skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is mostly right, but it makes it seem like successful apps are more of a crap shoot than they really are.

Too many (most?) apps are built without spending any time researching whether it solves a real problem people have (and are willing to pay for). I get it, we want to build things, not do market research.

Most people think that to build a successful app, you just have to "come up" with a brilliant idea and then go build it. That's not the case at all (while it does occasionally work, THAT is pure luck). Successful apps usually happen because the founder(s) saw a real pain point or gap in the market, and then build something to solve that.

You'll notice that the approaches are almost completely opposite:

- Build something and hope that people need it
- Find a problem that people actually have and build a solution that solves it well

Of course, this doesn't guarantee success (nothing does), but it vastly increases your chances of not wasting time building something nobody wants.

Also, I'm not naive about the different backgrounds/privileges people have; of course luck plays a factor here. I'm speaking directly about people who are already in a position to create an app (i.e. a lot of HN readers)
> So, the best policy is to just stay in forward motion.

forget who said it, but I like the quote "Action produces information". If you just try a lot of stuff, at the very least you will learn what works and what doesn't.
it looks like if teenage engineering created a keyboard.
great job
> you have a large project, you break it down into smaller parts. If you know what needs to be done, throw it in the backlog, give it a broad estimate, sort it, and you have an estimate for about how long it will take. If you have unknowns, make resolving them a task. If you need things from the business, give them tasks.

What’s the difference between this and “waterfall” then?
Julia's 1.8's load times are dramatically better than Julia 1.0's.
It keeps getting a bit better with every release.

But there is a project to cache native code (without needing to build a sysimage) that may make a huge difference...
I suspect they need that space to house the internal electronics like the keyboard controller.
I'm curious how much time customer support takes for products around this price and how much impacts the viability of a business this size.

At $8600 MRR * 12 ~= $103k. Obviously some level of expenses here but let's assume very high margins.

$8600 / $40 plan = 215 customers.

Given all that, how much time does it take to service 215 customers' support needs? Assuming profit would be in the $80-90k range, that's multiples lower than what a developer could make in a job, so is this a full-time work load or is it pretty minimal and could operate as a side-gig? It sounds like the plan here is to continue to grow well beyond the current state but just curious about this particular moment in the business and how sustainable it is if it doesn't grow.
Amen, but forget about external influence - if you work in a business that is profitable, you're certain to bump into coworkers outside of technologies that live in a pure deadline-driven world. That's business, and it is not negotiable.

There will always be major events that are locked to fixed dates, like conferences, launches and many things that are impacted by launches (like hiring new teams to be using the new systems that we were supposed to be building). This does not mean this company sucks, or working at this company sucks, it usually means this company is profitable.

"Waterfall" is starting to get twisted into some sort of virtue signaling for folks that like to complain about deadlines.

Managing this tension is what we all need to be good at - there's definitely no silver bullet or perfect methodology to manage this, because it is always evolving.
I'm not talking about specific people, just in general. People making decisions in companies are looking for revenue, and what brings money isn't necessarily aligned with public good.

A lot of things that would be good for people/society have no good way of really being profitable (unless lawmakers do something to rebalance the game to somehow help them).

And a lot of things that are profitable are objectively bad for society.
Also, Tow-Boot is just a u-boot distribution that sticks pretty close to upstream.
Sewing was a skill I picked up in a Home Economics course I filled an empty middle school schedule slot with.

Next to programming, it's probably one of the most helpful things I learned in school.
I am offended by your unfounded preemptive censorship of facts.
Since when saving time and increasing productivity became silly? Not even saying getting rid of Linux VMs, shared folders and similar annoying things is a good thing overall.
True but if this keyboard is your daily driver those sunk keys are going to get dirty quickly and cleaning them well would be more difficult than a simple flat key with a small tactile bump.
There is already a prototype with these keycaps so I guess he did find somebody already. The price will be…. Interesting though
GlyNAC supplementation reverses aging hallmarks in aging humans
Beautiful work and aesthetics!

Please design a keyboard that one can reprogram the keys directly on the hardware (caps to ctrl and the like).

Also where you can program macros and save them into profiles. That way, emacs keys would work everywhere.
I'm the humblest of all!
But why do I have to install another application to defend myself against a foreign corporation's wrong doing?

Airtags should be illegal, at least in Europe.
That was fast: MetaGuard emerges as an 'incognito mode' for the metaverse
Please, feel free to share one single example me of a job you can "produce value" without being out-competed by a machine and/or computer.
> I feel other games (Meta, but also VRChat and Neos and Chillout etc!) are too "stuck" on what the computer world feels like to understand what VR allows them to do…

Too drunk on the "Boo, skeumorphism! Bad! BAD!!!11!" Kool-Aid?
A deep dive into DNS behavior and query failures
The most irritating that "history" is so unintuitive.

