skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the phrasing "I'm curious if ..." or "I wonder if ..." which hopefully communicates that is is just ;) my humble guess upon first impression of seeing the problem.
Yeah, the rain and dark made it much worse
> build something original or financially viable

> I‘ve had dozens of ideas I didn’t pursue further after asking myself „if this is such a great idea, why hasn’t somebody else already done it?“.

You're conflating the two ("original" and "financially viable"). In my opinion, your mindset is fundamentally flawed. I'm not saying this in a negative way, I just mean that I've seen it before in others, and I myself used to think like you, so I can understand what you mean.

The truth is, clones make money. You don't need an original idea to be financially successful, at the 4 to 8 figure range. Indeed, if you simply want to quit your job rather than make billions, you should be in a market with many competitors so you can carve out a small slice of it. If you instead are building a whole new market, like Airbnb or Uber, you can carve out a much larger slice but that requires a fundamentally different way of working, ie raising lots of money, teaching your audience (before Uber, who'd get in an unlicensed stranger's car?), and marketing the hell out of your startup.

Instead, find a nice, large market with lots of competitors, and start building something. As you build, you will naturally find competitive advantages that differentiate you from your competitors. I also thought I needed to find something totally unique and original, ie an all new market, but I realized that was not the way to have success. Instead, I use an already successful market but then build something in those spaces.

See https://indiehackers.com for more info.
"True" jungle isn't very housey due to the heavy snares, but there's lots of housey drum & bass. Look for Hospital Records and explore out from there.
One of the first tricks one learns in electronic music production (possibly also other genres) is to roll off the frequencies below 40 - 50Hz across most/all your tracks as down there it all starts to smudge together and makes your mix sound muddy. I'm guessing your bass speaker does the same for a live performance.
Active listening is a learnable and useful skill.

Most of the time we are predicting what people will say, and using the spare time to work out what we are going to say in return. This means that we often miss nuance or vital details.

This means that we can squander time or emotional capital by projecting our mental model of the person onto them. (this is a long winded way to say biases, but that triggers people, so I tend to avoid using that.)

So how do you active listen?

number 1) Slow everything down.

You do not need to reply instantly. Use non verbal queues to indicate that you are thinking and paying attention (nodding, saying hmm, etc, etc)

number 2) pay attention to non verbal cues.

Are they getting more fidgety? are they relaxed? are they looking more sad, can they keep eye contact? All of these cues give insight to the person's feelings. You should be able to spot if you are making sense, as they will change their pose/behaviour.

number 3) repeat what you think they are saying back to them to get agreement

"If I understand correctly you feel that [..] is that correct?"

You will need to pay attention to your body language and tone. Are you butting in? are you feeling angry? pity? annoyance? why are you feeling those emotions? is it better to come back later?

There are many more parts to active listening, but most of it can be learnt. Basically its practical empathy (as in understanding what people think, and why they might think that, rather than aiming to feel the same emotion as someone else.)
I didn't do exhaustive research but the first link I clicked suggested it had dropped by 85%.
DJ Tech Tools has a great interview with the maker of the Funktion1 setups:

https://djtechtools.com/2014/04/10/funktion-ones-tony-andrew...

Great read, and happy to be a part of the "how low can you go" trend in guitars with my Agile Baritone LP style 27" scale. Sounds epic dropped lower run through a bass amp.
At least steel's recyclable.
The US voted against replacing the ROC with PRC in the UN.

The position of the US has never changed. It has always maintained that any unification must be peaceful and that Taiwan cannot be forced. It gets to decide for itself.

Taiwan has changed in the last 100 years. Majority of the ROC is gone, those here now have no desire to be part of China, don't consider themselves as part of China or Chinese. They just want to continue to live their lives as they are now.

The US does not consider Taiwan as part of China. The One China Policy states that they acknowledge the position of China that Taiwan is part of it. The equiv of me saying to you "i accept that you think the sky looks like the inside of a watermelon".

All of this ignores that Mao and the CCP considered Taiwan an independent nation and nationality prior to Taiwan being handed to the ROC.
Looking at a gameplay video on YT (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P--c8rjcSDs), I didn't come away with the same impression as you described, or at least it doesn't really answer the parent's question. Sure, it is "fully destructible" but everything kinda breaks the same way because it's all voxels, and things like driving a seemingly indestructible truck through multiple walls doesn't feel particularly realistic.

Someone else pointed to another game, The Finals, which feels waaay more realistic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGRoborkkw4

I just hope it isn't another Battle Royale because that I find that genre incredibly underwhelming vs. team-and-round-based gameplay like CS:GO or offline campaigns
As a bisexual man I think the LGBT community is getting far too little credit for how they reacted to this. Men getting vaccinated essentially saved the world from more spread at a very critical time.

