skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mostly agree with this comment. Oracle makes a fantastic RDBMS (so does Microsoft, if we're talking about expensive enterprise RDBMS), but while Postgres has caught up with a lot of the more important features, I disagree with your conclusion.

For many organisations, the licensing costs of an Oracle or Microsoft RDBMS are trivial compared to the costs of the projects they're supporting, and it's easy to find where the value might be. Everything that's difficult about running an RDBMS at scale (clustering, failover/replication, statistics collection, plan management, monitoring, online index rebuilding, table partitioning...) is easier with the features and management tools those companies provide. Add actually decent support to that, and you've got a very clear value proposition.

A Postgres instance will require a lot more hands on management, and a deeper understanding of how the database engine works. At smaller scale, these factors are much less likely to cause problems, and many organisations are unlikely to ever reach actually large scales (many TB instance, running hundreds or thousands of transactions per second). But if you want to start scaling an RDBMS application up, you're going to have to confront those costs in one way or another. After a point, licensing expensive features can start to look better than deploying more specialised labor.
I applied for API access months ago and still haven't been able to tinker with it.

Until it's immediate sign up and not some insider walled garden waitlist, from a developer perspective, OpenAI and GPT-3 is anything but Open.

If I was overly pushed to get access, my best chance of success right now appears to be a search on Github for somebody elses leaked API key in a repo somewhere.
Iranian engineer alleges discrimination in hiring by Amazon Canada
What a refreshing interview; thanks for sharing. As one of Amazon reviewers mentioned[1], it's like Peter Thiel's "Zero to One", but more entertaining.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Stack-Building-Unbeatable-...
I stand corrected, thank you.

There were a bunch of articles way back when the scaling options were introduced that claimed anything less than "maximum space" introduced blurriness... but they were obviously wrong.

I just did the math and double-checked with screenshots, and indeed — on my 13" MacBook Pro the default is higher than 2x, not lower. It's only at the leftmost "larger text" that blurriness is introduced.

Thanks so much for the info, and I'm happy to know I am getting maximum clarity out of my Mac after all! Always good to get my misinformation corrected.

And so, never mind about the whole 3x thing... you're right, unless you need text extremely large. Cheers!
Technology is an amplifier of things we’re already doing. It’s easy to think of all the amazing things people are capable of, and imagine that new technology will help those amazing things flourish.

But people are also capable of unspeakable cruelty. Depending on your outlook on humanity, that insight may or may not give you sympathy for neo-Luddites.
A big part of sales is handling rejection. There are books that help you detect buying signals and shape conversations in your direction, but dealing with rejection is a big, big part of sales.

If you want to start selling on your own, I would have a goal to talk to at least _x_ people per day about your product. Ask questions more than you talk at them. A LOT of people will think that you’re crazy, but some will entertain your ask and might even give you useful information.

If you want some help, you should hire (or ask) a salesperson and go out on cold calls/pitches with them. Observe more than you speak.

As far as books go, “The Little Red Book of Selling” is a classic along with “Spin Selling.”

Last thing I’ll add here: if conversation with people that you don’t know is difficult for you, that is the first thing I’d focus on. People need to trust you to buy from you; that trust is built through rapport. 2020 is a terrible year for this since the best way to practice conversations is through meeting people outside, but when things stabilize, I’d go to Meetups, conferences, and the like and try to meet x people per day, just like the goal above.

Source: Me selling myself when pick-up artistry was a thing, then using those same skills when I built my (failed) startup. Eventually landed me jobs in consulting.
I've posted this a few times, but my favorite book is just an ebook from Fog Creek (makers of FogBugz, Trello, Stack Overflow, and more) http://docshare01.docshare.tips/files/20324/203241714.pdf

It's 24 pages, so it's a quick read, and it's from the perspective of an engineer who has to do sales for the first time. A lot of the ideas are taken from Frank McNair's book "How You Make the Sale" https://www.amazon.com/How-You-Make-Sale-Salesperson/dp/B01G...

The other option is to get a job as a Sales Engineer, Customer Engineer, Solution Architect, etc. These are all pre-sales engineering roles where you aren't responsible for closing sales, but are exposed to the process. I know you're already an engineering manager, but Solution Architect is a very entrepreneurial role. IMO, it's a tough skill and tough process to learn by reading, so getting a job with real life experience could be worthwhile.
Isnt this just human nature? Not everyone is looking to improve the world and when they get power.. well, power corrupts. I’m equally pessimistic, not about new technologies but about who controls them - we need to empower societies not corporations.
Randall Munroe has done at least two cartoons about this.

My own experience has led me to the point where if I'm thinking about automating something, I stop and ask "is there a way that this can be done away with completely?"

