skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. It's become almost trite at this point to note that "all models are wrong; some models are useful," but it's true and the MVP is one of the better ones. The difficulty is the same one Agile has - the model has become more useful as an excuse to avoid rigor than as a way to get better outcomes or understand the world.

If you say you're "doing agile," you don't have to put the effort into writing rigorous requirements. If you say you're "doing an MVP," you don't have to put in the effort into building a rigorously-engineered product. Neither model is supposed to be about being lazy. They're supposed to be about making trade-offs between different kinds of rigor.

Agile is supposed to unlock the ability to truly re-plan after each sprint and make very different decisions about your product direction. It's only a positive tradeoff if you are being rigorous about looking at your results, generating alternative paths, and assessing them. Otherwise you just end up with no documentation and a shitty architecture.

MVPs are supposed to be prototypes that reveal the answer about a specific hypothesis that is critical to your strategy. It's only a positive tradeoff if you are rigorous about what knowledge you don't have about your customers and technology, and build exactly the thing that will answer the question. Otherwise you just end up with a half-baked and buggy product.

Together, they give you the information you need to head in the best direction and the means to do so. But only if you're taking all that time you were originally spending on system design, rigorous documentation, and product quality and putting it towards stuff that tech teams aren't usually as comfortable doing.
One might say he is committing psychological violence upon his readers!
I can easily say some of them calls themselves as "futuristic" pays too many unrequired attention and money much more than they pay technological infrastructure... what a oxymoron
Oh my friend, you should step into the country sometime! The US, alone, is 105,847,090,000,000 square feet. I used that awkward unit because it's easy to visualize. Not that we can visualize or even really imagine a hundred trillion, other than that it's just absurdly stupidly vast. Covering all of that region (or even just the parts with a human within a reasonable distance) with towers and wires is an absolutely massive undertaking.

This is why, to this day, many places in America still lack access to high speed internet. And then when a tower goes down, or a wire gets cut - it's a major issue that will result in downtime and require costly maintenance. By contrast a relatively small number of satellites can provide coverage to this entire area. And when a satellite goes down, it's not a problem at all - it's a perfectly normal part of the system, and is seamlessly replaced by another instantly. And all of this is just for one country! Starlink covers the entire globe meaning regardless of the state of the country you live in, you can get access to reliable high speed internet.
Can I have your home address and payslips for the last 20 years? Please respond with this information directly below.
Real time weather balloon tracking
I'm not suggesting adding anything. Homes have lots of stuff in them. Everything in your house becomes a thermal battery - tables, chairs, beds, walls, counters, clothes and so on. Just allow a range of temperatures and when energy is very low cost drive the indoor temperature to the upper range.

Ideally you have a brick/stone home with good exterior insulation.
the reason the "twitter-bros" say it's easy is because what you're missing is their twitter account is their marketing and if they have high followers and good engagement then building to that audiences needs can cover your living costs as a solo dev much easier.
Sometimes I wonder how the office classes make it through the day or accomplish anything productive at all.
Life in prison? What do we lose by giving these people lethal injections? They would die relatively painlessly and nothing of value would be lost. Taxpayer money wouldn’t have to support them. Unless we’re studying their brains or something, I say get ‘em out of here. Not every criminal serving life deserves the death penalty, but these guys sure do.
I find it difficult to believe that the team that built the prototype for http/2 (SPDY), implemented it for chrome, tested it on gazillions of customers around the world, wasn't bothered to talk to anyone who did networking.

Sure you can argue that the tradeoffs they selected were the wrong tradeoffs and that they may have been biased by their narrow domain specific goals (reducing latency to render an average web page). Perhaps they thought that people with really horrible packet loss will just fallback to http or use amp or whatever.

But I cannot believe that the mistakes were caused by them just not being aware of how networks work or, worse, failing to talk with somebody that did
Satellites got cheaper and land work became more expensive
For excel/spreadsheets etc chat gpt or google gemeni are a lot more useful than for normal programming as a lot of stuff about spread sheets is explained in easy steps for non technical people to implement so that has become a treasure trove of information for llm models.
I’m actually curious what’s the percentage of people not covered by cell reception in USA vs rural areas of other big countries like China and Russia. I know in Canada it’s somewhat similar, but people who live in northern Ontario/BC in tiny towns still have decent cell reception. Not everywhere, but still.

I could see governments with more top-down approach would be able to complete “everyone gets covered” mission much easier than US/Canada. A lot of money burning since there is no/little profitability, but I could see it being a greater good for the citizens.
I already know people who've switched to smartwatches
"There is no kind way to put this: a lot of stupid stuff got done with a lot of smart programmers in the last ten years."