It wasn't just personal responsibility and willingness to get vaccinated and reduce number of partners. Gay men shouted from the rooftops at public health authorities to get them to step up testing, treatment, and vaccination campaigns very early, when many doctors were ignorant, unable or unwilling to take it seriously.
I don't know much about any of this, but clicking around in twitter I came across this interesting thread from only 20 hours ago, about FTX and Binance being "at war" with each other [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/alex_valaitis/status/1589711035132694528
This exactly, blame FTX
Seems reasonable enough
> SBF said "We don't invest client assets (even in treasuries)"

We know that was false when it was said, given the Alameda balance sheet. (FTX invested in Alameda which made risky loans to crypto folks and bought FTT, which FTX minted [1].)

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/02/divisions-in-sa...
Kurzgesagt - What If Earth got Kicked Out of the Solar System? Rogue Earth - https://youtu.be/gLZJlf5rHVs
> Source, please

I linked to a video on Twitter of a totally normal intersection in the Vancouver area where I think every single car ran the sign if they were able to. This is completely normal road behaviour and could have been any stop sign anywhere in Canada. I have confirmed this by walking around my neighbourhood to various intersections, observing the same thing. The second video I linked to actually counted at multiple intersections in Ottawa and found about 90% of motorists run the stop sign. How many sources do you want? I don't think that whether the true number is closer to 90% or 100% takes anything away from my point that society incorrectly perceives cyclists as being especially lawless when it comes to stop signs.
If you think this point further though: does that make companies overstaffed or just mismanaged? Apparently cash flow supports companies to have these dev teams on staff, what if they worked on something that was a good investment of their time? Being overstaffed would mean that there was no way for companies to create more revenue by investing more in the right areas and I think this is a fallacy. The world is still so mindblowingly analog and inefficient in so many places that I don't think software is done eating the world yet.
"We’re going to look back at a generation of successful founders and VCs with the realization that all of their talent was in creating a company during the bull market." - random tweet I came across that's very relevant here.
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is denied a bid for new trial
They should have had worked harder in schools. I thought the message was out by this point
Vancouver area, Canada
I cant believe that horrible charity triggered the collapse of Bernie Maddoff by asking for their money back.
ZIRP is a hell of a drug.
There's not a lot of innovation to be had on lending that is actually going to be considered legal.
Unless they obfuscate it with AI, they are going to run afoul of some sort of anti-discriminatory laws.

Credit score&history, income, capital.. go.

Most of what BNPL actually turned out to be was just dumb money.
Hop in a time machine. The History of Road Safety by Gerald Cummins [1]

I couldn't find what I was looking for though, IIRC it was very much a rule of tonnage and pedestrians would originally be expected not to imped the progress of another person in a public throughway (i.e. move or be hit).

[1]: https://archive.ph/ECDkB
Westernization is not the same thing as throwing away ALL your cultural heritage and adopting Marxist ideology to the letter...

You might argue it's a difference in degree, but if the Cultural Revolution actually succeeded (or not reverted), it would be the difference between zero and non-zero cultural heritage left.
It's like "loud pipes save lives" - it may be true in some way, but it's a post-facto justification for 90% of the people using it.
I don’t know if you have read some of the tweets but it seems that ebola can remain dormant in some of the recovered individuals and then be transmitted(sexually in this case) years latter.
How much do you think cyclists should pay? An actual concrete figure for your specific region, how much damage do cycles do to your local roads?

Also has it occurred to you that most cyclists are also drivers?
Its funny how a few days back some people on HN were saying FTX is unlikely to be illiquid because SBF is a genius from JaneStreet.
FTX agreed to buy Voyager Digital because Voyager was insolvent after Three Arrows Capital went bust.

Guess there's always a bigger fish...
It didn't stop with Vietnam.
Powerball Math
> Unpopular opinion: If you think the industry is overstaffed, you are not carrying the pager enough. The industry is disproportionately staffed.

This hits close to home. The industry is full of sales driven companies that are like a castle in the middle of a lake supported by sticks. Removing even a few of those sticks (engineers) can make the whole thing collapse.
I agree wholeheartedly that accessibility is important, but I can't devote engineering resources to it until I have a product that's compelling in its own right.

Right now I'm just trying to make an interesting platform to explore what's possible with SVG.

Please believe me that when we are able to move forward, accessibility is very high on our priority list.
Something something OSS 'easy field sabotage manual' and "Screw this I didn't want to be here in the first place" fatigue...
Backing up software isn't going to help against it bitrotting away.
Not sure but I'd love to see the data if you have it.
I am extremely bullish on crypto, and have been for the last decade.

That said: the sooner we can get rid of these weird centralized exchanges and weird messiah figures the better.