The most reliable, easiest to maintain scripts are those with zero lines of code. They also perform best and consume least resources.

With a bit of thought and/or flexibility in how things are achieved, it's surprising how often this question produces a good result.
There are definitely similarities! A key difference is that you can actually implement MobX in terms of autotracking. Autotracking is a lower-level primitive that you can use for all sorts of higher-level systems.
I've tried a ton of different electronic coffee makers to try to replace the manual labor of my Chemex but they never taste as good. I'm not willing to sacrifice taste for a little more convenience but I may be in the minority.
Actually it’s more likely to go the other way around. What do you need the windows kernel for if almost everything is cross platform now and/or has a compatibility API layer?
Actually what it would probably lead to is a dropping of all safety requirements for over water regulations since only cargo and not human lives are at risk.

Plus it means never having to wait for a pilot that’s stuck in traffic, the wrong town, or unable to fly for health/medication reasons
Step 3 is not extinguish- step 3 is exposing APIs or programs in Linux which only work when executing on Windows.
A friend of me implemented a lambda evaluator that he used to teach various concepts in the lambda calculus (https://srtobi.github.io/lambda/docs/).

You can find examples here: https://github.com/SrTobi/lambda/blob/master/stddef/stddef.l...
Docking on the Empire State Building
> In any case, the numbers are the numbers. Whatever gets most people into an account is what it is.

This doesn't really seem to respond to the idea that you can have more than one label present doing the same thing.
I do this because my family is locked in to iMessage and FaceTime, and to test programs that I write to ensure they work on Macs.
DM41x: a modern take on the HP-41CX
> Everyone else in the 98.6% tier gets the scraps.

yeah because they're getting 1.4% of the listens.
Bigger, older orgs did that to shift salaries up when the market went wacky in the late 90s.

Your average data processing guy in a non-tech company was probably two corporate notches lower in 1990 as compared to 2020.
I'd say that depends on the higher end of what? Control over the firmware, understanding of the actual bits you're flipping and the architecture, power consumption, or raw computer per clock?
I fundamentally agree with your fundamental disagreement with the article, but then I also fundamentally disagree with:

> ship log events out of the box and into something searchable, indexable, and can derive metrics

That's just a way to spend a ton of money. There's really not a reason to ship or index logs. Just leave them where they are produced and instead of shipping them to a central thing that inevitably becomes an expensive bottleneck, instead develop ways to access them in place (other than SSH) and frameworks for large-scale distributed searching where you push the predicate out to the machines where the logs exist.
I think all those investors and the tech activity in the SV area is a side effect of one big DoD's initiative: to build a world-class surveillance network with all the infra around it. They expressed this desire to spend trillions on this and a few companies who made it happen are now valued at 1-2 trillions. Attempts to replicate SV by "investing into startups" is like crafting a wooden airplane to summon goods.
Holy sh!t the numbers on that website are amazingly inaccurate, I would not rely on them.
it is, once I install nvidia drivers I get no wayland support
Just because you can’t assign a truth-value to “this sentence is false” doesn’t mean that language is “undefinable”, the same with math.
Do you have issues or do you just look past the links for the Russia and China sections that have been posted already?

If the truth is slanderous then I'm glad it stings.
Run mobaxterm. From zero to X server in 1 minute, zero config.
Amy Coney Barrett: Trump Nominates Conservative Favourite for Supreme Court
> The PC was supposed to democratize computing

It was?
I agree that they'd be underground.
Same, in fact I get headaches from black text on white. I've only got a minor astigmatism though and only in one eye, so ymmv (3 years ago at last eye check).
philosophically, aesthetics is the study concerning the nature of beauty and taste. art is the field of human interest with beauty as its transcendental ideal. ugly art cannot be good art as beauty is what is good. metaphor, meaning, context, intent could be factors in the definition of beauty as it pertains to the art's integrity, harmony, and clarity.
I’m not parent but personally I’m interested in performance per Watt
The documentary "Helvetica" is worth watching if you're into typography: https://documentaryheaven.com/helvetica/
The answer depends on what you sell. If you sell an enterprise product to big corps then the patio11's guide [1] would be a good starting point.

Otherwise, selling is simple - just solve the customer's problem as if it was your problem.

What's really hard is marketing. And you will need marketing because marketing generates leads and without a stream of leads you can't do sales.

[1] https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/enterpris...
Tolerance and freedom like the kind extended to Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden?
I think there's a genuine argument about whether Assange is a journalist; but let's leave that aside (more heat than light in that discussion as I have found out).

One of the counts of the indictment is not about cajoling a source, or receiving secret documents: it's about actively engaging in an attempt to gain unauthorized access to a U.S. Government computer system.

