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By using the two “dating sites” he mentions: Cambrian & YC Startup School.

I’ve used the latter and can confirm there’s more than enough candidates for high quality, if you’re willing to search, read bios, and do (email) outreach.
+1

I find Laravel + Unpoly a great combination.
Sooner or later you’ll have to deal with ballot-stuffing - companies trying to bury their competitors by casting lots of negative votes.

Perhaps ML will help in detecting such campaigns.
Who else should do it for you? It seems strange that of all the people creating books, none seem to create them to the satisfaction of activists?
In fairness, is there anything new here that wasn't a screensaver in 1996, except repacked as a script include to be a background on what would surely be a terrible website? I totally commend the effort they put into the screen saver controls (more polygons, more lines) but, is this what Flying Toasters died for? I was gonna say Tom Dowdy but that's just rude. People are probably right to slam this, and that's a considered decision and not driven by irritation or a generic grievance. It's so mundane I wouldn't have given it a second of thought or written a word about it if it wasn't here, but it's here.
Context:

https://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topic/listForContributo...
When the description of your book includes "purifying the human spirit" the immediate reaction is that you've found a way to sell books to hippies, and your advice on farming is perhaps suspect.

There is a lot of speculation out there about how things might be done, but the reality is how things have actually been done were with the Green Revolution a.k.a. conventional farming.

A few individuals with a hobby farm selling food to rich people isn't a solution to world agriculture problems. Most of these techniques are labor heavy and replacing machines with people either creates an underclass of slave-like labor or makes food cost a huge portion of where your income goes to. They also often use fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, etc. but ones which are considered "natural" but not necessarily (and often definitely not) any less poisonous than synthetic alternatives.

Like I said before, there are techniques, opportunities to improve, but these things aren't going to come from hippies thinking their garden is going to save the world or there 1/8 of an acre operation is going to scale to thousand acre farms. Their plans usually would involve completely reorganizing the world economy in infeasible ways only possible if everybody was an angel and shared exactly the same ideas.
When the cafes were open, you can bet they said, "I'll have another Danish, and then get back to work on this problem that never seems to go away."
I truly do not understand how some people manage to convince themselves to buy such useless and expensive products. I get spending lots of money on quality DACs, amplifiers, speakers, headphones, etc... But some of the products marketed towards audiophiles are truly ridiculous.

What's next? A specially designed CPU and memory to decode "cleaner sounding bits"?
> However, if such an engine were to start beating Google, I'm sure Google would implement it in their own way: automatically detect why you clicked back in such a short timespan.

Do you seriously believe that Google doesn't use that as a datapoint already?
At-will are executives, not employees. If you're at-will and not an executive, get a lawyer -- that's not legal.
One of my fondest memories from interviewing was a take home exercise from Accolade (or may have been Acclaim) which was: given this framework (a working application with a TODO: write these two functions to implement the NPC strategy to fly an airplane across a map of open squares and mountain squares to navigate from the origin airport to the destination airport without crashing. On each turn, the airplane could turn 45° either way (or not) and then moved forward one square each turn.)

Your two functions were “init/plan” and “give me the next move” (or maybe it was just "give me the next move" but you could decide to do the planning on the first move). The program then ran and kept track of how many successes and failures happened with your strategy. IIRC, the problem didn’t specify a fitness function, so I decided “success first, then shortest flight, then least turns, then longest straight-in approach” was what I’d use.

I enjoyed doing it. Got called out for an interview where the senior engineer had clearly read my code and asked about it a bit. I was then offered a job that couldn’t pay for a comparable standard of living in CA as compared to Boston, so I declined, but the coding “challenge” was the best one I’ve seen: bounded, easy to understand, could use my tools, in my environment, take however long I cared to (I spent about 90 minutes on it and then ran it overnight just to make sure I didn’t have any (airplane) crashes that I didn’t predict as inevitable before takeoff), and was relevant in context and difficulty to the job.
There’s patchwork, although I can’t find this submission in it.
Your cite says this: "Despite extensive distribution of SARS-CoV-2 in the body, we observed a paucity of inflammation or direct viral cytopathology outside of the lungs."

