skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simply put, I asked an industry contact for referrals to my consulting business, and built a service to address the common needs of the new clients.

For years I'd moonlighted as a backend developer; I'd meet graphic designers who were making amazing-looking websites but were in over their heads when it came to integrating database or API functionality into a client's project since they were more into design than coding. I would code up an integration and bill them for a few hours of effort. This would always lead to an hour or two of future maintenance, but wasn't a reliable revenue generator.

On one project, the client required an web integration with an ERP system so their website could reflect inventory status; the ERP vendor provided an API but it was rate limited and couldn't support production web traffic volume, so I coded up a cache layer and a few custom reports. During the process, I discovered that the API documentation was incomplete so I ended up corresponding with the CTO in order to complete the work.

After that project was over, I hoped to leverage my newfound familiarity with the API to win more business, so I asked the CTO to forward any of his customers that needed integrations beyond the scope that his company usually supports. After a few referrals, I was able to see some common patterns of needs not supported directly by the 3rd party API and was able to develop a service to support those use cases. Referrals from the CTO of the ERP company carry weight with my clients, who in turn have been happy enough with my service that they have also been a source of new leads.

The combination of 2nd and 3rd party referrals has continued to generate new clients for me almost every month, and since my infrastructure costs are relatively fixed, every new client is gravy.

Long term, I will need to automate more of the onboarding process in order to scale up the number of new clients I can onboard in a week. And there are many other considerations as a business grows. But doing good consulting work and then asking clients for referrals was the pattern that allowed me to find the market for the niche SaaS that I developed.
People believe in "science" with the same fervor. The scare quotes are because someone will point to a study as definitive - the final answer - and use it as a blugeon (even if the subject is far from settled or the science itself questionable).

Science is a method of inquiry, it's not a tool to "win" a debate. I think you are just observing human nature, in this case reflecting in the so-call social sciences but can manifest in relation to hard science as well.

In both cases people are inclined to support what already matches their world view (which they project with their thoughts and actions and are reflected back filtered through their belief systems).
Nit pik: there's a ton of development west of I-280. Just look at Google Maps. You may have in mind the Rancho Corral de Tierra nature preserve (https://www.nps.gov/goga/rcdt-factsheet.htm), which abuts I-280 for a long section at the north of the peninsula. But on the other side of that, especially along the coast, is significant development. Rancho Corral seems only loosely connected to other preserves, and in general the entire peninsula has significant development, just not very dense or obvious from the highway--on Google Maps be sure to zoom in so you can see the little communities and houses scattered around the lower-half of the peninsula, which is presumably why all those nature preserves cannot be merged. So the movement of animals from further south along the Santa Cruz Mountains is probably relatively restricted. That doesn't prevent mountain lions from making their way near and even into San Francisco, but in no way should the situation diminish concern for habit loss.
Does your site show a business that delivers to a target city but is located in a different state? For example, a shed manufacturer.
Of course not, but sadly this is what Bloomberg has devolved into.
Some physicists openly admit not really understanding how a lever works. And not many people really understand the Pythagorean theorem at a deep level (as opposed to having memorized a proof of it). The important thing is to resist the urge to try and understand things and try to get used to seeing everything, not just science but literally all humans interactions etc as a formal abacus. Aim to simulate a certain set of behavior. Understanding is actually not conducive to this end at all.
Because few people own their house outright, and the equity in their house is their only form of financial cushion or retirement savings. In many cases, the kind of house price drop agitated for would bankrupt and evict them, with no way of buying into the market again despite the average lower prices.
Fukushima? That doesn't belong on the list. There is some limit to any engineering decision. Complaining about MCAS is totally reasonable, but it would be unreasonable to argue "The Air Max is not safe because if I hit it with enough Stingray missiles it won't fly anymore." Like, yeah? No kidding?

Fukushima was designed to survive the earthquake, and it did, it just wasn't designed to survive the earthquake and also the tsunami.
Exactly - the computer had switched contexts, but the pilot hadn't. And expecting pilots to switch their mental map of expected behaviour when the computer does (and did so with, from the accounts I read, very minimal indication that it had done so) during a high stress situation, is asking for trouble.
Programmers make these tools. When challenging said programmers who work for companies that promote this kind of behavior (G) they suggest that they work for these evil companies because their job is interesting and it pays well.

This practice could stop tomorrow if the best and brightest of us decided so.
Should not be too hard. Mostly Africa still has a lot of catching up to do in terms of modern farming practices. They could easily make huge improvements simply by doing what the rest of the world has done for decades. And that's before you consider sustainable practices that are currently revolutionizing agriculture which improve productivity by using resources like water and nutrients more optimally which is of course super relevant in places where these things are scarce.

