skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the word "hard" is a bit overloaded in this thread.

Yes, I'm sure VCs "work hard" in the sense of putting in lots of hours or doing demanding work, but really, who cares about that. Lots of people, up and down the socio-economic spectrum work hard in this sense. It's not a helpful distinction. And I'm not impressed by hard work in this sense.

I have often wondered what it is, exactly, that VCs and executives and SVPs and bankers do that makes their services so valuable and so venerated. As I already mentioned, it's obviously not just because they are physically "working so hard." To me it's equally obvious that it's not because they are incredibly smart or wise. I assert with great confidence that (as a general rule) truly smart people are not wasting their time with work that is in any way associated with the movements of small green pieces of paper.

I believe that what is meant by "working hard" in the context of this set is a certain willingness to make deals or sales at all costs. By wisdom is meant intuition and connections or a rolodex (ie. the ability to get certain people on the phone).

But I know this for sure: something isn't hard if there aren't any real consequences for failing. And in the United States, if you are lucky enough to clear certain bars, you are exempt from failure. "Failure" and "hard" in this post means not closing a certain deal, but it doesn't mean anything like financial ruin. It means a minor roadbump, perhaps some professional embarrassment, and then onto the next money thing.

This is why I think these people are so utterly unworthy of the fawning adulation paid to them by SV folks desperately wanting to be rich, suckling at the teat, fantasizing about someday standing on that shiny stage with the little yellow ball mic, arms outstretched, telling everyone about their fantastic vision in broken sentences.
It was Google Domains.
My awesome open-source data engineering list [1] covers a few Apach projects. Contributions welcome!

[1] https://github.com/gunnarmorling/awesome-opensource-data-eng...
Isn’t that exactly what the person you replied to said? You’re showing what you’ve been charged for previously. That part works, at a certain level of detail.

That doesn’t show what you are being charged for right now, nor does it help you predict what your total costs will be at the end of the month.
I write something like HTML and process it with m4.
I don't think I follow. Can you provide an example of such a discussion that has happened?
Add a comment to the monthly 'freelancer' thread https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring It will be posted first work day of the month (June/1st) 9am California time.
A Quick Look at GCC 10.1 PGO Optimization Benchmarks
I think what the company wants is to recognize their mistake.

Users can still see that... and be worried about how they came to the inital decision.

None of that should influence if you do or don't apologize.
hey, this is totally tangential to the topic being discussed but i am hoping wikipedia people are here, reading these comments...

why not make the mobile theme the default theme?

it has better readability. works on both desktop and mobile. i find myself always adding "m" in the wikipedia urls to get to the mobile version. also started updating all my bookmarks.
If I get 90% of my math correct on a test, that's great! If I get 90% of my math correct while engineering a rocket, that's terrible!
Bump had bootstrapping problems (if I have it but you don't, it's useless), and it was also not particularly reliable at the time because of hardware quality.

To be clear: I don't think this sort of thing alone is enough to bootstrap on its own in a market with established social networks, but I don't understand why such social networks don't offer it as a feature.
Specifically, if you or anyone in your household had symptoms, you were unable to leave your house - including for food and medicine. In any circumstances you were unable to go to a second home. One major reason for this is to ensure there was no strain on the local services - especially hospitals. Cummings caused that strain in Durham.
The "product" is DHCPv6 and it doesn't solve the use case it is supposed to solve: managed networks and enterprises.

As for random hardware and software products on the network: It would be nice for criteria like "proper IPv6 support" to be blockers, but they aren't for lack of choice. Almost no product out there has anything resembling proper IPv6 support. Just try some fresh deployment of anything in a IPv6-only network, I dare you :)
Plywood: A New Cross-Platform Open Source C++ Framework
If this is an ongoing issue and you can’t get the information from something that is in front of S3 (cloudfront/your application etc) then you can enable bucket logging in the settings (which costs!)
Ask HN: Framework to bill customers for cloud compute costs?
I'm not clear whether this thing exists, but essentially, I have a useful algorithm for a specific niche market. I would like to implement it on a highly parallel cloud compute platform (think running a job on 1000+ nodes at once, possibly though not necessarily with mapreduce). And I would like to charge customers for using this algorithm.

Is there an existing framework that handles all the necessary billing - ideally with customers directly liable to the compute provider, to limit my own liability, with a percentage added for my own fees?

I appreciate on AWS you can release an EC2 image which people can use on their own instances while you charge an hourly licensing fee. Ideally I'd be looking for something easier on the customer, though.
Free Covid-19 Education Materials from Gale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network
Which is why I'll accept the fake news omnipresence given widespread emphasis on research and corroboration skills over telling the government or companies to police it any day. It's like a new coming of age. The dawning of realization that people on the Internet are happy to lie to or manipulate you.
Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google.
Steam has an interesting approach to review bombs, it keeps the negative reviews visible but excludes them from the aggregated rating. The rating has a big asterisk with info that this game has had a "period of off-topic review activity detected", allowing you to see when this period was, the percentage of reviews excluded, and the "off-topic" reviews themselves.

