skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried every shortcut possible only to realize the long way is the short way.

Sign up to a Udemy web-development bootcamp. Take it class by class by class. It won't necessarily be quick. Some things won't work, because things will have changed since the bootcamp was recorded - that's practice onto itself in how to fix things - and the Q&As on Udemy courses are very good for that.
Afterwards, sign up to an intermediate course that actually builds a project in a given framework. It doesn't matter which, because once you know one, it's a lot easier to contextualize a different one. Anyhow, the framework doesn't matter, at least not for the first year or two; being able to create and ship something does.
I think you’re 100% on point here.
> my marketing class taught us to look at everything Apple does under the view of the best marketers in the world.

I think there's a risk that your marketing class is being taught by folks who have a limited grasp of how trivial the discipline of marketing can be when a company's products -- in Apple's case: iPhone, MacBooks Pro & Air, iPad, AirPods, Apple Watch -- rank among the leading products in their categories by nearly any measure, from consumer satisfaction to performance benchmarks.

> The marketers told them to go for the 'exclusive club' vibe by doing in-store appointments.

"The marketers" told them the same thing for the Apple Watch launch in 2015, and each iPhone launch since 2014 (?). The article suggests that the in-store requirement for Vision Pro stems from the need for multiple components of the device to be tailored to the purchaser's head/face/vision.

> Who knows maybe they will go full abercrombie and make sure people who are older than 40 get it slightly later than 20 year old females.

It's almost impossible for me to imagine that someone with sufficient interest in marketing to intentionally study it in a class could entertain this idea, even as a joke. It betrays a near total misconception of the discipline of marketing, and Apple's relationship to it.
I don’t understand your question. Your telecom provider has your PII.
For a more elaborate explanation of a similar mental model, check out the "pacing" section in Will Larsons article about a 40 years career.

[1] https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/
Color Fundamentals
Why should we trust your certificate more than it looking shiny? What exactly are you certifying and why should we believe you about it?
When you want to track censorship in those days, you'd typically look for lawsuits. The US had blasphemy laws in local areas for a long time, but those were rarely enforced or taken to court, for example.
Langchain at times remind me of a Java API to send HTML from server to agent.

HTMLElement root = new HTMLElement();
// serialize as text and send root to output stream

I was like why not send the string “<html>” to the output stream.
I think it suggests that their interests are not your interests and success for them doesn't mean success for you. Their approach helps to give them one big success occasionally to pay for the things that fail but that's no use if you are one of the failures.

So they are not carefully trying to grow each company - they are adding lots of fertiliser and seeing what survives. In fact they make success harder for you by the things they force you to do. This is fine for them because one company will grow big but not fine for you unless you are that one company.
In which setting? The quality of a guitar has an impact on the output. A bad player won't be better by a good instrument.

There are known examples of masters forced to use bad instruments to create great music.

I believe this story has been on HN before

https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/when-keith-jarrett-p...
From a pianist perspective, when I was in college I played at a restaurant with an old beat up grand piano. I’d constantly complain about how bad it made me sound. Then one day I went to hear one of my mentors play on said piano. He sounded great. It was a pretty vivid demonstration of this principle for me.

One thing though, is that this title doesn’t paint the idea of amateurs with a great tone. Nothing wrong with being an amateur since it really means to do something for the love of it. I think pros need to be careful not to lose their amateur mentality wrt to the love.
Isn't it just a stylized @ ?
I’m not letting any kids borrow a $1000+ iPad Pro.
> but those are specs as well

Well, sure, for weight. The other three I just can't tell until I try the thing for a week, it isn't spec if you can't tell anything after reading the spec.

> I'm sure it can SSH.

"just enough" means running a web browser, an IDE with a few background indexers for the code base I'm working on. That's a little bit too much for the $100 craigslist laptop, but yeah you are right, a $200 Chromebook works totally fine, except it had poor screen, poor keyboard and poor storage options. Want to know why I buy laptops with low power CPUs? They come with premium non-CPU parts and is both lighter and cheaper than ones with better CPUs.