Any reasonable person would agree, but would the people in Silicon Valley agree.
No, they aren't. They are silos, with no proper libre/open source clients with propietary protocols. Also, the Discord company can send any of your data to /dev/null anytime.
> C and C++ are still very much current.

So it's interesting you say that. I worked extensively with C++ back then, and I did have occasion to do a few small C++ projects about 10 years ago, and C++ seems to have changed quite a bit. It was actually really impressive.

I'm not saying it would be very hard to learn the differences, but I definitely needed a primer back then of "here's how C++ has changed", because code really did look different in some ways.
PV’s falling prices have also been associated with falling environmental harm. When you’re talking multiple orders of magnitude you just cannot require as much in production.

IE: You can’t burn 500 gallons of gas if the end product costs 500$. That applies not just to transportation but also how much material and thus mining the raw materials you need, including refining them, the amount of chemicals you can use per panel, how much electricity you can use in production of the device including precursors etc.
How is Node ridiculously complex? It’s quite sparse.
I say no and listen to Hans Zimmerman music
What does the process of submitting a paper to Usenix looks like?
Which is exactly the same in HTTP2/3. You can't forward a stream when it's missing some data.
Experiments in Printmaking, Part 1
>Note: Transceiver SDR devices do exist of course, but they tend to be very pricey

A HackRF clone is cheaper than a Flipper, and way more capable in my opinion. I would bet most flippers either lie in drawers or are used by stupid teenager kiddies for trolling.
Yes, technically you'll also get a MediaWiki instance there, but the point is really to offer Wikibase (which is a set of extensions upon MediaWiki), the software behind Wikidata.
Retiring the Mozilla Location Service
The Good Soldier Švejk (2018)
Is there a public repository of BIM files so that I can play around on potentially more complex buildings?
Hey kind stranger, thanks for the comment.

The problem I have with vague statements such as "being consistent", is it's not a strategy. You can swim as long as you want, but if you are swimming away from shore towards a current that pulls you back, consistency does not matter.

I don't want to believe it luck as the sole factor for success, but based on what I see and my experience, it feels like it is, and I'm loosing faith. There are people who build tools that are far from being the next Facebook or ChatGPT, and they succeed. People who build in a super saturated market and they succeed.

And the entire infomercial sphere is pumping the "consistency is key" mantra, which is very vague and far from a strategy.

No disregard to other makers who built successful but simple products. I use them as an example that even if you build a simple tool, or a tool in a highly saturated market, you can succeed.

Edit: you edited your comment after I posted my reply. In regard to cold calls. I don't see anyone mention it. All successful one-man/side projects I see online who share their story, simply say they built a good product. Nobody talks about customer acquisition. And, maybe it's my problem, I don't see how cold calling/emailing will work. I get cold emails every other day, and most of them are so lame, that I don't understand how people fall into it. But maybe I'm just stupid and idealistic.
Super. Would you be willing to share some of the books you're using?
You should be accurate - charging by one, but communicating pricing by the other is just a road towards conflict with your customer.
It’s a Monty Python reference.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6HX6cfy3At4
Thanks:) I'd love to hear your thoughts on it!
Open-Source Implementation of TryOnDiffusion: A Tale of Two UNets
Hello,

I recently released an implementation of Google's TryOnDiffusion paper. I had limited resources to train it but I think I experimented with it enough to verify it is mostly correct (Experiment setup is detailed in the README)

The code is MIT license, so completely open-source.

I hope it can help someone here.

All the best,
Dan
Yes, I am the author of the tool and thanks for your feedback. I will work on including screenshots. I am also available to answer any question.
It's possible to build something similar on top of TCP, see Minion [0] for an example. There are multiple reasons why this is less practical than building on top of UDP, the main two being, from my perspective: (1) this requires cooperation from the OS (either in form of giving you advanced API or having high enough privilege level to write TCP manually), and (2) this falls apart in presence of TCP middleboxes.

[0] https://dedis.cs.yale.edu/2009/tng/papers/nsdi12-abs/
The Swedish government doesn't check that the registered address is correct, and if someone you don't know chooses to register at your address then you won't know about it, and even if you did there's no way for you to get rid of that registration. There has been cases of police breaking down doors and rushing in to apartments just because some criminal had registered himself on that address, even though the people who lived there had never heard of that person.
Having information be public on request (e.g. from courts) is important. But the step from making individual bits of information public via request from authorities, to making it indexed/published/searchable for anyone in the world through a private company is quite a big one.
This privacy/security by obscurity you get from having to fill out forms or call a court isn't something one can just argue doesn't mean anything because public-vs-nonpublic is the only measure.
"We show an agent trained on many games was better than an agent that learned how to play just one. In our evaluations, SIMA agents trained on a set of nine 3D games from our portfolio significantly outperformed all specialized agents trained solely on each individual one. What’s more, an agent trained in all but one game performed nearly as well on that unseen game as an agent trained specifically on it, on average. Importantly, this ability to function in brand new environments highlights SIMA’s ability to generalize beyond its training. This is a promising initial result, however more research is required for SIMA to perform at human levels in both seen and unseen games."

