skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your existing users might be good leads, or they might not. At the least they see enough value in your offering to use it for free.

Great point. It is possible that a lot of the existing users only use your service because it is free, perhaps because they simply don't have a budget for paying for any service, or perhaps due to some other reason, e.g. they work for some huge organisation where they may need to fight through a lot of red tape in order to get a new service approved for use and paid for.

In both cases, these could be kinds of users that are difficult to turn customers of a viable business: in the former case, because they won't pay you money, and in the latter case, because they can't pay you money unless you first invest 18 months in an enterprise sales cycle with the hope they sign up to your "call us for pricing" enterprise plan that offers RBAC, integrates with their baroque SSO implementation, and offers support for white label branding (or whatever it is that the various stakeholders deem as mandatory features).

> Talk to [your users] and find out what they think you’re adding, and figure out if that’s something people might pay for.

This is much more actionable and useful advice compared to my speculation!
There is actually a subtle point on why the question of "physicists don't really know on a fundamental level why magnets repel each other" is nonsense ultimately which doesn't stop physics from producing useful or interesting in some other way models.

Those who think that a textbook explanation could have been the answer are missing the point: it is not about magnets—it is about what it means to know anything in terms of anything else.

There is no need for useful models to form a nested hierarchy converging to a single "reality" i.e., it is not necessary for a model to be more fundamental than another model even if they relate to what we observe as the same phenomenon.
Honest question - if you set it up so the user gets an email with a link they have to click before their message is actually sent to your queue, would that help?

I'm thinking it would probably reduce the number of users who successfully contacted you legitimately, but CAPTCHAs also do that. Do spammers actually have the email accounts they claim to and respond to confirmation emails?
And it runs on Ubuntu! To be honest I'd rather not use software made or hosted on US/Chinese/Russian soil but I don't really have much choice at my workplace. If it didn't ran on Ubuntu I'd dual boot to windows just for meetings.

This would be a great time for some proper European alternatives.
That was such a good description of learning/updating in the immune system that I just had to go follow you on Twitter!
I hear you. I hope we overhaul the fda when this is over.
Plenty of people have complex opinions about 230, but it's a law that says, if you see a comment that defames you, sue the person who made it, it's got nothing to do with e.g. whoever runs the skateboarding forum. Who opposes this? It's just codifying the common sense understanding of the internet.
For bureaucratic reasons...

I feel that pain. When your only tool is bureaucracy everything looks like a nail. Or something like that.

I once had what I think was a document for a mortgage application refused because I'd printed it, signed it and took a photo on my phone to email back. Apparently it had to be done with a scanner and a camera was unacceptable.

I didn't have a scanner, so I chanced my arm, desaturated and thresholded the image then resubmitted it. I was thanked and it was accepted.
You need to be able to test the competition. A former head of IE used Netscape as his principal browser to stay informed of how it worked.
>>Or to put it another way, most people don't have to work 16+ hours/day just to stay alive.
>They almost never had to, so that's a pretty lousy bar to use.

We didn't outlaw child labor definitively until the FLSA in 1938. The Great Depression was a huge turning point, and children were forced out of employment as adults desperately needed any employment available. But even during WW2, there were debates about reversing the laws because Germany was using forced labor on children to support its war efforts.

People were more willing to give women the right to vote than to ratify laws that stopped parents from having their children work in a factory, sweeping a store, or selling newspapers or shoe shines or other repetitive, easily-replicated duties.

>It's pretty awful to expect someone that's already working far more than full time to spend even more time practicing work skills on top of that. Anyone that can do so is amazing, but anyone that doesn't do so should not be blamed.

No one with an ounce of self-respect is going to incentivize leisure. You don't create value in life by relaxing. There's a saying among Muslims that Allah did not give you life for you to rest in it. And that perspective is what divides top performers from their peers.

