skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Important to keep in mind sales expense often buys multi-year cashflows.

In this case, directly comparing the expense of building a customer base to the revenue from the existing customer base over the same period can lead you to wrong conclusions about the viability of the business.

I would focus instead on the cost of customer acquisition, versus the PV of the average customer's gross cash flows.

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Here is SNOW's latest Q: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1640147/0001...

If you look on page 32 we see that the weighted average life of large customer contracts is 1.8 years, and that net revenue retention rate is 169%!

So customers sign up for multiple years, and renew with big purchases.

Turning to the K for some annual figures: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1640147/0001...

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Let's model SNOW's revenue as: The sum of prior year's revenue (existing contracts) plus new revenue cause by the prior year's sales efforts.

On page 42 of the K: We see that each year's gross income is consistently larger than the prior year's sales and marketing expense.

----------------- Example -----------------

In 2020, if we say that all 164mm of new revenue is due to the 125mm of sales expense in 2019, and contracts average 2 years, then we have ~320mm of revenue on 125mm of expense.

By this math in 2021 and forward, it looks like we can expect ~840mm of new revenue from the 293mm of sales expense in 2020, and in 2022 we might expect 1,100mm of total revenue.

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In reality, SNOW has projected $1,020 in revenue for 2022. - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/26/snowflake-snow-earnings-q1-2...

Note my number is a little high as I did not know what portion of 2019's contracts expired in 2019, so assumed none.
>Since narcissistic leaders portray themselves as [!] favorable than the rest and show a sense of authority, deviance, and success, we propose that anxious followers favor and therefore interact more often with narcissistic leaders than non-narcissistic leaders.

[!] Is it common to have grammar errors in publications like this? Wouldn't the author have preferred to say "more favorable"?
https://archive.md/664b8
Seems like any startup that is an app-only product or is sitting on someone else's open APIs will learn the hard way.

Notable victims: Meerkat, [0] YOLO and LMK [1].

[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/3043716/twitter-only-gave-meerka...

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/snap-cuts-off-yo...
Here's my quick first read:

"self organizing teams" + "every stage of the project" + "split work" + "leadership" --> "We have no idea how to run a software company. We don't have PMs, managers, or tech leads. We're hoping we can throw a bunch of smart people in a (virtual) room together and it will somehow just work."

My overall impression here is that you have no company and you are trying to hire your first employees, because obviously if you had a company with more than 5 employees this would be a disaster. That's not a great first impression. If it's somehow not a disaster, you need to really explain why this way of working is unique and superior, and then sell me on the value of that experience.
Yeah baby. I'm on my way also. I've been working full time and some days after work (when I have some energy left) and weekends I'm little by little taking a game out of paper.

To be honest I don't think of it as work, cause I do have fun implementing game mechanics, but I know it's hard work.

Congrats
I'm obviously biased, but my company, Rising Team, is a great place to work.

Our product helps managers understand and care about their team members. We envision a world where everyone in the workforce is deeply understood, supported, and empowered to reach their goals. We live this vision and of course we eat our own dogfood.

Personally, I believe in the power of transparency and honesty. If something is off, even just a little bit, we should discuss it. If we're not both winning, something is not working and we need to work to fix it.

I'm nowhere near perfect and I've messed up before as a manager and I will continue to mess up. But in the end even my messups work out, sometimes even better actually, because we communicate with each other and we care about each other.

We're currently hiring a senior software engineer and a PM.
You can check it out at https://risingteam.com/careers

Feel free to ask me anything, especially if there's something you're skeptical of.
I developed severe dry eyes, light sensitivity, halos, and migraines as a result of corticosteroids.

But I was able to reverse a majority of it and continue to do after learning Tribulus upregulates androgen receptors in the brain, which seems to control the aqueous liquid in our eyes.

I'm not sure what Vitamin A does to the body. From a cursory glance, it seems to affect skin androgen receptors, which would explain why it affected your eyes but if it has a similar affect, you might want to consider Tribulus.

Start off with a low dosage. Say 1 pill daily for a week, then taper off. On and off for a few months.
So this depends on what multiple the bank will lend you. In Ireland, it's 3.5 whereas it looks like it's 4.5 in the UK.

Honestly though, apartments anywhere near the city in Dublin are still way out of reach for a person on your wage, even if the rules changed to 4.5.
Like this one? https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naltrexone
One group is building a 100,000+ part device, with much HIGHER accuracy than astro, using a miserable wavelength (UV) for $200M a machine.

Not only that, they are doing UV light emission generation (dual laser) at 50,000 per second just to generate the light.