Like, it's easy, anything >1.2kg is trash for me (which is equally arbitrary as your "non-low-power" constraint). Can you find me a nice <= 1.2kg laptop with so-called "non-low-power" CPUs? If so I'd be glad to try it, as it means maybe I can replace my laptop after 10 years instead of 5.
> Recently, I wanted to buy a new Phone. […]

I don’t say this to challenge your story, but I found it completely straightforward to buy an iPhone in an Apple Store recently (in London).
This looks fantastic! Can’t wait to check it out. It’s exciting to see so many platforms supported without resorting to Electron
What does it mean that it has persistent memory?
> I can just buy quite a few nice monitors

But you're not taking those monitors anywhere.
Yes, but you were downloading a movie and then you'd delete it to make room for something else on your 40GB HDD. In this case it would be like you'd try to download the whole internet because you're interested in one movie.
>Because their weren't user content platforms with the owner exercising post-publication editing, for technological reasons. The ideas that were censored were just never published (sometimes because those holding them were murdered for expressing them), not published and then edited partially after the fact.

There were cases of this happening, often in the South, but in many other places it was not common practice.

The consolidation of much conversation onto 'platforms' with the internet makes the act of censorship a lot more obvious, and tends to set people's 1984 alarms off more. We mocked China for deleting scores and scores of Weibo comments, but here we are doing the same.
All my major successes in life have come from curiosity followed by perseverance.
> is like saying that Android manufactures can sell more $50 unsubsidized phones than Apple.

Is that a wrong statement? Do they not effectively stop Apple from penetrating every non-US market in the world?
Probably people who after interviewing their 500th bozo throughout their career, thinking "there has to be a way to automate this bullshit", or some similar B2B need that popped up over and over again that they were in a position to observe.
This seems correct regarding this person and this conduct, but I disagree that this type of penalty is "the standard for most first time, non-violent offenses."

Federal cases are a small percentage of total criminal prosecutions, and penalties vary widely across the country.
Jack White was famous for using inexpensive guitars in The White Stripes.

https://www.guitarplayer.com/gear/i-always-look-at-playing-g...

Manufacturing is so good these days that even the cheapest guitars are pretty good. Justin Sandercoe is a well known guitar teacher on YouTube and he did a series where he bought the cheapest Amazon guitar ($60 IIRC) and went through a full setup with it. He and the guitar tech. were both impressed with how good the instrument was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0SHE_xooyU
When were flagged submissions/comments added to the profile page?

Not sure but here [1] are some of the other URL's on HN one could bookmark.

[1] - https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#public... [not my repo]
Yes, writing shell scripts calling awk and sed was awful, just an aesthetic nightmare to work with. Properly quoting strings was always problematic, and while Usenet was available there wasn't a plethora of information like nowadays. This was a few years before Bash was released.

Through my use of Usenet I learned that a better reader program was available called 'rn', which I downloaded and built. It had an amazing handwritten install script (autoconf was years off) which could automatically configure and build rn on any *NIX system. All developed by a fellow named Larry Wall.

rn was truly a joy to use and made reading Usenet swift and efficient. It would get updated with the fixes that came across Usenet that I'd apply using the clever 'patch' program, also written by Larry Wall.

Based on my experience with his other software, when Larry Wall released Perl on Usenet I immediately downloaded, built, and started using it. As promised, for scripting things not requiring a C program, it was massive improvement. Version 2.0 came out and brought many great new capabilities.

I wasn't writing software while versions 3 and 4 came out; I started using it again after version 5 and the appearance of CPAN. Over the years I've used Perl extensively for task automation and data wrangling.

Python now dominates Perl's niche because it's easier to learn and interfaces better with C. It's also less flexible, which compared to Perl is a virtue. One of Perl's mottos is TMTOWTDI—there's more than one way to do it. But many of them are bad. Much of Perl's poor reputation ("line noise") stems from this.

