skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This claim seems to be predicated on some unrealistic standard wherein all businesses have dedicated professional in SEO and or advertisement management (or outsourcing to media management companies who do).

That exists of course, but sole proprietors, small businesses, and medium businesses also purchase online ads in high volume and therefore people from other domains are commonly buying ads (or more importantly for this discussion: deciding where to spend limited ad dollars).
While "most *nix folks over a certain age already know it well", IMO it would be a shame for it to limited to them. I regularly encounter younger developers unfamiliar with standard tools like sed, tr, cut, etc. that I use often to solve everyday personal tasks.

The world took a wrong path when *nix tools were no longer seen as appropriate things for ordinary people to learn. (Yes, in the 1980s clerical staff in some companies were taught awk or even Emacs.) Productivity of the labour force would only rise. When my spouse moved to my country and didn’t yet know the local language, she worked for a multinational outsourcing firm. The job turned out to be little more than glorified data entry and it could have been easily automated with *nix tools piped. Hiring educated people to sit 8 hours a day and do everything manually was a waste of money and human potential.
*people always want more power and control... The same logic applies to companies.
It's from birth at this point. Generational indoctrination.
Would this non-FAANG position be an improvement over where you are now? You didn't give any details about your current position.

Is it your dream to work at a FAANG? Or is it only to impress people?
Why take pictures at all? Photorealistic renders are at our fingertips with things like Blender and Cycles. Just take a look at /r/rendered.

It's fun to fiddle and tinker. As much as someone could make the image in a render (I actually seriously doubt the picture could be recreated with post-processing alone unless there was a light field camera involved or something) who would think to do so? This didn't come about because someone was looking for the effect, but because someone was exploring and found it.
>I was a product manager in the late 80s/90s and I needed to do competitive analysis for pricing and feature prioritization.

I've only worked at one company that really went all-out on this. Samples were bought of competitive products, tear-downs and estimates on manufacturing cost, use of ICE-machines (where practical) to understand the underlying software to some extent. All in addition to studying usage, manuals, etc. Mid 1980's.

I think it was really useful, but then they also had a QA department that was a peer to and practically as large as engineering.
Then how do you intend to do logs and debugging?
I'm not arguing a "No True Scotsman". I offered criticism to help you improve your work, as criticism should do. I'm sorry that you took it the wrong way.
The Fall of Mozilla
>MSFT not growing?

Are you talking about recently or circa 2013 when Cramer popularized his FANG acronym? Before 2014, MSFT growth didn't compare to the newer web dominant companies like Facebook/Amazon/Netflix/Google. He also left out other giant tech companies with lower growth like IBM, Oracle, SAP, Yahoo!, Hewlett-Packard, etc.
> I am always shocked when people make these sorts of pairings with devices they don't even own.

I'm not, because of all the random technology trivia and footgun crap that 'everyone' should know, any random person is not going to know a lot of it.
Systemic issues prevent individual devs from finding alternative means of revenue. Its easy for someone to say stop using ads, but most people here work for companies that advertise online, and thus their livelihood is interlinked with ads in some fashion or another. We can acknowledge this reality and simultaneously work towards changing it.
DMCA is about content hosts, I doubt it applies to ISPs.
On the plus side(sarcastically), an app that doesn’t have a subscription model!
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Different strokes for different folks.

I’ve been using computers and digital graphics applications for about thirty years now.

If I were to get myself a new hobby I wouldn’t necessarily want to have one that made me spend more time in front of a computer. That’s one reason people might want to do things the analog way.

I’m currently reading a book written in 2017 by an author who still uses a typewriter. A good book, and it might help him to avoid distractions when writing.
No, it's perfectly clear.

Evidence comes in many forms. There doesn't appear to be evidence in the form of a recovered weapon or technical recording/logging of an attack as it happened, at least nothing that has been disclosed.

