skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best advice is probably to learn as much as you can from different sources but also keep a pragmatic point of view that helps to select the things that apply to your situation. Very often, new leaders follow a recipe without paying attention to the organization's problems. (check the book “The First 90 Days” by Watkins; it may give you ideas to organize your initial approach).

As someone who went from engineering to product design, I observe that CTOs without a product vision are challenging to work with. For example, at a previous company, a CTO tried to implement the hard rule that every UI component should be in the shared UI library. But, even when I was leading the design system, that rule didn’t match how a product design process works. It caused delivery slowdowns and a degradation of the UX. I can bring up other examples, and the typical pattern is a leader looking at only one aspect or two without balance. Try to go beyond engineering and learn more about business and product design, which will help you prioritize engineering decisions. Some product-related books: Inspired by Cagan and Well-Designed by Kolko.
Beyond engineering and product, as a C-level executive or director, people and hiring will be your primary concern. There are many management books, and I don’t have any particular to recommend (all of them will provide tools, but none is perfect: The Advantage and The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Lencioni, The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim). I also enjoy taking ideas from biographical stories like Creativity Inc. by Ed Camull or Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda.
Finally, a book I found funny and cynical but depicts big corps very well is “Management Stripped Bare” by Jo Owen.
Imagine launching a campaign aimed at reducing brand dominance.

My n=1 experience is that when shopping for "hook and loop" strips online, I make sure that they are actual Velcro.

Beyond useless, I think that the attempt is misguided.
I want to say this as kindly as possible, but if you wonder why consumers desire new content then I'd have to wonder how varied is your film and TV taste.

Times change, genres evolve and twist and become something new. Spaghetti Westerns blew up and had a mass craze, then died off. Weird westerns gained momentum and survived to this day. Film depictions of what the future looks like will be vastly different in the 60s/70s versus how it is today. Modern shows like Andor show that aspect of retrofuturism mixed with modern designs. Animation was mostly restricted to childrens work in comparison to today where you have things like Scavanger's Reign.

This is without talking about the change in attitudes towards various minority groups.
Must be something Googlers themselves use?
> it rubs me the wrong way when I buy a used car and lose the warranty by doing so.

That is because the warranty grantor chose to write that into the warranty, is it not? Or do you see someone else being the cause?
Aloe vera plants turned into energy-storing supercapacitors
It is the Cadillac of search engines, after all-- a real doozy.
I was under the impression that this was the whole purpose of waze, to find out-of-the-box routes as an alternative to traditional navigation apps that don't do that kind of thing.
What a strange statement, what else should laws put first if not society and economy (economic prosperity)?!?!
Need a Home for 80k Puzzles? Try an Italian Castle
Introduces software for subscribing to blogs on different systems.
We Need a Moonshot for Computing
yes, a cheeky CYA
No problem in France - the generic term for Velcro here is 'scratch'.
Wow...I feel weird.

A lot of the comments are saying that they tried Gentoo or used to use it.

And here I am, using it as my daily driver and server workhorse.

I wonder what makes me different such that Gentoo is the best for me.

And I am not going to enable binary packages.
Fable Studio open sources SAGA AI agent simulation framework
Yeah, after some quick looking into this, cost seems to be the reason why. And ultimately their decision to purchase an external solution seemed to have paid off handsomely.
Very surprising. Does Korean culture generally welcome foreigners? Can anyone living in Korea comment on this?
I got my Dreame because it had good Valetudo support. But when it arrived i did a doubletake and saw destructive hardware mods were involved I decided to not mod yet. I never set the thing up with a Chinese account, never told it about my WiFi, and everything works fine. Just use the buttons on the device.
Even if content IS king, the conglomerates have risk-aversely optimized on churning out bad but expensive content. The proliferation of sequel/prequel/spinoff/reboot/riff content on top of marquee brands has been overkill. It's like the late 90s move to "reality TV" except without the cost controls.
Been on Google Voice as my primary number for about 7 years. Mostly smooth sailing. I spend a few months a year out of the US and it makes it seamless. I also switched between cell carriers as I find deals or need different service and have never bothered with the number porting.

