skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realize this point is to use AI to generate something new—-but you could also submit these keywords to the Unsplashes API and get some relevant, useful images.
Same goes for:

- Putting up a landing page with an email collection form at the bottom without a strong value-add for the potential user

- General idea of MVPs (not saying MVPs don't work, I'm saying the way we're told MVPs have to be bereft of features and polish is bullshit), though this has mostly been replaced with Minimal Loveable Product.

- The idea that you have to be first/second to an idea to make money from it (I was 200th to my idea, it's profitable)

- The idea that you have to quit your job and "hustle hard" to make a product others will want (I did it in 2 hour chunks before work)
Which just goes to prove parent's point. As much as it might seem otherwise, IPR restrictions are not the main bottleneck to widespread availability of content (at least book-like content); actually making the content available is far more important!

(Also, keep in mind that content is now entering the public domain every year, and projects like PG are nowhere close to keeping up with that flow of newly-unrestricted stuff. So this dynamic is becoming more extreme over time, not less.)
If you as a private person own a patent, you are losing it anyways...because you cannot fight some mega corporation in court to defend it. It's too expensive, and the biggest corps just take what they want due to having more financial resources.

Note that if you don't defend it in court, our justice system thinks it is less valueable to protect. Which in itself is kind of ridiculous.

Also, right to commercialization has nothing to do with intellectual property.
If a few bash scripts is enough for you to manage your servers, you probably don't need puppet (or ansible, or chef).

But, yes, I agree that the puppet documentation is (or at least was, I have not looked at it for several years) not entirely brilliant. It is an OK reference manual, but like so much documentation, it is more difficult than necessary for learning the thing.
> Many of KDE apps are the best in a given category. Konsole certainly is.

Have you tried Terminator?
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Derw: The Gitbook, June 2022
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First, all of the extra weight left off because the fuel for a flight weighs much less is available for extra paying cargo.

Second, because the hydrogen for a flight will cost less than kerosene, because it was made on-site rather than pumped, refined, and trucked in. Further, it was made at the time of day when grid power was cheapest.

The result is that an LH2 operator can always undercut a kerosene operator, anytime they compete. The kerosene operator only gets flights the LH2 operator passes up. Thus, the LH2 operator also gets the most profitable routes, because those are where they choose to bid.

Even after synthetic kerosene becomes available, it will necessarily cost more than hydrogen, and not anyway be made on-site, and still weigh too much.
Yeah or change the laws everywhere so copyright isn't a crime. Easy peasy.
The people of Pankow cannot agree with you. The noise from Tegel was a torture.
You can complain all you like, but in the end it's you who has to read and understand the text written on the landing page. No one can do it for you.
would be interesting to hear from a foreign how '9 euro ticket' sounds to you. Any opinions on that?
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Great, thanks for sharing. Any chance you have an invite for RED?
I agree, that's why I asked the authors the same question : https://twitter.com/visarga/status/1543826941052166144
Fourth Annual iOS Music Player Showcase
Post mortems/RCAs with after action items (that get followed)
> The rectangular codes – which look like QR codes but are apparently not QR codes, which are a particular, and trademarked, kind of code – are designed are designed to stop counterfeiting

Never change, Grauniad.
MPs call for UK ban on two Chinese CCTV firms
Ongoing loosely-related thread:

What Is Pozidriv? How Does It Differ from a Phillips Drive? (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31956655 - July 2022 (64 comments)
I remember back in the day we were evaluating Puppet vs CFengine. During our testing we noted how memory intensive Puppet was, which we assumed at the time was due to it being based on Ruby. Afaik Ruby can quite easily consume a bunch of memory, it doesn't surprise me that an app like GitLab, which is based on Ruby on Rails I think, consumes somewhat largesse amounts.
Ongoing loosely-related thread:

Robertson vs. Torx screw drives (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31958512 - July 2022 (69 comments)
It's cultural.

Many companies will block folks from releasing "incomplete" work, so you end up with either no runbooks, or "complete" runbooks that go out of date incredibly quickly.

Optimising for editing (https://onlineornot.com/incident-management/incident-respons...) helps.
Try stremio.

It's a completely legal app, that's still updated. But it becomes just like popcorn time after you download a few plugins.