The next thing I thing will explode is Cardano, which appears to function approximately like a cult, with no actual product (as far as I can tell).

Ethereum, LINK, and Bitcoin. Everything else is a distraction.
I think you have to just pick an idea you're passionate about and build it.

I've had the same thought before yet even here on HN I've seen many startups shared that feel like rehashes of past ones. But those past ones got acquired...

Now I believe in just build a solid product and attract customers/users.
Can you point me at the part of this document where 3rd parties are allowed to use your trademark?

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/blob/main/LICENS...

I think what Signal is objecting to is that the snap looked like it was packaged and distributed by Signal when the files included could have been modified with a backdoor or whatever.
If app usage is not steady 24 hours a day (e.g., the 100 concurrent users all live in the same hemisphere and don't use the apps much outside of business hours), you might see some cost savings from not running excess infrastructure. You'd have to run a cost projection to make sure; it's entirely possible the serverless option would still be more expensive (even before you factor in the $$ for the migration effort).

You can scale down app service/VM based infra either on a timer or in response to metrics, so it's not like serverless is your only option if cost is the motivator.
Have you seen this thread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33481232
Can someone explain why FTX created their own token in the first place? Was it just a way to raise money/distribute equity without dealing with stock market regulations?
CZ's Binance to Buy Rival FTX After Sam Bankman-Fried Faces Liquidity Crunch
I agree with this and similar posts suggesting they find local non-profits. There's probably no perfect answer to what's most "efficient" and I think that's probably the wrong way to look at it. As a single, non-billionaire, there's only so much you can do to help others. But, you will get much more satisfaction from seeing "first-hand" the "effect of your actions". Sending your money to some faceless global charity is not going to be as rewarding and will make it a lot easier to stop doing.
> What am I missing?

1. The same stocks in $cloud_platform_provider that your architect has bought.

2. A bunch of certifications for $cloud_platform_provider so you also want to lock everyone and their mother down into that platform.
Thank you for the reminder -- it does feel like people can be in (at least) two different modes -- with a desire to vent and be heard, or inquiring about a solution. Yet it is not obvious which since the two can sound so similar.

If someone is grieving it's probably time to just listen, but when someone is stuck with a social problem they may be rubber ducking with you rather than considering you to be a good approximation of an oracle ;)
If you uninstall signal w/o exporting your SMS and MMS I believe they will be gone forever.
> how do you create learning plans (specific path towards a direction)?

Planning is the enemy of doing, spend an hour a day doing something you don't know how to. If you are an intermediate and want to advance you need to learn horizontally, broaden your horizons it will be useful in places you didn't realise don't try to specialise.

> Also how do you avoid participating in the sessions which offer beginner-friendly content?

Avoid tutorials and goto the documentation / reference. Think of something you don't know and figure out how to do it. You will fail constantly but thats the key to learning, if you only follow tutorials you will only know what to do and will never learn what not to do and why you shouldn't do that.

If you are used to academia then what I just said makes zero sense you are used to learning pre packaged lessons with the sole aim of a goal, getting a qualification. Learning in academia is like a race to the finish line this doesn't work when you leave.

As you point out there is more things to learn that there our hours in your life to learn them you need to change your learning strategy from one of goal seeking to gradual consistent improvement. The real world is awkward and doesn't try to be understandable which makes it a lot of fun when you figure it out.
They have one BTC. Form an orderly queue to receive your portion.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/08/ftxs-bitcoin-ba...
The long Covid and cancer numbers are from The NY Times podcast [1].

The traffic injuries and fatalities are from Wikipedia [2].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/podcasts/the-daily/long-c...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
> does that make companies overstaffed or just mismanaged?

Good point. The end result is the same: inefficient allocation of resources that could pass for productivity. Weird incentives at the management level.
"This one trick will make you a great communicator"
Beamng is really impressive physics wise. Lots of mods available and endless gameplay possibilities.
> I've gone far into the depths of hell trying to properly set up a pair of cantilever brakes to be performative.

This! I thought I'd never have to see cantilever brakes again until turns out they were used on kids bikes so had to deal with that. Luckily my child has now grown to a slightly larger bike with hydraulic disk brakes so life is back to being easy on that front.
still blown away that he was my calc II professor in college.
That's talking about red lights not stop signs, maybe I should be more clear.

My point is that the rule allows me to either go mid-cycle when the cross traffic is clear or at least jump the gun a bit and start moving during the all-red phase. Either way it's safer for me since I'm not having to start with a bunch of cars that can accelerate faster than me in a space where "unexpected" movements are common.
Four Upcoming Computer Vision Meetups
Totally understand not wanting to spend time vetting dependencies. For what it's worth, most packages "just work" on most platforms. My experience with WASM and microcontrollers is fairly limited, but I haven't had too much trouble there either. Or at least, less trouble than I would've anticipated.
How would this work in very thick clay like I have here in Texas? Caliche is the native term.
I'm passionate about archery.

