skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s pretty simple: you don’t eat.
uh, try $1 per 10,000 API calls and maybe you're on to something.
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You seem to be equating gaming the system with making the system fair to the driver. The problem is that now not only is Uber taking advantage of your coworkers, but you’re indirectly taking advantage of them as well. Because you’re now exploiting the same thing Uber is. This doesn’t fix the system. In fact it probably makes it worse.

Take your advice to the end: nodody should drive unless there’s a surplus of fares. That would cause much of the day to qualify as surge. The premium Uber pays for surge would drop substantially in order to protect their margins. Which means your earning potential would decrease. Now the first quartile of employees are barely making more than the third quartile. That sucks for everybody.
I'd much rather do my dishes by hand. Dishwashers leave a strange film on the dishes.
I had the same thing with concrete structural integrity calculations software written in BASICA. Still useful.
What is your definition of "generation," and why do you refer to it as an abstraction? We are referring to generations as a structural parent-child term, where people on the same tier of the tree share the same generation. This is not the same as saying "Generation X/Y/Z" and so forth, which is a different meaning of the word entirely.
Both. I’d pay per 1K API calls below a certain threshold but the peace of mind that if I get sudden spike (or make a mistake) it’s not going to bankrupt me.
>>After you've been coding for almost 2 decades across multiple industries, coding becomes predictable and tedious.

Well yeah, if you are still “coding” after two decades you will probably find it tedious.

You can move into “engineering” and “architecting” however, which involve entirely different challenges, both in type and scale.
There's a rule that's relevant here: innovate the product or the pricing, but not both.

So if you're innovating on the product.. market the innovations to your users, and focus their attention on the benefits of your innovations. They should be big, obvious improvements--think 10x (not 10%). For pricing, copy it from your competitors.

If you're innovating on the pricing, then that's frequently a freemium model... but it could also be flat-rate pricing, etc. To build a foothold in an existing market, you'll need to aim for pricing that's 1/10th of your competitors. If you're going to deliver a big price cut like this, you should make it as obvious to your customers as you possibly can.

So the answer to your question very much depends on your strategy, but also the industry you are in and how your competitors price their products.

Perhaps the worst thing you could do is both... since innovations cost money and price cuts cost money... it's a great way to die. Doing less of both just creates a mediocre product without clear marketing; making it more complicated for your users to understand the benefits of your service.
Why can't a publication like NY Times put 2 minutes into editing an article or op ed piece into something a bit more pleasant to the eyes? It wouldn't take much to add some subheadings, make key words/phrases bold.

Getting tired of publications where Wall of Text hits you for +100 hp...
An upper cost bound can also be applied with a hard user-configurabe usage cap.

For a company, having your largest customers have negligible marginal cost for increased usage seems unwise.
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$1 per 1000 easily, because your cost is upfront, a quota means your wasting people’s time by trying to game the cost of each call.
This. All the other comments are from people who clearly don't have kids.
Im wondering.. If you train a neural net on a famous writter and apply that net to a copyrighted work.. does copyright still apply.
No, it's implemented in C++.
> I mean, look at this picture and tell me how social media’s made this worse:

Before you had to get up, go somewhere and protest to get noticed. A lot of people agreed with those students that desegregating was outrageous but only the people in the immediate area / willing to travel got noticed/heard. The costs of expressing moral outrage were much larger.

Now I can sit on my toilet and express moral outrage about Mozilla's CEO giving money to anti-gay marriage groups or whatever and be seen/heard by the entire world instantly. Thus the volume of moral outrage has been turned up big time.

Which was the point of the piece you just dismissed offhand as dumb:

"If moral outrage is a fire, is the internet like gasoline?"
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http://blog.yesterplay80.net/dosbox-ece-en/

Community Edition. Seems to be some popular tweaks built in. Probably a good place to actually start.
I’m not sure that’s accurate. People hold all manner of irrational political beliefs and there is value in recognizing that irrationality.
$1 per 1000 Calls
The material inputs for the lifetime of the project are roughly 27 t/GWh, 1/3 of which is metal. It shows how terribly poor wind energy systems are.
This is all great info. One additional note. The best way to become a PM is to just start doing the job.

Even if you're on a team with a PM already, offer to write a few of the specs. Or if there's no room to do that, then create a side project where you go through the product development process and show your work. Create sort of a portfolio that demonstrates your abilities.
I guess so. But it just seems like this person is done. People are allowed to be done. And really, communication skills on the part of community members should be emphasized as well.

