skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. A mediocre product with a strong marketing strategy can make millions. A spectacular product with no marketing plan will make nothing or close to it.

Products that spread through word of mouth are few and far between these days. Facebook has made sure of that by snuffing out most newsfeed virality (unless you are paying them for it) such that even if your customers want to share your products with their friends, few of them will see it. Growth rarely happens by accident these days.

Do not attempt to even create a product that you are going to depend on for your livelihood without a specific marketing strategy already planned out and ready to execute. That strategy should be able to generate a positive number when when you subtract estimated, realistic customer acquisition costs from their estimated, realistic lifetime value. There is a great podcast called TheTop [1] covering a number of tech verticals where existing companies go into these numbers in specific detail. I would recommend you find an episode about a company in your vertical and listen to their numbers.

[1] http://nathanlatka.com/podcast-thetop/
Haha I remember my dad teaching me this term during sports teams tryouts, the kinds where you would be drafted onto a team at the start of the year. I was a decent player, but definitely did not try my hardest during tryouts -- if I had, I would have been the worst "first pick", making my team bad.

Game theory to 9 year olds?
Same here, I am a Hong Konger. There are more 1 million people in this protest. The protest started at 2:30 pm in Victoria Park and ended at 10:00 pm in the Central Government Offices.

Personally, I think the Chinese Central Government won't recall the Extradition Law. But as a Hong Konger, I can proudly say that: We do our best to show the world, showing the Hong Kong spirit.
I do not believe this is true on an absolute, inflation-adjusted level. This may be true relative to the increasing costs, but it's not like those costs have provided a proportional benefit anyway.
As someone currently in their late twenties, what compelled you to get married and what ultimately was the breakdown if you don't mind me asking?
You could try doing something similar to Pieter Levels' "12 startups in 12 months". He only managed to get to 5-6 startups, but from that arose nomadlist.com and remoteok.com where he's making $83k/mo now after 4 years ($10k from user subscriptions and the rest from paid ads/postings).

Forcing yourself to launch/ship a few products each within a month could be good training to not get stuck in idea phase or coding phase, and focus on getting it out. Then you can try judging how the responses are, maybe 1 will take off and the rest won't.

If you're spending a longer time developing out an idea, it's hard to actually know if the market wants it or not, unless you have actual real paying customers. So for example that yelp idea you should be aiming to have paid customers within 3 months anyways.. reduce risk by making the right moves, not hoping that you might have paid customers 1-2 years later.
"Modern" 6502 processors are rated for 14MHz[1].

[1] https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Western-Design-Center-W...
What were the wrong reasons?
Counterpoint: he is destroying his body. He's pretty commonly lifting heavy things and exposing himself to hazardous chemicals. Depending on what kind of welding he's doing, he's breathing smoke from all kinds of different paints and oils. There are fume extractors/ventilation, but they don't remove everything.

My dad and grandpa are both plumbers. My grandpa destroyed both his shoulders. He's had one replaced, and needs to have the other one done. My dad is well on his way to destroying his shoulders too.
And not solve transportation at all. Tunnels for individuals with primarily single-occupant vehicles are counter-productive. We need more public transit. Parking is expensive, insurance is expensive, the vast majority of the bay area public will be left out by this plan.

Either way tunnels aren't particularly expensive, stations, on-ramps/off-ramps are.
Simplest option: Use server side rendering.

Next Simplest Option: Javascript + Jquery + HandlebarsJS

Neither of these options are marketable.
Are there third party boaster antennas available for their 4G collection? I use these antennas on my WRT3200ACM and they help.
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My cynical side sees this as: "Your games still render at 1080, we scale the video up to 8K to output on your 8K screen."
The older you get the less you have to lose. It sounds like you need a midlife re-evaluation of what makes you happy. Go run up some credit card debt and live a little. They won't make you pay when you die.
That hurts my head, having separate chat history and ads for your cats.
This is actually a pretty common strategy in Property Management. Multi-unit buildings owned by REITs are known to build this into their marketing plan. Sooner or later enough tenants will complain and the negative reviews will make it hard to fill empty units, so just "rebrand" and change your name. Common strategy by Essex Properties in the Bay Area.
That python "closure" is a big fat lie too due to python's late binding. Depending on the context in which that code is being defined it may or may not work as expected.

The only guaranteed way to ensure that a free variable in python function scope (it's not a closure) does not change is to pass it explicitly as a default value.

a = 1
def function(x, a=a):
return x + a

That will work in loops. Otherwise what you are really writing is

a = 1
def function(x):
return x + the_last_value_a_obtains_in_this_scope

a = 2
assert function(1) == 3
The fastai library uses a style guide specifically designed for data science libraries: https://docs.fast.ai/dev/style.html .