But when Perl was released it was a revelation, like a drab day when the clouds suddenly part letting warm sunlight pour down on the land.
Not "shitty". I presume it wasn't cheap, either. He custom modified it to be exactly what he wanted, not to save money.
I think 99% of customers do need an explanation on how to use the watch.
I'd say probably familiarity by the community. It's meant to be a web3 social platform. Everyone in web3 already has a crypto wallet, already knows how to use it, and has used it for this purpose before. So it seems like a natural fit.

Again I haven't used this service and have no affiliation with them but do believe that we desperately need truly public digital infrastructure and I think Ethereum is a step in that direction.
I agree with the top comment on that Reddit thread

> notmyfirstrodeo2: You don't even need to be some top notch designer to come up with similar idea in total vacuum...

Exactly. This is an @ with a two storey a, and stylized so it’s made in one stroke. Companies as big as Facebook don’t copy other company’s logos in a way that the OTHER trademark holder now has a case against them. This is almost certainly just simultaneous creation.
I heard great name about tool obsession: “tool junkie”.
, as I’m too guilty of it.

I suspect that for the brain the dopamine reward for spending time at more or less passive researching and coming to conclusion that zzz is the best is faster that grinding for becoming master
There is a new CRDT algorithm for text co-editing. Are anybody interested in this CRDT algorithm and the interleaving issues brought by CRDT algorithms.
This is pretty much `assembly language the game`: https://tomorrowcorporation.com/humanresourcemachine

It's not a useful architecture, but it teaches the thought process really well, and you end up discovering a lot of optimization naturally.

For this article, I'm measuring every step to see what the performance implications of the changes are, which, along with some educated guesses and some googling/reading other articles, was enough for me to figure out what was going on.

In part two (https://owen.cafe/posts/the-same-speed-as-c/) especially, I didn't know what was going on with the benchmarks for a long time. Eventually I got lucky and made a change, which led to a hypothesis, which lead to more tests, which led to a conclusion.
Then the fediverse is already there. The video hosting service PeerTube uses bittorrent to distribute the video among viewers.

There were some plans at one point for another project which would deal with music and would host the media on IPFS. Sadly I've never seen any progress on it, despite the idea sounding very good.
My personal opinion is that the problem is the elite university system itself. It doesn’t matter how Harvard does admissions. It will always be elitist and can never be fair because the number of people who can go to Harvard (and other elite schools) will forever be vastly fewer than the number who could succeed at those schools.

Giving a tiny subset of able and hard working people a magic cookie that opens doors for them is inherently unfair to all the equally able people who don’t get that cookie. It doesn’t matter how you pick the lucky few. It’s not fair and can never be fair.

The only fair thing to do is to get rid of this system and stop treating these degrees as somehow superior to those of other good schools because of Ivy League branding.

Of course the elite social networks around these schools are the other reason they are special, and as we have seen in other contexts network effects are remarkably hard to disrupt.
The hivemind advice is to use a cheapest tool for learning when you're just getting started.

...and I strongly disagree with it. I think if you are serious about learning, you should get a reasonably good one from day 1 (if it doesn't hurt you financially, ofc).

Shitty tools can sometimes waste a hefty amount of your time. Anyone who ever paint watercolor on papers that are not for watercolor knows what I mean. All the time you could've spent on... guess what, practicing.
A reddit user there pointed to this blogpost that displays other similarities https://thehustle.co/airbnb-medium-beats-flipboard-logo/

At the end of the day, these are all independently inventable by normal people.

By the way,

[f(x) for x in l]

(c) all rights reserved

I will drag you on Twitter if you violate that. Or you can conclude that not all IP requires Einstein to come up with.
You do understand that there is a difference between a Toyota and a Porsche and whilst they are both cars it isn't just about marketing.

Because yes those features have been available on other devices but what's important and different is how those features have been implemented.