Edit: after reading some more of the reasoning and the discussions that led to this, I’m even less inclined to blame the maintainers for closing the project. People wanted more than it could give. If this other person really wants to take on that burden with a fork, by all means.
There’s a real dearth of summaries for papers that are aimed at those who have taken a reasonable amount of math: say calculus, some number theory, linear algebra. It always either ends up being some sort of terrible analogy to a real-world phenomenon that has no math in it or something that’s about as complicated as the paper itself.
I'm with you, but I'd probably do a 900 SPG.
One thing to think about - are you looking to transition in your current company or in a new company?

I'm a PM at Google. One thing that works here is having eng do 20% PM projects or do a PM rotation for a few months to get a taste for the life before committing fully. I don't know how it works at your company but you could look into taking on some PM responsibilities before making the move.

A certification may explain more about the role and give you background knowledge, but it wouldn't help in skill development IMO. The best way to learn PM'ing is to do it. And if you're interviewing for a PM role, it's much better to talk about actual work than certifications.

Lastly, age is not an issue and it's probably better if you have more industry experience before moving to a PM role.

Of course, these are my opinions and not that of Google, etc.
I agree. The best assumption that we can have about another human being is that they are rational. Most people are rational. Most people have reasons for their actions. Even addicts, even child molesters, even feminists. The point is to understand their reasons. If you disagree, that doesn't mean the other side is irrational. They could be wrong but they still have reasons. From that place of understanding, you can not only find empathy, but structure arguments in a way that is constructive based on that empathy and understanding.
"Our knowledge of food is super limited."

You mean your knowledge. The scientific world knows a lot about how food works and what it does to the human body. It could know more, but because our medical research is driven by profit motive instead of "the greater good", food research is low on the totem pole. The interference of corporations such as the subject of this story certainly hasn't helped the situation.

For example, General Mills is probably the most guilty single-party with regards to the diabetes and obesity epidemic, but nobody is holding them responsible. We should be. If corporations and their executive leadership were punished for the terrible things they do to our civilization, they would possibly take care to be more responsible in the future.
Thanks for the answer. But "some expertise in automotive design" looks a bit of an understatement to me.
My point was that it would be impossible for someone to remotely pilot a vehicle that had lost connectivity.
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Simplified Chinese, aka Newspeak 2.0, is removing thoughtcrime from the lexicon one letter at a time.
Useful tips and a nice skeleton!

There's also a great guide to cleaning bones from animals (in various states of decay) on the blog Jake's Bones that I've referred to a couple of times: http://www.jakes-bones.com/p/how-to-clean-animal-bones.html
Thanks for articulating that I've been feeling for many years now but couldn't quite put into words.
Following. I’m still figuring out if product management is the only path for a sw engineer. I’m 37.
Floating offshore wind has it's own manufacturing dynamics. For instance, you can build the whole structure in a shipyard and toll it, unlike onshore.

Floating towers are definitely a revolution in wind farm building.
I'm surprised how many posters interpret this as $1 / call, when the question says it's $0.001 per call.
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That’s a defense of math in general; do you know what the benefits of this particular proof are? I’m not looking for practical applications; rather, could it help solve other problems in the field? Is it an important result in its own right?
I’ve always understood that one of the most important pieces of the PM role is to act as a sort of negotiator between design/development and all other stakeholders. Customers and everybody else in the business all want their own things, and all have their own priorities. The good PMs that I’ve known have kept those people happy, managed their expectations well, and mostly shielded design/development from their demands and politics.
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I saw a comment many months ago to the effect of,

"Richard Branson and Elon Musk are both invested in the Hyperloop, yet they both make money from forms of transportation that would be harmed if people stopped using cars and airplanes. This suggests that they may be supporting the Hyperloop to delay or deter mass demand for high-speed rail."
> The way to avoid embarrassment on all sides would have been to ignore the lawsuit and point the publisher to the proper ways to handles this, namely either US court or WIPO.

They did. See this part of the FAQ:

PGLAF already informed Plaintiff and the German Court that the US Court system is the appropriate venue for Plaintiff's concerns. Plaintiff declined.

Alternatively, international treaties - notably the Berne Convention and related treaties - provide mediation processes through the World Intellectual Property Organization. PGLAF offered to undergo this mediation process, and Plaintiff declined.
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I really dislike pricing per API call, because I'm vulnerable to bugs or attacks (on my or your side) that can cause the pricing to blow up.

Also, I have the impression of getting screwed because there is no relationship between my usage and your cost (unless your API call is a call to a really complex task, 1000 calls will cost you mere pennies in equivalent CPU time, so the more I use your service the bigger your relative margin!).

The only place I am happy to pay per use is for cloud services, where I rent CPU and I get billed per time used.
Sadly you get 0 control over headers and footers of the output PDF, meaning you get lovely crappy page numbers around the place with no way to turn them off. This is why, sadly, I have to keep my command line markdown -> pdf converter (https://www.npmjs.com/package/mdpdf) using Phantomjs.

