skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally, I found qualifying customers takes a lot of time. It can take up to 1 hour doing the research to figure out if it’s a customer who 1) can actually use your product 2) can make the decision to buy your product 3) is actually in the market for your product.

I wanted something that could cut this time down to a few minutes so I could spend more time finding customers vs. preparing calls. The tool should 1) allow me to copy/paste any of my research sources (Linkedin, URLs, previous agendas, general notes 2) be super simple 3) generate an agenda that I could use in a 1st, 2nd, 3rd call with a customer to qualify if they’d purchase.

So I built an interactive sales qualification website where anyone can create these interactive agendas using whatever sources you typically use to qualify a potential customer.

By using this 1) I created agendas in a few minutes 2) I asked new questions that I hadn’t thought of before, making customer engagement much better and purchase intent a lot higher.

This is still in early stages, but talking to a few sales people whose job is to qualify customers, it looks like this is on the right track and what’s missing is auto-downloads (vs. copy/paste) and integrations into commonly used sales tools like Hubspot and Salesforce.

The (limited) data so far suggests people are mostly interested in using URLs. I guess it makes sense for a demo since copy/pasting notes and Linkedin profiles is more time-consuming. But ultimately, it does seem to still generate pretty good customer qualification agendas. It’s even better if you add Linkedin info and other notes, since the response is much more personalized to your specific use case.

I would love y'all's thoughts on it. Does this help you with customer qualification?
The first time I visited Vienna I noted the complete lack of fare control and thought "wow, it's great they've made public transport free!" My hostel was kind enough to disabuse me of this notion, though.
My KSP knowledge suggests that moving between orbits that aren't aligned costs a lot of fuel. The extra fuel you'd need to go from orbit to orbit might end up requiring more rocket capacity than sending up more duplicate dry mass of complete replacements. And that's before even considering updated satellites that are improvements in capability over the predecessors they replace.

When at one point I the future they stop expecting any further hardware improvements, they might of course change the satellites to a different balance between fuel and dry mass, sending less satellites per launch that last longer.
There are nearly 50,000 commercial journals and a long tail of non-commercial journals each with teams of editors. There are probably hundreds of thousands of people currently serving as editors.

The issue isn't editorial bandwidth, it's that peer review is currently built into the promotion and tenure structure for academics, who produce the vast majority of scholarship and thus dictate the shape of the scholarly publishing system.

Academics have to publish the papers in peer reviewed journals for it to count towards tenure and promotion. And in fact, they are limited to a small set of journals that are deemed high quality enough for their fields. These journals are chosen by tenure and promotion committees composed of their senior peers and school administration. There are over 1000 R1 and R2 universities worldwide, each with hundreds of departments each with their own tenure and promotion committees. So changing the system is a massive collective action problem.
Beyond the hobby plan: choosing a free DBaaS
Yeah he was at the helm but the engineering occurred before him and he navigated it ok all things considering. He was the most competent of their ceos in the last 2 decades probably
The cyclist hate is really demoralizing sometimes. Like, I'm out here trying to enjoy life and be healthy and people think it's funny to joke about murdering me.
Very interesting and concerning if true, if not entirely unexpected. I really miss the old Opera.

> while working for one of the top-3 European IPS

What's IPS in this context, or is that a typo for ISPs?
> Even now after massive coordinated effort on wind and solar, we have to burn gas/coal all over the place to handle generation sags at night and when the wind slows.

Meanwhile in the UK, coal consumption has gone down 96.5% per capita since 1965 despite an increasing population (95.7% in absolute terms). Germany and the USA have also had (smaller) reductions per capita, though the world average is up about 16%: https://ourworldindata.org/energy#explore-data-on-energy

Also relevant: we will continue to burn fuels until the storage/long distance grids catch up with the generation.

Storage is a completely separate axis to generation, which the UK also found out during the coal miner's strikes in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s; as the storage needed for road vehicles is more than sufficient for a national electricity grid, your expectation should be "around the time cars have renewable fuels, be that battery or hydrogen, not significantly sooner or later".

