skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This case study makes me wonder if PMF is only accidental. Many startups I know have accidentally stumbled on the idea that made them big. This is one such story.

It does seem accidental to me in this particular case.

The more I read about successful product-market fit, the more I'm convinced that even if it's a real thing, knowing about it doesn't actually lead to any useful advice other than "keep pivoting until you've made something people really want" (or else you run out of money).

The term "product-market fit" makes it seem like a concept that is measurable. Maybe, it's measurable, but only after you've achieved it. So what does that tell you exactly? If you're not successful, you don't have it. If you are successful, you must have had product market fit. Amazing. Now go forth and make stuff that has product-market fit. Good luck.

It feels more honest to just just call it "making a product people desperately want and will you give you money for". It would simplify a lot of discussions. "We worked on this product and didn't know if people desperately wanted it or would give us money for it. Then we released it and realized people didn't want it and would not give us money for it. The lesson we learned is we should make something people desperately want and will give us money for."

Apologies for being negative, but I think I've watched too many videos and read too many articles from successful people/companies and am starting to think that survivorship bias and luck gives too much authority to advice that is actually not that useful.
Would that affect conviction sentences? Like, if i'm actually selling sugar instead of cocaine but pretending it to be cocaine.
Suppose you're a billionaire. Quite a few of them live in my town. Do you actually care at all? Do you even know what you spend on water? I'd wager not.

Someone down the street from me is not a billionaire, but the property tax savings of operating a "farm" (a vineyard) pays for a huge amount of water. And it's totally worth it for him.

There's so many perverse incentives baked into California life that it's hard to express to people outside without sounding like anything but a paranoid raving lunatic.
The article was published in 2006.
Because desalination is expensive?
wonderful! Stuff on the right is overly spacious now.
Manga for prescription interactions makes a lot more sense than warnings on everything with grapefruit.
what happens when the trend crosses into negative territory? Do we start calling it "time to commercialization?"
A bit off topic: I'm facing an issue where a monitor works only when getting power (220v 60hz) from an outlet but not from an external power generator: ecoflow river pro (220v 60hz) as well.

It's the only appliance that doesn't work. It turns on normally but stays black (I use it in mirror mode).

Every hour or so it may show the correct content for a glance then it'll turn black.

I suspect the power supply source is not the real reason, maybe there's something causing interference with the cable?

I'm waiting to have a free weekend to check it out.

Edit: I'll check if it's related to this issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32631017
>An average household uses around .75 cubic meters of water per day, and it takes around 3.5 kWh to desalinate that much water using reverse osmosis (at scale, probably some best case. I didn't look too hard).

>On Silicon Valley Power (suck it PG&E losers), I pay around $0.11/kWh. So a full day's water would cost me around $0.40, or around $12/month if I were to somehow magically do this process at home. That is around 1/10th of my current water bill. That leaves plenty of room to still pay for equipment, distribution, etc.

That's only the electricity cost. The total cost, factoring in operating costs as well as capital expenditures range from $0.60/m³ to $1.86/m³, with the lower end being $1.63 if we only include first world countries. That leads to a per month cost that's a few times higher than your initial estimate.
How could a business possibly account for that in a way that doesn't make doing business over the Internet logistically impossible?
You can talk to support about missing the notification about your reservation and they'll still let you put in an order.
I think this is one case that goes to the heart of what we expect Twitter to be.

If they are supposed to be a public square, a company that is simply meant to offer a technical means of broadcasting your opinions, then we can't also expect them to fight government propaganda, any more than we would expect that of, say, Google Search.

On the other hand, if we want Twitter to be a kind of new media company, than we should indeed hold them to journalistic standards and expect them to cut through government lies wherever they decide to have a presence.
It’s a shame lithium is in a shortage due to the heat crisis in China, electric car batteries may be hard to come by
The first AI generated graphic novels are here
Grapefruit will be mentioned in the ingredient list if it's present in significant amounts. Many allergens, such as peanuts, which can cause severe anaphylactic reactions and can affect many people, are prominently mentioned, including if the facility that produces a product also deals with them.