African economies are growing rapidly and as a result they are getting a lot smarter about how they use their resources. Also, there are a lot of African entrepreneurs getting into farming.
Wasn't "Crusoe", the CPU Linus Torvalds used to work on, a CPU core that could run multiple instruction sets?

In theory it seems you could be able to convert "on the fly" from multiple high level instruction sets to a singl low level microcode.

Not sure it's a good idea tho.
The fact that they disagree is what is notable. The FAA lost credibility by being the last to ground the MAX. You side with the one that has a history of not being wrong.
I'm going to plug 'ungoogled-chromium' here as well as I personally found it better and more stable than Brave.
That’s one way to look at it sure.

Would you be in favor of bailing out those that lost their house when prices were falling in ‘08-‘10?
It's sad how, although I personally prefer to support Firefox by using it, I have still stuck with Google's Chrome due to a speed/sleekness factor which I can't quite put my finger on, that Firefox has never been able to overcome in my mind since fully switching over to Chrome several years ago.

It's little touches like how you can't re-order extension buttons with a basic mouse drag - no, you have to go into 'Customize...', and that's so clunky and 2004. They have some more work to do to really make it competitive with the mighty Chrome.

So after all that time, Brave is the first browser registering my interest due to these regular news stories. I still use Google services, but I don't like their current dominant position in shaping how the web works. That's too much power.
I really think planned obsolescence is the future for everyone. Why build things to last when you can 1. save money by cheaping out and 2. ensure a future customer by cheaping out?

There's no reason for them to build high quality, long lasting things. So why would they? They don't care about the waste.
+1, This has been my favorite technique as well.

Also, I would higly recommend experimental poet Kenneth Goldsmith's [1] book "Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age" for those struggling with writer's block. In the context of this discussion one could say that his entire art deals with issues of writer's block very closely (e.g. he has "Soliloquy", a 800-page book consisting of every word he spoke during a week, etc).

A passage from "Uncreative Writing":

"There’s one solution that each and every book on writer’s block offers: write five words. Any five words. Follow this advice, Mr. Ashbery, and you’ll never have writer’s block again."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Goldsmith; see also Ubuweb, the massive avant-gart art catalogue he curates, at http://www.ubu.com.
Isn’t that 5% inflation over 5 years? Seems high as that’s about double the US target, but within reason assuming some confirmation bias (increase price gap and reduce duration) and other market lag.
Voat had so much potential... shame how it is today. I still post almost everyday like I did so many years ago to provide actual content rather than vitriol but it's like shouting into a storm.

Still some possibility there, the leadership is open to fairness and free speech. It's the user base that has rotted.
That is exaggerated. It doesn't pervade everywhere.
Wow, way to cynically take some thing positive and make it instead negative.
@firethief -- glad to hear you're interested in this idea too. Do you have an implementation for Re that we could learn more about? Maybe we could swap some ideas.
The aerodynamic/stability effects of moving the engine position is a complicated topic, and I haven't seen a really good thorough explanation of it yet that really goes into the gritty details. There's so many rules of thumb and generalizations in the vast majority of peoples' understanding of aircraft stability and forces, even for pilots or engineers in the field.
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Just to add the opinion of someone who actually lived in london under both mayors - this is false.

Johnson's time as mayor was marked by trying to claim the successes of others (buses and bikes introduced by Livingstone), and failed initiatives like the expensive garden bridge which was never built or buying illegal water canons which could not be used, and addressing non-problems like drinking on the tube.

Khan's London has been professionally run and is tackling real problems like air quality and too many cars.

Both suffered from problems with crime caused by a decade of police cuts imposed by central government. London is still dramatically safer than any large US city though, including New York.
Of course, it's just one step further to what Apple want. Make MacBooks so much more efficient and powerful than PC competitors that theres no competition, then force everyone to use the App Store where they can get their 30% cut of another entire platform.
That would be the reddit example, just low overall demand for something like that. They could try it, but probably already did the analysis to see its not worth it.
I kind of dislike when Reddit bleeds onto HN. Any comment not fanatically supporting extreme right wing narratives gets downvoted to oblivion. We're generally not a toxic community and the mods and community here does a pretty good job at keeping a it's on things. It's why I prefer this as pretty much my primary social network. I learn useful things here, have meaningful disagreements that don't end in name calling, and learn tons.
Yes. This is exactly the case with music, too. Once the song's basis is created, everything that comes after has to 'fit in'. It's much harder to do sound design without that blank canvas effect.
I am loving the use of Brave browser. I came and went with it a few times but am not happy to be done with Chrome and away from Google a little more.
Yes, QED on why he really dislikes Khan - the colour of his skin.
The question I have is, is there a legitimate reason for tight integration between a compiler and libc? Perhaps there are very good reasons for them to be designed together. A lot of compilers to this for other languages because it allows them to have special logic around intrinsics for example.
I'm not convinced that it's solely our scale that makes euclidean geometry the preferred one. I think it also has to do with the fact the the ancient Greeks did their math with pointy sticks in beds of sand--beds that took on a certain shape due to environmental factors beyond just scale.