Isn't there an ethical line, at some point, in terms of the length a journalist can go to get the story? The UK scandal (News of the World; I think; not Daily Mail) you mentioned resulted in journalists going to prison for similar crimes.

I think we're in a really peculiar place if distinctions like this turn on whether it's the right or wrong kind of public interest.
Sorry, it was simply because my "country" is actually a nation state composed of various countries and that's what I've been used to saying. No other reason I'm afraid. In fact, the correct term which I should have used is "sovereign states". So no, I don't think it's cooler and, matter of fact, I wouldn't say I fully understand international law enough to say "I know what I'm talking about" when it comes to what a nation state or a sovereign state is, what the difference is, or such nuances. But if I'm pressed, I can probably speak at length on why my first comment, in its entirety, is a perfectly reasonable conclusion we can all arrive at, regardless of the type of politics of said state (democratic or not).

I don't think that the phrase "sovereign states don't have rights" is even controversial at all. I also think think that any adult that has gone through any decent education will probably be familiar with the phrase or concept, even if they can't ELI5 it, the same way we are familiar with or have heard of other related concepts like democracy, separation of powers, habeas corpus, human rights, individual rights, sovereignty, etc. In fact, sovereignty is perhaps where the debate should live because sovereignty is, after all, the right of a "state" over itself, which seems to contradict the idea that sovereign states have no rights (it doesn't). Anyway, enough of that.

My first comment was short because it was simply intended as a nudge or reminder that hey, before we go down the road of overthinking why the USA has a right to hold some secrets, let's just remember that the idea itself is difficult to defend, especially in a democracy.
But you don’t understand, OpenAI has hype and “rockstars” and big names attached, so those rules don’t apply.

Your data? It’s their data now. (And Microsoft’s.)
I dont think it has repeating templates which you usually want to use.
What if you encounter an nginx bug, or a kernel bug? At some point, when you reach a low enough level you will need some deeper investigation tools and finally access to the machine to get enough data and fix the problem.
Well, there is such a thing as a silent motorcycle.

Also, ebikes are awesome alternatives to motor scooters. I've built one for a very low price not too long ago, it was very fun.
Always.Be.Closing!
> Doesn’t this just emphasise that the UK is not a nation state?

I should've said sovereign state. Let's not get caught up in semantics.
What are the key benefits of your product to your customer? Who exactly is the customer? You need to work these two out first for sales.

Most early stage startups don't have a product as beneficial to anyone as they think. So really need to work out the value and make it stand out, increase the value. They say 10x better because of this. Chances are an early stage product's value is mildly beneficial. Mildly beneficial = No sales.

Work out the audience. Go to a slightly less-than-ideal customer = Too much effort to sell or no sales.

OK So once you are at this point you are already equipped to sell. A nice product whose key benefits are clear, and we know exactly how the buyer will use it and benefit from it. I will bet dollars that you are not there yet.

Now all you need to do is help and enable the customer (e.g. integrate your product, make them see the magic by configuring it for them, or give them samples). You must not be salesy, but act as if you are an assistant that works to make the product's value realized for the user. At this point before spending the resources (time) double check this is a serious buyer with budget.

At this point as the user has seen the magic, you can ask for payment. Sales #1 complete.

Do 50 such sales and then you can care about metrics, efficiency etc.
The Quiz That Was Shared a Million Times
> It's patently false

That's a strawman: author never compared to Android/iOS. What they did spell out,is that some of the code they found is unsafe (e.g. commented-out code to prevent false alerts, that was never being reimplemented in a safer way).
Why would you choose family of 5 as your point of reference? That’s very uncommon in tech-California.
I mean, that's true, but at 4320$ I can't help but believe that there would be a sizeable market for it in the US.
No integer overflow instruction I read on Hacker News the other day.
Pinterest drove me up a wall with this. I didn't sign up for 4-5 years, and only because I actually needed to see an image for work, because the arrogance was annoying. I have a permanent dislike for their product because of it.
Win32/MFC dialog layouts are based off absolute positioning of all widgets, with a few concessions to resizability (like the ability to select whether a widget moves down or stay still when a window gets taller). This is the reason why many dialogs, like Run, or Windows Explorer file properties, cannot be resized.

Any hierarchy (group boxes holding widgets) is purely visual, and the rectangle doesn't "own" its child widgets in a programmatic sense.

Text widgets have a fixed size. If your font gets wider (from DPI scaling or translations), text can become cut off or overflow onto the next line and disappear.
But hey, no problem, you can still get these 4 newsletters Free Of Charge delivered Straight To Your Inbox weekly! No need to thank us!
Honestly, beyond around 10.9, it's been pretty pointless from the end user perspective. Technically, they rewrote the window server to use Metal instead of OpenGL in 10.13 and that did bring performance improvements (and surfaced many bugs in the nvidia driver that they fixed in 10.14 which I'm currently on), but there were no noticeable improvements to anything since. 10.15 aka catalina just brings more restrictions on what you can run. 11.0 aka big sur is a pointless UI redesign.

