skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm struggling with how to market myself. I'd like to take what I do as a full time employee and pivot into doing it as an independent consultant. Yet have been struggling to find enough side income to support making that jump full time, because I can't find an "elevator pitch" that articulates what I do and what value I provide. The vast majority of side gigs I've gotten have come from previous bosses who have firsthand experience working with me, but the work is too sporadic to rely on.

In case anyone here has any advice in how I can position myself: I'm a generalist that specializes in getting shit done. Whether that's strategy/advisory support, execution of exploratory initiatives until they show enough ROI for a full time hire, or filling skill gaps that are too sporadic to justify an FTE. I've worked directly under CMOs, CEOs, COOs, CTOs, business owners, as well as client-facing agency work. And in essentially all cases, have been the guy you go to when you don't know who to go to. I generally "seed" efforts, working end to end until it scales to the point of supporting specialists. I've been a one-person data/analytics team (fully owned from maintaining the databases to coding the ETL to writing SQL queries that support the analytics/dashboards for the business) that I've scaled to an entire operations and decision support department. I've managed advertising campaigns and created an entire conversion rate optimization infrastructure to support getting the most out of my campaigns. I've also worked with technical teams to adjust development processes so that they incorporate best practices that drastically improve the ease of marketing/analytics efforts. And most of all, I end up getting pulled into meetings to resolve confusion between business teams and technical teams.

Ideally, I'd like to provide those same type of "catch all" services as a consultant. For a monthly retainer, I can fill whatever strategy or tactical level gap you have. If you're a technical person/team struggling with sales or marketing, I can provide that guidance along with initial implementation/execution to prove it out. For business people/teams, I can either provide technical points of view to ease communication with your tech team, or provide actual execution services if needed.
Linux Fu: Modernize Your Command Line
AirTM raises $7M to fight hyperinflation
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And in the process be potentially banned from the platform. This could cost OP his job, considering he built this utility to make Slack bearable to use in his place of employment.
Sharkdp/bat: A cat(1) clone with wings
Bat – A Cat Clone with Syntax Highlighting and Git Integration
It's not clear to me why a VC would invest in a business that did not want commit to a liquidity event. Maybe the VC didn't have a better deal to invest in at that time?
> I think you've been listening a little to much to Peter Dutton.

Peter Dutton is a moron, he couldn't even manage the trans tasman relationship well with kiwis. What you can possibly expect from him.
Great point, happy to clarify.

We are curating products in a form of a marketplace, we are not a blog or a social media website and that puts us into a unique position. Product Hunt has an open community that contributes content while we curate everything we publish as a brand.
Embrace
Extend <- we are here
Extinguish
Transpilation certainly has been important, but in no way is that the only or even the most important advance. The most significant advances are the massive changes in architecture that have turned it into a modern, fully-featured language. You can use most of those in all modern browsers right now. It might not be the best language, and isn't a great choice for a first language to learn, but it is a good one to learn next.
I am definitely having a struggle about focusing.
Yet there are people who live in those places. Pointless? That statistic really puts in perspective for me how much empty space there is in the world.
You can have a "phenomenal" processor design (Itanium was "phenomenal") in that sense, but if it's crap to program, it's not going to do it much good. As you've so aptly demonstrated, RISC-V is crap to program; you aren't likely to see any scene demos written for it, but that aside, we've yet to see whether the performance of this "phenomenal" processor will live up to the hype. Right now the closest this "phenomenal" processor has come to reality is in a tinkertoy. That's long ways away from servers and production. I still stand by my position: the mnemonics suck and compared to MC68000 or OpenSPARC the programming model is retarded, even for a RISC processor. Good luck with the hype.
Ask HN: How do you keep track of small pieces of useful code?
Is there some sort of Evernote for code? I'd love to be able to save small pieces of code with some accompanying documentation that describes how it works.
omg does that mean Learning Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists is going to get finished up at some point?
Anxiety about the future of artificial intelligence. I feel like human intelligence is constant and AI is ever-increasing. Eventually we’ll be way behind and I don’t know how to think about a world where humans are second tier. It’s honestly made me less happy and affects my day-to-day life.
Can you clarify more? My experience as an immigrant to America is that Americans tend to foster a culture of ultra competativeness on everything, including academics.
Cisco Meraki Increase Throughput on New MX Products
Scientists Uncover a New Type of Neuron That May Set Us Apart from Other Mammals
They seem to have a stale data problem; in an effort to never show you an empty app, they fallback to the transit schedule or whatever they last pulled from the server while they seem to be waiting for the refreshed data to download.

If your cellular connection is bad (or the tower is congested), you can be looking at a quite old transfer time without any visual indication of that fact. If you were offline, the app would tell you it was falling back to a schedule. If the request actually timed out and failed it would do the same. But because the request is stuck in dropped-packet-limbo, it isn't obvious.

