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MVP: My demo ended up in production and now were trying to scale SQLight to 1000s of concurrent users help!

If you want to build an MVP im all for it. It is 100% throw away. Don't try to "add a feature" don't try to "expand" ... You cut corners in design and spec Im gonna cut them in engineering. Let's all take the lessons we learned and build something good after.
> CEO of nVidia is a Chinese guy. Perhaps the Chinese view them as safer because of this.

Are you kidding? Please fact-check strong assertions like that.

Jensen Huang is Taiwan-born and so is cousin-related AMD CEO Lisa Su, also Taiwanese, which even if the hypothesis of Taiwan-connected people being safer (due to more Chinese relationships) was true, then there would be no need to issue a curtailment on AMD chips in government computers.
Why use quotation marks if you're gonna change his words? "and due to catapulting China out of poverty (and work in progress catapaulting India)" is obviously true and obviously a good thing
1. Do assholish things that make people want to flock to Apple

2. Give Apple such a high market share that they get sued for monopolistic practices

3. ???

4. Profit
I only worked commercially for significant periods of time with Java and C++/js (QML mostly).

Compared to Java C++ feels 20 years behind. I would love it if C++ had something like Maven. Instead there's 50 different build systems with their own problems and incompatibilities, and every time I want to add a library to my project I have to deal with all that crap.

As for "just make it a class" approach to validation - the problem is that you often want to use 2 libraries together. One library deals with emails, the other library deals with accounts. They use different class hierarchies for Account and Email. Now you have to make wrappers, or do multiple inheritance, or other crazy shit.

Instead if the libraries were written in java style, with interfaces and annotations - you can integrate them seamlessly, but what's more - existance of these APIs encourages the whole ecosystem to work around common abstractions. So often you don't even have to do integration - because the abstractions are already shared by different libraries and frameworks.

Meanwhile in C++ world you shuffle std::str vs char* vs QString vs OString not to mention separate Account, User, Email etc classes in every library you use.
One thing that is very unintuitive with normalization is that MacOS is much more aggressive with normalizing Unicode than Windows or Linux distros. Even if you copy and paste non-normalized text into a text box in safari on Mac, it will be normalized before it gets posted to the server. This leads to strange issues with string matching.
TIL about https://esolangs.org/wiki/Zalgo#Number_to_String
Extremely hot LLM take: You will often get better results with few-shot prompting (with good examples) on a modern LLM than with a finetuned LLM.

Finetuning was the best option for weaker LLMs with lower context windows (e.g. the original GPT-3): both problems have been solved nowadays.

The cost economics are much better with few-shot prompting to modern LLMs too: input tokens are super cheap (especially with the recently-released Claude Haiku), so giving a lot of examples per call will still end up cheaper than finetuning.

Meanwhile, a finetuned ChatGPT costs 4-6x of normal ChatGPT usage.
Where quantum computers can score
I get where they are coming from though.

If the people building the product view building and using it as a chore, it’s going to show.

So I took “love” as their brand of Amazonian “customer obsession”.

There needs to be someone (often a founder, head of product, etc) who is the visionary for how the product can be awesome for customers. And hopefully that leader is able to infuse the entire product development experience with that energy.
I just finished an MVP for a free tool to help delegated tasks get done. I was wondering if I did it all wrong, but like you say, I would have a very hard time describing a management tool like Upfollow.app as “lovable”—I’d be happy with appreciation.
You don't even need to write your program in go or configure and deploy with fcgi. Write it in whatever you want and stick it in a container.
Easy TPM 2.0 Access with the StrongSwan VPN Solution (2018)
I always thought people’s dried themselves using paper after using a bidet. Is that not the case?
Ya. 1<n<6 has worked 99% of the time for me.
If you don't care about downtime or reliability, sure.
> I'm undecided if the burnout was caused by the job or my inexperience. It was probably both.

