skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Gap Analysis helped me get clarity on these five business questions:

Who are Decibite’s customers?
How have Decibite acquired customers?
How should Decibite be different than its competitors?
How should Decibite price their product?
To improve their product, where should Decibite focus moving forward?

After talking to Decibite's customers, I found out they are non-technical entrepreneurs. They gave me responses like, "I don't even know the technical side. I don't have the patience to learn the technical side. I’d rather do face-to-face work with the client. I'm all for outsourcing parts of the business you don't like, to do more of what you do like to do." Later on, I used this info to target Reddit's entrepreneur subreddit and use similar messaging on the website.

There wasn't much clarity how they acquired customers in the past beyond finding them on Reddit. Ideally my goal is to construct the customer journey by working backwards. One person mentioned they heard about Decibite in a Facebook Group, but I wasn't able to find which group they mentioned.

Lots of info in the article about how they different from competitors. Tl;dr - I positioned them as "Decibite offers 15% or faster hosting, guaranteed."

As for pricing the product, I found out Decibite was underpricing their hosting products. The business hosting plan was $5 CAD per month (about $3.75 USD). The data showed I could bump this up to $10 USD per month without losing growth, an increase of 167%. The VPS hosting plan was $10 CAD per month (about $7.50 USD). The data showed I could increase this to $25 USD per month without losing growth, an increase of 233%.

Wasn't much clarity on where to improve the product beyond the USP of faster hosting. Most of Decibite customers loved what they were doing. They just needed to improve their positioning and messaging.
Incidentally, TIL that Citi Commercial Cards' password policy is ">=1 letter, >=1 number, 6-9 characters".

Banks have zero incentive to modernize. They have a lot of customers that are never going to move their money, and they don't need to constantly release new products or compete for customers. All they have to do is not piss off their existing customers so much that they move elsewhere. And because that's usually a non-trivial (and potentially costly) process, they don't have much to worry about.
My sibling is still driving a 1991 Prevea
as I observed in the previous thread on this subject you will still be able to gate features, just you won't use the UA to do it. It might also be that being able to detect exactly what browser someone is using will become a much harder undertaking, requiring significant investment of developer hours, that only some companies will have the resources to invest.
I used to use Kayak and Skyscanner but started using Google Flights more recently because it has a much nicer interface.
You could just as well interpret that "dually" though.
Google acquires AppSheet
I'm not familiar with that industry, but it seems to me there are several players in it. Also, depending on your needs, you may be able to operate your own email marketing campaign without using any of them.
> The language design prevents fast implementations.

Apparently the fact that the complete world may change at every given moment, and every single operation requires method calls, doesn't impact the existence of reasonable good JIT compilers for Smalltalk, in fact they are the genesis for Java JITs.
I read the article, I don't understand if session tokens are included in this. If so, how will things like logged in UX work?
In my experience, what you do as an engineering manager is quite subjective, but the principles of good management are universal. Creating a mission, focusing on results, continuous improvement, growing team members...these are all things every group needs in a manager. What you do day-to-day will change wildly from job to job and also how your own skillset evolves to meet the team's needs, but it's always in the service of these goals.
I assume you're not US-based. I'm a long time Chase customer and am completely happy with the user experience and customer service. I've found the Citi, Amex, and Capital One digital experiences to also be good to very good.

The app is fast with an intuitive UI and does the job. If you don't believe me check out the app store rating.

My understanding is banks outside the US have not invested as heavily in their IT, and totally understand why challenger banks in other countries might have more success there. I've used in the HSBC app once, for example, and it's slow and terrible.
Wind turbine operations for example. Digital twins are experimented for predicting the condition of the turbines.
I've heard something similar here on HN before (still didn't read the book myself), and what baffles me: wasn't he awarded the Nobel Prize for that work? Are those just political bullshit nowdays as well, like Oscars?
Incidentally, I just got back from the annual checkup with my 7yo, and the doctor mentioned that the strongest indicator of kids staying on a good path through adolescence is whether they regularly have dinner together as a family or not. That surprisingly exceeds any other socio-economic demographic indicator.
I am not sure if this is covered in the podcast, but from the title, I wonder if in deep neural net research there are papers and implementations of a system 1 and 2 like model. One part of the neural net could be system 1 for fast decision making, and other could be system 2, with more deliberate analysis. They could communicate over some shared medium.
How is React or hooks "full FP"?

I think we have wildy different definitions of FP.
Compiling to Categories (2017) [pdf]
Sadly it doesn’t seem to work in this part of the world. I keep trying it but it never shows any SkipLagged flights, just the regular ones
Both port and wire don't need to be bidirectional, it's fine if only one of them is. Making the wire side bidirectional would probably be easier.
This is my prediction: People don't like feeling trapped. If they have an out they might take it, or they might not. It depends on the context.

