skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those were the errors I made for a project I was a consultant/freelancer:

- Not charging the right price per hour, because "I was starting, this was an opportunity".
- Not putting boundaries on client limits, as in, "no you can't call me whenever you want" (especially if you live in a different timezone) I personally understand they need to have an answer, but they can do perfectly fine by e-mail and you'll have to set to them a deadline for replies, for example "I will call/or reply you as soon as I get the e-mail" on the contract.
- I didn't bill them for every cost they make me do like travel meetings and other general costs, so at the end my profits were even low.
- I didn't had a contract, that was completely solid, so, get a lawyer who can draft you a solid contract with all your needs.
- I was so overswamp of work that I couldn't manage all the expenses, or other time that I didn't bill to them, so also, get an accountant if you are charging them with something that might be funky.
I don't think hand waving the invasion of a neighboring country is going to change anyone's opinion.
Well, the unemployment rate in most European countries is twice that of the US....
Growing Human Neurons Connected to a Computer
> Pull that garbage out of the json and into a couple of tables and you'd be much faster.

It looks to me like a user-generated search query, not normalized data. A blob column makes perfect sense if this is the case, and pulling it out into other tables/columns would significantly overcomplicate everything else.
Can make it play on hover?

Right now I have to click a related artist before I can decide if I like him so I already have his nodes pop out even if I don't like him.
And many of those turn out tons of successful people you’ve heard of, too. Bet the ones that do so at the highest rate tend to be among the most expensive.
Bruce Lee was 5'8" tall, about the same as the average American man. The average American man couldn't turn the tables on Bruce Lee in a fight.
The problem with consulting as a developer is that you can't charge as much as it costs to fix shit properly. Endless fucking story. Developers are mostly crap which treat their work as any other working man.

You are there on the floor with these men, lowest in the hierachy, selling your time which you can't scale.

You can't set a price on your time, it's something you will never get back, but if you absolutly must sell it, sell it expensively and to people you values your time.

Fuck doing work with lousy people and companies. It's not worth it.

Time doesn't scale
Ceph is awesome, even years ago it was a great Technology. We from croit.io do provide a free software to manage Ceph with ease.
Your observation reminds me of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
Only if they approve it and assuming the doctor takes your insurance. They may not approve it because you are out of network, they deem it not medically required or a drug that they will not pay for because there is a generic.
I'll start with this. https://github.com/artix41/awesome-quantum-ml
Charge by the hour.
The protesters in Hong Kong were also directing lasers at police and police helicopters. I don’t think that should be considered an “act of war.”
I think the reason why I laughed is that I can't understand what 40 algorithms actually means. It probably takes more than 40 algorithms to accept a request at this url https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21730608 and return the response that you are seeing on your screen. That bullet in the article added no value to me as the reader.
> "Actually, you know what it reminds me of, in some ways? With the profusion of backwards-incompatible wheel-reinventing features, and the hard-won platform-specific knowledge you just know will be out of date in two years?"

Every JavaScript web UI framework ever?
*have the option to

It's a damn shame that doctors often fail to tell people about cheaper and more irritating alternatives, but there's nothing wrong with giving people the option to pay more for a better experience.

You often see this in terms of number of times a drug had to be taken per day. There'll be a generic that needs to be taken say three times a day, and a newer drug that only needs to be taken once.

I highly doubt every manufacturer of Ibuprofen or Acetaminophen would decide to throw in the towel if this new drug was released.
The share button is right there... How do people always miss it when copying links?
Coinbase is currently valued at almost $10 billion. One of the most successful startups the site you are posting on has EVER funded.

I don’t think it’s a flavor of the month. Maybe I’m wrong, but neither I nor apparently the market thinks I am.
Ask HN: How do I get international clients on the Internet?
I'm running a small web/mobile development agency. We're finding it really hard to land clients from around the world.
The people We've worked with before are really happy with the work and constantly come with newer projects.

With the current clients, I expected some word-of-mouth to happen.
But to my surprise that doesn't seem to be the case. I guess people do not really share these contacts that often.
Almost all of the work we do are for a few people we've already worked with before. New leads are almost never happening.
* Number of trades = 100000

* Number of successful trades = 1

* Number of unsuccessful trades = 999,999

* Profit on successful trade = 1000000

* Loss on each unsuccessful trade = -1

* Net profit: $1

* Net profit/trade: $0.00001
If people cared, there wouldn’t be a prison labor system in the US. Especially one that pays inmates in cents.
That was the punchline of the post... file systems add too much extra overhead, so they wrote a storage backend without the file system.
They're gaming the system by producing intellectually stimulating quality material aimed at the hackernews demographic!
Some of the confusion is, I think from referring to speed of light as "speed of light". When it really is speed limit of causality between 2 points in space. And light (em waves) just happen to be able to hit that limit. Now since expansion of space is itself not going to allow one point in space to cause any effect on another, it (the expansion) can be faster than speed of causality.

