skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Out of curiosity do theses things come about as a result of trying to monetize and not by initial design or do these companies actually intend to turn into a data-mining platform from the get go? I assume the former but I wouldn't be surprised of the latter.
I say this with more shame than pride... I built our company's sales from 0 to $60K MRR but it took me years (way too long to be investable) and I made a lot of mistakes.

I'd suggest selling in person right now before it's done/launched. For a startup to take off big you need some pull from the market and right now is the time to gauge if that pull exists.

Some things that worked for me that may or may not work for you...

- Sell in person if at all possible. Even if you spend $10K worth of time selling a $9/month product you should learn enough to make it worth it. This is like when manufacturing companies manually complete tasks before they automate them. Also, however your clients dress, dress one notch nicer and wear your company name/logo with pride.

- Experiment with wildly different pricing, you'd be surprised what works. We struggled for a long time at $400/month but sell more faster at $999/month. Related, try asking for the most money you can without laughing, it gets people's attention.

- Extend HUGE discounts to buyers who decide fast.

- Get REALLY specific. You want to find the exact niche of people whose reaction to your pitch is basically "shut up and take my money". Most of us are exposed to very general advertising meant for everyone from huge companies, you can't afford that. Find a little pond to dominate.

- Create a buying process, forms, website etc that make you look like a big deal. Get input from others on this because it's hard to see your own materials objectively.

- Treat your customers so good they brag about it to others. Customer acquisition is expensive and if you have to make each sale you're in for a rough time.

- Read A LOT! Sales is like tech in that the best practices change all the time so to remain competitive and relevant you need to work at it constantly. I found the book "Pitch Anything" by Oren Klaff amazingly helpful in understanding how irrational people are. Best nugget from the book IMO is sales pitches enter the brain from the back (animal brain) rather than the front (rational brain). So step 1 of any pitch is putting people's animal brain at ease.

I wish you all the best!
Teach Debugging (2014)
Yeah we have tools where I work that deals with 90% of style errors, and reviewers call out the other 10%. After a few weeks it's all second nature so you don't have to do much to adhere to the guidelines and just do it while writing the code in the first place.

To me ignoring style is kind of like slipping a PR/diff/cl through without unit tests. Sure, that individual CL won't be the downfall of the codebase, but repeated offenses will destroy the codebase without an easy way to fix it all. Of course, without unit tests you end up with an unmaintainable fragile codebase, and without style you end up with an ugly, hard to read codebase.
Oh my, I LOVE reading stuff like this!
It's crime, though.
FS2020 of course :) multi-player and ATC voices are not working yet, but everything else seems to be fine!
The bay area is one of the worse places to have rental properties in the country though in terms of ratio of rental income to mortgage costs. If it wasn't for appreciation most would sell instead of try to rent out homes. Landlords aren't making their money from the rents, they are making it from the appreciation.
The World Imaginary Property Organization has done an excellent job of keeping the 1% well fed while the rest in as much poverty as possible.

It's a real shame what China did in the 2000's, ignoring Imaginary Property laws and helping a billion people escape poverty.

/s
> California is the birthplace of a growing movement by towns and cities to ban natural gas use in new construction. Nearly 40 cities and towns throughout the state have adopted ordinances mandating all-electric appliances in new residential buildings, with San Francisco among the most recent to do so.

Good luck trying that in Europe, where gas price is a fraction of electricity (~6ct / kWh vs ~30ct / kWh). Additionally, using electricity for heating is madness - essentially the generator plant burns stuff to turn water into steam that rotates a generator, then there are transmission losses, and only then it's finally converted to heat. A gas flame is as direct an energy-to-heat transmission as it gets (although there are some losses here too, for compression stations).

I'm paying 60€ a month for gas for both the heating and the stove in a ~60 m2 apartment, and 70€ in electricity. My direct neighbors who have electric heating and stove pay over 200€.

Regarding the pollutant issue: open your windows while cooking, get a CO alarm and have your water heater regularly cleaned and inspected. That's basic life advice, and the latter is actually mandated by law in Germany.
> So a sausage fest?

So a dating app?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2024328

Here’s an example great bike shed discussion from ~10y ago about whether or not to use semicolons with JavaScript.

“If you don’t understand how statements in JavaScript are terminated, then you just don’t know JavaScript very well, and shouldn’t write JavaScript programs professionally without supervision, and you definitely should not tell anyone else how to write their JavaScript programs.”