This is a frustrating philosophy to read. Where in the world did you get the idea that you're already being asked to do too much... before you've even managed to have something to show for any spent effort whatsoever? Depression is rooted in idling. The less you straddle life with one foot in, and the other out, of your comfort zone, the more you become risk averse. The more risk averse you become, the less motive you have to act. The less motive to act you have, the less value you create. Less value becomes less purpose. Less purpose becomes less incentive to live.

If you don't want to work hard, fine. But to suggest that the bar should be lowered so you can feel like you're amazing too, when you've chosen to preoccupy yourself with leisure, is immature. Life doesn't reward you for smarts, it rewards for effort. If you can't see that now, you'll waste years and years growing increasingly angry at the world for not giving you what you think you've earned. Trust me, waking up to realize you've got nothing to show for your so-called hard work, and that itself proves you haven't done hard work, is harsh. I'm coming to terms with that at 33. Don't wait as long as I have to accept that feedback from the world around you.
To quote the great Jean Luc Picard, pick "one impossible thing at a time".

I also find myself going in a lot of directions, and I've found that picking an idea and sticking with it, until it fails or works, is an achievement in itself.
> Hopefully, these are the last software flaws.

I have tried this approach and can report that "hope" doesn't accomplish this.
Ah, no, I have the opposite problem!

For instance, musicians one really likes, one projects them into images of saints. Then they're out their putting selfies on, sharing insipid quotes or just generally seeking validation, and the mirage crumbles a bit.
That’s the “oh we can’t use methods from others, we are too special” argument, which is always BS. Coupling the misapprehension to a snooty misconception is doubly unfortunate.
Hi all, creator of Etherdoek here. I had this idea for a while and the corona lockdown was a good excuse to work on it. I’ve also written an article about tokens and art and when I think it makes sense to put things on the blockchain: https://www.etherdoek.com/tokens_and_art.

In short, Etherdoek is a 1,000 by 1,000 pixel canvas. Pixels are sold through a smart contract. The buyer sets the pixel color (hex value, 3 bytes) and gets an ERC-721 token which corresponds to her pixel. Pixel tokens can be traded like any other ERC-721 token.
Through the same smart contract any owner of a pixel token can change the color of the corresponding pixel.

The canvas will exist as long as Ethereum. Ethereum contains the full state of the image and changes are saved forever as events. It’s censorship resistant and does not depend on any data being stored outside of the blockchain.
Covid-19 Joint Task Force seeks apps, algorithms and analytics from businesses
If you guys can post a good working tutorial for the Zero W, it would be very much appreciated and I'll definitely be placing an order for a camera with you.
As someone who uses Google Meets daily, dogfood is the right word.
This reminds me far too much of "mandatory overtime" in America. Federal overtime law under the FLSA does not prohibit employers from forcing employees to work mandatory overtime.

Its technically illegal, but theres nothing to stop an employer from firing you for consistently refusing overtime shifts. Time clocks rarely allow you to punch in anything later than the time specified in the system, or 5 minutes before.

Employers can also retaliate for your lack of participation by altering your work shifts between day/night, or cutting your work hours to make you poor. This was pretty common at most of the factories in the south i worked in while saving up for trade school. I once worked at a glue manufacturing plant that routinely scheduled 14 hour overtime on the weekends a few times a month. I refused once, and was fired the next week.
> there is no "productivity booster"

I guess we're just throwing mental and physical health out the window? Do those things not matter because they don't directly influence profits?
Does the connection model problem go away when using serverless rds? https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/
Show HN: Transnote – Video Notes by Timestamps
It's google, so probably they have at least 3 and one of them will be deprecated every year
why not ? the market competition still apply right ?
A second (simpler?) way is to prevent credit cards from forced bundling of variable fees to the merchant.