Actuation speeds are actually ridiculous in these machines as they image. Precision is ridiculous (and far higher than astro), lifetimes are pretty good so far. Reflectivity? EUV is one of the hardest wavelengths to manage reflectivity at. Does it even do anything on a standard polished surface? I would expect it to be absorbed pretty much 100%.

In terms of size, if you look at the individual elements the TMT is not one mirror, it is many smaller mirrors.

I think your comment sort of explains why astro is trapped. There is not a willingness to consider options.
Anything new here?

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20812636
This has been done with a few models. Nissan did this with the Z and Mazda has done this with the Miata. They aren't new cars, but instead they completely restore old cars with brand new parts.

It's not cheap though. I think the Miata restoration was something like $40k excluding donor vehicle costs.
Google Parent Launches Company Dedicated to Drug Discovery
> Another hunch that I have is that as you get older you tend to have less unique experiences

I have read that explanation several times on different websites, but I don't agree. Had a lot of new and unique things happening to me in the past decade (kids, moving, new job, new country,...). Times still flew. I have talked to friends about this and they have noticed the same thing.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29106398
I've played a bit of this before around a year ago and was suitably impressed (even if you couldn't play a round yet and most items were just non-functional sprites you could pick up)

Looks like they've added a lot more in the meantime!
this seems false from my reading of TFA, though I didn't read the paper:

> Identification is facilitated by variations across municipalities in the age distribution of teachers at the time of quota removal, coupled with mandatory retirement at age 60. This means that students were differentially exposed to the newer post-quota cohorts, which had a different gender composition (fewer males) and a different distribution of scores on the matriculation exam (higher scores on average).

the two groups were compared at the same time, but had different exposure to the post quota teacher cohort. this sounds like a great natural experiment.

I'm also curious why you're so strongly a priori dismissing the benefits of male teachers.
This is great advice that before today I wouldn't have thought needed to be said, but if comments elsewhere in the thread are an indication, it seems wise to include them. Taking a break is definitely as necessary as motivation, in the end it comes down to the individual to take stock of themselves and understand when they need more motivation or when it's time to go out with a friend and unwind. For me personally I like to use movies and TV to start my morning with, while having breakfast, so I start out motivated to get a lot done.
That's crazy. I'm coming up on 40 and I'd say a year feels maybe as long as three months did, when I was 18. If that long.

Having kids seemed to increase the effect markedly, but it was already there.
I use a few Yubikeys and a Bluetooth Feitian key with my iPhone 8. My wife uses a Google Titan USB key and Bluetooth key for her Apple devices. Our iPads are too old to have NFC, but the Bluetooth paired fine with Google's Smart Lock app and we've used that.

For our iPhones, the NFC has worked fine even without the Smart Lock app. I believe Google phased Smart Lock out some time ago but I've not tried using it in a while, I don't use an iPad very often.
Meta to continue use of facial recognition technology
America recently had an administration that prided itself on killing two pieces of regulation for each piece it added. There's a strong social issue with even bringing up the R word right now.
I've had it since birth I think, on my right eye, and while my left eye vision is great, I have trouble reading even very big text with my right eye. I'm a bit mad that I've never heard about this surgery until now.
Once out, public info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
Its more like 'NASA said that they would award 2 contracts and then didn't'. NASA wanted 2 contracts but the bid was always set up so that NASA could select however many they want.

They made some token reference to suboptimal things in SpaceX proposal but technically they never had a leg to stand on.
> I can definitely say that the speeding up is far greater than any cognitive decline I’ve had so far.

"Cognitive decline" is probably the wrong way to think about it. Your cognition changes as you age.

When you're young, you're inundated with lots of information. You can process that information quickly, but you don't know which signals are important.

As you age, you learn what information is important, and what can be filtered out. So even if you're slower, your brain can work more efficiently. It also knows how to take shortcuts.

...at least, that's what I remember reading in my college Psychology textbook five years ago, and it jives with the current article.
I'm the same way. I even have a hard time with drops despite using them regularly for years. I understand perfectly well that it's completely irrational yet I have not found a way to gain control over it.
TLDR;

Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere (POSSE) :)

https://indieweb.org/POSSE
Dunno about that. I'm a bit over 30 and feel like I'm 80 mentally (physically I'm as fit as I was in my 20's and still as energetic). I was always told that time perception would speed up but it really hasn't.
Now also lookup how large these EUV mirrors are, how much light they actually reflect, and how fast you need to swap them out because they have been damaged.
Our brains also filters lots of uninterested stuff automatically. When we’re young, many things are interesting. We spend lots of time processing them and it feels like time goes slowly as we have to “experience” these things fully. As we grew older, lots of things have been experienced and known. The brains recognize the known patterns and just filter them out. The brains are probably micro sleep all time while idling saving energy, and the time keeping is off.
> The separate datastore is the problem to be solved here - databases, especially relational databases, are extremely poorly integrated into programming languages and this makes it really painful to develop anything that uses them.

