skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that it was unwarranted on the consumer's part, but rather that the common outcome of support (of no human reply) would have been not noteworthy, quickly forgotten, and probably not resulted in the upthread comment at all.

Instead, the case of having human-staffed support for a low-priced product that happens to have given an unhelpful reply to GP (but likely gave helpful replies to >50% of support cases [because most support questions are user-error]) drives home a negative [rather than null] feeling in the upthread consumer and results in the negative response above. (For avoidance of doubt, GP/consumer did nothing at all wrong then nor now. I'm talking about the incentives a company has to offer support at all for a low priced software product.)
The best advice is for someone who needs to hear it.

My favorite piece of advice comes from my physics teacher in high school: work hard, play harder.
> The key to his success was to Get Started.

Not really. The key was to find a niche that worked. He “Got Started” with tools he wanted to build and it didn’t work out. It wasn’t until he pivoted to identifying trends, building an audience, and building tools for them which he could market to his audience that he found success.
This is such a false statement.

Amazon and apple are making trillions on the backs of small indie folks. Google too. The apple app store is monetised by nearly a million people, google makes money largely from small businesses, amazon’s filled with small independent sellers.

Any time someone’s success reaches the bubble of corporate workers the workers that cant fathom there’s success out there and freedom claim “survivorship bias”. Couldnt be further from the truth.
Your definition is questionable. There are:

(a) addresses that are globally unique but not globally routable. (These are extremely common in IPv6. These are not so common in IPv4 because IPv4 addresses are expensive, so people try to minimize usage, so people will try to avoid using paid-for globally unique addresses for non-routable purposes.)

(b) addresses that are in ranges that are, per spec and actual usage, only even defined within an organization and are not globally unique. For example, 192.168.0.1.

(a) and (b) are not the same by any useful definition. Sorry.
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It will substitute similar things, such as the word ubuntu for debian.

Which can be incredibly frustrating if you know the problem well enough to need a different answer.
Why does it take privilege? I worked for many years in a studio apartment and made just slightly over the poverty line and, although the pay sucked, the wfh was awesome and doable even on a nothing budget.
I don't have much skin in the game, not being a web developer, but something I find intriguing about WASM is the possibility for JS to merely become one of many possible languages to use instead of being the end-all-be-all language of the web. That is, WASM being a successor to JS insofar as being the primary runtime, instead of being dependent on JS.

I would assume this is the direction WASM is trying to go? It sounds so much cleaner, and it does seem the DOM being limited to JS is one of the showstoppers.
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Take another look at the black & white picture of the 500W transmitter rack.

This is one of those engineering projects that can be often recognized as one which very few engineers would be capable of accomplishing.

In reality it's much more impressive since it's actually a project for which almost no engineers were qualified for.
That's why I created https://civet.dev as a personal slight against chaptrick.
I dunno if she's a crank yet but having a youtube fan base (really just a fan base at all) in part built on her disagreements with other physicists means she's probably going to end up as one.
Counter-counterpoint(?): the difference between high trust society and a low trust society is not the number of 'bad' people, but the number of apathetic people when they witness the actions of the bad actors and do nothing.
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More than that I feel there is hidden/lost knowledge. For example real world software design documents are so hard to come by, I think they must be one of the closest guarded things in software companies. The history of major software development projects in the industry has simply been lost to us.
I'm not disagreeing with people who like taking notes. I use Obsidian myself (and I'm not weirdly triggered by this comment either). But watch any marketing video for Roam Research or anything adjacent to that and you will usually see people talking about Zettelkasten. In fact, I've seen lots of Obsidian users flat out say you're not actually building a Zettelkasten unless you're outputting original content.

It's not controversial to say Obsidian tool tweaking can be fun and productive, but could also tap into the exact wrong parts of peoples OCD brain.

No reason to be hostile for an observation of a community, especially as low stakes as "notetakers." I don't think they have a monopoly on taking notes?
I don't know if I'm in an algorithmic rabbit hole, but my Twitter shows hundreds of people like this talking about how much they are making, how many signups they are getting for their products, how many Twitter followers they have.

It seems like some strange playbook where you build a very simple product and shout about (possibly exaggerate) your success to attract eyeballs. Then you sell the real thing which is a course or info product to the people who want to replicate your success.

No bitterness here and I haven't even read this particular post properly to cast aspersions at him. I've just felt something didn't add up with this corner of the internet for some time.

