but being mostly market driven -- as in, spend time talking to 50 real estate agents you know to figure out what you could sell them before you even start selling or (even later on) building.

It's a really powerful strategy and you know it when you see it -- when you see serial founders that seem to go from industry to completely unrelated industry and build huge companies in a relatively short time, it's obvious they've mastered the market-first approach.

[0]: https://unvalidated-ideas.vadosware.io/editions/008

[1]: https://unvalidated-ideas.vadosware.io
The few that I’ve tried allow you to export all of your passwords, and import from various formats. So most of the time you’d be able to export from one and import it directly onto another
I was surprised to find that these tall rope spiderweb things still existed in a couple parks near us:

https://goo.gl/maps/ZDVDT4qfz3EQtfLR9

They’re often higher than some of the monkey bar things I remember from my childhood in the 70s. Our kids got a genuine feeling of having accomplished something, working up the courage to get to the top and wave for a selfie.

It’s such an incongruous thing to find in a modern sterile British park, with nothing else more than a foot or so off tHe ground, and that having a guardrail just in case.

Sadly, it seems that they’re getting torn out here. Neither of the examples I remember from just 2 years ago still exist.
> SHA1DC detects attempts to spoof SHA1 in a way that leads to collisions

This is the kind of detail I would have loved to see quoted directly in the article. Sure enough, it's prominently displayed on the project's README::about section, but your very succinct explanation here made it clear in immediate context.

The idea of counter-cryptanalysis is eye-opening.
Is this due to myopia itself, or having to wear glasses? My son certainly was less than thrilled about starting to wear them: "I used to be cool but now people think I'm a nerd" etc.
Assuming the mythical existence of the perfect developer that nevers does mistakes which handle to use, which certainly wasn't the case on Psion or Symbian projects.
JITs don't improve a hashtables performance as they are dominated by memory access patterns (eg, open vs closed addressing), load factor, and hash quality.

Of those 3 factors, the first is borderline impossible to optimize in Java at all. Regardless, the runtime isn't helping with any of those 3, it requires changes to the algorithms used. Which doesn't seem to be happening in Java land broadly?

It's possible that the JVM just ignores its c++ code, sure, but that's not commentary on Java or the Java ecosystem.

Also offline compiler optimization has so far consistently outpaced (or at least kept up with) JIT optimizations. So it's incorrect to consider the native code as static anyway unless you're just never upgrading the compiler.
P.S. I've been shocked by 125VAC many times. Also by an engine's high voltage system. It's an unpleasant way to debug the spark coil.
https://bitwarden.com/help/import-from-lastpass/
I’ve loved bitwarden. Looks like you could transfer pretty easily
Yeah sure. The company pushing Chapelle and Gervais transphobic standup comedy and continuing to pay them more money is the woke company. People need to lay off buzz words
At primary school in Australia we had monkey bars like the ones in the photos. Made of 2” steel tubes, probably galvanized and polished over time by decades of kids greasy palms. You know what that feels like. I think they must behave been about 5 meters high total. When I was there it was just that and the dirt below it. You knew as a kid to be careful - that shit must be hard wired into us.

I had since moved to the US, but I visit every few years. Over time it’s been “made more safe”. The first thing they did was add finely desiccated rubber tube to the ground. I guess a kid who falls, eventually bounces.. must be a nice way to land after breaking all kinds of stuff on the way down. A few years later, they chopped the bars to half height. Whoever is making decisions is doing it reluctantly, I think. Years later the rubber shredding is there, but the bars are reduced again - it’s been modified to a simple set of three swings.

So boring. I think it’s the parents overthinking risk.
GNU Hyperbole
I started creating wrapper-scripts or simple scripts that has the commands with my prefered options or a selection menu for said command.
I have started calling those scripts my<command>

rsync becomes myrsync
mount becomes mymount
ssh becoms myssh

No collision and the naming convention empathise that it is indeed used be MYself.
Borders are open, here's a great list of VCs in Japan
This is actually a setting within OneTrust which has a terrible default. We (had to) use OneTrust on eurovision.tv, but configured it ourselves to have three equally styled options.
for sure. we had a 20' tall rope swing (with a big knot at the bottom to put your feet on) at my middle school. we'd do tricks like taking all four limbs off the rope at the far apex and catching it again on the way down. we'd also do backflips out of the regular metal chain swings. none of us broke any bones, surprisingly.
EU officials have been noticing this kind of thing already. It's great that officials in the USA are starting to take notice too.
I think it really demonstrates how much more important execution is than an idea. Being the “simple” version of X or X for “niche user” can be a viable strategy rather than coming up with some revolutionary product idea. It also lends itself to competing as a small team, since larger competitors can't afford to pay close attention to those smaller verticals.
The GDPR is a product of the Snowden revealed pervasive surveillance done by US TLAs. Keeping the data in EU vs sending it over to US under assurances is a big hair.
Also California: "No" to desalination plants: https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/12/us/california-water-desaliniz...
Maybe depressed children spend more time indoors, causing myopia?