Beyond that, it's really on the consumer of food to make sure they are not ingesting anything that can cause harm to them. Ascertaining grapefruit presence in the food falls squarely in this category. If you can not be sure that grapefruit is absent in a juice, do not drink it. It's that simple. And if something says grapefruit prominently on the packaging (I imagine grapefruit juice in its original packaging would certainly fit the bill), then it's really the individual's responsibility.
My feeling is that Apple hates the developers that develop the software that makes them rich.

Forcing myself to be rational "hate" is probably too strong a word. If you are down the Apple cul-de-sac there is really no turning back. So investing in things like code examples for all of their API (there are a few, a very few) is a waste for Apple. It does not attract new developers and the old ones are stuck in the cul-de-sac.
Here's an article I turned up while researching for another reply:

https://www.advisian.com/en/global-perspectives/the-cost-of-...

tl;dr: all in cost is around $1.75/m³
I think that would avoid the potential loophole I was worried about! I'd be careful with the periodicity of the RNG though.

I was on a machine with limited user space. I used OpenSSL, no new binaries, reading and writing at close-to-wire speeds. "Counting zeroes" would track down where they don't match, doesn't it?
Larry Wall's remark was less about prefix notation and more about how there's very little visual difference. I don't necessarily agree with the criticism because that's the price you pay for homoiconicity, and it's a price well worth paying; but it was a more serious complaint than "lmao parentheses".

See e.g. Clojure, that introduced #{} for sets, [] for vectors etc.
I collect documentary films. “Hammer & Tickle” (2007) is one of my white whales. Been trying to track it down for years without success. Anyone know where a copy can be bought or downloaded?
Was going to mention Interface! It's very much Cambridge Analytica vibes - you feel that there are teams as described doing pretty much the same things, just without the direct brain interface.

Personally, I think Anathem is the best of his works, although I enjoyed DODO - the sequel, which he wasn't directly involved with was less good though.
It's easier for Cloudflare to ban the sites causing this and replace the affected IPs than to fight this in the court.
Safe harbor provisions are for this exact scenario, we must depend on that not corp scale to maintain reasonable governing. Safe harbor has come under attack lately, unfairly so IMO.
I agree, it would be nice to have boxes of medication come with obvious large prints in style "grapefruit + this medicine = DEATH, tomato juice + this medicine = VOMIT FOR DAYS, YAY".

It seems that the most deadly things should be pointed out in bold and in as simple language as possible. Like in (human friendly) UX design, what is important should look important.

I suspect that the reason they don't want to put it on the boxes is largely because brands don't want medication to look dangerous in any way. The excuse that might be made about is that "pamphlet must be read too, and if we print something on the box people won't read pamphlets", but it does not seem very convincing.
The potential profit from that is a rounding error for Apple.
It could be argued that since the latter is impossible, they should abstain from the former.
Not quite at the same scale, but Dan Simmons writes some pretty great alternate/fictionalized history that tend to be pretty lengthy (if that's your thing). I particularly enjoyed Drood and The Terror (from which the TV series was adapted), and Black Hills is pretty nice as well. He also did Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos series if you're more into s-f.
These were also decisions made about 6 or 7 years ago when forgiveness after a decade of $100/mo payments was a reasonable expectation.
Desalination is exceptionally expensive compared to just waiting to have water fall from the sky.

