skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I usually do is keeping them on the phone as long as possible with questions and then tell them I don't want what they are selling.

I worked in a place that had call centres as part of their business and I know that they classify calls into hit or miss. Miss calls must finish as quickly as possible and they know that if they keep miss calls under a given duration they are gaining money.

I want to be the person that makes them lose money.
This is far less an interesting question than "what startups could exist now"

My guess is this question won't return much of use, but it would return far more value than examine the "macro conditions" of failed startups (or indeed any startup condition).
I'm glad it is a good experience for you.

What I have discovered is that everyone's approach to newsletters varies, and I'm just figuring out if there's a problem big enough for me to lend a hand to those feeling the newsletter chaos! Your input helps.
I used to have that but it still was too annoying
I feel neither positively nor negatively about Rogan himself (I've never listened to him) but it was plainly a very stupid investment on Spotify's part. Anyone could have predicted (and most of us did) that only a fraction of his audience would follow him behind the paywall and removing him from mainstream free outlets would instantly diminish his cultural relevance.
What is ambiguous about Python’s syntax?
> The innovation, known as a pulse oximeter, helped build his company...

IIRC his company was the first to filter out the venous blood flow from the calculation, making the readings a lot more reliable - but they certainly didn't invent the pulse oximeter!
Your school needs to use whatsapp
About a decade ago they had Google Music. A friend of mine really liked it. He was supposed to have a for-life price of $7/month (or something) and then they raised prices and failed to grandfather his price in. Being Google, there was no way for him to complain about this to them, so he cancelled and used a product he liked less, out of spite. At some point they launched a duplicative product, YouTube Music, which they later migrated all customers to.

So you know, the standard Google experience.
Relevant: From 4chan, hair dye's effect on female brain <https://i.redd.it/izl5ue0zmef71.jpg>

Also, see aposematism <https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/aposematic-hair-color>
Absolutely. I've seen same since I started as a programmer in COBOL and assembly in early 80s.
This is something, a few people have asked me.
will be working on it.
It's seeing more use than ever with a fraction of the staff?
Yup. Garage is painless to set up and, unlike Minio, is designed for "small scale", self-hosted use cases where your nodes may not have identical storage and compute. One current caveat of Garage, compared to Minio, is that anonymous access is not supported. (Patches welcome!) This means you can't easily generate or share links to files in a bucket.

I personally use Garage for locally testing things that run against the S3 API. It's very easy to run the single binary directly. No need for containers, but of course that is also an option, and it's very easy to containerize since you realistically only need to run a statically linked binary and mount a TOML file somewhere.
Meta says China is stepping up its online social media influence operations
I feel like you’re implying something but I don’t get it.
I've never seen anyone burn domestic trash. Like in their back garden or something? Is that a thing?
He’s a great podcaster.
I'm in the UK and I've got a charger being installed next week. The basic Ohme model is costing me £900 installed. Prices were the same pretty much everywhere I looked.
I don’t think the complaint was in the action, but the horrible wording.
Spotify had one profitable quarter by fluke. It's not profitable.
Show HN: How I used AI to create a garden for my daughter
> here in Europe we got actual pensions, so no 401k needed

Right.. you do realize that Europe is not a country? And anyway that’s not really true in many places (or anywhere to be fair if you want to enjoy a decent QoL).

> However, a family that already has 2, 3 million € in liquid assets? For them, even two or three people in elderly care won't make much of a dent - the interest earned from these assets alone is enough to pay for their care

If you have 3 million and need 360k a year that not really the case at all unless you make some relatively risky investments and/or don’t pay taxes.

> which had been the norm prior to the end of WW2

It certainly wasn’t the norm outside of the 30 year period between the start of WW1 and the end of WW2 (also on the whole it disproportionately affected young men).
Do you feel the unsubscribing process os weird?
Er... There's nothing wrong with that. I mean, we do live in a world where businesses are supposed to be profitable. Companies hire and companies fire, that is part of the deal.