I've mentioned a few times recently a particularly memorable job that went from pretty great to head on fire. The moment I decided to start looking for a new job, my stress levels went way down. Even though I didn't even look at job openings or my resume for another three weeks. I ended up staying more than 6 months, in better spirits than I'd been in a couple years.

I also discovered at some point that verbalizing that you have a Plan B makes it easier for coworkers to swallow your Plan A. They have a gut feeling that it won't work and it makes them feel better that contingencies are in place. And I have some suspicions that much of the ornateness we accumulate in code is hitting that same button in your brain. We can always swap this out later.
A lot of misunderstanding on the author's part. Not only would the author not have felt they were being gaslighted, they also wouldn't have had a nervous breakdown dealing with it.

Yeah, the user experience sucks, its an art to deal with though. So was Citi or Chase the brokerage firm, or was there a third brokerage firm like TD? Some people like the author's writing but some of the "who and what" is not clear, let alone the piss poor understanding of how the US banking system works.
I call B.S. on Chase gaslighting him. For a bank to do what he is describing is a one sure way for the OCC to get involved and there's not a single bank regulated by the OCC that wants folks from OCC poking their nose in it.

Simply put - bank has zero upside backdating transactions and an enormous downside.
First when you say liberty your mean negative liberty. The supposed shift is from negative to positive liberty. Second The violent revolutionaries are the Englishman that participated in the American Revolution (1776).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty
Currently (unless this has change in the past couple weeks) if you add SameSite=None on Safari it will treat it as SameSite=Strict.
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198181

So this means that if you need to use SameSite=None you cannot without UA sniffing, which I think is what the parent was complaining about.
> 15-20 years ago, we found that people that were aggressive online and harassing people often cleared their cookies too.

You forgot to mention them abusing children and planing terror attacks.
It's sadly true for most. I have noticed that Southwest is a notable outlier in all this - they don't do any of that stuff. They also don't seem to register their flights on most of the search sites. It's like they know that those customers choose based on raw price alone, no room to sell any other differences. I make it a point to search their company site first before trying any other flight search.
The gaslighting comment really resonates with me. It's one of the reasons why I find the push to paperless everything a little disquieting - sometimes I want to keep records in case my dispute is with the record holder!

I had an issue with a credit card company a few years ago, in which I had to request a new card. Apparently, as part of the new card issuance, they also "helpfully" moved my payment due date -- which I found out about when I received a past-due notification via the mail. Had I not had a paper statement with the correct due date on it, I probably could have been convinced that I had just missed making a payment, especially as the initial customer service representative insisted there was no way a new card could change my payment due date. Only after escalating a couple of times were they able to figure out that I in fact hadn't requested my monthly cycle only be 18 days long.

Now my wife makes fun of me because I still receive and file away paper statements, just in case.

Edit: removing names since it's not relevant to the story.
An alternative angle that could make sense is that it shows that they're not purely intent on hoarding exploits (particularly dangerous ones) and are willing to report them to software vendors in order to reduce everyone's risk profile.

That'd be more of a communal-good, de-escalation approach. There's certainly something to be said for the fact that it displays the talent and expertise available too though (i.e. helping for recruitment).
That's a great point. I can only speak for myself here, but I can 100% confirm that having been raised in a loving, secure, and stable home has probably been the greatest contributing factor to my career success and having a major inclination in life towards optimism.

The gratitude towards my parents alone has driven me to push myself harder in my career.
This is the exact scenario black musicians have been agitating for for decades. Funk and R&B artists in particular have found themselves frustrated that their grooves -- the bits that actually make the song -- can be lifted wholesale by other artists because historically copyright law only concerned itself with melody.

The Blurred Lines ruling makes it clear that grooves are, in fact, copyrightable. Maybe we'll see the benefits as musicians are forced to innovate.
Le Corbusier's clusters of towering skyscrapers aren't really a good solutuion either. They were implemented in Glasgow with disastrous results[1].

My (limited) opinion, is that auto-centric opponents want dense, walkable, cyclable cities. That doesn't imply towering skyscrapers, six stories of apartments with mixed retail, office, and light industry are sufficient. That should provide enough density to make public transit a viable option, if road space is reclaimed from cars.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/oct/16/urban-living-...
Firefox's bookmark is superior at the core (the most important to me is that it supports tags) IMO, but yeah, the UI and UX is pretty bad.
I knew it but never used it. This seems to be worth a try:

> We guarantee to beat your quote by more than our fee otherwise our service is entirely FREE.