Likely the job as in the management - I explained their role in my root comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39809297

Curious to hear what your thoughts are
As an exercise in clinical distance...

Holding it can also have not-so-fresh downsides.

In an emergency, in a public restroom... after the normal TP mechanics, you can follow that up with some TP that's been wetted in the sink. Then dry TP to dry.

Optionally, the tough and brave can add a tiny bit of whatever hand soap of unknown formulation is available. You'll need additional passes of wet TP to rinse.

Not-recommended: Some people carry those supposedly 'flushable' wet wipe products, but I think those are known to cause problems for plumbing and sewage systems.

(I'd better not get hit by a bus today, because I don't want this to be my final HN comment. :)
Season 2 helps explain how the drugs come into the city. It shows how the cops get reassigned to hammer on which ever nail is currently sticking its head up once they've hammered the current one back down. It shows how nails can work their way free and pop their heads back up requiring the attention of the hammer again. If only the cops could figure out how to use screws instead.
Honestly I’m tired of landlords expecting good returns, I’m glad they had this wake up call that yes, in fact there is risk in every investment. What really irks me is when they prefer vacancy to lowering rents.
Can you provide some examples of what you have in mind?
I also have a QR code in a photo widget. It takes me < 2 seconds to unlock my phone and swipe once on the home screen, and there's usually a delay as people pull out their camera, but there are a couple advantages:

1. People spell my name right. Even when I tell people how to spell my name exactly, they still get it wrong. If they scan my QR code, they always get it right

2. I can put all my info in one place. My vCard has my phone number, several emails, links to my social media, Discord, and whatnot.

3. You can include a photo, if you don't mind making the QR code much larger. With a well optimized image, this can be a nice addition.
How would a successful antitrust verdict against Apple further the NSA's implicit dogma of "insecure by default"? Especially if it winds up breaking up Apple into many pieces. It's far easier for a centralized tech industry to bend the knee to the NSA than a distributed one.
The correct answer to question 3 is "it depends".
By "issuer" do you mean the company which was a real bank who issued them prepaid debit cards? For example right now I can go to Visa and order a prepaid card. That's simple enough but for a startup idea I would need to put my own branding on it and also be able to link the transactions through a mobile app.

https://usa.visa.com/pay-with-visa/cards/prepaid-cards.html
Scrolling this website on mobile made me think I’d installed malware.
Hacker News might not be the best example, as it seems to get overloaded once every week or two, usually when a contentious/high volume topic comes up.
My experience is that burnout comes in two forms:

Fatigue - too much stress and/or effort over an extended time.

Disillusionment - company doesn't have your back or love you back.

Honestly, most burnout is mostly caused by managers and culture that just doesn't care about people. A good manager will get an employee who is approaching burnout to take a break/vacation or even change up what they are working on.
The Basis of Everything: The Fragility of Character in a Truth-Challenged World
Depends on the weight of the word love. My sense that love can be expressed to products because they are delightful in use. I’ve said it many times that I love Figma, or I love using Google sheet. Is that the same love that I have for my daughter — hell no. But the word does convey well in the regular vernacular what it means for me to use those products. I’m not opposed to using love in this way the author means which is they like it enough to return, probably be advocates for the service, refer people, and probably put down some money to use it.
Master slave failover will give you less than a second of downtime.
Very hard to determine a fair value for those acres too. Everything outside of actual land purchase prices is hypothetical, and not every worthwhile purpose for land produces the same income. We already have high property taxes in some places anyway. Of course I think some kind of tax is necessary but the higher the tax the more this "ownership" resembles a lease.
It's really not that uncomfortable at all. Buy one on Amazon and try it, they're 20 bucks and take 5 minutes to install with no tools. That's less than one package of Costco toilet paper these days.

