skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do I conduct Market Validation better?
I have a game-tech start-up YAY!

Its called SLASHPLAY.GG
We have been going for 2 years.
Our mentors kept telling us that we needed to Validate our product but now 2 years later, while we build a really cool thing, we still don't have that many users, and our Validation efforts could perhaps have been better.

Now im conducting a new Idea Validation by joining platforms around the web where users might have our audience. (Facebook groups, Reddit etc) and posting about my story and putting a link up to the Questioner I want them to fill out... But is that really the way to go?
I have now had 9 people fill out the questioner, and my mind is telling me I need at least 100 or maybe more...

How do I increase the number of people who fill out the questioner?

Ey, and if you are a online gamer yourself - Help a fellow Entrepreneur out, maybe check out my questioner: https://forms.gle/HcCwXg5FNSoFujCT9
Because those all exist already, and this is cool?
Yea that archive service is very often infected by some sort of malware on their individual servers
>They couldn't be more precise than that because each team and project has their own set of constraints and capabilities that determines how they achieve the Agile goals.

Part of the reason I think we need this is to be able to categorically rule "agility" given the constraints a team is under. We need a framework that can say with crystal clarity that if you force waterfall planning on a team, they won't be agile no matter how good their coach is.

This needs to be a simple yes/no framework - something that could easily be answered with a questionnaire with objective answers to questions that can't be bullshitted. "Does your company do X, Y and Z?" "Ok, you've rejected agility".

This could include things like "will you rule out measuring productivity?" (Y/N) or "will you expect detailed plans from your team on the features they plan to build with milestones?" (Y/N). "Will the team have unfiltered access to the customer?" (Y/N). These questions need to be the awkward kinds of questions that managers who want waterfall in agile's clothing will have to answer wrongly.

>I think the only problem is that the authors took for granted that everyone understands that it takes an actual empirical process

The authors never even mentioned the word empirical. When I said that the vagueness of the agile principles let people project their own desires onto what "agile" is, this is exactly the kind of thing I meant.

I think empiricism is quite possibly something that ought to be included in an "agile v2.0" though. For me agility does mean doing a series of small experiments on lots of different things and keeping/expanding on the things which work and dropping the things which don't. However, that's something I picked up by myself. The principles didn't teach me to do that.
> And doesn't this same logic flow through to personalisation of generative entertainment AI (e.g. my own personal, never-ending TV show where each episode is better than the last)?

I'm not sure I'm following the leap from convincing sentences to convincing video entertainment yet – but maybe we will end up there at some point, I guess?

Infinite Jest (the 90s book) really was onto something with its McGuffin plot device:

> These narratives are connected via a film, Infinite Jest, also called "the Entertainment" or "the samizdat". The film is so compelling that its viewers lose all interest in anything other than repeatedly viewing it, and thus eventually die.

(Wikipedia)

Some people might find references to this novel tiresome and don't think much of its author (RIP), but I still love it. It was one of the most immersive reads I've ever enjoyed.

I'm glad to have read it when I was young (at the time it was just translated into German and kind of hyped because of DFWs death).

Have never read anything like it since, and some passages grabbed me emotionally in a way that remembering the read feels like remembering an episode of my own life.

Surely today I'd lack the patience and even by then I remember almost skipping one passage of the book that bored the hell out of me (Eschaton ball/war game, differential equations, something something...)

But the rest of the book, the parts about substance addiction as well as consumerism, and the intangible atmosphere of the book, the characters, the vivid description of modern emotional pain and loneliness... it is really something else.

Although said movie is only a plot device in the novel, it also sums up the core topics of the book in a neat idea / thought experiment.

The whole complex of themes in this book seems very prophetic and apt looking at our modern society.

A society that seems to be centered around addiction and greed more than ever before, and where politics begin feeling surreal, absurd, and more connected to media than to actual life.
Some humans could use a better life with no wars, constant rise of basic life costs or feeling that they are just a tool. This subsystem regulates relationships in a group, it wasn’t invented for funny yelling at each other.
We're people really told before, or did everyone simply find out because they were all in the office together?

I know when I worked in a big company 20 years ago I would have no idea who was let go in another office.
And the WP is happily taking part in this campaign. Pecunia non olet.
Slight nit-pick, but I would pick up the author on the text vs varchar section.

The author effectively wastes many words trying to prove a non-existent performance difference and then concludes "there is not much performance difference between the two types".

This horse bolted a long time ago. Its not "not much", its "none".

