skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PMs and Analysts: Your Biggest Challenge in Product Analytics?
Hi HN community,

I'm diving deep into the realm of product analytics and am curious about the primary challenges you face in this area. Is there a specific tool you wish existed? Or a particular feature in current tools that's missing or not implemented well?

I'd appreciate any insights or stories you might want to share. My goal is to better understand the pain points and see if there's a potential solution I could build or improve upon.
> Unfortunately for you, those gravitational waves can't act anything like the ones predicted by GR which we've actually observed, because those are far too weak (or spacetime too 'stiff', IIRC).

Let's play with numbers. Two kinds of gravitational waves are claimed to be observed: 1) HF waves by LIGO/Virgo and 2) LF ones by NANOgrav[1].

I assume, that the meter is defined as c1s/299792458 in steady vacuum*. Same for the second. I assume, that speed of light can go down only, in other words, speed of light cannot be higher than c.

Gravitational wave background strain amplitude calculated to be ~ 2.4E-15 y-1. For simplification, I assume average slowdown (stretching) of light to be 1E-15 per year.

LF gravitational waves are quite powerful, with strain amplitude 2.4E-15 y-1, but their low frequency does almost no impact to the wave length of light. In 1 billion of years, wave length will be enlarged by up to 1,0000024.

HF gravitational waves are much weaker, say 1E-21, but their high frequency, say 20kHz, may increase wave length up to 1.88, which is much closer to expected Red Shift of 7.

[1]: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acdac6
Ive tried letting AI write my articles. It was horrible. I tried ignoring AI-powered tools (such as grammar checkers, summarizers, rewriters, speech-to-text apps), and the writing process felt sluggish.

The middle ground is what works best for me. I use generative AI exlusively mid-process, but neither for input (ideas) nor output (actual drafts.)

Here's how I write:

- I source my ideas from contemplation or conversations on social media. Topics discussed there have at least some pre-validated relevance
- I sit down for ten minutes and dictate my thoughts into a tool like AudioPen (no affiliation, just a fan) which summarizes my 10 minutes in 5 or 6 paragraphs. THIS is the AI step. The tool suggests a few paragraph structures that I cycle through until I find a good one.
- From there, I write my draft, following that outline. No more AI tools here other than grammar checking at the end.

AI is a great writing partner. It's a horrible writer.
I get it but nobody should blindly trust authority. They must earn our trust.
Many parts of this article are unviewable on mobile. Irony?
There are 50000 reels, and digitizing them is not nearly instant - if you just load a new roll each time you pass by the machine, you'll have digitized a tiny random fraction, without any prioritization.
I got stung by a bumblebee while hiking once. My friend and I had stopped to chat with some other hikers and this big slow fuzzy bee buzzes over, lands on my arm, stings me, then just flys away. There was no sudden movement, we hadn't just invaded their nest, or really any reason for it to sting me that I could see.

It hurt as bad as any other sting I've ever had.
If you get six months' severance and find a job before the six months is up, do you get to double-dip?
It's worth going directly to the source of Porkbun's data, especially if you're trying to broadly compare domain prices: https://tld-list.com
Some people are able to produce handwritten mirrored text. Notably, Leonardo da Vinci wrote most of his personal notes in this way [1]

For pictures of his writing, see [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_writing#:~:text=Some%20...

[2]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37043794
I presume you're talking about maximized windows, but that still does not equal "filling the entire screen", because browsers have their own user interface around the viewport.

