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When we started working on devo.ps and a few other products at Wiredcraft, I set up guidelines for marketing on our internal playbook (which we are now in the process of making public). One of these was a series of advices for our team when posting on Hacker News. Several people asked me to share it with them, so I decided to post it here on our blog.

Keep in mind that this was put together 18 months ago, we do a few things differently now. Nonetheless, here it is:

Submit at 8:00 AM EST. If you miss the window (after 8:20 AM), simply post the day or week after.
Preferably on Wednesday. Weekends front page are easier to land for example, but Wednesdays seem to be the peak of traffic for HN (more eyeballs).
Have a great title. That means being relevant and catchy, use capitalization and potentially use slang (a simple “sh*t” in the title can go a long way).
Be opinionated. Having a strong opinion about something will help create some level of discussion and buzz among readers, which helps getting upvotes.
Be relevant. HN is a community of hackers and entrepreneurs, so either post about entrepreneurship, technology or the related lifestyle and interests of such kind of people.
Now there are a couple rules to how upvotes work on HN:
One upvote per IP address. This means that if we’re all voting from the same IP (for example at the office), it just won’t be taken in to account. We also need to submit the story from a different IP.
Direct links to the post don’t allow people to vote. The link we have at the bottom of the post for example (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5200847) won’t work for upvoting. We need upvotes to be made from the newest page or the front page.
Knowing these rules, here is how you should try and schedule an HN submission:
Put the name and the direct URL, no URL shortener.
As soon as submitted, share the newest page link (http://news.ycombinator.com/newest) on Twitter, GTalk, with your friends on IM and ask for an upvote. Edit: after much experimentation, I may not recommend doing this since after all. It seems that HN protects itself against voting ring and may recognize if your friends are always upvoting you.
If you get on the front page, update that link to the front page link (http://news.ycombinator.com/),
Make sure you use seperate connections if your team upvote the post (using your mobile phone or doing it from home).
HN doesn’t seem to care where your post is coming from or who you are. It only cares about the speed at which you collect upvotes. Depending on the other stories on the front page, you may not need that many votes to get on the front page. From there on, things may snowball.

However, keep in mind that this is a temporary boost; you may see tens of thousands of visitors in a single day, but this will fade away quickly and may very convert very poorly.
I also found this bit quite... sad.

> Until recently, though, there was no one here specifically teaching women how to pilot boats, and encouraging them to do so.

The idea that the only way a group of people can particpate is through invitation feels so discouraging to me. It implies a group of people surrounded by water who had no aspiration to even try, and sounds so patronising.
Come up with some BS and then show the world how awesome your BS is.
I'm not sure if it said he had comprehensive, sounds like he didn't, but the wording is a bit strange.

> "the owner's insurance policy didn't cover comprehensive claims from road debris"

My guess was that this would have been a comprehensive claim, but he didn't have that insurance plan. Could just be a deceptive play on words to evade the real issue...
Sorry, for got to mention. Most of India does not have direct water connections.

Most homes have borewells, storage tanks and intermitten municipal supply. So there is no direct line from local municipal water tower to homes.
Sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about.
As far as I understand all interface pointers in go are fat pointers to (vtable, object) and as such can't be updated atomically [1]. Hence any data race on assignment to an interface pointer can lead to UB.

[1] unless there is an additional indirection, I don't really know much about go.
This question makes me wonder if artists at the time understood that cave paintings were pretty durable, and that they intended for these particular works to survive many generations.
Krav maga focus on teaching effective and intuitive combat technics to people who are not going to spend too much time in the dojo and are going to be involved in situations where there there are no rules and usually involves more than one person as well as all kind of weapons, from stones to guns.

To fight in an MMA fight you need to put a lot of training into standard boxing, kicking and grappling technics, which a lot of serious krav maga practitioners learn also anyway. It is just that it is not intended for the same purposes.
it would be nice if it were a PDF I could download and save for later.

is there any way to turn a series of pages in to a PDF? like a recursive wget and then pipe through pandoc?
Yeah, that's a useful remediation.

An even easier way to not act like an asshole is to be raised by parents who teach you to be thoughtful and polite by default.
Love your work! Spent all of covid learning electronics - always wanted to get into robotics or do something cool so I’ve started with home security and a clock project because I figured they’d be easy starter projects - still working on them 18 months later… but I have managed to get two PCB boards to work so far the most fun has been working with the tinypico - it’s form factor is great- and capability is perfect… anyways saw many posts recently about esp32 and was like tinypico is where it’s at people need to know :)
> Pressure reducing valves are used anywhere the pressure going into a home is above 80 PSI, and those are a lot more common than homes needing their own booster pumps

My house has one of these, as the pressure would go up to 90 psi sometimes (iirc). Weirdly, my water pressure isn't consistent and can still burst to a "visibly from the tap" higher pressure for a few minutes at a time. I have no idea what causes it.
A few times a year I update a bookmark.

