skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey guys, as the tile mentions I’ve built a little tool that helps you write sales emails. I dealt with a lot of prospecting and I’ve decided to package some of the structure that I’ve seen working from my A/B tests into an editor that we all can use.

It should be pretty self-explanatory – fill a few initial questions (works best with short answers), and it will create several copy ideas for your first message and followups. You can also play with a preloaded example. From my tests all seems to be working, but I recommend to proofread the copy and add your unique spin before copy/paste in your sending tool. Ultimately nothing can beat your unique market knowledge.

If you decide to give it a go and have any feedback I’d love to hear your thoughts!

https://pitchbuild.herokuapp.com/
Who keeps the regsitry of serial numbers?
> They are burning through VC money by subsidizing the cost of each ride

I've never understood that. How are they subsidizing it? They take over 25% of what the customer pays and all they have to do is run the app. Whether they charge $10 or $15 for the same ride the cost to them is the same. It doesn't make sense, they don't have any extra cost by making a ride cheaper.
Maybe. This was but one improvement in a backlog.
Happy to see vmware going all in on kubernetes.

In this regards, I just want to mention dominik tornow, which did an excellent work trying to formalise the kubernetes internals.

https://medium.com/@dominik.tornow
Too bad that vegan food is mostly carbs and tasteless stuff like tofu. There are so many tasty and healthy vegetables and great veggie recipes but you have to cook at home because you can't find them outside.
There are companies working on aftermarket battery upgrades. There's one that has a module that lets you put a newer 40kWh battery in an old Leaf. Such batteries can be purchased from junked/totaled Leafs. There's another out there working on some kind of emulated battery module. Neither of these are quite ready yet but the market is there so I assume such upgrades are coming.
I dont think they are ignoring input. Of course, when soda and lots of sugar is still part of your diet all bets are off - those are the basics that have to be fixed first. This has been repeated and emphasized over and over. However, in addition you can‘t just ignore the benefits of exercise and the extra budget of a few hundred calories it provides daily.

I recommend to get an Apple Watch (or any good fitness tracker) and a smart scale. After some time you can pretty easily and reliably predict your daily weight development simply based on your most recent diet and exercise.
I hear rumors that there are exactly as many units of oil sold as units of oil bought, and the same holds true for gold. I honestly have no idea what you could mean by saying that there's a glut of one and a dearth of the other.
Oh why did you have to do that?

*adds Voner kebab to list of things to try (handy as I'm planning to be in Harrogate this autumn and Berlin next spring (the latter apparentl having a few outlets offering the stuff).

(Omnivore here)
Adults generally dont suffer emotional turmoil when someone else talks about their food.
very useful for multi-time-zoned projects. Working with overseas times means you get good at mental translation but with daylight savings, people moving around, new people on the project, etc - it becomes very handy.

One of my favorite clock related features is in KMail where it says "Senders current time", which is often helpful as well.
You get 5 year guaranteed support for the FP3. The FP2 launched with 5.1, and it is now on Android 7. We got Android 9 working via LineageOS but that is weekly snapshots which can (and will) break. The problem here, btw, is Qualcomm.
Who is confiscating weapons?
Things You Shouldn’t Nuke – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
By the way, if you buy a stock and then short sell an index, you can be guaranteed to make money in a market downturn so long as the stock you picked does better than the index. But good luck picking a stock that consistently outperforms the market! Warren Buffet can do that, though.
> a containerized architecture gives developers peace of mind in their local environments

...unless you use cloud-specific services, which almost everybody should be doing because the management load of self-hosted alternatives is very high. Correctly care-and-feeding a message queue or a log store is so much more work than creating an SQS queue or a Kinesis shard, especially when you are not running a company centered around managing a message queue or a log store. Which you probably aren't. Localstack exists as an AWS stub for local development, but it sure isn't great and the impedance mismatch is pretty high--just trying to write Pulumi code that can target either it or AWS proper is an exercise in frustration.

Don't get me wrong: containers as a better way to ship "statically linked" applications are great. But none of the container-orchestration stuff seems out of the "hype" stage from anything I've seen as a consultant or as a line developer; I've never-not-once found a reason to reach for k8s on any major cloud provider. I guess it's OpenStack 2.0 for on-premises deployments, and in that light there's definitely some value, but your cloud provider is doing a lot of work that you're already effectively paying for by being in that ecosystem--for most users (who can't hire somebody like me) it's worth using it.
It isn't about "could" is about "would", notice that i wrote "i dont want to pay" not "i cannot pay". After all that money you save on buying XXX is money you can spend on something you actually value.
That’s actually incorrect. I used Browserstack for testing our web apps. Why buy a Mac when you could basically rent one for your browser testing. We script it out and test out pre-prod web apps.
But their cost to run servers/app should not be costing them 30% of each ride. They should be making good profit. They are blowing a lot of money in other areas if you look at charts that outline this.
Minimizing emigration due to rapidly rising cost of living.
Depends what you want to call inflation. Gold's price movements don't track anticipated inflation in any meaningful sense [0].