Credit cards companies are in a very strong oligopoly and are able to essentially demand bundling of all their cards, regardless of the fees charged. If the credit cards companies were forced to charge a single rate for all cards in a bundle, it would allow merchants to either selectively drop higher priced bundles or the card company would have to start balancing the additional cost of higher rewards on their side, moving the incentives back where they belong.
wow, this made me appreciate working from home in an instant.
You are very welcome!

I greatly enjoy all your postings about your Prolog-based interpreter for Joy:

https://osdn.net/projects/joypy/scm/hg/Joypy/blobs/tip/thun/...

I impulsively upvote this every time I see it. Thank you for sharing such an interesting project!
A shockingly large number of people tell you that types don't help in the real world. If those people believed this article, I'm sure they'd find it surprising.
Yeah, that's true. You already part of the SAP dark side, lol
Especially, if you messing around with ABAP which is just an odd language
If this course doesn't focus almost entirely on leetcode style problems, than it's pretty bunk for actually getting into Amazon.

Amazon's OA is significantly worse than even it's big competitors regarding the required leetcode grind. I don't think there's a Software Engineer who was hired in the last several years at Amazon who wasn't grilled on a few leetcode medium (and likely, a hard or two) style problems.

Moreover, if you're good enough to get into Amazon and deal with it's reputation for horrible WLB, back-stabbing and political culture, bad pay (for a "FAANG"), horrible vesting, mediocre benefits, and working for a literal vampire, than you can (and should) go work for one of it's competitors who will pay you and treat you strictly better. Microsoft, Google, Apple, the unicorns, and even Oracle OCI all fit the bill. Microsoft will give you easier leetcode questions and a 20 hour work week. Oracle OCI certainly will pay you better (their whole schtick is to poach Amazon Employees for their own cloud).

Amazon is rightfully shamed as being "not good enough to stay in the FAANG" because they treat their engineers so badly. I guess the only reason to work for them is that they need a lot of Java devs for AWS and many places are slowly abandoning Java - but even then - there are so many java shops around still that you shouldn't have trouble finding work.

I suppose COVID may change things a bit but we should be telling aspiring engineers the truth about Amazon.
The only way to get promoted at Google is to launch new things.
Some employees had it installed on corp devices, maybe to connect with their friends and families. Google has banned even installing that app on corp devices. Nobody used it for corp work.
Right now, we don't have direct messaging capabilities, but our developers are working on an asynchronous messaging system that we're hoping to have implemented in the not-too-distant future. The best conversation-style interaction is taking place within the "Ask The Pack" section of the website. If you haven't checked it out yet, you should!
The rumors from inside Google is that there's no way to get credit/be rewarded as an employee simply for maintaining an existing solution, or even for fixing obvious breakage. Every incentive is tilted towards starting new projects, often multiple projects in the same domain directly competing with one another. There are some positives to this of course, but clearly it's being overdone.
Duo, Meets and Hangouts... off the top of my head.

With various levels of being merged or not.
Yes, that was the intention of my post, but not explicitly written, that shareholders could sue and users probably can't.
Agreed. Many people identify Communism with Stalinism, Stalinism with Marxism-Leninism, Marxism-Leninism with Marxism, Marxism with Marx & Engels, Marx & Engels with Marx, and finally Marx with Communism. All of these identifications are heavily suspect, and are considered as such by the relevant experts (whether philosophers, sociologists, historians or political scientists).

Unfortunately, few people on either "side" take the time to look deeply into the movement(s) they support or rally against.
The transaction fees needed for the whole "isolation between bank account and the business charging them" are about 0.1%.
The remainder is subsidizing the rewards slot machine.
"We've changed our terms regarding Rewards Points. Your points are now only eligible on qualifying 737 MAX flights."
From the landing page it is unclear what exactly is offered here. I do not feel like creating an account to see this in action. Is there a demo somewhere?
I had a crash course on ligatures and stylistic alternates when I stumbled across a handwritten font[0]. It has slightly different glyphs for any second repeated letter or number, but the initial capital glyphs has these massive strokes that I think need to be calmed down if used more than twice in a headline.