One thing is to have layoffs when you are raking in record profits. This doesn't seem to be the case. The text makes a decent enough case.
? it's a normal capitalist corporation, what exactly did you expect
Could not have said it better myself. The bubble idea is a myth and, as we've seen here, when people attempt to articulate it, it cashes out as something astonishingly shallow.

It's such a lazy analysis that it overlooks countless ordinary and familiar examples that are not controversial or problematic at all, niche communities of every variety, convergences of common interest where the commonality is a baseline of curiosity about ideas are interests that supports healthy and curious and varied discussion, communities that aren't in any strict way of bubble but are just proactive about filtering out hate, communities where a common interest doesn't clearly map onto the analysis of bubbles or politics that people have in mind when they say bubble is a problem (eg tech early adopters, FOSS enthusiasts), and on and on. It's totally ignorant of the kinds of communities that in practice have emerged and taken advantage of the ability to form these niches, which in Mastodon's case was things like comic book artists, the furry community, astronomy nerds and so on.

Not to mention the theory of this "bubble" is fundamentally broken, because it lazily equates common interests specifically to the narrow idea of political escalation and extremism, and the actual convergence of human interests plays out with any number of social dynamics that can't necessarily be mapped on to the specific one of political extremism.

It's just across the board an embarrassing and intellectually lazy idea that misses out on dozens of counterexamples and dozens of social dynamics that it can't and doesn't even bother to explain, and assumes everything fits a narrow theory that's specific to certain kinds of political conversations among specific kinds of political groups.
We will find out soon enough because his contract is running out.
> mental and physical health.

It doesn't necessary.

You could rephrase the title from

> Lack of sunlight during the day is worse than [..]

to

> Lack of sunlight during the day has a larger effect on your bio rhythms then [..]

but that effect isn't per-se bad

it's bad if you life is out of sync with your bio rhythms to a point where it can have sever effects on you mental and physical health

also additionally the way various factors can affect (mainly but not exclusively) shift our bio rhythms there is also the fact that people have various "dispositions" (not the right scientific term), dispositions which also change with age and which seem to have naturally evolved to improve the survival chances of human by making sure that in a pack of human (\j) there is always someone "fit" to spot danger/react fast/etc.

the reason I'm pointing that "dispositions" out is because they can have a major affect on how likely (and more important how much) the bio rhythms of a person and their life with night shifts are out of sync

as far as someone like me who doesn't know much about sleep science can tall the most harmful think is the switch between night and day shift making your bio rhythms fall completely out of sink (leading to fun thinks like potentially constantly increasing exhaustion every day) and/or the bio rhythms not adapting to night shifts

worse as far as I can tell from personal experience there can be a big mismatch between what your bio rhythms are and what your "habits of sleep/work" are, especially if other factors like huge external stress come into play :\

Anyway examples of people living healthy lives with unusual bio rhythms (longer, shorter, shifted) are quite many.
I'm not sure which of the wordings is supposed to be worse. They are both bad. But that is the nature of a company on the edge of survival.
Thanks for the experience sharing and the blog, it is very interesting to read and your humility about the feedback is definitively appreciated.

I currently also did my own DIY EVSE charger mainly for fun [1].

If you are interested about the main differences between your approach and mine:

(1) I use an industrial contactor DIN form factor for the power switch instead of passing the power through the relay directly. Mainly for safety reasons (I do not trust much small relays) and also because I wanted to support three-phase power for an European T2 installation.

(2) Instead of printing my own PCB with an Arduino for the PWN, I just bought one command module from China/UK provider. Mainly for pure lazyness reason :) The module itself is shield behind the RCD class B.

(3) I have added a shelly 3EM front of the system. To use it as a watt-meter with MQTT report and also as a remote control system.