The Postgres Wiki[1] explicitly tells you to use text unless you have a very good reason not to. And indeed the docs themselves[2] tell us that "For many purposes, character varying acts as though it were a domain over text" and further down in the docs in the green Tip box, "There is no performance difference among these three types".

Therefore Gitlab's use of (mostly) text would indicate that they have RTFM and that they have designed their schema for their choice of database (Postgres) instead of attempting to implement some stupid "portable" schema.

[1] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This#Don.27t_use...
[2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-character.h...
Me personally? I'm basically terminals everywhere. Whether it's work or play. Office, living room, bedroom, bathroom, on the train, at a bar, you name it. 2pm or 2am, I want a terminal and a browser. You better believe I'm not going to be in light mode and sitting under a sun lamp all the time.

Edit: ok I do use apps other than a terminal and a browser on occasion. An ebook reader for instance. A great example. If I'm reading a book in bed before I sleep I'm going to do it in dark mode. Don't want the extra lumens before bed.
Yeah, if you told me I had 5 seconds to pop up the keyboard on my Apple Watch, I would probably lose. Maybe I'd try to go through my GF's button to her profile and then to messages? Where else can I get a text input really fast?
Berkeley is decent in this regard compared to the rest of the Bay Area, in part because a large fraction of the population does not own cars.
If the download includes a patched version of the game, the users may be better off since they'll need to download the (likely gigantic) patch anyway.

But indeed it would be nice if the console asked first.
Among many other projects I touched, we had a database engine which planned to move to io_uring as soon as it could be made available (it wasn't distributed outside company, so it was a question of internal infrastructure)

PREEMPT_RT also includes a lot of possible low-latency work.

io_uring also provides ridiculous performance benefits for normal server code, too.
So Bush is to blame for the war on terror AND for failing to regulate Microsoft? Wow, just when I thought that being a war criminal was enough of a reason to be hated, now comes the cherry on top.
Higher for Longer Inflation Rates Not over Until the Fat Lady Sings?
Maybe? I would argue that for most people the routine is the most important thing.
Signal, Spotify...

Find an average (non tech) IOS user, and try to get them to switch to these apps.

Im guessing that there is a large intersection of "apple users" who also take their cars back to the dealership for oil changes and service. It's not stupidity, it's about creating an air of trust. Apple goes out of its way to keep customers trust (as do car dealers to an extent) because the money is in keeping a customer.

As an aside, the source of this complaint being Spotify is interesting. I would love to know from artist who pays better between the two (because I dont think its spottify)
What’s strange is that this wasn’t a rule imposed just against Apple’s competitors. This rule applies to all apps on the store. The idea that they feel justified in imposing a fine specific to the music streaming apps seems like they’re hiding the ball a bit.
Poor people take public transit at a much higher percentage than well-off people. Making public transit more accessible would be a net win.
There must be people sitting at Apple HQ whose task it is to come up with ways to screw their customers. I love it.
I’ve always been vocal against web apps and pro native apps.

Actions like this and also the direction Apple is taking with SwiftUI actually makes me interested in web apps again.
Really? You don't think a human teacher is better than education-by-software?

I think (given the context of 1995 when we still had land-line modems, etc.) he nailed it.
So you mean that Apple is not doing things for the Greater Good and is actually a company that tend to build gold prisons around their customers to prevent to get as much money they can from them ?

Nahhh, I don't buy that.

- Sent from my iPhone
Yes.

But sometimes it means that what you have is software that can't run on recent enough kernel to have io_uring (^_^;;)
I think the EU has really hit the jackpot with Apple, Google, and the like. It's not that these big players don't deserve a slap on the wrist; it's more about how long the EU waited to act and the deafening silence before now.

Remember the Microsoft antitrust drama in 2001? [1] That saga said more about the political games than anything to do with Microsoft breaking the rules. It feels like today's crackdowns on the tech giants are more about putting on a show than enforcing the law fairly.

I'm just hoping the EU doesn't decide we need another annoying pop-up or something. We've got enough of those already.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
Well there's this https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3532027

"""
Notably, intensively-developed properties decrease in value relative to similar dwellings that were not upzoned, showing that the large-scale upzoning had an immediate depreciative effect on pre-existing intensive housing.
"""

Or this
https://research.upjohn.org/up_workingpapers/307/

"""
. Next, I combine the address histories with a simulation model to estimate that building 100 new market-rate units leads 45-70 and 17-39 people to move out of below-median and bottom-quintile income tracts, respectively, with almost all of the effect occurring within five years. This suggests that new construction reduces demand and loosens the housing market in low- and middle-income areas, even in the short run.
"""
To give some random examples
Just to make a supporting argument to this...

