skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope the won’t-pay-$100-for-a-painting (or $100 per installment) crowd is large enough to make your business worthwhile. It’d be amazing to simultaneously fund new artists, bring regular Joes/Janes into the art world, and have a sustainable business at the same time.

But that little MBA demon on my shoulder is whispering that targeting low willingness-to-spend consumers will result in, at best, strongly limiting growth and, at worst, a perpetually money losing business. I’m just speculating since I don’t know your financials, so if you’re already in the black, my apologies. If you’re both in the black and don’t care about growth, apologies again.

But assuming you want to grow and/or aspire to be profitable, you’ll either need to grow the size of the art market (hard) or sell to wealthier (or at least, people who spend more of their money on art) consumers (less hard). Social proof is a huge factor for buyers of substantial art, to the point that a handful of people/galleries/etc get to define what constitutes great - and therefore very expensive - art (there was a great Adam Ruins Everything episode on this https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dw5kme5Q_Yo). My mom is very involved with the main art museum in my city, going on trips with other benefactors to buy art for the museum. She also buys art herself - not crazy expensive super known pieces like Damien Hurst’s shark, but still high-end pieces from up-and-coming artists (to put it another way, she buys pieces that aren’t in the $1 million+ range). She uses her own sensibilities primarily, but to find the art itself and ensure the price she’s paying isn’t for a dumpster, she relies on people in the art world.

So, I’m just suggesting you consider two characters of art consumers: (1) social proof drives their decisions and (2) there are often wealthier. Your creative juices might find something really innovative for the social proof component; I don’t have any specific suggestions at the moment. But on (2), consider targeting people in between Steven A Cohen (bought Hurst’s shark for $8-$12 million) and the <$100 art buyer. Given the success (until recently) of Restoration Hardware, I believe you could find people willing to pay $1,000-$10,000 for art. People pay thousands of dollars for a sofa, why not the art that’s on display in their homes? You could imagine quite a few professional, internet savvy DINCs (dual income no children) in their 30s or 40s being interested in having a substantial art piece. They may be intimidated by galleries and not know what to select. Just something to think about to boost your margins.
That brings back memories, nudge bombing via client side automation / progs.
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https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/business

which is a chapter of the book
I'm not defending the US's response at all, but pretty much every country has shut down over this. It's not clear how that could have been prevented. Yes, it would have prevented a lot of deaths, but the total shutdown seems to have been inevitable everywhere.
A web development self-evaluation checklist
> A C++ compiler cannot do speculative devirtualization.

Yes, it can! For example: https://godbolt.org/z/-JtSiJ
I'm not sure why this was posted now but my kid is involved with this and it is a great org.

I was excited for him to get involved for many reasons but one of which I've been a pretty big fan of Dean Kamen (he co-founded First). However, over the past few years I've learned Dean is kind of a douche and the real star of First is (well, now was) Woody Flowers. He's a great example to all the kids and his philosophy of "graciousness professional" is no bullshit. It is a great way to roll out tech / STEM to kids.
It is completely normal to include feature requests in a product roadmap and to be getting them developed when appropriate, that definitely isn't a problem. Things are also different when you have 1 client versus when you have 10+ clients. When you have 1-2 clients you generally do things you wouldn't and shouldn't normally do under good product management standards.

So let's assume you fall into the 10+ client category. The company should have a defined and published product roadmap that is being worked, new features should be vetted against the client demographic (e.g. it should benefit more then 50%, I usually set the bar higher early on like 80%) and if it passes that then it would be defined and put on the development schedule, but it should not disrupt the existing planned sprints on the roadmap. That means the client might have to wait to get this new feature, but the benefit is the product can be designed, kept reliable and stable and not get polluted with a bunch of make shift code and hacks. None of this has to be a crazy long process, it can be simple and quick and if sprints are 1-2 weeks, most likely many features can fit within the next 30-60-90 days at most (obviously assuming proper staffing etc).

The sales side of the business should never be in control of the development schedule, or product roadmap, it is a direct conflict of interest. Product management should be owned by an operations type person, CTO, COO but for sure a non-sales, and/or marketing focused person. This is what will make the company successful faster and help keep the product stable and on schedule. Founders when small have to wear many hats so they will be violating this all the time, but by the time they have hired a product manager, sales teams etc, the hacky crap has to stop if they want to succeed.

