skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
can anyone add to that article data on

What users saw in terms of response time

and perceived response time

And what users are seeing after the improvements

*

We had evaluated spotify for one of our projects and aesthetically it is really good. However, time wise their store takes forever to do stuff

This was a couple of years back, so hopefully things are much better now

Basically, the article covers how much better THE TEAM doing the coding feels

What is the effect on the users using the stores?
I've seen other weird behavior, even from people with a fair bit of computer experience. Techie instinct is not the right basis for making UI decisions.
This is super cool. Love the hacking mentality. I fantasize about owning one of these.

Used to go into meetings where a key member had one and would take notes on it. To me, he looked so damn cool.

But alas, it's not for me - I tried moleskins and other things, but I always get frustrated at writing and I never looked back at any notes I took.
Correct! I have been there.
> and that someday stock worth 10s or 100s of K will be worth 100s or 1Ms

This sounds a bit dodgy. I don't endorse paying someone with less than 5 years 250k/year but if you're looking at someone then the amount of options you give them should be worth at least the salary cut over the vesting period. So say you're looking at some VP potential that could get 400k per year working at Netflix or something and you're going to pay them $150k. Then you should offer them (imo) $750k in options vesting over 3 years. That's in now money, as in that should be whatever the investors in your last round paid for that same stock.

Not an exact art of course but if you do it that way, and you explain your logic in the offer, and they still don't agree, then they just don't want to work for you. If this calculation comes out to something that's untenable for you, then you're looking at too expensive engineers and imo you should move your company out of the valley.
Yet another instance of blaming societal ills on tech, instead of the supposedly freedom/agency loving users.

Read Houellebecq or any dating advice forum, for arguments on how excess choice enabled by apps makes dating less egalitarian and ruins it for the “weaker” section.
Ability comes from circumstance, opportunity comes from free will.
Pedot can make our bodies play nice with implanted electronics
ReMarkable is one of the most exciting Linux eInk tablets out there.

I am still waiting for my ReMarkable 2 preorder since it got with some covid delay, I hope it will be easy to develop for it since it does include a USB-C and an Accessory port.
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I got rid off Adobe from my life too. The new cloud based Lightroom cannot be installed because the installer itself cannot run on a Mac with the new file system. I could not believe it myself but that is it. The recommended workaround is to go back to the previous filesystem. Do you have any recommendation for Lightroom replacement on a Mac (not iOS)?
Is there a list of available routes somewhere?

I’m trying to create a personal clone of mailbrew to send myself a newsletter of all my favorite sources.
MySQL vs. PostgreSQL vs. SQL Server – Let's Choose the Best Database
In this video, we’ll be taking a look at the three most popular relational databases: MySQL vs PostgreSQL vs SQL server.
This seems like it would be very valuable information to the investors.
Oh yes, I remember that. I don’t miss it at all, save for the annoying behavior of single bar when a search contains dot (e.g. searching for a dotnet namespace).

While the single bar is my preference I agree that more choice should be given to the end user. Google is trying to hard to shovel the changes that benefit them than addressing user’s needs (obvious example being AMP).
It really depends on what level allow yourself to start.

If you hand derive all equations in your program you are going to have a hard time ... but automatic differentiation (ad) and existing linear algebra libraries (for gradient descent/ADAM) make the the job pretty easy.

I recently dabbled in automatic (song-)mixing ... reimplemented the code of some open audio plugins in a way that they were auto-derivable and "trained" the whole thing on some multitracks with reference mixes.
Sadly that didn't resulted in a good mix ... but in theory it should work.

What's your "simple deep learning" story?
yes, I get this too.
Worth noting that Satrapi's family were part of the US supported-side and so the story might be slightly slanted to one side, covering more the time period where a conservative religious group cane in to power as a backlash.
There's a quite big one in Sweden also, built in the 50's that is still active. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk%C3%B6_naval_base
If you encounter force 8-9 while out on a speedboat day trip you've seriously messed up with your preparation and planning! it doesn't just come out of nowhere.

The reality is that it's the sea state that matters. A sheltered lake or estuary could only have 30cm waves with 40 knots of wind, whereas the open sea would have a 1.5m+ swell with 1m waves on top.
For me it’s the process of writing them that is important. I normally throw out my notes not long after writing them.
I've been following https://photoprism.org/ for a while (without taking the plunge yet, as I was waiting for the product to mature).
In my country, it's illegal for the taxi driver to decline the customer unless it has valid reasons(the customer is violent or threatening, does not satisfy the hygiene standard, road is damaged etc).

I think it's a fair regulation for it will casually lead to the discrimination.