Those were the fun days! :)
Stock photos plus GPT-3 could probably keep the illusion going for quite some time.
There is mostly no competitor to Tinder, as the Match group (who owns Tinder) is trying to buy any dating app that gain significant usage. The only big one resisting is Bumble, which is owned by Badoo.
There's been no word of Vulkan support in the public Windows build though, as far as we know it only uses DirectX 12
Yeah, I agree that your characterization of the situation is fair. If I went through what they went through, I think I would find it fairly traumatic.
Do dating apps "work" for those people any better than real life though? I'd argue that if you are male, you need to be in the top X (20?) percent to get any success on these apps, and if you are there then you'd get just as much success in real life.
German court forces mail provider Tutanota to insert a backdoor
PC gaming is like the last bastion of quasi-mainstream general compute at home, so I seriously hope it doesn't go away.
The 737 Max crashes weren't the result of failures in software development. As far as the crashes go, the software engineers built the system they were asked to build, and the problems were at a higher level than the software (i.e. aeronautical engineering and systems engineering).

Software issues have since been discovered, but aren't thought to have been related to the crashes, as I understand it.

This topic arose 10 days ago over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25220302
Most houses (at least in the US) are so leaky that an ERV/HRV is just going to suck all the heat out, and cold air is going to come in through all the drafty places (and that doesn't necessarily mean fresh air, could be stale air from your crawl space).

Wouldn't recommend for any existing construction unless you know how air tight your house is (get a blower door test done).
google is learning the same lesson that the frog learned from the scorpion. get in bed with woke activists and what do you expect?
Well, the article is linked a few threads below, you can be the judge yourself. The whole concept of up/downvoting is based on having some kind of an opinion on a topic, which doesn't necessarily equate to hard censorship.
Google is not a Academia. There is no tenure or intellectual freedom protections. Poke the bear often enough or make a nuisance of yourself you will be shown the door. The only ones who get to stay around and be a thorn in the side of management are board members who control a chunk of voting stock.

Upton Sinclair said "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

Seems like there should be a corollary for companies and difficult employees. Like public complaints that jump the chain of command from replaceable employees usually result in employee being replaced.
The main difference in my observation between FAANG and the rest is the growth rate, profit margin, and preference for equity compensation. When starting at a FAANG you'll often receive a high but not outrageous compensation package with equity making up 20-30% of compensation. 4 years later the equity will often have compounded by 20-40% annually yielding the TC packages you see today.

In another industry with stock that appreciates slowly or depreciates over time, the model wouldn't yield the same packages. The company buys your equity grant when you start, and has limited incentive to renegotiate/fight over the outsized reward.
> That could be pretty cruel. I don’t think even The Rolling Stones would want to see their songs reused by, say, neonazis.

Hard disagree from me. I mean it might hurt to see your work misused but that already happens all the time across different disciplines. The artist behind pepe the frog is not a fan of his work being adopted by white nationalists and that's terrible, but intellectual property law is not gonna stop anonymous people with photoshop on 4chan.

I'm not saying I'm in favor of neonazis trying to turn music I like into their propaganda, but I can't see any reasonable way to fix this via IP law. Fundamentally the problem is not with reprehensible people remixing/reusing/appropriating culture, it's people holding reprehensible beliefs. The solution is to try and change their beliefs.
I can with almost complete certainty say that Hinge uses an Elo score. I'd be stunned if Tinder et al. don't do the same.
Come on, the HN snobbery is annoying but so is this reverse snobbery/false modesty.
> That's why you should delete and recreate your profile several times to skew up the analytics

Don't do this. A friend got banned for deleting account a lot of times.

Also, I don't see any problem in using ELO. Because of skewed gender ratio on dating apps problems exist; but it makes sense to show most profiles in similar normalized ELO ranges. Isn't that how most humans pick their date in online world anyway?
Exactly, and I said that we have more than just two choices, i.e., stopping Apple does not force you to buy Android.
Blood pressure on its own is not an issue, same for blood markers. I can see denser bones being a benefit, if it is proven to reduce the effects of getting a trauma.
How Google Came to Dominate Maps
Georgia plans to re-certify election result after recount confirms Biden victory
Continuous Improvement in Native
Not satellite offices, I was specifically talking about employers who are entirely local.

Yes, the strong incentive is to stay put, stick to the local employer as long as you can and still get a role that pays more money. The skills you get from sticking around just make it harder to shift as well sometimes. The output gets equated to talent - "built my sixteenth monolith .NET CRUD web app" is not as well respected as it should be.

For example, there's folks in Portland who are looking at the Nike CEO situation with great trepidation - talented people who would do very well in a new job, assuming they don't need to move.
Thanks, I see more details on how Cloudflare may be more performant than Lambda.

But why is running a bursty tv load on serverless negligent?

"the Stripe account was not set up to cope with the load." - I've used Stripe and I don't know what this means. I don't see any 'product' limitations towards accepting many payments, that said, they could have some internal financial controls which should have been accommodated by calling ahead and letting them know about the burst.