Hence "Active Record" ORMs like Rails and Django being highly successful. They functionally embed the RDBMS into the language/app (almost literally if using SQlite), which is a huge boon for developer productivity...

...but also a significant footgun, because it means the database is now effectively owned by the Active Record ORM and its (SWE) team, and not by some app-agnostic data team.

Want to reuse that juicy clean data managed by Django? Write a REST API driven by the app; don't try to access the data directly over SQL, although it may be tempting.
With different software pipelines they could run right on a GPU

It’s all state in a machine, and ML is showing us recursion + memory accomplish a lot; why all the generic structure in x86 if we can prove our substrate works just as well with better power efficiency if it’s structured specifically?

Chips aren’t concepts, they’re coupled to physics; simplify the real geometry. I think that’s what Apple is really proving with its chips, and why Intel is trying to become a foundry; they realize their culture can only extend x86 and x86 comes from another era of manufacturing.

I got into tech designing telecom hardware for mass production in the late-90 and early-00s. I just code now but still follow manufacturing, and have friends that work in fabs all over; this is just sort of a summary of the trends we see shrug emoji
Having worked in F1 that's entirely wrong. A Honda Civic will not even beat a F1 car in the first gear, which goes up to 180km/h. With an unlimited engine of ~24k rpm and a chassis which sucks around each curve nothing can be compared to a F1. If there are curves. On a straight track there are faster cars for about 4 seconds, but then the F1 overtakes. Our usual estimate was that everything in a F1 car was about 1000x better than in other cars. Gearbox? Engine? Chassis? ECU, TCU, tires, you name it
Nobody knows where the battery disconnect is on some DIY car.

Here's the first responder's manual for the Chevy Bolt.[1] Under the rear seat, which lifts up, there is a big emergency disconnect handle. Unlatch handle, pull handle up, pull out disconnect. NFPA has vehicle guides for first responders, and fire trucks presumably carry those in some form.

[1] https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/Training/AFV/Emergency-Re...
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I haven't tried it (yet), but know people who use it largely for that exact effect.

[EDIT] the effect of making an hour hour or an afternoon feel as long as they did when you were, like, 6 years old, I mean.
Judging from the subsequent posts nobody took it as a flamewar, but as an announced provocative answer aimed at exposing the hyperbole contained in the message I was replying to.
Yes. Tons of it is in Java.
I have a Yubikey 5, Yubikey 4, and a Feitian Bluetooth key, the Feitian is basically the unbranded Google Titan Bluetooth key. Both work fine, although I haven't used the Bluetooth one in a while. I use my Yubikey 5 on a regular basis.

I use an iPhone 8.
I don't see anyone in this thread discussing sleep.

At least anecdotally, I know a lot of people who get worse sleep as they get older. Sleep quality is, if I'm not mistaken, at least indirectly correlated with memory. So it seems reasonable to believe, in addition to everything else people are saying here, that one possible reason time flies by is that we don't get the sleep to make those memories stick.
SpaceX bid was simply superior along every dimension. Even with NASA frankly suboptimal evaluation SpaceX came out ahead.
if parents want to do this, they should know they kids have exam... just one semester failue on exam, kids will start escape and "forgot" homework and more test, if parent work too hard they even have no chance find it...
> "never" is not really ever a good choice for a property/member type, because it is assignable to all types.

This isn’t right. It’s not assignable to anything other than never, that’s why never is so useful for this use case.
I assume that for most people the "not for yourself" time is bigger on the weekends, it is for me and the people around me.
I disagree - it sounds like a good opportunity for the school to either stop pinching pennies so absurdly or for the district to actually start funding education at a reasonable level.
What about instead to "counter immaturity in discussion", like we are trying to do here?
check this out https://curiyash.gumroad.com/l/WpYHE
In the face of widely popular de-platforming of some individuals, it's not clear to me what the EFF's position should be. I don't want them to ignore current affairs (aka how to counter cultish indoctrination of people with totally bonkers lies like "the covid vaccine has a microchip in it") while at the same time preserving the freedom of speech we believe in (in the US).
in case you stupidly say you hate your coworkers or something similarly bad
(New accounts are subject to extra restrictions and sometimes software kills their posts. We review those and try to find and unkill all the good ones, though it takes time and we do miss a few. I've marked absorbb's account legit now so this won't happen again.)
Median house size is > 2000 sq ft, so common people are buying large houses. They're certainly not out of reach.

The US has (except maybe Australia) the largest median house sizes on the planet. Home ownership has bounced between 63% and 69% for over 50 years, and is currently rising again.