You can do it in extremely arid climates, for example to provide water to cities, but it makes no economic sense when you already have huge amounts of free water that you waste on inefficient irrigation techniques.
thinking about =\= working on

I can learn about my company’s deal flow and benefit from that without needing to spend six hours in Quickbooks

It’s good for me to know the feature I’m building is important to a prospective customer who has an emphasis on security, even if I don’t sit on a call with them
4x4 pattern, encryption, multiple backups (rsync via termux is great), disable fingerprint unlock when in transit (lockdown mode). If it happens: grab an old backup phone, visit the carrier store and leave with a new SIM with the old number. Revoke access of the stolen one wherever possible.
The HTML version of Gmail is also very dense, maybe even the densest of all Gmail versions.
Unrelated to the article, I noticed that the article's page loaded extremely fast, and the reading was refreshingly focused. I had never been to the "lite" subdomain of CNN until now, but it's a reminder of what we are missing with all those news articles that take a while minute to load the autoplay videos and the parallax ads.
Lielow: A chess-like game that is played with checkers
See also, discussion from last year:

An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (stopa.io)
130 points by codetrotter on May 27, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 114 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27307388
Basic receive-only SDR is for example the famous RTL-SDR, which you can get for ~$50 with a dipole antenna. It's a USB dongle, and it will get you to surprisingly many interesting places despite the low price tag.

In order to transmit you need some slightly better hardware, such as the HackRF. Replaying a signal with a HackRF is really easy. Note that technically you're not allowed to transmit without a license, whereas reception is generally lawful, with very few exceptions (looking at your legal scar tissue, UK). The author of HackRF published a nice, though not yet completed, tutorial series on YouTube.

There's a lot of activity in the spectrum, if you like to tinker with things then definitely get an SDR, some of the best entertainment value per dollar for a hacker :)
The arguments I'm seeing here boil down to "It's okay to go in with your tank full of tchochky souvenirs and run over a few powerless locals to protect yourself so you can make a few bucks."

The general trend is that, when in doubt, Twitter should cover its own ass. I would like to see a standard of "When in doubt, don't run over pedestrians with your tank."

Surely a company can come up with some best practices that err in the right direction here. Or maybe that's expecting too much of the best of the best of the best, sir!
Elon Musk Is Bringing Cell Service to the Backcountry
I had no idea that you could put an Install button on a web page that opens Stylus’s editor.
Assuming Twitter is serving the Pakistani market, making revenue and paying taxes there, it seems reasonable to ask for the same quality controls as elsewhere. In particular hiring Pakistanis for moderation shouldn't be economically devastating for their operations in this country. So on top of being a very reasonable request it should be a minimum requirement of their operating model.
Sounds like an edge case. Very high rate of obesity, massive sugar consumption, and lack of outdoor exposure are probably doing a number on people.
Where does the post you reply to express surprise?
It's nice that they give people a public list of interesting websites in case they want to infringe on some copyrights.
Would you also expect Google Search to take down links to local media outlets publishing similar stories?

I don't personally think Twitter should be expected to go against the official government narrative of any country they operate in, for what it shows inside that country. Not that it would be immoral to do so, but I find it an entirely unrealistic expectation - Twitter is not the BBC.
NASA’s Space Launch System is yesterday’s rocket
My mouse pointer also disappeared for a time when it by accident crossed over to my iPad. After disabling that feature it never happened again.
Sounds far from being one of the best SSDs…
That sounds very different from what was written? The complaint was about "lacking ... any kind of" yet you write about "extensive documentation".

There obviously is a trade off with how much you can/should expect, but "you cannot expect 9/10" is not a valid reply to "it currently is 3/10".
That website doesn’t have HTTPS.
> We apply logic where it applies, and we use other sources of evidence for where it doesn't apply

If you leave the realm of logic then really anything can be claimed. I claim there is a pink machine outside our universe which is printing universes. How do you know this not to be the case?
Microsoft, AWS, Equinix join list of companies pausing data center projects
I tried to understand the segment analytics open source sdk coming from the apache unomi project's documentation. It seems unomi is using analytics.js syntax in tracking users.

I still don't get the benefit, though.

I know quite a few analytics tools and have implemented my fair share of these. But still. I just run into a wall every time I try to understand the OS analytics.js benefits.
I just learned: This seems to be related to that "Hermode Tuning".

https://en.xen.wiki/w/Adaptive_just_intonation

But there seem to be differences. Some demos have those tonal glides (that I don't like) but some don't (and sound just great).