However, the injuries are real and ongoing. It took a long time for consensus agreement that these events were malicious targeting by hostile govts against our diplomats, using remote energy weapons. Even just with the evidence made public, it's the most plausible explanation.
Exactly this, I just want to use it with Glasser or the like but it's not really feasible. And since DKT just doesn't capture what we need, FreeSurfer gets left behind.
a better layout engine and notation style are the most visible changes I've noticed
From the article:

"In the end, he generated about 700 variations of the phrase on t-shirts, and put them up on Amazon."
The secret that I never see brought up on any of the linux command line tools is "esc + ." - It's by far one of the most valuable tricks I've learned, it will insert the last thing from the last command

ls /foo/bar/this_is_the_file.txt

cat "esc + ."

which expands to

cat /foo/bar/this_is_the_file.txt
That doesn’t mean that you aren’t being micro-targeted by ads. It just means you don’t see to whom your personal information is being sold.
Remember that there are lots of reasons to prefer OSI over TCP/IP, it's just that TCP/IP focused on interoperability and being useful.
You can just send a text to my project: https://textpost.me
StaySaasy is my favorite tech blog of 2021. I am glad to see it on HN. I think their posts are a really unique and thoughtful corpus for a gap in thought leadership for scaling B2B engineering / product teams.
With both words, efficiency and effectiveness, intention is missing.

I'd rather people come up with their own ideas.
Progressive corporate taxation. Want to be large? Pay a higher tax rate.
On the other hand, there's the joke:

"Why do married men die before their wives?

Because the want to."
AFAIK it does not perform computation or control the computation of other systems.
Ideal customer service has both an api/app/webpage and a human to call for support.
I in no way meant that as arrogant. I think it’s really cool that that person figured it out. What I am wondering is in what way the effect is different when produced digitally and does it matter?

A good deal do photo filters are based on real world optics. Sometimes optics that are outdated (Polaroid mode), sometimes because the physical setup is really expensive. What I am asking is whether this particular effect is hard to replicate. I feel like I’ve seen it before in digital art but don’t know if it’s the same or not and whether the physical effect is actually somehow magical or not.
It's arrogant when seen in a larger trend of technologists constantly trying to substitute everything with technology. "When all you have is a hammer, everything seems like a nail"

I too am an amateur/prosumer photographer who uses an entirely digital process. But tech has its weaknesses, especially in photography -- digital tech still can't replicate a lot of what analog can do, and its important to embrace that.

That $4000 mirrorless still can't replicate the dynamic range of 35mm film. Photoshop still can't replicate the contrasty reds of Velvia film. And so on...
Describing a public crowdsale as a premine is unethical.
AWS is one of the main examples of why I miss the days when things had dedicated, native applications. I can imagine the AWS console being so much easier to use if it was something like Intellij. I don't even like Intellij compared to Sublime, but at least Intellij has an undeniable amount of power and customization. Meanwhile the AWS console is a drag to use and gets worse if you use the new UIs
How to build forms in Next.js and Getform
A lens shapes a light field onto a sensor. Once light hits the sensor, it is flattened into a 2D image, quantized, and saturated based on the limitations of the sensor.

You cannot do with software what you can do with a lens. The information is lost by the time it's in a raw file. Not just depth, but also brightness. Any white highlights are also lost information; a lens can shape a highlight to look different in a way which cannot be done in software without using HDR (i.e. multiple exposures).
Are you confusing AndroidX & gradle updates with Android or Android Studio updates? Android & Android Studio, the core platform, doesn't update very often at all.

Gradle does update regularly, as does AndroidX, and a typical Android app will usually have half a dozen dependencies all on their own update schedule. Plus the build tools & emulator get regular updates. All in all there's probably a dozen different individual components.

But none of this is the result of "immaturity" nor does it make any sense to create a big huge monolithic update schedule.
That's interesting. i googled around a bit but couldn't find any stats or studies on % of dead bedrooms. Maybe the myth is more common that we think
> That's been tried and failed. The technical difference didn't garner the market share needed to support it. I wouldn't say it is impossible for it to happen, but the odds are long, and ultimately the market largely does not appear to care.

If you look at the queries in GPT-3 that are used to extract structured data, or to synthesize answers, the technical difference is huge, but it just has a high failure rate.

The various vertical search systems are examples of this, but the key to a next-gen system isn't to hand-code such verticals, but to have the AI be able to create an infinite number of them on the fly. Vertical based on Julia code? Yes. Vertical based on Pokemon cards? Yes. Today these things are hand-curated collections.

There's also the general switch from searching for information, to doing things. We've gone from 10 blue links, to answers, to assistive functionality. The current state of assistive functionality is pretty shitty and has a long way to go IMHO.
This. It's easy to get into the mindset that "It's all been done" or "somebody already did it better, so why bother?"