That being said, over very long time horizons it is difficult to see why the real price of gold would change. They probably aren't going to mine it any cheaper and it isn't crazy to handwave an argument that demand can't drop all that far from where it is now. On that basis it easily outperforms cash.

If interest rates stay near 0 or drop negative gold might outperform bonds too. It is hard to say; the central banks do strange things to the bond markets.

Also, note that all these graphs only go back to the 1970s. Bit of a mystery why [1]. Gold's value tends to transcend such short-term concerns as the current global financial regime and that is a draw for some. Personally I think the current US dollar system is getting a bit long in the tooth. The biggest draw in this regard is that gold is a real expensive thing that is exceptionally easy to store (ignoring theft risks) and it is just hard to see how it could become less valuable than it is right now (short of government bans on gold trading).

[0] https://upfina.com/gold-vs-inflation/ particularly "Longer Term Correlation Between Real Gold & TIPS Doesn’t Hold Up"

[1] That was when the last monetary system failed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system
Great. You pointed that camera directly at my house and are now infringing on my right not to have it watched by the police 24/7.

Please explain why your rights are greater than mine.
I'm using Xfce with Xmonad. Enjoying how simple yet flexible (configuration options) Xfce is.
You've only had bad tofu, then.
Because the cost of a cab ride is not $6 to drive entirely cross town. It just isn't. Uber is popular because it's cheap as shit. If SuperRide came out, and it was half the price of Uber, no one would ever use Uber again.
The nuclear waste fund in the US is for long-term nuclear waste disposal only, not decommissioning.

Decommissioning is paid for by plant-specific trust funds that are also paid into throughout the life of the plant.

In general, it's looking to be slightly cheaper than expected to decommission plants, and so there's a bit of a gold rush to access these funds. That's why you see stuff like this: https://www.ipsecinfo.org/2018/11/23/holtec-seeks-approval-t...

This is another element in the equation of why nuclear plants are shutting down early.
If your tofu is tasteless, you're doing it wrong. One of the major perks of tofu is that it absorbs flavor really well.
>black swan events could change the exposure

Strictly speaking your exposure never changes, only your perception of your exposure as your sure-bet real estate portfolio crashes to zero.
Not OP, but since Insomnia is a native app, it'll probably store its data and preferences in ~/Library. That is of course backed up via Time Machine.
I've used them all: Postman, Insomnia, Paw, and other online web apps. Unfortunately none come close to being usable for large APIs imo. Some of the problems I faced off the top of my head (it's almost 2 years ago now since I tried them all though, but I haven't seen much change to be honest):

Insomnia: doesn't really have any support for documentation stuff. It is just an HTTP client that if you share your workspace with your team, is some kind of documentation. But you cannot share this outside of your organisation.

Postman: their documentation implementation seems one of the better ones, but Postman itself just isn't very DRY. For example we have a slightly different authentication scheme which isn't supported so we had to add a simple Javascript snippet to each request, but keeping all of them updated is impossible. I personally also wasn't a big fan of their client and it's not very user-friendly imo.

Paw: honestly pretty good. I asked them a few years ago to implement this and keep me posted. They eventually implemented some documentation stuff, but it's proprietary and using a plugin to convert to RAML or something else is a pain. When I used it, it also wasn't very expansive. It also faces the same problem as Insomnia: you are not able to share it outside your team. Though it also requires everyone to buy Paw and own a Mac. I switched to Linux a few years ago and so don't use my account anymore, that I paid for.

OpenAPI/Swagger: OpenAPI itself is great, but the website GUI that Swagger converts it to is basically useless for large APIs. You cannot nest anything and it is not very good for public documentation.

RAML: I personally love this syntax the most. Though there barely is any support for it. You cannot find any mature library or application that can convert it to actual usable documentation pages. It's also honestly a big pain to write all of the documentation at once.

BlueprintAPI: this is just way too barebones. I immediately stopped using it after trying it.

There were some others I tried, none really noteworthy. It's been a while as well so it's possible that some of my opinions are out of date.
To fully validate your gold holdings yourself, you must determine that the metal is actually gold at the purity stamped on the coin/bar. Or you must trust the authority whose image appears stamped in the object.

Obviously most gold holders do not have metallurgical laboratories in their homes, so your assertion is half-wrong. Yes, there is no counterparty risk to the transaction: you hold the gold. But there is third-party trust that what you have is indeed gold.

Of course, I would be a bad Bitcoiner if I didn't mention that Bitcoin solves both of these problems. You can fully validate the quantity and validity of your bitcoin with your copy of the blockchain.