So this does work for very basic pdf printouts, but so far phantom is the only tool that offers full control over the PDF output. Even down to things like margins, paper size, etc.
Exactly.

At best, a company like Uber could provide a logistics service to taxi drivers and transport companies.
Ride-sharing, optimized route planning, easy dispatching etc are all nice features and make the service cheaper by reducing overhead costs.

However this is not what made Uber such a success. It was the unreasonably low prices it offered. How did it manage to do so? By externalizing a number of costs onto workers and society.

And by the way, the article has a very deceptive title. Just because the author agreed to re-run the numbers with Ubers "hopeful" and "optimistic" assumtions doesn't mean the initial numbers where wrong or that the new numbers will be substantially better. They're still employing people for less than minimum wage.
> I was asked to disclose a religion, ostensibly to determine taxes.

The Church's "member fee" is being collected as a tax by the state because of some Weimar Republic law that has been kept around. Bishops are also payed by the state. This was to stop the then powerful churches from revolting against the government because the government wanted to clean up older laws and conflicts. [1] Don't ask me why it's still this way, I know a lot of people that want to get rid of that, including myself. You can get out of paying church tax very easily at the city hall, btw. You can then also state that your religion is following the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Imho, you are blowing this out of proportion.

> It’s illogical, Facebook isn’t going to lead to Nazism or the Stasi again

Right, but governments that request access to this data can. It's better to not collect data in the first place.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax#Germany
This doesn't seem to cause any obvious problems with my health or mental state, although I'm open to hearing how this could be damaging in the long-term.
Depends what the API does. But ultimately depends if I will reach 1000 or go over or under
The answers HN readers give won’t be representative of the “revealed preferences”[1] your prospective customers - even if both are from the same person. Get 10 people excited about your product and have conversations/casual pricing negotiations with them.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revealed_preference, http://www.beyondcostplus.com/blog/stated-vs-revealed-prefer...
I think a good way to price this out is logarithmic pricing. $1 for the first 1000, an additional $1 for the next 2000, then $1 for the next 4000, etc. Play with the numbers, based on how many calls you expect the bulk of the smaller customer to make, yet still cover your expenses if you land a handful of very large customers.
The problem is not simply expense but whether the expense is worthwhile. Given Shanghai is already connected by a subway web, the benefit of directly connecting two airports with maglev is very questionable.

Maglev is just a bit extreme but more traditional subway systems are already super common across the world. The RER trains in Paris is exactly what I mean by an express subway system. It’s much faster than the other metro system in Paris simply because it has fewer stops.
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Copyright laws are to be respected whatever the country. This is a border case, so to see if the principle is sound, let's imagine something. Let's say a country, for whatever reason, decides that its copyright protections are of 1 year only. After that, this country decides that all books, movies, games are freely available from its territory through the internet because their copyrights are expired. Does anyone believes that all the other countries will say : "no problem, it's their law and the site is from their territory, so everything's allright" ?
So, laws from any country have to be respected, especially with a global system like the internet. It is often annoying, sometimes disconcerting, but no country would allow their society to be governed by foreign laws.
And I really appreciate even more the Project Gutenberg for that, because they care about laws everywhere and obey them according to the territory (the fact that they went for the easy way by blocking the entire country is really not important: it is just a matter of resources, so we have to donate more if this is what bothers us).
Why does a proxy server need to decrypt traffic to serve it? Why can't it simply _act as a proxy_?

What Cloudflare does is dangerous to the integrity of safe browsing, for a variety of reasons. And their aggressive marketing to convince a lot of tech-ignorant people with low traffic websites that they need a CDN is harmful.

Is it too much to ask that their service at least operate in a way that doesn't poison the internet they're getting rich from?
This is great advice for information security professionals as well, especially vulnerability researchers and other appsec types!
Does anybody else find the Tweet response from Dara Khosrowshahi deeply childish? The in-depth response from Jonathan Hall is, whether you consider it to be biased or not, a well-researched, calm and explained piece of peer-review, but the CEO's tweet is pathetic and kitsch: "MIT = Mathematically Incompetent Theories (at least as it pertains to ride-sharing)"?

Is that the level of communication that we expect from our leaders now? I've always held an image of the character that CEOs of large corporations strive towards as reasoned, rational and "stately", at least in their public role. This sounds like the outburst of a petulant adolescent, and is disturbingly reminiscent of a certain presidential figure.