Here are a few more random ones from the top of my "For You" feed. Again nothing against the specific posters, just to illustrate what I am seeing:

https://twitter.com/MrNick_Buzz
https://twitter.com/marc_louvion
https://twitter.com/Timb03
I was bullied fairly relentlessly in school. Not sure cameras would've helped (don't even remember if we had them in classrooms), especially the verbal stuff, but I also don't like the idea of always being watched. Honestly, I would rather have the administration be less afraid of lawsuits and covering its own ass with comfortable lies like zero tolerance. Being bullied and then having the vice principal tell you "they were only joking" was the ACTUAL travesty, not any lack of surveillance. Fix the broken authority figures before instituting the Panopticon.
I've noticed that negative comments often float to the top. That’s a bit of a bummer. No one's entrepreneurial success should make you question your life choices or become a reason for your frustration.

Congratulations Tony! I remember the time you quit your job and set a goal of reaching $10K/mo with a few products on twitter, it seemed crazy. But you pulled it off! Hats off to you.
From Investopedia: Capitalism is focused on the creation of wealth and ownership of capital and factors of production, whereas a free market system is focused on the exchange of wealth or goods and services.

It's not the free market part that defines it as capitalism but rather the fact he owns the method of production. He owns the code he writes and he owns the business processes around those applications. He privately owns the capital assets (applications and business processes) which make the money.
Step 1 is just actually punish and/or separate kids who are known to be bullies. Lack of surveillance or of “knowledge” of who the bullies are isn’t the inhibitor. Not to mention obviously cameras won’t successfully police online/out of school behavior, to which also the solution is not more surveillance.

Teachers, students, administrators, and often parents already know who the bullies are. The question is what to do about it.
Remember tools like uBlock Origin and uMatrix.

It is moral and ethical to block all ads and scripts from adtech companies. Contributing to ruining their way of life is a socially-responsible behavior. Failure to do so results in behaviors like this.

You get what you deserve if you don't block ads.
As a soloprenuer myself, I can say that the problem is understanding the goal. When your goal is unclear, there are too many paths to the solution. Some paths are too resource intensive or unfeasible.

From reading other successful soloprenuers the first goal should be: For idea X what is the quickest way to validate the idea.

Example: If I have an idea (like a previous article from today indie hacker article) to show a progress bar for followers on twitter (won't work today). Do I need a subscription mechanism? no. Do I need payment management? no. Do I need an admin console? no. So how do I do it?
A form with an email+access key to write to a database or file. a crontab to run a script to update the profile photo. Done. Time to execute: 1 day.

Next task: get feedback to validate. Publish on my twitter account with funny or news related posts. See if people use the script.

If validated: Next goal, take money. Send email to users, that they can continue using for 4$. Send a form from some saas platform to subscribe. Manually remove non-payers.

From what that indie hacker writes he did a few thousand dollars this way. Sounds plausible.

Amazing how easy it is once the goals are completely clear.

The next goal could be, how do I increase my income. Do I need a new feature, new marketing channel, etc...
Yes, they seem to be generally more interested in solving real engineering problems, not evangelizing their favorite language.
When I was a kid our teachers would bugger off and have a smoke occasionally. We all just carried on and did work.

Perhaps the problem is with the children and by proxy the parents.
Tbh, I never ventured outside of Konsole. Never felt I was missing something or was limited by performance or anything beyond what the stock Konsole offered.
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You with your trolley zooming through the refrigerated section of the supermarket, part of the food chain?

Come on, there is nothing natural about our environment. Lucky us, we can now live until 80 instead of 25, in good portion because we don't accept to be part of it.
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I don't deny that there are other providers. I don't begrudge anyone the choice of a provider; choose whatever service works best for you. This thread did not begin with an expression of personal choice, it began with a wish for nihilistic extinction.

It doesn't matter who you want to disappear. Let's say I hate Amazon AWS and I wished that their cloud services would go away. I don't use AWS because they're terrible and I want all my associates to stop using AWS. So AWS goes away.

What happens then? Have people been given ample space to choose another? Is this just an alternate universe where AWS never existed, or did their service just vanish suddenly and take everyone with it?

I mean, it's like saying, I wish Australia would go away. I wish Europe didn't exist. Yeah you don't have to live there, or purchase their products, but some people would miss it, and they're sort of part of the economy. Major parts.