None of this means a client (or business) can't get a new feature turned around pretty quick, it just means that there is alignment of features to more than one client and that product stability, reliability and schedule are managed as first class problems. Startups struggle with this thinking it will slow things down, and they will lose deals, when in fact it speeds things up and makes everything more predictable. The key is requests can be done faster when the development teams can keep tech debt low and design things into the product properly. It also prevents the scrap it and rewrite it that happens when you don't plan well enough. To be fair, there is almost always 1-2 scrap code repositories early in the life of a startup, but it doesn't have to be that way, just usually works out that way because of people repeating preventable mistakes they haven't yet learned.

I do think it is important to recognize when you are first starting the company it is more free for all, scrappy and hacky, but even in those circumstances you should not be implementing features just because one client made a request.
Given recent news, they are started last year at 1789 and went back to 1347.
I appreciate the clarifications. I did write it a bit too hastily. Sorry about that.
> The defacto standard, is 0 indexing. The exceptions index at 1.

"Defacto standards" are meaningless. The semantics of any procedure call are completely opaque from just looking at an API let alone a code snippet, especially the API of a dynamically typed language, and doubly-so if that language supports monkey patching.

So the original post's dismissive argument claiming one sequence of syntactic sugar and one set of procedure calls is clearer than another is just nonsense, particularly for such a trivial example.

> However, on average, the cognitive load for Python is lower than most.

Maybe it is. That's an empirical question that can't be answered by any arugment I've seen in this HN thread.
Broken link due to quote marks. Great suggestion otherwise.

https://online.stanford.edu/courses/sohs-ystatslearning-stat...
> far more sophisticated means of communication than Wire, Signal, WhatsApp, Wickr

Like better apps, or something homebrewed?
The reason people tolerate Bitcoin is that it actually made some money for them.
https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/03/earn-it-act-uncon...
>We're saving the fishing nets.

No. We are saving the owners of the fishing nets. The companies can (and likely will) fire the employees to save themselves. Which should beg the question: why does the owner of the company get the money, and not his customer (who is generally also his employee)? Because we want to save capital formation as it was pre-COVID, instead of letting consumers provide the incentives for capital to reformulate to adjust to new market realities.

The reason we persist with the 'freeze the system in place' is
1) We assume the capital class are more capable of redistributing money than the labor class (I think the current approach will favor major corporations and erode the market dynamism that has generally typified the US economy)
2) We assume that the costs of capital destruction are higher than the costs of damage done to the labor class (I think this is faulty)
3) The capital class have taken over the means of distribution and decision-making apparatus (this is inarguable, and is the primary reason the bailout has been shaped so favorably for capital instead of labor).

More ossification of the US markets. More preferential treatment for the politically and economically well connected. More penury for the lower and middle classes, especially the younger generations trapped under a growing debt burden without the opportunities to escape from under it.

Glad I have another citizenship and the resources to bail if it plays out the way I think it will.
> For starters, that's 3 months of at least revenues

Why would they need to hold 3 months of revenue? Why not 3 months of operating expenses and suspend capex?

> more R&D, more equipment, more and better-paid staff, improvement programs, to buy promising technologies, invest in other companies, pay down loans on larger, more modern and more-efficient factories ... the list goes on and on

Does that list include stock buybacks?
Vendor lock-in and ridiculous pricing sounds like just about every SaaS startup in the world. But it's Apple, so it's not okay.
Thanks for the link! I never knew it was that easy. Submitted!
I would hardly call them credible reports. It's easy to see how business owners could draw false inferences when they receive a Yelp sales call and coincidentally get a negative review shortly after.

Honestly, I thought this was long since debunked. There is no physical evidence of Yelp sales execs extorting small businesses.
Fascinating, anyone here ever experience problems due to this phenomenon?
But... again... the contention of the linked article, and one I share, is that these new features don't "fit with the rest of the language" and keeping up with them represents needless cognitive churn.

I mean, sure, that's an opinion thing, and obviously you don't share it. But to me, watching from outside the core rust community, it sure seems like exactly the same thing that happened to C++.
You want to give us some clue of what this points to, and why we should bother to care? No, I'm not going to click on it to find out. You presented the link; take a few seconds to tell us something, rather than expecting 10,000 people to go investigate for themselves.
State Collapse
Simply put, no. No evidence other than hearsay. And this, after countless lawsuits.
More than half of US chief executives plan layoffs and furloughs
I wouldn't say it's impossible, although honestly I cannot even begin to imagine how consciousness could lie inside known or even knowable physics. But if people want to try, more power to them. I'm open to my suspicion being wrong.
French regulator says Google must pay news sites to send them traffic
I don't think you can seriously be comparing "Why do magnets repel each other?" to "Why is a kilogram green?".
Most apps are not hello world apps. So the next facebook might only be 100 files, mostly useful.