And those that have used other headsets and the Vision Pro all say that there is a jump in the quality of experience that hasn't existed before.
There was no “crowd”. If there were, the $10K watch wouldn’t have been cancelled after tte first generation
> Plus.. for $3,500 I can just buy quite a few nice monitors.

Yeah, but you can't use them in planes or hotel rooms very easily.
Fansubbers have been making a very large resurgence lately because of "localization" being introduced to anime, which has been inserting everything from out of date memes, politics, and very poor translations.

The translations can be so poor at times, it may invert the meaning of the joke or phrase.
You're right, but there are a few subtle differences here and there that often make Windows Forms recognizable.

The best example I got off the top of my head is KeePass v1 [0] and KeePass v2 [1]. v1 is written in C++ with native controls, and v2 uses Windows Forms.

If you look at the menu bar and the toolbar, you'll see a difference. Most notably the drag handle on the left, and the search box on the right, in v2. The difference is often a bit easier to spot on Windows 7.

[0]: https://keepass.info/screenshots/main_big.png
[1]: https://keepass.info/screenshots/keepass_2x/main_big.png
You must choose your tools before you can master using them, it's not an either or.

As an amateur woodworker, I can tell you that the quality of tools can make all the difference in your enjoyment. You absolutely will notice a difference in the quality of your tools. Quality tools feel better in your hand, almost like an extension of your body. They cut cleaner and with greater accuracy. They are less likely to strip screws. They are less likely to break causing you frustration and an unwanted extra trip to the store.

There is a point of vanishing returns. You definitely have to determine what level of quality you actually need, but Makita 18V cordless tools are a massive step up from their no name Walmart equivalents.
In response to a couple of your points:

(1) The HoloLens used eye tracking. It was tough to get used to but it was interesting. I didn't feel that I ever got to the point where it was more precise than moving my hand to a 3d point in space.

(4) I doubt it's the headset. It's almost certainly the application the headset is running.
Um...I think his point is clear? First, you understand your data, and decide how to represent it. Only then can you write code to work with that data.

Poor programmers dive into methods and algorithms, and then try to force their data to match. Which almost never works.
Unfortunately, trademark law is not based on whether a "top notch designer can come up with a similar idea in total vacuum" or not.
A DFW Airport maintenance employee was killed after falling from a Jet Bridge back in 2015.
I think there's a big difference between asserting that a very deadly event should have been less deadly, and arguing that an event where nobody was hurt in fact was fairly harmless and was unlikely to seriously hurt or kill anyone.
Just to add to this, I feel like there's a ton of ways to "accidentally" introduce a lot of bias in hiring: referring everyone from your college's club to the company, brain teasers that require some irrelevant cultural background, mandatory in office/remote cultures, off site decisions. Heck I even saw a company that advertised that they go surfing together every weekend for bonding.

I'm not sure what can be done with these cases, and I know people, of various protected out-groups, that have specifically mentioned those as reasons not to join a company.
Our gerontocracy is unprepared to deal with issues related to technology and privacy. I don't think these data brokers need to hide at all. We already see how legislators (failed to) comprehend issues related to technology in the many of unproductive congressional hearings over the past few years (Google, Tiktok, Twitter, Facebook... all brought before congress with nothing to show for it now). I think issues of technology and privacy are moving too fast for our gerontocracy to possibly keep up.

And I think our legislators show their ass in the case of the Tiktok hearing; effectively stating oh it's fine if the data is being bought and sold by a US company (Oracle).
This sounds to me like the issue of when technical people call Tech Support with an advanced problem and the agent forces them to first check their monitor is on and reset.

It's frustrating, sure, but look at if from the other side: 99% of the people they deal with are completely incapable, and 90% of their problems ARE solved by a simple reboot.

Apple/iPhone is the ubiquitous phone for everyone from CTOs to grandma's.

The in store experience is optimized to make sure a person that has been stuck in a cave for 30 years and can walk out with a device optimized for their needs.