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/137695-children-who-stay...
What sync method are you using in Obsidian. I’ve been using iCloud and i’ve had files dissapearing.. I love everything else about it though
There's unexpected solar winds https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31851572, and a rare triple La Nina, in a similar time frame. Does anyone with more knowledge on meteorology and the sun's effects on it than me have some reasoning and/or evidence on if these two events are connected or not?
“I really like targeted ads. It helps me discover useful products.” /s Definitely read that line way too many times.
What was disgusting about the fluid? I’m not sure what it is. However I’m going to venture you don’t find the fluids of heteronormative sex disgusting. More than that. Who cares. I watched the show and don’t remember that scene. I can’t imagine caring about sex scenes in media. They are so unimportant.

Sense8 didn’t get instantly cancelled either. It literally got a second season.
Well you only do the computation when you have the necessary inputs available, and in the case of something interactive that means waiting till you have the necessary keypresses (or lack of keypresses).

You can still compute ahead if you have a good guess what inputs you'll receive (eg. You predict that no keys will be pressed), but you have to be happy to throw away the results if your prediction was wrong.
Fire effects and fire animations free generator
since when EU became politically stable? Last time i checked you were at war with Russia.
> - do they care? They don’t have to agree with my opinions. We can hammer out a compromise with enough laughs. I just want them to care. Because there’s still a lot of things that even the best protocols, procedures, and practices can’t cover.

Are their pay and their working conditions the best that the market can offer to them?

> - can they be responsible? Or have they bought into the fantasy where they offload responsibility to a “decider” while they play the role exclusively of “doer”?

Do they have the decision power and the salary that go hand in hand with high responsibility?
Unless it’s some hi profile cutting edge RnD like ARPA or unique startup like google early days (when nobody was certain it was a unique startup) — there’s no point for someone to pay you a good money for full autonomy and creativity.

A business needs to survive and grow, for that it needs to execute in a scalable and controllable manner.

A business needs just hi quality cogs for their wheels.

So aim for that unique companies and good luck!
I’ve noticed a correlation between my depression getting stronger on days I don’t put my contact lenses in. Granted, if I’m not putting my contacts in I’m not leaving the house but it’s an interesting correlation nonetheless.

I think it comes from not being able to experience the world in full clarity. There’s a strong relationship with tinnitus and depression for what I’d think are similar reasons.
Huh. As someone completely naive about the exact specifics of what goes into these sorts of considerations, what needed to be taken into account?

I can think of the "players interact" element of game ratings (and the fundamentally open-ended nature of that) but not much else. Perhaps it's mostly just moderation/policy?
I believe the existing term of art is "bootstrapped business"
But that is quite normal, isn't it? The (perceived) need to put other people down ultimately stems from uncertainty about ones own work. And having only bad models available makes it incredibly challenging to think of your own work as "obviously worthwhile", making it more important to improve your own standing by putting down others.
GPT-3 is already more than capable of enabling student plagiarism
> Can you walk me through how the Federal Government could use eminent domain to untangle the water rights?

Eminent domaining the water?

The federal government at the highest level(SCOTUS) have no problem using eminent domain for things as frivolous as an unfinanced mall with no strings attached for the _private_ developer. They certainly wouldn't pause to eminent domain this if they cared.

Unfortunately these are regions of the country that are populated by large groups of people who continually elect local politicians who will blame any convenient boogeyman on their problems. Look at this in 2021 their AG sued the Biden government over not doing enough to stop pollution causing climate change because his administration didn’t crack down on _immigrants_[1].

What exactly is political leadership supposed to do here? Kowtow to the demands that will cost money and absolutely not solve the problem? Or ignore it until the people living with the issue decide to accept that it’s real rather than blaming whatever let’s them continue their lifestyle without any change?

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.huffpost.com/entry/arizona-...
‘Find the smartest technologist in the company and make them CEO
the majority of all original programming gets cancelled.

Who is the media company so great that isn’t shoveling out shit? Disney with marvel and Star Wars? HBO where most of the creative staff left recently because of HBO Max strategy? CBS with the 50th CSI, FBI, or Law and Order show?
Back then, most parents were way too busy to be helicopter parents. Kids were left to their own devices. I grew up with swings in our backyard that were a death trap. The seats were thick, heavy planks of solid wood connected to the frame by long, heavy chains. I used to swing so high - reaching for the sky - jump off - and then land feeling so good that I forgot the swing was still swinging. How I survived getting clunked by that thing in the back of the head (more than once!) without a serious skull fracture, I will never know.