Go maximize your browser and enter this into your dev tools:

console.log(`${window.innerWidth}x${window.innerHeight}`)

Does that equal your screen resolution?
One of my favorite memories from theater was a production of City of Angels in SF. A character walked forward and said something, then somehow or other (memory failure) someone said "let's undo that." So he walked backwards and said the same thing, backwards.
The upstream cost increase is 7% (the maximum allowed by Verisign's contract). Verisign is allowed to increase .com prices by up to 7% next year, and likely will.
The other out-of-state MLB plates, if I've searched properly, all make similar geographic sense:
- Red Sox in CT and RI
- Mets, Yankees, Phillies in NJ (you can get Mets and Yankees plates in New York but you can't get Phillies plates in Pennsylvania)
- Nationals in MD and VA

Also you can get Brooklyn Dodgers plates in New York but you can't get Los Angeles Dodgers plates in California.
it it's sort of like instead of primarily looking after yourself and your own needs, it becomes more of a collaborative project

I don't think that's a fair characterization. I am looking after my guest(s). I ask them if they'd like something to drink. We have X, Y and Z. If they indicate that they are not in need of drink but are later on, they know what we have now and can ask. I have no visual or other indicator to foresee when they might actually become thirsty. I will not ask them every half hour whether they now want to drink something. Of course, if I happen to start making coffee because now it's "cake time", I'll ask again if they also want a coffee while I'm making some anyway or something else. But in between they better say something if they need it.

This to me is ask culture. On the other hand, guess culture would be someone making tea before I even arrive and serving it to me, expecting me to like it and drink it. Sorry but I don't drink tea. Please just ask me if I want one because if you don't have coffee, I'd rather just have a glass of water. But now that you've served this I won't say no because my guess is that it'd offend you, so I just nip a bit but don't drink it.
> “How many other people are there out there that have gone through this? That have lost their husband, or their wife, or daughter, or mother? They really pulled the wool over everyone’s eyes.”

Did they? Surely most people who aren't prone to conspiracy nonsense just thought they were a bunch of nutters? The rest of the world did.
> A dual channel DDR4 system memory bandwidth is ~40GB/s, and DDR5 ~80GB/s.

It's impossible to saturate the memory bandwidth on a modern CPU with a single thread, even if all you do is reads with absolutely no processing. The bottleneck is how fast outstanding cache misses can be satisfied.

The article even links to a benchmark that attempts to measure what it calls "sustainable memory bandwidth": https://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/ref.html
Pocketbook announces their first e-note, the Pocketbook InkPad X Pro
Namecheap can hand over their records to another registar before they go out of business or ICANN can step in after the fact and give their domains to another registar to manage. The new registar would likely reach out to introduce themselves.
+1
I love LosslessCut. Am using it for many months now and it has never let me down. It's a very polished piece of software which is in active developement!
I'd hire a skilled person without a degree over a degreed person without skill any day of the week, and I'd look down on anyone who did the reverse.
It appears to read, "If you want to take advantage of the current price tag," which seems to suggest locking in the current price before the increase. Not sure what you mean.
https://archive.is/Pd4Oa
Also notable SIMH[1] emulator to run various ancient architectures.

[1] https://github.com/open-simh/simh
HN is somehow always timely. Currently, these folks expect me to sign a CLA for a one-byte change to their README: https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker/pull/2516
Okay, it's good that we agree then on my original premise, the vast majority of websites (by quantity and popularity) on the Internet today are using UTF-8 encoding, and Latin-1 is being phased out.

Btw I appreciate your edited response, but still you were factually incorrect about:

> Browsers don't use utf-8 unless you tell them to

Browsers can use UTF-8 even if we don't tell them. I am already aware of the extra heuristics you wrote about.

> HTML file with latin-1 ... which is that it's not UTF-8, because the content has nothing in it to warrant UTF-8

You are incorrect here as well, try using some latin-1 special character like "ä" and you will see that browsers default to document.characterSet UTF-8 not windows-1252
It's the same principle as upvoting your own story.
Yep. They increasingly break addons that (try to) enable me to do everything from the keyboard.
The First Real Images of Mercury – What We Found? [video]
>n this video, we'll be discussing the first real images of Mercury, what we found and what implications it has.
Interesting - thank you.