Here we go ladies and gentlemen. There's only one direction from here and it is that these things will keep improving and becoming better...
The Tau Manifesto (2010)
Even if we assume that this paid blog is a legitimate alternative to peer reviewed research (it is not), the first article you cite starts with the below disclaimer, which seems to refute your claim.

> Note added 2nd May 2020. Some people seem to be interpreting this article as suggesting that COVID does not add to one’s normal risk. I should make it clear that I am suggesting that it roughly doubles your risk of dying this year.
Hey, thanks for the comment.

I started to follow the build in public and solopreneurship movement on social networks a few months ago. And I agree with you. Recently, I feel like this entire community is "indie hackers building tools for indie hackers, while tweeting about their success and MRR to gain more indie hackers to sell tools to".

Which is not bad, but it is what it is.
I'm in a similar boat. Rural Midwest.

Worked for 23 years now in professional development. Started in big companies, then moved to smaller companies/startups.

I'm very very good at what I do and my salary is up to the point where small companies are starting to choke on it a bit, and I'm just a tiny bit higher than yours.

Been a senior, team lead, principal, architect, dabbled in some management. Also with successful product launches under my belt.

If I want to move up in salary - it probably won't be in startup land unless I find a relatively big one and I'm CTO.

More likely that I'm just going to start my own companies even if I have to do everything myself.

It feels like jobs, while somewhat available, just aren't what I'm looking for anymore. And the market is turning, or has turned, unfriendly to the super senior.

From my experience the 400k base is very very niche. Plenty of top end engineering talent out there available for less.
Personally, I've fallen in love with that visual effect of streaming text you're talking about. It's a bit pavlovian, but I think in my head it signifies that I'm reading something high signal (even though it isn't always).
> the fact that the project didn't bother with that is kind of off-putting.

Didn't bother with that _yet_. Given the date on the front page, Ibis is apparently fresh out of the gates.

Clothing and styling also provides social signalling and filtering, to stay with your analogy. If this were my early-stage project, I would welcome a little friction to select towards the helpful, the imaginative and the invested. To improve the signal/noise ratio.

Maybe that's the case here. If it is, it seems to be working.
I actually think this is a beautiful thing with GDPR. Because technically platforms like Facebook could just consider themself a Publisher and then they wouldn't have to bother with the GDPR. But that would also mean that they would need to have a chief editor personally responsible for all the racism, hate and abuse on the platform. So the reason they they have to deal with the GDPR is because they don't want to take responsibility for all the shit published. So how much they may hate GDPR – they hate taking responsibility for their content even more.
> Jenson and Lisa Su being literally cousins

I know the word literally doesn't mean anything anymore, but Jenson and Lisa Su are first cousins once removed. Jensen's grandfather and Lisa's great-grandfather are the same person.

https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-jensen-huang-amd-lisa...

Their family tree according to Jean Wu, a former Taiwanese journalist : https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=350633737719840&set=...
Figure 01: OpenAI Robot [video]
Salaries aren't public I believe. You can see someone's taxable income. If you work one single full time job, the figure would probably be close to the total comp however. But for e.g. someone who works two half time jobs you can't see which employer paid what, only the taxable income (iirc).
> only application I see

You have never seen a ship or a plane before? Are you just perilously saying nonsense?
Consistency isn't a strategy, indeed. It's not meant to be. It means you have to keep trying - what strategy you use is a different question. You should make one, try it out a statistically significant amount of times, measure and decide whether to keep it or modify it.
Ultimately everywhere that has wired power should be able to get fiber, if right of ways were reasonable.
On windows you can use quick share to send files & folders doesn't need internet and more reliable than localsend though not open source.
https://www.android.com/intl/en_in/better-together/quick-sha...
I always get a feeling of eerie calm after reading one of Ludic's posts. Thank you for this; it was entertaining.
"I believe some folks in tech love to make simple things sound complex, maybe to seem more impressive."

Seems to apply here
Have a look at https://openifcmodel.cs.auckland.ac.nz/ https://github.com/buildingSMART/Sample-Test-Files/ https://duraark.github.io/duraark-data/
Interesting tool, especially the statistics relating to the chances of dying within 1 or 10 years are quite confronting. Memento Mori.
I like how it behaves on desktop, but I don't like making it "responsive" on mobile.

