skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They don’t have a domestic function like knives do

Hunting for sustenance, depending on where you live
I am. But i've been WFH for ~8 years now. My wife seems to do well too, though i think she may prefer going in.

The important distinction for us i think is that we both have offices. Easily closing up as needed.
Took us 6 years being bootstrapped with a small team. Here is how it went for us:

- First 6 months: Lot of time spent building a duct tape shitty MVP but decent investment in Content Marketing early on which paid off a bit to get customers. It was never the product early on. It was always the Marketing.

- 1st 2 years, I had no clue what I was doing. I was very lazy though so didn't really go with an execution plan. Did it slow. Lot of trial and error. Tried to sell to whoever I could. Made lot of mistakes. Just a couple of freelancers to help.

- 3rd year. Started seeing some patterns on good/ideal vs non qualified customers. Got more serious about going with a better execution strategy. Hired first full time CTO with revenue from the company (not enough but just about to pay him). Rebuild product based on all the learnings till now. Stopped trying to sell to everyone and tried to narrow our market and focus.

- Year 4-5: Team expansion. Hired a bunch of full time people. Hired first Sales person on the team. Pivoted our Target market but finally figured out our ICP (Ideal Client Profile). Invested a bit more in Product development and Marketing/Sales.

- Year 6+: More team expansion which got us to about 15 full-time and some part time/freelancers. Invested more in Customer Success. ICP is solid and trying to grow further by setting outbound sales channels instead of just inbound so far. The "engine" is almost setup with Sales/Marketing/Technology/Customer Support etc etc and now looking for further growth.

I would say the key drivers have been:

- Figuring out WHO really should be your customers ? You cannot sell to everyone.

- Once you figure out your ideal customers, then you focus on improving Marketing and Sales around it. For SAAS companies, Content Marketing/Organic/Inbound is always the key but never discount Outbound (which I still stuck at btw).

- Customer retention and upsells are very important. We increased revenue with existing clients by upselling in many cases. Beauty of that it is a lot easier to sell to existing clients than new prospects.

- Partnerships with other professionals in the industry. We are not quite there yet formally but have built relationships with lot of industry experts who send us business from time to time.

- Understand your strengths and weaknesses compared to competitors. Double down on strength and acknowledge your weakness. Don't try to fix everything.

- Most importantly, track everything and learn from it as much as possible. It is hard early on but as you mature as a company, put systems and processes in place to measure and track everything. Then use the results to pivot/optimize/change as needed.

Good luck!!

EDIT: I am always looking for hungry and motivated people to join our team in any area (Sales, Tech, Marketing, Customer success). Hit me up if you want to chat.
Thats neat. But the device would only pair and should have some sort of functionality out of the box.
USDA 2020 land value summary

https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/...
I'm seeing a lot of M1 hype, and I suspect most of it us unwarranted. I looked at comparisons between the M1 and the latest Ryzens, and it looks like it's comparable? Does anyone know details? I only looked summarily.
Go look at who raised the DA of San Francisco.
I like that analogy.

Also read on here recently that it's super hard to knock facebook offline because they own all the pieces, even their own domain registrar. Now I've been wondering how hard it is to set up my own domain registrar.
It looks like the way the license is written, they would have to release the source of the entire AWS console, and possibly everything that is AWS.

IMO, the SSPL's cloud provision is a "Japanese No", it is so wide in possible interpretation, that only the Eclipse foundation could actually provide such a service.
Wasn't there also a system developed that was really good at flagging radical content and proceeded to flag all the conservative posts? :p
I agree and I try to use Linux as much as possible, just to be clear. I want Apple to feel the effects of their lockdown on their platform. Right now just directing grief at macOS users who are trying to contribute to a project that claims support for macOS in their readme is not really fair. Give Apple the middle finger and drop support for their platform officially!
You missed the worldwide vote for the company that should hold the only truths in all matters? Twitter won. Google second and FB third.
That actually is referenced in the full text of the impeachment resolution[1]:

"President Trump’s conduct on January 6, 2021, followed his prior efforts to subvert and obstruct the certification of the results of the 2020 Presidential election. Those prior efforts included a phone call on January 2, 2021, during which President Trump urged the secretary of state of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, to “find” enough votes to overturn the Georgia Presidential election results and threatened Secretary Raffensperger if he failed to do so."

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolutio...
Japan also had a similiar response[0].

[0]https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=3848d55f-749c...
Solar efficiency has improved significantly since that stat as panels went from 13-14% to 18-20%. Which brings land area down to more like 10k square miles.
It would be extraordinary if young couples were having sex within earshot of their parents, or not at all. “Love hotels” seem like a pretty mundane adaptation to dating while living with family.
Wow super interesting and needed
They're private companies, they are not required to uphold the law.

