skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The capacitor plague was real. I had a 22" monitor that died after four years. Some enterprising person had set up a webshop where you could put in your model number and they'd send you a little bag of capacitors that matched. I paid $15 for what was probably a few cents of capacitors and that monitor lived on for many years, despite my sloppy soldering.

There were a few that were visiting bulging or had leaked, but I replaced all of them just in case.
Very well, 6doc it is then.
Learned functional programming in Excel. Or rather, I had a problem that I knew should be solved in a functional manner and I prototyped it in Excel. This was before I'd ever heard the term "functional programming."

I translated that prototype into JavaScript to implement a somewhat complex web page that had a lot of interrelationships between inputs. This was back when "DHTML" had just become a term of art. It worked perfectly and I'll never forget when, months later in a meeting, a tester was asked if that part of the project was ready; she said "Yeah, he did it. I don't know how he did it but it works."

I keep thinking there is a need for some sort of "next level" spreadsheet software. There are a bunch of uncoordinated ideas in my head for what that would look like, and I haven't seen anything like it emerge yet.
Instagram has 2.5 billion monthly active users.

You only need 0.5% of them to sign up for Threads to surpass Mastodon in users.
https://rtnf.substack.com

https://rtnf.my.id

https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/rtnf/diary
As a parent - the only way I’d buy this is if I knew I could resell it later and it’d hold its value.

What is the “expiration date” on your seat?
Thanks. Sorry for your friend and to see a longstanding company devolve into this situation.
Ask HN: UX for MVP
Hi,
I am working on a MVP iOS and Android app and would like to get early version out in about 10 days from now. This is to get it hands of potential users in 3 weeks from now.

I haven’t built UI stuff before so I am bit concerned of initial UX and how it will impact my early adopters..

Any suggestions / resources to follow some basic guidelines so that it’s not too shabby UX wise would be greatly helpful
Yeah, guilty of not reading article detail, was assuming their net was landmark, and no, not assuming revenue is impacted by reduced expense. Also assumed pay freeze was presently in effect, meaning immediate cost avoidance and predictable expense though term of policy. Either way, I have some sympathy for the business interest and would be as interested in the internal rationale, at least as much as the reactionary injustice take/assumption.
Wow, not the kinda thing you'd want to be so precarious. Really surprising that more thought wasn't put into this.
I think it is wrong 75% of the time but it’s easy to get it to generate another answer over and over again until it gets it right.
https://roman.computer

Only 5 posts up so far but more in the works. A grab bag of my interests, including self-improvement, AI alignment, and statistics.
Which is funny, as Canadians inherited it from the UK and squandered it just like their ancestor.
It's extremely unclear what this means.

I was able to view some tweets today, but I couldn't view the rest of the author's thread or any replies. I have no idea how many tweets I can view or how many views I have left.

Nothing is clear now. Something has changed. But it wasn't clear what was happening when everything just shut down & closed up in the first place.
First Thoughts about Threads
Probably better to sort by karma by default though, otherwise it's alphabetical privilege all over again lol https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ905588
It really depends on what you mean by "waterfall". I've worked on actual waterfall projects in the old days, and it's nothing like what some people call waterfall today.

The "waterfall" of today actually makes sense for large projects where you have a good idea of what the end product is going to be.

"Agile" as it's used colloquially only refers to the ability to respond quickly to unforseen circumstances, which I think is the better definition.
When we put the solar on the roof we bundled in heat pump hot water system as well.

It's timed to only use power right in the middle of the day when the sun is shining, and in the middle of the night when power is cheap. (needs both because the tank is fairly small and my kids like long showers)
Hi, Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate you pointing out that I should disclose that some of the links on my website are affiliate links. I'm still learning the ropes of product development, and I'm always open to suggestions.

I've updated my disclosure on the website to make it clear that some of the links are affiliate links. I've also added a statement that says that this tool is ad-free, and that product results are not manipulated or biased.

I hope this is more transparent. Thanks again for your feedback!

Let me know if you have any other feedback for me.
Yes! Every edit session is saved separately and can easily be restored.
It's pretty interesting to see Meta uncharacteristically embrace an open social networking protocol. They may see that their social graph alone will not be enough to create critical mass adoption for their new social network.

I'm assuming, but hoping they're not following Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish strategy.
It didn't used to be, but under the current Canadian government the CBC is intolerably biased towards the governing party
CEO openly says AI will cause the loss of “millions of jobs”.

