skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, going directly to the end user is almost certainly best. The amount of times you find people spend 2 hours of their days on what would be literally a 5 minute fix (my favourite being the select with a thousand options that wasn’t alphabetically sorted) is mind blowing.

And all that just to preserve some egos. Though to be fair, in some cases users do request crazy stuff, you just shouldn’t listen to them and look at what they actually do.
There's no need to disparage software devs as brogrammers, especially in this context.
Could you elaborate on this? Would it involve devising a new unit of measurement? Your reply reminds me of this page: http://wiki.c2.com/?HowLongIsaPieceOfString
Speaking from experience, if you start accepting LinkedIn invitations from people you don’t know... you will inevitably end up in a loop where people you don’t know will constantly be sending you invitations.
I use tree style tabs (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...) unfortunately it's a bit buggy sometimes, I think the original wasn't but it was rewritten for the switch to the web extensions api.
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You'd be betting on the probability of outcomes of choosing startups with successful outcomes, you must see the absurdity!

Regardless, at least a lottery's odds are fixed. For a startup not only do you have a direct impact on the outcome, but there's near-infinite number of internal and external factors that can make a company fail, or, very rarely, succeed.

I think that's one of the big selling points on options: It's a lottery ticket but you are directly capable of affecting your odds. Theoretically if a group of 100 people all feel that way, they should be able to do some amazing things!
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It very much depends on the bug.
So the only way to keep your number from being searchable on FB is by not having 2fa?
This issue is neither new nor irrelevant.

When USB 2.0 was introduced, it was a huge increase in speed. USB 1.1 is 11 Mbps whereas 2.0 is 480 MBps (theoretical). When this happened some camera manufacturers (Nikon I believe was one of them?) were identified as changing the marketing on their cameras to "USB 2.0". What this actually meant though was "USB 2.0 Full Speed", which is USB 1.1 speeds. USB 2.0 Hi-speed is 480.

Consumers don't need this or want it. Manufacturers just don't want to say "USB <not latest version>".

You see the same thing with AT&T deciding its LTE iPhones are 5G because they want their network to sound more impressive than it is.

It's also why the strength bars on your phone show the strongest signal (2G/3G/4G) that your phone is getting, not the one its actually using.

The truth matters. False advertising matters. Markets only work with a minimum level of trust. All of this legerdemain erodes that trust.

I'm Australian and this is one place where I think the ACCC (equivalent to the FTC/FCC rolled into one) has way more teeth than their US equivalents. The ACCC, for example, ended ISPs advertising "unlimited" ISP plans that weren't truly unlimited (which was basically all of them). This also covered ISPs with hard or soft data caps where throttling would come into play. The ACCC also took ISPs to task on the truth in advertised speeds for services (which matters are lot for xDSL).

A more sensible standard would've been something like:

USB <version><plug>

eg USB 3.1C, USB 3.0A.

Or put the letter first.

But this whole USB 3.2 Gen 1 = USB 3.1 Gen 2 or whatever is just pure nonsense.
I think there needs to be some brand for the full-fat port with everything connected to a certain standard.
> Your proposal sounds like a great way to get excellent bail services for people who have money, but that’s not how the courts are supposed to work.

Sure about that? The way this country is heading is "One dollar = One vote". And once a sector gets accustomed to a stream of cash, there's no way to stop that flow of money.. No matter how dirty that money is.
Ask HN: How do I get pre-orders for my SaaS?
I'm making an open source productivity / project management tool called Artemis (https://getartemis.app) that would help you schedule your day and keep you on top of tasks and projects.

I have a dilemma though, as I don't know which direction to drive the product further:

1) Should I continue to build out the concept to solve my own problem, of having a productivity tool for people like me who are obsessed with day-to-day productivity? This seems like a good approach as I would be solving my own problems, but I feel like most people wouldn't pay for yet another to-do app. I may also be stuck in the cycle of building out the product without anyone else to test it.

2) Should I talk to project managers (which I've already started contacting) and ask about their problems to tailor my product to their needs, and try to validate the product by getting pre-orders? If so, how would I get these pre-orders for a SaaS product? This seems like a somewhat orthogonal but still interesting approach, and it would probably make more money due to being an Asana/Trello/other PM tool competitor which companies already pay for.

Sorry that my questions are a little more nuanced than my title suggests, any feedback is appreciated.
I always wonder about the "bump" from a few years ago when hundreds of possible explanations (presumably all consistent with the standard model) were published before it was decided to be "random noise".