There is only one global in the library, which is a singleton called `defaults`, and contains 2 things: the default GPU to use, the the number of CPUs to use.
You can get an X-Box One S 1TB w/Game for $225. A 1 TB SSD costs upwards of $115 (48% of the total console cost). The gap was significantly wider when the X-Box One S launched in August 2016.

Therefore it is less about how behind/ahead they are and more about creating a consistent platform and setting a price that is comfortable for the mass market appeal they're aiming for.

By contrast a GeForce RTX 2060 starts at $350. Hardly comparing like with like price wise. Even their "high end" X-Box One X is only $400. And we're missing CPU, RAM, SSD, motherboard, case, and Windows license and already $50 shy of that.
Interesting, Advice specifically about career advancement hun? I was imagining general advice because they are easily shared.
Convincing a simple majority of Americans isn't that difficult, but legislators are a different story.
I don't know what made me get married honestly. Maybe I was more in love with the idea of marriage than marriage itself and that I was tired of the dating scene. I got married relatively quickly after I met her.

The divorce was caused by her having a drinking problem. Most of the time we were dating she was living out of town and I was to naive to know what a drinking problem looked like. If you have ever dealt with someone with a drinking problem, it's the constant terror of not knowing what you were going to get when you got home.

But more generically, she was so consumed with friends, her family, and her own addictions to put us first. I was definitely not perfect, but it didn't matter what I did if there is only one person who is mentally all there.
It doesn't have to actually be MORE regrets, it is just as powerful with the observations of merely different possible ones.

While reading the article I was wondering what circumstances people were in when they made those choices.

For example, was it the late-20s to mid-30s man that was otherwise worried about companionship who then seemingly felt lucky or blessed to find a good match without compromise? Before the likelyhood of age-congruent marriages became a thing of the past?

Would just knowing to avoid that person actually prevent them from making the exact same mistake? Swiping on dating apps and enduring meetups with the forced pretext of dating?

Would the distraction of discontent in their relationship really be less fulfilling for them than the distraction of a wish for companionship, or the drive to merely check the box on rites of passage?

Is there a way to know?
That's a good thought and big concern.

But the alternative path is not necessarily one of less learning. Many people, both gifted and not, detest academics and feel school is a kind of prison or CAFO. This would give them more options. It would give bullied kids more options too, or kids looking to get away from gang activity in their (bad) school.
Probably just checkerboard rendering. A not entirely dishonest way to pump up the marketing copy.
obfuscated Perl?
I Don't Do Domain Driven Design
I know nothing about this particular company. I also see no reason to assume it’s particularly bad (it could very well be above average). But I do see a lot of data around company engagement. There’s basically no chance this level of positivity is ubiquitous for them, especially when the target workforce appears to be people otherwise below the poverty line.

Although pointless tedium is not the most important factor in rating a job, I think data labeling could well be along the most pointlessly tedious jobs ever created.
Start with contracting instead of getting a job. A contract will give you more flexibility to work on side projects since you have control over where and when you work while also providing cash flow. It will also teach you important skills on creating and running a business. If you can't sell yourself as a contractor, you will have a hard time selling your product.

Once you have cash flow, start with trying to sell your idea before you build it. If anyone wants your idea, hire others to help you build it and sell it. Your contract cash flow will allow you to trade your time for other's who will have skills you don't have.
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There are three things I'd like to share with you.

First, I've hired dozens of people in the last year, and the main piece of advice is this: I'm rooting for you.

Seriously.

I spend a TON of time sifting through resumes, doing phone screens, checking Github repositories, and on-site interviews. I really, really don't want to do it.

Ideally, the first candidate that walks through the door is perfect, and I don't have to even talk to anyone else. Done. Finished. Now I get to do real stuff at work.

I'm rooting for you. Honestly.

Second, the answer to your question is "No". You don't have to know how to invert a binary tree or re-implement quicksort. For good interviewers, the point isn't for you to reinvent or regurgitate complex computer science problems in 30 minutes, but rather to allow you to demonstrate your thinking. Can you write code? Can you walk me through your thought process? If I throw a curve ball, can you adapt your solution to that?

You don't need to know all of those things you mentioned, but you should be able to demonstrate that, given enough time, you can do those things.

We only get 30-45 minutes with you. The goal is to figure out what you do know quickly, and then gauge your capacity to grow beyond that.

Look, there are some things you must know to get a job with me, and there are some things that aren't important. "Can you write code?" is the bare minimum. I wouldn't hire a carpenter who doesn't know how to use a hammer, but just knowing how to use a hammer doesn't make a carpenter good, either.

There are an infinite number of skills out there that you can learn. I don't expect you to know them all. I expect you to know SOME of them. I expect you to be able to write code, but I expect you to do a little bit more than that.