That came into my life as a way to spend time away from my computer.

Practicing it has several aspects that caught my attention:

- You get more aware of your body. Every movement matters for consistence (or lack of)

- It is you against your mind

- It is relaxing (for me at least)

- It is physical activity for my sedentary self

- You don't need anyone else to practice it (although having someone can be more fun)

That's being my passion for the past 3 years. It survived COVID. It survived injuries. It's been surviving me still being bad at it :)

It's a never-ending improvement pursuit.
The Superbowl ad curse.
Sonically, a power chord has power because human hearing hears the two notes as second and third harmonics and the brain inserts a first harmonic below them into our experience.

We experience an E1 when A2 is played over E2.

What we don’t hear is a third (9th or 10th harmonic) and the third forms the basis of the harmonic theories from the Period of Common Practice, and because the video is academic, those theories are the context in which chord progressions are discussed in the video.
Contact tracing in the Covid context has worked horribly everywhere in the US, as far as I know, outside of more or less defined communities where penalties could attach. And even there is mostly failed when they didn't.

Did I miss an instance where it worked well enough to be worth the effort?

Add in the fact that the gay community has reasons to be less than thrilled with medical disclosure of this sort and I'm not the least bit surprised.
In a world without trains would we have crossing guards?

Obviously not, but it still behooves cyclists and pedestrians to wait at the crossing guard until the train passes.

There are certain physical momentum differences that the laws are trying to balance.
Why is parent getting downvoted? The lab leak theory is pretty mainstream these days.

And gain of function research is 1: real 2: fucking insane and 3: a plausible way we would have a true captain trips style pandemic.
Totally worth seeing live
That's for audible sound! One can't just assume it applies to inaudible frequencies.
"I'm a man, I'm 40!" - Mike Gundy
Ebolavirus and coronavirus are very, very different. There is little in the way of comparison, transmissibility being only one of many differences.
Monokle Cloud
Your homes in Texas are designed to rapidly dissipate heat, which is the exact opposite of what you want in a cold climate. That's another reason you folks got so cold. Also, there's basic strategies for dealing with power outages in subfreezing temperatures you guys didn't know about because you've never had to contend with that before. It was a perfect storm so-to-speak and sadly it cost some people their lives.

Up here in the North we get a taste of living through a real winter in pre-modern times by camping in unheated log cabins in the winter. Fire is essential and even so we benefit from "modern" wood burning stoves - "modern" meaning stoves that came about in the early 19th century. Believe it or not it's fun to do that for a few days in the Winter, but that's a far cry from living that way on a daily bases.
awesome and simple!!!
Stopping withdrawals is definitely a fire if cold storage addresses are a mystery.
> Cracks need sealed, potholes need filled. Weather cycles do as much damage as traffic.

Cracks and potholes only form due to heavy vehicles driving over them and deforming the surface. Something a cyclist isn’t heavy enough to cause. Without cracks and potholes, weather damage is basically zero.

While we’re at, why don’t we make pedestrians pay for the sidewalks and pavements? They get to use those without paying a cent, if they refuse to pay, rip the damn things up, they’re taking up valuable space for more car lanes.
Thank you, will check this out!
I run a E2E system using public and private keys. It's really not that complex.
Sure, it's not free, but the implementation effort was 1/100 of the UI work.

Clients encrypt data in the browser, share id of the data and key (+ optional password). Some other clients receive id of the data and the key and read it.

For a notification service, you would just need a setup step to generate a key and store it in the browser + on the phone.
That said, I'm not sure I understand why would someone need to notify its own phone.
> I can tell you from experience that the introduction of a physically separated cycle lane on a 30mph road which is part of my commute as reduced the number of close calls I’ve had from every couple of days to zero.

What happens when you cross an intersection? The physical separation doesn't extend through the intersection and intersections are where most crashes and close calls happen.

> I would strongly argue that your opinion on this topic is somewhat simple and desperately lacking.

You're not arguing. You're just dismissing without an actual counter argument.
Makes sense to be skeptical here. Cold boots can make the system slow unless there's a fairly constant flow of requests, and if that's the case, why not keep using app services. I get that the architect wants to rid the system of VM's, but going from monoliths to nano services.. Can't tell if that's a good idea.

But if you compare Azure Functions with stored procedures in a DB, then it's pretty cool to have a kind of hot swapping at the function level.

I'd be cautious, but with a gradual migration there's hopefully time for reflection as well. Going 100% on anything is rarely a good idea, so hopefully your architect isn't religious about this.
The product I’m building right now, which I’m referring to at the end, indeed also exists in an existing, competitive space.

You’ve given me something to think about, thanks.