My little advice for people interested to do their own: DIY is always an excellent way to learn and if you want to do your own, do it... BUT please make your installation reviewed by someone with an electrical engineering or technician background if possible. These systems can easily pump 7 to 22KW during extended period of time: Any cable which is not screwed properly or under-sized can bring you a fire.

[1]: https://github.com/adevress/open-ev-station/blob/master/READ...
And presumably this is why it requires an LLM rather than a transcompiler.

You want to translate 'idiomatic COBOL soup' which has been added to over decades into clean structured (possibly OOP) code covered by a robust library of tests.
‘Diminishing his cultural relevance’ may have been the goal.

Reducing his audience, censoring his most controversial past episodes and preventing certain conversations from happening in front of his large audience in future?
Here are the suggestions on how to keep from
Passing out from boredom.

If you feel yourself starting to lose interest or get drowsy, get up, move around and get some fresh air if possible

Eat something with an intense flavour – very spicy, bitter or sour

Drink a very cold beverage

Chew a strongly-flavoured chewing gum

Keep a notebook handy to doodle in or make notes on

If the situation allows it, listen to upbeat music
To spell it out for you, $200 million could pay for well over 1,000 employee-years of salaries.
The implication I see is that the $200M was not worth it.

I don't know their financials, but it seems quite unlikely that a single podcast would be worth that valuation.
Why do they need to invest?

They can also just keep being the most complete music streaming service.

That is a low margin business, but it’s a business, and you probably don’t need a lot of people to run it.
The unit I had also. I put a larger hdd in, I think CF would have been neat. The recorder function was good
Joe Rogan brings in 10s millions of listeners. On the other hand it's not clear what value those employees who were let go brought. The software behind Spotify is pretty generic. Listening experience isn't much different between say Spotify,YouTube Music and Amazon Music. Software engineers might not want to hear it, but content is more important than software used to consume it. Book vs book's cover.
I often wonder what kind of work actually happens at Spotify. Pretty much every major change to the software or api since I started using it has made the product worse.

Breaking libspotify, pointless UI redesigns, obvious, user-facing bugs that go unfixed for years. Removing features like play queue for long periods. There's metadata errors and even audio corruption in some albums that I actually reported to them years ago, never fixed.

As for new features, there may be more but the only one I noticed somewhat recently was the ability to view lyrics at least for some songs, and sometimes but not always synced to the music. But this was already an add-on for Spotify wayyy back in their original client, and then they axed add-on support! This feature was gone for years after that.

I'm legitimately curious at this point what people actually do at Spotify besides billing and accounting.
I don't understand, with gcc -MM (to generate .d files), -include to include them, and VPATH for source file discovery, a typical small project makefile is about 1/2 page and requires very little maintenance.

More complicated project? Might shoot out to 2 pages. It'll still work in 20 years time too, the tools won't change under you (I'm looking at you, pretty much all other build systems)
Many of them probably came in during the same growth wave:

> In 2020 and 2021, we took advantage of the opportunity presented by lower-cost capital and invested significantly in team expansion, content enhancement, marketing, and new verticals

There's no details here about which teams are effected. I imagine there's many old hands who see this as the inevitable end of an unnecessary conquer-the-world attempt
Have a look at this video in Rails’ Turbo 8: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hKKycPLN-sk

In a nutshell: we had a 7 year old server side rendered page on our site that shows a chat between two users that was more like email. So you have to refresh to see new messages. We added 2 lines of code to the HTML(!!) and now the page is fully multiplayer so messages come in directly when the other user sends one and you see other things update as they are changed in the database, etc.

2 lines of fucking HTML.