[0] https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/reey
I'd appreciate it! I look forward to hearing back.
No one runs check posting in test
Consumers lose as a whole but rewards allow a portion of them to win. Mostly higher net worth individuals that get offered more rewards are subsidized by lower classes.
> on Linux

I think I found your problem. While Linux is big here on HN, all Linux users probably represent .001% of their paying customers.

In other words, it makes no business sense for them to do anything to retain you.
Fathom is very easy to self-host:

https://render.com/docs/deploy-fathom-analytics

Plausible should provide instructions to self-host for people who want to try it.
I like the idea of being able to annotate the image, I see no reason to require a Zapier account besides tracking purposes (and optionally offerring some nice integration with Zapier). For that reason I will continue with alternatives like https://getkap.co/
I think we would get some value back, potentially even more. Probably hard to quantify anyway.

CC rewards are a strategy to limit competition. It makes it harder for new players because merchants don't need them, they need Visa and the other big ones. So the negotiation power is small. You seek for more customers, but you can't convince anyone because you don't have rewards.

When competition and choice is limited, you, as a customer, are on the loosing side of the deal. Always.
> Well, consumers don't really lose as long as they have a rewards card right?

They lose because rather than spend slightly less money and having that money available (or consumers charging slightly less because they don't have as large of processing fees), they get some targeted benefit that constrains how they gain.

As a simple example, anyone that saved a bunch of frequent flyer miles to use around this time would probably be better off with the extra cash, since most people aren't traveling.

There are of course cases where the thing that would benefit a person the most is also what is offered as a reward, but as we're seeing, circumstances change, and in most cases the reward with the most utility (i.e. cash, or not being charged as much in the first place) is often the most beneficial overall.
Qt Could Go Proprietary, KDE Relationship and Qt-Based Free Software in Jeopardy
Specifically they use the first ten bytes of SHA1(phoneNumber) where phone number is like +12345553215 for the US phone number 1-234-555-3215 or say +4424061184 for the number I had as a child in a village in England.

This form of number is also the one your (mobile) phone actually uses, although they let you type in any sloppy human attempt at a phone number and translate.

Signal apps periodically reach out to Signal's servers to do two things: Confirm that this specific user does still have Signal (and so messages to them should be accepted) and optionally upload a set of these hashes for their contacts to see if any of those have Signal and so messages to those numbers can go securely via Signal instead.
- Cold call marketing

- Sell it as a cost-saving technology

- Figure out how much alternatives are costing them and tell what they could be saving

- Offer the paid plan for a trial period

- Limit the size of the organization, but open the free plan to more than one-on-one
Seems fine. I've been using Skitch for a while, which seems to have all this and more (except gifs). Super easy to drop annotated screenshots straight into slack.

https://evernote.com/products/skitch
> It’s essentially free cash for the airline, and it underscores the massive profit potential

Point of order, cash is not profit. You can’t (or shouldn’t) book unredeemed loyalty credits as income; on the contrary, they sit on the balance sheet as a liability under “unearned revenue” or similar journal.
I don't see the relevance there. Over the years I've lived alone, with a romantic partner, or with platonic friends/roommates at different times. My feelings about remote work don't change based on differences in the home situation.
Nowadays, ontology-management systems like Protégé and SPARQL can more or less solve all problems prolog can solve, while providing higher-level formalisms and with the guarantee your query will terminate.
Are you reaching out to governments of other countries ?. How does this process work ? and is the canadian government aware of this work ?.
Ok, how many 9s does your SLA ensure? Why not one more?
Interest is measured in how many will pay and how much. As said above, you need to talk to your users and figure what features have value and what that is. Rinse and repeat.
Please Hold, Your Life Is Important to Us
so the days of the week in Spanish and Japanese have the same roots... that's wild!
If You Want to Be a Senior Developer, Stop Focusing on Syntax
Newly engineered enzyme can break down plastic to raw materials
Corporate devices should be for work. Especially if you're sheltering-in-place anyway and you're not even physically at the office.
Probable Roman shipwrecks unearthed at a Serbian coal mine
Are there any basic examples you can give around maintaining that integrity?