Unlike "blockchain people" though, I do not believe gold -- or any other physical object -- can be realistically tracked in a digital system. So I reject the "put gold on the blockchain" idea as a non-starter.
Seems like the other way around to me. Most oil gets used pretty quickly after it’s produced. Most gold sits in vaults doing absolutely nothing.
> deporting millions of Hispanic people (citizens included) in the 30s

In case anyone is curious, this appears to be referring to the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Repatriation
Yes, but if I buy a dell with Windows 10, and MS releases Windows 11 a month from now, I will (most likely, based on each previous release), have to buy a license of Windows 11. Apple used to do that until 10.8.
>You will also not become flamboyantly rich overnight in the way that Crypto speculators do.

Yeah who would want that???
Anybody else notice that, by the article's own plot, one could have said the same thing at almost any point between 1975 and 2000?
Selecting some text and then drag it to a text editor works though. :)
That's not necessarily true. I used Ubuntu for a year or two, and each release seemed to break something different (WiFi or sound usually), and while the fix was usually pretty easy, it still required fixing. I got fed up and switched to Fedora and ran into the same problem with release upgrades (and release upgrades seemed to take longer). After a year or so of that, I switched to Arch and have had fewer problems (the only problems I've had were clearly mentioned in the front page, with a working fix) and have used that for several years (5?).

Maybe that's because I'm better at using Linux now, or maybe that's because I have better hardware now. My point, however, is that Linux has its share of problems, especially if you do release upgrades. There's a reason LTS versions exist, and I haven't had anything break when staying on an LTS branch.

That being said, I've had fewer people since switching to Linux. On Windows, if something breaks, it's a royal pain to find the fix most of the time. Sometimes it's a bad driver, other times software needs to be reinstalled, and still other times a system file got corrupted and I need to figure out how to replace it. I've never had those types of problems on Linux, just configuration issues for hardware that isn't well supported anyway (can be solved by being a little picky about hardware).

The difference is expectations. When I pay for Windows, I expect it to work since the hardware all claims to have Windows support. I don't have the same luxury with Linux, so I expect problems. Maybe Microsoft needs a grade for hardware to determine how well it should work, idk, but having issues with "supported" hardware is really frustrating.
These are all great, but I'm curious if anyone can suggest browser alternatives (I've looked before w/o success) -- It would be awesome to have something like this open up on the home browser tab. Any suggestions?
Not directed at author but I looked at his bio after reading the article. He spent his time mostly as an engineering manager and yet in his bio has:

"I led engineering teams at Stripe"

Do managers in software companies actually think they lead teams? I've seen or heard "led engineering" or variants so much from mid level management that I wonder if my perspective is skewed.

Seems crazy to me.
Vegan food is also a safe bet for the larger group of vegetarians.

And people with kosher or halal diets, too.
How does this compare with conky?
You get an Uber. The overall cost of your trip should be $15 once you figure in all the various costs and overhead.

But you get charged only $10. Uber has already eaten $5 of the fare for you. That money has to come from somewhere. The 30% they take on the $10 isn't covering what they've already knocked off the price.

That money has to come from somewhere. That somewhere is the VC.

The 30% they take is really only stemming the bleeding.
I'll tell you something that nobody wants to admit to:

Nobody really knows how money works.

The average 401k holder has one because they don't have a good idea of how money works or what they should do with it. If they really understood their 401k, they'd know that they're probably getting ripped off in fees over their lifetime.

If economists and financial analysts completely understood money, they wouldn't be in such disagreement all the time over basic things. A financial advisor might tell you to leave your money in a 401k, and the next one might tell you the same, but it's not that hard to find one who will tell you to get your money out of your 401k ASAP for a variety of reasons.

At the end of the day, you have to trust your own judgment. People don't get rich doing the easy thing.

By the way, here's some things you should think about with 401ks:

- Someone with an average salary pays $138,336 in 401k management fees over their lifetime. Not only are you the only party taking a risk, but you're getting charged for taking that risk. Advisors and broker dealers aren't risking anything except your money.

- You don't own the money in your 401k. Read the fine print and you will find "FBO" (For Benefit Of). The tax code makes it technically owned by the government, but provided for your benefit. In a crisis, the government can confiscate any amount of your 401k to pay off debt and pensions.

- 401k teaches people to cluelessly invest. Do you know if your money is being invested in big tobacco or big oil?

- The government has the advantage with your money. Because you can't cash out without penalties, when you die, whatever's left over for your children is not only subject to income tax but to estate tax as well. They want your 401k money to be gifted to someone else because that means they don't get to cash in on your pile of money.
If others do it on every opportunity, with a smug holier than thou attitude and needless detail, they do...

In fact studies have shown it can drive a person insane...
Have no idea the retirement account exists. 20 years from now a recession won't matter because the economy will have recovered.
I think this might have been posted here before, but think this is an interesting comparison as well: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/06/22/toyota-corolla-vs-tesla...
It is US centric though, so not a perfect comparison.