Near the top of my bucket list too.
The risk isn't the sound, it's catching on something. But, there are bells that are integrated into the collar, to prevent this.
(Not) fun fact that I learned recently is some dyes like Red 40 are made from petroleum!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red#:~:text=The%20most%20commo...
None of which has anything to do with creativity or the original (and visually trained) thought required to conceive of imagery that's commercially useful - which is an actual skill learned through years of study and experience, and which is so routinely ignored by managers and IT people that you completely failed to mention it in your take on the technical issues with prompts.

The issue with prompts is not stacked cubes. It's more like this: Ask 10 software engineers or 10 people from the sales department or 3 people from upper management to come up with visual ideas for ads, and you will have a bunch of shit on black backgrounds, robots, anime, bad copies of things people have seen and subconsciously remember, and zero actual visual ideas that fundamentally work. Designers and illustrators have to fight against and override their unoriginality and terrible ideas all the fucking time just to make a decent product.
This guy on TikTok plays guitar / sings songs backwards: https://www.tiktok.com/@joeljameslive/video/7226593976848026...
I don't remember hearing that at all.
"What happens though if namecheap goes out of business during that?"

.COM agreement between registrars and ICANN requires registrars to regularily store all registrant contact infos in IronMountain and set ICANN as escrow, therefore allowing ICANN to contact all registrants should a registrar fold and allow them to transfer to another registrar. Another reason to keep the domain ownership informations up-to-date. [1]

[1]: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rde-agreement-09...
Exactly. It's talking about general dyes, while the title names a (presumably) specific sort of dye, an "FD&C" dye. Are all dyes FD&C dyes? What does FD&C mean? Those are not questions answerable by someone who read this article without further research.
Extra large
If that's the clickable area, is someone complaining that's too large?

You've been able to select radio buttons by clicking on their text for decades now. On desktop. Often literally hundred of pixels wide.

Generous margins for clickable elements seems like a feature, not a problem. As long as they don't interfere with anything else (which they don't, here).
An Improved Unix Terminal – Demo App for VanJS
A web-based Unix terminal with notable improvements, built with VanJS - https://vanjs.org/. Under 300 lines in total.

We've seen numerous efforts to bring in more modernized terminals and shells. VanJS goes with the other direction. Why not making building UI apps as simple as CLI programs so most of us aren't confined to the limitations of terminals? Indeed, even for the quest of modernizing terminals, VanJS is pretty good at it.
I envy you cause the teams and companies that I've worked with basically say fuck em to that argument.

I have lost jobs and annoyed people trying to argue for greater care with accessibility. It's somewhat depressing.
Out of curiosity, which non-stimulant medication did you have success with?
https://archive.is/ZhZ9e
Mine all look like things I definitely would have flagged.
I once read a HN thread that recommended Go for this, and it made me interested. I think it was a useful suggestion, it made me learn Go, and I kind of agree with it, 5+ years after. It is not a shell, but it is simple and fast and useful.
Open Sourcing Pocket Size Fund
Context clues tell me "blooming" probably means "putting it in water and letting it dissolve", but that's just my guess. It would be nice if they defined it.
> I think most special forms do not complicate syntax, as they look like your standard s-expressions

Take LET:

(let ((a b) (c d) e (f g))
(declare (type integer a))
(+ a b c d e f g))

It does not look like (foo arg0 arg1 ... argn).

Instead it takes a binding list, which is not evaluated. Where bindings can take a variable and a value. The value is evaluated, the variable not.
The follows a declaration, which is not evaluated either, but which can be used by the compiler... There are lots of declarations forms: allocation, scope, optimization, types, ...
It's $5 over a year. If that's a meaningful amount of money you probably have no business owning domain names.

Namecheap has always been good for me in terms of service and reliability. I only own a few domains but if $15/year was unaffordable I think I'd just let them expire.
It's almost like developers need to feed their families.
I was backed into a corner when it came time to replace my Samsung Galaxy Book 12 and had to by a Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 --- really wish that there was something like to the Samsung Galaxy Tab Ultra 9 which ran Windows.
Its and interesting idea, but what do you do when Joes says his vote was miscounted?

Can you prove him wrong? Can he prove it?