Sure turbo is built in JavaScript, but I have to spend zero time writing any and I get all the benefits in a 7 year old server side rendered page.
Are “it was a stupid decision to buy him” and “I don't get why people listen to him” supposed to be related statements? The business decision isn’t about your personal feelings, it’s about his objectively measurably enormous audience
Didn't happen on mobile.
sure, but call a spade a spade instead of making the layoffs seem mandatory. there are inputs to financial goals - including executive greed.
It's been down for a while unfortunately.
Using Apple Music on a few Google devices now.
> One thing is to have layoffs when you are raking in record profits.

if the future prospects of the business doesn't look great despite the current record profits, a layoff is also not a bad decision. There's no reason why an employee is kept if that employee's work is not going to generate future profits. Current profits are already generated from past work of said employee.
You've had some awesome experiences. X-Files rules, and there's few things more satisfying than running a fan community like that. Running forums as a kid is also what got me into design and engineering, and greatly influenced my approach to networking and building relationships.

It sounds to me like you need to stop trying to conform to a market not optimized for your skill set, and instead start a company or consultancy which makes full use of it. Numerous possibilities come to mind based on the experiences you've listed, if you want to bounce around ideas drop me a line.
You will hear more about the new term "RIF" not - reduction in force.
Nobody likes to say we had layoffs, so corporate speak will be - we did a RIF ...blah blah.

It's terrible, because i love playing guitar, and they are screwing with the english language as normal people use it.
Hm, docs only mention node, can't it be used in Deno using the WASM?
IIRC he has a few thousand of these 6AU6 tubes that he got in bulk. So he has designed most of his tube applications around these tubes.

About why to use tubes? I don't know, entertainment purpuoses I guess. His ventures into computing using tubes entertain some at least[0].

[0](n=1)
Cool story, but FAA regs state that

Before advertising non-precision approaches, priority should be given
to available precision, then APV approaches.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/atc_html...

SFO prioritizes non-precision approaches because they're prioritizing throughput over safety. They got lucky with Air Canada, but at some point their luck will run out. The bigger issue here is that ATC gave the flight a 10 minute penalty instead of denying clearly communicating that they would not make an ILS approach available.

You can check the active NOTAMs here:

https://www.notams.faa.gov/dinsQueryWeb/

You can see that the ILS will be non-op on 5 December (and 6 December for 28L). If SFO is going to deny use of ILS they should clarify in the published approach procedures and/or in a NOTAM. As it is the ATC had no business trying to bully a pilot into doing something they're not comfortable with.
Spotify is not merely surviving. They have numerous monopolistic exclusive contracts and paid $200M for Joe Rogan's podcast. Be the judge on whether that's worth 1500 employees keeping their job
> I find their thinking generally pretty persuasive

Is it persuasive enough to have multiple implementations and multiple instances running? How many instances of blue sky are there running out there?
THIS is the lightest way to have continuous make, without wasting cycles and hammering the file system. inotifywait is a pretty standard tool that does exactly what's needed.

watch :
while true; do \
clear; $(MAKE) -j all tests; \
inotifywait -qre close_write src tests; \
done
Most popular NAS have built-in services for remote access that regular users can use.
OpenEVSE can be a codebase or a kit. If you want to source all your own parts, or maybe reuse significant parts of a non-open EVSE and just drop the processor into it or whatever, then it can be very cheap indeed. If you buy their branded kit, then full price applies.

When OpenEVSE was new, I built one on perfboard, actually a very compact modular stack of perfboards, one layer per subsystem. Handed it off to my software-savvy friend, and he couldn't get it to pass self-test, despite both of us agreeing that every piece of the circuit appeared correct as per the published schematic.

Eventually he gave up and ordered one of OpenEVSE's commercially-produced boards, and it failed self-test at the exact same place. Apparently there was some unclear documentation and it was supposed to fail there until something else was hooked up, I don't remember the details, but there was nothing wrong with my stack of perf in the first place. Argh.

All of which is to say, it's not hard at all to build one of these things. if you want to lobotomize your closed-crap EVSE and lash an open board to it, do so! I'm pretty sure the JuiceBox is OpenEVSE-based in the first place so it might be as simple as reflashing some firmware.
Machine Reasoning: The forgotten side of AI
Some years ago I was on a shitty job - not technically, but the company turned out to be inhumane - at a Ruby shop, and on the side I was toying with mini_racer and I just upgraded to some macOS beta where it failed to build. A shitty +1-1 hack† for a compiler flag later and it was back flying.