Sometimes I tap into the map and back out to get it to re-send the request. Then the transfer times will all jump and update to reasonable values.

(This is just behavior I'm deducing from using the app and watching it say the next N is 2 minutes, then after waiting 30-40 seconds it jumps to 15 minutes. Clearly they were showing me stale data at the time)
I realize that it's extremely difficult to switch software systems that have grown over decades to something completely different and you can't do that over night.

But then I see cases like the Munich project where they have been using Linux for several years[1], saving 11 million Euros in the process, until Microsoft moves their HQ to Munich and suddenly the council decides to switch back to Windows.

In Germany at least there is tremendous potential for cost savings if it were possible to develop one FOSS set of software for municipalities and share it across the country instead of paying millions in licensing costs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
Aren't Tall poppies rich/snobbish people?
I think the author entirely misses the primary issue due to linguistic and/or cultural context omissions.

Generally speaking, when someone is called a nerd or (insert uncool descriptive modifier), it's not implied that being smart or studious is something people should be embarrassed of.

Instead, it's implying the lack of some other social skill, trait or normative behavior (i.e., not participating in sports as a child or general difficulty fitting in).

For example, being a genius or reliable hard worker is almost universally admired. Yes, even in the United States. However, if an individual is brilliant yet lacks the social skills to fit in, appears to try too hard relative to the group or makes others feel uncomfortable, their behavior may be seen as idiosyncratic or weird.

Individuals that can display their cognitive abilities while inspiring, impressing or leading others are usually admired.
if you google for the terms "滴滴 sexy" in which "滴滴" is the Chinese name of Didi, you get tons of reports.
My intent when I wrote that phrase was two-fold. Firstly to emphasise the large body of work that was done by Weyl, Kronecker, Hurwitz et al relating to the equidistribtuion theorem, badly approximately numbers and diophantine approximation. Armed with this knowledge it is easily proved that the recurrrence relation using the golden ratio mod 1 is optimal using almost any measure.

Although some other readers on HN may be able to see a connection between one dimensional quasirandom sequences and quadratic residue, unfortunately I can’t immediately see an explicit one. Sorry!

My second intent was to contrast this with how little is provably known for higher dimensions. To my knowledge, thanks to the phenomenal work by Halton, Sobol, Niederreiter et al, we know that many of the contemporary sequences are optimal in the limiting Big O sense, but there are no proofs even for d=2 for optimality for any of the sequences for general finite values of n.
Interesting to see number of accounts decline, but revenue per account and total revenue increasing. Assuming social networks got better over time at providing account management features at the same time Buffer got better to selling to agencies and large companies.
> Only very myopic VCs would think this way globally.

Might this be a (converse version of a) No True Scotsman fallacy?

Elsewhere in the thread, a comment [1] referenced an article [2] that details the return imperatives that VCs face. In particular, it details how small returns "don't move the needle".

OTOH, the article asserts that only 5% of VCs (misleading, if a percentage of number of firms instead of AUM) succeed in meeting this imperative, so I wonder how the other 95% still attract enough LP money.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17872045

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17874278 https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/the-meeting-that-showed-me...
If anyone thinks Americans have a lot of insults for smart people, go visit the Philippines.
Couldn't this also be done for the other reactive components (especially nitrogen and oxygen) before cooling the gas? Removing ~99% of the mass ahead of time would require that much less energy for cooling.
> research and development
I'm sure when he ports it to Espruino he can handle Babel.
STTR: A system for tracking all vehicles all the time at the edge of the network
It is used to describe over achievers in general. From wiki:

> Recent research performed at University of Waikato in New Zealand shows that a culture of tall poppy syndrome may result in a reduction in average performance of up to 20% for an organisation and explains how electronic cyberbullying can be considered a modern extension to the physical assassinations of King Tarquin's day.[17]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome
The history is interesting. It's a shame that work on ES40 had stopped before it was fully able to run VMS.

It's going to be a LONG time before emulation comes close to the actual speed of real Alpha hardware. I'm still running an API CS20, and it's still quite a speedy machine.
A very good example how engaging and useful a simple idea can be! Now the source images are also shown in the results!

I do not think it uses any AI/ML, the beauty is in the simplicity of the solution. Awesome!
> jet packs, hoverboards, and flying cars too - one can geek out over cool tech even if it ain’t right around the corner

Two of those three are entirely doable (and have been done) - the main problems with them are 1) economy, and 2) that, while cool for individual, they'd be absolutely disastrous if ubiquitous. You don't want everyone to get themselves a jet pack or flying car, not unless 99.9% of flying is done by a foolproof AI.
Hetzner $3/mo and 20TB traffic? Seems to be reasonable.
That sounds like a very American viewpoint. If you look at most of the rest of the world international borders are a lot closer and it's trivial to visit half a dozen countries in a single day. And in some places it's routine to make international trips on a regular basis.
CERN’s pioneering mini-accelerator passes first test
Huh. I always thought it was more "the people that stand out get cut down" sort of thing.

e.g. if you're gonna do crime, don't be the tall poppy that sticks out in the field of crime. Then apply that concept to more or less everything.