PBS space time has a good video on this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msVuCEs8Ydo
Something similar that I've been working on:

https://selfhostedsource.tech
Once you get to quadratic forms you can use it again.
> I don’t think human “financial advisors” are going to be able to outperform these sorts of funds.

I think this is moot, because human financial advisors are not trying to beat anything, they are trying to spend your money. Read "Where Are the Customer's Yachts?" By Fred Shwed

Also Jack Bogle used to talk about the S&P 500 would be most people trading individual stocks (sorry I need to dig up the source for this).

Point being: you may not need fancy algorithms to outperform humans at the market, if your goal is only to outperform most humans. You may need something fancy to outperform all humans.
I think the US Navy would be very interested to learn that it supposedly operated Soviet submarines.
I bet they attract orcas though!
I’d recommend spending some more time with .NET Core and comparing its performance characteristics (as of .NET Core 3.1). I think you’ll find it compares quite favorably, with recent advances like Span making a big difference. While it’s accurate to say the CLR has been behind on the desktop for a long while, the rekindled effort around advancing the runtime in .NET Core has paid off in spades and has only really just begun. It sounds like your impression is rooted in the desktop CLR, which is effectively frozen for compatibility reasons.
I worked at a minicomputer manufacture (okay, Prime Computer). Software enhancements large enough to need a proposal always included a section "Non-goals of this change."

This section laid out the things that might sound like they are related but would not be part of the enhancement. For example, a speed-up of the filesystem might have a non-goal of adding new file types.
Data Science bubble does not exist
Maybe for you, but there are millions of people that work with people in China everyday.
Yeah, this is cool. Combined with a url shortener that doesn't have length limits this idea could really have legs.

I made a semi-stateful web page like this but I stored the state in a single object that gets saved to local storage. Then I stringify that object and email it to myself whenever I switch between phone and computer. ...The web page can read in the string.
https://smchughinfo.github.io/search.html

It works good enough for me. But the holy grail would be a way to store that state so that different devices could share state without having to do anything. Hmm.
Most bounty reports that I've seen end up as teaching opportunities around how to make more effective reports in the future, and it isn't considered "schooling" them.
Are you saying droids can't have charisma, drive, looks, personality, or ability to influence people?
Right, but even those accidents wouldn't have caused a radiation leak if the destroyers in question were nuclear powered.
It literally means a person who purchases something.

No sane person on the planet would consider a person using a search engine for free, "the customer". The customer is the person who buys something - in Google's case, advertising.
I see. I noticed that the source code repository contains version 1.0 but the latest binary version is 1.1.
Unfortunately, the question after is harder :( but I am working on a Christmas themed story and I'll be sure to make it easier. Any other thoughts or insights that might make it better?
The 50th anniversary of this day passed barely a month back. Pretty cool.

Here is a more detailed NPR Segment on this story with pictures:
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114280...
Posted this to a point above, but probably more pertinent here, so reposting -
Some of the confusion is, I think from referring to speed of light as "speed of light". When it really is speed limit of causality between 2 points in space. And light (em waves) just happen to be able to hit that limit. Now since expansion of space is itself not going to allow one point in space to cause any effect on another, it (the expansion) can be faster than speed of causality.
PBS space time has a good video on this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msVuCEs8Ydo
I generally disagree with the “charge more” recommendation in the beginning. The reality is that until you have a sustainable client base, taking lower rates is often a necessity. In time, though, you should raise your rates to be market center.

One more mistake I would add was that I didn’t specialize at first. I marketed myself as a general full-stack software developer and that was the wrong move. Now I specialize in a particular area that I focus on and excel at and that is something companies are willing to pay for. The value proposition is clear; they’re paying for a specialization that they won’t ever have (or need long-term) in-house.

Edit: I own and run a very profitable consulting company, among other things.
I can give one thing for you to ponder: what's the true difference of the world you experience in the waking state and the world you experience during dreaming state and the cause behind both of these? The puzzle of the universe, infinity and multiverse can become apparent if you ponder over the above question.
I would interpret "algorithms" here as referring to entire separate machine learning models trained differently (if not trained on entirely separate data sets). It would make sense to me that you would want to train separate models for identifying specific categories of abuse instead of training one Ultimate Model, because debugging focused models is going to be easier. That would line up with the massive number of parameters as well.
So many companies think they can pull a fast one and ignore/downplay mistakes with PR speak which is so stupid in 2019.

Information can’t be controlled, people aren’t stupid, and honesty goes a lot further to regain respect and patience... than some bullshit positive spin.

Sadly entrepreneurs and the business community cares more about pushing persuasion and clever tactics than merely being human and honest to your customers.

