skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am PM, PO, tech lead, and sometimes primary IC on several projects. I am also owner of a software consulting company so I also control budgets and customer relations. When (not if) projects go over my general strategy is to:

1) Take the pressure off the engineers by reassuring the client with one of several tools (i.e. monetary concessions, strategic scope limitation, detailed investigation, client education, etc). Stressed clients equal stressed engineers. The tension can be palpable.
2) Educate the client on the underlying reasons why we got here. 99% of the time it is because of mismanagement. It is up to management to manage client expectations vs reality and they have clearly failed to do that. It is like the situation where a physician with good rapport with the patient is less likely to sue in the event of a medical error.
3) If overtime is necessary, provide a bonus or extra PTO for overtime, even if it means the company needs to take a small financial hit. Why should engineers suffer the consequences of something that is almost always a management misstep?

I am in a unique situation because I wear so many hats at my company. Unfortunately this decision making process usually involves multiple people. The person controlling the budget is not the same one that is controlling the scope. You need to get the relevant stakeholders in a room together to figure out how to rebalance the expectation vs reality equation. Budget and/or scope are the two dials you can tweak. If this is difficult to do, it may be time to move on. Life is too short to be stressed about things you have no control over.
100x this

the rule excludes me from participating in development -- i.e., I refuse to dread Hell, or let that dread dictate my actions. I can treat others well without the threat of eternal damnation. The dread of hell only detracts from my life.

The Rule also precludes any non-christian contributors.

Charlemagne's world was much smaller and simpler than ours. It's ok to give the list a refresh.
Ask HN: What are some success stories that start with a Show HN thread?
Bootstrapped/pre-seed success stories to be precise.

Success:

1. Adoption / User growth.
2. Funding (Have there been cases where investors have approached a founder directly after seeing a Show HN thread?)
3. Acquisition / Acquihire
4. or more generally hitting any major milestone that was doubtful for the submitter/founder before Show HN.

———-

EDIT:

So, you’ve poured in the blood, sweat and tears and you have something that you are convinced solves a problem and solves it well for your target audience. You decide to showcase it on HN. Until this point the story is yours and somewhat private. When you post it on HN, the public part of your story starts.

I’m curious to know the stories where at that point there was a spike that lead to success.
Antimatter Brings Shitposting to the Classroom
Super-compression: document description + fingerprint = original document.

Ie.: [white caucasic woman smiles arms crossed, dark dress year 1500, background desert mountains road lake forest, match F8A91DDEB45C39] produces La Gioconda loselessly up to 512px wide.
And so you can see the difference it makes vs non-gerrymandered races. A big, big difference.
PCem has a UI, not sure what you're talking about here. It even manages different configurations in its UI, whereas you have to install external apps for that with 86box.

It's also much faster than 86box in my experience.
That's true of most sales, including medical sales. But this is also why incentives for sales are highly tied to performance. You can't fake that skill.

Fun fact, most surgeons learn to perform surgeries (in particular how to use new techniques and equipment) from sales people who don't have degrees. They often actually go into the surgery with them.
>You know what's a waste of time? Telling people something you already told them in your license.

Uh, the whole point of the comment was that license doesn't say how serious the project is.

It's not about boilerplate disclaimers...

> It's very useful advice. If you can't discern whether something FOSS will be useful to your business or not then don't base your business on FOSS code. Simple.

"don't use code in production that disclaims liability" is useless. All code disclaims liability. The "if you can't discern if it's useful" doesn't convert such a pointless phrase into good advice.

It's like saying "if you can't determine which foods are healthy, don't eat food that comes in amounts". If someone can determine, the advice doesn't apply, and if they can't determine... you just told them to starve? That advice helps nobody.
At the Elkhorn Battery facility, the 182.5-megawatt energy storage facility went online in April 2022. The system includes 256 Tesla Megapack battery units on 33 concrete slabs.

So, it’s PG&E now trying to boost their base (non-cyclic) power supply but I suspect that it is not extreme charge/discharge cycle to be the culprit but probably the consumer load as being too excessive and overbearing on this facility.
What pains me is how difficult it is to give feedback or complain about a service with startups half the time.

All I wanted is an email address.

Twitter can be hit and miss.

This morning I went down a rabbit hole to try submit a bug report to OpenAI. Had to go through a Kafka-esque Discord registration process.

Astonishing how hard it is to get a service provider to listen.
Can also confirm. The lock also prevents a second sim. Stupid.
Same thing with task specific videos I watch. I just wanted to see how to remove the starter from my van. I’m not a car enthusiast. Please stop polluting everything in my recommendations based on these one off videos.
It'll be serverless all the way down...
In my experience, I like desktop applications the best (perhaps because they are developed with purpose), then the web, and mobile apps the least.
I find both TikTok's and Youtube's algorithms show me highly relevant and interesting content. The idea that it only shows you memes seems to come from people who a) dont actually use these services more deeply than surface level interactions or b) they are actually watching low-quality memes (meaning finishing more than 75% of the videos) so Youtube/TikTok is simply showing them what they previously indicated they are interested in.