Thank you!
> People can't even wrap their mind around real automation, they still assume it's going to be mechanization from the industrial revolution with computers. And there's so much else in this industry that people can't even understand that affects them in every day life situations.

Terrifying, isn't it?
> (likely, the NSA does as the conspiracy goes)

Pardon my pedantry but I think you meant conspiracy theory.
Conspiracies happen all the time, and by itself the word doesn't imply anything far-fetched or unproven, just plotting to do harm.
> I think it's probably ok to let Asia have this and worry about staying ahead on all the tons of stuff that has to go on top.

Why does it have to be mutually exclusive? We should have a strong manufacturing base in addition to being strong in software and "stuff that has to go on top".
Using Rsnapshot for Easy Backups
He was awarded the Nobel before anyone was aware of the replication crisis in his field.
We used it once at one of my previous employers. It was used for creating and approving expense reports for travel, with various elaborate options for approval flow and documentation.
The history and bookmark management also has some unfortunate performance issues. I'm fairly certain there's a memory leak or something as well, as deleting several thousand entries at once (say, via 'forget this site' menu options) effectively breaks the browser until restart even when it has finished the operation.

A comment in the bugzilla for this issue[1] seems to suggest that they'd like to rewrite History at the very least. So it's on the priority list somewhere.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734643
This could be the start of a whole new world: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/a-whole-new-world
It's a lot like Lisp, especially as it was decades ago. The language itself is low-level but you can construct some very high-level-like constructs in it yourself. Where it differs is that Lisp is a low-level language for a machine that doesn't really exist unless you have a Lisp machine, and Forth is for your actual hardware... as viewed through a set of stacks, anyhow. I suspect had it ever been used for large code bases it would have had a similar problem that Lisp had, where any given program might be elegant but there would be too much convention differences between any two programs to let them work together very well, similar to the problem that Lisp has sometimes been considered to have with macros. (It's great to be able to synthesize your own entire world, but no two programmers synthesize the same world.)
I’m still a fan of email for this reason. Once someone sends me an email, the copy in my inbox is mine, and the sender can’t later hide it/take it back/etc.
Wondering how many other people are beginning to consider their future in this way. It's interesting that he linked to the a16z post on Passion Economy. As opportunities for remote work where each individual charts their own course increases, the future of work could change significantly.
And Windows defender.
It's also so much easier to open an envelope than to deal with a passel of poorly-designed web sites and their poorly-designed authentication systems just to open a statement from each financial institution.
The Pentagon Must Replace Some Hackable Computer Chips
Kubernetes Logging
Ian McKellen's journal entries during the filming of Lord of the Rings
There are legit reasons to complain about scooters scattered on sidewalks especially for people who are mobility-impaired in various ways. But I actually mostly agree that lots of stuff blocks sidewalks in cities and I'm not at all sure scooters are an outsized offender.
> I know that I experience pain

I accept you perceive pain in the context of a self.

> you can't have an illusion of consciousness, because an "illusion" requires consciousness.

I think this might be the core of our disagreement. I don't know why you think that?

An illusion is just a false perception of reality so it doesn't technically require consciousness - but I think I know what you're getting at.

Imagine a computer which can "see" its surroundings through a camera.

Why couldn't I program this computer to think it's conscious and to experience its visual data in the context of a self? That's what I honestly think we're doing and what you're describing when you talk about consciousness.

I don't know why the experience you're calling consciousness can't just be explained more easily by your brain processing sensory inputs in the context of a self. I understand to you this feels like a special thing, but from a physical perspective I honestly don't know what you're describing that couldn't be explained as sensory inputs in the context of a self.

Would I be right in thinking you don't believe my example computer is conscious? And would it help you understand my position if I said I think my computer might be conscious in a very primitive way?
If I could get banks to send me financial statements as PDFs in an email I would sign up in a second.
I feel like there are two ways you can take a book like Thinking Slow And Fast; One is that there are variety of mental processes, some faster than others, some more conscious than other, etc. The other is that there's a hard distinction between "the" slow process and "the" fast process.

If you take with the first implication, it's plausible, useful as one more datum. But it seems like replication problems make the hard distinction approach more problematic.
Dough is not "sticky"; that is your subjective experience of the thing you subjectively experience as "dough". Whiskey is not alcoholic, it contains alcohol in addition to other components. These distinctions are borne entirely of a human's interpretation of the world. These things are not in any sense "whole and separate objects" until a human determines what is a "whole object". This is necessarily subjective and thus out of scope.

Intuition fails here because intuition is necessarily a human reflex. We are trapped in our bodies and the historical context of our species's evolution, which means we interpret certain things in ways that are advantageous to us and our society. It's to our benefit to conceptualize whole objects because it is a cognitive shortcut to do so, which saves on precious energy, regardless of how physics dictates the arrangement of atoms.
Wait, what?