You open the history, search for some keyword -> say you get 50 results.

Then you want to go through result 1 to 50 to find the page. But nooo, the results arent "fixed" in their positions. If you go to page 2, it jumps to position 1. If you go to page 3, it jumps to position 1.

In current Firefox it is even worse: now it just closes the whole history window, so you cannot quickly scroll through those 50 sites. The history window closes after you pick one (and moves the site as first on the list).

It seems that Chrome can at least keep the history fixed.
(The title should be changed so that the species name (the second word) is all lower case.)
This is a neat concept. I have no clue what this costs to setup, since its likely got a big setup time expense (training each site), but looks cool.

Are there other areas you've noticed that benefit from computer vision to compare base vs deviations?
It looks like Teenage Engineering made a keyboard… which is not really a bad thing.
I remember encountering Fuller’s work as a kid in the 70s and wondering what the big deal was. I assumed that I just wasn’t smart enough yet / didn’t know enough yet to appreciate it, but unlike many other things it never planted a seed that eventually changed me. Perhaps it was an emperor’s new clothes situation after all.

(Snelson going to school with Albers seems much more interesting!)
Fantastic Wizards, and where to find them.
I was not taken with my first read of LOTR. It wasn't until I read it with others who carefully unpacked for me so much more than I could see. And there is SO much.

Like, I could never tell the difference between Merry and Pippin before. They were just two copies of the same character to me. Now I see them individually, and I'm fond of one but not the other.

And Faramir and Eowyn! A side love story that could be a whole book on its own. I pretty much glanced over it the first time, because a lot of it happens while we (and they)
are stuck on the side lines of the "real" story. My mistake!

> the story seemed pedestrian

I'll intentionally misinterpret this: That's so true! ;) Tolkien very carefully timed the events of the story around how long it would actually take the characters to walk from here to there. Of course, that means he also knew the exact distances between places in Middle Earth.
The thing is, that could be a great trilogy. The issue is it just isn't Tolkien. Which would be fine, if they marketed it as something completely different. In that case though, it'd be pretty jarring to reconcile the Tolkien law with whatever crazy action they come up with and you'd have to wonder why they would bother even using Tolkien's material except, cynically, for name and brand recognition as a path to massive amounts of money.
This may happen more at large companies than at startups, but having interviewees sign NDAs is normal, isn’t it?
Ok, different problem then: if you allow all real women (as you define them) in female sports, then there will be no people who were born as female in the top sport.

Maybe not a problem for you, but it is a problem if you were born female. In that case the "the people who were born female" seem to need an action group. But they can't because that would be transphobic.
Deepin Linux v23 preview released with new package format
Had it ever occurred to you - if this was a real issue how would anyone ever get any work done?
The answer is modules.

module X
struct etc...
end
end #module

Change without reloading.
Google has a ton of internal and external customers that can amortize the cost of this kind of project. They've also got lots of similar programs of developing server hardware and some organizational experience in how to hook new stuff up and keep it utilized. The whole dojo program always seemed wildly ambitious reach to me for a company like Tesla. More power to them if they pull it off but it's not a surprise to me that it's not what they're using a year after they thought it was almost ready
Right. I use a left-handed mouse due to RSI, so 100% keyboards are not a problem for me, and moving my hands around a bit rather than using chords also helps with the RSI. It also reduces the complexity of chords when using keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+Shift+PgUp, or NumPad-specific keyboard shortcuts (like Ctrl+NumPad-“+” to auto-fit columns in grid views, or Ctrl+NumPad-“*” to expand all subfolders), which I do a lot.
It's interesting seeing these machines being built by Tesla, Meta, private companies.

Typically these are things built by national laboratories, university research labs...
>> Wasn’t the point of this exercise that the client get the most accurate idea of what the finished space would look like?

I think what he had was more what the finished space could look like. Interior design/decoration is not what the architect was providing.
So much weak whining. Were you crying while you wrote this?

$16B is so little to the US military that even for regular Americans it doesn’t move the needle of outrage like you think it would.

The US spent $2T and 20 years on mujahideen. Do you think anyone even liked those people?

6 months of Russian humiliation and this is the strength of their propaganda? $16B? Lol
Yes, and leave that hostile environment at the earlies possibility for good!
Because it's not as dangerous as eating raw pork. Relatively speaking, raw pork is much more dangerous.
I may misunderstand! But how often is the bookmarks autoexported to html? Can you set the interval also?
I also suggest being wary of early reviews of battery life. Later software updates introduced useful features that can improve battery life, such as 40 Hz refresh mode and FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR).