So far as I know, I've been an American for the ~50 decades I've been on this planet, and I'd say ~85% of the people I interact with on a day to day basis were born in America. I've observed that it is a common American trait to form strongly held views about things where one has no experience, and to defend those views fiercely. The Dude said it best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j95kNwZw8YY
The barefoot running trend is decidedly not behind us. There are more barefoot shoes (zero drop, wide toe box) from major shoe makers than ever, and you see them way more at races than in the past. What’s behind us, maybe, is the vibram 5 finger (each toe in its own slot) which seems to have waned in popularity significantly.
Recently installed windows 11 on a new pc, after many years of linux and mac. Question after question asking for consent to tracking and personalized ads. Why are personalized ads an install step of an operating system?

And am I sure I don't want to buy an Office 365 and OneDrive subscription? Yes, yes, definitely yes, can I please use my computer now? Sure, I'll sign up for a Microsoft account (why?) but please let me use it.

Oh a new start menu, it's in the middle now rather than to the left, sure. Click to open... Spotify, Linkedin, and Grammarly pre installed... Why? And why is a news feed of click bait tabloid articles a built in feature of my taskbar?

Oh, look, solitaire is still available, haven't played it since the days of Microsoft xp, let me check it out. Ah but I can't just play it... First, do I consent to Microsoft and it's 805 partners tracking me for personalized ads? EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIVE?

I swear the adware toolbars of old were less terrible than the windows operating system of now.
"Lovable" derives from the hipster-developer trend that started around 2010, where endless web, CSS, or app frameworks were tagged "Made with love in <cityname>", or "Made with love by <author>".

So silly. Like, was the gcc toolchain made with cold indifference? Were linux and git made with Scandinavian longing? Was emacs made with a certain sense of ennui?
But you're living in US. In US you got paid crazy salaries for programming. Why do you work at failed startups? Just get some job with crazy salary, work there for 5 years and then retire.
I’m astonished they didn’t ask her if she remembered being born
Is there something preventing shipping by rail rather than truck?
Gemini on the iPhone would be AI's mainstream moment
I'm ignorant on this aspect, and would appreciate enlightenment. Is soap used in most?

I've never seen anywhere to put soap, and no controls for it's usage, and I would imagine this would need controls to ensure adequate rinsing, but my exposure has mostly been hotel rooms. I imagine that is something that would need to be refilled?
PFAS discussion aside (as I don't know if this is an industry wide issue), Puffs > Kleenex. I always blow right through Kleenex, Puffs is much better, specifically Puffs with lotion. If you're in the US, Kleenex is a trash product with a strong brand. I've seen some different Kleenex offerings in other parts of the world, so this could be different in other regions.
Mac updates made me think I had malware too. It randomly pops up a box that says System Update needs your administrator password. Completely unprompted, zero context. Sketchy as hell looking. Happens every time MacOS downloads an automatic update.
> If they're truly drawn the same (are they?) then why have a distinct encoding?

They may be drawn the same or similar in some typefaces but not all.
> most burnout is mostly caused by managers and culture that just doesn't care about people. A good manager will get an employee who is approaching burnout to take a break/vacation or even change up what they are working on

Agreed and a great manager won't cause burnout because they fundamentally understand what the expectations of their employees are!

I explained a bit of this in my root comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39809297

Curious to hear what your thoughts are
True, I'm assuming commodity hardware. I've never had the privilege of working on really high end systems, but my impression is that you buy or lease a cluster in a box that is simulating one reliable computer.
If it was only investigators using my data, I'd be much happier...
South Korean doctors threaten mass resignation
Most people think Facebook secretly records all their conversations because their ad tracking is just that good. They don't know the root cause but they absolutely do understand the implications.
Even WASM doesn't have native performance, so I question this claim.
This looks incredibly comprehensive, thanks for sharing!

Should have added that I read this book in 2016, and the first edition is even older, so there’s naturally been lots of new (and exciting) developments in this area!
When I saw that diagram I laughed. What they are recommending is a complete rework for each cycle!!
> (This is a 5-second reaction, not a deeply considered opinion, don't take it too seriously)

If you have to put a disclaimer that basically invalidates your statement, why make the statement at all?
If you guys don't see the value of being able to click on a button on a website to deploy, perfectly, everytime over some guy sshing into the box and running git pull I dunno what to tell you.
A prehensile tail would do so much for my cooking skills... the possibilities are infinite.