This caused us to associate the concept of orthogonality with a 90 degree angle, which is (in most cases) a property of the representations we use--not a property of the underlying mathematical objects. It's not a bias of the coordinate systems, it's a bias of how we conceive of the space, uh, coordinated by those systems.

And it's a convenient one--it evolved in our environment for a reason--it works well here. But so did the idea that the Earth was in the center of the universe.

I realize that it's a kooky theory, but it takes time to turn a kooky theory into a serious one, and so far I think it has some merits so I'm going to keep working on it.

Particularly, it would explain the seemingly arbitrary values of certain mathematical constants. If our concept of "straight line" or "flat surface" were to be not special at all, but just some weird quirk of how humans do things, then constants like pi would tell us less about circles and more about our own habits of perception, and I think that would be a much more satisfying way of framing things.

Or think about how the derivative of e^x is e^x. That's a cool property, but if you look at how the difference quotient is constructed you'll see that it implies axes on a flat surface set at 90 degrees to each other. So maybe what's special about e says more about the spaces implied by the coordinate system.

I realize that e is not _defined_ this way. That's where the theory needs work. Somehow our concept of the natural numbers is bound up with our perspective on flatness, and of how independent things ought to be represented and compared. I've yet to be able to construct something number-like that I can map to alternative values of e and pi for different geometries, but I think it can be done.
So? The parent was about the victimization of Russia. Your time line is about the allies caved in to the Reich and Germany invaded Czechoslovakia and as far as I can see has nothing to do with Russia, but I might miss something.

Then the Reich and Soviet Russia sat together cut Europe in halt. Stalin was by far the better strategist though, he talked to the French and English, waited until the Reich invaded Poland and then invaded Poland and the Baltic states second.
Google Plan to Prevent “Trump Situation” in 2020 on Hidden Cam
kiwi browser is worth a shot and made me switch from brave.
Show HN: TalentHub - open source job posting and applicant tracking web app
I mean, gee.

What can one say? Be afraid, be very afraid? Is this supposed to be alarming?

Look at it from this perspective. The high school principal walks into your math class, and points out six or seven students, and says "These students will all produce 15 children a piece!"

Okay, fortune teller. I guess I have to do something about that? Maybe... tell them to wear condoms? Yeah, that works. Oh, right. Abstinence only birth control. Even better.

Or... Is it not bout the procreation, and the abortion, and the safe sex, and the birth control? What is this about?

Is it about the single child policies that China implemented? Is about the male baby bias that produced skewed demographics in China, decades later?

Maybe, it's that the jungle and the endangered species are all doomed, and that one giant continent may support all those people, but only through horrendous pollution and environmental damage. Or maybe advanced technology will enable new scales of population growth.

What should one say to this? Not everyone is going to be a millionaire? Famine might stifle the whole thing, producing horrible realities on the ground?

It may very well be that live births will produce an effective explosion of recorded names, brith certificates might triple count of the the standing population, but how long they last might produce similarly grim statistics to match, and like Rwanda, grim might be something of an understatement.

I mean, the report might be right. Things may happen on that continent, and it may be a train wreck. But for all the predictions, no suggested intervention. We're just going to watch it happen, so I guess someone deserves a pat on the back for calling it now, but it's useless information until events transpire, and even then, all we get is an "I told you so."

Yipee!
The only difference between these two descriptions is whether the FAA implicitly understood that the MAX is NOT the same as the 737. If yes, then they were talked into accepting it anyway. If no, then they were tricked (unless Boeing genuinely believed that there was no difference, which is clearly false.)
1) Have a solid offer that gets existing clients results and makes them happy.

2) ask for referrals in a polite systematic way.

3) send hyper personalized outreach to similar folks introducing yourself and sharing a bit about the results you’ve achieved for clients. Email and LinkedIn work great right now for B2B.

If you’d like to chat more happy to do so. I help B2B SaaS companies breakthrough $1M ARR and we generally start off with these types of strategies to get predictable higher quality revenue quickly.
For anyone writing software controlling machines it is pretty much the status quo. It has to be darn near perfect, updating it later if it is even possible will be expensive and inconvenient
As much as it is a shitty environment if you have 6 months to fix it and all of the company resources you can think of to ask for that is lots of time.
No, you're missing the point. The comment I replied to said, "your servers are vulnerable no matter on prem or cloud." If you're in the cloud, you're vulnerable to an entire suite of attacks that you're not exposed to on-prem. That's my point.