Could someone explain in a "TL;DR" what's going on here?

But I see, that wiki I just found seems to be full of info. But it will take time to read all that… Would prefer to have some VSTs to just play around with. Any tips?
Do you know the story of the donkey in the middle between a bucket of water and a pile of hay? https://sive.rs/donkey

So the answer is: one at a time

If you can't decide, say, if all subjects are the same level of interest to you, pick one at random and spend 5 years on it. See where that gets you. If you are satisfied or bored, pick the next subject.
‘I just go into my head and enjoy it’: the people who can’t stop daydreaming
I don't think it's uncharitable at all. The point of writing software is to get it into the hands of users so they can use it.

I have a lot of respect for him for doing such high quality game work, mostly or entirely on his own. But let's not pretend he's some highly-productive programmer who churns out groundbreaking software at some amazing pace. I reserve such praise for people like Fabrice Bellard, who not only builds amazing things, but has built a lot of amazing things.

Tinkering around with a new language is cool and impressive, but it doesn't make you a "productive" programmer. Managing a game studio is useful work, but it's not "productive programming". I agree that his two games are great, and it's impressive how they were built, but... so what? He spent three years on Braid and seven years on The Witness. Is it "productive" to spend ten years writing two games? Not saying he was wrong to spend his time as he did; that's entirely his choice, and I know I personally have appreciated the output of those ten years. But I think many programmers have done much more productive things than building two games in ten years. I'm honestly not trying to shit on Jonathan Blow, but I think the hero worship I see over him is just a bit much.
Ruby is a fantastic first language.

https://pine.fm/LearnToProgram
The dilution is real
I’m (very slowly) writing a video game mostly based on this book.
It's probably the same as the technical justification for why Safari updates are bundled with iOS and not separate, why XCode only runs on macOS, why no other browsers are allowed on iOS, why macOS can't have separate scroll directions between mouse and touchpad and many many others. It's Apple's ecosystem, nobody is asking you, you're holding it wrong.
The one that gets me the most is http://irc.is-not-s.ms/. It's instant! It's in the names! It's supposed to mimic verbal, in-person conversation!
I would die if every message on libera.chat started with "to whom it may concern: you may not know me, but I am open-parens, a human on Earth who is visiting your chat server. As the autumn approaches and the rain makes puddles on the ground, I've noticed that my Firefox profile gets overwritten everytime I update Arch Linux."
>the author is asking to have false, defamatory content removed.

The author is asking to have content that he says is false removed.

>The author is alleging that false posts are being made to lay the groundwork for the author being detained and tortured by the local justice system.

Since the tweets may be used as an excuse to have him detained, removing them will do nothing, because the government could just as easily use a different medium for the same purpose. Twitter can't prevent someone who can and wants to kidnap you from kidnapping you.
I was just pointing out what I think is a major flaw in your logic. I think it’s entirely possible to have some stocks of whale which are endangered, and other stocks of whale that are not endangered and are eating large amounts of fish and krill.

Do I think that whales are decimating fish populations? Probably not, but I would need to see some data to say with any degree of certainty. And again, this is something you would need to look at in terms of local whale stocks and fisheries vs. just looking at all whales as a whole.

> So I don't think your comment is relevant to the actual point being made. If OTOH you are just applying some factual editing so that my amazing comment can be printed in a newspaper, let's clean up that language sure!

I think it is relevant to point out flawed logic or overly simplistic thinking in pretty much any discussion - regardless of whether or not it will be printed in a newspaper.
An engineer is messaging with his boss on Slack after hours. The boss says "My brother is in the hospital and needs money for his surgery!" The engineer asks "What are you gonna do?" and the boss responds "Well, he is family..." The engineer responds "You're gonna make him come in on weekends??"
Yes, I know. That's the link I posted : Development version GIMP 2.99.12 Released.