Also, in my country, being a taxi driver requires special license and certified car so Uber/Lyft doesn't offer the service. They don't want to pay the cost of checking if the contractor satisfy the requirements of license and car.
From another reply here: U.S. Code § 1505 mandates that you do not obstruct procedures of departments, agencies, and committees of the US government. In this case, if you've just testified before the FTC on your data protection practices and a past data breach you do not keep quiet on a current breach but Give Them A Call.

I cannot imagine how doing business in the US is like given that I feel there are many more laws they can throw at you than where I live, but I know that in my firm have we many meetings on all kinds of levels with supervisors that are frankly quite open. You need good relationships with supervisors and good relationships build on openness. If we were ever to have a serious data breach the first call would be an impact assessment and notification under GDPR, the second call nearly at the same moment would be reaching out to our other (mostly financial) supervisors.
I was confused why the author claims this doesn't work, then I saw JavaScript... ah
Isn't that just a matter of educating users? Users, contrary to popular belief, are not stupid. Everyone starts off knowing nothing at all, but we can teach them what an address is and we can teach them how to search for things.
Even with the images who's to say the images are $100 or $100k?

Microsoft paid "low six figures" for Bliss (the Windows XP desktop background) but only $300 ($45 to the photographer) for Autumn (a different desktop background)[1].

If you get physically injured and you successfully sue how do they determine the damages to award you? There isn't a dollar amount for physical pain. They can't test an alternate future where you aren't injured and see how much money you make. They just make up estimates. It would be the same here; they would estimate the monetary and emotional damage of losing the pictures.

[1] https://petapixel.com/2017/12/23/microsoft-xp-bliss-photog-p...
Did doordash for a few weeks and discovered that this is exactly how the dashers in the community that made "okay" money operated. They turn down deliveries that didn't pay a certain amount and would sit in their car doing nothing if they had to.
A recruitment interview ain't no quiz show
Best programming language for economic research: Julia, Matlab, Python or R?
I was Richard's tester, in as much as I was one of the first to reach Wizardhood and thus able to use FOD (Finger of Death) on annoying and misbehaving newbies. I guess that was a precursor of today's Facebook bans but without its unfortunate PC connotations.

We were always being pursued by the "evil" Computing Centre Director who thought that we were wasting his precious computer time instead of doing something serious. The funny thing is that Essex is now better remembered for this triviality than for that supposedly serious work.
> it lasts

Flash storage degrades, and is only expected to last about 10 years or so.
How to validate your startup business idea
Congrats gravypod!

The codec system in the Java driver is pretty low level and its great to see it could be adapted to this usecase. Thats pretty cool.
I have put off reading this book for so long. Now I have the reason to pick it up!
Teachers share their biggest fears about reopening schools during the pandemic
Is this a variant of the dropbox joke?
Yes, it’s the same format
That's part of the fun! For smaller ones like the Moth or Waszp anyway. Less fun and quite expensive in an AC75...

The dynamics of a sailing boat are far more complex than a motor boat. The drive comes from halfway up a huge lever (the mast) over the foils and its position relative to the forces produced by the foils is constantly and suddenly changing both on its own due to gusts and shifts in the wind and also caused by the sailor's inputs.

A motor boat pretty much only has to deal with going up and down over the waves.

It's like the difference between solving a linear equation and a higher order differential equation.
You know cmake exists because "make && make install" by isn't usually that easy, anything beyond a small CLI has a lot of dependencies, and breaks with minor version changes?
no. 1000m * 1000m = 1000000m^2 or 1 km^2
There was definitely a time we're Firefox had performance issue.

I don't speak of those benchmark milliseconds things.The entire browsers was so slow scrolling was a problem and more and more time the entire OS (Mac os) freezes for 10 seconds or so.

That's where I left and years later why coming back if it doesn't have any more interesting features than chrome.
It gets more complicated but it still makes sense. The concept is called a Cauchy surface.

The tricky bit is that it isn't uniquely defined, but even for an expanding universe it can be defined globally (I think).
Unless that employee would like to pay taxes on an illiquid, fungible asset, then you actually want the value of those options to be zero at the time of grant/employment.

In my experience, employees place much more emphasis on salary than options during negotiation. And that is find, it is the CEO's job to sell the vision of the business and acquire the resources necessary to execute. Just don't be disappointed if that means the company raises additional investment to pay your salary instead of granting more options.
I mean if they do it anonymously enough, there're no consequences for them. Not right, but it's possible.
It sounds like it might be illegal, maybe it could be reported to the FTC.
He he when looking at it, be critical because I knocked this up. A pro haskeller could probably find a few flaws in it and the JS generated code will not be performant!
This is interesting, I was building something similar for my personal use case a while ago but there I have to build a plugin for each website I want to support which is not ideal (https://github.com/dewey/feedbridge). I'll have to check it out, community maintained integrations make a lot more sense.
My journey to programming all began with RuneScape private servers in mid school. It was my perfect creative outlet because I always wanted to get into programming, I loved MMOs, and it just so happened that RuneScape had a legit full-on underground private server reverse-engineering community.
What better way to program than learning how to create your favorite MMO from complete scratch? (With all the documents provided & the active help of fellow others).