Is this a consequence of some societal shift towards communicating at the lowest possible denominator, or do I just have an overly conservative view of what is expected from people in those positions?
The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happiness (2014)
Have you tried hooking it up to Hammerspoon? I’ve found that there’s a whole lot you can emulate from Karabiner in Karabiner-Elements using a combination of those two.
If you google for the paper, then a direct link to the full paper comes up, which works for me: http://ceepr.mit.edu/files/papers/2018-005.pdf
Pretty cool but ... why not use a GUI? It would make it 100 times easier to use. He even says at one point "this is all just in the terminal by the way" like that's a good thing!
Heh, I misread that. But I think that's still expensive. For example, the Google Maps API gives you 25,000 free calls per day and charges 50 cents per 1000 calls after that.
I have the GPD Win 1 (Windows only) and while it's a pretty good pocket computer, I'm reluctant to ever buy another product from them because the support is lacking at best.

Several users have had batteries swell, and GPD has not provided any avenue for these users to get replacements. Some members of the community have stepped up, but the batteries are subject to shipping rules, so people in some countries are still out of luck.
I’d advise that by 40 most would have a hard time getting a dev. job.
$1 per 1000 calls, with 10,000 free per month (free tier)
While he's suggesting $1 for 1000 calls, I find it interesting to suggest $1 per call for "anything" wouldn't be worth it... for example would you pay $1 to pull someone's credit report? (not that you need to, but just as an example where $1 per API call would actually be cheap).
Also served as a pm for 5+ years.

I recommend you build and release your own product start to finish. This helps you get exposure to parts you got to avoid in your engineering role.

I see product management as a producer role which includes the successful release and iteration. This is best learned by doing and if you don’t have a team, you be the team.
Can anyone do an explain it like I'm five for this, the general approach, what platforms they use, what languages on back and front ends, and how money is made?
I think you're paying for the form factor.

I agree the ad-copy is bad taste, and ignored it, until I came across the Noodle Pi mentioned again in another article. It's pretty interesting and tempting. The creator's talents is with the device, not the advertising.
I don’t know what the parent poster is talking about, but look into Sleep Cycle (app). I find that it makes it a lot easier for me to wake up in the mornings.
you can get better, but it's almost impossible to be as good as a natural if you don't like those things.
Very neat, especially useful for peaking into (SQLite) databases and getting a quick overview of the contents. Thank you for your efforts!
Not all of the xpack features are free, security still requires a gold subscription with Elastic. In fact, there’s very little functionality in the xpac that DOESN’T require at least a gold subscription.
Adding the ability to program and run whatever on it actually asks Nintendo to add on a lot of extra project management, development, and overall support. This is a 300$ console not a 600$ laptop (and even that would be a low price for gaming on a laptop).
That's a good thing, the majority isn't a good target group.
Agree very much here. I would argue I'd even pay more per API call versus pulling someone's credit report through traditional web app/fat client methods, as they business value is in the machine processable format.

The trick is to align your pricing with the API consumer's value received. You want a piece of their take for the value you're delivering.
I’m just saying, we need to find other applications for this new technology. If we just want to connect city center to airports I’d so much prefer that people invest their money on trains which is a solution that can benefit lots of people rather than a just a few riches
This kind of PC-obsessed SJW seems to me to be a total fabrication of the right disconnected from what actual leftists and progressives are fighting for.

Pay more attention to what's not said.

#metoo wants men to stop harassing and assaulting women with impunity

...and men with similar stories of being on the receiving end are ignored or told to shut up and sit down.

#blacklivesmatter wants cops to stop murdering black men with impunity

...and people trying to bring up actual statistics, or examples of non-black men getting murdered by police, get shouted down. It can't be about us-vs-them culture or training that says to always escalate instead of de-escalating or any other systemic issues, it has to be solely and directly about racism.
Erm, not really. You've heard of 3D graphics I assume?
Also your situation of losing 10 lbs per month doesn't look sustainable in long term, and likely result of some significant calories cut or metabolism stress.
But what will happen after body burn all fat? Keep posting )
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I'm not sure how Qemu would emulate a NUMA arch on a non-NUMA machine.

It doesn't even attempt to emulate different memory models WRT where you need barriers AFAIK.
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Fixed monthly, but you'll likely have rate limits of some kind anyway so it's the same thing.

$x/month is much, much more ergonomic for cost planning, requisitions, etc.
> For Floats in particular, binary implementation details leak all the time due to rounding.

No, they don't. Floats are meant to represent real numbers reasonably accurately.

Real numbers aren't fractions, and the idea of 'rounding' doesn't even apply to reals.

What you want are rational numbers, they solve your use case perfectly.

Floats don't represent rational numbers properly, and they are not meant to.
I listen to music. A while ago, I would turn on some symphony piece and air-conducting along. Greatly helps with anxiety attack at night.
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