Grids are my personal preference (a global 1Ω aluminium grid would cost only about $265 billion in metal, using 1.7 years of current global aluminium production for something that will probably last about a century), but clearly require more international cooperation than the world wishes to engage with at present. As batteries (/hydrogen) are needed anyway for the cars, we're going to get batteries (/hydrogen).
I wonder what makes them hunt cyclists and some cars that pass by.
Linearity of Relation Decoding in Transformer Language Models
Check out Brent Hull on YouTube who is answering this very question. His basic premise is that post WWII the focus on efficiency and mass production ruined the craftsmanship that went into older buildings.
No? it’s a standard single node primary with replicas setup. With a fancy log based storage layer.
What are those reasons? The only thing I see that journals do which preprint servers couldn't easily take over is prestige.
Telnet is still an invaluable tool to connect to memcache and redis instances for debugging and quick remote management.

I still chuckle when spinning up a linux instance and trying to use telnet command only to be told it's not installed and I briefly exclaim "WHAT!" before I have to install it.

Edit: Also don't forget Gopher, which was one of the original menu based document systems before HTTP became the "norm"
> Enhanced Classic icon theme (used with Win98 Second Edition, WinME, Win2K systems) from MicroSoft Memphis project for GNU/Linux inspired by Chicago95 theme (actually it’s a manual copy-paste fork) of Grassmunk with icons in Windows 98 SE style added and/or created by myself.

Hey, Chicago95! My favorite XFCE theme!

https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
I parsed 968 launches from /r/SideProject and analyzed them with Claude 3 Opus
The data:

I searched for all posts from /r/SideProjects that contained these strings:

"I built", "I made an alternative to", "I created a clone of".

Most posts are <=1 year old.

Reddit API does not allow parsing older posts hence the amount "968" I wish I could parse more.

The list of clones of popular apps:

Loom (screen recording app) (6‼)

Typeform (form builders)
(7‼)

Resume/CV apps (3)

Pastebin (5)

Habit trackers (12‼)

Link in bio (5)

Screenshot making tools (3)

Todo lists (3)

Bookmarking tools (8)

Website builders 29 (‼‼)

Notes taking tools (10‼ classic )

Health, fitness, and wellness apps (19‼)

Feedback gathering tools (10‼)

Time tracking and invoicing tools (4)

Patreon alternatives (2)

Bookmarking tools (8)

Twitter (16‼‼‼ wtf?)

Product Hunt (6‼)

Pomodoro timers: (1)

Categories:

Language learning (4)

Directory/list (7)

Chrome extension (21)

Crypto or decentralized (5)

Finance (15)

Dev tool (26)

Self-hosted (14)

Growth or marketing tool (11)

Open-sourced (37)

Some stats:

B2C: 69.8% ↔ B2B: 30.2% (please do b2b!!!)

AI tools: 108 (10.8%!)

Most boring title:

"How I stumbled upon my startup idea: A casual chat"

Most inspiring title:

"I taught people to code for 10 years. So I started my own learning platform for fun and it got REALLY BIG."

Least catchy title:

"I made an alternative free WordPress theme directory"

Most catchy titles:

"I made a multiplayer game, got beaten at my own game, then made a bot for my game so I could finally win"

"I made a chrome extension that makes music sound like it's coming from another room"

"Too lazy to post daily, so built an app to do it instead"
There are still several Nethack servers you can use via telnet. Telnet nethack.alt.org is probably the best known one.
I can't help but see la Sagrada familia as "organic brutalism" I think it's quite vulgar despite also liking brutalism.

If it were not for the glass the interior would feel like a sixties community centre.

The exterior, a roughly shaped mound of excrement with some ornate extrusions. :)
Poland was legally obligated to purchase Russian gas based on an agreement signed in the early 90s.

The writing was on the wall for years. The difference is that Poland started constructing an alternative pipeline to Norway. Poland also appealed to an arbitration panel to have the Russian gas contract right to renewal clause removed (which it was successful in doing).