I could care less what was used in the attack detailed by the article. I was replying to a specific comment, not the article.
> Surely there's some folks at Google who can see the raging dumpster fire this has become? I realize it's hard given all the competing interests (esp. advertisers), but this is horrendous.

I'm sure bad recommendations are an issue for some people, but for me they aren't that bad. I've found some pretty awesome stuff I probably wouldn't have found otherwise through it, and I'm pretty sure even my worst recommendations are better than what I see opening youtube.com in an incognito window.
Also, the "Google Insider" talked about secret meetings at a Masonic Temple. This almost made me think that Veritas got punked by a fake Google employee trying to feed them made up nonsense.
Industrial seed oils are making us sick
In the case of price controls for medical services and products, there are a bazillion cases of it working. Your theory goes up against the universe's facts on this specific case.

I'm not arguing for price controls on everything in general. I'm pointing out that _in this context_ price controls are a proven strategy and work and mean that people don't _die due to not affording their insulin_.
I don't think she's in much danger at this stage. It's no different from a kid wanting to watch videos of racing cars - they don't need to see the possible gristly consequences unless they're thinking of actually taking up street racing or something.
But it could have been quite easily by simply siting the backup generators above ground. That was a stupid design error. Tsunamis are not unknown in Japan after all.
Wind farms provide unstable power to the system; therefore from basic electric power systems theory(college level), you need to have a base station(coal or nuclear or gas) to provide stability to the system. Germany has not shut down any coal powered factory but they export any excess energy to nearby countries. Wind farms went up just for the investors sake and because of the "let's save the planet" fad. Look at your bill. If you did not provide subsidy to them through your bloated bill, the "investors" could not build wind farms. It is not economical, plus, you destroy the microclimate on mountain ridges where you put the wind farms. It's just another way to shaft the public

Check out these posts:

https://www.energieverite.com/post/lancement-du-collectif-%C...

Are renewables affecting income distribution and increasing the risk
of household poverty?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BF1kms5myPTky4yWopKNGNHDLEQ...
And sure, you as an adult should be able to watch whatever you want. But we're talking about little kids here, It's OK to shield them from the more horrible aspects of life. Let them be kids for a little while.
Ah, that makes sense. There's probably still room in the copper for more than 20 Gbps per lane, if they switch to an encoding with more than one voltage level, like PAM4.
Wasn't "fake news" a term popularised by someone accusing others of lying about him ? So that he'd look like the victim ?
a) You're ignoring the "and whatever else is next" part of my statement. If you're on-prem, you don't need to worry about hostile neighbors. Google Cloud engineers could be great at securing public cloud workloads, but even they don't know what's yet to be found.

b) You're not running untrusted, random stranger code on your Fortune 500 VM's. I can't signup for an account on Ford's VM's and start ripping through memory like I can with a public cloud.
Gaming console hardware needs to support software from way back. That's one other example at least.
Those scenarios seem few and far between. If it is a family home that has been owned for at least a decade in the bay area, then it has increased in value dramatically since it was bought, and no matter what kind of mortgage they have, they will have plenty of equity. If it was bought recently, then they probably don't have HELOCs or other instruments that would put them at risk, so the market value should be irrelevant to their financial situation.

I can't see how a market price decrease of a house that one owns, or has a mortgage on, could bankrupt someone or cause them to be evicted. The worst thing that could happen is for they homeowner to go "underwater", but even then, as long as they continue to pay their monthly mortgage payments, they get to keep their house.
That's not what those slides say at all, they're talking about how biased information already programs you.
In Brave, Undo Closed Tab doesn't work for me. It should supposedly work with Ctrl+Shift+T, as per an online search. Like Chrome, the built-in session save and restore (after a crash or close) is mostly miss, with few occasions of hits. It's good at blocking ads, but these other factors are enough to keep me on Firefox.
What? Art today is great and more and more great people are sharing their art with the world. The internet is full of amazing young artists.

Major art museums are in sad state though. They stock the same bland overly abstract art made by some rich donator’s kid made that would’ve pushed boundaries 100 years ago, but today, looks like nothing more than the tired “splash some paint on a canvas” trash. But small hole in the wall museums are full of boundary pushing art, and the internet is overflowing with it.
The solution is in sight. It's called Feature Policy.

https://feature-policy-demos.appspot.com/

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/06/feature-po...