And those plugins are downloadable from within the app itself.
And yet even the unknown platforms have a lot of users pouring money into it.
That's false. I often search for specific citation.
Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation
Citus in PostgreSQL main would be great. Currently Citus is one of many solution but being in main would make it the solution. PostgreSQL would officially be a distributed database, not just by stacking some plugins on it.
it’s the handling, not the acceleration. they are a joy on track, but that tesla wheel feels lifeless and numb.
Canonical had at some point two variants of Unity, the regulate one (slow) and a qml based one (super snappy). I'm still sad that they did not stick with the qml version. GNOME nowerdays is fine, but for years it was slow and lacking compared to what we already had with qml Unity.
Interesting, but being very opposite of socialist myself I am wholeheartedly with you here on limiting timeframe of IP. It partially solves the problem.

And this arguably should be extended to tangible assets as well - I like Singapore model where housing property is sold for specific timeframe. It simplifies a lot of redevelopment.
If we're going with secular books, I'd say 33 Strategies of War. It misses many of the criteria above, but it is rereadable. It's probably not the kind of book I'd want to read for the rest of my life; I can imagine becoming toxic and paranoid from that.

Other philosophical books also come close, especially on information density. But most seem to be missing something. Maybe a hack would be reading a book on writing essays and then learning via writing.
This is my point about the shame it isn't. It seems obvious that ipfs would have both privacy and a self balancing way to pin a partial set of data. But no, which makes it unsuitable.
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I took my music collection offline at the start of this year, so I would lose my final reason to "need" to carry a smartphone around. It took me about 16 hours over two days to plan, organize and acquire all the music I would otherwise have listened to on Spotify.

In the end the experience was far inferior. My wireless earphones were harder to manage and connect, the UI and build quality were outright unpleasant ($40 price tag, wasn't willing to spend more), and podcasts wouldn't save the point I last stopped at. Not only that, but the MP3 player didn't recognize the track number from within the MP3 data, meaning that albums were played with the tracks in alphabetical order, until I found a program that could change the file names to contain said number at the start of the file name.

The problem was clearly the really crappy MP3 player I got, but I couldn't find anything better that was reasonably priced in the market available to me in Europe. If I could find something then I'd love to give it another shot.
[OP here] It feels bizarre saying this, having spent so much of my life advocating for and selling a distribution of Kubernetes and consulting services to help folks get the most of out it, but here goes! YOU probably shouldn't use Kubernetes and a bunch of other "cool" things for your product.

Most folks building software at startups and scale-ups should avoid Kubernetes and other premature optimisations. If your company uses Kubernetes, you are likely expending energy on something that doesn't take you towards your mission. You have probably fallen into the trap of premature optimisation.

Please don't take this post to be only aimed against Kubernetes. It is not. I am directing this post at every possible bit of premature optimisation engineers make in the course of building software.
> But it is also use to protect unique creator revenue and encourage to create more.

This thinking is an artifact of an economic system so dependent on scarcity for its motivation that it is now generating most of the scarcity in the world.

We now have the technology for creative implementations of "From each according to its ability, to each according to its needs". Just keep track of how much each thing is used, and reward creators from a corporate-tax-funded pool. Every for-profit entity contributes proportionally to its profit, and can use any idea for free.
Unfortunately the JIS standard was phased out and merged with the ISO standard for Phillips screws. I'm sure there's a detail I'm missing about how that was done, but it's harder to find JIS stuff than it used to be. Supposedly the new Phillips standard includes part of what made JIS work so well.

Some older friends who told me stories about people ruining JIS fasteners on bikes and motorcycles because they assumed it was just a Philips. I think the depth of the point is part of the distinction and it causes the drivers to not have adequate contact with the screw head.
In Sweden, you can buy a single-use code and hand-write it instead of placing a stamp.

https://www.postnord.se/om-oss/pressmeddelanden/2021/postnor...

(scroll down for example picture)
It is very clear where you stand from the first post. My comments are not to persuade you away from the blood you imply has to be shed. I comment to provide a different angle, angle where certain principles and values which are the greatest accomplishment of the west are not denounced and ignored in the self-righteous campaign against self-induced 'evil'. For that, the proper force-field of the situation has to be taken into account...

In general we have to get this wrong logic out of any meaningful discussion, the false logic that uncovering/admitting error is the same as discovering a truth. It is not so. We can very well be both wrong, in a degree or kind.

By saying that US actively, purposefully and with full knowledge that its actions/policies will lead to this conflict engaged in them, does not mean that RU aggression is justified by that fact. It is simply matter of consequence, not of morality (states have no morals, they have interests). The moral dimension is only used against civilian population by powers-to-be to confuse them and do their bidding for them (Herman Goering during Nuremberg trials summarized it well before committing suicide).