Most early reviews wouldn't have taken that into account.
Hard to imagine you’re posting in good faith when using the search engine of your choice with text “self cleaning restroom” comes up with more than enough.

That said, don’t think further debate with you will be anything close to fruitful.

edit:

In the year 2022, anything on the internet containing close to

> I have never heard or seen one

Very much leads me to believe the poster has an incurable case of brain worms
>but having interviewees sign NDAs is normal

I've certainly never had to sign one.
Want to have a humble-off? Ok, you start first.
If someone is bored at work going to work for the federal government will _not_ improve that situation. Talk about boring and useless work!
I for one am not complaining, but responding with my thoughts, as requested.
Hi,
looks amazing!

I want to love the kaihl low profile chocs, but after testing the brown ones I still prefer rubber dome. Did you have the chance to try the new sunset ones? From what I read I'd give them another chance (https://splitkb.com/products/sunset-kailh-low-profile-choc-s...)

also any chance for a future ortho version?
Didn't expect to see sewing patterns on HN, but not complaining, this looks really cool!

While on the topic, my girlfriend recently showed me this site: https://freesewing.org . It's fully open source and all the patterns are actually parametric, meaning you can customize the patterns to exact body measurements. Their custom JS framework for designing patters as well as the rest of the platform is MIT licensed [0] and the patterns are all Creative Commons.

[0] https://github.com/freesewing/
Did you consider the obvious possibility that there are 30k deaths reported because it is not in fact self reported? Whoever told you that wasn't being honest. VAERS reports aren't even mostly self reported. Go browse through the reports. You'll discover they mostly come from medical professionals.

But even for the ones that are self-reported, so what? If someone is filling out complex forms with specific details of an injury that they think was caused by the vaccine, that is an important signal.

"I strongly suspect that data has been influenced by people’s political beliefs and isn’t an accurate representation of real events."

Absolutely correct! The vast majority of people have been told that doubting the vaccines is not allowed and will result in immediate and severe retaliation by ideological extremists, who are entirely committed to defending the public health bureaucracy. The historical underreporting factor was something like 40x but ideology and politics has surely hugely increased it now.

Obviously what you're claiming is the opposite - that for some reason huge numbers of people have been filling out bogus, untrue injury reports. It's a delusional belief. Go find evidence of that and then we'll talk.

Until then the evidence is on the side of massive under-reporting of a major tragedy by people who ideologically cannot or will not accept that The Science is made up of liars and incompetents.
One of my first jobs involved assessing desktop users for ergonomic posture when using video display units (PCs). I get that a big keyboard could splay your arms out a bit at angles that aren't ergonomic but practically speaking that'd have to be a very big keyboard.

When someone moves from keyboard to mouse they should be moving from their elbow joint, to protect their wrists. If anything a numpad encourages this as your resting dominant hand position will be left of the numpad (if right handed, for left hand users this won't be true). So you can't bend your wrist to reach your mouse from that position, you have to move your whole arm - which is good.

VDU guidelines in the UK at least don't specify a bad angle for elbows, just wrist bending (up, down, and sideways) because it's not a common scope for elbows to be bending that far for common tasks at a desk. Certainly a full size keyboard and mouse don't push it that far.

So I don't see the ergonomic issue there. I'm sitting at a full size keyboard with my mouse in hand and my posture is just fine. I could even space them out more and be comfortable.

Obviously mileage varies, and subjectively maybe a smaller person might have a smaller desk footprint. I don't want to go as far as to disregard someone else's experience but it really does seem far fetched.

Nothing wrong with liking small keyboards for other reasons though, like vanity, neatness, tidying away easily, portability, not needing a numpad, etc.
I don’t get the ribbon either, I keep it hidden and put everything I want on the quick access toolbar.
I think we both agree on what ought to be; just now how it is.
Well the issue with this happening in private telegram channels is that this will now turn into a "he said" "they said" situation, none of this happened publicly and neither side can provide sources. At the time the argument was definitely not that the chips weren't available.

Instead of delaying the PPP production by one day to get U-Boot sorted they decided to not ship mainline U-Boot at all. Which was only possible because Manjaro provided them with an image to ship with that.

In the end the only response there is is a blog post that never claims anything is wrong or should happen differently, after acknowledging all that I've done.

I only wrote why I left, that they themselves think they're manjaro focussed because the hardware that can't ship Linux doesn't ship manjaro doesn't change that this whole behind the scenes situation really burned me out, and I left.
Usually if you can peel the fruit the inside is considered כשר.
I am a big fan, but I also find this situation and the response to be a bit disappointing.