Because if not, it all seems pointless to me.
Here's what's blocked and what I think it's doing based on the code.

2023-08-21 12:33:28 | losslesscut.exe | Block | Out | 140.82.112.5 | 443 | <-- Github, update check
2023-08-21 12:33:30 | losslesscut.exe | Block | Out | 54.192.51.72 | 443 | <-- https://losslesscut.mifi.no/config.json +
2023-08-21 12:33:30 | losslesscut.exe | Block | Out | 54.192.51.122 | 443 | <-- https://losslesscut.mifi.no/config.json +
2023-08-21 12:33:30 | losslesscut.exe | Block | Out | 54.192.51.66 | 443 | <-- https://losslesscut.mifi.no/config.json +
2023-08-21 12:33:30 | losslesscut.exe | Block | Out | 54.192.51.52 | 443 | <-- https://losslesscut.mifi.no/config.json +
2023-08-21 12:33:30 | losslesscut.exe | Block | Out | 172.217.13.206 | 443 | <-- Google, Unknown

In the code there is also: https://losslesscut-analytics.mifi.no/

Typical.
Also it would be necessary to determine if a loaded roll affected by ''vinegar syndrome'' would leave tainting residue in the digitizer, putting all subsequent rolls at risk. That kind of analysis is way above the pay grade of most digitizer technicians, I'd guess.
> Single episodes of psychosis can in many cases be prevented from developing into schizophrenia

Your source does not say that.

> Some people who receive early treatment never have another psychotic episode.

That actual number of some (and not "many", "most" or even "meaningful proportion") is not defined in the page or underlying study.

Broader studies seem to suggest some people regardless of treatment only have an isolated episode. It is not clear the RAISE intervention itself changes that proportion.
Kind of? There are lots of trees everywhere, and plenty of nature preserves. Think suburban NY, CT, MA. Plenty of ponds and wetlands too, but in a drought things can get very dry.
Because Cloudera is aimed at a market that is not the same that would benefit from "most companies" being talked about in TFA?

Plenty of companies that would be fine by using a managed postgresql database for their "data warehouse" and you can get, e.g, one reasonably powerful server at Digital Ocean for $60/month with managed backups - and that already has quite a big markup compared to their droplets because they are just packaging some monitoring tools on top of their existing systems.
I always used `ulimit -v` and `ulimit -H -v` for this purpose. Maybe this is more fine grained?
That's some real unwarranted hostility. I'm responding to a specific point from the article? We can't just go in circles having an "is it good or isnt it" argument...

Once again - I agree with most of what the author says, including the part about it being a tool in an illustrator's kit
Presidents have had similar powers in many presidential republics. For example, Finland was like that until ~30 years ago. Ultimately it doesn't matter much if the head of state is a king or a president. It doesn't even matter that much what they could do in exceptional situations, or whether they inherited their position or were elected to it.

What matters is the tradition of running a normal democracy. If the elections are fair, if the ones who lose their power step down gracefully, if there is a peaceful transition of power, and so on. If you have a tradition of that, adapting a different form of democratic government is not that hard.
Respectfully, I am on a salary so it is very difficult to know whether this could translate to more than $65 in wage improvement over a year, even in theory. If I get a raise it will be due to a combination of reasons. However, if this is indeed a productivity enhancer, you should market to companies, not workers.

You mention that I should pay an ongoing fee for features to be added over time. However, there is no guarantee of future feature development even if I do pay every month. And there is definitely no guarantee I will care about or like the new features either. If this transcription works well, that’s the only feature I need.

Being charged monthly also doesn’t seem right when you’re not providing an ongoing service. If you develop a new feature that is better than the current version, I would pay for that as well.
1024 x 1024 instead of 512 x 512.
I believe it shouldn't be the same, since it has no effects that ordinary upvotes do. Also, the poll somehow excludes one user in such case.
> long term maintenance was.