The RSPS scene was really big, active, and very competitive. What was so fun about this is that the private server communities always encouraged users to share data resources, programmijg tutorials/snippets, and reverse engineering documentation of the game so that way it helps everyone that's trying to program their own server. Everyone wanted that "Java Developer" icon next to their forum name, and to do that was to contribute back. There's only one community standing left and it's an absolute gold mine of programming & game-development information [1]

It's a very niche community, but back then anyone could spin up a server and quickly have 50+ players actively playing within a week, and because of that, i've learned the concepts of client to server network designs, mysql databases, asynchronous communications, non or threaded model designs, and the whole Java basics spectrum.

Another good venture is the MineCraft server development communities such as Bukkit,Technic, Sponge, and Spigot-MC [2]. They've got some interesting frameworks as well for the Mobile-Portable edition that's pretty interesting to look at.

Last I can think of is Garry's Mod. GMod solely revolves around Lua. [3] Roblox is Lua as well and they pay a good chunk of money to developers if you can create a trending server.

But you've got to have some sort of real interest to get into these, otherwise it feels like a waste of time imo. I was young and havent graduated yet so I had all the time to mess with these source-codes & actually host them, but now, I just don't see the point unless i'm going to attempt making money from it. It's a rewarding and fun experience though.

I wish I knew more underground communities espcially akin to RSPS, it was the best learning experience and it is not often you find something genuine like that.

1. rune-server.org

2. spigot-mc.org bukkit.org

3. gmod.facepunch.com roblox.com
Don’t forget Darktable! I recently got a Panasonic GH5 and I’ve been shooting RAW stills. Darktable has been a nice easy to use free/OSS RAW workflow.

http://www.darktable.org/
As a FAANG engineer that used to work for start ups I’ll give my honest feedback on why I don’t consider working for a start up anymore.

A 15% options pool is insulting as you’ve decided to split off 85% for yourself and non-employees while leaving a measly 15% for the people who will actually build the company.

2% is just way to low to be of interest to me. And the sad part is, that is much higher that most offers. I have no idea what that two percent will be after being diluted x number of times, so the one thing that is supposed to incentivize me is just a black box with a theoretical ceiling of 2% and a very real possibility of 0 or close to it.

Other things I would like to see: actual vacation time (not unlimited vacation) and accounting/books shared with employees (these are not PowerPoints).
This is an extremely rational statement if you want a stable desk job and to maximize expected lifetime earnings.
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Easy: send them some money. I do, at times I even sent money to projects I deem important though I'm not actually using them, like FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
Internet Explorer was an absolutely awful browser, in a time where word of mouth was enough to get people to change.

Google plastered Chrome ads everywhere to get on everyone's mind, and was good enough that you didn't need changing.
Are card numbers from privacy.com not recognizable as prepaid cards? Why I am asking - recently I was trying to use my Revolut card to register MS Azure account but it threw an error saying something about prepaid cards not allowed. I had to use the card I have from my bank. I am wondering whether it would be like that with cards from privacy.com as well.
Hey, what a coincidence - same here!
Are allergy tests actually a effective? I read they were a scam
Not to mention the various American houses with walls full of used razor blades: https://isarchitecture.com/seen-around-town-mid-century-blad...
They bury it slightly, but in the FAQ:

"The primary energy for HomeCool™ is derived from clean open flame burn of natural gas. This can be converted with an optional kit to propane and also hydrogen* (*once commercially available)."

It burns gas. It may work in a similar manner to absorption refrigerators often found in RVs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator

Burning gas isn't exactly a clean energy source. In fact, we need to be aggressively exploring ways to stop burning gas for heating - not starting to burn more for cooling!
Ideas shouldn't be patentable, implementation on the other hand might

https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/21/gnome_foundation_sett...
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How much does it cost to run GPT-3?
Hi everyone. I need some help calculating the costs of running GPT-3 based on what they have released (transformer with 175 billion params).
I'm looking for two metrics:
1- How much VRAM/RAM and CPU power would you need to run the trained model with decent response time (1-5 seconds) for a single input, and what would be the financial costs? (basically, I want to calculate that, even if OpenAI made the model available to the public, how much would they have to spend on hardware/cloud infrastructure costs)
2- How much does a single inference cost in terms of FLOPS and eventually in monetary value? (Basically, if say, I was running a customer service chatbot on GPT-3 with an average response length of 150 characters, how much would each response cost me)
Does anyone have any idea how to calculate this?
This is extremely well put

-> You raise money, you build something, and then you have a limited time to see whether your hypothesis about the market was correct. Often, if not most of the time, you fail to get the fit you need in order to succeed.