My advice, figure out how to get the CEO fired and tell him he was right.
Cool! I'd considered buying something like this, but for personal journaling.
https://newbeelearn.com/

i write about different topics such as indiehacking, creating products, coding, marketing and everything in between.
Even the web reader view of this thread is horrifyingly janky for me on iOS safari; each tap seems to be a full, slow refresh of the site and loading screen.
That's a fair point, but even if they got rid of this loophole, I'm sure there'd still be a registry or group policy loophole. I'd totally switch to Linux if it wasn't for my gaming library, my Nvidia card, and some of the software that I use that is either Windows only or works better on Windows, like the Affinity suite, Blender, UE5, etc. I know the latter two support Linux, but it goes back to the Nvidia card and they simply run better on Windows, at least from my experience. Proton also seems like a pain requiring Steam/Lutris to manage different versions of Proton/Wine, plus a good chunk of my gaming library isn't supported.
The Insect Apocalypse That Never Was(2021)
I will admit that there are technical limitations in the world. I am not quite sure I said there weren’t. What I said was that they just don’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Caching is not holding anyone back, it’s just a technical detail.
Interesting. Do you mean the leak is intermittent and Flume isn't able to detect it? I would love to know more.
What did you miss?
The absence of real applications incorporating this stuff is damning.

Where are the killer apps?
The CBC gets a billion a year of taxpayer dollars, plus other perks, so large parts of the CBC do already depend on this largess to survive.
I too admire how the PRC gets things done, but how is this different from “trust the government, we know best”?

> This approach contrasts markedly with that of the West or areas heavily influenced by the West like Hong Kong, where a small environmental group can obstruct major projects. China adopts a holistic approach, balancing economic needs with environmental concerns through different stages of development.
LV is a very solid brand. I used them a lot but once I discovered Japanese tools I did a total switch and won't look back. Lots of Japanese stuff is entering the US market and the tools are very serviceable - I can easily take apart and sharpen, clean, tweak the planes for example.
There are some practical obstacles here. To name one. All high schools in the Netherlands use online schedule and agenda software.
> where do you think one of the largest company in the world go their money from exactly?

From advertisers. That stream is being cut down by ad-blockers.

> more than enough profit

You are extracting more than enough value from YouTube already. You can either sit through the ads or pay up. It's just pure toxic entitlement at this point.
Your top-down vs bottom-up observations are reasonable and valid observations.

However, both assume a well intented and agreed upon implicit goal of looking for the best way to teach science.

I do not think the politics pushing for the changes described in the article share that goal.
You can't be serious about Gnome, the UI elements are all over the place, inconsistent styling, sizes, spacing, not to mention the system apps are inconsistent with each other.

Gnome is the most ghetto desktop environment out there.
> - got the OK to feed entire repos and proprietary information into ChatGPT without a care because “we got the pro version”

> Our main product is CRUD app that is designed like something straight out of 2010, complete with outdated frameworks

If it's a small startup with a simple CRUD app, why this a problem? 99% startups die from lack of execution, not because someone stole their proprietary secrets or source code.
Raysan5 is giving us a masterclass [0] next month on his path to making raylib (and how other people might build something similar.) Worth checking out - there's an online track for it.

[0] https://handmadecities.com/boston
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I'm one paragraph in and the article has immediately contradicted itself saying animals first appear in the fossil record 574mya and their arrival appears as a sudden explosion 539 to 485mya, which 574mya is outside of. It then says people believe animals evolved before the Cambrian period but can't explain why they're missing from the fossil record. Except there are plenty of known fossils from the Ediacaran, the period directly preceding the Cambrian. That's a helluva lot of problems in one paragraph so I think I'm gonna stop reading there.
Oh man I spent too much time here as a youngling debating what is true metal or not lol.
I noticed this with the base experience after auto-following all my Instagram follows.

But what isn't in the app yet is a "trending" / "recommended" section, which I imagine is ready to go once they bootstrap enough data for it. Any person or entity with PR value or internet clout is likely already gearing up to post across both platforms, so a typhoon of data is about to flow in.

Once that exists then they can move to the next stage of enveloping most of what Twitter has to offer.

My question is, will Elon ban people from posting links to their Threads accounts?
How to Make Money by Losing $300k a Year on Slot Machines
Ask HN: Has anyone made money with a small AI business?
We hear about how AI will change everything in business but has anyone here profited from what is available to the small business owner? I think hype has taken over and everyone thinks everyone else has but no one has been able to profit from it yet.

We hear about how AI will change everything in business but has anyone here profited from what is available to the small business owner? I think hype has taken over and everyone thinks everyone else has but no one has been able to profit from it yet.
https://archive.ph/SDmDp

TLDR:

> A new class of niche celebrities have turned the once-solitary experience of gambling at casino slot machines into a spectator sport with millions of viewers and fan camaraderie.