As an example: Borderlands 2 [1], which got review bombed when Borderlands 3 was announced to launch exclusive to the Epic Game Store.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/49520/Borderlands_2/#app_...
I think because the GAAP metaphor is that revenues and expenses determine profits, which accumulate into equity, which is claimed by equity holders according to fully diluted shares. SBC was "supposed" to be accounted for by calculating dilution of the newly issued shares. The expense approach is basically a shortcut for analysts.
You can get cost breakdown on a more granular level by taking advantage of tagging. You can tag your resources logically and get a break down by tag.

The biggest mistake I see is that people jump into AWS whole hog without doing the research or if they are large enough, hiring someone who knows what they are doing.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2...
Numbers for Portugal: In the last quarter of 2019, EVs (pure+hybrid) accounted for 4.6% of new vehicle sales, an 80% YoY increase. At these growth rates and start point, the 5-8 year estimate looks sound.
I will give an original movie illustration logo design with my creative thinking
I will give an original movie illustration Logo Design with my creative thinking for $5

Hi,
In this service we offer a logo design with a specific style, the monogram or letter mark / letter logo design.
Monogram and letter mark / letter logo is a design consisting of one, two or more alphabetic letters combined or interlaced, commonly one's initials.

Why order from me?

Professional Concept
Unlimited Revisions.
Creative and Unique Ideas
100% Satisfaction or Money back Guaranteed

What you will get?

1000px X100px JPG and PNG files
Vector File
Editable Source File.
We designs logos of all of the other categories signature, professional or minimal. You can order the same gig and provide note on that.

Please order me joust now.
Thanks !

https://www.fiverr.com/kelly_becker/give-an-original-movie-illustration-logo-design-with-my-creative-thinking?context_referrer=user_page&ref_ctx_id=837aa246-e465-42d5-9e4b-5d1e646c4438&pckg_id=1&pos=4
I believe "cult" is the word they were looking for
I still don’t like the idea of hamstringing the CEO’s ability to make executive decisions because the CEO can’t be trusted to make ethical executive decisions. Processes are fine for preventing operational mistakes, but when it comes to ethics and executive judgment, they’re a poor substitute for having trustworthy people making the decisions.
I clicked, because I remembered the term Flywheel from Rand Fishkins book "Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World".

After scrolling and scanning the article I realized, it was written by Rand himself. Looked deeper and saw, that it is his (somewhat) new venue this content is doing Content Marketing/SEO for.
They got bad self-serving advice from lawyers. A lawyer doesn't get paid much if all they do is write up a contract for a private agreement to buy a domain, but they get paid a lot if the disagreement goes to trial instead.
If they did, I didn't even see it. I am a heavy business-card user, and I still lack a good app to do that with my phone - which seems silly.
This is fairly common in early photographs. I think it is partially because many early photographers were painters originally and carried the insights of that practice over to the way they took photographs, and partially because paintings were the main frame of reference of medium to emulate.
Current state of the art is already "multiple layers of NAT". So yes, but only to a certain point.
He's admitting he may have made a mistake.
Yes, but there are desalination plants being constructed at great cost to provide drinking water, so why not get the available minerals etc at the same time...
Apparently it got bought by Microsoft and renamed Mixer.
While you are right about the divergence of identities over the various regions, I think as long as most Americans still have internet, access to running (clean) water, and easily accessibly food a true blood spilling revolution is far away.
> I know this is weak medicine, but Wiki is CC licensed. That means it can be forked if it turns out they are doing more than protecting people from harassment.

Wikipedia's protective moat isn't the licensing, it's the SEO. You can't compete with that under any circumstances. There is absolutely nothing you can do about it. Fork all you want, your content will never show up in Google's results with a high ranking, and as such you won't get a large enough audience or editor base to matter.
Ask HN: How to build a personal network during quarantine?
Since all Meetups and similar events in my city are held online, how should I start building my personal network from home?
as a non web developer who needed to get a static site with a consistent header and footer up I just made a makefile which watches an src directory and cats the header and footer onto each file
Sorry, didn't mean to put words in your mouth.

However, it's very presumptuous to say:

"I really wanted Mastodon to be where I can find everyone."

That's Facebook and Twitter. And even then you can't find everyone.

People go to the Fediverse to build the community they want, not be subjected to "everyone". It's this clash of collective rights vs individualism that seems to drive so many of these ridiculous arguments. It's no different (or, in fact, it may be better now) than getting banned from one of the many phpBB forums of 20 years ago. Those communities thrived and the banned didn't even have an instance leftover to call a home: everything was gone when they got banned.