I introduced my son to neal.fun this morning and he asked "can you make this easier for me to get to?" and I was like, "sure, there's some way to pin it to the home screen."

I know this feature exists and I've even written code to support this feature ... yet I spent nearly 5 minutes looking for the button. Hiding it in the share sheet is downright stupid.
> “The App Store has helped Spotify become the top music streaming service across Europe and we hope the European Commission will end its pursuit of a complaint that has no merit.”

Meanwhile, millions of developers helped the App Store become the top app store across the globe.
Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Tim?
If for you the definition of "understanding" is "something that only humans can do" then your statement about AI is totally pointless: of course AI doesn't "understand", but at the same time it might do something that is perfectly equivalent and that "only machines can do".
Are delta patches still viable given the current sizes of games? I'm not sure if this is the state of the art, but according to https://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/, bspatch would require more memory than most systems can offer.
Usually, I would not engage with this kind of conspiracy theory like comments but I think that this particular case has some merit.

We are solid in a gray zone where we have to decide where are priorities are. Fair market vs tech dominance in US is a great example. Another one is carbon neutrality vs strong industry in EU. I’m sure there are so many others.

It is just important to keep that in mind when building your business because we can easily slide from one side of this gray zone to the other.
Why is everything based on likelihoods even though likelihoods are so small?
Also trying to figure this out for using it with vite! Added a question here: https://github.com/observablehq/framework/discussions/855
Says more about you
They uploaded 3 sample files for the authors, there were more failures than that, and the failures that GP and others have experienced are of a less tolerable nature. This is the point I was making, that the value added by classifying files with no rigid structure is offset heavily by its unpredictable shortcomings and difficult-to-detect failure modes.

If you have a point of your own to make I'd prefer you jump to it. Nitpicking baseless assumptions like how many files the evil GP had to sift through in order to breathlessly bring us 3 bad eggs is not something I find worthwhile.
On par with the recent news of Air Canada hiring a hallucinating chatbot for customer support. Fun times ahead.
That last line was kind of the summary or distillation of the entire article.
Canadian government has cut funding and forest management services, which leads to these fires, which the government blames on global warming and climate change.

But the government has stopped managing the forests, and is not putting forth the required effort to deal with the fires or the root issues.

Unfortunately this is a problem that the government appears reluctant to deal with because it feeds their ideological agenda of climate change.

Unfortunately as a Canadian, I can't trust the Canadian government as they maintain they are leaders in this sector, yet failing (on purpose imo) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/world/canada/canada-firef...
Interestingly, the story fails to load on Chrome 121, actually removing DOM nodes with the story...

Worked fine in Firefox though.
I made custom glass tokens [0] for Lord of the Rings card game and I’ll never play a premium game with plain cardboard again.

I used a guide from Board Game Geek to make the glass token [1]

Using jewelers resin to upgrade cardboard tokens is another option: https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/s/xwPU4jmUcS

[0]glass tokens: https://ibb.co/X5gJ604

[1] glass tokens guide: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2087285/diy-glass-tokens-qu...
You should give it a try. There are quality lists, and even a hand picked annual list: https://risingstars.js.org/2023/en

It is not only based on popularity.
Use a VPN to set up an account. Then you can use EU wide without a VPN. Doesn't require US credit card. You're welcome :)
Detock: High Performance Multi-Region Transactions at Scale
In my experience, Dark UX is often a symptom of a myopic, revenue-focused product team. Tricking users with dark UX patterns will almost always have a more profoundly negative effect on the company’s revenue in the long term than whatever the incremental, short term gain may be. I work for a DTC company as a FE engineer and I’m frequently having to try convince product people that implementing & maintaining dark UX patterns erodes our users’ trust in us and puts more of a burden on our customer experience team.

Dissecting the event handling of Feedly’s UI isn’t revealing the crux of the issue here. Engineers (in my experience) want to build things that provide a respectful user experience, things that they themselves would not be frustrated using. I absolutely despise seeing these types of dark patterns in the wild. I would be surprised if an engineer suggested this Feedly feature. But maybe I’m more sensitive to Dark UX than most and as a result have a more aggressive hatred for it in my work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I wish such an overview also existed for Go. Yes I could do it but I’m lazy.
You think it’s weird that these types of people want to force others to be reliant on the state? That individual liberties are cast aside to empower the state even more?
Microsoft had an almost complete monopoly of the operating system on personal computers market back then.