What force makes a smaller home sustainable but a larger one not sustainable?
This reminds me of an e-commerce system which stored data in a mixture of Oracle, and text files on the local disk. We handled backups by loading the text files into blob columns in the database, and then just backing up the database.
I personally like regex as well, but it can be hard to read… there are other similar things like python parse (https://pypi.org/project/parse/,”parse is format in reverse”) which are a little easier for easy cases.
Out of curiosity, do you have to use another device for TOTP 2F?
And I think here-in lies the trap of excel.

You've built this brilliant report because you're an excel wiz, but because of that you've gotten someone up the chain's attention and you need to do it every day/multiple times per day, and automating out all your shortcuts, hotkey and ui clicks with macros becomes a horrifying cludge that had you invested in something more automation oriented earlier would produce more resilient/repeatable solutions.
Reminds me of Issac Newton, who had the total opposite attitude towards needles in his eye. He poked holes in his cornea as an experiment.

This was discussed recently here on HN, but I couldn't find the submission. Here's a link to another story about it: https://jsaulburton.com/2014/07/27/isaac-newton-his-eye-and-...
I'm not ready to believe that a person can never change. I've said some dumb stuff in the past too. A person that runs a social network for 4000 people in their dorm room is not the same person that runs a company worth hundreds of billions. And the goal of Facebook is not to abuse our privacy as such. It's to make money. If they have another way of making money I'm sure they'll be just as happy.

However, I have much less faith in the ability of a company to change. Even if Zuckerberg (and more importantly, the board) wants this change, the company has spent the last decade hiring people with the skills and mindset of gathering personal data and exploiting it for maximum profits. The entire organisation is built towards this purpose. Institutional inertia is a big thing, you don't turn such a company around in a month. Employees hate change, they will continue doing what they're good at if you give them the chance.

It will take reinforcing this new message over and over and taking hard action, like firing people and entire departments who continue to work against the new direction. Otherwise things will just stay the same. Are Zuckerberg and the company board ready for this? The "all-in" approach on the Metaverse project is kind of a good sign. But I'll wait for them to prove it. They have a lot of consumer trust to recover too. Once they do I will start believing again but right now they have to prove themselves.
That's my theory too. In your first 20-30 years there are so many new things to keep your mind busy. Different schools, driver's license, first car, first time seeing a movie, first time seeing a concert, first relationships, first break up, moving out, travel, first job, children and so on. At some point it all becomes a repeat. I feel a lot of movies are just a repeat of what I have seen 30 years ago. Same for music. I can go to India for the fifth time but it's not the same excitement and amount of new experiences as the first time.

I don't know how to get out of this. I can't think of any truly new things to do. Maybe I could go to jail or win Wimbledon? These would be truly new :-)
Thats exactly what I was looking for day before yesterday, but I'd want more like in browser tool. But anyways - it's useful
The app is down right now. I'm getting 502 errors
Not sure if getStatusForPolicy will tell you that the DRM system support HDCP or if the current configuration supports HDCP but you can test this in an unsupported configuration. https://w3c-test.org/encrypted-media/drm-check-status-for-hd...
It's funny to me that the article doesn't mention the word "muscle" anywhere. It seems a diet like this would reduce muscle mass, which may be a large contributor to the decline in body weight mentioned in the study.
I literally opened the comments to post these two links, but clearly there are other people here who enjoy these two exact channels already :D
It can definitely be beneficial to add logical registers. When AMD designed x86-64 they doubled the number of general logical registers up to 16. As other commenters have said, unless you are already making breaking changes, increasing the number of logical registers is probably not worth it.
I don't think autophagy is a binary state. It fluctuates over the day, and increases when fasting.

Many vitamins are fat soluble so taking them while fasting is pointless.
I’ve been an emacs user for 10 years. Before that, vi for another 10.

This year I switched to VSCode and I will probably not go back.

I like emacs, but the modes I depend on are just too brittle, and there is no easy way to discover that your old favorite mode for some particular feature set has been surpassed by a new one in popularity. VS Code plug-in search gives you ranked options.

Also, there is something to be said for having everyone on your team / company on the same editor; you get economies of scale w.r.t. setting and configurations. As someone that personally invests in tooling, it’s nice to then be able to scale that tooling out to 50 people and have everyone get the benefits.

I can’t do that with emacs, because the learning curve is too steep. But I’ve been able to switch dozens of people with VSCode.
The problem is that in the general case it would with high likelihood lead to a flamewar.

Dropping a lit match in a dry forest is a bad idea even when that particular match doesn't happen to catch fire.
Zhang Gaoli is retired but censorship rules means that all news of this is pretty much censored in China