When I bought Youtube premium I started using it much more seriously (meaning curating subscriptions, marking things as "Not Interested", and actually following up on my notification feed when new videos get released) and I've been amazed at the level of quality it delivers. It learns exactly what you like and dislike.

And no it doesnt force feed me politics or ragebait like Reddit and Twitter - both of which do in spite of my efforts to curate them.

TikTok took a bit of time investment at first but now it shows me HN-style tech stuff, highly local restaurant recommendations, nerdy film stuff, etc. I never see dancing teenagers and I don't think I ever saw them after the first day I used TikTok.
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Absolute nonsense.

As others have noted, that's why there is a contract in place - if you don't pay the monthly bills, they can seek to recover the costs from you.

Also, what you're saying would do nothing to stop someone selling the phone to another customer on that carrier.
In a decent sized quantum Fourier transform, almost all of the phase gates are rotating by extremely tiny angles. For example, in a thousand qubit Fourier transform, 99% of the phase gates are rotating by an angle that is less than 0.000000000000000000000000001 degrees. That amount of rotation is irrelevant. You can skip 99.9% of the phase gates and the output will be de-facto indistinguishable from the ideal output. There's really a surprising amount of flexibility in the phasing.
I was thinking more in terms of inputs to known systems.

There are small scale farming methods that feed one person on about 400m^2 with some experience and almost no inputs other than water, or up to 6 people on a quarter acre/1000m^2 block with minimal inputs.

160m^2 in a very good climate is very roughly 50kW average including day/night and some weather.

So a hundred or so kW seems like a pretty reasonable total budget to aim for, with 10% used by things that aren't plants (which would come to ~2kW of work at current efficiencies).

Re. the idea that I'd believe 2kW was possible (if beyond current methods):

These methods generally dedicate around 30% of the land to energy limited crops like potato, and of that land maybe half is covered by a leaf.

You can beat sunlight->photosysnthesis in efficiency by only producing photons that plants use well (currently the best is blue+phosphor white LEDs), and I'm willing to believe without evidence that precisely scheduling and dosing your light could double output again. As could switching to some king of genetically modified corn or sorghum from potatoes. Recycling nutrients on a budget of a few hundred watts plus whatever is in discarded leaf matter seems somewhat scifi but not impossible.
Then you care about cookies and this extension isn't for you.
Okay. I judge that they are probably telling the truth and you are being an ass about it.
Check your timeline: Apple bought NeXT, then Steve Jobs returned, not the other way around.

There are many reasons why NeXT beat out BeOS. NeXT spent years making NS ready for the enterprise. Be OS was a great technology demo, but it had yet to be battle tested.

NextStep would have been a great example of how better products often fail. Getting sold to Apple was not at the top of our list of successful exit strategies.
This is pretty much what happened, but in my case it was a bunch of IDs for objects owned by customers. It was intended (and did) to provide detailed performance metrics related to our Elasticsearch searches, but in the end I had to drop a lot of them due to cost.
I've had no trouble installing various Linux and BSD distros on various 386 and 486 machines in PCem over the years.
Just fyi, if something is unlicensed, then other people can only use it under fair use. You’re the copyright holder automatically upon publishing and retain all rights. If you intend to let people do anything, then you need to explicitly put it in the public domain or use an appropriate license.

It’s very unlikely they can legally do what you’re describing… but it’s up to you to enforce it.
From my viewpoint memes are a cancer.

They're a place where neurotypical stupidity meets autistic stupidity. People pretend to communicate but actually they don't. They come from the same place as "bag-of-word" models and neural networks that don't understand anything but fake neurotypical privilege, taking advantage of your brain's thirst for closure, see

https://www.eurogamer.net/blood-in-the-gutter

Shitposts are another thing entirely. When I can get a -6 score on an HN comment that I know is right I take perverse pleasure in that.
Hoarding toilet paper is only of value if you can resell it. Hence the total amount available remains the same.

If hoarding fetches higher prices, that creates tremendous incentive to increase the supply (and/or find alternatives).

If hoarding is illegal, and gouging is illegal, the result is shortages. Every time, since there is zero incentive to produce more.

Rationing has other problems. It is based on the idea that everyone has the exact same need for the product. Of course, this is absurd. The result is misallocation, as some get more than they need, others get less. If reselling is made illegal (as it usually is in rationing setups), then the person with extra just throws it away, and the person who doesn't get enough has to do without.

