skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My point is to realize you're actually significantly disadvantaged.

That's true, but it shouldn't lead to valuing equity at $0.

Before worrying about the impact of cap table structure you should also understand how and when they get that way - it really shouldn't be at the beginning (and if they won't show you some details then, walk away).
Former A9 employee here. A9 was not an acquisition - it was bootstrapped as a Bay Area subsidiary. Initially A9 focused on web search, then pivoted to doing product search for Amazon retail.
The post is written by an AWS VP of technology. They probably plan to deploy this as an enterprise service, or use the tech, so you really have to hype during acquisition the aspects you intend to sell.

The big sell for enterprises is actually what probably invalidates the statement you highlighted. Compliance, administrative controls, and audit almost always are significant threat surfaces that are exposed deliberately. Ideally to only the right people, but it's basically the equivalent of a cryptographic back door. It's less secure by design, but for a purpose.
It's disgust not fear, which explains the disease analogy. Although I suppose we do call people germophobic.
Misplaced ad spend, he’s not the target market. Needs more ML to tune the model, which it’ll get by A/B testing further destitute cohorts.
You can’t stay on a high horse like that if your opinion is that some other opinion is a dumb, ridiculous conspiracy theory and then you change your opinion to that theory.

If you want a fair discussion of theories you can’t label the other one a conspiracy theory.
What does that mean? I have kids. My phone has around 2.5GB of apps.
Even mobile Telegram is so small and efficient despite being feature-packed. Just compare 67Mb of the Telegram installed Android app with 156Mb of Discord, 623Mb of WeChat, etc.
I think I'd be fine with this if the image were from cameras inside the cooler, displaying the product in realtime.
Most people are incredibly dumb. This includes the rich and powerful; most of them just happened to be lucky enough to be born in the right place, at the right time.
> Still no one thought... glass?

I'm sure it came up. Customer experience vs revenue for in-store billboards. Ad revenue won.
I was fired once for consistently resisting sleazy practices as well as defending my team from abuse from leadership.

The big realization I had, which I'm surprised I didn't have earlier: if you don't want to do gross things, don't work for B2C startups.

The only way to get an edge when trying to grow a B2C startup is to start continually start squeezing whatever revenue you can from your users. This is inevitable even if you start with a solid product as your base.

We would track metrics on how many users were upset with how royally we screwed them with fine print and as a long as that number was small enough that it didn't impact monthly revenue "leadership" didn't care. We had no product vision at all, it was just iterate random ideas to get more money, and most of the ideas that stuck involved dark patterns that means the user didn't realize they were taking a bad deal.

I was honestly smiling when I got fired, it was as though I had passed some secret test that a company like that would not want me.

My experience with B2B has been much better, especially if you have enterprise customers. In the B2B space customers can easily be paying 100k-1M a year, and, if you treat them right, will be your customer for many, many years. It typically makes economic sense to treat the with respect, and make products that are beneficial to them. Dark patterns, and sleazy tricks have a serious penalty because losing a contract can be very, very painful.
Don't underestimate the number of digital pianos that are being sold, they don't have to be tuned regularly which substantially reduces the cost of ownership and they tend to be a lot smaller and easier to move around. The quality of the latest batch is excellent. I have both an acoustic and a digital one and to be fair the acoustic is half a century old and sounds better up close but for practical reasons I find myself playing the digital one much more often using headphones so I don't disturb others.

Even so, you are right, it is definitely not a growth market by any stretch of the imagination, it takes a ton of effort to learn how to play and in a world full of distractions and ready made music more than you could ever listen to in a lifetime the enthusiasm for doing this is waning. There are exceptions to this though, for instance, in Asia where playing the piano is a status thing and still in its ascendancy phase.
Try yet again to make talking vending machines?
this is true, if you take standard samples and test them. but the Hard Rock New Orleans may have bogus inspections and testing.

>Tweeter reported three other on-site inspections in July, August and October, but the GPS records show her vehicle stopping at the Hard Rock on just one of those dates.

the Hard Rock New Orleans could have been insufficient supports changed after the city approved plans [2].

>The last set of plans approved by the city were dated June 2018. Those called for the sturdier 16-gauge metal decking. Those plans were revised to go with the thinner, lighter 22-gauge decking in February 2019, shortly after the emails between the construction team and New Millennium. The city confirmed it never received those revisions.

[1] https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/investigations/city-was-c...

[2] https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/investigations/david-hamm...
And hydrophobic substances do not express the emotion of fear against water.
Yes. But the USA doesn't have designated counterintelligence agencies. They're consistently referred to strictly as intelligence agencies. So it's important to clarify that the counterintelligence role is there even if it's not directly identified.