I highly respect Martijn and the effort he has poured into pmOS and Pine64 and surrounding projects. Without wanting to make other important people feel left out, I consider him an absolute legend and the fact that he has felt compelled to write this blog post (and, unfortunately, to leave) is massively concerning.

I think it's very possible that there has been no malice here and it's all just an accident of one thing leading to another, but something has gone awry here and I think it would be nice to hear what Pine intend to do to put it right, or to know that there is such a plan at all.

> As for the reason why Pinebook Pro doesn’t ship with a bootloader on SPI – it isn’t caused by favoritism for a particular group of developers or disregard for good ideas, but rather something more trivial. Namerly, a functional Tow-Boot build for the Pinebook Pro wasn’t available at the time of manufacture and shipping.

One particular point I want to make: I'm willing to believe Pine about the above, but it's too late to hear about this after crucial people have been miffed. This seems to indicate that communication with the various projects has not been good. This seems like a crucial thing to improve on to prevent this recurring.

I don't have enough knowledge of the situation and am incapable of making any judgements as to what is really going on, but I sincerely hope that Pine will consider this situation carefully and whether something can be done to put things right again.

I really wish to see Pine and their hardware do well and flourish. That was never going to be easy, but it will be even less easy with the loss of people like Martijn.
I see this marketed all the time as olive loaf here in Appalachia. There's a lot of Italian influence here in the coal fields, but most of the Italian product names have died off.
Good point -- thanks!

I guess the one case where it might still make sense to have the organization ID in the path is if users can be in multiple organizations and some APIs involve listing all of a given resource for a certain organization.
Why don't make your own job? If you are so smart, surely you can go ahead and find something interesting to build...
This is a very hard question to answer.

If I would to say, find a product, service, or idea you believe in and see if the company behind it is hiring.

Your resume would likely get lost in the regular pipeline, so look for networking opportunities with existing employees.
you can probably worry about this less. I had the same worry when building seekwell.io and it turned out to not matter at all. Google did eventually launch some things you could use instead of us, but they sucked and by the time they launched it we were way ahead in features.

They also had a ton of restrictions that made sense for Google (e.g. mostly only supporting their own cloud products as a source), but didn't make sense for most customers. Not a single one of our customers has said "we're using the built in Google features" as a reason for cancelling.

Airtable is likely better then Google is this respect (will listen more closely to their customers), but probably not much. They are still a big company and you can do better.

ps - charge more!
I mean, I'd still like for police to investigate/prevent violent crime even if they don't care about my laptop...
> Apple is currently by far the best at attempting to stop tracking of all the tracker tile products.

What about not designing or selling products that can be used to violate the privacy of others?
That may be true, but you asked "how is China hostile," not "how does China's hostility compare to the United States' hostility."
Show HN: 3D printed PC with only 1 fan
> But can a 10-node-iphone-cluster really match an A100 for pure flops?!

Only if the data is local, small, easily synchronizable, doesn't require fp32 precision and a dozen other caveats.

Can a 10 iphone cluster match an A100 in calculating digits of pi? Yes. Can it do backpropagation in large machine learning models? The gradients won't even fit.
A clone of Tailwind's home page using Code Hike [video]
haha, asking the real questions re Assaia. The "A" is as in "another".

They are not usually air-gapped, but there is often tight security in place. But it doesn't matter for us, as we sell a standalone solution and don't need access to the machines (for now).
Sometimes you can get lucky and land an interesting job, but I think getting to do interesting work takes time (and luck). An anecdote from my past as an illustration: When I started my job at [FAANG] I was assigned a project. It was not mind-numbing, but not sexy either -- modernize the infrastructure while not messing up the site. Being new, I gave it my all and was rewarded a couple of years later by having the option to work on a very interesting project, used by tens of millions, with a clear user-visible outcome. Afterwards I usually had my choice of projects and teams inside that org.

Edit: I guess the actionable advice is to get into a company that is big enough to have _some_ interesting projects.
I have worked with a number of people who are like that and nobody seems to notice which drives me nuts so it can't be addressed. I have one of those now and I just have to make sure we stay on different teams. The combination of a massive ego and the skill to mask it create a truly terrible person.
> The lack of basic security hardening found

Page 6 especially:

https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Sev...

Full on "hardened" ;)

https://hardenedbsd.org/content/easy-feature-comparison
They did, it is not really up for debate. Whether they were good or not is up to the viewer
Right, but now you are talking about history. It's like calling our numbering system, the arabic numbering system. Sure - that's where it comes from historically, but now it's just OUR numbering system.

Calling democracy a "western" ideology makes it sound like it's not as relevant to eastern cultures - which is silly because it's now practiced widely in east asia.
So a 1 bed appt in the state of Texas costs $1300 a week?