How is that better?
I think the correct title would technically be "Destructively interfering the hype from the facts of quantum computing"?
My main answer here is latency. Let me explain.

For our app the back of the frontend provides the working data model.

So for our web app we have a next style server side renderer + serverless functions

For the mobile app we stick we a queue based architecture (the web back of the frontend resolves to the same underlying data structure.)

So imo different front ends have different use cases. But in general the back of the frontend isn’t a backend it’s the frontend server. So the round trip is the same for first paint, api requests etc. For the web app at least
I'm also on firefox w/ adblockers and had similar issues... the 'privacy pass' plugin solved this for me.
Completely disagree. I think what is great about YouTube are the subset of creators that make genuinely good content, and especially those creators you follow consistently for a long time and really enjoy and get something out of.

The algos are useful if I follow so many creators that I can’t keep up, or occasionally I get some good unexpected content. But my favorite creators were all recommended me by other people, not algos.

Also, the algos just peddle in commoditized interactions like Likes and Watch Time and Subscribes. They can only optimize for meaningful creator-observer relationship so far as that’s measured by Watch Time, Subscribe, etc.

Not to mention some obvious problems how clickbaity the recs are for new/anonymous users or on videos with few views. Or the whole Elsagate incident (which no doubt continues to be a problem).

Overall I still like YT but I don’t think the commoditized algos are helping much. Just let me get recs from friends or search for what I want. Don’t try to get me to doomwatch easy content all day… and especially don’t try to get kids to doomwatch easy content all day.
Because lit is too bare metal to qualify as a js framework. Does it have good solutions for router or state management? Last time i checked: No.

That is why it is not discussed that much. If you need to write components, then lit may work for you, but whoever wants to ise those components would prefer a js framework.

Also, lit is from Google. which makes it worse as Angular is from Google as well
"the hiring market is way better for rust"

Lmao. Not even close.

"Programmers currently using Rust are superior to programmers using C++"

Hahahah that's cute.
@throwawaymaths basically answered the question how I would. Also, just to clarify my use of "swept under the rug", my implication is that when it's not politically convenient for the parties to make a big deal out of an incident, they simply choose not to use it as a media prop to push their agenda.

There's a list here that would be a reasonable starting point for any further digging you might wish to do:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_inc...
Do we have any evidence to support these claims?

If Google actually wanted to cripple adblockers, why wouldn't just ban them outright and remove addons used for adblocking purposes from the Chrome extension store, or completely remove APIs that allow for content blocking? Why would they develop a new extension API that still allows you to block ads at all?

Why isn't it possible that the new APIs might have actual benefits and exist for legitimate reasons?

I understand that companies suck and exist solely to serve themselves, and I fully support being skeptical, but I think users here are way too quick to jump on the hate train and start slinging FUD. Maybe you are right and Google is trying to cripple adblockers, but I'm not so sure yet and would like to see others at least consider an alternative perspective.
Prepend your search with 'intitle:' and you'll get results with the string in the title.
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If it is true that the client is 10x more complex than the server, then shifting some of the client-side complexity to a 10x simpler BFF server is going to be a net positive.
that gives the attacker an easy way to check which accounts have 2fa enabled. One attempt on each account and they can tell which accounts will need more work.
"And I'm still worried that without an MV3-compatible version of full uBlock Origin, users are still going to assume that "MV3 means that ad blockers are broken"

I mean, they are hobbled. If you think of it like a malware scanner, it's the equivalent of taking away all heuristics and relying solely on big lists of payload checksums or "bad words".
It's true that any wall around you that protects you from something unavoidably comes with a gate that someone else guards, unless you want to guard your gate personally (and that entails filtering out armies of spambots, worst case manually).

As with any power and control you delegate to any entity, only time and good behavior will earn them your trust. That's theoretically what companies are competing for, your loyalty.
Quantum computing is more worthy of funding than the Metaverse, cryptocurrency, and all of Web3 combined - yet every single thread about quantum computing has to turn into naysaying about how it might not be possible. Bitcoin alone has a market cap of over 300 billion dollars, and all of quantum computing has private + public funding of only 30 billion.