Sometimes it's good to just do things for the experience and nothing more. This is especially true for many hobbies such as Amateur Radio. Guys can armchair quarterback antennas, coax, baluns/ununs, whatever, all day long, arguing about which is right. Then a guy goes out and just tries it, does it all wrong according to the "in" crowd, and has tons of fun. <--- this is me. Doing it because I can and it's fun not because it's "better"
Ha, I wish. 10 years, and Android still doesn't have a good way to accomplish navigation, view models, state retention, or anything. 10 different support libraries, everything deprecated once a year, etc. The entire platform is a mess.
> These estimates vary a lot from one source to another, but even then 130 kgCO2/kg is an unusually high estimate for beef. Common range, I think, is from 20 to 60

Still, we'd be much better off, had we stopped eating beef (and other ruminants) and instead switched to pork, poultry and fish.
It seems it is, I'm Dutch and also don't recognise this at all (but not married yet, so who knows). It does remind me, again, how many HN and Reddit discussions so often are by default seem US-centric, until stated otherwise. I am very much willing to accept though that the fact that this annoys me a bit is my own problem.
This is the problem of collectivised solutions from experts.

They cannot allow the individual to work out how to do his business in the most efficient way for him, oh no. Technocrats and their ilk insist they know best for everyone! And we as technologists are their enablers.

If you don't like the present bureaucracy, you won't enjoy the coming years at all, as bureaucratic processes will swell, with vaccine passports, environmental constraints, more health and safety BS, etc, etc. You'll do about 5 mins per day of something that is actually useful. In fact, even those 5 mins will be on a project that any sensible person could have called as a sure fire failure from the start.

As we apparently we want a communistic/socialistic approach to be governed by, we will get it.
The problem isn't efficiency, its distraction. Efficiency can be numbed down to the movement from one focus to another without unnecessary expenditure of time or energy. If you eliminate distractions such that there is nothing to transition to/from you are both more productive and more efficient.

There is quite a bit more depth and nuance to the achievement of focus versus distraction than it seems at face value. Distraction often applies to things unrelated to a given task, but also applies to the frequency of steps in a given task. Consider the following:

* Do you have to go to multiple locations for project documentation?

* Do you have to configure a bunch of tools and steps in a certain order for your project to work?

* Do you have to jump through a bunch of meetings to know what's going on?

Efficiency is the graceful transition between the points of insanity. The problem therein is that you are busy thinking about the granular minutia of those pieces and the transition points instead of thinking about achieving the end state. You become most efficient by eliminating the need for efficiency which allows the slack time the article talks about.
That's not an oxymoron. It means they were frozen right away after being caught. A similar term today used especially for things like shrimp is "Individual Quick Frozen" or IQF. Shrimp are frozen on the boat that catches them.
Remember the Office?
How does it scale to real-world projects? One of the problems I’ve felt with Webflow is that you’re missing all the tools you would normally have when making a website, like version control, being able to search and replace across all project files, having a decent deploy process, or being able to automate or refactor things without hundreds of manual actions. You also still kinda need to know HTML and CSS to not make a mess (I’ve been tasked with cleaning up a mess like that, and it’s not much fun, especially when the toolkit described above is not available). These are flaws that are hard to anticipate until you’re halfway through a project.

Considering you’re describing Aspect as easier, what are your solutions to these problems?
You need to look at these techniques as being in continuity with how mathematical modeling has been generally performed by humans for a couple centuries now.

To directly explain the mechanics of what should otherwise be simple or everyday phenomena (like with three-particle orbits or the flow of water in your bathtub) often requires many equations and parameters. Since physical systems tend to be not-so-heterogeneous in structure, we can use experimental insight and exploit symmetries to reduce the number of equations and parameters up front. But this amounts to finding ways to simplify because we don't understand the precise system in play, only an analogous one.

For larger systems we have historically relied on equation solvers to do the reductions and find solutions. But there are systems for which the dimensionality cannot be easily reduced, like with language and vision. Then to be precisely predictive about these high-dimensional outcomes, we still need to compute beyond our ability to reduce the equations from the outset.

This all converges on deep learning - since in the end, it's much of the same linear algebra used by solver packages, just recursively applied to enormous high-dimensional datasets. Maybe calling it intelligence gives more agency to the process than we can stand to attribute. But in many ways it's just an extension of our usual ways of mathematical modeling before computers, but moving into so many dimensions and datapoints that it produces outcomes similar to the behavior we use our entire brain to recreate instinctually (like image recognition and language use).
Anything built before 2000.
How could I recreate this effect with an app/website ?
Hi. I have the same problem as you. I tried a lot of software on my phone that doesn't let me use Twitter or Reddit, unless I enter some dumb code or something. Most of this software just tracks your time on each app and doesn't forbid you from using it. For example, "Digital Wellbeing" app is a joke. You can disable it anytime it starts running. Some apps, such as Youtube, have the option to remind you that you have been using it for a certain amount of time, like 15 minutes. I wouldn't rely on software to help me on this one.