Germany meanwhile doubled down on Russian gas and built Nordstream 1 & 2.
A "non-blocking function" always meant "this function will return before its work is done, and will finish that work in the background through threads/other processes/etc". All other functions are blocking by default, including that simple addition "bar" function above.
Is that true? I wouldn't know what a minor basilica is per se but I definitely know what a cathedral is. I'm orthodox but I think nearly all lay orthodox christians can name their own bishop and the cathedral of his seat, the definition of cathedral being kind of implicit in that administrative awareness. Maybe it's different for catholics? I'll ask some, I am curious now.
I don't understand why Huawei did not go for its own deGoogled version of Android. Would be great to have an alternative outside of China that would not be controlled by Apple or Google.
I use this every day everywhere. Together with pyenv-virtualenv and poetry it dramatically improved my python experience…
I have the opposite impression. Among Westerners Americans seem like the group where Christianity still plays the largest role in the average person's life. They talk about it a lot, to the point that I find it annoying. It's not just people who believe in it, the atheists and secular ones among them constantly complain about how bad religion is and how much they hate it. That's something you simply don't see in Western Europe, it's a topic that doesn't really come up much because most younger people don't care. They never go to church, they aren't involved with religious folks, they simply don't think about it at much.

The only other country I can think of that comes close would be Poland, if that counts as Western.
A few things. first off, we have code now. Until the 1950s you could do whatever you wanted. But nowadays there a bunch of things that need to be "up to code" and it's not just internals like electrical, etc. Stairways, railings, heights, room sizes, construction technique, etc are all affected by this. And we continue to add more and more code for things like efficiency, etc. And this isn't a bad thing - code means we have safer buildings and when someone buys a building there's at least a minimum standard that has been met.

So this means you are going to build in ways that are proven and will be up to code. Which leads to the second thing.

Construction materials have become standardized over the last 100 years or so. We went from a world where things were crafted to a world where things are manufactured and installed. Buildings are made mainly of commoditized parts and materials today which makes a lot of things look simplistic and similar. This is good in many ways because when a craftsman was hand carving things they were not very productive and it cost a lot of money. Today, a worker is amazingly productive since their tools are powered and their materials are pre-fabricated and just need to be cut to size.

Lastly, buildings are far more complex today than 100+ years ago. Lots more electrical and plumbing, complex HVAC, insulation requirements, etc. These things were not considered long ago. You had carpentry and maybe a bit of plumbing and some basic electrical.

You can still get really nice custom work done and it's unbelievable expensive.
This isn't true historically. In ancient times, a day's labor was the unit of currency. A "talent" in the Bible, for example, is a unit of metal representative of a day's wages.
Dog poop can blind children and is horrible for the environment.

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxocariasis/

https://www.popsci.com/environment/dog-poop-pollution/
It's now possible, at least if you live in (and don't leave for more than 60 days) the EU.

Now the ball is in Mozilla's court! I do wonder if they'd have to send their developers to the EU for on-device debugging as well.
Getting closer and closer to getting catgirls
Microsoft forgot to update this Windows feature for 30 years
Sure, unless it is the first time you are executing that line of code and you have to wait for the OS to slowly fault it in across a networked filesystem.
Yeah, the Glory facade needs an approach. It can't simply dump out onto the street.
"Which is a bit rude IMO, and not really in the spirit of open source. I never demanded that he accept it. "

Other people did before you. But I can see how you perceived that reaction to you as hostile. It was definitely a bit rude. I disagree a bit though, that it is not in the spirit of open source. Open source does not necessarily mean open for collaboration. He does accept PRs, if they fit his vision .. and get defensive, when they don't, because he don't want to spend energy arguing why not. He does not have to. So yes, it would be nicer, if he would be nicer. But he is the way he is and still he managed to build a great open source product.
I'm sure that there are plenty of cases where model designers are at least attempting to pursue new capabilities in a targeted approach (but how often to this degree of complexity?), while at the same time realizing that new models+datasets will also have unanticipated new capabilities.