A month later I received a cold email from a CTO to chat a bit about that PR, turns out they were using mini_racer heavily and forked it for their own purpose, and also created PyMiniRacer for the Python side of things. Next thing I know I got hired. Two years later the company got acquired.

Of course conditionally adding a compiler flag wasn't what got me hired per se, it only got my profile noticed. Probably side projects such as porting go by example to Ruby by implementing a ~1:1 CSP channel API[1], an Electron desktop client for Mattermost basically on a dare[2], an anti-ORM "why do we keep referencing ever-changing models in migrations" Ruby SQL generator[3], ex mode for the Atom editor so that I could have that frackin' `:w`[4], leveraging Blocks to bolt on object-oriented-ness onto C because "closures are a poor man's object"[5], or reverse-engineering the Xbox One USB gamepad and writing a kext to turn it into a HID device on macOS from scratch on a lonely 7+h train ride with passengers judgementally staring at me sideways[6] probably contributed to it a bit.

My takeaway: luck is when preparation meets opportunity; but don't do side projects to get hired, because if you don't get hired then that time is lost. Rather, of all things, scratch your itch, be curious, have fun, embrace whatever quirkiness you fancy, be proud and put it out; no one can take that away from you.

[0]: https://github.com/rubyjs/mini_racer/commit/2086db1bbf2b5de4...

[1]: https://github.com/lloeki/normandy

[2]: https://github.com/lloeki/matterfront

[3]: https://github.com/lloeki/rebel

[4]: https://github.com/lloeki/ex-mode

[5]: https://github.com/lloeki/cblocks-clobj/blob/master/main.c#L...

[6]: https://github.com/lloeki/xbox_one_controller
Whether you think they're useful is one thing, but the point was that they're not in any formal sense forbidden by Google or Apple.
I mean to some degree it's true.

Most people on HN probably have the privilege to have grown up in a somewhat semi healthy society and now have reasonable decent jobs.

But compared to people which are semi forced to do stuff like working 24h shifts frequently or living in a area with so much noise pollution (and or danger or hunger (it's really hard to sleep if you haven't eaten anything for 30h and not much before that either)) that it's hard to sleep at all. Or which have to work 3 jobs sleeping only 4 hours a night it's really quite privileged.

A privilege which _should be the norm and not having it is inhuman_.

But if we consider that there are _many millions_ of people which do not have it calling it a privilege is sadly not absurd.
> Joe Rogan brings in 10s millions of listeners

Has this ever been confirmed by Spotify?
I imagine I don't know what "the Fediverse" is because I'd assume it to refer to a singular network (hence "the") but Mastodon is definitely not any kind of a single network.
Like others, I'm confused about how there's so much variation between countries on this one.

In the US, the calls and texts are a plague. If you've had a phone number for a few years you're probably getting multiple texts and calls a day, even if you are on the Do Not Call registry, from advertisers of every type and scammers alike. Lots of people have apps for blocking spam and they still get through.

In the Netherlands I'm also on a do not call registry, and I get nearly zero spam calls or texts. There is the occasional scammer SMS, and I get a spam call maybe once every 2-3 months, usually for nonprofit fundraising.

In developing countries you're spammed by both the telco and third party advertisers within minutes of activating a prepaid SIM card. The telco is almost certainly delivering the advertisements.

My guess is that the penalties and enforcement behind violating do-not-call registry in the Netherlands (EU?) are just much stronger than in the US. It still does not explain the lack of low-quality spam / scam messages from people who are unlikely to be dissuaded by regulation.

The only thing I can think of is that there is better authentication for accessing the Dutch telephone network (and better incentives for the telcos) which allow the providers to prevent or shut down spam numbers quickly.
The word "Please" in the prompt.