Most jobs I've ever had required on-the-job training. I have to learn how the new job does code deployments, how they structure their code, maybe a new programming language. I have to learn how they do standups (if any), code coverage (if any), and one-on-ones (if any). I have to learn what's in this database and how it connects to that API and what framework they're using. Everyone uses frameworks differently, so I have to figure out the quirks and esoteric choices that this particular company made.

The point is this: you don't have to know everything. You need to demonstrate that you can code (the bare minimum of the job), you have to demonstrate that you can learn and ideally learn quickly, and perhaps most importantly, you are hopefully someone that I would like to sit next to for the next six months.

I'm not going to tell you not to stress out, because that's perfectly normal. But what I will say to summarize are these two things:

1. We are rooting for you.

2. You don't have to know everything. Just be your normal smart, enthusiastic self and do the best you can.

Keep those in mind and you'll be fine.
I feel like my life and career as a software guy is pretty cushy. I work probably 35 hours a week on average, remote, on a schedule I prefer. I have a ton of time left over for socializing, hobbies, TV, games, etc. But, this was a deliberate progression for me.

And it could even get easier. I could do 20 hours a week of consulting work and still get by. I don't think I'd want to do that, but I could.

I don't know where you live or what area you work in, but I think the thing you want actually is achievable, maybe with a pay cut, or maybe not even. The fact that you're having to learn to use Rust because it's all the sudden getting used on projects says to me that you're working at some place where people put way too much of themselves into work.
I'm fine with that as long as those are not my papers! :)
I know how Foundations and Donor Advised Funds make their decisions, people that aspire to support open source don't have the discretion over the foundation funds to do so.
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The problem is then Yelp filters your reviews to be lower on the main page- their algorithm features reviewers who leave "balanced" reviews so more even % of 5-1 star reviews. People who have only positive or only negative reviews get pushed onto the non-featured reviews/reviews we don't recommend page. One thing that helps your reviews stay on the front page is having a lot of friends on yelp, as well as being on of the first to review for places.

I always feel bad leaving a mediocre review for small businesses, so I generally will only do that for places that it doesn't really matter (random gas stations).
Exactly. He's in almost the same bucket as Roger Stone: a one man MSM troll machine.

Maybe he's out of viagra too... gofundme required.
"increase supply in college graduates while decreasing supply in workers of skilled trades. Thus, the latter would get to demand higher incomes (while the former would see theirs decreased)."

Even today some people are making the argument that college grads can't find good jobs. Wouldn't more grads make the problem worse?

I think some of those college grads should find their way into skilled trades. The trades may lack some of the sizzle, but they definitely result in jobs that serve a purpose.
he was giving away free bitcoins, did you visit the link?
The party with less money had the easier side in both cases. GGGP's point is that even though the party with less money had the easier case in the OJ trial, they had enough money to win what somebody with less money would have certainly lost. Though the state has more money, it could not afford OJ's lawyers. Similarly, at the time of the civil trial, OJ could not afford the lawyers he had in the criminal trial.
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I had read 4k at 120fps, and "8K capable"

Which is like "1080 capable" in 2002, which turned out to be 1080i capable, can forget about 1080p.
This isn't a separate containment structure surrounding the reactor, but part of the reactor itself. From your own link, page 42, section 5.8 Containment systems:

> Thus, there seems to be a barrier less in AGR compared with LWR reactors. In AGR's the pressure vessel and containment is one unit, but the vessel contains the total primary circuit.The main reason for this difference is the single phase CO2 coolant used in AGR compared with the H2O coolant in LWR. CO2 cannot undergo suddenly phase change as a result of an unexpected rise in temperature or pressure, i. c. it cannot flash as water. It means that there can be no sudden discontinuity of cooling under fault conditions, and changes in flows, temperatures and pressures progress rather slow.
Do you mean we want to erode doctor/nurse pay because that's what's causing high healthcare costs?

It's been awhile since I worked in healthcare but I don't think primary care provider pay is high on the list of most impactful cost cutting improvements
As with everything, it seems, it depends on who you ask. The WHO shows some overlap. Some US states have high obesity, some low. Some European countries are above some states, even if the US is incrementally higher overall. Oregon, for example, is just a small amount higher than UK. Greece should be higher than UK IIRC, but I did not memorize the table.

Nobody with a 1 in 4 obesity rate is in much of a position to point fingers, it's pretty clearly a global problem. I see no reason to suggest that regulation is helping anyone. Food culture is probably the biggest single factor.
Conspiracy would suggest someone is hiding something.
Yet to play this one. Recently played Full Throttle and it was great. I guess I have to go back and replay Maniac Mansion since the 90s?
Celiac may be? Or sensitivity to gluten. These cases are on the rise and it is possible that it is related to modern wheat crop.
Were you around in 2001 after the dotcom crash? It was really difficult to find work. I know a few web devs that never worked in the industry again.
I understand the sentiment here, but I disagree with the author, mostly the fact that video/face-to-face requires note taking to refer back to what was said. The author mentions this offhandedly, but I believe it's one of the greatest strengths of IM over a video call.