How so?
Except prior to women joining the workforce they were providing essential services that they weren't being financially remunerated for.
> all computers come with hundreds of GB at least

There's a whole range of tiny/small computers that run Linux and that absolutely don't have hundreds of GBs of storage space.
Zach Coelius – How SF's drug problem got out of control
The best part is that Lazarus is write once, compile anywhere. It works on all major desktop OSes and even some less mainstream ones.
The state tries to avoid plate number collisions by using prefixes on specialty plates but pretty much every in-state university president has plate number 1 with their school's design. The governor and leaders of each chamber of the legislature also get their own plate design with assigned number 1.
The best thing to do about wasps involves a vacuum cleaner.
"Fear is the mind killer". Focus spent worrying about the potential consequences of failure is focus not spent on avoiding failure altogether.
Depending on your definition of "specific".

Of course an AI can not produce an image that matches what's on your mind 100%. Because by definition it will require you to provide all the information, a.k.a. you need to make the image by yourself first.

But I really don't think illustrators are as safe as the article implies. Yes, the jobs won't disappear overnight, but are there that much demands for illustration to support a future where every illustrator becomes 10x more productive than before?

(I've done illustration commercially before, while it's not my main source of income and I'm junior level at best.)
Its not an issue of technology but of man-hours to digitize and index the film collection.
Medicine without doctors? State laws are changing who treats patients
Now we wait for the evil regime to collapse
As a native Texan with a love of language and linguistics, I'm really enjoying all the comments in response to your question. Just so you know, there are lots of search results for that phrase outside of that article, including one as far away as Australia:

2007 financial outlook - "The Krispy Creme (KKD) Donut Boat Don't Float"
https://247wallst.com/investing/2007/06/04/the_krispy_crem/

Picture of a boat that actually doesn't float:
https://www.deviantart.com/theuniphotoghrpher/art/This-Boat-...

Houseboat for rent:
https://www.travelocity.com/Hartwell-Hotels-This-Boat-Dont-F...

Church sermon title:
https://journeyorl.podbean.com/e/when-your-boat-dont-float/

Poem title:
https://inprinthouston.org/event/first-fridays-presents-rebe...

2002 article about a Ford/Mercury car:
https://www.deseret.com/2002/6/11/19659250/marauder-muscle-c...

Fishing forum:
https://www.fishexplorer.com/co/fxrforum.asp?action=det&pid=...

Boating forum:
https://forums.sailboatowners.com/threads/new-to-the-forum.1...

Australian website asking "What happens if your boat don’t float?"
https://www.aussiemob.com/beer-can-regatta/
Good thing I paid Google (ugh Squarespace) rent on my domain for a few years up front.
Triage means saving the ones most at risk first.
https://archive.is/Dffpy
> Abugida

An abugida (often also referred to as an alphasyllabary) is a writing system that combines consonants and vowels into a singular unit, with the consonant being the primary element, and the vowel secondary.

I am familiar with subreddit helper bots.
I wonder if there have been any such helper bots written for HN.
Eg: A dictionary bot.
https://archive.is/Qna3i
People like Ansel Adams would shoot 8x10 as well
https://archive.ph/AXuiP
> Frankly it’s a reason enterprise software is often so terrible; tons of options you barely understand or know about, and are configured according to tutorials/examples rather than understanding.

This article stresses that it's not a 'customer-side problem', and what they'll do to try to address it on their end.

But is there anything that enterprises can do in order to encourage people not to work blindly from tutorials? What do companies where workers avoid this pitfall look like?
Well said. I appreciated the tone. Thanks for defending yourself and your career decisions against those that no nothing about your personal circumstances.
Not to mention means testing can be used for discrimination

Growing up one thing I realized was white privilege, for lack of a better term, was my families access to welfare programs.

My father passed when I was young and my mom was left to raise us on our own. When he passed she made just barely above the poverty level, and you know what the government agent did? He fudged a couple things on the paper work and my mom got SSI and Medicaid for us until we turned 18.

I’ve heard the hell non white families go through in similar situations in my home state and I don’t imagine they got that privilege