Guess it’s time to think about a new place to get a US number that works internationally for 2-factor sms. Any suggestions?
> the Korean stuff is pretty high quality

It's part of their Asia pivot. Netflix invests in fairly high quality Asian TV to try and compete for market share within Asia.

Amazon Prime is doing a similar pivot (fairly successfully I might add) in India.

Disney has dropped out of the Asian market because they just couldn't compete Asian competitors or Amazon+Netflix.
Instant Reaction (to title): Nothing...yet.
> Nobody's going to move (back?) to "hook-and-loop," especially when the alternative rolls off the tongue a lot better.

Cynically, I wonder if they intentionally chose an alternative that they know is a dud. They clearly do benefit from people calling it Velcro, they just can’t have a trademark judge thinking that they want people to call it Velcro.

In any case, the video is quite fun and well done. If you take it as a marketing campaign without putting too much weight on the legal strategy, it’s smart and well-executed on their part.
I’d imagine mostly because, at least with some jobs, a dead parrot could be successful because the success was tied to other things (luck, founder connections, a few great sales/devs, etc).
We should not allow distribution of media and software to be a cornerstone of society.

If we passed some regulation to force it to be leased to wanting distributors at equal cost we could kill exclusivity and the middle man margins and just get on with it with a nice, basically free option like SFlix.
> The majority of people who buy streaming, I suspect, are interested mainly in the conveyor belt of diverse and engaging content.

I'd love to see this backed up by sources. I for one recall seeing streaming stats from Disney+ and old series like X Files are up there as some of the most streamed.

Anecdotally, I watch and rewatch a lot of old series. Like I'm rewatching Breaking Bad on Netflix right now.
Sad that it came this far from Edward Durrell Stone designing PINSTECH
Corporations don't have hands to wring either. I don't love Disney, either IP or their agenda but they didn't wring it. Factually.

They bought an IP to add onto it. If any company wringed anything it was Google buying Motorola for patents and then spitting out the bones to resell.
Peter Norvig's programming course from 10 years ago.
It says there "no experience required", but it's intermediate-advanced actually.

https://www.udacity.com/course/design-of-computer-programs--...
Free to watch, relegation, midweek: how new football Super League would work
Always a good time to share this: https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000002847155/verbat...
One of my favorite ones is that the entire idea that any ancient population ever believed that the Earth is flat seems to come from a semi-fictional biography of Columbus from the 18th century.

Somehow people just read an interesting book and decided that their great-grandparents all believed on that stupid thing.
Klettverschluss in germany.

Klett comes from Arctium a plant with similar features (I guess) and verschluss is like the english term fastener or clasp.
Ehhh no not what I meant. Scrabble is far from trivial even if you have a solver that shows all possible word combinations with your hand.
Always have a soft spot for Gentoo. The first distro I ever used was RH 6.1, but Gentoo helped me actually learn how the system works (e.g., partitioning, the FS layout, how a bootloader works, what an init system is, etc.)
I manage files on my iPad (and iPhone) with Files and iCloud Drive. It’s been around for a while! The problem is that many apps are still stuck in 2015. But for apps that support it, using the Files file picker is no different than using the Mac file picker and Finder. You open files, you save them, they sync. Some apps do default to their own folder in iCloud Drive, but that folder can be accessed by any other app and is also available on the desktop.

Sadly third-party support for Files plugins is not what it should be (Google Drive is so incomplete I don’t know why they even bother). The major cloud services want you using their apps, I guess.

But Secure Shellfish does it perfectly so my Windows media server is available as a “file system” on my iPhone and iPad via SFTP.
I'm currently reading about how folks who produced & performed 14th century plays supported themselves. So much that govs took in a healthy amount of taxes.
> And here I am, using it as my daily driver and server workhorse. I wonder what makes me different such that Gentoo is the best for me.