And how would there be a technical limit with Stripe? If payment processing was directed to Stripe.com - surely they can handle the traffic.
Part of me wonders if this is a fatal flaw in the very concept of distributed systems. It seems to me that as soon as a protocol or technology loses its single authority (multiple companies write implementations) it becomes feature frozen since it would be impossible for multiple companies to come to an agreement on what the new features should be or getting them all to implement them.

If matrix actually does succeed and continue to change I think it will result in having only 1-2 server implementations and 1 client per platform. A hobby dev can't possibly keep up with all the features being implemented by a whole team working on the main client.
This might be an app that needs to happen.
In your table Comcast ($1,151) is cheaper than SpaceX ($1,377).
Wait, who?

The Grammy-winning Las Vegas-based act is one of the most successful rock bands of the past decade, with hits like “Radioactive,” “Demons,” “Believer,” “Thunder” and “Whatever It Takes” from albums band made their mark with their global smash hits from their album “Night Visions,” “Smoke + Mirrors,” “Evolve” and “Origins.”

I've never even heard of these guys, so the fact that their catalog is apparently worth $100M is making me feel old and out of touch. Oh, well.
+1 for paying attention in Econ 101 (and posting a POV that's probably more controversial these days than it should be).
My rule of thumb: Always use jQuery (or nothing) unless there is an explicit need to upgrade to React/Angular/VUE.

Spoiler alert, there rarely is a need.
Even anonymized inferences are relatively useless without the personal identifiers attached to it.
Why corporates need to eat their own dog food
This is a rule of the past, now to be successfull on Tinder, in addition to be attractive, you need to spend money
1.25%: https://trends.builtwith.com/framework/Angular

7%: https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/React

70%: https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/jQuery
Yeah we definitely can, but larger place with roommates is both twice as nice and a lot cheaper.

Helps to save more to try and buy a place eventually.
ah the old "I don't know anything about this implementation and why things are made this way but I would have made it 10 times better with half the resources".

give me a break
This is actually from almost 2 years ago. Interesting story, though. Too bad they didn't update it once the autopsy was completed.
How eBird Changed Birding Forever
Wagnerism
The James Brown estate feud is one for the ages.
I legitimately didn't intend to be condescending. In my experience people don't understand that for a computer to be "fast," you have multiple possible bottle-necks: hard drive read/write, CPU, RAM, network bandwidth, etc. My very intelligent father-in-law (I mean this seriously, he's very intelligent, and was a programmer for years.) wanted to boost his internet speed, and upgrade from DSL to cable. (something like 15mbs to 100mbs) Well, he didn't really notice much speed difference. And this was because he was seldom, if ever, saturating his 15mbs link. In fact, on a modern webpage, there are so many new TCP connections that each one can be a bit slow despite bandwidth. (and this is to say nothing of the delay incurred by actually trying to render the js and other elements on the page.)

My point was that most consumers don't understand these things, and just assume that "computer speed" is one-dimensional: it's either fast, or not fast.
What is an aircraft's 'flight level'?
Japan has resumed commercial whaling since July 2019

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/02/asia/japan-first-whale-catch-...
I think the guitar did have a sort of outsize influence and symbolism, due to a few factors that no longer exist, or don't have the same punch. First, it's the quintessential american instrument, and it came to dominate the music world at about the same time america was coming to dominate the world world. Second, it records well. Third, it's cheap to produce.

Now, a computer is much cheaper than a guitar, and a microphone is cheaper than a computer. American dominance and dynamism are sliding into a morass of nostalgia and rent seeking. With computers, anything can record well. You can make an album out of the sounds sampled from a pig being slaughtered, and people do.
In case you're still curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture#Examples
https://archive.is/NZdO1
> It's insane how many people in these comments are chiming in "OH ACTUALLY they are great food if consumed properly."

Because maybe they have a different opinion than you? I grew up on potatoes (plain, cooked), too, but I like them a lot.

You have some weird unhealthy vendetta against potatoes going on here, judging by your other comments in this thread.
The measles where endemic in society and only a sliver of the Population was susceptible at any point. For non measle societies (the americas) first contact is pretty serious with extinction level of deaths. 80 to 95% for all Old world diseases combined. So compared to that you can say it was under control.
Austin isn’t full at all lol
With all respect, this is glass half-empty mentality and a necessity vs sufficiency bias. The idea at this point is to take the risk and hopefully obtain meaningful results. If the vaccine causes side effects with terminally-ill, then you have proof that it needs further evaluation and the sufficient condition is not met. If the vaccine, however, doesn't cause side effects and is proven efficient, it yeilds a sufficient result thus reducing the trial length, saving millions.
Uber sells self-driving unit in deal that will push Aurora’s valuation to $10B
Uber sells ATG self-driving unit to Aurora
GDPR only matters if it's enforced. So far, even blatantly obvious breaches like what Facebook and Google are doing (with their analytics, non-compliant consent prompts, refusal to provide all data in response to subjects' access requests in the case of Facebook, etc) are yet to be punished so there's absolutely no reason for them to worry that a data protection agency is suddenly going to spend time & money examining a very narrow edge-case.
I actually think that the MS Teams implementation of threads is the best.