And, no their primary function is not to acquire information. Their primary funtion is to push and pull "information" to acheive the goals of The Republic. It's chess, not checkers.
* Fooled By Randomness (NN Taleb): Taleb is a complicated personality, but this book gave me a heuristic for thinking about long-tails and uncertain events that I could never have derived myself from a probability textbook.

* Designing Data Intensive Applications (M Kleppmann): Provided a first-principles approach for thinking about the design of modern large-scale data infrastructure. It's not just about assembling different technologies -- there are principles behind how data moves and transforms that transcend current technology, and DDIA is an articulation of those principles. After reading this, I began to notice general patterns in data infrastructure, which helped me quickly grasp how new technologies worked. (most are variations on the same principles)

* Introduction to Statistical Learning (James et al) and Applied Predictive Modeling (Kuhn et al). These two books gave me a grand sweep of predictive modeling methods pre-deep learning, methods which continue to be useful and applicable to a wider variety of problem contexts than AI/Deep Learning. (neural networks aren't appropriate for huge classes of problems)

* High Output Management (A Grove): oft-recommended book by former Intel CEO Andy Grove on how middle management in large corporations actually works, from promotions to meetings (as a unit of work). This was my guide to interpreting my experiences when I joined a large corporation and boy was it accurate. It gave me a language and a framework for thinking about what was happening around me. I heard this was 1 of 2 books Tobi Luetke read to understand management when he went from being a technical person to CEO of Shopify. (the other book being Cialdini's Influence). Hard Things about Hard Things (B Horowitz) is a different take that is also worth a read to understand the hidden--but intentional--managerial design of a modern tech company. These some of the very few books written by practitioners--rather than management gurus--that I've found to track pretty closely with my own real life experiences.
So everybody is in it for the money? Noted.
I've read similar stories from American musicians touring Europe in the post war era.
Tangentially, they do have status cards, I worked at a wal-mart up north for a summer after high school and I used to have to type the number on the card into the cash register to override the tax on the transaction of people with a status card. The same wal-mart that banned people with a status card from buying mouthwash because they labeled the natives drunks and didn't want to propagate the issue. Yah seriously, that happened.
This one, IMHO, isn't that creepy. Or at least there is a legitimate purpose. It gives the agent information a few seconds quicker and those few seconds add up to real money over time.
> To promote industrial investment without militarism

.. implement a Georgist land value tax.
While I agree w/ you that the Military Industrial Complex as an entity will do almost anything to justify increasing funding, I think this is a cynical take on this particular issue and is attempting to explain something we don't fundamentally understand with something we do - military budget increases. Unless the DoD fabricated the videos, and duped radar operators and pilots, or faked the whole thing in some way, this is a seriously interesting phenomenon ...regardless of whether it aligns with the military's insatiable appetite for more funding. Remember, Luiz Elizondo resigned because the ATAP program had insufficient funding (22M) given what he thought he was uncovering.
Find someone in the top 10% in the world who does what you want to learn and try to get them as a mentor.
1. I am not saying that these UAP are definitely aliens. I am saying that the findings of the report make aliens a more likely explanation. The report found that physical objects exhibited behavior that suggests advanced technology - including flying at considerable speed without discernible means of propulsion.

It's unfair to characterize this line of thinking as "We don't know what we saw, so aliens." Instead, what I wrote was more like "The report does not contradict aliens. The findings of the report are consistent with what we might expect from alien technology. I am updating my beliefs to increase the likelihood that these UAP are explained by aliens."

Your line about extra-ordinary claims is a bit misguided. For one thing, multiple observations by multiple witnesses and multiple sensor modalities in multiple instances across decades is pretty good evidence. I don't know what evidence you would expect to see if alien technology was operating in our atmosphere, but the described observations seem consistent with that conclusion.

2. The DNI report says "a Handful of UAP Appear to Demonstrate Advanced Technology" and "Some UAP appeared to ... move at considerable speed, without discernable means of propulsion" and "Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors, to include radar, infrared, electro-optical, weapon seekers, and visual observation." That doesn't sound like "bug-on-the-lens" type observations to me.

Obviously I can't know how good the DNI evidence is. They haven't shared much of it. I don't think it's reasonable to conclude from the report that people are getting confused with lens flares or equipment failures though.