Wait - I finally found a use case for Neuralink that I can cheer for!
I was reading the bit complaining about pop ups in the browser at the same time as my browser was blocking one of theirs
The check can be done just once per {destination, sourceArch} pair and cached, so overall the amortized impact should be just one extra load
Clickbaits are hard to tell they are click bait until it's already too late, though. One doesn't expect it on HN either!
> Here in The Netherlands for instance, ...

...the Dutch parliament just voted for 4 new nuclear reactors instead of the 2 that were initially planned.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/dutch-parliament-votes-...

> energy prices are negative

Yes, this is one of the many problems with renewables. Negative prices do not reflect cost, but rather how much the supplied energy is currently worth to consumers. Negative prices mean that the energy that is produced is currently less than worthless, it is harmful.

The reason for this is the volatility/unreliability, which means you have to massively overprovision.

> for the price of a nuclear powerplant (or four) you can buy ungodly amounts of battery storage

That tuns out not to be the case. Not only can you not buy sufficient storage at any price currently, the prices are also astronomical.
The love I feel for a product springs from the feelings of relief that it has improved my life
Love is just the release of oxytocin. Nothing more.
I got introduced to this when I moved to Vietnam in 2016. I seriously don't know how I ever lived with toilet paper before.

The comparison I make is, if you had sh1t on your hands, would you use a tiny piece of thin paper to clean it off, or go wash your hands in the sink. How is it that the place you probably can't see, is special somehow?

When I came back to the US and eventually bought a place, I remodeled my house myself and when I did the bathroom, I splurged and installed a fancy $700 Chinese knockoff tankless toilet that I got off Amazon [0]. Heated seat, warm water for the bidet, auto flushes when you stand up. Pure heaven.

In addition, I plumbed in a separate bum gun with a holder/valve coming out of the wall. These are super cheap to buy on aliexpress [1]. Best decisions ever.

I removed the toilet paper holder entirely and just installed a hook on the wall for a small hand towel to dry myself. After all, my rear is clean at that point.

For the occasional heathen guests, I keep a roll of TP around... sigh.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/EPLO-Integrated-Temperature-Controlle...

[1] https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805388220505.html
Yes! The fact I had to read halfway through the article to get the acronym annoyed me to no end.
This sounds like a lot of work. Which kinda confirms the OP's point - it's possible to switch, but most people don't want to die on this hill and choose an easier path (and I can't blame them).
I read it the other way. It's not that customers "love" it, it's that they don't hate it.

In other words it's "love able" as distinct from "loved".

But yo pick on the L is to miss the point. M implies "not there yet" whereas C indicates "its all you need.".

I have a small product which does 1 job really well. Every 5 years or so I give it a visual overhaul. Every couple years someone suggests a feature which would make it better, but equally lead it into a much more complex space.

Its Simple, Complete, and has been used by some folks for over 20 years. To make it "better" would destroy what makes it "Lovable".

Every day here on HN we get announcements of new things. Most are starting out and of course there are lots of suggestions, which the author usually agrees with. Clearly they're showing M. Usually iys not really V for one or more reasons.

So to me at least MVP and SLC are very different concepts. Kudos to developers who strive for simplicity, completeness and elegance.
Doesn't seem like you are very informed on how LLMs work, but just so you know, there are many different versions of Claude, just like how ChatGPT can use different versions of GPT.
I thought the intent was to maximize diversification, not to saturate a single channel? Not sure what actually takes place and I may be mistaken.
Nuclear simulations - not LLMs.