Thanks, I see he has scripts to build AppImages of many other things. Incredibly useful.
Los Angeles may force hotels to house the homeless
They will be embarrassed, perhaps, about code quality
About device serial numbers, see also: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20041110-00/?p=37... "Why does Windows not recognize my USB device as the same device if I plug it into a different port?" (2004)
it‘s a mathematical excursion… it‘s not meant to be a real life applicable thing. read the article before posting please :)
Maybe lately, but certainly not at first. I was one of those early customers, and when I would say, "We want to do it like this", they would say, "Well we think this is how it should be done" and then ignore me. So yeah, they talked to customers, and just told them they were wrong.

But also Google has a trust issue. I think GCP makes a superior product, but I would never use it. I'd be afraid that one of my former employees leaves the company, does something Google doesn't like, and they shut down my entire GCP account because my gmail is associated with the gmail of someone who did something bad, even though they don't work for me anymore. (Yes, this is a real thing that happened)

I can't trust Google not to just shut down my account and then give me no human to talk to to get it fixed.
> When I divorced my wife, we sold our house and split the money. I spent all $450,000 on lottery tickets and now I’m sleeping in my van.

There’s a reason they call it “high risk”.
$99 is crazy expensive for a book about a topic that's heavily covered and widely available for free online or usually at most $25 in book form.
This so hard!

I can’t imagine, e.g. - going up to the cottage and bringing a console or handheld with me…

The idea of a vacation is to disconnect, no?
I use

pw-loopback -m '[FL FR]' --playback-props='media.class=Audio/Source node.name=my-source

for loopback, is it missing something for your use case?
Vegas 15 pulling out of Steam and revoking existing licenses
I’ve somehow found Crusader Kings III bearable on my Steam Deck. Trigger buttons as zoom/scroll made a big difference, as did remembering I could use the touch screen whenever I wanted to.
He gets some flack because his style looks like common, over the top, yt clickbait. But despite the occasional antics there’s a lot of substance behind his content. Other yt celebs are buying Lamborghinis and paying for stupid stunts. Linus just bought a $100k PSU tester.
Sorry, but I'm not seeing an answer to my question.
I'd love to learn more!
Restaurants Are Jumping Ship from Uber Founder’s Ghost Kitchen
Not mentioned but somewhat related: The Mongoliad series, for which Stephenson is one of the co-authors. (It's a collective work that came out of a failed startup; it's complicated.)

This is historical fiction and it's very long, but I found it interesting. You might say it arose in part out of Stephenson's interest how historical fighting might have actually worked.

https://www.amazon.com/The-Mongoliad-Series-5-book-series/dp...
Thank you! It is indeed a very frustrating kind of work.

But still, a lot less frustrating than waking up at 6 AM for a Zoom call with an overseas company I’d be working. I prefer angry users of my own app over demanding (and often not knowing what exactly they demand) bosses.
I was expecting a JSON-to-DOT transformer and a new graphviz backend (if that's at all necessary).
Before anything else, you’ll need to cool it down. We could use solar sails for that as well, but to make shade instead of extra sunlight. It’d require a lot more sails (but they could be less efficient at producing thrust) than heating Mars. They’d need to be parked closer to the Sun than Sun-Venus L1 to compensate for the push they’ll get from the Sun.

According to my napkin math, a sunshade capable of completely obstructing sunlight to Venus would require at least 450 million sails of 1 square kilometre each. Seems doable for a civilisation slightly more advanced than ours.
It sure does for me. The other projects linked here are I find overwhelming, Upscayl I find approachable.

The alternative I see to Upscayl would be some online service that's similarly approachable for "I just want to upscale this right now".
There's also qpwgraph when you're used to qjackctl
https://archive.ph/yByeX
> To write code quicker, and make it easier to maintain.

It makes the easy things easier. A common problem for these sorts of tools. It is help with the hard things that we need.

Edit - I have experience with SwiftUI not React.