Before LLMs (whether transformer-based or not) most NNs were built to perform single tasks - a single objective, so having multiple higher-level capabilities was essentially out of the question. Of course LLMs nominally only have a single objective too, predict next word, but really they are targeting language.

In the GOFAI era of rule-based symbolic AI there were also some systems/approaches that had multiple skills (e.g. expert systems like CYC, or cognitive architectures like SOAR), so maybe there are forgotten lessons there on decomposability of skills.
Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server
What I want to do: get hands on experience hosting and maintaining a linux server (perf, sec, etc). I love the abstraction cloud services provided to enable me to build stuff without having to understand the nitty-gritty - but I think the knowledge will help.
Rent a server on the cloud for about $10/mo if possible, build an application for personal use with everything residing on the server. Nothing critical.

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Why: I've always wanted to. I read some HN posts this week that have inspired me to finally make the leap. For eg,

- I read this and realised I don't know what any of these commands are (I've always used Windows), and it's time to start.
https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2024-03-24/linux-crisis-tools.html

- The SingleFile post. I already built one with Supabase that I use now, but I want to do one with the CLI, my own DB etc.

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Where I'm at: I have quite a bit of experience building both FE and BE for applications, mostly utilizing cloud services (serverless, hosted DBs etc). I've also hosted a few applications locally for personal use but not open to the internet, like Postgres and Nginx (all windows). Some devOps experience.
Serious about security but no hands on experience with networking, I want to actually understand and reduce the attack surface and so on without just flipping a switch.

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What I'm asking for: Any suggestions how to go about it, resources, links, advice - please feel free to share your experiences as well. Thanks!
Share this in the discussion here:

Related:

Real-time map of every Starlink satellite in orbit

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39812652
Not really. Germany and it's predecessors have a strong history of rule of law. Russia does not.
The real answer in the US is vested interest. The health case sector accounts for 20% of US GDP, double the value in countries with better outcomes and nationalized systems. Fixing the system so it doesn’t cost so much is against the financial interest of an enormous number of people. Sometimes democracy leads to suboptimal outcomes like this.
I spent most of the first 30 years of my life surrounded by and friends with one flavor of deeply religious Christian or another (if my high school had had an 'interfaith' club, the faiths would have been 'Baptist' or 'Dutch Reform'), including Catholics. I say that to point out that the only reason I know there's something special about 'cathedrals' as opposed to other churches is because I read a bit of trivia once about what counts as an English city.
> Most people in Germany can't afford to buy an apartment

Most people in Germany don’t buy the apartments they live in, because renting in Germany gives you more or less the same rights as owning a leasehold flat in the UK. If you really want to buy a flat, tax-wise it is more convenient to rent it out and rent another one to live in.

In many cities there are rent control mechanisms that make renting extremely cheaper than buying.
I don't think it is - are those issue trackers being adopted? Fossil is cool (as is any other DVCS that's not Git) but it has basically zero users and fewer by the day (as is any other DVCS that's not Git).
Sadly it's OK to kill bicyclists in the US. I moved to the Netherlands to avoid jokes about murdering me and my children at standups.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/is-it-ok-t...
I think this is just propaganda that you've accepted. You think it's bad if things get cheaper? And you think people would just sit there while their employer decreases their wages every year? Not going to happen. Also, we already get wage decreases each year because of inflation. If you don't get a significant raise every single year you're losing purchasing power. And even then, you have to wait a whole year. The fact that people don't realize this is already happening is part of the scam.
I saw it in 1999, it was not very finished, but already an impressive sight. We tried to climb the tower, but it was very busy that day (probaby like any other day).

We did visit Park Guell, though, on that same day, which was less crowded, and that was incredible.