Persistence like a Saint? Hard to say. I've been using it for 20 years too.
> Breakthrough Listen at UC Berkeley

This is an announcement for a new partnership with an organization called "Breakthrough Listen". There have been no new discoveries. There is no breakthrough. There is nothing new to see or hear here.

Title seems deliberately deceptive to make people think SETI has had a breakthrough listening event. Fuck whoever made this title with a bent, rusty fork.
Yes, which I never understood. A plot with infinite potential (re: seasons) and Starz kills it.

They seem to only want to produce the "Power" series with regularity at this point, and really low effort soft core adult TV series
Banquio Dam Failure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

150K people died (some estimates go to 250K)
4.6 million people displaced
11 million homes destroyed

How many countries got out of Hydro as a result?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure#List_of_major_dam_...

Bhopal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

Death toll: at least 5K, other figures say up to 16K
Over half a million injured

How many countries shuttered their chemical industries as a result?
We can’t wait 30 years. So we build for now
Can anyone suggest a blog/book on how you manage cross communication across teams regarding evolving software interfaces? Change management foe Domain Driven Development? The way to minimise cognitive load is to have established amd clearly documented processes usually
It is an interesting page because

* on the face of it, they are reminding people to not use their brand in a generic sense

* they also loaded it up with cutesy language. Maybe it is the most “meme-able” stuff legal would approve. “Don’t talk about me” is the best way to get talked about.
Sure, https://i.imgur.com/drvwqhj.png

The displays are connected to a workstation. I use barrier between the systems (except the right hand locked down one).

Like anything else it's a constant work in progress, but I'm fairly happy with it.
I have had a plant-based cheese company for a while. Yes, adding casein (I think you mean casein, not lactose) to soy milk woulnd't be vegan. There are companies that try to create vegan casein with precision fermentation, but to my knowledge, none of them are doing it at scale (i.e. I wouldn't know where to buy such a vegan cheese).

Most cheese is not made with acid but with enzyme called rennet, which is typically found in stomachs of cow's for example. Now, there is synthetic rennet which is used in the cheese industry widely, which is vegan. However, rennet doens't work with plant-based milks. We've done a lot of experiments to find a replacement enzyme for rennet that would coagulate soy milk with a similar result as animal-based cheese, but didn't get any great results.

The cheeses made with acid are usually softer (e.g. ricotta). For a while we manufactured and sold a plant-based cheese made with soy milk that was very similar to ricotta. Not bad, but a far cry from the animal-based version.

I still think it's possible to find a way to make plant-based cheese without needing to synthetically create vegan casein. As other commenters have mentioned, many of the vegan cheeses currently available are based on either coconut oil, cashew, or almonds (or a mix of these). For some use cases, this works suprisingly well (e.g. if you live in Germany, get the vegan Feta from Edeka's own brand. It's the fucking best). But then again for some use cases, they don't (e.g. the melting behavior is usually not very good). I think they've gotten a lot better in the past 5 years and I don't miss animal-based cheese anymore as a vegan. I also think there's a local maximum here with these coconut oil, almond and cashew based cheeses though.

Edit: Confused lactose with casein, updated to reflect that
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/15... (from wikipedia sources)

> plaintiffs have failed to present sufficient evidence in this case to support a jury finding that the relevant public primarily understands the word "google" as a generic name for internet search engines and not as a mark identifying the Google search engine in particular.

I wonder what kind of evidence might actually be used. My lived experience has me telling people that I googled something despite my default search engine being DDG on all of my devices. One can’t really present the myriad spoken conversations which include this use as evidence in court, so what would they do?