Just because you want to find everyone, doesn't mean everyone wants you to find them.
I am from the Czech Republic. Left lane on highway is informally reserved for "going fast", as in 160-200+ km/h. Right lane is around 120-140 km/h. Oficial speed limit is 130 km/h. Regional roads are limited to 90 km/h, but people travel as fast as 160 km/h on the largest ones. Town areas are limited to 50 km/h unless said otherwise and it required automated radars to get drivers to go less than 90 km/h in many towns on major roads.

People are basically behaving like it's German autobahn everywhere. Even the informal rules have adjusted - in a major city, you not only respect the right hand rule, but also give right of way to all vehicles on the more major road. The conflict is resolved by blinking headlights.

Honda used to be the most popular brand here (90's and first few years of 00's).
I don't understand why I even need to do manual things such as "tagging" (besides learning what that even means in AWS) to find out something as simple as why I'm being charged as much as I'm being charged. I'm sorry. It's inexcusable.
True, but esport isn't most streamers either. The Mario Maker streamers and speedrunners I follow have heavy interaction with their chat on-stream, for example, and couldn't switch to a system which gave them significantly higher latency.
To add: Choosing which risks to tackle should definitely be weighted by difficulty, impact and available resources.

Also, this feels like it's forcing an external portfolio manager view on the internal operations of a startup. Nothing wrong with this - it's just odd to me.
It seems that their name is now Mixer according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixer_(service)
AI is terrible at dealing with unexpected events. Games AI is good at are relatively deterministic, i.e. all possible outcomes are known. Replicating art and images is the same way.

If you could script new combat units in a video game on the fly or tweak the rules slightly, the human would slaughter the AI when an equally skilled human opponent would not lose so easily or even necessarily lose at all. You can see this in games like Galactic Civilizations where you can build your own units and unusual combos confuse the heck out of the computer opponent.

Same with cars. The entire approach is currently based around exposing the AI to every possible outcome. I remember a seminar on AI Safety where the vehicle AI had a problem with plastic bags in the air and it would swerve to avoid them. No human would have an issue with that.

I worked in innovation for a bank looking at automating all these kinds of things and even spent a few days doing the jobs (and this was eye-opening) and I was a developer, so not a manager looking at a job spec, but someone who would have actually done the work. 90% of the job could be automated, but 10% was dealing with wacky exceptions, many of which they had never specifically seen before. We had someone who had the job of taking PDFs and extracting tables of income and expenses. They were generally standardized PDFs, so that seems like something good to automate right?

Well, no. As tons of the financial advisors had added custom rows which the person doing the input had to interpret into another column. It was quite eye-opening that while the jobs were menial data entry, it was nowhere near as mundane as one might imagine as the guy was still making a judgment call on whether to classify "farm income" under a person's investment income category or whether to classify it as regular income for the purpose of investment advice.

I have a friend currently on a robotic process automation internship with another bank. Same issue. When the RPA dev people actually go and do these jobs, they realize that is frequently deviates from the approved job spec with the people in them making small but significant judgment calls.

It is not a lack of knowledge about what AI can do in either of those cases. It is not a lack of data as both banks have armies of people doing it and millions of clients. It is that for AI to do the job, all manner of other things would need to be standardized and reformed and if that were done, why use AI to solve the problem in the first place as a lot of it would simply be computational.
The AirBnB one I thought was particularly good. Clean preso, no superfluous information, readable, addresses all the concerns, short and to the point.

The reddit one is the exact opposite in that regard, but it has cats.
Yes, but weight (which is higher in electric cars) does not influence air resistance. Tesla’s btw have record low air resistance.
Seems like you have three options.
1. Talk to your manager to make working remote permanent.
2. Find a job that is remote.
3. Start freelancing, which is in my opinion the hardest of the three options since you will end up taking on a lot more than just writing code and have to hustle to get gigs.
My suggestion: wait twenty or thirty years and look at the resumes of the 30-somethings at the New York Times. I suspect their colleges will be much what you'd find now.
Math Online Lessons*
What you get with this Offer
I offer you online lessons in different areas of mathematics. This offer is for 1 hour of work. Feel free to contact me - I'll be happy to help you.
Get more with Offer Add-ons.

https://www.peopleperhour.com/hourlie/math-online-lessons/650063
You mean why not fully remove the URL? That's just in the odd case you really do want to visit the link (after Google think that it's a good result). May be example.com happens to be the ONLY website that does have some good content, I personally wouldn't want to ban it entirely. But in every case, I'd like to strip their results so I won't have to scroll down to get to the good results.
thanks for the feedback! If JS can be done (and from a quick look css html and basic stuff is there), I guess I can also recommend it to my SO :)
Ideal may be a bit strong, but I'll assume it's ideal for Colin (author.) Learning is a big part of it, but so is familiarity.

