jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We sell enterprise software - LinkedIn is a great resource to 1) look for the right people in larger companies we want to sell to and contact them, and 2) join interest groups that are related to our software product to query people in those groups about stuff we're working on and hear about the kinds of problems they're having or what the issues du jour are. It's also a great resource when you're about to talk to a potential client to see what they're currently doing, where they've been, etc.
You missed the point. The estimate is just as bad. I wasn't talking about the amount of money spent.
This sounds frighteningly like my life already. As a salaried employee in a stable organization.
I would blame those who haven't taken issue with the spreading of conspiracy theories and certainly those who spread conspiracy theories when it is convenient for them that leads to this kind of thing.
>>I'm saying "avoid overperformance", and overperformance isn't the same thing as "doing a great job"

Can someone explain this formulation of 'performance' without referencing "the Wire"? Ie is it simply long hours? Or is it long hours coupled with getting a lot done, in a good way? Or is it getting a lot done, and breaking things for everyone else? Or ...?
Ryzen 3000 desktop processors use a chiplet design, with the IO die built on an older process than the processor dies. Ryzen 4000 mobile processors are monolithic dies, so they don't have the extra power of the inter-chiplet connections and they're entirely 7nm parts instead of a mix of 7nm and 14nm.
Okay I just sent a bunch of linked in messages, does it make sense to target young sales person at enterprise companies? I'm guessing people like director of sales or vp of sales won't give a crap. Ideally looking for hungry people, who are self motivated and looking to make higher comission that compensates them for the added risk.
Any current or planned VR features? Cheers
They pay their salaries. They do not hire them. Big difference.
> Enjoy wine, or that Stradivarius recording, accepting that you might be fooling yourself.

Yes, but it's also good to be aware that there are limits to your perception and take advantage. The 80% rule definitely works here. I don't drink wine, but at least with beer, tequila, and coffee, there is a pretty obvious gap between the cheap/ low end stuff and the good stuff, but paying significantly more for higher end brands isn't worth it.

So focus on getting out of that low end category and really enjoy the good stuff because the supposed "great" high end stuff is rarely worth tripling what you pay (or more).
Stirred, not shaken!
> At a minimum that 12,000 satellite network means ~60 are within range at the same time.

It doesn't work like that, unfortunately. It's not uniform and satellites in highly inclined orbits spend more time around the poles.

580 miles radius is also far too much. This may -barely- work for the outer shells, but the link budget and rates get worse there, and of course, these outer shell satellites need to be shared over an area enclosing more population.

Of course, link budget, data rates, and spectral efficiency also get worse as the satellites are lower in the sky, too.

Of course, receiving from an arbitrary subset of 60 transmitters occupying the same frequency band with an electrically steered phase array gets pretty hard when there's a big difference in the received power levels between the transmitters, too.
His store is only open three days every month (well, outside of Covid). He's a full-time YouTuber now, with the store as his fun little side gig.

It used to be the other way around, though.
My initial thought was it can’t be that hard to migrate off quickly. Then I thought about all the major sites I’ve worked on or built over the past decade.

Oh crap. There is zero chance I could do it quickly.

So a turn around from 20 years ago when I would setup LAMP applications on new new hardware in an afternoon.
> Most people are allured by Julia's overhyped marketing ...

Wikipedia says "Marketing refers to activities a company undertakes to promote the buying or selling of a product, service, or good." Julia is not a company; I think what you're calling "marketing" would better be labeled "user enthusiasm" :-)
This has been debunked repeatedly, but since "we showed those snobs!" makes for good clickbait, it inevitably returns.

The studies listed never quite make it clear how "wine expert" is being defined. The one in this article says it used students, who clearly are not experts in any sense of the word. Other studies just handwave away the question and say, "We asked wine experts." If you dig into some of them, it turns out that the designated "wine experts" were really some people that took a weekend course on wine testing.

If you don't define your terms, your conclusions are not relevant.