Googling though shows you're right. Interesting.
That's because state of the art vocoders (as used in VoIP) are voice synthesisers. The encoding process breaks your voice down into a series of coefficients, which are sent sent to the decoder (voice synthesiser) at the other end.

When you talk to your Mum on any modern phone system, there's an argument that you're actually speaking to a voice synthesiser that sounds like her. Maybe we need to view the thought process as the person rather than the voice?
another vote for Day One
Reading HN for 10 minutes when compiles only take 2.
ovh? Their S1-2 instance is only $3.5 a month and has 100mbps unmetered bandwidth.
There may be other laws, precedents, and circumstances that are relevant. That doesn't mean that this case is.
I take the tag of 'kitabi kida' as a complement rather than an insult .
I was sceptical against NordVPN too and have been checking wireshark traffic for other requests a few times every month, and have seen nothing out of the ordinary. Little snitch have shown no non-vpn connections either.

Apparently they are doing an independent audit to prove they are legit.

https://nordvpn.com/blog/nordvpn-false-allegations/

I'd hope they would open source their VPN client, makes inspection and audits easier on the user side.
What bizarre advice for a programming thread. And what are those five days for?
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Chinese stock market
In the first half of 2018, the net profit of Pei’s mustard increased by 77.52% year-on-year. Many people pointed out that the biggest players are the housing market and the stock market.
i like how it's there not a single mention what it's financing their electric car or planes revolution - it's their oil resources - exporting them, effectively exporting pollution to countries not rich in oil, which can't afford subsidized switch to electric

if they would be really ecological and not hypocrites they would stop making money from oil resources
The other word you forgot was 'maggu' - someone who mugs up everything.
JS is a bad language but it's the easiest environment to set up.

Back in the day we started with Qbasic not because it is a good language but because that was easy to set up, we all had it and our friends had it and our school computers had it.

And JS is less bad a language than Qbasic.
I'd estimate that a solid 90% of the mainstream news I read about computer science subjects has factual errors. Not interpretations different than mine--stuff that just ain't true. It makes me wonder how competent the writer is, and makes me wonder if 90% of the rest of mainstream news is written just as incompetently, but I just can't notice it because I'm not an expert in everything.
so the map doesn't appear to contain any royal residences, which were perhaps all in Westminster not London at the time? So Henry VIII and QE1 etc didn't live within the walls of London?
"Where Buffet lets lower priority tasks slide or delegates them they still get done by his employees. If you do it then your house is going unmaintained or a relationship is getting neglected etc."

Perhaps that's the lesson.

I'm reminded of the startup aphorism "You don't have to be good if you're great." It's really a statement about market dynamics. If you are "great" (the monopoly provider of a service, asset, or technology that other people value) then you will attract capital and people who are "good" (hardworking and skilled people who specialize in the non-monopoly fields you need). You can then trade access to your skill for access to theirs, and do so with great leverage because there are many more of them than you.

If you don't have a monopoly skill or asset, then - assuming you want to take advantage of these market dynamics - your first priority should be to acquire one. And yes, that means that your house is going unmaintained and your relationships are getting neglected. So what?
The KCL itself handles shard assignment and balancing. Each application has its own dynamodb table where it stores lease information. If you have 64 shards and want that processed on one machine? Spin up one instance of the application. The KCL will spin up 64 sub processes.

Instead want to spread the load? Spin up as many instances of the application you want, they don't need to be clustered, they will negotiate, using the lease table to take and balance the shards across all instances.
I’ve just moved to Berlin to look for software development work, and it’s nowhere near as bad as you are portraying.

Lower than the USA, yes; but even junior software roles are well above “wage slavery”. Housing and medical insurance are both much cheaper here (also food, but food is so cheap generally that it being cheaper here doesn’t make much difference, unlike rent and insurance).
Thanks for taking the time to write out your experience, it really makes me think.

> so a lot of those non-Microsoft software actually still run on Microsoft

As a FLOSS advocate myself, this matters less than you seem to imply. Microsoft is publicly traded, they'll pivot to goat herding if that's the way to maximize profit. So avoiding it is (imo) less important than avoiding their lock-in products. If Azure has little lock-in, might as well use it, icky as it may feel to me personally. It's not inherently anti-FLOSS, because Microsoft is not inherently anything.

> If we file a primary incident report to Microsoft, Seattle will be on the phone with us until it’s fixed. What Linux house will offer this service?

I think both Redhat and Canonical would love that business.