Gmail and Outlook constitute 900-pound-gorillas in the email-provider space. Yahoo! perhaps a distant third? No business in their right mind will choose Protonmail, or GMX, for 50,000 employees and billion-dollar revenues. How many sysadmins are running around making OwnCloud work at a Fortune 500 firm?

Honestly, I get it, I wanted Microsoft to shrivel up and die when I was a young adult. I was a staunch Unix defender and it was my way or the highway. It's easy to resent someone's business practices when you're not in business or you don't rely on providers for essential services. But, evil or not, Google is part of the world's infrastructure, so it's not realistic or productive to wish them into the cornfield, Anthony. It's a Good Life, okay?
You are procrastinating. Your psychology is preventing you somehow from doing the work, because you have some inherent fear that is preventing you from getting started.

I am guilty of this too - I think we all are. It’s far easier to focus on productivity tools/processes because it feels productive, thus giving you feedback without actually doing the harder job of the actual work, and thus perhaps realizing your underlying fear of failure or fear of being judged / etc.
There are 11 of them all strung together 2-12 each got their own segment with a different solo section.
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I learn from books and for front-end development I learned from O'Reilly's "The Definitive Guide" series. There's a recent edition for both CSS and JavaScript but not for HTML. Just look at the survey, HTML is huge and touches or at least rubs against everything.

Whenever I pick up a book to brush up on HTML it always a 98 chapter, 10,000 page tome book called "XYZ & HTML: The Complete Guide For Real". Chapter 1: HTML (pages 1-2). Chapters 2-98: CSS (pages 3-10,000).

I'd really like to see an "HTML: The Definitive Guide" that treats HTML as the nexus of web technologies that it is.
I think what a lot of would-be entrepreneurs don’t get is the sheer scale of the global market. There are many, many billions of dollars trading hands every single day. You only have to dip the very tip of your pinky finger into that economic stream and you can make more money than you imagined. If you ever think of a product and then talk yourself out of it with “no one will buy this”, just remember that there are 8.1 billion people out there. If you create a product for $10/month, you only have to convince 0.0001% of them of the value of your product to make $1M per year.

Also, I completely disagree that OP’s product is useless or due to luck. He intentionally created something people want, and it’s actually a pretty cool product IMO.
I wouldn’t mind escaping the grind if I can crack the next fruit cutting or a bird flapping or a site or an app that does something like, I don’t know, add random words to people’s names (?) and people can use it and I can just show ads and retire or so. Fuck yeah! Yeah I am evil.
I like the article. Reminds me of when I started working on EndBASIC. People, especially close friends, would joke about it and ask why I wasted time on such a project.

I didn’t have to justify myself but I found it useful to spell out some of the reasons: https://jmmv.dev/2021/01/why-endbasic.html

And you know what, every time this project has gotten some broad attention, it has been well received just as the original article says :)
There has been other probes that continued to operate over multiple lunar cycles, how did they manage?
Exactly. Kids are already living in an excessively sheltered world. I don’t buy into the “bullying makes you stronger” bullshit but kids should be able to go walk around outside and play in the woods and build their own little tiny societies before they enter the real one.

And in tiny societies, just like in the real one, there will be injustices that need to be managed by some mechanism other than just “don’t go outside, put cameras everywhere.”
Okay, I read this article.

This is BS. As someone with several kids who use chromebooks, it became much better for the kids when more active monitoring and blocking came in. Just as a practical basis, they were less likely to get distracted or wander into areas where they shouldn't, when they shouldn't.

Okay, so if it blocks something that is potentially useful? Don't care. At school they should be learning the curriculum presented by the teacher. Want to learn something specific? Go to the library or do it at home.

Seriously. This article is extremely messed up and weak.
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Q:I suddenly lost my head, what can be done?

A:Based on the information provided in the text, if someone suddenly loses their head, the immediate action that can be taken is to encircle the head just above the ears and eyebrows with a tie, shoelaces, or a piece of string and tie it tight. Then, insert a pen, pencil, or stick into the loop and rotate it so that the tourniquet exerts pressure on the arteries. This can help control bleeding and potentially save the person's life.

No doubt, it was fine-tuned with Monty Python.

'Tis but a scratch.
Form validation isn't too bad these days IMO. Required, pattern, email, url, numbers, dates, etc.

How should a combo box behave? It's a windows control but the original behavior is barely used. Just curious what your definition is.

<selectlist> looks like a step in the right direction, since you will (if it gets implemented) be able to implement custom select lists with much more native/browser provided behavior
I developed a culture of laziness. With this comes great focus and time optimal solutions.