Edit, just to add an example more amenable to the HN crowd. Imagine a research study asks CS students or recent coding camp graduates questions about programming and computer science. Would you take their answers as authoritative? Because that's pretty much what is happening here, except with wine.
Can you source this 10% number? And show that the problem is the ISP's end, not their connection to Netflix?
Send me your email so i send you the details. Stay away from silent circle, else ALL your conversations could be listen and saved and recorded.
Drupal 8 actually using a lot of Symfony2 components internally now, and you should be able to manage your modules with composer if you so choose.

I'm really excited for D8, no other CMS to date has been as easy to administer in my eyes, and now that they're dramatically revamping the module and theming stories I may even enjoy writing modules and themes once more.
The problem you are describing is due to the fact that the word "troll" is a semantic stop sign http://lesswrong.com/lw/it/semantic_stopsigns/

People judge someone as a troll and immediately stop thinking about the subject matter, e.g. "Russia invaded Ukraine" is that a fact or an opinion?
It seems many people here commenting haven't tried it. It has no sync! The online interface is awful!

This is currently such a bad product that its not likely to be a threat to any existing solution.

Try signing up and seeing it for yourself. You will neither be able to sync or upload a lot of content, nor use it once uploaded given the poor online interface.
I've met three types of very good developers:

1. Humble and quiet

2. Bullies that grow to respect you

3. Bullies that stay bullies

From my experience:

- Never tolerate working with 3), it doesn't matter how good they are.

- You can have a good working relationship with 2) and make friends with them.

- You should be able to differentiate between 2) and 3) after a month - if you can't assume they're 3).

- Obviously seek out 1) and learn all you can from them.
I think its unfair if you're being held without charge or trial. If you've been sentenced, it might be cruel punishment or even torture but at least you can accept your fate.
Misel, generally HN should not be used just to advertise. If you can add some blog content or articles that throw light on your business model or experience, it can be a good resource.

For regular readers, I usually flag sales posts, but I upvoted this one in the light of last week's interesting discussion about web design for $15 (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1983141). Some posters argued against pricing too low (like me), some argued that being undercut at $14, $13 etc., was not a problem worth worrying about. Although it's not exactly the same service, and I agree there is 'room at the bottom,' so to speak, the low-budget design market is going to be increasingly crowded. We didn't have to wait very long for a random example at an even lower price point of $10. Think it over when setting your pricing strategy.
If you go to http://bodybrowser.googlelabs.com/body.html# then you can get a little further, but it still complains about not having webGL enabled.
Amen! I've not worked in enough companies to make a proper generalisation but based on my limited experience, small or large the major difference seems to be whether you're a cost centre supporting the business or the profit driver building new products. The latter is more pressure but a rather more enjoyable atmosphere, I feel.
Agreed completely that the form factor doesn't work for everything. The hope is that I can knock out a few annoying buggy cases for you.
Totally agree. I guess the point that gets me is that the NDA had an expire time. Makes no sense at all. Show me the commits.
No one cared then? Exactly the same people cared then as now. I'm pretty sure that if you page through Glenn Greenwald's blog you will find more than a few instances of outrage over the treatment of military prisoners (including Hicks specifically.)
Yes, I use SSH keys, not password authentication, as well as PAM 2FA which is my normal SSH configuration. So the traffic is e2ee from my client to my server. Perhaps that issue refers to using personal SSH keys instead of the ~/.cloudflared/cert.pem which is used to encrypt the tunnel
Okay, considering the patronizing and condescending tone of your comment, I couldn't help but bite. Even if this comment is a few days old.

I too have a very low opinion of India like you do. I have often said food and yoga are the only great things to historically come out of India and a few good mathematicians of course. So food alone is one reason to visit!

The others here have mentioned about the geographical beauty of India. Skiing in the Himalayas alone is worth it.

I was born in India but moved away at a very young age. I did go back from time to time. Like you, I too think Indian culture is old and full of ignorance. It is biting them in the ass. My comment history will attest to that. But then again, what developed nation wasn't? At some point the church prevailed in Germania too. But this is changing, albeit at a slow pace. Why? Indian values have been traditionally been placed on peace/ cowardice ;). They never had a deranged lunatic who propelled them into the scientific age with a war based economy killing half of his own population. They never had genetic cleansing of population. So any change into the scientific, modern age is going to happen at a very slow pace. Unless of course they go to war with China and their existence is threatened. I guess you can see what I'm getting at. Spirituality. There's a fundamental divide in east-west spirituality and its a lot more deeper than you think. It's enlightening to visit these places. Please do read autobiography of a yogi or anything by vivekananda if you go on such a trip. It's not just mindless, non-scientific drivel. You'll see a fundamental difference from Nietzsche.

Next, history. India is home to the oldest known civilization in the world, the indus valley civilization. So you can imagine how rich the history is. And needless to say, I'd imagine you know the importance of visting historical sites, especially say Auschwitz in your country. There is some stuff we never want to repeat. Oh and I couldn't help but type this, you can take a train in India without fear! I kid, I kid.
Sorry, can't - it's internal only right now. But the demo from the D3 page was our starting point.
They make great apps. I don't know if it got implemented, but I heard rumors they were working on some really cutting edge routing tech too.
Most of my free time these days is spent watching Coursera videos. It is an absolute revolution for those of us who love to learn. There is so much material though and I don't have enough time!
And someone once said, "This farmed salmon tastes like cardboard." To which the old fisherman replied, "That is very unfair. There are some palatable cardboards out there."
On play store, the ratings and reviews are almost immediately updated but install numbers are not frequently updated. Usually it gets updated once in a day or sometime it takes even more time to update.
I believe the key term of the parent comment you're replying to in your first statement is "luxury production". While Mercedes and BMW both produce a large number of luxury vehicles, they also produce a large number of non-luxury vehicles such as trucks, buses, vans, motorcycles (BMW only) and even garbage trucks.

For global auto sales from US manufacturers, I'm guessing that companies like Paccar and Oshkosh are keeping Tesla out of the top five currently. They make trucks and commercial vehicles so people tend to overlook them when it comes to comparing auto manufacturers.

Still, I do agree with the underlying message of your post. It's not like there are a ton of US auto companies left.
Perhaps his work is living.
That's JetBrains Mono. It's open source
Cool, why?
> Can you give an example?

Get to any list of RFCs.

Right click, middle click, ctrl+click, or do anything other than left click on the "link" to the RFC you want to read. They are not real links. They can not be opened in new windows.
Oh and if you're willing to dust off a flash player, check out Windows RG (Really good edition). It really is really good.

https://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/winrg
Most of the posts there appear to be about AirPods Pro -- which have ANC. FWIW, I have only ever used the regular AirPods (1st and 2nd gen) for hours on end every day for years and have no issues with them or tinnitus.
So the fact that China didn't cooperate should affect future health policy?

edit- make China/cooperate more explicit.
There was a great article in New York Magazine covering the background here and the possibilities.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-esca...

It turns out we've been doing "serial passage" research for some time, which is where we leverage natural selection to do our genetic engineering for us, rather than manually editing genes. This is how we engineer viruses to jump species - on purpose.

> They did it using serial passaging: repeatedly dosing a mixed solution of mouse cells and hamster cells with mouse-hepatitis virus, while each time decreasing the number of mouse cells and upping the concentration of hamster cells. At first, predictably, the mouse-hepatitis virus couldn’t do much with the hamster cells, which were left almost free of infection, floating in their world of fetal-calf serum. But by the end of the experiment, after dozens of passages through cell cultures, the virus had mutated: It had mastered the trick of parasitizing an unfamiliar rodent.

In fact, "we" (meaning humanity) have even been experimenting with serial passage into humans.

> A few years later, in a further round of “interspecies transfer” experimentation, Baric’s scientists introduced their mouse coronavirus into flasks that held a suspension of African-green-monkey cells, human cells, and pig-testicle cells. Then, in 2002, they announced something even more impressive: They’d found a way to create a full-length infectious clone of the entire mouse-hepatitis genome. Their “infectious construct” replicated itself just like the real thing, they wrote.

The whole article is really worth a read.
Maybe the person should have used: "suggesting"?
Anyhow, I share the sentiment that the "vegan lobby" is an easy target to pick.
> white supremacists like Charles Murray

I’m not sure you’re using that word correctly. Do you think Murray is actually a white supremist? Or just made some bad science?
I don't know what this word "doxxing" even means in this context. Does it mean calling unwanted attention to public information?
It would be really great if they sold these such that one purchase could cover the cost of one for charity. It would be even better if there was enough demand to drive the production cost down further.
It's unityped! It has one type with infinitely many variants/tags (.<string>). Match failure occurs at runtime as in any other safe typed language such as Haskell or ML.
> your grocery bills at the end of the year will dominate your takeout and restaurants bills combined

I spend 150€/month on groceries. Reducing that would be really difficult, and involve changing my diet and buying cheaper ingredients. Even then, I wouldn't save enough to make a difference.

A restaurant meal is 10-15€.
There are several torrents floating around that are essentially a compendium of self-reliance information.

I downloaded one a year or two ago. Just a few of the titles included:

- FM 21-76 (US Army Survival Manual)

- Bushcraft (Canadian Scout Manual)

- Knots and lashings

- Caching Techniques

- DIY Shelters

- Food and Water

- Dangerous Plants and Animals

- Edible Wild Plants (Illustrated)

- Farming and Gardening

- Citizens' Homeland Defense Guide

I would recommend storing on several digital mediums (DVDs/Harddrives) in addition to physical print-outs.
Unfortunately not too much info in there beside the fact that he didn't work on project titan.
This is the strangest and most satisfying discovery in a bit.
maybe website analytics is more appropriate? the word analytics is taking on a new meaning these days
FYI: use tab completion in the 'units' REPL to show a list of available definitions. You won't find them in the 'units' manpage, as they are defined in an external datafile (on my machine this file is /usr/share/units/definitions.units)
This seems interesting. I'll check it out!
"It is better to be vaguely right and than precisely wrong".
How about instead of trying to dig a hole somewhere, you find a job where you can provide great value on very little hours?

I moonlight as a consultant, and I generally work for whatever the going rate is for a decent hourly hire in the space. I do web-apps as it is my specialty, and select projects with familiar tech / business logic so that I'm productive quickly.

What I do differently then most is that I invest time up front to understand the company, and understand the why behind the projects I have to do. It allows me to spend a lot of time shaping my work instead of implementing. I'll try to find better alternatives, question requirements, etc. I do it in good faith, trying to uncover unsound specs and find 80/20 solutions, which in the context of companies outsourcing dev work to random shops has a ton value.

It doesn't make the projects themselves more interesting, but this approach is challenging in itself and it keeps me on my toes.

Once I've figured the how, I get grinding. I do long, 8-12h crunch sessions, fasting and fully in the zone. During each of those I can do an amount of work that is perceived to take about a week.

I do most of those up front (avoid last minute surprises), take some notes on some of the roadblocks I encounter in case someone asks for an update at any point, and set the project aside. I then turn it in a bit before the expected deadline (which is sometimes explicit, sometimes not).

Ethics are hard but truth is I'm not even ashamed of it and have on multiple occasions admitted to doing that to managers / execs when I felt they were open-minded people. They still get excellent value for their money and I get paid incredibly well for my time. Win-win.