So agreed the iterative approach is excellent and dedication after getting panned in reviews is rare and should be encouraged... but their communication? Not so much.
The US Navy has no plans to use nuclear power in the Large Surface Combatant program. Those are the only cruisers they're likely to get over the next several decades. Regardless of potential advantages the budget just isn't sufficient for nuclear.
> When will technology/product/engineering/creative companies learn that the value creation is more important than the value extraction?

When MBAs stop thinking that every penny has to be returned to investors.
2004... I was working out of Boca Raton FL as the first "official" employee for a web hosting company. I convinced my boss (the owner) to let me move to Dublin Ireland and work from there :). I landed on a Saturday and by Monday I was set up by the amazing people at the Guinness Enterprise center with dedicated internet and a small one-person office :).

I was maybe 23 years old... Crazy fun time in my life.

I ended up staying for about 6 months. After I got home I started several companies with 100% remote teams. I've done the nomad thing every year since then for 1 to 3 months and several 2 year and 1-year blocks. Now I have a family and I just moved to Valencia Spain for 2 years to try it out.
Interestingly, Xi was sent to a re-education camp in his youth and now he is the most powerful person in China.
Nofollow was a reaction to sites that allowed spam but didn't manage or clean them, and the early SEO game of trying to get links on any and every high page rank site - and buying/selling high PR domains. It allowed a link without giving any pagerank love to it.

Setting nofollow until a link has enough votes, on a site that manages spam well, seems like an ideal way of handling it. No point using HN to boost your 5 page adsense sites (when those were still a major thing).

Shouldn't affect crawling though. Crawlers crawl sites that update often more frequently, and did IIRC long before nofollow. So HN and popular news sites like NYT, BBC, Guardian etc are probably being crawled near constantly. A new (followed) link should show up frighteningly quickly.

(This is all assuming Google haven't remade nofollow to mean something different now pagerank doesn't really count for much any more.)
I don't see how such a deal could possibly work. Microsoft's entire history and culture has been devoted to squashing nascent competitors whenever possible. So why in the world would MS license Bing to DDG? If DDG can monetize that traffic more effectively than Bing by not tracking (which seems unlikely) then why does MS just stop tracking on Bing? And if they can't, then how would they afford to pay the license fee, which surely must be at least as high as the lost revenue from the diverted traffic?
I'm pretty sure submarines are lost more often than surface warships are - the difference between small incident and loss of ship is just so much smaller. And to confirm that I can't think of any surface warships that have been lost by the US or Russian navies out of combat since 1950, but both have lost several submarines in that same time period.
Getting tested accelerates learning. That’s why we learn more from actual work, every action is tested by reality. Or why we learn language by using it, every interaction is a test.

> I was genuinely interested in most of the classes I took, and I worked hard. And yet I worked by far the hardest when I was studying for a test.
There's also a unicode version of the library at https://aplwiki.com/wiki/FinnAPL_idiom_library .
Some analyst at Morgan Stanley made up that $100B number. It has ZERO meaning and no one should take it seriously. The market cap of a company is what investors are willing to pay for it. Given that Alphabet wholly owns Waymo, there is no way the market is implicitly valuing Waymo at $100B given the present value of Google's advertising business and Alphabet's market cap.
Sacking yourself seems like an approach :-)
They beat them to online documents, spreadsheets, storage by years. Google Docs launched after they bought Write.ly in 2006. Lots of teams don't even use Office anymore and use online office like Google. Yes lots of places still use Office but there is no denying Google beat them online and it was Microsofts share to lose.

Being first is just a nerd victory like saying Apple was the first desktop operating system with a GUI. “Winning” in a for profit business is profit.

There is immense value in controlling the platform which Google has. There is even more value in controlling the hardware and software platform like Apple.

We know the value - $23 billion over 7 years. The fact that Google still pays Apple $8 billion a year shows that there is more value in a platform that attracts people that can afford to spend money than people who only spend $240 on a phone.

Drive is still bigger than any effort of Microsoft. OneDrive did not compete for a long time. Dropbox even beat Microsoft. Google Drive and Dropbox pretty much own this space except for Microsoft Teams or enterprises that used Office.

A “bigger effort” doesn’t put money in the bank and DropBox not only has never been profitable, they have repeatedly said that they don’t know when or if they will ever be profitable.
He is saying something less controversial that was put through the PR media machine: those without the skills or willingness to work alongside the machines will lose their jobs.

If you look at who is saying this, and follow the money (not disclosed here, but a short search away), you'll notice that this is a butcher grading his own meat. Without blinking he further suggests that the U.S. government hold tournaments on anonymized data to crowdsource market manipulation detection.