>"In the interval between the December 2015 and August 2016 results, the anomaly generated considerable interest in the scientific community, including about 500 theoretical studies."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/750_GeV_diphoton_excess

That really makes it seem that the standard model is pretty flexible in what it will allow.
Buy three pairs so you can wear one, put one on a shelf, and loan one out to friends?
Second the recommendation for Snips. I recently built a Snips-based voice assistant for hands-free oscilloscope control (https://github.com/jmwilson/ollie), and snips is a much better fit for this kind of domain-specific, field-deployable (offline) voice assistant.

Consider the whole of infrastructure required for this application. The Pi sends a request to Alexa, which sends a request to a lambda server, which sends a request to SQS, which is polled by the Pi. Each of those AWS servers has possible subsystems and some load balancer in front of it. Single device, offline processing is so much cleaner when there's no need for general connectivity.
Also, its much easier to find people that can design for the web instead of designing for the desktop.
Perhaps, if they have an interesting justification for doing so, I could see accepting it. They might just be young-faced individuals that want to increase their network and you might have a mutual sharing of ideas.
hi, do you accept applications for Customer Success Engineers working remotely from the US? thanks.
A friend of mine is making thousands per month simply selling notification bot subscriptions to people who run private discords. His don't even buy, they just send stock notifications to the rooms. Madness.
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GP said "hit the rev limiter" not "run out of engine power".
Whether you get pre-orders or not is partly orthogonal to the other issue of "should you be talking to people other than yourself?" The answer to the latter question is almost certainly "Yes, absolutely".

As somebody (@sgblank?) once said "Startups don't fail due to competition... they fail because they built a product nobody wanted."
Aren't the "violent felons" in prison, while those not yet convicted held in jail?
I'd say this expanation merits the title "What Every Programmer Should Know", more so than the original twelve or so pages.
I don't think anyone here is arguing for punishment or blame, though — I certainly wasn't. All I said was that if you look at a group getting much worse outcomes and declare that their opportunities were at least as good as the group getting better outcomes, it logically follows that the members of the group are simply not capable. If you wouldn't feel confident saying that explicitly, then comments about "outcomes vs. opportunity" are misguided and there's probably some kind of opportunity disparity that you've missed but which is reflected in the outcome.
Google invited these long-term problems onto itself (and so did many other startups) by marketing a culture aside from their technology that got people to join them. "Do good" they said, which invited people to judge them and decide to work there based on whether they continued doing good.

Compare to other companies that were not so "hot" that just promised some less fulfilling employment, but no strong moral or global cause.

Now it has come back to bite them in an employee culture that feels the need to talk about politics at work, invite college-level-immature debate in internal forums, redirect the business with non-business-related concerns -- especially chasing each year's latest fad of social concern.

They now feel the pressure to become a more grown up company, one that has to stomach having customers who hold the same ideals as they do. But every business has to blind itself sometimes to customers who use your product in ways you didn't intend or choose to. That's the cost of being a public company.

I'm exhausted even just watching Google have to tune its morals for the new political flavor of each season. I say, all for the better, for it to act like a normal business.
AdSense China grew 60% last year.

Yeah Google is making a profit in China. which need some kind of tool to support it. Maybe harvest list of content you are not allowed to advertise with?
Any keyboard shortcuts? Can't seem to find any docs on it
I really, really miss the keyboard and overall flexibility that Opera 12 provided, back in the day. With that and being able to manage a crazy amount of tags beyond giving advanced tab management was really amazing for power users.

The workspace specific functionality is an interesting idea though.

Incidentally, Vivaldi comes the closest.
I mean, yes, in retail or the service industry, but it should be possible to find a job in IT where you can at least tolerate the end users (or just never see them altogether).
You presume they don't have other options. If they don't give any incentive, then they just go somewhere that does offer incentives. Wisconsin or North Dakota or whoever else will take them.
My room mate works fewer hours than me and doesn't have oncall rotations. He makes less money accordingly.

Are you willing to walk up to his face and tell him that he "sucks" because he doesn't work as hard and doesn't have the same TC as I do?

To be frank, your posts are pretty denigrating to people who choose to have better work life balance. Not everyone sees their self worth in terms of dollars.
To add to the list of other similar projects already mentioned, Nunu Studio[0] is a solid MIT-licensed tool based on three.js.

[0] https://nunustudio.org/
$1000 bounty for this seems really low.
So do we allow someone who is reckless to go 150mph and kill your family on the highway while we wait to account for all the edge cases? I think you have to assign a probability to each event and then in sum decide which ones you want to handle/not handle.

I've never once driven above 112mph in my life so far. Outside of fun, I've never even gotten close.
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I’ve used Solidworks for 15 years, and I think Onshape is close to as good for modeling, and now much better for collaboration and version control. Collaboration is great, but version control and configuration management is the killer feature of online CAD tools. These also facilitate typical collaboration which is at a part level more often than part level. The existing tools rely on a lot of discipline and are very hard to set up and maintain, and generally requires people assigned full time to maintenance (or full time to manually handle it in the filesystem). On the other hand, Onshape does not allow engineers to invent their own workflows.