Apparently, when they run out of technical things to improve and stupid code signing policies to enforce, they redesign the UI because it's a law that if you're making a popular OS it absolutely has to have a major update once a year, no matter what.
Neue Haas Grotesk has been around for at least a decade - why now on HN?
Lecturing on keyboard shortcuts when windows media player is the only video player in the world not using the space bar as a shortcut for play/pause.
Excess salt is complicated and likely only dangerous to some people and it's not nearly the same thing as directly poisoning you to death. And for water you had to talk about exceptional circumstances like runners for a reason. In a heat wave I'd say it's not the water itself at fault either. You're still in danger if you drink less of it too.

> People with healthy lifestyles will feel when they're having too much licorice for their own good.

That's quite a claim, especially if we consider the possibility of low-sugar licorice. I think it requires some evidence.

He might notice some negative effects before dying but that doesn't mean he'd reasonably be able to tell what caused it, and it might already be too late.
Would that be the manufacturer of the software or of the hardware? I don't think any court would blame manufacturers for incidents caused by user-modifications (installing 3rd-party firmware)
I meant like a patreon model, where I can donate $5 recurring and it bundles with my soundcloud monthly payment.
Maybe you have worked at decent companies, but if someone is "meh" about their job, they will bounce before long.
I wonder if an acceptable level of safety could be achieved, at greater cost but without compromising weight or size, through advanced materials, active safety systems, and better driver training.

Vehicles like these would be much safer in countries with high driver training standards and a low rate of fatalities per distance driven (e.g. New Zealand[0]) as compared to e.g. Mexico[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
Windows XP Source code leaked
From my comment:

> To preempt the question about content creators: I support the creators I want to support on patreon or by pledging on their website.

Every month, I happily fork over more money than my annual value to google. Only in one case is that money for paywalled material. The rest is purely to support content I enjoy. I would be equally willing to fund a platform that does not treat users and creators as cattle.

It’s true that many users have an inflated sense of entitlement. That has been created by the business model of offering “free” services in exchange for your data. Giving Google money now to get rid of the ads is rewarding them for building monopolies and then bilking their users.

Speaking for myself and not for the average user, I’m not about to fork over my data and my cash to the #1 beneficiary of the user entitlement that you’re describing.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Grouping together wages, capital gains, and misc under the label "income" rhetorically hides the unfairness of our regressive tax regime.
I disagree. Beauty is a transcendental attribute of being. As such, it is not contingent upon cultural diversity, religious doctrine, or personal ideology, but is an objective property of all that exists.
Just last night I found this excellent introduction to the Lambda Calculus by Gabriel Lebec [1]. It's one of the best I've come across and covers briefly history, building up combinators (using Smullyan's names) leading up to implementing Church encodings and gives Javascript equivalents (or approximations when not possible). The slides themselves are also very aesthetically pleasing, Gabriel has a good sense of colour and design

[1] https://youtu.be/3VQ382QG-y4
Otherwise you get species popping up later to find the device one of your people left that kills you in the plane of existence you transcended to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate%3A_The_Ark_of_Truth
The only funny part is that we are still using Windows.
My mentor recommends The Millionaire Real Estate Agent: It's Not About the Money It's About Being the Best You Can Be

https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Real-Estate-Agent-About/d...
Yes, hence the entire crypto fad is a mass delusion built on lies. It’s regulated like a security, hence you’re not going to be able to use it like currency. Ever.
I moved from the cubicle as a coder with a 30 person company to senior executive in a Fortune 500. Here is what I have found.

You are correct that after the product is ready the rest is ALL sales (closing deals) and marketing (getting the word out).

Sales people are a unique breed of human. You can tell them to F off and they will show up the next day with coffee, just the way you like it. :)

My recommendation is do the job yourself to bootstrap the company, get some revenue coming in but then transition to find an experienced person who can be your "head of sales". Then you can focus on product and general management. (Unless you want to become a sales professional). A good bonus structure for bringing in new deals is essential. Sales people are motivated by the hunt and payout for success.

There are some good inexpensive cloud CRM tools so that you can stay on top of your sales people, who they are visiting and what they are saying. Weekly meeting with checkups against their sales commitments and their "pipeline" of sales reviewed and pruned by you, is also essential but then let them run.

Small business is like a three legged stool made of Product, Sales (which is external relationship management) and Finance. Almost no founder has all three strengths. Make a team that compliments you and make lots of money.
They might not need them but they like them and can afford them.