Since my bookmarks use proper tags I just update it once.

If I kept multiple copies in multiple folders I'd have to update multiple bookmarks in multiple folders.
Bypass Windows 11 Requirements
Yes. Don't forget that Chrysler sold a car where the water pump was at the highest point in the system. Slightly low coolant level, no more pumping, no more cooling, no more driving. Lots of manufacturers make a few cost-cutting, weight-saving, or whatever choices that ultimately harm durability.
3 comments from the creme de la creme of the tech community, regarding a U.S admins plans for manipulating 350 million private text messages.

Shameful cowardice. Trump was the fascist right?
Does anyone at Dropbox past or present want to weigh in on the usefulness of this framework and its application with more context? The original post falls a bit short knowing where and how this is being applied inside the org.
Does it need to reinitialize for each request or is there a warm start / cold start model like lambda? I don't really understand how you can charge per request.
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-global-trade-cuba-...

You're wrong.
Lucky for him, he has 1.59mil YouTube followers and the issue was resolved https://youtu.be/hKSt0RrrtdA

As he rightfully says, the process should be the same for other small businesses that don’t have 1.59m YouTube subscribers.
Night of the Guillotine: The Fall of Robespierre
Show HN: Wasi.fyi (WebAssembly System Interface test suite dashboard)
It's not boring, it's just too big and therefore too slow for our tastes. If we lived 5,000 years, taking a 100 year trip to Alpha Centauri might not seem so bad. I think extending lifespan like this is more likely than building an FTL drive.
Curiously they don't have a level 7 for Security and Machine Learning.
Can someone explain how BERT and spaCy are typically combined in practice for a custom NER task?
From that page, I'm seeing 7 SWE levels from the sidebar:

- IC1 Software Engineer

- IC2 Software Engineer

- IC3 Software Engineer

- IC4 Software Engineer

- IC5 Staff Software Engineer

- IC6 Principal Software Engineer

- IC7 Sr. Principal Software Engineer

(This is on a desktop browser. Maybe you're only seeing 4 levels because you're on a mobile browser and the rest is cut off. Or maybe you indeed saw 4 levels and the site has been updated since your post.)
Yikes. That’s an unfortunate but sadly common mistake. Terms like “full coverage” don’t really have any real meaning, despite people repeating the made-up term.

I am fairly certain that it would be illegal for an agent to sell that to you without clarifying.

Funny enough, one of the first articles to pop up in a search for this is from Geico: https://www.geico.com/information/aboutinsurance/auto/full-c...
Tesla does not allow the buy option at the end of the lease for Model 3/Y. On the insurance, the leaseee admitted he made a mistake and omitted coverage.

https://www.tesla.com/support/leasing/lease-end-options
bioniac says >"Most martial arts training seems to me to be tangential to actually training the student to actually win a fight...If your goal is for your child to learn to fight..."<

But do you really* want your child to learn to "win a fight" or to "fight"? To what degree? Any fight whatsoever? Doing so would require teaching things (s)he does not fully understand and are emotionally unprepared for, e.g., maiming or killing someone. [OTOH if you want to teach that to a child, then teach him how to be a doctor b/c doctors know how the human body works better than almost anyone else and how best to turn it off.]

Instead set other goals: self-confidence, pride, athletic skill and endurance. I would first explain the role MA plays and constantly emphasize avoidance of hostile situations. IMO teaching anyone (including children) good evasion/escape is more useful than MA and more fun.
> The current attitude popular amongst compiler writers is that of strict legality; the term "language-lawyering" certainly applies.

The difference is that morality is inherently subjective whereas a programming language is pretty much the exact opposite - it is /exactly/ defined by its specification. You may disagree with the design of the language (which is subjective), but that is strictly different from "language-lawyering" and determining what is and isn't allowed by the specification as it is objectively written.

> Yet for some reason, when C and UB comes up, for some reason it seems not agreeing with those ruthlessly exploiting the standard and belittling everyone who dares question them is a highly unpopular and controversial opinion?

Barring the rather unreasonable characterisation of compiler writers as "exploiting" and "belittling" developers, if people have a problem with compiler writers optimizing to the extents allowed by the programming language, then the place to voice these concerns is not through opposition to the compiler writers (who are just doing their job), but to the standards committee writing the specification for the language.
> It wouldn't hurt to look for a completed project where someone has posted a tutorial on how they did it, and duplicate it. Then you can take small steps towards adapting it in a creative way

Funny reading this advice after all the Copilot drama.
Something worth watching:

If you had a comprehensive database of most of the publicly available software, and their SBOMs, you could recursively scan for all the packages vulnerable to newly discovered bug X, which is something that was previously obscure.