The bias in ML sections are all mealy-mouthed and elitist. Just because you hold a PhD in a technical field does not mean you understand economics, AI futurology, public policy, or ethics. It would be career suicide to stray from the path of the popular safe opinion. So you get language-imperialist terms like "Latinx" instead of "South Americans" to describe Brazilians, claims that automation will favor taking jobs from minorities, that the government should promote women in leadership positions at private companies, and that especially women of color have no access to study computer engineering.
Where did you get that idea? Anything here should run fine on bare-metal.
Are you implying that brain weight has a direct relationship with intelligence? So if someones brain is heavier that means they are more intelligent right?
I have a project like this (mentioned in my profile) and I'd love to talk to you about this space if you'd be open to it.
Four Paths Forward for ‘Social Products’
This isn't very interesting, at least no more interesting than any other disclosure that goes through H1.

If you're not familiar with disclosures and communication via H1 maybe this all feels very odd or bad or something, idk. Looks fairly standard to me.

Ultimately, to me, someone found a vulnerability, reported the vuln, and it was remediated within ~3 hours. There was no "breach", unless you consider every H1 report a breach?

Having a repository of vulns is quite a scary thing though. I often wonder, with all of the "wontfix" and "too low impact to care" bugs chained together, how easy is it to own many of these customers?
These all ring true in my experience too. One more thing I would add is to specialize if you can. Don’t try to be too general in the services you offer. You can greatly increase your own market demand this way.
In general, the individual coordinates of a word embedding (and hence a sentence embedding) have no semantic meaning, at least not in any "normal" sense.

The n-dimensional space into which the embeddings have been represented is mainly just a space such that similarity between two vectors/embeddings in this space has some semantic meaning, e.g. query or word similarity.

A few more details are here:
https://www.quora.com/Do-the-dimensions-of-Word2Vec-have-an-...
Even when saying nothing I get downvoted :)
That does help a consistently throwing patches over these issues make it harder and harder to make meaningful changes.

I'm convinced that the only way heslthcare will get better in the US is if a president sacrifices re-election and forces sweeping changes that hurt employment (insurance companies, employer-provided healthcare, etc.)
Does anyone use edn or transit outside of the clojure ecosystem?
pg’s articles are all about how to build a great product (Startup=Growth, for example). Are these VC tips-and-tricks secret insider-only info? They don’t publish anything like that

> YCombinator was (in 2008) oriented around learning what magic words to say to investors and exactly when to time techcrunch launch articles, etc. There seemed to be no time given to "how to make a great product”
I wonder how big their backlog of posts is. A single, short blog post takes me several hours to write and I need to plan each one in the back of my mind for about a week beforehand.
I'm not sure if the correct takeaway here is "unlearn how to hack systems" but something more akin to "prioritize the right hacks you need to do".

Making a good product (with whatever shortcuts/hacks come with it) is necessary for doing well. Getting exposure and launching on a Tuesday are neither necessary nor sufficient, but they will give a marginal edge.

Both the former and the latter are 'hacks', the only difference is degree of relevance. pg throws the baby out with the bathwater a bit by saying don't do both types of hacks.
In which country? https://www.ofwat.gov.uk/households/your-water-company/chang...
That largely hasn’t proven true historically. Whole swaths of high paying jobs in finance are gone or greatly diminished. From pit trader to analyst they’ve been replaced with computers.

Maybe the machines won’t come for venture/angels but I certainly won’t bet on it.
We have been working with G on TPU support for PyTorch. Have you tried it out? https://github.com/pytorch/xla
Reheating a sous-vide entree, searing a protein, packaging up for delivery? Olive Garden in a box?
Well they could replace the website with something that makes you part of a botnet. Like so https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21721843
Well, I've 2 more months to be 22.
The game's still on
It's possible that the idea of a Bell Labs is outdated, because individuals now have more access to information and cheap resources than they did in the 50s and 60s.

Instead of needing a big company to bring the best minds together and give them money, random people in garages can have good ideas and build proof of concepts relatively easily.

Maybe.
Judging from my inbox, scraping contact information from WHOIS and spamming the hell outta people seems to be quite popular.
PyTorch Mobile is a start and is available for iOS and Android. Given folks like PFN and Microsoft are (or will be heavy contributors) i would expect support for more devices to broaden. Have you tried it out yet? No need for a separate set of op semantics or framework.. :) https://pytorch.org/mobile/home/
Nice try, Data.
Only a fraction of drugs treat life threatening condition in some new way. Painkillers for example represent a surprising fraction of all drugs and generally have a close equivalent. https://www.drugs.com/condition/pain.html

Taking enough time to endure a new acne medication or Viagra alternative etc is reasonably safe is very much worth spending some extra time.

Edit: This does seem to be focused on needed medications without close equivalents but that’s a fairly arbitrary line.
It's at lesst a little confusing how something went from 14B light years away to 46B light years away (seems to be a distance of 32B light years total travel) in 14B years.