For a software analogy, the existing tools are like sharepoint at best and cadfile_v2_final(Mike).prt at worst. Onshape (and I assume other) online tools are like github.
I think you are misreading the point. It's not that the true expected value of early stage options is actually zero, it's that it might as well be for your purposes, choosing between that and other reasonable (i.e. market value) opportunities.

If you look at early stage startups, I think it's pretty clear that the EV[startup options] < EV[invested market value salary delta]. This holds true over nearly all startups, and nearly all people who have the option of early stage options. There are outliers, sure - but to a 1st approximation you aren't in them.

So you have to fall back on "how much more fun/cool is this startup job than other things I can do". And realistically, getting rich off a startup isn't a rational plan for nearly all people. Asking yourself, "what are the odds I recoup most of the lost salary?" is a more like it. And for typical seed round start up, that break even is going to be a few percent, dilute as needed to look at different rounds.

Of course this doesn't help you choose between two different under market salaries with options, either...
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Different question, no? This is about Browser vs Electron, not Browser/Electron vs Native.
There are serious overhead costs to running a company 10 times as large. If you also have to hire 10x the employees, you'll end up needing to charge more than most customers are willing to pay. (Customers who are willing to pay out the nose generally do get good customer service, even from organizations that are normally bad at it, up to and including teams of engineers deployed to the customer's office to help out.)
That's true, but I don't see how it's relevant to this article. We can simply tell people "Write your programs so they use fewer resources, and they will run faster".

Reading a paragraph like this:

> "The CAS signal can be sent after tRCD (RAS-to-CAS Delay) clock cycles. The column address is then transmitted by making it available on the address bus and lowering the CAS line."

is certainly interesting but it offers no additional insight in to how to write an efficient program. Regardless of whether the row and column addresses are sent on the same bus or a different bus, the optimization strategies for programmers are exactly the same. The same goes for almost all of the information here.

Unless you're writing a kernel, 99% of this article is overkill. I mean that literally: it's over 100 pages long, and I think the important and relevant points for most programmers could be summarized in a page or two.
> not likely

But it is an edge case.
This is a pet peeve of mine because the 'millennial' label seems to be modelled on what are (at least currently) working class children of upper middle class parents.

The entire trope is 'well off kid ends up working in coffee shop whilst subsidised by mum and will never buy a home'.

It's a strange microcosm.

People like me that have solidly working class backgrounds yet haven't been abject failures just completely disappear in this worldview.

I guess that's just identity politics. At this point, trying to engage meaningfully seems like a waste of time to me.
If your user interface is so simple that understanding it doesn’t take any effort at all, that’s a pretty great thing.

I imagine the hypothetical lazy user thinking ‘I cannot figure out a way to convince my boss that I do not understand this UI...’
You've just made an assumption and you're running with it like it's a fact - just because you don't want to believe what's being reported
Couldn't facebook just provide some secret service for identifying users behind the scenes that regular devs can not access?
Building backbone network infrastructure
> It's a fairly underrated and underappreciated market mechanism where the entire problem of "making sure people show up to court if they are on trial" can be handled by a competitive market, usually more efficiently or humanely than most local governments would do themselves.

The idea that the US and the Phillipines, the two countries where bail is dominated by commercial bail bondsman, handle this matter more humanely than the rest of the world is, at best, not obviously correct and could use some support.
There already exists the command "watch" on must Linux systems that appears to do the same thing.
Citing irrelevant logical fallacies is not an argument. Also way to "move the goalposts" (see? I can do it too). It's relevant to the alleged inevitability of a Chinese-style firewall in the EU.

If it wasn't inevitable in the US and if it wasn't inevitable when it was only RIAA/MPAA enforcing copyright, what is different this time?

Article 13 restricts the safe harbor provision to sites using upload filters (or sites that are explicitly exempt). There is no logical progression from that to a Great Firewall that wouldn't also have been present in US enforcement of copyright against Napster, The Pirate Bay, MEGA etc.

The GDPR (even if most neo-libs here think it's evil incarnate) is entirely orthogonal to literal censorship.

As I said, the closest thing would be the blocking (in Germany, not the EU) of nazi propaganda and extremely illegal content (read: child abuse) -- which have nothing to do with the recent EU legislations and are therefore an entirely separate discussion to be had.

Maybe the UK's "opt-out" modesty filter also falls in this category but as Theresa May is still happy to point out, the UK is leaving the EU, so it's hardly a good reference point for the future of EU legislation.

So if none of these things uniquely point to a future of Chinese-style censorship in the EU, what other than American Exceptionalism makes the current situation different from all the other situations in which we did not end up with said Great Firewall of Europe?