Here's the real question to those of you who don't believe in quantum computing - what do you think that money should be invested in instead? VCs are supposed to try to maximize their returns in high-risk high-reward investments using their knowledge of technology to get an advantage. It doesn't seem like to me there are that many opportunities that aren't already saturated with cash. If quantum computing has a 10% chance of paying out, that's equivalent to the success rate of startups (on average).
that's one of the pirmary things for me too even as a guy with usually large pockets i find it annoying to walk around with them in my pocket espcially in the summer

plus on the bus or train I usually use a book or my kindle so it's easy to forget the phone
During the Edge beta in transition to Chromium engine, I requested they add green to the icon. I did get an automated thank you when it was finally released. That really made my day.
Everything is an abstraction, even physical reality. "Concrete" is just a term for an abstraction that's useful. Typescript is certainly useful.
Nice fantasy. Note that building up that infrastructure at scale itself (within decades) overconstrains resources already.
> Oracle or IBM

What? These are public companies; short-dated OTM options have > $0 value only in volatile markets. But these companies don't pay employees in options.
I've used one of their ARM/DSP combos about 10 years ago. It was also just a bunch of random blocks thrown together (some video encode/decode, CPUs, DSPs). The interface between the ARM and the DSP was pretty slow, didn't seem well thought out. The SDK was written by some offshore team that didn't seem to really know the product that well and wasn't of the highest quality. Documentation was a bit iffy. In the end we managed to get our application to work. I thought that sort of quality/chaos issues were a more recent thing but I guess no?
The only way to make YouTube even remotely tolerable is with liberal use of the "Not Interested" and "Don't Recommend Channel" functions.

I also set up separate YouTube viewing accounts by interest, so that I can clobber away everything not related to a specific interest in that particular account (eg. anything not sports related gets "Don't Recommend Channel"'d in my Sports YT account).

YouTube pretty much fights you tooth and nail the whole way, but eventually your blocking of irrelevant and garbage recommendations leaves them no choice but recommending things related to that interest.
Sounds like one of the data bounties from DoltHub.com. Just thought I should drop this link. I am not affiliated with them.
Yes, but you need it if your API isn't on the same origin as your static assets.
I went through a phase when I was reading way too much about communism and riding shotgun back and forth to Buffalo a lot while stoned and resolved I was going to quit reading the web with a normal web browser but instead I was going to run everything through a workflow system that would convert web sites to HAR files, strip out all the ads and bullshit.

I worked on it pretty seriously for two weeks but got hung up on the problem that my web archiving system was never 100% sure that a page had finished loading (that there would be more significant AJAX calls) so it would set long timeouts and even with a lot of stripping out the junk it was going to be even more awkward than dealing with the junk.

Looking back at it however it looked like an overly ambitious project.
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> People get promoted for all the shiny new things they do, not for the discipline they show in only focusing on what really matters.

Depends on the company and its values. I've been in companies where engineers who don't care about the business/customers were promoted by other engineers who don't care about the business/customers, and yeah, promotions were getting handed out for engineers who did a hacky prototype integration with the latest & greatest NoSQL Big Data GraphQL Blockchain OSS project while solving no actual problems. I've also been other places (Amazon) where customers really are front and center, and spending time on cool engineering projects that serve no customer purpose meant absolutely nothing when you wrote up your promotion doc.
Next to the Bundespräsident who plays the same role as yours, we even have a whole court dedicated to it, the Bundesverfassungsgericht. And occasionally they do indeed good work.
"Being able to write in assembly is really powerful. Higher level lang like java isn't always better"

Sure. but it is better for 99% tasks. And remaining 1% can be achieved via other APIs
Interesting!

But don't use this to run a nuclear reactor. Or airplane. **

:-)

Aircraft designs can tolerate a limited amount of deviation around their center of mass. Beyond that, the control surfaces of the aircraft may not provide sufficient force to maintain positive control.

A common problem is too much weight in the back of the plane, which prevents the pilot from pitching the nose down. Worst is on takeoff, but any time the plane gets too slow, it will stall. And loose lift. On takeoff or landing like this, often the plane will flop over very quickly.

My rudimentary pilot training included lots of practice keeping the plane balanced properly during maneuvers. A Cessna 172 is a very robust and forgiving design, you have to really try to get in trouble like that.

But it's vitally important to maintain positive control. Especially on approach to landing, your mind is paying attention to many things. At one air park where I was flying, there was the crumpled remains of a perfectly nice airplane, upside down to one side on the grass. A pilot was undergoing periodic proficiency training, and the examiner pulled power on approach to simulate an engine outage. And boom they were upside down with no time to recover before hitting the ground. Even experienced pilots fall. (They survived. Serious injury.)

** (Sun/Oracle license for Java -- not JavaScript at all, but an example I'm familiar with -- specifically prohibits usage for air traffic control or nuclear power. Probably these days, that would include autonomous vehicles as well.)
Yes, Youtube litters search results with completely unrelated "recommended videos".

One trick to get rid of them is to select one/any additional search filter (for example select HD only).

It is absolutely ridiculous that you have to do this, but it works for now.
I use YouTube, but only direct links or searches. I never use YouTube itself to find my next video
Thought Emporium made a really good video about this kind of accelerator a few years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZbXGDxMRCw