skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't 2. solved already? One of the main reasons for packages is fine-grained package dependencies.
Those people refuse to work as maids, caring for the elderly, picking crops (remember how we need immigrants to do jobs that Americans just won't do?) and similar.

They are not underemployed, they prefer not to work. Go read the article I linked.
Marketing. Having a fresh look from outside. Not knowing anything except how to build the product.
Okay, what is science?
Would it be possible to invoice what you think should be correct? If the customer recognizes a difference you add a credit item to the next invoice.
Ask HN: Should I use SPAM as part of my marketing campaign?
I'm a full stack developer and have an app that i'm trying to market. My first naive thought was to write a crawler that collects email addresses from lists of relevant websites (open sourced):

https://github.com/madsportslab/mkt

I've also been looking at mailchimp and sendgrid to do some email marketing campaigns, but I've come to the realization that I maybe turning myself into one of those things that I really hate--email spammer.

Is this something a lot of people have had success with or recommend? I can't remember the last time I was hit with random email from a reputable web company trying to sell me services, or perhaps gmail's spam filter is extra good about this. Mostly what I see from spammers are things like viagra sales or russian mail order brides, I can't honestly say that I've ever clicked on one of those emails so I wonder about the effectiveness in addition to the ethicalness.

I imagine the answer's probably word of mouth, getting a few customers under my belt by knocking on people's proverbial doors, seo, targeted online ads, etc.

I truly think I've got a good product, just need to get this in some people's hands.

Thanks in advance.
Is there any product that might be complementary to yours, but not competitive?

Maybe you could approach someone that already sells well, to cross sell your product?
I'm one of the initial contributors to the language and went too far with a self-interpreter for Aheui [1] recently. This one is quite old, we have actually had the 10th anniversary event [2] in 2015 (with more than 30 participants)! It surely is a kind of Brainfuck [3] for Koreans.

[1] https://github.com/aheui/aheui.aheui/

[2] https://aheui.github.io/aheuicon

[3] I'm of course referring to https://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck
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Yup, I just looked up "dumbass" and it's not nice. Way to go in trying to keep the discussion civil.

If you were paying attention, you would see I never said I was against welfare. Only that you can't have a decent debate on this subject and completely ignore it.
Almost had the same problem a few minutes ago. Waiting in the queue at Boots and planning to pay with my Monzo card when I decide to check HN while waiting. The fact that this item was front page enabled me to get out of the queue and find my wife who had a different card and avoid a problem...

(Oh and quick note to Jonas, the iOS app did not push any notifications whatsoever...)
It only archives the one page.
It would be interesting to see Microsoft's pattern compared to the 2
> Because photons are massless you have to use quantum field theory, simple quantum mechanics does not apply

Photons themselves are quantum objects; they do not appear in classical theories of light.

They have several physical attributes which are quantized: spin (+/- 1), helicity (+/- \hbar), chirality (+/- \hbar), charge (0). The masslessness is what makes chirality == helicity as massless particles spin in the same direction along the axis of motion for any observer seeing such an axis.

Frequency is not quantized. A monochromatic light source at frequency f will emit individual photons with energy hf, but the frequency is observer dependent (e.g. one observer may decide that the photons are all hf_{lower} and another may decide that the photons are all hf_{higher}, and an accelerated observer may see the photons arriving from the source with different frequencies at different times; and in all cases each photon will have some hf_{observer} energy).

Photon number is also not conserved -- they can be freely emitted or absorbed. They also always move relativistically (even "slow light" in media does). These features conspire such that the wave-function of a photon only makes sense as long as the photon is neither emitted nor absorbed, and only in a fully relativistic quantum theory. That's what drives your "... you have to use [relativistic] quantum field theory". [0]

You can however devise an (effective) single-photon wave function, and this is done for single-photon experiments, e.g. in studies of single-photon spatial structure, as in the Bialynicki-Birula paper you link to (see eqn 42, and note the point about non-renormalizability).

World-lines are attached to all objects in a relativistic theory (i.e., one where there is Poincaré invariance in the infinitesimal neighbourhood around every point in spacetime), whether those objects are classical or quantum.

Extended objects technically have worldlines attached to each of their microscopic components, but one can usually consider such objects as having a single worldline in some limit; as in fully classical Newtonian mechanics, this would usually be attached to the centre of mass. (In special relativity, which is the theory of flat spacetime, you just use the Schrödinger equation. In very weakly curved spacetime you'd use the Schrödinger-Newton equation, and progress from there as necessary).

[0] It's not strictly the masslessness. Neutrinos have a tiny positive mass and almost always move relativistically. (The exceptions form the cosmic neutrino background, the elements of which have lost momentum in the expansion of space).
Where/how one can find remote jobs at Cisco?
This is the approach basically all of my client projects take.
"Explore, yes, by all means, just not near politically fraught international borders, even if you are a white man from America, with all the privilege in the world to marshal."

I found this closing remark rather unnecessary, especially since it was the fact that he was American that got him into this mess.
It is unclear what kind of technology are they planning to use for this shield. If it is usual electromagnets, it's unclear where would they take energy from, if superconducting ones than it's unclear that it would be possible to keep them in superconducting state for long.

Wish someone more knowledgable about this kind of tech comment on this.
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subscription billing, its definitely one of those big, ugly, nasty hard to solve problems that no one really wants to talk about or address. Definitely falls into the category of "if its not broke don't fix it."

But payments in general are just totally effed and can't seem to move forward without some sort of fix. as a consumer its both amazing and incredibly frustrating. as a merchant it's essential. Imagine how much money netflix would lose if you had to auth payments every 30 days.
Once, just once, I would love to open the comments of a philosophy-related HN article and not see a middlebrow dismissal [1] as the top comment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920
While some people do get outraged by high margins, the main issue I see here is that they do pretend to publish their markup, but it's widely out of whack with reality. 63% may technically fit into "15%+", but it's highly misleading. They should just remove it.
is it practical though ?

With the joycons, I kinda wish I could draw a bow with both joycon in order to aim.

Not sure if that would work, but I would like an easier way to aim precisely. Right now I am starting to miss my mouse.
If you rely on a lot of service companies like Uber & Instacart, appified dry-cleaning and maid service then it may actually be cheaper for you to hire someone for 8 hours a day to do your chores.

This guy ended up paying $70 for a single grocery trip, do that and take Uber twice a day, and you're verging on "I can hire personal staff" territory.
That's a strong statement. I'd say it 'ceases to be trivially interpretable'. And I think this is part of where the 'the published paper said ___ so it must be true!' disparity between scientists and public becomes more apparent.

In biology when you design a good experiment, run it, come up with a model that fits your experiment, no scientist would ever pretend that their articulated model was how things actually worked. It's close, it's reasonable, but many more publications would be needed to confirm it. A single publication just is not enough to decomplexify the entanglements in biology. Many other scientists will use that model as the basis for their newer experiment, and when their results do not comport, they alter, adjust, or if need be, discard the original model.

The trouble with biology is it might take an entire 'Cell' paper (12 pages of dense publication - ie, many many grad-student-years of work) just to come up with the most simplistic model for what the biological experiment observed. That doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful - it was just much more complicated and less easily well-describable than physics and chemistry experiments. But very much like physics and chemistry, there is a definite trend towards a well-described and predictable system. Models actually get increasingly accurate over time. And this feature might be part of the border in defining a 'robust' science.
> I'm sure whole different paradigms may be possible in different scripts.

This is like Sapir–Whorf for programming languages. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity)

I'm skeptical that programming languages in other scripts would "discover" new programming paradigms inaccessible to languages written with the latin alphabet. Programming languages hardly follow any rules of english grammar, despite most of them being in English.
There are several programming languages using Hangul which are way more readable (hence not esoteric): 씨앗 (1993), 약속, etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-English-based_programming_...
this is pretty solid actually, ill have to check it out.

edit, i checked it out. so 1) its no open to sign ups, and 2) you have to have pretty stellar credit to even be considered. so that leaves out most people.
I think it's just the degree. Instead of saying we charge 10% on gross plus a delivery fee of $x based on demand, they add margin to everything and double charge (service fee vs tip) for things people are unsure about. On the other hand, it is indeed a luxury service and people are free not to use it. The market will correct it if it needs correcting.

In the UK, this would never fly as pretty much every supermarket has home delivery with identical online v in store pricing + delivery fee. It's much more honest.
You'd have a point if the competition charged fees on a percentage of "alpha" generated -- but they don't, they largely charge more fees than index funds, irrespective of whether they outperform.
> The only justification they have to be frustrated is if they expected 'enjoy middle class life' to be the normal outcome of having a job, which is the essence of privilege

That's very uncharitable and reductionist of you. Average people, no matter who they are, lead average, unfulfilled lives with unrealized dreams.

Not only are your facts wrong, as pointed out below, but reality is always more complex than that, and it's incredibly manipulative to present it like you did. Women go to university more than men, for example. You're absolutely not entitled to determined whether which of their frustrations are "justified" or not, and everybody is frustrated for a whole range of reasons all the time, not just economic reasons, but psychological, emotional, relationships, hobbies, and more. Why are white men suiciding so much? Is that a privilege?

You're not saying any of this out of empathy, as some in your cohort like to pretend. You're generalizing people by their race, essentializing them to their economic status, which dehumanizes both "privileged" and "unprivileged" completely. It's just a cheap ploy to frame yourself as righteous and "good" ("pointing it out"), and without question this fake social "science" is the biggest problem I have with the left.
What makes it "esoteric"? It doesn't seem esoteric to want to program in your own language. I'm not saying it's not esoteric, I'm just curious what makes it so.

I've strongly considered writing a Spanish-based programming language--Spanish is spoken by more people than English, and Spanish is a first language a larger percentage of Spanish speakers, while for many English speakers it is their second language. It seems like a Spanish-based programming language could reduce cognitive barriers to entry to programming for a large portion of the world. Of course, if the tool chain isn't up to par it will eventually hold users back, but it's at least worth investigating.
I didn't reach out to many lawyers. After hearing a few not wanting to be David against Goliath, I just came to terms that I should not be building a business on a revenue stream like Adsense where an automated review can mean the difference between being in business and not, and moved on.

Fair enough. Can't argue against being pragmatic in business.

I sense you may be implying that maybe I was breaking the TOS

No, that wasn't my intent at all. I was just reasoning that if you had a deal with Google where you would normally expect to be paid, they would need some basis for not paying you (or, one would hope, they would lose the case and you'd get your money). They might be unhelpful in terms of not telling you why that is at first, but if you're taking real legal action they can't just say "Not gonna tell ya!" any more (or again, one would hope, they lose the case). If they did come back with something from their terms as their justification, then you would have to see whether those terms stood up in court.
I do wonder which People are too busy to shop but won't pay 50 USD per hour for the shopping premium?
TL;DR: it's a feature, because you're not supposed to do that. This is how you send this message even to toddlers.
You can swap the latin characters for other symbols, but I'm not sure how it will fundamentally change anything. Advances come from thinking of how to formulate abstract concepts differently, like procedural vs. functional programming. The letters themselves are just part of the specification.

Perhaps people whose language is radically different from romance languages will approach programming differently because of that, and invent something new.
The problem with finding examples ourselves is that we don't know what you meant by the terms you used. I, for one, would have some difficulty drawing the line between "social equality" and "other stuff on top", such as getting rid of traditional gender roles.

(what I see as) the mainstream feminist position is that getting rid of traditional gender roles is essential to achieve equal social rights. It's not really equal if one can legally do a thing but everyone else will think it's innappropriate.
Every story I've read about this happening - the person got in.
Because no Korean would expect a two-dimensional language with the only storage being stacks and queues of integers.
one trick for remembering pins is to decide a number that acts like an encryption key for all your cards. Then calculate the PIN by adding the key to four digits on the card. Then you only have to remember the key.
> No matter how much feminism pretends otherwise, women are not keen to form lasting relationships with unemployed men.

I am a feminist man and I would not be keen to form a lasting relationship with an unemployed woman unless she was already wealthy.
Developing with React and Flux
According to [2], there was 한베(Hanbae) which was developed in 1991.

[2] http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=axes2024&logNo=110... (in Korean)
This may be a confusing thing, I suspect Instacart may get volume discount from stores for bringing the extra business.

So this markup may be based on discounted cost instacart pays, not necessarily what YOU would pay at the store.

Still think it's a crazy premium, but I enjoy grocery shopping.
Agreed, from a Physicist's perspective, Darwin's Theory is extremely "squishy".
my biggest problem with being a solo founder is being able to bounce ideas off others. Obviously I talk to my friends and family, but it's a different ball game because they're not really immersed in this as I am, so the advice is usually too generic. I need someone to keep me honest and bat ideas around back and forth with who have full context and passion.

my project is here:

https://madsportslab.com
who expect me to work in support of those who refuse to do so.

Not all people who make money work for it. What about those people who earn tons of money collecting economic rents on all the capital and other property they own? By paying economic rents to these people, the rest of us are supporting their lavish lifestyles while many other people struggle to keep a roof over their heads.
After Dozens of Fires, Mercedes-Benz Recalls One Million Vehicles
I have this problem too. Is there an affordable service that just does email triage...answering simple stuff from a FAQ/Knowledge Base, and escalating the real stuff to a simple ticket system? Something that works for a very small operation..
The thing is on a MBP I can run a Linux VM, which is good enough for almost everything. The reverse is not true.

There is a ton of good software for macOS that isn't available on Linux.
the doctor informs me that quite a lot of people with stomach issues misinterpret them for heart attacks and vice versa

Yeah, my dad died (11 years ago) of a heart attack while he was thinking he had stomach issues.
> If you're ever in doubt about tech's sexism problem, revisit one of the HN comment threads where gender roles come up and marvel at the unchecked support for the idea that women should be stay-at-home mothers. Then, for bonus points, check out a divorce thread.