I'm not looking to argue as you seem to know what you're saying, but on the financial side, how many millions are spent on Windows, Office and other licenses every year? I'd say it's worth doing the math.
Amazon crowd-sourced some amazing Alexa skills using a hackathon
I turned to Google Translate in search of a French translation for the English word “geek.” There wasn’t one.

Maybe ask a French person then. “Intello” (dismissive diminutive of the word “intellectuel”) is in very common usage amongst school kids, and has been since at least the 60s. “Premier de la classe” (first of the class) is also used very pejoratively by children. Recently though, the French have been very happy to use the word “geek” (albeit pronounced with a French accent) in its original English meaning.

On the other hand, languages like French are extremely rich in insults for stupid people: “bete comme ses pieds,” or “dumb as hell,” literally means “as stupid as his/her feet.”

American English is full of expressions just as colorful than the French in that regard, eg “not the brightest crayon in the box”, “not the sharpest tool in the shed”, “dumber than a bag of hammers”, etc.

This blog post is just a succession of these easily falsiable generalizations that try to use pseudo-linguistic reasoning to demonstrate a blanket sweeping subjective statement (“Americans hate smart people”).
I dunno, I think it's a pretty neat stack. At least you don't have to deal with OSGI and the works.
In all seriousness though, please don't build things on k8s unless you have a couple of microservices or the infrastructure in place already.
What do you do at buzzfeed, if you can/want to disclose?
The really hard thing is to act moral when we are afraid. It's easy to say how moral and righteous we are in times of peace, but when stuff goes wrong then a lot of people will give up freedom for a sense of security (you may have heard a really famous quote about this). With Japan I think everyone admits it wasn't the moral thing to do, but many argue that it was a necessary evil. And you should be wary when you hear those arguments, so we don't repeat history.
Well here in the EU you can easily make a contract without signature. Even handshake contracts could be binding.

So thats not true.
The clashing colors help out a lot more than you may think. I can easily filter out, in a city like Chicago exactly what I need filtered out. Walking to the L on Diversey? I only care about the red line, despite being in range of a brown, pink and purple line. I scroll til I see red, bam. 10 minutes. I got time to slide into 7/11 for a soda pop.

Or oh hey light blue. There's a Divvy station nearby. I think I'll bike today.

I love the color presentation of Transit App, personally for this very reason.
That is sad! My condolences. That was a very well written letter from Slack and I completely agree with them, but unfortunate for BetterSlack nonetheless. Always room to pivot!
Tail end? D-Day wasn't until the summer of 44
Well, they could be exporting oil AND not giving a crap about emissions which would be worse.

At some level every entity, person and organization is a hypocrite in some way or another. So instead of pointing fingers, we should celebrate wins when we can.
I work in cloud, and one of the things I look for when recruiting solution architects -- another role where broad is a pre-requisite and some narrow depth is expected -- is systems design skills. Besides whatever you study and learn how to do as a programmer. these days it's not often commercially applicable unless you know how to make it run well in the cloud, with all the caveats that apply.

Among the things that aren't common knowledge among basement programmers: network configuration (VPCs, load balancing, CDNs, security), security/IAM, non-relational datastores, ML model development & training, and the list goes on and on and on (microservices & containers, devops, serverless, advanced logging/monitoring & problem solving, high availability, HPC/grid, blockchain, and oh so much more.

The point I'm trying to make is that you can become a T shaped programmer by continuing to study and learn various programming skills, but you may want to alternatively consider becoming broad in ways that expand your value beyond just coding.
I've worked on projects for the German govt before, and I was never employed by them. Points 3 and 4, possibly also 2 are handled by hiring companies to do the work.
That's a specific insult, for people who get good marks via rote learning and not via actually understanding the material.
I'm hardly a Slack fan, but, in fairness, I've never considered Slack to be slow or resource intensive. Either the web UI or the (OSX) desktop app.

Or are you referring to audio calls and video calls?
> In fact, US feels much more "cult of genius" than Europe... At least from afar.

You're making the same mistake with that line of thinking that the author did.
I'm rolling my eyes at your "supposed minorities" comment. Women are a minority in tech, as I'm sure you know, and this is a forum that mostly targets tech. The rest of the groups that we're talking about are also minorities in the population as a whole.

As to your contention, I'm still not getting it. Why don't we play a game? I list off a few things that I've known companies to do in the past as a way of reaching out to or accommodating minorities, and you tell me which ones are objectionable to you and why. Here goes:

1. A company makes a prayer room available for their Muslim employees to do their daily prayers

2. A company hosts a Women in Tech conference

3. A company hosts a GLBT in Tech mixer during Pride Week

4. A social media company creates a couple special features for Black History month (e.g., Twitter's @Blackbirds bot)
Is the entire premise of this article really based on the author typing words into Google Translate?
Being well-eduxated doesn't make for a good leader; Rahul Gandhi has a better educational pedigree than Narendra Modi, but in no world is he a better leader.