Slightly aside: the “correct” examples that are given are always amusing but there’s something about Adobe’s double copyright symbol that hits me harder. That is too funny, not least because they’re 100% serious-face about it.
Three. They do a 14 day trial of a 5G router for 'home broadband'. I suggest grabbing the trial and testing with their router because it has some crazy antennas in that seems to get better performance than phones can with the same sim and location. Remember to send it back if you don't want it cos otherwise you're locked in to paying for the whole contract.
If you like passionate writing about chinese food, I highly recommend Fuchsia Dunlop’s new book, Invitation to A Banquet, which goes over chinese food in remarkable detail. Each chapter is devoted to a single dish or technique and it really goes in depth.
I like the optimism. You still have time! There's so many hours left in 2023 to get into trouble :)
A bubble somewhat like this:

https://imgur.com/a/6LElAHb

Some already exist but the bubbles are too small:

https://www.roadracingworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/T...
I find the Express 5 situation hilariously wonderful.

It’s basically done. Any other project would’ve slapped a major release on it and fixed any issues that came up in a patch. Everyone who is using it says it works great.

But the maintainer won’t release it because they don’t feel it’s gotten enough testing. So they’re just waiting. And no one really cares because Express 4 is great and works fine.

It’s a beautiful example of mature software development.
I wasn't aware that Waze was "alternative" vs "traditional", nor do I know the difference. I suspect that almost no one does, if the categories exist.

I am specifically responding to a post that details that Google Maps reroutes. What is the difference between an "out of the box" reroute and a regular one? Danger?
OpenPhone is really nice. Definitely built for more business use case but it’s a very complete and well-built solution.
Compare with "Prosecco" recently starting an advertising campaign on the London Underground[0] telling people to stop calling whatever generic, non-region protected sparkling wine they're drinking "Prosecco" because Prosecco is DOC protected.

Seems to me (despite the almost certainly valid legal points in the comments here) that the Velcro one is a bit tongue-in-cheek whereas I was slightly taken aback at how direct and earnest the Prosecco one seemed.

Net result will be the same though, I suspect.

[0] https://euroweeklynews.com/2023/12/26/italy-warns-britons-to...
This is utter bullshit. It probably used obsolete cost numbers and assumed batteries are the only storage mode used.
Should start a gold standard salary, a possible substitute to Roman era
Vegans need to worry about this, because most don't want to eat piles of beans with every meal. I love beans, but I love other foods too!
Pro-tip: I work very hard to help make generic the trademarks of corporations I think are evil (and vice-versa for ones I like).

It's a free, cheap, and easy way to fight back.

To the great annoyance of many, I even usually google for things with DuckDuckGo. :)
Does this apply to cars/appliances/medical equipment/any other tools?

I don’t see anything wrong with people excelling at some tasks, such as CAD/medicine/construction/editing media/law/etc, and not excelling at understanding all the details about how their tools work.
One of my favorite TV shows to watch on archive.org. Things were so much simpler back then.
Ask HN: Why does OpenAI use a search bot?
I saw in the logs of my blog that there was two access by an "https://openai.com/bot".

It certainly does not bother me, in the same time frame Google came 449 times which I find a great way to waste resources.

But what does OpenAI do with a search engine?
Violife is my least favorite brand haha. In Germany, I prefer Simply V (both for melted and not melted) and Edeka's vegan feta cheese, which is absolutely bonkers good (always need to double check if it really is vegan).
ding ding ding.
Hang on. How would there even be big corporations to hurt small and medium-sized creators, without copyright?
Username checks out, haha.
For less powerful devices it has always been possible to install Gentoo in a chroot directory on a powerful computer, using a configuration appropriate for the less powerful device, compile and install in the chroot environment any packages, and then just copy all the files from the chroot directory, through Ethernet or using a USB memory, over the root HDD/SSD of the less powerful device.

I have used Gentoo in this way on many small computers with various kinds of Atom CPUs and with a small DRAM memory and small and slow SSD/HDD.

With multiple computers of a compatible kind, the files from such a chrooted installation compiled on a powerful computer can be copied over all of them and everything will work fine. If the chrooted installation is preserved, it can be updated later with other software packages and all the changes can be propagated with rsync on all other computers.