The problem with the Slack implementation is that it's not the default. You have to understand it to use it, and you have to have an organisational culture that pushes people to use it. Otherwise you end up only occasional threads, and mostly you're back in in the classic Slack '200 messages since you last visited, only 10 of them are of interest, but you have to read everything to find them' situation.

I like the Zulip version, it is automatically threaded but personally I had a slightly silly problem - you had to think of a topic name. It's a bit like the subject line of an email, except that you don't want it to be as long. This increases the friction slightly and you inevitably end up with a lot of messages going in one topic called something like 'general' when people can't think of a suitable topic name. I haven't used Zulip as intensively as the other two though, so maybe that problem goes away (or maybe it gets worse).

Teams is a lot like Zulip. Everything is in a thread automatically, but you don't have to name it, you just start a new 'conversation'. It works pretty organically, and it works by default without any 'culture' needed. You can give a thread a title if you want, but you don't have to. A bonus of the structure of Teams is that private messages (as supposed to Team channels) are just are a normal sequence of messages like Slack or anything else, because that's what you want. Teams is a memory hog and sluggish to use, but I do think they got that bit of the user experience right. Like many companies we had enforced, hurried massive increase in usage of Teams in March, and it has worked pretty seamlessly.
Isn't that better than directly shipping those younglings into big corps? (And I'm not saying these two are the only options, but they seem to cover a lot of fresh grads. Also criticizing PG for thinking too highly of startup life is fair, but also maybe as useful as scolding the pope for thinking a bit too highly of faith.)
England will no longer require ‘high value’ business travelers to quarantine
https://archive.vn/Wo7d9
Venta airwashers are great for humidification but clean air as well. I'm not sure on the effectiveness compared to a traditional air filter, but there is no filter - you just wash the discs.
You can't be certain unless you handle payroll for Google.

A manager told it was effective immediately and mentioned her final paycheck.
Even if she didn't resign (which is questionable, because she did send an ultimatum), is it wrong for Google to fire a person who writes stuff like this?

> I’m always amazed at how people can continue to do thing after thing like this and then turn around and ask me for some sort of extra DEI work or input. This happened to me last year. I was in the middle of a potential lawsuit for which Kat Herller and I hired feminist lawyers who threatened to sue Google (which is when they backed off--before that Google lawyers were prepared to throw us under the bus and our leaders were following as instructed) and the next day I get some random “impact award.” Pure gaslighting.

This excerpt is from the email that according to her triggered the firing. This person threatened her employer with a lawsuit in the past and now people are outraged that she got "abrubtly fired". Arguably, the way Google treated her was even too lenient: many companies would have fired her at the time her original threat was made.
Considering how the M1 SOCs are, the possibility of a future "affordable Mac tower" looks more remote than ever. Apple seems to be aiming towards piling as much into their dedicated SOCs as they can. I expect what "pro" capabilities they do build for it going to be in the vein of the cool stuff they were doing in the Mac Pro, like the FPGA "Afterburner" and will probably cost way more than any person with generally "consumer-level" use-cases would want to spend.

As a technology enthusiast I'm excited to see what bonkers stuff they'll be announcing. But, since I am not doing climate models or rendering hollywood movies, I don't expect I will never work on any of them since I don't want to drop a new car's worth of money on one.
Facebook radicalized weird uncles, but twitter radicalized journalists.
What percent of workers do work that can be done remotely?
So, we should go GNU Grindr. Gotcha.
Not sure if you've seen crosscode, but they released on steam and other platforms with impactjs and they're doing very well. (Not quite electron, but still html tech) If it runs well, who cares about the tech :-) People seem to complain about electron in tools and background apps. If it's the main/fullscreen app, it shouldn't be a problem.
You do realize that this is just like saying that "those pesky scientists out there don't cure cancer because that would put them out of the job"? It takes just one scientist to break this worldwide cartel, and he immediately will become billionaire and the one the most influential and famous persons of the century. Can you spot where your predictions contradict game theory?

Besides, if there is one thing that programmers like to do, it's developing programming tools. Personally, I'm astonished by the amount of great tools available for free to everyone and the sheer amount of labor that people put there in their free time. Linux [1] alone is mind-boggling, and it's just a tiny fraction of the free codebase available to build your software on top of.

Given that, I fail to see how it's possible that millions of developers in the industry somehow participate in anti-productivity cartel. Especially that it's potentially a very lucrative market, as you could cell this IDE in millions and not worry about the future, whatever it would be.

[1] I know that most contributions to Linux are made by professionals on payroll, it doesn't change much overall.
Mexican journalist targeted with NSO spyware while working on Panama Papers