I ended up buying a kSafe and putting my phone in there for an amount of 12 hours a day. I get my messages and calls on my watch.

If you're using your iPhone you'll end up downloading scroller apps.

I don't have a solution for your mobile bank account.
Ask HN: Employee Handbook for Startups?
We started off as a few friends working together, but we have been lucky to quickly grow to a consulting firm of 11 full-time employees.

For better or worse, we're at the point where we should probably (definitely) formalize some things for the team (still figuring out which, exactly). The first that comes to mind is an employee handbook.

Has anyone gone through the process of formalizing an employee handbook? Is there a template that YC companies or other startups use as a starting point?

I've seen a few super corporate-y templates online and I'd like to incorporate some level of personality/minimalism and also avoid overwhelming employees with legalese (if possible).

Many thanks in advance!
Your last sentence there made me think of an old Welle: Erdball song…

“Es gibt kein Kompromiss / Es zählt nur ja und nein / Wir sehn wies wirklich ist / Wir denken digital”
There are a lot of people alive now who were not caring-about-socketed-CPUs-in-laptops-years-old when that was a thing (and even then, I had at least three 386SX laptops with soldered-on CPUs)
It's more of a white people that watch movies thing I think. So yeah mostly American but you see pockets of it on different cultures, one of the common threads that I find is that people that like this also like their houses to look as if they were designed for the set of a romantic comedy.
This isn't calculating averages, it calculates percent of people that are single. Single is a boolean, so in your case 80% of men are single while 0% of women are single.
Isn’t artificial intelligence a very broad term anyway, of which expert systems, statistics, fuzzy logic and all the new wave neural network / deep learning are examples?

You seem to be thinking about artificial general intelligence, which is much more difficult to achieve.
Chill, it didn't come across as arrogant at all to me. I had the same question.

If there is an equivalent way to achieve the effect digitally, for many people that is good information and they can do that, and don't need to go to the lengths this guy did.
> The issue is that students will no longer be able to take calculus in high school.

False. The Framework has a common 9/10 base designed to meet the legal two-year mandate and then a wider variety of advanced options than are currently typically offered for 11/12 which include Calculus+Trig, Data Science, and others.

The framework challenges the existing “every is trying to get to Calculus, the only difference is how quickly they skim everything else to get there” approach, not challenging the option for students to take Calculus in High School.

(See Chapter 8 of the framework.)
What are the logistics regarding nationality and property within the exchanged land? Are the inhabitants now dutch, or Belgians who now own Dutch property?
That makes a lot of sense. I am looking at it from the point of view of the finished product, the photograph, rather than the process of creating it. I personally tend to do things “the hard way” at times because I feel like I, for the lack of a better term, put my soul into the thing that way. But as a practical matter, people viewing a photograph generally don’t know how it was produced and as such is this particular effect unique and/or hard to reproduce?
How's this any different than: hey, I printed my own cool banknotes, and guess what, there's a limited supply? Common, buy some!

P.S. Those who invest in crypto will always find a way to rationalize the fact that it simply has no value. I'm really really curious when this will burst.
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David Burns would disagree and I‘d recommend his books to those who want to read them. :)
Unfortunately, modern regulations forbid manufacturers from easily making a "dumb car". For example, backup cameras are required in new cars.

It's the same deal with avoiding wire insulation that rodents enjoy eating. Your only option is to buy a car from before 2000-ish.

I'd actually like to find a DIY subculture of taking old car frames and swapping in newer features a bit at a time. People do it with electric motors, but it still seems hard to get decent range/mileage/etc on a DIY EV project.
Thanks, I guess everyone can play a part to get it across. All I know is that IPster is here to stay and will keep pushing.
My experience was different. I ended up going to one of the Shane Company stores on the west coast and the salesperson didn't push diamonds at all. She showed me damn near every red/pink sapphire in the store until I found one I wanted to present. And when it turned out my wife didn't like the color as much as I thought they bought the old stone back at full-price and sold us a new one in a color she loves.