Ah, and I see the tweet is trying to dispel fear that was worked up around this. Got it.
Reminds me of a (personal) website I saw long time ago that replicates an earlier day OSX desktop, with functional itunes player. Does anyone remember what it was called?
I'm honestly not trying to take a potshot against PG or YC here, but it's kinda funny to see him saying this after I worked for a YC-backed startup years ago that built its core revenue streams around generating SEO spam, we just marketed it as something else. Just to be clear, I don't think PG or YC are responsible for all or even most SEO spam, but I know firsthand that they've profited from it through at least one of their incubated companies.

I never considered the possibility that an incubator would support a specific product, then later on call for alternatives that would essentially freeze out the original product that they supported. I'm sure this very rarely happens, but it's interesting to see a real-world example in action.
I really do not think so; the places I saw, just go from crap to crap because tech leads/new ctos need to put their mark on things. I consulted for clients in the past years who were told to dump react (in 1m$+ apps) for svelte because react is yesterday. That is insane.

One of the larger insurers is doing this now; I told them not to because it makes no sense. But they drank the koolaid and doing react to svelte rewrites for no reason besides a new cto.

The churn in companies is high and it is not good.
Someone with Pre-Sales experience in the B2B world might be a decent filter. In my experience, they are often the ones working with both the business buyer and the IT department to build a business case. They are usually comfortable switching contexts between the product's technology and the customer's problem.
I'm starting to think Yahoo circa 1994 might be better than Google today.
Show HN: Stopping.app – quit drinking with the support of a small group
Mods: according to the article this is actually from 2005.
Might be worth checking out https://blog.feedly.com/leo/, I personally haven't used this feature yet, but seems to match what you're explained.
You really think that is a realistic goal, for the car companies to solve crime in other countries?

Just as Apple can’t prevent abusive people from having the desire to track, stalk, and creep on their own family members, I don’t think you have a practical outlook or plan here.

The manufacturers do what they can, and they deserve all our respect for that, not derision.
AFAIK the 2000 word essays in recipes are Google's fault - it prioritizes pages with a lot of content, so you have to add that junk to the top in order to rank highly. While I'm sure there's more going on behind the scenes than I'm aware of, it does seem like the rules could be altered on a category-specific basis where a lot of text isn't necessarily a positive.
If you have some time, watch "Stalker". It's pretty amazing this twisted-reality dreamlike film was made in 1979. It feels right out of 2010.
In all likelihood, Elsevier were subsidising or oturight funding those classes.

TANSTAFL. Especially in consumer technology "training", which is really sales-pipeline-building, and hooking addicts for life.

You might find FOIAing the library or univesity interesting, for contractual relationships.
dmoz!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ
Interestingly, Google Maps doesn't suffer as much from the issues with Google Search. Maybe because it has those community-driven curation features that PG is talking about? Google Maps is fantastic at finding places to go to (and getting you there).

Also, why hasn't Apple built a search engine yet? It baffles me that they chose to go head-to-head with Google on Maps, yet outsourced their search engine. I would've liked it the other way around: Google Maps and Apple Search.
Or maybe our western liberal democratic capitalist societies have long degenerated to a point of complete and utter directionlessnes.

Your conspiracy would have the west fucking themselves over.

How about this: a plutocratic elite has accumulated enough capital to be no longer accountable to anyone as almost each and every actor with power in society has been bought out - they don't care about you being able to afford a GPU for your world changing machine learning project for a fair price. They care about themselves and themselves only, and doing so are molding the rest of society into the same myopic egotistical form.

The recent pandemic and the sheer amount of people not willing or able to comply with simplest (masking, vaccinating, etc.) mitigation measures due to what boils down to a kind of malicious dumbness or idiocy driven by mass and social media reminds me of the kind of spirit that allowed the nazi party to come to power in Germany.

This doesn't bode well for ongoing crises like the destruction of the ecological support system of our species' home planet driven by greed and an endless appetite for convenience.
It depends what you mean by "artist". There are different levels for different social classes, and each level is a different job/world which requires a different skillset.

There are light years of difference between getting a slot in a small-town gallery or show (not hard...), getting a slot in a Beverly Hills gallery (much harder, but not necessarily dependent on quality) to becoming a name on the mainstream NY/London circuit (needs insanely good contact management and party skills, and an ability to write/speak art bullshit with a straight face).