So you think a kernel is large and has to be counted in the total, even if a browser also requires a kernel.

Yet you think web apps don't need libraries, so you are not even counting the browser and its dozens of libraries?
9front: Man 1 Bullshit
I have never heard of a company struggling to hire due to reputation. Low wages or lack of qualified workers, sure. Reputation? Never.
What's BS about grit and a growth mindset?
Fedora 31 has decided to allow (and have) giant process IDs (PIDs)
The Dropbox comment all over again
I occasionally end up on Orbitz and like many other big names they don’t show low cost airlines, which means some flights are 3-5x more expensive to begin with. I pity the customers who don’t know better
Ask HN: What's the one simple trick to life?
It's been reported that Windows Defender can detect and report on malicious certificates:

https://twitter.com/AmitaiTechie/status/1217156973268893696

Of course, that relies on not having Defender disabled by an alternate product.
Unfortunately, software seems to have gone the other direction with many companies ditching their QA departments and relying solely on "Developers Own Quality" initiatives.
Using a bank's services shouldn't require knowing how banking infrastructure works.
Lex here. Yep. Russian. Underneath the cold stare and the suit is possibly some personality and a bit of humor. Then again it's like past or present life on Mars. Many astrobiologists believe it was at least once there, but no proof has been found yet.
Navy Debates 355 Fleet; but Armed Robo-Ships Are Still Years Away
The resource optimization is mostly needed only due to making stuff too complicated already. Simplify the document and then it should just as well either way.
Same experience here for Chase and BofA. BofA is a bit trigger-happy at detecting fraud when I try to buy videogames or computer parts, but otherwise no issues in over a decade.
I am not a travel newbie, but I believe it's the first time I heard about Hipmunk. What was so innovative about them? It looks like yet another travel aggregator among at least half dozen of it's kind: Kiwi, SkyScanner, Kayak, Expedia, Priceline, Orbitz...
Avoid dying.
Best advocacy I know of: http://evincarofautumn.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-concatenativ...

Presented by way of being an interesting link, and the educational nature of reading the best arguments in favor of something. I haven't done anything in concatenative programming in about 20 years, since I left math class and didn't need my HP 48G anymore.
EternalBlue would have not received that much coverage had it not happened after Snowden proved that the American public cannot trust the agency. They had been dragged to the foreground before without repercussions, because reactions were limited to the IT world. Snowden made it a general-public issue, and now they are forced to to shape up.
Because nobody has managed to demonstrate a possible attack in the past 20 years.
Not OP, but at the time what I personally wanted to happen was the government to bail out the customers, but not the banks themselves. Basically let the institutions implode but not let depositors foot the bill. Clearly a pipedream, though.
A lot of what happens at MSRC is auditing for related vulnerabilities - trying to find any place where similar code might make the same mistake. In this case, since roll-your-own cryptography is so strongly discouraged (with good reason), I suspect that there won't be as many places to audit
Russia is far from being the most developed country out there, but our banks are infinite times for progressive than in other parts of the world. I can do every single thing from their app or their site, never need to visit my bank (aside from getting from an ATM).
I wonder how much of the correlation is dollars, how much is attitude toward wealth and money, and how much is entrepreneurial exposure.

If you come from a “the pie is fixed size; gotta fight for your share” mentality, you might have different propensity to succeed as an entrepreneur. Likewise if you never saw the real good, bad, and ugly under the covers.
Oops, I was talking about macOS releases, not iOS. The numbers don’t match between the two
Anything in particular you like about Google Flights over Kayak? Aesthetics, functionality, or efficiency?
This would seem to be making the case that copyright is not serving its explicit purpose: to increase the size of the public domain. That public domain's value is even acknowledged in the article: there's no "virgin birth" for music or some such pithy aphorism.
That's quite helpful, it may be a lack of in-depth reading of the page but the persistence and implicit passing of computation between operations is helpful to understand the differentiation. In more classic procedural languages you'll usually have a function stack that is being pushed and popped two but actual program values are handled using entirely arbitrarily loaded references that get juggled around as needed for computation - does stack programming often have a similar concept to frame popping when an issue with I/O or something similar is encountered or do we just get a panic that aborts computation?
currently you can build a recent Python with a pretty old, standard C-environment. You can even build a lot of the "classic" packages upon that. So I guess that will work as well.

Things like pytorch (I only want gcc-7.3.1) and tensorflow (I want JAAAVA) won't be so resilient obviously.
That seems like a pretty egregious bug, presumably there's a spec someone is in violation of?