Something worth considering:

A government agency could fund two separate programs be developed to do the same thing with the proviso that they share NO components anywhere in their tree. It might help find bugs, and improve redundancy.

You could also specify that they each must pass each other's unit testing.

Something worth considering:

If you had a large database of most publicly available SBOMs, you could find the previously unknown critical providers and target or fund them, depending on your goals.
By SWE I meant literally "Software Engineer", as in IC1-4 Software Engineer compared to Staff, Principal, etc.
I am pretty sure they expect a IC6 or IC7 to handle that. Same for quality and reliability.
> I feel like its important to find a topic where your reasonably confident that there is large margins of potential improvement due to something like lack of exploration or focus by other people.

I don't have a PhD so I can't comment first hand on the experience, but one thing I remember from a conversation with the head of a research institute at a large state university, is that there isn't really a lot of unexplored ground. Modern research is incremental. And those tiny discoveries multiplied by thousands of PhD researchers gradually expand our overall body of knowledge. I hope that doesnt come across as discouraging. It's just that it stuck with me for some reason.
IMO nothing else in Funkadelic's catalog came close to 'Maggot Brain' except maybe 'Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlHpaypcQrw
Contrary to what the article says, "karate" does not mean "Chinese hand." That translation is laughable.

"Kara" in Japanese means "empty". "Te" in Japanese means "hand". It is intended, as the name implies, as a means of self defense by people with no weapons, like peasants. The theme of self defense is primary to karate. It is taught to be used only defensively.

Now you know about karate.
It seems like this experiment is primarily measuring the productivity of knowledge workers, which is a notoriously tricky thing to pin down.

Obviously, the work doesn't take more than twenty percent less time - folks are staying on task and cutting unneeded meetings and hoping the experiment is a success so they can go on with a permanent three day weekend.

Where else can we try this? Gas stations? Hospitals? Schools? Will students learn faster or remember longer? I would think comparing courseloads for freshmen could give us some insight here, because there's something to the idea that fitting the time to the task would bring clarity to the sufferers of boreout.
Eliot Ness
> Think Usain Bolt for example.

Usain Bolt doesn’t exactly have much opportunity to engage in funny business aside from peps, at least not funny business which would fall short of criminal charges if discovered.
> Maybe someone would like to buy an NFT

Assuming the story is interesting enough for people to bid for an NFT, then:

What about writing a book instead / as well?

(Can one do both? or maybe things included in an NFT cannot also be in a book?)

Or what about finding [other people who were involved in the early Internet and came up with technologies and ideas that nowadays 20 - 25 years later are "taken for granted"], and write a book together? Or maybe (some of) them would be interested in getting interviewed and having their stories included in a book, together with your story. Maybe a bit similar to the book "Founders at Work", but about well known early Internet technologies instead of early software / Internet companies? (At the same time, maybe that's way more work than what you originally had in mind)
What do fintech startups use on their back end?
What tech stack would you recommend for something to constantly monitor share prices from an API feed & then action realtime alerts?
PBS Spacetime has a video discussing the recent theoretical advances in warp drives. It does not cover this paper but does discus a paper that also claims to solve the negative energy problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk5bxHetL4s
Whenever I see contract language like

> bird or animal

I want to know the background behind why some lawyer found that necessary. :)
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Lots of ways to do this, but one way is install poppler-utils so you get pdfunite, make sure your filenames for the pages lexicographically sort in the order you want the pages to end up[1], then do

pdfunite page*.pdf output.pdf

I have had decent results using pdftk as well to do pdf surgery so that's another option.

In this case, if you do a recursive wget I think it should "just work" because the files are named in a friendly way.

So, putting it all together:

wget -r 'https://dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework/overview.html'
cd dropbox.github.io/dbx-career-framework
ls ic*software*.html | sed 's/.html$//' | while read f ; do
pandoc --pdf-engine=wkhtmltopdf $f.html -o $f.pdf
done
pdfunite ic*.pdf output.pdf

[1] ie the ordering of the output of "ls" is the order you want the pages in the output pdf
What'd you win, OP?
The established Western order wants war with China because they are not aligned with us.

NBC news, like virtually 100% of American media, supports this agenda.

From CNN to Fox News, war with China is establishment consensus.
You are precisely correct.

In most cases parents are happy with “self defence theatre” in which the parent feels they’ve done the right thing, in which the child feels confidence because they falsely believe they can defend themselves.

Most parents I think would be reluctant to have their children really learn to fight/defend themselves.

When parents tell me their kids are doing karate, and if they are interested in my thoughts, then I ask them, “exactly why are they doing karate? Do you know? What’s your true goal?”