A lot of people will try to counter it

However, that is REALLY what it comes down to

we have a HYPOTHESIS about the market. A product that we think will win/succeed/do well

The Market Always Wins

It either accepts your product (your hypothesis was correct, or became correct by the time you launch your product)

or it rejects your product
Tabs. IE6 did not have tabs, Firefox did. It really is that simple. Opera had tabs but it also had ads. No other browser was from a trusted source.

Chrome is good enough and from a trusted source.
I’ve never been on a Zoom call with 100+ users. While Zoom supports that, it’s not the main use case. I think saying “zoom for x” is an appropriate and efficient way to describe collaboration apps.
Not the person you replied to, but took about 6 months for me the first time. After being "poisoned" by gluten a couple of times over the years, I tend to have symptoms for a month and then all gone within two. I am in the group who gets dermatitis rather than digestive symptoms though (though I also discovered in the process that onions give me the latter so I cut them out too!)
So many people do this. They'll open the browser and start typing google.com in the omnibar. Even though it says "Search or enter address" right there.

If the less tech savvy can't figure out that it does both, then maybe it isn't as intuitive as the browser builders think.
(post author) Your remark is correct. However, as I attempt to explain in my blog entry, we didn't have a choice.
I suspect my first question is - does it matter now, post-COVID. Is there any investment money out there still? If I get a visa, have a plan, is there anyway to raise enough money to even keep me in baguettes?
I moved to darktable after updating my camera, the old LR version I had didn't support the new raw format.

Darktable is awesome.
> Users, contrary to popular belief, are not stupid.

"I don't care about learning, I just want it to work."

"Why do I care again?"

"Just make it do it right."

"Can you come fix the CPU again?" (Speaking about PC, with the difference explained multiple times previously.)

"Can you come fix the computer again?" (Same person speaking about monitor. Difference also explained previously.)

These are all actual quotes from Friends/Family/Co-workers
I thought it was kind of dull/simplistic in the "geiger counter" sort of sense. But was imagining maybe weird radioactive isotopes or dangerous chemicals or precursor type of things. Wouldn't think RF-related things would need a spy walking around with an ipod. But who knows -- maybe something for air-gapping systems. Lord knows you and I will never know. ahahah
Overtime averaging arrangements are not unheard of.
This is the same for many homes in Spain and Portugal too. For most of the year it's warm enough outside and you can be comfortable without AC (especially if you are in an older building with thick stone walls), but then for the one or two months of winter it is so cold inside, even though it may only get down to 10C (50F) outside. Most houses rely on resistive electric heaters (if they have any) which end up being very expensive to run.

I live in a modern house in Northern Europe, and we don't even turn our heating on until it gets below freezing. Because we have good insulation, only then it starts to drop below 22C (72F) inside.
Also the Austrian App (with the same basic idea behind it, albeit slightly differently done) was open sourced I believe so that others could "just" use pen tested and privacy focused code to develop their app for contact tracing.

And while I am a user of the German app, because i value the upsides of contact tracing, I would do everything possible to not be monitored 24/7 by such a campus spyware.
You're comparing Ruby to other options that are still slow:

Java (vertx-postgres) 347k rps, Go (fasthttp) 320k rps Rust (actix-postgres) 607k rps
talking to potential customers and users about product market fit

is not a given it will work

Making a product based on your experience of a market - 25% chance it works out (of which 5% chance it will become a big company)

To that, even after talking to customers

you are only taking it to 30% chance it works out, and of which 7% chance it will become a big company

*

your hypothesis is based on data points

hopefully things like actual experience in the market

market research

seeing what sells

seeing what doesn't sell

*

Customers and users are just as likely to give you bad data (of what they THINK they will buy) or impractical data (something that benefits them and doesn't benefit you)

It only adds a few percentage points to your likelihood of success

on the other hand - seeing what customers actually BUY and SPEND ON, that has a lot of value

However, even that is a piece of the puzzle, and not the solution
I also found solving conflicts fun for the first time! Absolutely love using GitDuck with my cofounder.
This is awesome!

I have a ReMarkable and really love it, mainly for taking it to meetings where I felt it was inapropriate to be stuck on a laptop infront of other people, it just feels more natural making notes on it as if I had paper and with the low latency it's great to write on.

I haven't had issues with the internal storage not being enough - but if I do, this is really interesting and I hope the hacker community around ReMarkable stays vibrant as it's such an interesting device.
I think you can do some things. Honesty at an interview might help - and by honesty I mean actually letting them know your weaknesses and dislikes - to get rejected for the wrong jobs increasing he chance of ending up at a good one. If you can kick ass at the technical tests the “I got fired because I refused to do 60h weeks” might be perfectly fine.

Also it is mostly luck and teams can change in the 12 months it takes to even begin to understand the dynamics or get productive with code. It’s a hard human problem!