We can fix that :D

:root {
font-size: 1rem;
}
@media (pointer: fine) {
:root {
font-size: calc(1rem + 0.25vw);
}
}
@media (pointer: coarse) {
:root {
font-size: 1.25rem;
}
}

"pointer" refers to the way a user interacts with a device's screen, either using a precise pointing device like a mouse (fine pointer) or a less precise one like a finger on a touchscreen (coarse pointer).
Packaging on Archlinux is quite insane. https://s.natalian.org/2024-03-14/1710415700_1918x1167.png
Wikipedia is one of the few initiatives where not being satisfied with 99% accessibility is absolutely warranted. If your goal is to dethrone it, you have to bite that bullet.
Why not? A large percentage of GDP is about making things other businesses use to do their business. I'm getting spammed by ads from bigger companies doing the same thing - "become our partner / make money with our products / distribute to others who could make money with our products". Same thing, different niche.

It's a valid niche - and the one you talk about is terminally online, which makes it rather easy to break into.
This is not some pitfall. This is a major problem in tech and IMHO totally unacceptable. The same things are re-invented all over again and again without actually making much of an improvement.

The result of this is that we get constant upgrades and "improvements", but overall reliability, UI usability, latency and performance in general are actually worsening every year.
Whichever superior depends on your use case and needs. Plan9's approach is very powerful whenever you need anything distributed, and makes lots of boilerplate to achieve that basically unnecessary. Linux nowadays is flexible for both approaches (in theory, the ecosystem might not be there), and I'm glad user namespaces are a thing.
You're right of course. The thing is, if you allow unlimited APM, I think you don't need an advanced AI to win - you can have an algorithm implemented, that rushes zerglings and micromanages them to save any from dying and regenerating. So the human vs AI match becomes lame.

Very subjectively, I'd say: limit the APM to something very low, below 50. You now change the game: it's no longer about making many decisions, it's only partially about reacting quickly, rewarding thinking through your decisions before ordering them. This would measure the intellect more than speed.

BTW there is a mode in coop mode that AFAIR makes you pay minerals for each action, so such throttling is within canon ;)
Yeah, right. Once caught with an egg on their face they just say "it's a prank bro!".
Ecyclopedia.com take on what the so called Science Wars was:
"The term science wars refers to a complex of discussions about the way the sciences are related to or incarnated in culture, history, and practice. These discussions came to be called a "war" in the mid 1990s because of a strong polarization over questions of legitimacy and authority."

Does it sound to you like some tongue-in-cheek discussions and joking around?
It's not really for people who don't know what BIM means. Its the same as a bunch of techy stuff with techy terms, if you know the terms it is for you. If you don't just close the website and move on.
"What Ries and the Lean Startup advocate is picking an X value so that you have to build as little as necessary to validate your long-term assumptions. Neither the book nor the method prescribes whether the “X value” should be high or low on the spectrum. This decision is entirely up to you, influenced by your market and your criteria for evaluation."

For exactly this reason, although the lean method still works, it is no longer a 'revelation' or an 'edge'. It was a revelation when the cost of validation was low. Now using the lean method is just a triviality: you constantly need to validate your ideas. As the cost of validation increases dramatically the importance of other success factors (like insight, strategy, deep knowledge) increase.
Interesting that it’s not vision based, I suspect you will get much better performance once vision is incorporated, using e.g LLaVa style models
It doesn't even run on mobile because the sidebar takes up all the space and the main content is squeezed to the side. Even more disappointing to learn that what is essentially a static webpage doesn't render without JavaScript. This is not going anywhere with that kind of attitude (not testing on mobile, relying 100% on JavaScript).
I don't get it. It's very vague. I did everything "correct": I invested in SEO, I had billing setup, I paid for ads, I created a niche product that caters to a specific audience. I ticked all the boxes of classical entrepreneurial literature, and yet I make coffee money from my side project.

I can continue beating it more and more, but I don't see how that's a strategy.
I don't think the public nature of these figures (like, my address, or taxable income) is even contested here. Or, that would be a different discussion.

The question is rather whether pieces of information which is public from authorities (Some which are common in many countries such as court records, others which are more unique to Sweden such as addresses) should be legal to index and make searchable, at third parties. This is where the GDPR is an issue.

And I agree strongly with noyb here. I can't see how any of these companies have any journalistic goals.
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> who wants those data brokers to exist?

Some employers and recruiting firms, to do background checks. I think they more or less funds the market.
You may start with yours ;)
> But sand is quite expensive so my question is, why sand and not water?

The article says they will use a byproduct from a local industry, perhaps it's available for cheaper.

"The sand itself will also be sustainably sourced – it’ll consist of crushed soapstone, which is a manufacturing byproduct of another local industry. This material can apparently conduct heat even better than regular old sand.".