If I came in injured, my mum would fuss over me to confirm I was ok-ish. If I was, the parental concern would flip and she'd whack me hard and tell me not to do it again. :/
Hey Steve, thanks for the response. I was struggling to remember, which is why I asked.

I suspect folks see the Rust release notes on the HN front page and assume that it must be a blockbuster release with lots of move-fast-break-things to make it there. But it’s actually like “new library API, some const fns, compilation time improvements”.

So then they think “this language is moving waaay too quickly, they need to do LTS versions”. But this is just speculation. That’s why I asked GP. Maybe they’ve actually experienced breakage.
That's hilarious. I remember having the same thought when I had to wear glasses as a child.
Turns out I WAS a nerd.

My daughter, 8yo, has started wearing glasses, she had similar feelings but we went to several opticians and got glasses for her that suited her face shape, they gave her so much more confidence. She's trialling Ortho-K lenses now as she enjoys sport but I think glasses are an easier thing to manage.
The thing that impressed me the most from the pictures was all the girls playing in what today would be considered fancy/church/party outfits.
Looking forward to the new season of Umbrella Academy and it looks like there's going to be a trans element to it, which, drum roll please, actually mirrors reality (as the actor transitioned). Versus all of the absolute non reality zero object facts of the story itself.

The "reality" of media of yesteryear was the domain of white men. So yes, reality is changing. There's plenty of rage being generated about this, so I have to imagine your media intake might be influencing you in this regard.
Let's stop ascribing meaning to code points (2017)
First time I've heard of China projecting "global power". Are there cases of it happening?
Exactly. Some time ago, I used Qt at a job and thus I put "Qt (C++)" on my resume. That was not a good idea since like you said, Qt is its own "C++ dialect".

Same goes for Python, but to a much lesser extend. I only used Python in embedded projects. A bit of byte manipulation, drawing some plots, etc. Later I got people asking me to help them with their Django-based website, expecting me to be productive from day 1.
Matt Mullenweg Identifies GoDaddy as a “Parasitic Company”
Great read! Thanks for posting
Police arrest millions of people a year, and a few go south often when the person getting arrested won't follow directions. I bet less than 1% go poorly, which in my opinion is pretty impressive considering the people they are arresting.
I currently live just outside of Rocky Mountain National Park and I am not feeling optimistic about the future.
Should include metrics.

I worked for a BI company where metrics was only for the CTO, not the deveolpers.

The screen on the wall for the cloud team was showing the build status of another teams project.

And anytime there was a problem, it wasn’t known to the team, until the CTO came to the team because someone had complained to him.

Both interperting and creating useful dashboards should be part of any team.
And cataracts, though I heard that was possibly from yellowing causing lack of blue light and affecting circadian rythym.
Well that just seems crazy if your state's turning into a desert. What are the arguments against it?
+1 for including the sample size in the title. Good way of distinguishing from click-bait.
twitter was still fairly new when this was published and only allowed 140 chars which definitely isn't enough.
At that point it's better to use 'tagged index handles', but IMHO that's outside the scope of the language (but maybe an option for the stdlib):

https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html

(but for this an "auto-decaying pointer" would be nice which cannot be stored outside the stack and cannot be "carried across" function calls.
Cancel Gervais? It’s a small tiny amt of people. I can link you to different far far left online personalities who do not want to cancel Gervais. Just have critiques.

Wildly over exaggerating the fake moral panic of cancel culture. Yet others are marshmallows as compared to you?
>Not an ad hominem attack: "The Epoch Times has lied many times in the past, and it's good to keep that in mind.

If you can't name "many" such lies (let's start with, say, three?), then you are indeed doing an ad hominem attack.
Sad to hear this.

Glasses are actually cool.
Being a nerd is also cool.

Don't let him think otherwise.

Source: have been wearing glasses for my myopia & astigmatism since middle school, am a nerd and am cool. ;)
More specifically: there are parallels of lattitude and meridians of longitude.

https://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-paralle...

Meridian from "of the noon time, midday":

https://www.etymonline.com/word/meridian

As a mnemonic, the lines of longitude are all equally long (running from pole to pole).
My school had a set of ~7 meters high monkey bars, it was so long kids had to slide down the vertical support posts, only a few were brave enough to climb on it and even fewer had the strength to reach the end. It was demolished in 00s.

The other crazy piece of equipment I never saw again were these swings. Unlike ordinary swings where you just sit and oscillate 120 degrees, with these, you had to hang from the hand holds, the rotation was not limited by the top bar and could rotate 360 degrees (some regular swings had that too, though). The swings were symmetrical and counterbalanced, so two people could swing at the same time on the opposite sides, the design encouraged rotation instead of swinging, lifting you about 3 meters high. My classmate broke both her arms on these, soon after the swings were removed.