So far I have had no issues with my 3. $115 for tire rotation and state inspection is the only thing I have spent any money on so far in 15 months and over 20,000 miles. So that is less than $10/month in maintenance. And I am spending about half as much in electricity as I was for gas. The insurance was a big jump from a 2011 Ford Focus, but that car has cost significantly more to maintain in the same time frame.
https://www.katacoda.com/ is also an awesome resource - I've often recommended it for people wanting to learn and play around with Kubernetes with a low barrier to entry.
GraphQLZero: An online, fake GraphQL API for learning, testing, and prototyping
It's the "smart" part responsible for decoding the incoming bytestream.
I look forward to analyzing the sequence of physical forces that connect me wanting to tell someone something to keys being pressed on a keyboard to an email showing up in their inbox as part of my decision process at work.

We don't have time to analyze entire chains so we make assumptions about chains that should be unbroken. Occasionally but inevitably we make wrong assumptions.
IT projects be it open source or closed source often span the US, Asia and Europe.

After a while you memorize the time zone differences. But to be sure and take daylight savings in account world clocks are not bad.
I'm cautiously optimistic about the Librem 5 and PinePhone in this regard; both should be usable with a mainline kernel. If we could get hardware like that ethically sourced (like with the Fairphone) and running entirely or almost entirely free software (like with the Librem 5)... well, we'd be in a pretty good spot I think.
Sending 5 or 6 emails to a total stranger (who hasn’t replied and didn’t opt in) doesn’t meet any widely-held definition of sales, and does meet nearly all widely-held definitions of spam.

(And if you’re on the receiving end of this, don’t reply asking to be removed. Instead, forward the emails and headers to the abuse@ aliases of the sender’s email and Web site hosting providers.)
They do meet the purity standards, that’s the point.

A better idea would to put a public key on each gold bar so that anyone can verify the authenticity. The producers could then compile a list of all the current locations of the gold and if someone tries to report a new inconsistent location, flag it as a fake.
The coolest solution I've read about to note the producer is to emboss a hologram in the metal, though perhaps with enough care this too could be faked or copied:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinebar
Or just go to a place offering vegan alternatives and there will be no fuss?
They had 400 million monthly active users in December 2013. At the same time they had 50 employees I think as well as modest server expenses.

They had signalled quite early that they where going to charge money, they had started charging money from at least a subset of users and they were still growing like crazy, 200 million monthly active users since april that year it seems based on the statistics I found.

To me that sounds profitable.
Eating meat is better for the environment in the long run.

If human population drops to zero due to climate change (which meat consumption contributes to), then the environment will be left alone and do great on its own! It wont even take more than 1-2 millennia for recovery, which is nothing in geological terms!

Compared to that eating vegan is just a feel-good half-measure.
Another option would be to revoke the companies charter in the state they are registered in. Basically, a corporate death penalty.
SpaceX flies prototype Mars rocket ‘Starhopper’ in highest and longest test yet
You might also want to check out the Bogleheads Wiki [1] first. It gives a good overview of what these books are about.

[1] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page
Put it all in the S&P 500. I lived on a street with a bunch of Wall Street higher ups growing up. They all were Vanguard customers.
Do police have any obligation to be honest in these requests? Even if it’s opt-in, I’d be afraid of cops using the system to harass personal enemies by making requests that say they’re looking for an active serial killer or whatever.
>right not to have it watched by the police 24/7

I'm not aware of any legislation in the USA that would make a video feed of the exterior view of a property from one's own property illegal.
Google's too busy optimizing ad delivery for youtube to care. I recently updated the android app, only change I noticed was now ads extend over the description and comments until you click a little x. That never existed before the update.
Chinese should be aware of self styled thought leaders and experts pop-up based on current demand on linkedin. I am sure someone would be updating CVs claiming a 10 years of deep experience in suppressing protests worldwide.
> Unfortunately the law often does not make objective sense.

This isn't about the law. It's unclear if the law would require something like this or not. Google decided not to find out by settling. The settlement terms were up to the two companies to decide and were not mandated by laws.
Same experience here. My friends and I for the past 10+ years have tried to avoid Skype wherever possible and generally barely used it unless other forms of videoconferencing failed us too. It's almost a running joke with us that any attempt to use Skype will only result in frustration and disappointment, and all calls are prefaced with a standard "hold on, Skype is fucking up, give me a few minutes."

Along with Gchat it's just one of the ultimate digital product failures of our time. What should have been miles ahead of any competitor and cornered the market, instead became something users vehemently hated.
It's consuming ~20% CPU in idle on my machine (MacBook Pro Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015, 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GB 1867 MHz DDR3, macOS Mojave 10.14.6)
Nice work! Looks great and easy to use. What do you use to get transaction history?