I'm liking DynamoDB for tasks that fit nicely within a single domain, have relatively pain-free access patterns, etc. And I've found good fits, but there are some places where the eventual consistency model makes me nervous.

I'm specifically thinking about updating multiple different DynamoDB keys that might need to be aggregated for a data object. The valid answer may be "don't do that!" – if so, what should I do?

(I'll probably just buy the book ;-))
- Actually phone up at least one new sign up
per day. Ask why they signed up, what they use it for, how it compares the the others they have used and what would they pay for - unlimited time, number participants whatever. They will try to be nice - assume they lie. most importantly how did they hear of you. Pay attention to the vocabulary they use. What you are trying to get here is your elevator pitch - but told to you by your customers "Video chat right in Slack"

- You now have some idea of channels to market - ten people signed up because of a facebook post or because of a linkedin article or a google search - so choose a channel - facebook / linkedin / SEO. Just produce ten articles or pay for ten adverts - and see what traffic changes you get - stick at it - you are looking for a channel
to market. Somewhere somehow there is a way of reaching a potential audience - with a sales pitch you learnt from above you want to find where that sales pitch reaches the most of your potential audience

- pricing - this matters less than the above especially as you are aiming at busiesses - I would say Slack has a pricing norm so you may want to charge per user but aim for 30/55/75 or there abouts.

- keep trying new sales pitches, and vary the channels you try slowly.

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Its not like Google doesn't have a half-dozen other chat services...
OK, so please do tell me how to sue `sk8rboy2020` on the forum then?
Math has stuck around immutably since the beginning of recorded history. Maybe other areas of human endeavour, like art, has the same access to immutable realities.
I have an Airtouch. Same idea but with air springs. Zap right to the height you want and get back to work.
Can’t view article without medium account .

Seems to work if you view from twitter first: https://mobile.twitter.com/W_R_Chase/status/1247154986783514...

For my input, I think R (in particular ggplot2) is amazing for static graphs and rapid prototyping. When used with something like adobe illustrator for polishing, you can make some beautiful newsroom publication quality charts as well (see BBC).

However, JavaScript is the language of the web, and that dependency will never be removed from creating high-quality interactive visualizations. (Sure, you can write wrappers in R/Python, but you’ll still need to know the JavaScript under-the-hood to do anything bespoke/custom).
Same here. According to the Google announcement I found they're only offering 2 free months of Stadia Pro but you have to sign up for a subscription and cancel after your 2 free months or pay the full $9.99/month.

Anyone who signs up will get two free months of Stadia Pro with instant access to nine games, including GRID, Destiny 2: The Collection, and Thumper. You can purchase even more games on the store, which will remain yours to play even if you cancel your Stadia Pro subscription. If you’re already a paid Stadia Pro subscriber, we won’t charge you for the next two months. After that, Stadia Pro is $9.99 a month, but you can opt out of your subscription at any time.

https://blog.google/products/stadia/try-stadia-free-today
I'm 100% unclear what this product does. Slack already has video, or you can use any other video room software to also do what it already does?

What am I missing here?
The way it is described (workers have 6 days on, 1 day off) is identical to the old system, so in terms of wages, productivity, and cost of materials it is actually identical.

The only difference is lower costs for machines; since machines are never idle you need 6/7 as many.

By example, if your widget factory has 7 workers and 7 machines, by shifting their schedules so each worker takes a different day off, you can do the same amount of work with only 6 machines.
Our focus is on helping developers and product teams build integrations between their core product and 3rd party services. "Medium complexity" is a good way to describe it - you can accomplish a good amount on Paragon without writing code, but if you need to write a custom function to go the last mile, you can.