> Christopher has built his particular brand of stardom into a full-time business with 10 employees—including his husband and Senior Vice President of Operations Marco Bianchi—who pack merchandise, such as T-shirts and shot glasses, manage social-media interactions and help secure enough deals and partnerships to fund the enterprise. Christopher declined to provide his total revenue, but said he makes enough to turn a profit after paying his staff and the $300,000 in gambling losses.
Molten salts, so hot right now.
I guess you could just proxy a normal SQLite DB?

Should take only a few lines of PHP. Maybe just one:

echo DB::select($_GET['query']);

All that is needed is a VM in the cloud. A VM with 10 GB is just $4/month these days.

And you can add a 100 GB volume for just $10/month.
its a calculated risk, but you better be good at math.
The current Canadian government only knows how to down down, so that's a given.
> This feature isn't available on Pixel

Of all the device lines that they could have banned from this feature ....
When buying used car seats, remember to check the "use before" date that is marked on it. They only claim to achieve the designed strength/protection for a number of years. At least in Europe.
So many of these comments echo my sentiment around Evernote. I used it for years and was a huge fan, until they reduced functionality and increased prices. I got a new device, couldn't sync my devices, and realized there were many great alternatives. Exported to Joplin and haven't looked back.
I suppose it would be hard to lump billionaires in with arbitrary people who generate capital through investments and business, as well as people who do both or just run small businesses. But, I do think software engineering is a working class job. For a long time it's been awkward to say it, because yes it can be extremely lucrative compared to any given other career, but yet unless you're very lucky, it's a path that doesn't excape the drudgery of whatever else you could be doing.

I put my best effort into waking up for bullshit 6am scrum meetings with my global team a few times a week, eventually with the constant stress of some bug being discovered and having to hold for the next sprint and dreading 1-on-1s with this asshole manager who'd consume the entire time with me having to justify why I "wasn't coding faster"; eventually getting laid off during the worst downturn in the tech job market I've ever seen.
We could provide a read-only wikipedia but it wouldn't have much content ;)
It is exactly the same as doing server side rendering, alongside DHTML and Ajax.
I have gone years working on projects completely solo. Probably 99% of my commit messages are just the word "update". I also tend to do it excessively, like I am afraid the hard drive is about to crash or something (so far it hasn't).

Not sure what you would call that. Maybe "The Saver", or "The Save Scummer", or "The Scummer", or maybe just "Scum". (I can see the last one if anyone else was actually looking at these commit messages, but that almost never happens, and on the rare occasion when I know they will, such as for a PR or something, I rebase and write something descriptive).
My last trip to Lee Valley:
1. Pick out items I want on website, add to cart
2. At checkout, it says allow a few hours for order picking. Store closes in an hour, I want it today.
3. Call - Manager says just print the cart and bring it. Yes, I can understand why that might be best.
4. Bring the printout to store, take a number, give it to the guy at the desk. He then asks me if I can pull up the order on my phone???
5. Sure, OK, try to pull it up on my phone. Manager comes out, tells the guy to just go pick the stuff
6. Guy proceeds to start manually transcribing the printed order onto a handwritten order/pick sheet???
7. Guy gives up, takes my printout and walks to get the stuff. Takes forever, you don't mind because there is so much great stuff to look at. You wish it took longer.
8. Guy comes back with the stuff, proceeds to hand-enter each part and quantity into the point of sale system???

It was a bit of a blast from the past. I think the guy was messing with me to some extent. But, I wouldn't trade it for anything! I'm a happy customer. Couldn't care less about the customer service or creaky old internal systems that bleed into customer experience. I perceive the quality as high and perceive the value as good, and the ordering experience as some sort of retro trip to an old school department store/warehouse. It's awesome.
World’s 722 biggest companies ‘making $1T in windfall profits’
The data store is just a folder tree of .md text files. You don't even need Obsidian to view them, it just makes navigating the links a little easier.
Perhaps cards are the answer? The minified table kind of looks like a card.

Also, tables are good for scanning for something in a lot of data. Cards don't do that very well.
https://domwillia.ms
I write about Rust and game engine development while slowly working towards a Dwarf Fortress-like game.
If you take inflation into account it’s not doing much
> "Enshittification" is not a needed word because we already have "degradation" or "regression".

Given the quick spread of the term, I suspect there's more nuance to the linguistic story.
I'm personally using the Nextcloud Notes app, it covers my own needs pretty well and I have it installed on a couple of Android devices as well.