We have police and courts which are paid to do that.

I can understand removing content that would make them liable in front of a court (as publishers) - anything else they remove it's censorship and I don't like it.
maybe hedge funds would be able to find more people if they didn't only hire "guys".
We've normalized political violence on the left and right this year. One side trashes a bunch of cities, the other the capitol. That genie won't go back in the bottle for sure.

Eventually the poors will get angry and united. So far our industry is helping keep them divided, but I'm not sure how long that will last.
At exabyte levels, data gravity exerts an enormous pull
Why aren't we wearing better masks?
I can’t give you any significant details, but I can confirm that they have sold some of their land since my family bought a bit of it.
> Rosenberg was sentenced to 58 years' imprisonment on the weapons and explosives charges. She spent 16 years in prison...

Good, and I really hope people who brought bombs to the capitol this time get a similar sentence. I know people do shitty things all the time, but the physical violence produces a primal fear in me that other things don't.
He can publish video or any content he wants on whitehouse.gov; I'm sure he would get millions of views overnight.
There was a Tablet magazine piece some years ago that claimed Spielberg hadn’t heard of Auschwitz until his 30s
I'm not sure I'd count Trump as a wartime President, though perhaps that's a result of appallingly low standards for what counts as peace.
Pretty much, you've got the Bar that must be passed to practice law, and the Medical boards, that must be passed to practice medicine. Those barriers are established, nominally, to ensure a level of ability/quality across providers of medical or legal services. And yet they are not as successful at that mission than one would think given that it is allegedly their "primary" mission.

There is the professional engineer certification, and for a while people pushed the professional data processor, but it wasn't followed with statutory requirements (and penalties) for hiring uncertified individuals.

If anyone reading this is confused, I think it would be FABULOUS to have really strong self-policing certification authorities that would identify and kick out bad actors like various contractor licensing boards do. As long as those same agencies were not designed to structurally discriminate. CA, VT, WA, and VA allow you to take the bar exam without a law degree. If you learn the law on your own, you can take the exam and be licensed to practice law in any of those states. That is non-discriminatory. I would be in favor of something similar for "licensed" software engineers. Self study, trade school, university, any of them should be able to provide a path to becoming a SWE. What we're missing at the moment is some third party to identify those who have "arrived" vs those who are still on the path.
I think it only makes Japan a hotbed for interesting and new ideas. Don't start it up in Silicon Valley when you can get free press by doing it in Japan instead!
The wipers automatically activate when its raining. I've only had to manually activate the wipers a handful of times.
The White House needs to build a healthy relationship with the press.

Why would you expect them to come the moment you want them after blasting them as fake news, and kicking them out when you dislike their questions?
And generate their own power for their own homemade servers.
In 2010, expenditures on energy totaled over US$6 trillion, or about 10% of the world gross domestic product (GDP).

58T is the opposite of pretty reasonable.

Even if you could assume it wouldn't need any maintenance, which you can't, it's too much money for anything.
Probably this will be discontinued now that the US will require a negative COVID test prior to entry via air.
Yes they can, but they shouldn't.
I think this is discussing private ownership versus corporate.

EDIT: I'm less sure about this now, might just refer to government versus non government?
Many small farms ..in fact almost all of them in every state..have to follow rules and regulations for certifications. Farming is VERY auditable and we have created systems/processes/checks/controls.

But it’s expensive. The failure of small farms is mostly seen in the balance sheet.
This isn't reddit. Keep these comments to yourself.
This is dogmatism swung too far in the other direction, IMO. There are many, many successful production code bases written in dynamic languages. In my own experience as a vision scientist/engineer, there is tremendous value in being able to quickly whip up a concept in Python and then being able to easily visualize the results. Doing this exploration in C++ is wasteful. Implementation takes much longer, the correctness brought by static typing is dubious since the code isn’t in prod, and the canned CV/visualization libraries are fewer and frequently suck in at least some way. That said, there is also tremendous value in understanding how to map your Python prototype into production code, too. Someone strong in this field can do both.
xkcd.com/1357/

"I'm not defending parlor" doesn't absolve you of then spending your time writing an essay defending a platform and it's clear use in organizing and promoting armed insurrection...
I would be very curious to see a list of features which were available in defunct OSes that are not available or only available via kludge these days. There are some great ideas still out there in the wild.
Is there a one-page version of this? Or at least with support for ← and → keys for page navigation.

It's basically impossible to skim this course or to jump around it quickly.

Edit - here's a GreaseMonkey script for the arrow navigation between the pages. Right arrow - next page, Left arrow - previous page. https://pastebin.com/uQMWyfq0
Anecdotally, having managed elixir teams and talked to other managers of elixir teams:

- The learning curve is real. but 2-6 months for us, not years. It's not particularly hard, just longer than a small language like go.