The alternative would be to try to charge 200-300$ an hour, but companies generally don't want to deal with the perceived risk and are very reluctant to pay consultants higher than their most expensive employees .
Even more weird stuff that seems somewhat related he wrote back in 2017.

https://web.archive.org/web/20171018143123/https://www.numai...
Yeah, upon rereading I see I wasn’t replying to what you meant.
I don't think you should be getting downvoted. You clearly hold strongly to your values. There's nothing wrong with that. And you're adding to the discussion by providing your perspective, not being rude or attacking anyone.
We used to say if developers did not have the idea what to add to the application, they were adding ability to chose skins.

Nowadays it seems adding cryptocurrencies took place of fancy skins management.
don't leave us hanging, man
There’s a lot of throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks in this article. It also conflates things in its comparisons, like comparing AI to pharmaceuticals. We don’t ingest algorithms and a much better comparison would be to a non FDA regulated lab test, many of which exist.

The lie detector comparison is also odd. We never regulated lie detectors, we simply barred their use in courtrooms because their results are unreliable. This is I think the core issue I have with articles like this - if we talk about regulation, we should talk about regulating outcomes, not underlying tech. There was no talk of regulating skin conductivity devices after polygraphs were barred from evidence.
In this article, Numair Faraz says:

1. Person X offered him 0.1% of Facebook, but later screwed him out of it somehow.

2. Person X pulled up in his car next to an underaged girl riding a bicycle, and had sex with her without a condom (which, because she was underage, would be rape regardless of how willing she was or wasn't).

3. He (Numair Faraz) witnessed the rape, and convinced Person X to give the girl his phone number.

4. The girl later contacted Person X requesting money for medical services at Planned Parenthood (an abortion?), which Person X sent through an intermediary at the same company, who he reimbursed with a paper check.

5. He implies that it happened in a "faraway place", though presumably one in the United States, because Planned Parenthood was available there.

Then in this thread pbiggar says it can be inferred that Person X is Sean Parker.

I wish Numair had written these claims down in a straightforward manner, explaining exactly what happened, as I have attempted to do above, instead of writing in such an oblique and insinuating way. The latter style is becoming too common, and it makes it difficult to distinguish serious claims from vague character attacks.

But Sean Parker was very rich at the time, and given what I know of the lives of the very-rich, especially the newly-very-rich -- say, of rock stars -- then it would not be too surprising. (Not to say anything about Sean Parker specifically; my only knowledge of him comes from The Social Network.)

(Projecting the behavior of rockstar-founders-on-power-highs, onto rank-and-file SV engineers who are nowhere near these kinds of events, is something I would take issue with, but it's a small issue next to the factual claims.)

So: It seems Numair Faraz has just publicly accused Sean Parker of statutory rape 15 years ago. Are there legal next steps?
The problem is that these features need to be worked on, they require attention and the implementation sends a (strong) message.

It's not just the fact that it exists that leaves the bad taste, it's the fact the decision was made, what that implies about the mentality/goals of the people making such a decision and that it will from that point on hog resources. And those aspects won't go away by not using it.
That is only for the first quarter. In fact, if you compare the rental fees, Plivo is $300 cheaper per quarter.

If you compare the outbound SMS rate, Plivo is 30-40% cheaper than similar services out there.

Rental-fee: $2700/3 months + (one-time $500)

SMS rate:

0.65 cents/sms (outbound)
0.50 cents/sms (inbound)

Also if you lease a new Short Code before March 31, 2014, we give you $1000 off your first invoice.
My work laptop runs Windows 7 Pro, and I usually reboot it once a month, when it installs updates.

It is slow as a turtle, but rebooting does not really help with that. (To be fair, it slow at least in part because it is five years old, has only three GB of RAM (remember the days when we would have drooled at the thought of that?), and I installed way too much software on it, a good part of it usually running when I use it.)
Guess he was busy changing how people use computers.
This is silly, you can't expect to screen out bad actors in a brief online conversation, least of all via text. You should arrange to meet at a safe, neutral place that provides its own (formal or informal) physical security.