And if their real, true goal is self defence then I gently explain there’s better options than karate.
No, the meter is defined in terms of c and the hyperfine transition frequency of Cs-133 is defined https://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Value?nucs. If that link isn't good enough, you can check out the SI Mises en pratique on the subject: https://www.bipm.org/en/publications/mises-en-pratique

Edit: I'm totally this guy right now https://xkcd.com/386/
I think they skip naming them because junior is a bit insulting and senior is pointless when you have three more seniority level above it. Also people are very fluent in this range. They develop in this range quickly. A very young person can reach seniority quite fast.
Thats interesting, I never knew that about tar but it makes sense.
Perfect - the best defense BY FAR is to have less / little / no $$.

This is unique in CA - other party can be 90% at fault - so you’d think they’d have to pay (some states do whoever is 51%+ pays). But you can actually be the one paying rather than getting paid even if they hit you.
That was sort of a primary plot point of the Ender's Game series.
I see what you mean now. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

It's possible that they "bumped up" the intern and junior titles all into "Software Engineer" as a form of title inflation.
The auto shop by my house lets you bring your own parts, but if you do so, they charge a higher labour rate, and don't provide any warranty.
I guess GPU loading is quick? Like ~10 seconds?
That is the implication, if you look through all the comments: people all feel the same, but some know that they shouldn't eat so much while others make excuses, for "complex psychological causes".
I’m not sure I understand. The calculator linked is the second version of that model, which to my understanding is identical software wise but looks completely different.
Why is Tesla going live with this (sure, call it private beta, but on public roads that makes no sense) without already disclosing all of those numbers to the public? If they're being this careless, bad estimates are all we have.
You "just" need to be in their reigon, and have justification. Usual justification is that you have two upstream networks and they'll announce your prefixes (generally with BGP). That's going to cost some more money, but there's specialist VPSes for this these days.
Ask HN: Alternatives to IntelliJ's Git Interface?
For a number of years, I've been a fan and dependent on IntelliJ's interface for Git commits.

It's still great, but II also seems to be collapsing under the weight of its own development, and it's never been FOSS, another drawback.

Does anyone know of any similar alternatives, ideally from the FOSS world, which will allow me the below functionality:

List and select files which have changes

View side-by-side diff of individual changed file

Select changed sections for inclusion in commit

That's really about all I need, since I'm developing a branchless "everything on master" solo project.
I am not aware of any US insurer or state where striking an object on a road would be a comprehensive claim. After watching the video I think he’s probably just confusing the two. Which might be likely since he clearly doesn’t have his whole insurance situation figured out.
> Theoretical: a lot of these theories rely on people not understanding the domain of a function

We thought it was an aberration of mathematics when Einstein's equations blew up into singularities. A singularity couldn't exist in the real world, they said. Must just be an artifact of us using "real numbers", and we needed to be careful to respect the domains of those functions.

Well, turns out singularities do exist and the math led us right to them.
Get real legal advice then consider appropriate action. Time is not your friend. Depending on Apple's whims you could actually lose app store access as they stumble and fall over themselves to be as slow to respond as possible. It is very likely you won't get any sensible answers from Apple regarding any of this. Or any answer at all.

If you can take them to small claims court, do so. But for all you know you might not even be able to take them to that court.

Find out for sure. ASAP.
It’s very common to have just numbers for the first few SWE levels. It is a bit unusual not to have “Senior” for 4, but then again it is pretty self-evident from the number.
Not sure what your point is. Lentils are used in thousands of recipes that aren't the US Humanitarian Daily Ration that most people would much rather eat.
I think you meant injured at end.

Another part you are forgetting is these are often designed to save govt money. Should a rich person slightly involved pick up the tab, or should the kids be homeless and costing $ in social services kind of thing.

Note though that YOU can be the one 90% at fault and the person you hit has to pay if you are broke (wife will sue because you died ) Ralph’s grocery caught this type of case all the way and lost
Yes, focus rectangles are an essential component of navigating the interface with the keyboard.
The favorite nucleoprotein offspring of the ribosome elder gods shall not be disturbed in their nursery, lest a wrath beyond mere animo-younglings' understanding shall be unleashed.
The Golden hand of a famous footballer came to mind immediately.
Geocaching/scavenger hunts/distributed escape rooms.
Threshold fault is much much less bad / weird
> But do you really* want your child to learn to "win a fight" or to "fight"? To what degree? Any fight whatsoever?

I teach my girls to fight.

My intention is 1. to keep them out of fights 2. to make sure they can escape or win any fight someone else forces upon them.

Play dumb, hide your worries, try to talk yourself out, if it doesn't work hit, grab and twist or kick with the intent to cause severe pain. Then shout and run.

An armed society is a polite society and I do my part.

If an assailant get hurt I can live with that. The bloke I gave a beating some 25 years or so ago actually became a better person as far as I could se.
There’s no hobbyist program but neither is it corporate/for-profit only, from what I see.

There are few people(mostly network engineers or researchers by trade and/or business owners themselves) who are assigned ASN to their homelab gears from JPNIC. Knowing the right doors to knock etc.