At most there will be a TODO file in the directory the project is unceremoniously thrown into. If it’s not obvious what it does I might write a couple of lines in a README. VCS rarely. Ticketing or project management software, never!

About 15 years ago I brought a whole product to market and sold it without any of those things being done!
Good point. I think NATO will realize eventually he's more allied with Putin than he is with the west.
You’re right—both directions are true. But my point is that only the forward (or reverse) direction of a fact may be worth knowing.

We frequently only posses recall for one direction of a fact. Why? One direction may be important (what is Tom Cruise’s favorite color?), but the other direction may not (whose favorite color is green?).

So if we inquire into whether LLMs actually possess intelligence, their asymmetric knowledge seems similar to human knowledge and hence seems consistent with intelligence, rather than problematic.
Yes, that describes it pretty well.

By default the random seed is different for each generation, so even if the prompt and every setting is the same you'll get vastly different images ( which is the expected outcome ).

When you set the seed to a fixed number you get the same image every time you generate if all other settings and the prompt are exactly the same.

So I start off with a pretty high CFG Scale to give it enough room to imagine things ( Refiner and Resize turned off )

Once I have a good base image, I'll send it to img2img and iterate some more one it.
No no, sorry, it wasn't intended as backhanded snark.

You've had a running critique of standards stuff here for years and it's good and the other person should read it. A bit of an unsuppressed "well, maybe if they looked at the principles, then they'll see the light" nerd-response on my part. You're not going to make an iPhone out of seL4, you're also not going to come up with a Secure Enclave or an IOMMU or an encrypted serial bus or whatever by reading standards/meeting certification reqs either because, generally, that's not how standards and certifications work. For multiple developed versions of this argument, see 'tptacek!

I'm sure you're right about the details of Jor-EAL5+ and the bottle city CRYSTALS-Kandor, just saying "also right in this other way but with less lore". Not that there is anything wrong with lore.
Somewhat related, but their "Geometry of Circles" was written by Philip Glass:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWwOzEDGss

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9467zZV0Lc

* https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Geometry_of_Circles
I feel like you are really under-selling that entire drama. It started with Casey pointing out some slow terminal behavior[0], to which he received unreasonable flack, including this choice quote,

>I believe what you’re doing is describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in performant terminal emulation as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively…

Casey then spent a weekend and produced a couple thousand line terminal emulator which seemed feature complete(? probably missing some bells and whistles), but blew away Windows performance.

A year later, Microsoft released a patch, roughly incorporating some of Casey's suggestions, and did not credit him for anything[1].

Edit: This[2] seems to be the much bigger Hacker News discussion about the topic instead of [1]. If nothing else, [2] has a repeatedly edited post by the Microsoft author where attitudes are on full display.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31372606

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31284419
A lot of people here complaining that Soloproneurs only make "useless" "pet rocks".

There is a big bias here, only the pet rock solopreneurs are very public about what they are doing and their success at it, because that is their marketing, YOU (their audience on HN and Twitter) are the pet rocks buyers.

Solopreneurs with stuff other than pet rocks often don't want to share their success and how much they are making especially not to a tech savvy and entrepreneurial audience, as this would just cause more competition.
Let me rephrase this since you're ignoring the context of this conversation. Relative to human testing, there are not a lot of laws around animal testing, which a lot of people find abhorrent.
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> A teacher should never leave the classroom unattended with students inside

We are talking about students here, not criminals.
Did you mean to reply to me? I didn't say anything about being more popular -> being more secure. If you did want my input, my answer is: no. I was just commenting on the fact that the commenter said croc was less popular, when I cannot find any metric for that.
from the "assume ignorance before maliciousness" standpoint, a lot of the impression you speak of is just a fact of us humans reporting on the (perceived) more critical news, (perhaps also maybe the more profitable news) - but is more (in my opinion) a natural result of the news having limited time/bandwidth to report on a near-infinite content production source (the world)

A side effect (and the end result) is that we all end up having poor [Bayesian priors](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_probability) in our heads - this disproportionate reporting practice at large impacts our understanding of the world, as you describe. And I bet there's a feedback loop: the more skewed our model of the world, the more we will produce/consume skewed content.

I think this is not something you can ever truly do completely away with because of the many factors that it arises from, not limited to our psychological biases that tend us towards liking or interacting with certain form of content more than others... but certainly there should be more controls.