I bet they think that people like you will just buy online and choose in store pickup...
> How do you know if you have a Rocket?

That’s the trick… you don’t. And neither do they.

I believe it’s a pretty well-understood statistic that most VC-funded businesses are not successful, and the VCs are only successful because a small number of investments are massively profitable.

Neither VCs nor companies know for sure if they _will_ rocket. VCs are looking for businesses and founders who _could_ rocket.
As an amateur my experience is that having the exact right tool for a job is way better than having the very best quality of the almost right tool.

Also for tools with consumables, the quality of the consumables matters way more than the tool that you put them in.
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I think we also focus and celebrate too much the route of college drop out start up founders. For these cases yes some family wealth is definitely beneficial as a safety net.

But there are also plenty of people that have worked for a while, provided themselves a safety net and go on the startup journey in their 30s and 40s. Eg. Eric Yuan, who was a eng VP already before zoom.

But I guess those don’t grab the same headline attention.
Im currently working on a large scale commercial app in C. You have to be very careful with memory and safety, but overall it's so much better than writing apps in JavaScript, Java, or any other language I can think of.
> C doesn't leverage the free run time of the OS, when that OS is Windows.

Stdio, no. Printf, no (unless you’re an adherent of LIBCTINY[1] or one of its descendants[2] and need only a minimal set of features). Malloc, yes—MSVC’s malloc() on Win32 has always been a thin wrapper around kernel32!HeapAlloc. Strlen or memcpy or whatnot—also possibly yes, but it’s not like minimal implementations of those are large anyway.

[1] http://bytepointer.com/resources/pietrek_libctiny_1996.htm

[2] https://www.benshoof.org/blog/minicrt
Fair enough. But for him (and you) it worked out great! He got some job security, and you got a job by fixing the mess. If there wasn't a mess, you wouldn't have this job:)
A lot of pros also enjoy Project Farm's YouTube videos, which compare and rate tools from popular brands.
Yes, but others can also solve those problems. And if you make your code really standards-comforming, management will see that they could onboard another programmer really quickly. This is what you want to avoid.
I'm new at this, I need a bag of potatoes. Where can I buy them with USDC?
"Pros over code"? Was that deliberate? If so, nicely done!

(For those to whom English is not a first language: "Pros" is one letter away from "prose", and the parent is complaining about people who focus on blog posts. And "over" can be taken as "they are writing prose in preference to writing code". It's a beautiful twist of language, if deliberate. If not, it's a very nice coincidence.)
This is a magenta, or apple kind of trademark conflict.
Not been my experience when I’ve bought apple watches. Product walk through were always optional that store employees were happy to offer, I always skipped them, brought the watch and was on my way.
Was this your first Apple Watch?

When I last went to an Apple Store to get a new one (while wearing my current Apple Watch) I just said “I know what I want and what I’m doing”.

They handed me the box on the spot in the middle of the store and I paid with the mobile PoS terminal they carry.

I was in and out in less than five minutes and this was at their very busy Chicago Michigan Avenue store. Maybe they’re that efficient because it is busy but like most Apple Store experiences I’ve had it was very fast and efficient - they didn’t get in the way of me spending my money, that’s for sure.
It feels like they want to use this first version of the Vision Pro as a sort of public beta release? My speculation is that their target audience is quite niche, on purpose, that they want to see how it performs in real life, while controlling the onboarding and working on ramping up their production processes. And a future version would target the general public. Just my personal thoughts.

It’s not for me in its current form, I feel I wouldn’t be able to deal with a heavy and warm mask on my face isolating me from my surrounding for more than a few minutes (quite sure I would be sweating a good amount while wearing it…). Hopefully we will get something closer to Dennou Coil soon :)
Yes that must be why there is a thriving profitable market for apps on Android that don’t go through the Play Store.

Almost every non game app on the iPhone/iPad of note require a subscription and most outside of the App Store.
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