Linux is not like Windows, which will complain when run on a different computer than that on which it was installed initially.
My kids kind of enjoy older films where, for example, a person is on a land-line telephone and someone in another room picks up the receiver of a phone on the same line to listen in. They had no idea.

It's educational, historic.
> seems to allay the complaint of taking local jobs and consuming local social services

The fact that the visa doesn't allow application to local jobs is enough to stop the first complaint on its tracks.

I wonder how they intend to deal with the seemingly inevitable rise in housing prices that comes with an influx of high earners.
Nobody has a moral right to be reimbursed for the costs they incurred to produce an original work. If they produce it under a contract then they have a contractual right to be paid as stipulated in the contract.
Been using this extension for a while but it can be noisy on some webapps
Because it's an afterthought.

Netflix added KDramas in order to help it pivot into the Asian market. Most viewers will be watching the shows via subtitles.
I like anveo.com, it's $2/month if you use the "free" plan and a $2/month US number. The UI is kind of dated, but the US phone number accepts incoming SMS, and they offer a drag/drop IVR type interface where you can route calls in most any way you want. Also includes in/out faxes, not that it comes up much, but when it does, it's nice to be able to do.

Note the other responses regarding some places requiring a "real" mobile number for SMS verification. Anveo's numbers won't work for this kind of thing. Similar to how Google Voice numbers don't work for it either.
The inconvenient truth is that the business exists not to provide engineers with work they’re happy with or proud of but to make investors money. The good news is developer happiness is associated with increased productivity and reduced attrition which usually factors into the business calculus in a much bigger way.
Why wouldn't you be able to implement this in Rust or Python?

Seems like typical exception handling. Erlang isn't even type checked
A viral waitlist micro SaaS
I built a waitlist micro SaaS in 3 weeks. More features to come.
It is interesting, though, that you can easily get intermediate training and coaching in basically any sport. But the thing you do for money? Take this very ad-hoc approach.
In this regard, has anyone tried codecrafters.io? Is it worth it?
Of course nothing is black and white, but if you have limited time/money then you want to get to ramen profitability fast and you simply don’t have time for business model canvases, the perfect employee option scheme, a scalable k8s setup or a perfect CI/CD pipeline.

There’s so much stuff that feels important and valuable, but so little of it really cannot wait until after your wheels are off the ground.

When you read postmortems of startups that didn't get enough customers, often it’s this stuff that actually went wrong. Too much time spent on other stuff than “build something” and “that people want”.

To my experience, it’s difficult to resist all that good advice that’s all over the internet, books, accelerator programs and the like, and saving it all for later. People will tell you “you should get $PETPEEVE right from the start” for every imaginable pet peeve (all the way from legal stuff to unit tests to SEO) and they’ll be very convincing. Trying to resist this is not reductionist, it’s super hard.
Use subtitles?
Show HN: Mewz: A unikenrel specialized for running WASM
Mewz is a unikernel designed specifically for running Wasm applications and compatible with WASI.
Mewz runs a single Wasm application within the kernel by linking it together during the build process with the Wasm application. (A kernel configured in this manner is commonly referred to as a unikernel.) In this way, Mewz provides the minimal required features and environment for executing Wasm.
It's a reference to this :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushism#Education

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ej7ZEnjSeA
> I’m also building a team to import and sell these ingredients to western supermarkets

Why? American farmers are great at growing soybeans. They even grow varieties that are exported to Asia specifically for making tofu.

There's an old story about when Honda first set up factories in Ohio, they still shipped the engines from Japan. After a while they got tired of returning the containers back empty, and went in search of something they could fill them with. In the end, they hired local farmers to grow specific soybeans that were desired in Japan - every engine crate from then on returned to Japan with those beans inside.
Bore yourself to death
Wanted to put at least a couple of decent projects on my resume. People say that they don't matter but since I wasn't getting a lot of traction, I thought it would be a good idea. After a lot of procrastination and half-tried ideas, I still have nothing worth sharing.