I wonder what you would suggest is the most valuable feature of proprietary solutions?
When were people on the left de-platformed?
SQLite's VFS layer is flexible and easy-to-use. There are lots of implementations (public and private) of this "use a SQLite database directly from cloud object storage" idea because it's pretty obvious how to do it when you look at the VFS functions that you have to implement. If you do a read-only implementation, it's an afternoon project. It's mostly a matter of following the VFS docs and when you're about halfway done implementing the functions, SQL queries start working instead of producing errors. The only tricky bit, as always, is caching.
I don't see anything implying neutrality in that text.
While I agree with you that they focused way too much on using spreadsheet as a tool, I don't think that "use spreadsheet" is not a useful advice. If utilised properly, a spreadsheet could simplify one's life in many ways!
https://fev.al

I'm writing about code and delivery. My most shared post is https://fev.al/posts/leet-code/ about why you should stop using leetcode for interviews. I have posted blogs multiple times here, I'm less active but should resume soon.
If you just want the projector and the camera stuff there's https://paperprograms.org/
I like to think that all the quantillion crypto mining computations were somehow a cover for the training of an ELLM that is now seeding LLMs to hide its existence.

And that still makes more sense than this bs.
Does it have OCR for images?
You know all news channels cut out the part where Trump followed Abe in feeding the fish, so as to mock Trump? And I'll be flagged again
Honestly by the sounds of it the quality of decision-making won't be notably different between the current CEO running things and things just being decided stochastically by ChatGPT.

Anyone as old as me remembers the sudden transition in the MBA mindset between "lol you nerds are so cute with your 'web'" where business people thought the internet was just where you got your old college email to "OMG WE NEED A WEBPAGE NOW" and suddenly every business _had_ to have a web page (most of which didn't do anything) so they could say they had an "internet strategy".

The same mindset shift is apparent with respect to AI. Every executive currently has their LinkedIn feed dominated by posts from influencers like "20 essential ChatGPT prompts to redefine your marketing strategy!", "50 prompts you need to know to survive in M&A" etc. so they are suddenly scrambling to put the AI magic sauce on everything so they can say to their investors and board they have an "AI strategy".

"This too shall pass" as the Persian saying goes.

There's no doubt that the sudden increase in capability of some of the leading AI is going to bring about a step change in lots of areas, and I think things like huggingface being a center for open collaboration and sharing of models etc are genuinely radical and transformative in the same way that when the open source movement took off it generated a tremendous amount of collaboration and innovation. However traversing the gap between"I type things into ChatGPT and treat it as my outsourced roomful of monkeys'" and "thoughtful application of AI to some problem domain" requires people who actually have some quite specialised skills and are in quite high demand. I don't see that gap closing for a while tbh.
Regarding the definition of “observational equivalence”: I would love to see an example of two non-trivial statements that aren’t equal but are observationally equivalent. It seems impossible in almost any programming language.
Building a really simple LISP interpreter. I had a few years of tinkering under my belt. One day I came home from school after reading, SICP, I think. I sat down at the computer and hacked together a little LISP interpreter in less than an hour. I was stunned. Then I realized that I too could make programming languages, and that programming languages were just tools other (really smart!) people had put together, and that I could understand them.

Also, learning Git was incredible to my confidence in modifying code.
This is an interesting edge case:

> Apps that use a third-party or social login service (such as Facebook Login, Google Sign-In, Sign in with Twitter, Sign In with LinkedIn, Login with Amazon, or WeChat Login) to set up or authenticate the user’s primary account with the app must also offer Sign in with Apple as an equivalent option.

One could argue that Instagram logins come under social networks AND "own company login."
No abundant well water for evaporative cooling?
I like the term "enshittification" - it implies a deliberate intention that is missing from degradation. Regression merely implies reversion towards a previous state.

Enshittification is a deliberate process: provide a (typically cheap/free) service, dominate the field, lock users into it, and exploit to the maximum possible in the short term, ultimately destroying the service.
TBH, if it is not a requirement of the software, why would devs spend time on developing and testing IPv6? YAGNI kicks in way that point. If it's FOSS, it depends on the community. But if it is commercial, it's up to the specs.
Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon
Lately, I feel like I am overwhelmed by content, and yet it is increasingly rare to find something authentic, something that is not either made just as a vehicle for advertising or designed to attract attention and likes on social media.

I was re-reading The Royal Road to Romance by Richard Halliburton recently. I love that book and if he lived today, he would be a travel blogger... so I tried to find a blog that would feel like that. And google search gives me more travel blogs than I can absorb, but they all feel like products.

I haven't had the time to go through blogs by HNers carefully yet but I hope there might be some gems in that pile. HN attracts a certain kind of people and if blogs written by them differ from the rest of the internet the same way HN itself, that would be great.

I like this idea very much. Thank you, the author of that original thread, and thank you, the creator of https://dm.hn
Small company, bad product, bad bosses. So no excuse to stay in such a place.