I despise note taking in meetings, it's stressful when people rely on me to take notes for them, and I end up missing out on the conversation because I'm trying to condense what was said into notes. Maybe I'm just a bad note taker.

The author seems to be intimidated by "whole team" IM rooms because they're hard to manage. I agree, they are hard to manage, and I refer to them as the wild west. But that's the beauty- they're unmanaged, open, anyone can read any thread (at my employer we use an IM client that supports threading).

The author didn't touch on that, and it's my favorite thing about "whole team" IM rooms: As opposed to small group emails and meetings, "whole team" IM rooms are a place where anyone and everyone can benefit from the discussion.
NYC used to have three separate subway systems. To put it mildly, it was not effective, and we're still contending with three effects of it today.
>Only if the software you're buying meets all of your current and future requirements, and is maintained indefinitely.

Nobody expects 3d design software to be maintained indefinitely or expects 3d design software to satisfy future requirements magically. You buy a 3d design software to make you money by creating content. Either it makes you money or it doesn't. The easiest thing to do is to simply buy what everyone else is using because it makes it easier to hire talent from a pre-existing pool of experts, or if need be, train them on a software for which training programs already exist because its popular.

>If new requirements come up, they're at least not any more helpful than in-house resources (unless a lot of people suddenly have the same requirements at the same time);

Well, wait a minute. Before you even get there, you not only have to be good at producing 3D art/content (or atleast good enough to make a decent chunk of change), you have to now hire dev/test/pm folks and successfully run a software development team in-house. I don't find this to be a realistic proposition.

>and if they stop maintaining it, there's a good chance you literally can't do anything about that.

A vendor for any software that you rely on can go out of business. Do you plan to run independent software development teams for your OS, accounting software, browser, IDE, etc ? The answer obviously is no. And the same reasoning applies to your 3d design software.

>You just have a different set of unknowns, one of which seems more manageable (which is probably why it is more popular), and probably is more manageable in some subset of use cases.

I don't agree at all. I think it actually is more manageable.
My PS4 has had an SSD in it since 2014. Wow half a decade.

I recently upgraded it to 1tb, from 512gb.

I also realized that my systems have SSDs in them no matter how optimistic I feel about my future spending capabilities. Matter of priorities.

I didn't find this SSD part of the teaser compelling, but I'm looking forward to the 8K pipeline in 2023 I guess. Will my short-throw projector support 8K? Will my internet connection support 8K streaming without restrictive bandwidth limits? Will my cellular connection support 8K streaming without consequences for my otherwise casual use? Will there be a lot of content? Will I actually enjoy any of this more?
Implementing AI in a large flight simulator would make an interesting platform to do trials. Of course you can setup large scale simulations of known inputs and expected outputs, but you'd also get a variety of skill levels and you'd see how the AI responds to some idiot taking off from the taxiway (e.g. Would it successfully redirect landing aircraft).

If someone could implement an AI that worked in flight simulator, it could help serve as evidence supporting a real world implementation.
Face to face conversations don't scale or reflect the reality of modern development. Put your messages on the blockchain, and use good public key crypto.
I was ready to tear into him, but the title does not match what he was quoted in the article text.
Maybe it's a good use for deepfake technology. Send the audio quickly (that works fine on a telephone, must be OK), then the receiver fakes up a talking head based on that.
This will definitely never happen with “monitor”-style technology, because AR/VR with face tracking will do it. That’s probably five years out.

As a side note, I believe eye contact and 3D projected body language tracking are the limiting technology for virtual offices to leapfrog physical offices.

It’s my expectation that when those two technologies are cheap ($600 all-in-one device) it will massively disrupt both commercial real estate and any residential markets that are commute dominated.

I believe particularly in the Bay Area this will be the source of the next housing market collapse. Particularly since Facebook is heavily invested in telepresence now, and has a clear path to a device like I described within ~5 years.

Google and Apple, in all likelihood, will put out a similar device in that timeframe as well.
You are right. Overall funding of education is up across the board, but down per-student as Universities try to grow like businesses (bigger and bigger classes every year). Enrollment balloons, so spending per student goes down despite increasing investments in education.

Ballooning enrollment leads to more money spent on facilities and administration, which means even less money goes directly toward educating students.

It is a mess.
It's been a while, but I seem to recall that honesty skyrocketed in the months immediately after 9/11, then gradually came back down to normal. I also seem to recall that the professions which made the most money were NOT the ones with the highest compliance, which is not all that surprising, but still...