Apple doesn't even have 50% share in Europe.
I don’t know about milk cow. This is peanuts in the whole EU budget.

I think that EU needs to keep a strong position to be compelling for many people. Therwise many might start to see it as an irrelevant institution.
It always leaves a sour taste hearing him say that. While he is undoubtedly 100% right, we all know he's not saying it because he cares about a free market. He only cares because it's eating up his share of the profit. Why can't we have other people at the forefront of this than billionaires?
There have been stories that Apple pays near the top of any streamers. How much of that gets to an artist remains a question.
> This includes checking your name, address, and age.

But effectively they could still do that at the point of use if they wanted to!

Recall, before ID was mandated, you would turn up and state your name and address which would be checked against the electoral roll by the officer.

Therefore ...

If someone 18–59 turns up with a photo Oyster card, you could, if you wanted to:

1. Check their face against the photo on the card
2. Check their name and date of birth on the card against the name and date of birth on the electoral roll.
It's a prestigious job, after they invented the green bubble they've seen metoric rise in the fruit.
I now live in the Netherlands but spent some time in SF, and the problem really is just horrifically bad public transport options over there.

Sure, the US is a bit different in that getting to other cities is more difficult without a car, that's definitely true. However within the city itself? My building has dedicated parking spaces for the residents - as in you can't even get into the garage if you don't have a keyfob that opens the garage doors - and of the neighbours I'm acquainted with, people avoid taking their cars as much as possible. And this isn't due to congestion or whatever, cycling or taking a train/bus/metro is just cheaper & more convenient if we're talking within the Netherlands.

My favorite anecdote about a country getting rid of car infrastructure is actually in the city I live in now, Utrecht, where they replaced a highway with a canal [1], and right now Amsterdam has an initiative to bring the number of cars down drastically. They're getting rid of parking spaces in favor of better, human-friendly spaces, small gardens and things of that variety. There's similar initiatives across the whole country, and they've all worked out pretty amazingly in terms of QoL for people.

The US has a planning issue where life is unlivable unless you drive everywhere, but there's no reason for major cities like SF to have this issue if the people in charge really gave a shit. Having good public transportation is an easily attainable goal for cities with so many resources, yet it keeps getting fucked over by car-centric infrastructure.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/14/utrecht-restor...
The first third of that is what one would say in response to a sneeze

I have no idea what to make of this
Site is paywalled so I couldn’t check what they’re fined about, but https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/index/fines_en probably applies. It certainly is in line with what I think happens with EU fines.

It says:

“Fines imposed on undertakings found in breach of EU antitrust rules are paid into the general EU budget. This money is not earmarked for particular expenses, but Member States' contributions to the EU budget for the following year are reduced accordingly. The fines therefore help to finance the EU and reduce the burden for taxpayers.”
Why now and not years before? As web users, daily, we see all kind of blatant abuses that EU (and USA...) don't see.

BTW, the EU has been quasi irrelevant in realpolitik terms.
Do you have any sources for layoffs "due to AI/LLM advances" other than layoffs-in-one-sector-to-replace-with-AI-experts which I can find plenty of, but which are not really due to efficiency improvements?
Well yes, but those things are external and would be part of the context as it were.


system

You are satisfied with your life. Wars and life costs do not bother you. You are loved and a valued member of society.


If only it were that simple for us.
> It's an associative store with soft edges that pulls out compressed cat representations when given the noun "cat".

And how do you know that this is not what "understanding" is? To me, understanding the concept of a cat is exactly to immediately recall (or have ready) all the associations, the possibilities, the consequences of the "cat" concept. If you can make up correct sentences about cats and conduct a reasonable conversation about cats, it means that you understand cats.
This is all because redlining was prohibited...
I think you just got unlucky. It's a mixed bag with "waterproof" phones, but [flagship] smartwatches should be pretty solid. My GF and I both had Galaxy Active watches, now we have Apple watches, we go swimming and kayaking with them, zero issues.
I don't think any of the DST complaints are legitimate.

If doing work involved with timestamps, not keeping everything in GMT is questionable. GMT is the UTF-8 of timestamps: the low common-denominator rules.

The datetime library is mechanism. DST is policy. Policy is wildly variable and your system library would be unmaintainable if it had to chase policy. Just say no.