3. That doesn't seem like an argument at all. Any thing which we have observed for a while but haven't explained would fit this description of being "perpetually liminal". UFOs fit the description worse than most things because they aren't very "perpetual". UFO sightings go back ~70 years. That's hardly perpetual. It's also not the case that we always know roughly the same amount. This report for example uses evidence to advance our understanding, arguing that they are physical objects, that they may emit RF energy, and that they have capabilities we do not.
Its pretty stupid with sports drinks, but I could see this being perhaps practical in a frozen food aisle. I often open the freezer, take out a product to read its nutritional facts, then put it back. I guess now I could just tap?
I'm assuming that's a PX-S** series and I've looked at those, they are very good value for the money. Track your progress, make some videos and then look at yourself a couple of weeks or months later so you can see in a very concrete sense how you are progressing, this is a huge motivator, and it is easy to keep track of this on a day-to-day basis.
I wonder how this collapse is going to affect insurance rates for other buildings build on terribly unstable land. Engineers are well aware of this risk, but now that it’s happening and it’s real, they will calculate it differently, I think.
Holy s*t this looks amazing. Our (multi-disciplinary) team has been struggling with Zulip, which adopts the threaded messaging paradigm we need, but has a face only an engineer could love. This looks like it could be a drop-in replacement without the UX quirks.

Thanks for the rec.
E603, Research Methods, in the writing department.

Among other things, I learned how to read academic papers and how to think like a researcher.

A fun last day of that course was considering "real world situations" through various research lenses ("If I were an anthropologist, what would I make of this situation?", "If I were trying to understand, using critical discourse analysis, why my roommate won't open the chicken door in the morning") has proven super valuable in corporate-life. There's different reasons for different things ("Why don't we have an onboarding doc?") and it's important to consider all of them and figure out what the best course forward is to achieve your objective.
Of all those, I have tried Discord and Slack, and I had a really, really horrible time. Neither are things I intend to use of my own volition, and am inclined to argue against using if I have a say.

Drag and drop, text inputs, selections, UI elements, keyboard shortcuts, state preservation – none of those worked as they should. I would accept a divergence for a legitimate improvement, but it's just system-wide basic functionality missing.

All of that works correctly in Telegram. There is great value in adhering to the system conventions, design, and using native elements – it's fairly clear what is supposed to be what, a good chunk of the time, and there is minimal context switching as I use other native apps.
Yeah I totally understand there are edge cases. But in aggregate, there are typical/very normal levels of unemployment.

So if someone is saying "I can't hire people because no one wants to work"...I'm having trouble seeing how that's any more true now vs. in 2014, 2006, or 1999.
> will be replaced with an ad

I'm not sure what that means. These already are ads. They are directly advertising the products literally inside the case.
I'm not "bashing" anyone, and I wouldn't say the person who I replied to was "bashing" developers, either.

I agree that both developers and product managers want success for the business.

I probably should have said product owner here rather than product manager. I only meant to call attention to the fact that it's often others in an organization beyond the developers making decisions around whether to optimize for this sort of thing.

On average, more technically-minded folks are more likely to want to optimize for technical things like app install size where the business impact can be a bit more abstract and difficult to measure, particularly when compared to folks like product managers who are likely to have their individual performance evaluated by even less technical stakeholders on their ability to quantify the impact of whatever ends up getting shipped.

Again, I'm generalizing here - of course there are highly thoughtful and competent folks capable of balancing competing priorities across domains in any type of role.
Worthless drivel. 6 months is too early, and there is no control group of non-covid positive individuals asked if they have the same issues.
I'm glad I'm not crazy, or at least not alone in my craziness !

I end up engaging in the same type of behaviour with companies that also do not make unsubscribing obvious, or, worst of all, have slightly annoying GDPR-mandated tracking-denying UIs. Trying to get me to go through two sub-menus and not having a "Deny all" toggle ? Good, good, good. See how petty I can get, $COMPANY !
Or, don't worry so much about retirement and enjoy life starting today. If you enjoy reading, do that. If you enjoy something else, do that. What you shouldn't do is get stressed or feel guilt about having free time.
Gini is a legend. We were all lucky to get her and SICP.
Yes. People see something dumb and decide the designers and business people involved are idiots. But often the business people and designers have very different goals and know that it's dumb. But they don't think it being dumb conflicts with their goals.
Nope that’s not my point at all. Quite the opposite.
Very nice, looking forward to seeing this working. While you're at it ;) How about a modern day version of the Moog PianoBar? That would be a real game changer for people studying using acoustic pianos. They now have to install a very expensive silent piano system in order to get midi-out. If you could just stack a bar against the fingerboard to get midi-out that would be amazing.
It's not a crazy idea and this likely a prototype and prone to bugs. Transparent displays have been a hot item for a while. The tech has been around for years but it's expensive and has had issues with brightness. They also need to tune the UX to be valuable and not too distracting. I think these will become ubiquitous in 10 years.
I am using the visual scripting, with Python to create a lot of the data tables (loaded manually for now).
The hard part is more the animation and 3D work, but it is a lot of fun.
Not yet! I’m vacuously familiar with the basics, but I’m curious about the details and their relation to research design.