Also, your html5 app needs several icons for different screen sizes.
Stereotypes like this is just unbelievable in this days and in HN.
> That's true. But that's up to the company deciding over the operating system and the browser in the end.

The OS is far more powerful, and allows for deeper integration and writing in far faster languages. The browser abstracts away the machine. Most JS writers today have no idea or understanding of the actual computer they are writing against. It's a sandbox for them, and it's the reason apps today bloat to hundreds of megabytes and burn CPU to do the most mundane thing. Less distance from the metal is better in my book.

> Native in this case means running on one platform. I would much rather focus on making something that works for a bigger part of the world.

Feels like a strawman / bad faith argument. As a user, I'd rather use one fast app on my device, I don't care if some guy on another platform can use this product. As an engineer, I want happy users, and if that means writing X clients, so be it.
Er, TFA's description of EdDSA is incorrect. There are no nonces in EdDSA.
He was the reason for the company being so open source focused, he managed RH engineering for near on 20 years.
Ha good luck suing for defamation for every random tweet and internet comment from a bunch of random nobodies. That's neither possible nor sustainable.
> Also, while we don't have a concrete plan for it yet, it's clear that some artists need help photographing their work.

Absolutely. Photography is it's own media, with it's own techniques to master. I doubt many painters are going to have the necessary lighting equipment and the know-how to use it. Not that they couldn't -- it's just not their media. Some assistance from a specialist would help a great deal.
Thank you for this generous offering! Do you have any tips around expected costs or power/performance requirement?
I'll see no ads because I run several different ad blockers, as should everyone else.
Recent history has shown that the ratings are calculated as a function of politics, market psychology, and the rating agency’s best hunch.
Wow, I've never had that happen in GoToMeeting, but I had something similar happen in MS Teams today.
It's an argument that Python being slow / single-threaded isn't the biggest problem with Python in data engineering. The biggest problem is the need to process data that doesn't fit in RAM on any single machine. So you need on-disk data structures and algorithms that can process them efficiently. If your strategy for data engineering is to load whole CSV files into RAM, replacing Python with a faster language will raise your vertical scaling limit a bit, but beyond a certain scale it won't help anymore and you'll have to switch to a distributed processing model anyway.
> and we could use gestures to organize and surface the contextually relevant ones.

Eight hours+ of using gestures a day sounds like hell.
> Are there any other languages that change as slowly as C?

ANSI Common Lisp has had the same spec since 1994.

(This is not a problem, because Common Lisp gives you enough high and low level power to do (almost) whatever you want in user space, instead of relying on the language designers to add a particular feature.)
Update: The Indian Council of Medical Research has also given the go ahead to try out plasma therapy for the really serious, and some hospitals and institute are waiting for clearance of the same from the Drug Controller General of India:

> ... Blood for the plasma therapy will be collected from recovered patients at SCTIMST and the medical colleges and donated to critical patients with sanction from Blood Transfusion Council. Plasma would be separated from blood and taken to other hospitals under refrigeration.

> ... When a person suffers from COVID-19, antibodies are created in his or her body as defence. Such B lymphocytes would be present in plasma. After a patient recovers from the disease, these antibodies remain in blood to prevent another attack by the virus. The plasma collected from such people and given to another patient would have antibodies which target the virus and prevent the recipient from slipping into a more serious condition. According to researches, plasma taken from one donor would have sufficient doses for two patients.

Source: https://english.manoramaonline.com/news/kerala/2020/04/09/ke...
Securing Digital Democracy https://www.coursera.org/learn/digital-democracy

I went through this not long after it was first offered following the 2012 elections, and it introduced me to the amazing world of security and human factors. There's more to secure systems design than just smart engineering. You have to give a lot of attention to people and priorities, and elections are a great place to see that in action.
This is a good idea - not 100% original, but the installments is a new spin, so I wish you well on the effort.

But - let us suppose this does take off and you end up with a large community of artists and buyers. How do you plan on letting artists get seen in what is now a crowded space? Many of your competitors frustrate artists because it becomes about marketing just to get visibility on the sites. Or it turns into a curated site, which puts the artists right back where they are with the galleries.

Any plans for how to scale this while avoiding such problems?
PC-XT Emulator on a ESP8266 (2018)
There is a video of the head of a hospital in Korea talking about reactivation occurring.

I feel that the “false positive” answer is often quickly given, without considering that it is likely that some people that get the virus have it flair up again. Perhaps it is caused by wishful thinking: reactivation is scary so let’s find a less scary reason?
Seems like a better way would be to purchase the actual companies at above market rates, prop them up temporarily, and then offload them to buyers.
Worst Exercises for People Over
Swift for TensorFlow Tutorials
So you create a backlink by detecting that a concept here refers to a prior concept? Hmm thats interesting. But can't this also be done with a simple word comparison, or am I missing something?