- Having Ruby and/or functional programming experience shortens that learning curve.

- Developer experience/satisfaction is very high. This helps retention

- Some devs will just never "get/grok" Elixir. They may have 20 years of java experience or a new dev better suited to a FE role. This doesn't mean they are bad, just not a great fit.

- The devs that do get it? They are quite productive. Feature velocity is high.

I disagree that Elixir/Phoenix isn't a fit for CRUD apps. I'm seeing high feature velocity across small and large scale products.

In particular, feature velocity per engineer is quite high. A smaller team in Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView can outpace a similar full stack team.
Again, free speech isn't a legal thing that is a right to an individual in all settings. It is baked into the constitution, but that has zero to do with dinner parties and more to how government can act when dealing with people speaking their minds.
Adding to what is already said:

* Forth is tiny. You don't need a preprocessor, a compiler, a linker. Your entire programming environment, beside the text editor, can live directly on the target MCU.

* Forth is interactive. You can run your code, examine the results, define and redefine words, run again, etc right on the target machine (which may be a tiny controller). Yes, you likely will remove the REPL-related words from the final image (or not), but C can't hold a candle to the interactive development experience of Forth.

* Unlike in C, you can build an economical DSL in Forth to closely match your target domain. What Forth takes away in readability due to the need to think in stack terms, it more than pays back in expressiveness and abstraction, provided certain skill and taste.

While Forth does have an execution overhead and thus cannot obviate C completely in some cases, I've seen e.g. an injection controller for an internal combustion engine which did hard realtime completely in Forth. Hard realtime here means that all computations were clocked by the rotation of the shaft, with precise timing of different phases along the way.
This is spot on. And I think the TL;DR of the hypervisor argument goes as follows:

Hypervisor is a commodity, however management and support of hundreds or thousands of them is not. You can either pay people to support them and fix the software when it breaks or you can pay <vendor name here>. Given the former requires expertise and planning it's often more cost effective to go the latter.

Disclaimer: I'm employed by VMware (less than 1 year) and chose to come here based on pivots I feel they are making.
The volume of data you have reflects your value. Is data owned?
Asking rents are still higher than any time prior to 2018. If owners want net absorption to get above zero again, they're going to have to be realistic about the price.
I think the idea is that you break the spark-plug ceramic and use that to break the window. At least that's what I've seen done.
Now I feel like watching every movie listed in the "Fictional representations" section

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_helicopter#Fictional_rep...
I get your point but don't you agree that it's overall better for sexual mores to be freer, eccentric opinions and lifestyles to be less costly (not talking about politics exclusively here), and so on?

The reductio ad nazium isn't a full stop to the discussion
The translated tweet matches the impression I got from the article. The article didn't make me think that it is specifically a "listening service".

> "People rent him for various reasons. At times he will participate in a gaming session to make up numbers, turn up to send off people who are moving away, accompany those filing for divorce, or listen to health care workers who have become mentally unwell due to their exhausting work."
pixel watch coming soon?
If you think climate change is real, you probably should.

A super-wealthy technologist is investing in _farm land_. Why do you think that is?
That's a good solution if you need such a subset. But maybe you need just a single function.

And maybe such a single function is currently already provided by the browser APIs.

Or maybe there are packages of individual functions of JQuery? But that would serve little purpose IF the functionality is provided by current browsers.

In any case I think the article serves a good purpose in explaining what are the most useful parts of JQuery and how you could implement them yourself with the more modern browsers if and when you need them.

My preference is to avoid dependencies if I can and prefer depending on my own code which uses standard APIs if possible.
True, but keep in mind there were 511 left-wing protests and 33 right-wing protests and the use of force was measured in the single digit percentages for both.
Specific lawyers? Yes. Some clients are just horrible, and forcing them to work with a certain person is ... decidedly unethical.

Banks? Now we're starting to have fun. If all banks cancel you, you cannot reasonably do business in this country. That's a very real concern and something that needs to be looked at.

There may be some real value in investigating all of the oligopolies in the United States, and their behaviors in cancelling.
>It's Twitter's own servers

That are offered to the customers below cost of running them in order to stifle competition, which is only possible as long as the government antitrust body is looking the other way.
Please point to the sentence where I made any of those claims.
Trump will receive $219K salary after leaving office
I would be quite good at that, anyone want to rent me to do nothing?
> When 2/3rds of millennials have not heard of Auschwitz how are they supposed to know what's true? There is such a thing as objective truth. Facts do exist.