I just started the same type of project: a personal website with a homegrown framework that makes everything easier. It was hard! Picking these technologies with no constraints and imperfect knowledge is tricky. Ultimately, I went with tools I wanted to learn more about, but that I was pretty confident would get me to a static site.

This ended up being webpack + loaders/plugins (some homegrown). Plus I'm writing content in Google Docs and exporting it to HTML after being inspired by the wave of Google Docs articles on HN.

Like Colin, I eventually want to put animations or data transformations on there. Fun process.
Can someone please break down that first sentence into multiple chunks. I genuinely have a hard time parsing it
> Germany wrestled its censorship laws from hard history lessons.

Citation needed.

Germany has had strict censorship laws since forever. They obviously did not stop the Nazis. If you're arguing that censorship is required to stop the Nazis, that's a point you should address, especially given that they had specifically added censorship laws against right-wing extremists in the Weimar Republic in the Republikschutzgesetz.
I recently went though a whole bunch of your Power of Prolog videos [0], solving and generating such sudokus was the first thing I thought about when watching the original video of the guy solving the Miracle Sudoku.

Thanks for those videos!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFFeNyzCEQDS4KCecugmotg/fea...
I think we are probably 90% in agreement on things, just talking about it in different terms. I think AWS/GCP have both gotten overwhelming in terms of how many different services they provide. Many people fall for it and end up playing AWS service golf (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23274668).

Maybe a good analogy is to think of AWS as C. It's flexible and powerful, but it's easy to shoot yourself in the foot. That would explain why a lot of these "> magical-tool deploy" services have emerged, promising to abstract away AWS.
I would add "AI" produces results that are hard to understand and work with.

When you do "traditional coding" you are getting results that are easier to work with because you understand where they came form. Then it is easier to modify the model and understand the outcome.

Your background is robotics. As a robotics example, training AI model to keep bipedal robot upright might be possible but having proper control model that came from control theory, identifying the system, etc. will mean you can actually calculate the envelope of the model, the limitations, etc. and that the model is not likely to surprise you in catastrophic ways. It is a case where AI would be a poor replacement for traditional modelling.
I wish push notifications worked better. It's so hard for open source projects. Ideally, a client should be able to, in a standard way, tell a server where to send notifications, maybe provide a key as well, and that's it. No need to register at each individual phone manufacturer etc.
They had people who knew Common Lisp and garbage collection.

Plus Scheme has no batteries included.
It’s not in VirnetX’s interests, certainly...
Granted, we're still a fairly small organization (+- 10), but our business and customer support people are also using Gitlab to maintain our knowledge base: once you properly guide them on how to use it, they are definitely able to handle this. All the actual git operations happen under the hood of the web interface. So we do strongly believe this is scalable, at least for our use case. This has been working fine in fact for long-lived information across multiple departments (not only technical docs, but also e.g. sales/customer support guidelines). For short-lived information we use Google Docs (e.g. meeting summaries).
I get your point, but words like "wrongthink" are poisonous to a conversation. It's a privileged position to not routinely receive death and rape threats (c.f. women and trans on twitter) so please don't minimize the other side of the debate.
Microsoft's failures as a monopoly helped write the book on how to keep your monopoly.

Apple learned that a monopoly is only illegal when it stifles competition, but if no competition is ever allowed then regulatory bodies completely overlook it.

Google learned that you don't have to stifle the competition, instead you overwhelm them with openness. You make everything you do an open or standardized and keep dumping it over the fence.
> If school grades are indicative, even a 90% accuracy is commendable for human driven tasks.

School grades are in an environment where you learned it recently, have no access to references, and have not been doing it very long.

If you had to keep doing algebra for even a month on a full time basis, you will get a lot better than 90%.
It seems to me that many people think in the short term. "They got away with it for years" is the same as "they got away with it" to them.

Microsoft is definitely paying for their hubris now... Or at least, they were. It seems that they've managed to offset that enough that people respect them again.

To me, they will always be that company that decided to just bulldoze everyone else and force their way on everyone. That doesn't mean I don't use their products. But it does mean I always look for alternatives.

Having said that, there are precious few companies out there that I don't feel that way about now. I'm struggling to come up with any that aren't game developers at the moment.
The Tomahawk Missile Now Runs on Corn
Mastodon is federated, so you already get to choose who your content moderators will be when you pick a server. Blocklists are just an informal and spammy-by-default version of that.
How to De-Risk a Startup (2016)
> Amazon applies A/B testing all the time - would anyone at Sears even know what it is?

I wouldn't be so certain of others ignorance. Retail stores have long done studies and applied consultants to problems on layout, music, pricing, etc.