I never played on either.
There’s not really a shortage of space, even in LEO. This isn’t a place where Kessler syndrome or orbital slots are really a concern.
Why would the primary account holder cancel their account if their friends can't watch for free?
I grew up in a small town, we had crapy playgrounds and compensated by using everything else in the environment, climbing on fences, trees, monuments and such. We were also, as kids, left unsupervised most of the time.

Living now in a bit city, with beautiful playgrounds where parents hover and kids don't even get into fights, causes me a deep cognitive dissonance.

Everything I did was fun and I believe only mildly dangerous, and yet I would not be comfortable letting my kids alone to play in the sort of ways I did.
I tried doing an AWS systems architecture and it looked so ugly, so, we switcehd to Cloudcraft [0], which does both isometric 3D and 2D. All Terraform tools like inframap were terrible, too. It's 2022 and we still don't have pretty autodiagraming tools - we have ML generating unimaginable in terms of complexity photorealistic images, but it can't generate a pretty diagram yet!

[0]: https://www.cloudcraft.co/
>Find the smartest technologist

How would a company do this when they are run by tech illiterates? They don't know what they don't know. What I see from one company to the next is the smartest passed over for somewhat smart people who have seniority.
1Password , started migrating otp to there too
Which is why in some countries Software Engineering is a protected title, with a specific set of skills to assess, and we don't go around calling ourselves "engineers" after a six week bootcamp.

https://www.informatics-europe.org

https://www.ordemengenheiros.pt/pt/a-ordem/colegios-e-especi...

We might still call ourselves engineers without the admission exam (which is a legal gray zone if signing projects), yet the university degree was anyway certified by the organization and the only thing missing is the exam.
Well, I hope your viewpoint doesn't win the day, because breaching GPL left and right to make some developers life easier opens huge cans of worms.
Kids wearing glasses are more likely to be less active because glasses gets in the way and are more likely to be staying indoors (as myopia seems to correlate with staying indoors). Exercise and exposure to sunlight seems to be crucial against depression, so I can't say I'm surprised.
It seems to be a trend all around the western world but the danger of being shot isn't present outside of the US. I think it's more of a fear culture then a real threat to the children themselves.
Sure, it'd be great if I could reach that ultimate benefit of being able to prove theorems. But if I'm being honest, I couldn't work toward that at the moment. Probably not for a while. In doing this I don't aim to get a false sense of familiarity with the actual topic. But there are a lot of tangible bite-size achievable goals in providing an opportunity for a discussion for those who understand it deeply, e.g. make a connection to something I do understand, or perhaps, observe the resolution of some tangential disagreement between domain experts, etc. :^)
Most probably it was intranasal polio vaccine which was meant:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X1...
Since HN upvotes are invisible in the UI: +1. IMHO escaped locals should be an error, but not a hidden allocation.
https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309?s=2...
> ... I am not willing to make the same wrong bet I did with C++. I sunk so much time into perfecting C++ skills ...

What are your top complaints about C++? What parts/patterns are wasteful, and must be avoided?

I have encountered C++ a couple of times in my career. And both those times I was barely able to survive in the short periods of time I spent in those jobs. I'm pretty good at C, but for the life of me, I just can't deal with the hidden behaviours of C++.

So far, I have seen only one example of well-written, understandable C++ code: LLVM. I dabbled in learning LLVM for a side project, and the tutorials on writing compiler passes, and the LLVM's own code, seems to use only the rudimentary features of C++ (primarily, single-inheritance). And this absence of complex C++ features made me feel comfortable looking at, reading, and understanding the LLVM code.

I am of the firm belief now that good code can be written in any bad language, and bad code can be written in any good language. Perhaps those couple of times that I encountered difficult C++ codebases, they were just instances of bad code, and should not be used as an indictment of the C++ language.

Good code => readable, understandable, maintainable, extensible, rewritable.
Bad code => !Good code.
Twelve Propositions on the State of the World
Please no. I lived in California for much of my life. Statewide propositions are plenty thanks.

It's too easy to get voters to vote for things that are deceptively drafted, and then you're stuck with it forever.
Did it tho?
I used to verify all my quotes but it's really not clear in many cases because there's a lot of misattribution. I resign myself to thinking it's the thought that counts. Otherwise I'd be all day fact checking.

I can't find it on quote investigator so someone probably made it up. I have experience that it is true and that's what counts for me

https://quoteinvestigator.com
There's malware on the AppStore. The review process is completely incapable of catching it.
> there is no trace of SQL in our project

I presume (and hope) it's not your last project.

But I agree, programming is wider than this, and you may never face SQL e.g. if you do deep embedded development, but then an ability to read VHDL can be handy, or if you do game dev 3D graphics, but then you'll have to learn the shader languages, etc.