Probably better to qualify the statistic when you are using it as a prelude to declaring "Facts do exist"

Maybe making the quote more exact slightly dampens the hyperbole you were aiming for:

first result for the line:

> 2/3rds of millennials have not heard of Auschwitz

gives https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/04...

which includes the excerpt of:
> Two-thirds of American millennials

> how are they supposed to know what's true

Please do explain the equivalence of not knowing what is true with not knowing what Auschwitz is?
Couldn't you just stop receiving keypresses when a UI transition begins and then re-enable input once the new UI state has been established?
I mean, isn't that close to the size of manhattan?
I think Java does have coloured functions. It's just that the colours are "fast" and "slow" - i.e. functions which will block the thread for a long time and those which don't.

You can't call "functions that may block for a long time" from a UI thread. Java doesn't have async, so you have to punt them to a background thread manually.
Great job writing this article.
Linked page is not mobile-friendly, but at least the search results are.

But I just wanted to see what it has on Shakespeare. To view the search results I have to tell it my location and let it set a bunch of cookies. Clicking the X to dismiss the modal does nothing.

Different definition of "open" than I expected.
Thanks from me as well. It’s been more than 5 years since switching from Ruby and I have never regretted it. You did and continue to do great work(and whole team as well). Can’t wait for the big thing at Lambda Days!
Yes, you can buy AR15s and other semiautomatic rifles in Portugal.

Most of Europe allows sports shooting, for example (from the top of my hear what I know for sure):
Finland
Sweden
Norway
Estonia
Czech Republic
Poland
Germany
France
Italy
Switzerland
Austria
Spain

And I haven't even put research into the rest of the countries
what's the thing about zip ties?
HK internet firm blocked pro-democracy website over security law
I think stalebot works so long as maintainers commit to marking issues as "confirmed" after a while, or if enough people +1. However too often that is not the case.

Multiple times have I filed an issue, that collects many people's "me too" and workarounds for over a year. And every month, stalebot comes and mentions everybody, so that I have to go and type in that stalebot command.

Until one day I give up, because I don't want to get those notifications anymore, or because I move to a more active project. The issue gets closed even though multiple people are affected, and all they can do is open a new one, link to the workarounds somehow, and take over the duty of fighting the bot.

Why make everyone do this? You say you don't owe me anything, but that's different from taking active step to hurt your community.

(and by you I mean stalebot users like andrew_)
> Are the losses temporary due to lockdowns or a sign of an accelerating recession?

It's a little hard to know in the moment if a restaurant/store/etc can make it through because of the 'fixed' costs like rent (never mind that those could also be addressed but the GOP is suddenly really concerned about the deficit because there's a Democrat about to be in charge so it's time to be deficit hawks again). Also many huge unknowns hang over any attempt to guess about that and those are how long till vaccines are in enough arms to allow for thing to go more normal, how much support they get from the government, and what their expenses and savings are to begin with.
Fitbit has made some solid devices but seriously lacks in the software area. Finding/Installing apps on your versa is as bad as it was on my palm pilot.
Some things are worth doing but not worth paying people. Google is using ML to read house numbers from Google Street View photos. Why is that not a good commercial application? Google gets its map updated faster and cheaper with ML.
> And even if they wanted to hire some smart engineers to do the job for them, we all know that engineers tend to swing on the other opposite of the ideological spectrum. Those who have built systems for escaping REAL authoritarian censorship would rightfully feel disgusted if asked to apply their knowledge to provide a safe harbour for rednecks to vomit their conspiracy-theories-fueled hate.

I'm not sure this is true. This seems to imply that nations which have copyright law are imposing authoritarian censorship on their citizens. This doesn't seem to be a pervasive idea, at least in the US.

There are proponents of information freedom who oppose copyright law. It's not clear to me that this group would oppose Parler, and in fact many I've spoken to believe they should be free to exist without censorship.

But - I am not sure they want to be associated with Parler either, out of concern for their reputation.
Meanwhile the average person owns no land, is behind on their rent, and will probably (if ever) get a mortgage they can never feasibly pay off.

Yes, it’s a lot of land and it’s not remotely justifiable. Inequality isn’t something to just handwave away.
One simple tip to remove anxiety and writers block
More accurately the government non-reaction to the pandemic. Patchwork of confusing lockdown rules, poorly observed, and next to no assistance for those truly in need. We got the worst of both worlds: death and economic destruction.
It sucks being that guy because everyone else ends up hating you.

Depending on the work environment it's not a stretch to see software engineers complaining to management, sometimes going as far to create rumors to get the jr data scientist fired.

So, no the grass is not greener. It's best to not be that person. This is why I go out of my way to prevent that scenario when I lead a team.
There is on mobile and there's so much nowadays that I had to stop clicking video links on my phone.
Jokes like these are literally not allowed on HN.