Article 13 is bad. Upload filters are bad. But please educate me how making unsubstantiated claims about how the EU is basically already China is supposed to be contributing to a healthy discussion but providing and then dismantling the obvious arguments OP chose to omit is somehow fallacious and irrelevant?
I have a friend that is all into this, mostly as a hobby. There's also a Funko Pop market as well. Really, if there's high value behind it, there's an arbitrage market that goes along with it.

It's pretty big, there's markets for residential IP lists, bots that mock organic web traffic by browsing Google and watching YouTube so they can defeat recaptcha, there's even escrow services so that you don't have to sell out of your house.

There's groups that track potential high value product releases and coordinate large buys. It's mutually beneficial for them to work together, because unauthentic demand boosts the resell market.

I don't know if I approve of it, because groups work out large fandoms and potential demand, and effectively price out segments of the population to take a cut off of the top. But I do have to sit back and marvel at how much technology and research goes into neutering antibot measures.
I am sure that’s not how they’re supposed to work. How they actually work is another matter.
Well, small companies don't have a need to build large multi million dollar data centers, for one. Data centers, we can all agree, are kind of like a utility that favors scale. But there's lots of businesses and industries where this is true.
Yes, it's a turn off and disappointing that monthly subscription is the only option for something as simple as saving the 3d model you just created to your computer.

Too many of these small time software and web app publishers just default to thinking people are going to subscribe and forget about it. For a 3d modelling program with many free competitors, it's wishful thinking.

The problem wouldn't be a problem if there was an option to buy outright. But they sold their investors the promise of monthly revenue.
Tax deductibility is your sticking point? Go do it with 30k. 1M payout, and you won’t go broke.
The Parable of the Pebbles
The Ledger Nano S requires you to enter a pin code at least
It's not open source. I want to keep any possibility of future monetization open for now.
Yeah, that sounds like the most fun place to crash loudly ever.

Just a small failsafe to ensure nobody is nearby.
Back in the days of usenet, and way before markdown, we always used bold, /italic/, and _underline_. You were just supposed to mentally interpret them in your head.

Edit: Ironically, HN is translating my asterisk-bolds into italic.
I once (2009) found a similar bug that allowed leaking the ID and personal info of a FB user when their browser loaded a seemingly innocent <img> tag (so it could be embedded in a forum post, for example).

Sadly, it was before FB had a bug bounty program, so I didn't receive anything after I contacted them and they fixed the issue. I wrote about it here: http://blog.quaji.com/2009/07/facebook-personal-info-leak.ht...
Townhouses or apartments for $7.5m to $30m? Is this in NYC? (Even then, that seems outlandish)

The only thing in SF Bay that's $7m+ are the mini-mansions in Atherton and Woodside.
And I imagine that some websites might do things that take a long time, like a heavy upload, download, or something that takes a lot of processing (e.g. loading a game). In those cases, I would think that people would rather just have them keep working in the background while they focus on other stuff.
And it is very well known how to test and correct for that. In a human, however, it cannot be corrected. As you point out, it can be very hard to see what rules have to do with races.

I would argue that in some cases it's bloody hard to see that you're doing it yourself.
Here are a couple:

https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.jstor.org/stable/352802?seq=1...)

>Public assistance also had large, statistically significant effects on all of the dependent variables. All else equal, higher levels of public assistance were associated with lower prevalence of marriage for black men and black women, lower prevalence of husband-wife families, lower percentage of marital births for black women, and lower percentage of black children living in husband-wife families. These results differed from those reported in some previous aggregate-level studies (e.g., Ellwood & Bane, 1985; Ellwood & Summers, 1986), but they were quite robust and were substantively as well as statistically significant. For example, the difference between $150 and $250 in average support per recipient child (a difference of 0.51 in the natural log version, which is only slightly larger than the sample standard deviation for the variable) translates into a 4.4-point difference in the expected percentage of marital births for black women aged 20-24, a difference of nearly 2.4 points in the expected percentage of black children residing in husband-wife families, and a 3.5 point difference in the expected percentage of married for women with children 0-5.

https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1061045....

>These estimated impacts were then combined to measure "final" effects on the total illegitimacy rate - out-of-wedlock births per 1,000 women in the population. The outcome of this experiment was a hypothetical decrease in total illegitimacy rates - as of the end of the estimation period in 1992 - of about 15 percent for whites and slightly under 7 percent for blacks. The differential effects are almost entirely accounted for by the disparities in the determinants of marital status noted above.
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>Narrowly defined, our goal in this study has been to test the linkage between welfare benefits and illegitimate births. The econometric evidence presented here has strongly supported this connection. More broadly, however, this study implicates the welfare system in the growth of illegitimacy