Will comment more fully as I find the energy.
Most extreme and prolonged heat waves in Northwest US history likely start today
I’ve seen some very rich people use some shockingly old hardware. It’s not about penny pinching, many don’t think about upgrading regularly largely because upgrading tends to be an annoying process.
Actually, there was no reason whatsoever for the asset purchases of bonds that were placed to stabilize the market to be made in the form of Black Rock Products. Its not nefarious, in the, business as usual sense that all federal economic intervention chiefly benefits the Uber Uber wealthy. The last time I calculated, the bonds purchased that ended up on the fed balance sheet worked out to >14x the payments made to individuals. It is not surprising that if one goes to Black Rock to learn how to stabilize markets, Black Rock says buy our stuff. It is however ridiculous people are naive to the relative flows of capital. I can't stop hearing about funemployment, and just thinking about how fun my job is at the hedge fund lol.
Same, I would really love a local-running tool like SSMS or Teradata SQL Assistant. CDSW has been good to use with Python (interacting with spark.sql) as a somewhat IDE however it's also web-based. The best thing I have gotten to work is Python within VS Code (running locally) tunnelling to a CDSW project, where I again can run spark.sql. However, it still prints tables out in ASCII way instead of the nice way of SSMS or Teradata SQL Assistant.
In between the two times this image was circulated, I visited a store and watched as a pair of people opened a glass door, held a long conversation, the closed that now totally frosted/condensed door which was now impossible to see anything through.
Windows 11 “Rounded corners provide a feeling of safety”
Perhaps it depends on location/ type of environment or something. When I see job postings they seem to mention AngularJS 1.x or as 1 specifically. However the ones for Angular2+ don't really mention to mention that clearly.
Perhaps your experience has been different .

[1] https://www.ziprecruiter.com/c/Capgemini/Job/Senior-Software...

[2] https://www.ziprecruiter.com/c/CyberCoders/Job/Lead-Programm...
It's an ad platform plain and simple; that's the whole value proposition. So I imagine every pitch, every meeting was about that. And every store that uses it will be doing it to get a cut of the ad revenue. It's true that it's lousy at being glass, but that's like saying smallpox blankets were a lousy way to make friends with Native Americans. The shittiness of it, in other words, was the goal all along, and any resemblance to glass or to helping you in any way was just a concession made to conceal its true nature and hopefully get you to accept it.
This is how the entire advertising industry works. Including digital and experiential marketing. I have personally set millions of customers' dollars on fire building doodads like these.
But if the participants are limited to people who are motivated solely by participating in research, wouldn't that add significant bias to that research?
If you look me up you find a neurosurgeon who has a hole in his head.

I’m not sure if I mind being hard to find - it’s creepy what you can find out about people online.

I looked up somebody because I think they are (for lack of a better word) “super cute” and found out a lot. (Age, career history, …). Now I like this person even more.

I don’t know if was a good idea because if I feed this information back I could look like a stalker. Yet using it could be to my advantage.

If I said anything more some database expert could probably figure out who it is, and it might have been too much to say that.
More they are advertising items no longer available in the case.
It's also wrong to characterize is as fear mongering, since most people who are seriously pushing disclosure for this stuff are more likely driven by curiosity and accountability than fear. Ironically, Mick West, one of the most well known skeptics on this topic, had a paralyzing fear of aliens as a child...
I was referring to having 33 GB free. People with kids tend to always be running at the razor’s edge of their storage taking pics of their little one’s latest adventures.

In retrospect quoting that last piece, rather than the whole comment, made a lot more sense when I first wrote it than it does now.
I should define "shimming their way". I mean smoothly interoperating python2 code with py3 mechanics in a piecemeal way.

Writing 2/3 python is harder than writing either 2 or 3. Porting 2 code to 2/3 is about as hard or slightly more work than just converting straight to 3. But at the end of it, the benefit is your code can run in both environments.

So let's say instead of pulling the plug, py leadership says "Python '2.8' will only run 2/3 code." How is that any different? You're gonna have the people who already ported, who have no need for 2.8 cause they can run 3, and the holdovers who have yet to port from 2.7.

That's what I mean by there's no shim.

> The entire issue with Python 3 was that there originally was not, the core team had to be dragged kicking and screaming into carving it out through backports and reintroductions because their original strategy was not workable.

Maybe I got into the game too late then, but I don't recall it being this much of a dust-up.

"six" was released on pypi as 0.9.0 on Jun 28, 2010. 1.0 was in Mar 2011. Even if the py core team was dragged kicking and screaming, that's still 4 + 5 years of people who could have been porting, and weren't.

Basically, my primary point is, it was a damn hard problem, and I doubt there's much the core team have done better at the time. All the porting tools in the world won't get people to upgrade if they are resistant for any reason.

E: py3 was released in Dec 2008. So I guess those first two years might have been tough. But to me that seems exactly like the ripe time to work on the translation infrastructure and things like six, where you have public release but no immediate pressure to switch.