If you haven't been to Barcelona, it is an amazingly beautiful city. We only spent one day there, which is far too little to do the city justice.
Same here. I haven't compared it in depth with Aegis, but besides some UI quirks I'm happy with FreeOTP. Am I missing anything important?
In Spain it's not only 60s/70s, pretty much everything build between the 60s and the 90s is not only ugly AF, but very low quality. And Barcelona is not even the worst offender. In northern spanish cities there's a lot of grey in the buildings, with basically no insulation in a humid and cold climate. My GF used to joke it was colder inside her home than outside.

After the new construction code in the early 00s the quality has improved a lot but we still build very ugly buildings.

No wonder why people chose to gather and spend their time where the historial centers are.

Seems architects really refuse to extract some lessons from this.
The DMA does not specify a minimum fine for violations.
Perhaps this is in order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velo-dog
I got a reply back from the author of the slides:

"Your son is correct, that is a typo - it should be 10's of MJ/kg for liquid rocket propellants - thanks for the catch! Thanks too for the heads up re the discussion on antimatter, it is a fascinating topic and great to see there is interest in the community!"
In Germany, there are some names that use ue, ae or oe instead of ü, ä, ö, and you run into issues with some systems wrongly autocorrecting it to the umlaut. Usually not a big deal, but having the umlaut is less error prone than the transliteration in Germany.
Shasta does not count? Isn't it at the end of the central valley/ start of the cascades?
Show HN: Flatito, grep for YAML and JSON files
It is a kind of grep for YAML and JSON files. It allows you to search for a key and get the value and the line number where it is located.

I created this tool because I sometimes struggle to find specific keys in typical i18n rails yamls. In the views, you don't always have the whole key, but it is extrapolated from the context. I am sure there are other use cases; I hope you find it useful.

Cheers!
I assume it was more like humans found cats in their winter grain storage, saw the cat ate rats and left the grain alone, so humans left the cat alone. Ten thousand years later and we are now in a closer relationship.
What does zookeeper even do? I know it's supposed to be a key value store. But the only thing i ever hear about zookeeper is not people actually doing stuff with it, but rather doing stuff for it.

It seems like the most useless piece of software. Like someone wrote a concept down but said it was software.
Have you tried https://pixi.sh/ ? It brings Cargo/NPM/Poetry like commands and lock files to the Conda ecosystem, and now can manage and lock PyPI dependencies alongside by using uv under the hood.

I haven't been using anything CUDA, but the scientific geospatial stack is often a similar mess to install, and it's been handling it really well.
Sorry for the ugly formatting. HN is not suitable for this type of post.
The CEO is chosen by the board. A CEO is a direct reflection of the board.

On the other foot, you have the 144,999 Boeing employees that are not the CEO. Their skills, attitudes, and day to day responsibilities will go largely unchanged.

I agree that the right CEO can have a huge impact, but there is so much inertia against change. It's more likely the board is establishing the next fall guy for the next major scandal in 3-7 years.
Reminded me of this article:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7b7kv4/mark-mccloud-collects...

Mark McCloud has about 30,000 tabs of LSD. He collects them, frames them, and catalogues them in his San Francisco home, which is why Mark gets periodically arrested by the DEA.
10 years ago, « Data Science » work past the experimental stage was performed by SWE with a knack for applied maths. So investing in tooling to do things properly was a given.

Nowadays, most DS people only want to do ML at the experimental stage only and get lost when things get on the engineering side of things. But for their defense, nowadays the bare minimum skills require to do programming, containerization, CI/CD, etc. More experienced and swiss army knife SWE/MLE have to educate the willing.

It was already the same 10 years ago with MATLAB dudes not wanting to get dirty with C/C++/ASM SIMD. The history repeats itself, only at a faster pace
I don't know. But I definitely meant descendants!
https://www.nature.com/nature-portfolio/about/journal-metric...

Median time is 268 days to acceptance at Nature. So this article was closer to 1000 days, above average.
This objection of yours was directly addressed by the comment I'm trying to support.

E.g. yes, it is important to know the low-level details, but also the abstraction chosen is just not fit for the purpose. And it's partially fault of C++ because channels are not in the standard library.