And then look how many people have ideas about what's "natural" that come straight out of Victorian etiquette books.
Seems to have been heavily cloned as well. I think my dad owned one such clone called a Lambda 8300 or some such.
>Evolution has made men the provider.

Evolution works on the level of genes. It literally cannot prescribe complex social roles. "In the old days", both men and women worked full-time at various tasks: hunting, gathering, mending, caring, building, planting, harvesting, etc.
I recall that america was chasing communists pretty badly some decades ago...
The article and paper lacks any indication of the amount of energy needed to run such a magnetic field. What amount would it take to run it, and what sources of energy would be viable for it?
This is disappointing. Everyone should have the right to speak freely, without fear of violence or intimidation, regardless of their message. It's that simple.
It's esoteric in the way languages listed on this wiki are esoteric: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page

It not a programming language where keyword are in Korean but one based on non mainstream concepts like brainfuck.
You don't need different syntax. Just prefix all non carte imports with your own crate name.
Instacart and some of these other apps charge a LOT of money, so they go to pretty great lengths to hide the amount they are actually charging. Instacart is being especially clever by raising the price of the item then charging an additional service fee and delivery fee with, apparently, surge pricing. It also isn't clear how much of any of this goes to the actual person doing the work, so you still need to tip around 20%.

For me, this isn't just about whether it is "worth it" to not have to shop for groceries, but also whether there is a much cheaper option available through either your grocery store or a non-Instacart personal shopper.

It boggles my mind that people are paying this much for the privilege of being able to use an app rather than having to interact a bit more with an actual human being.
Seems like an interesting strategy:

1. Launch a new pickup feature.

2. Buy its main and arguably well established competitor.

3. Migrate their users and restautants to your service.

4. Let the actual employees go (probably with a nice severance package).
Ironically, polling and association studies like this would be something I'd classify as low precision.
Onlive went bankrupt.
"but it's super painful to close"

China the Hotel California of SME's
Spamming email addresses will get your account shut down from email service providers, your domain will become blacklisted, and you might even get a fine per victim. Nothing about that will sustain your business, probably not even enough to ignite it anymore because MailChimp et al explicitly do not want you as their customer and they'll identify your intentions quickly.

Finding users for your product is the part where most startups and almost all your ideas will fail, but you have to search for something sustainable.
Dennett goes into a lot more detail as to the processes by which evolution affects consciousness and the resulting properties of consciousness than anyone in my (admittedly limited) reading.
I used ircII under various UNIXen and the resource footprint was even smaller.

That being said it had a negligible UI footprint since it was a curses-based text UI, doesn't embed media content or render text in a GUI, and it doesn't really do much.

Slack does a lot more, but it shouldn't need to burn CPU while doing nothing.

But it is an illustration of how little resources you actually need for IO, simple state management and dealing with the protocol layers. You'd accept bloat in all of these areas to get more functionality, but not by orders of magnitude.

Out of curiosity I downloaded ircII-latest, ran `configure` and `make`, and then started it up (about 30 seconds from clicking the link to starting the compiled binary btw). Initial memory footprint on startup was 465kB. Now it is up to a whopping 604kB. As it is mostly idling (very little chat traffic on the channel) the CPU use is at 0.0%.
App-only bank Monzo is down
Reaching niche users in a cost-effective way.
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Initial post removed, here's the imgur link to the receipt that was accidentally left in the bag and screenshots of the instacart list.

https://imgur.com/a/r6KGn
He can't tell because he is a human
Does Instacart ramp it over time? I've only used it once and there was no markup at all.
Are there any resources you've found helpful to get better at sales?
Allocating time between sales activities and product development to optimize growth and retention.

I've brought on some part-time help for the sales end, but ultimately the difficult factors to balance are:

- My desire to grow as quickly as possible.
- I'd like to retain all of my clients.
- I want to have a very high client satisfaction.

We have had a few complaints/suggestions from our user base, and like all of you we have had some feature requests. These need to be addressed, but it's also a solid MVP and very sellable. Determining whether and how to invest my time in product vs growth is an ongoing challenge.
My company recently signed up with Intelligent Office to handle our phones. It's been over a month now and we are really pleased with their service. They are pretty flexible on what they will/can handle. I believe they are franchised and we are using the Boise, ID franchise which is the next town over from us. It's always the same three girls that answer the phones for us and they do a great job of sounding like they are right in our office. They even joined one of our Slack channels so they can check in on who is available and such for incoming calls. When I went to meet them before signing up they told me they also handle customer returns for a high end mobile phone case company out of California, so I have no doubt you could train them on your invoicing process.

Edit: Adding URL! https://www.intelligentoffice.com