What can ML be used for that is not otherwise in scope?
Europe fought the two most destructive wars in the history of the world in the three decades immediately following the publication of that book.

I guess you could argue that things could somehow have turned out even worse than that, but that feels like a reach.
The modular homes are far from "pretty simple sheds".
Yes. Their purpose is to have funding. Do you think they pay higher interest rates out of the goodness of their hearts? I am not sure what you are arguing here.
I don't think this is likely. It's a societal problem with no real fix. If people don't feel like they're part of society then the government is unlikely to be able to fix it. It becomes even harder when those people are more or less okay with what their life is like.
Oh okay... I thought you were denying the reality of first-person subjective experience as commonly understood, not a narrowly-defined technical term. That seems more reasonable then (though also less interesting).
A bit late but I use the OXO brew conical burr on its "fine" setting. It looks nice, works reliably, has good ergonomics, and doesn't get messy. Also runs the full gamut of grind sizes so we can use it with our french press and chemex too.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CSKGLMM
If Signal is end to end encrypted (or even just encrypted to a server that has no backdoors) then observing the network traffic towards that server (which is what the compromised VPN would do) wouldn’t help. This is how even “basic” HTTPS remains secure against malicious attackers.
Coronavirus Crisis Legacy: Mountains of Debt
> I'm extremely skeptical of answers that involve labeling difficult challenges to a theory as "illusions."

So calling [1] an optical illusion warrants skepticism because it's attempting to dismiss the challenge of having to explain how water can physically break and magically reconstitute pencils? Don't you see the problem with this sort of argument?

The point is that integrating all of our knowledge leaves no room for first person facts. Additionally, every time we've tried to ascribe some unique or magical property to humans or life (like vitalism), we've been flat out wrong. No doubt there are plenty of challenges left to resolve in neuroscience, and no one is claiming that a materialist account of qualia is unnecessary.

[1] http://media.log-in.ru/i/pencilIn_in_water.jpg
The `CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent()` is just a call to a system library. There are libraries which implement APIs like:

let clock = Clock.system
let now = clock.thisInstant()

there just isn't a nice core library interface yet.
Or hang on to them and reap the profits and benefits of ownership in perpetuity. But letting them die makes no sense to me.
Everyone understands that you can keep asking "why?". Four year old kids understand this.

What the interviewer obviously wanted was an explanation of a particular physical phenomenon targeted at the level of someone without any background in physics. Everyone, Feynman included, has been in that position.

It's quite wrong to suggest that physicists don't, or shouldn't, ask "why" questions. They do it all the time: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22w...
Home Depot and Home Depot Pro have been fine for my needs. I added a 9x12 shed onto my garage, and now use as office/workout room.
Zoom-Style Virtual Backgrounds with Python/OpenCV
> If using built-in Points, note that the order of ll_to_earth’s coordinates is reversed: points are (x, y) which corresponds to (lng, lat). But the function takes lat, lng.

This is a strong reason to use PostGIS.
As another option, perhaps having it passively reorient whenever you look at the same location for a long time. If you stare at a window, then it slowly adjusts that window to be straight ahead. If done slowly enough, you might be able to trick the wearer's brain into thinking that it hasn't actually moved.
It could be cool to take all the FAQs you have in separate blog posts and make them into a 'tree' format, so that I can learn about your product while learning about your product... if that makes sense
Nate silver loves to attempt to make predictions based on shitty data. I can’t think of worse data set than polling.
I thought that not knowing what idiomatic Rust looks like was the most idiomatic thing about Rust.
Or rather, it was the nuclear “balance of terror” that emerged between the US and the USSR. Neither of those powers wanted to risk a confrontation that could turn into World War III, so they both had a strong incentive to limit their own ambitions and to restrain their allies/client states.
Yes, I've seen RoHS-related whisker issues in production hardware, although not related specifically to lead-free solder. These whiskers [1] appeared on the body of a PCB-mounted TNC jack from Amphenol, a US-based vendor.

It's very upsetting to see this happen to your own hardware, just because some EU bureaucrats believe that long-lasting electronic products are a bad thing rather than a good thing. Fortunately, 6 years down the road, it appears to have been a one-time incident.

[1] https://imgur.com/kmb2mtZ
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Perfectly valid question - I too hope for an option to keep this capability disabled or available on a per-use basis rather than a complete replacement for the existing QR URL launcher.
People luring Instacart shoppers with big tips – and then changing them to zero