In other words, West is waging a (proxy) war against RU through UA, which is the bottom line. This is by self-admission by eg. Max Boot of WP (washington post) or many such articles in the New-Yorker (Robing Wright), or even top politicians representative like Seth Moulton (US congressman) openly said it is a proxy war. I can quote perhaps 3-4 dozens of other studies, documentaries, or articles going back years. Btw: Amy Goodman of democracy now has a nice peace on this as well. Basically, the proxy war idea is now normalized and put into moral dimension in the minds of people, and your own comments echo this narrative that has been craftily put up for you.

Nevertheless, the point is that by starting from the proper recognition of the force-fields of this conflict, the dialogue between us (and much more importantly among elite decision makers) will change. It is irresponsible to use frivolously remarks about total war as the best option out of the given situation. It is not in anyone's interest (civilian population anywhere on the planet). To not explore way to peace, to diplomacy and principle of non-aggression from either party (UA military is not innocent of war-crimes despite lack of reporting in the west) is irresponsible by free citizens of humanity and civilization. That is it. Eventually, when enough civilians are dead on either or both sides the war will cease. Why not to work toward stopping it before then?
> daily meetings are nice

Daily meetings suck. Do them less frequently and allow for more time to talk about things.
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/rs2009

Incredible stuff, love to see it.
Yes its cultural, but you can change culture.

Simple checklists that the team agrees upon for tasks that should be completed for a certain process. Just an example: after each incident do a postmortem, part of which is an update of runbooks and do a quick share in the team of those updates. Doesn't have to be bureaucratic and fancy, everything can be short and skipped when its really not relevant. But when everybody on the team agrees with them, and you have some sort of peer review baked in, it will be a lot easier.

Because the same people who don't update the runbooks do actually feel it would be better if they did.
If it's a monopoly sure ... It's how physical mail "worked"
The fact that unity just seemed like "let's cargo cult macos" while they were bragging about how awesome they were ("objectively the best" was thrown around) was a real turn off for me.
Whenever you reach the limit, you can always copy the ISBN and search it on Libgen.

8 times outta 10, the book would be there.
by 'spare' I think he/she meant something like "ah, whatever, I don't care"

'not spare' would be: "50€ ? I could buy xy for that!"
It is an indian crypto exchange (lending) platform based in Singapore but focuses on india, as I remember it.

It is not as big as binance (indian version), wazirx, coindcx, zebpay but can be considered around position 7-8 in the list of indian crypto exchanges.
Users mainly used it for interest earning by lending their crypto to vauld.
I really like having torque control, though. I use it always.
> Just get a STEM degree and it’s hard to do poorly afterwards.

Wait until the winds of the economic climate change their direction again; until this moment, celebrate and post such texts on HN that will become bad advice.
If you're building something with the goal of selling it, sell before you build. This applies in at least 99% of cases.

Just go to potential customers and tell them "hey, in [a few months/years], I'm going to launch a thing that can do this and that for you. Would you like one at prelaunch price?"

If customers don't like your initial pitch and don't buy, why would you give up? Iterate on what you're selling. You don't need to build to iterate.

Then you can build something people want.

I like to phrase that as "as a software consultant, I'm in the business of not writing code. The first rule of this business is to never write code until somebody definitely wants to use it".

Of course, if you're building it just for fun, iterate on the code all yu want before you sell it.
The SSI syntax is not as lean and convenient as the syntax I am going for. It would lead to less readable and more bloated content files.
Ask HN: How do you move a business forward that's using old tech?
I work at a very stable, mid-sized company. We have ~ 1,500 clients. Our internal site, which we share with clients who have their own creds, is built on an ancient tech stack. An IBM DB2 server with vanilla php 5.4. We are still using iframes and tables for layout. It ... mostly works, except if you try to use it on mobile/small screens. We manually build SQL statements. We do not use classes. There is no CSS, only a few inline styles here and there. We use a proprietary, old IDE and will not be changing because of existing devs.

I am a relatively new web dev, ~ 3-4 years experience (but with wife and kids that whole time, so not much free time). The other 2 devs at the company have been there a LONG time. One is dedicated to sys/db/running the business, the other is web/client facing. They don't seem very interested in using new tech.