I made a pretty in-depth comment chain about this a couple weeks ago [0] and used to be a researcher in the space (both from a policymaking and technical standpoint)

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39515697
I’ve used both and Typescript is clearly better. The optionally has had zero negative impact on my projects. So basically, I simply disagree.
The Matrix Turns 25
Well if you can spin up a new environment in less than a minute – does it matter? I mean if you are Facebook yes, but having worked with a lot of people building things like web shops – having a minute downtime I would say is fine because I've seen so many of these people shoot themself in the foot trying to build high-availability solutions and having constant downtimes just because they can't handle their own complexity.
I think the problem is the constant performance reviews and comparison/competition with other coworkers.
“Delight our users” (or customers) - similar bullshit. The only time I was “delighted” with software was when I played a new, very engaging video game. That is, something entirely for entertainment. Nothing else.
Emacs has a button for that :-).
Thanks!

Same, I've been seeing a lot of downvoting for reasons that aren't at all clear. Usually that happens on threads that are very opinionated or emotional, but I don't know why this one would qualify. It might be cultural and the downvoters come from a culture where such discussions are taboo? /shrug
The kinda of CPUs being banned aren't the type that would be used in consumer usecases.
I ran into this building search for a family tree project. I found out that Rails provides `ActiveSupport::Inflector.transliterate()` which I could use for normalization.
Also used to distract and confuse (deer and rabbits)
In case it's useful to anyone: another implementation of this idea is Weeve https://shop.weeve.ie I bought one of their books (a study in scarlet) but it wasn't great. Lots of mistranslation, especially later on in the book. The general idea seemed to work well though, with better implementation I think it could really help my french.

I'll give this one a try, being able to add my own books is particularly exciting.
Go can even serve traffic directly without a frontend server, ACME support for TLS is also great.
A lot of organizations still think they should have their own [finetuned] model to provide a custom experience to their users, so that may come as a surprise for them.
Claude is better than GPT 4 for my uses, and was able to help me do some simple coding things that GPT 4 could not. It’s worth trying at least.
lol just reinventing the wheel imo — MVP really just means “minimum product people are willing to pay for (and sometimes just use)”

It’s correct to say 98% of your target market won’t want to use that product. That said, the 2% that do will help iterate and refine for the remaining folks.

To get the initial folks identify the problem and folks willing to work with you. Sure, that’s about it.

“Simple, lovable, complete” sounds nice, but that sounds like features. Good luck building a car, word doc, space ship, new drug, etc with that lol those are products, not independent micro-services
Given the current style, if the book were published today would it be titled BAREFOOT?
I jusy used this recently for making Traindown syntax highlighting! It was pretty intuitive, even though I haven't done this kind of thing before!

https://github.com/inro-digital/lang-traindown

https://traindown.com/

I did notice that it seems (rightfully) very focused on the exact usecase of syntax highlighting. Do people also use this kind of system for quickly building ways to parse data from arbitrary text syntaxes?
Is it just me, or does anyone else think it would be amazing to use upcoming voice assistants with something like this letting you “talk” silently?
I mean, I'm in Wisconsin. If your water lines are that cold I think there's something wrong with your house, friend.
During covid, I was staying with a friend and they refused to let me install one cause they were afraid their kid would flood the house. Fair point that I couldn't really argue with given how they were putting me up at a time when I needed a place.
Microsoft exemplifies the problem very well, but Microsoft is not the problem. Incentives are the problem. It is very profitable to treat your customers badly, and this is true for MS as well as for the site. As well as for Apple, Google, Amazon and everyone else.
It's logic, since they are complex things running proprietary software BUT I can't really name alternatives that not share the same issues AND perform enough...
Are there (non-malware) tools that help clean up this madness?
You've misunderstood their most likely impact target.

Their goal is not to prevent regular people from using those chips. This rule does nothing to stop ordinary Chinese from using anything in fact.

Their goal is to route billions, over time hundreds of billions actually, to their own chipmakers while those chipmakers develop their capabilities with MIPS and ARM architectures.