The boss has asked me to experiment with my own web server, Laravel, and a PowerBI gateway for analytics, but I'm completely on my own and pretty swamped with basic stuff like manually building forms. What would you do to help get this business up to speed?
Foundation models changed AI forever; they need to be released responsibly
All of these yield farms seem to reassure customers that everything is great, then the next week declare themselves insolvent. It seems that as soon as they pause withdrawals they know the company is done for and they have to set themselves up for bankruptcy. If it were depositor-first mindset, the damage could be spread out by limiting withdrawals but still giving some percentage of total deposit as liquidity. It seems pretty offensive that most of these companies just flip the switch to absorbing customer funds for general operations runway, lawyers and payouts for secured creditors/owners.
Many countries also burnt massive amounts of coal when they were industrializing. It is a bit unfair to compare a 70 year old country with a 400 year old country which routinely exports war, waste to countries poorer than themselves no?
Didn't take long for this to be curated off the front page of HN. Is HN losing traffic to IH?
I do the same thing with every cold-call power-sales phone call I get. I try to keep them on the line as long as possible, while paying as little attention as possible.

Put the phone on speaker, turn down the volume a little, and carry on working on my computer.

I feel that the only way to end spam (email and phone), is to take up as much time of the spammer as possible.

If all 25m recipients of an email scam replied with the intention to drag it out as long as possible, the scammer will never identify those who actually fell for it.

If all 25m recipients of a phishing email responded with poisoned data, the target bank would quickly realise what was happening.

If everyone who ever receives a spam phone call kept the person on for 30m instead of dismissing the call in 5s, it would be unprofitable to make these calls.

In general, dropping the ROI on these techniques to negative would stop them.
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“[When I declined], they proceeded to tell our 12 year old daughter, ‘I guess your parents won’t take you on your dream vacation!’” she says. Then, they handed over her “prize:” a $25 restaurant voucher that required a $100 minimum spend to redeem.
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Muricans are insane... Do this to me in françe I WRECK you in middle the mall in public taking some free palms in face :)
I don't remember the last time I signed up to a mailing list just to be notified when some random app goes live. Let alone pre-ordering.

I would do that if I already trust the organization, which implies it has already launched useful products in the past. For an unknown startup, the idea would have to be truly Earth-shaking for me to sign up.

In most cases, I'll just wait until I hear that the app is out, and then try it and consider purchasing.

To me, "sell before you build" is a no-go for upstarts with zero audience, whereas "market before you build", or maybe "market as you are building", creates the awareness you'll need to warm people up when you are ready to sell.
Actually I only know the latter, not the former, and no. However, the point was that if the advertisement does not incline me to buy because of the sheer absurdity of its location and timing then it doesn't work. Shotgunning ad dollars at random shit and hoping it works is how we get spam.
The co-founder two weeks ago:

>We’re here to stay and will continue to play a part in accelerating the transition to decentralized money.

https://twitter.com/darshanbathija/status/153911663182967603...
And we still look for aliens on other planets…
According to that graph the MAX has suffered a 320 unit net order loss since 2018, the year they started falling out of the sky. So it's actually worse than "no-one is buying this airplane "...
> If I recall correctly, both GNOME and Unity shared rejection from a number of users (I don't know if that was large group or just very noisy)

The GNOME redesign. The old 2D GNOME was OK. It was functional, stable and pretty (for someone who thinks that Windows 3.11 style is a good fit for a work environment). Then the old software was abandoned and the update was pushed onto users.

KDE also had a transition disaster. That time was not a good time for Linux on the Desktop.
The lack of native scrolling kills it for me. It's painfully obvious using a flutter app on iOS, since the scrolling momentum is way off.

You never really think this stuff matters until you're exposed to it.
Netflix PR really going the extra mile with this subliminal ad for Stranger Things.
Computer scientist arguing that we need 'key pieces of governance' to ensure that cool foundation models should first be released to, ehh, to computer scientists.

So that they have the opportunity to closely analyze them. Right.There can be no ulterior motive here.
If I'm not mistaken, GWT did hydration way back in 2010.
IMHO I don't think you can have real product fans without a product as much as you cannot have music fans without music.

They might be fans of you vision, of your marketing or whatever else but that can be as bad as it can be good when your product finally lands.
No /s from me. If you want a chore that will never pay off, write a runbook.
As a musician and filmmaker I see it like this: once my work is published I stop to be in total control of it. That means I cannot control (or sometimes even know) what paths my works will take, how it is being understood, who will do what with it etc.

Of course I like to be credited for my work — but some fan adding my work to a pirate page would not be a concern but rather a bit flattering. What would anger me would be someone claiming credit for themselves, some rich company taking the material without paying me, things of that sort.