You can also be a successful niche artist who panders to a popular audience (Kinkade, Vettriano), a full-time Etsy pro, a full-time Deviant Art pro, someone known locally for pet portraits, and so on.

For the top gallery scene I'd suggest books like Art of the Deal by Horowitz and Dark Side of the Boom by Adams.

For art in general try Grayson Perry's Playing to the Gallery.

For an inside view of the top go to as many big art fairs as you can - Art Basel (Miama, Basel), Frieze (London), the Armory Show (NY), Scope (NY, London, Basel) - and ask gallery staff how the system works. Tell them you're doing a research project or something like that.

Do not try to sell them art.

Don't be surprised if some laugh at you or cut you dead, but a few may take an interest.

Also, don't underestimate how good the best artists are. There's plenty of bullshit, but there's also plenty of solid talent - not so much basic drawing (although it can help), but a kind of abstract visual intelligence and feel for composition which not everyone has.

Look at a lot of art, and try to understand visual metaphors, shape and use of space, dynamics and movement, social references, and other abstract features.

Representational skill is the least interesting part of it.
Hey thanks for replying!

When you go the command route as you stated here. Does the UI show k8-at-home as a catalog?

If I install a "app" from k8-at-home using the helm install, does it show up in the UI of TrueNas as a app? Or is everything done via terminal hidden from UI?
I always used DMOZ more than Yahoo! Directory. It looks like [dmoz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ) became https://curlie.org/ which is still active.
This is the right advice. "What do I do with all this extra money I don't need" is not the way to think about it. Figure out a good way to collect all that money and invest it in safe-ish mechanisms and guarantee a good future for yourself and your family.

Plus, if you do the above, you still have the option to be charitable with your assets, but in an even more sustainable way than if you were to be charitable with the "extra" now because of the beauty of compounding.
You know they are in the EU? Surely there are political tools to solve why there is a demand for stolen car parts in the Baltics
Well, if we go down that route, you could just as well dump a few passengers down there. But I guess that wasn't the spirit of the above question :)

Allthough the motivation for overfilling a plane waste tank seems dubious overall, so who am I to judge.
Maybe the title should reflect that this is a newly released version (previous was 2019)?

Like many, I found Richard's lectures to be fantastic to get better intuition about the underlying processes. This course + Think Bayes[0] by Allen Downey did more for my statistical literacy than multiple college + graduate courses.

[0] https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkBayes2/index.html#
> Why not try writing a search engine specifically for some category dominated by SEO spam?

Back in the olden days, there were lots of organizations that collated high quality content from the best writers. They nurtured expert writers and paid them well. They fact-checked the content and employed diligent editors and proofreaders so it was accurate and well-written. Over the years, they'd build a reputation for reliability and trustworthiness that kept people coming back for more. If you wanted to learn about fitness, or cars, or cooking, or science, you'd find a reputable author and publisher and buy their magazines or books.

But then, in the early 2000s, the geniuses from SV "disrupted" the publishing industry and its financial model. They brought us a much better way to find content, the search engine. Because they were so much better than the old-fashioned publishers, search engines gobbled up the advertising money and became the dominant gateway to content. Publishers had to abandon expensive high-quality writing because rankings and eyeballs now mattered more than quality and trustworthiness. Instead of investing in writers, they invested in marketers and SEO specialists.

The result: worthless content, writers banging out garbage for peanuts, and useless search engines.

Two decades later, looking at the barren wasteland they had created, the SV geniuses thought: I know what we need, more search engines, but smaller ones that collate high-quality content from the best writers. There must be money in that, right?
> Optionally, you can save your habits to a shared location or cloud

How do you do this bit? Is it documented anywhere? (or maybe I'm missing the obvious)
I understood PG's point differently. My understanding is that he is suggesting an angle of attack in which carefully crafted manual reviews (that do dot scale) can be used to bootstrap a product that does scale thanks to something else (e.g. collaborative filtering). All of this being on a niche domain where you can drive a wedge into the mediocre performance of Google (online shopping probably being the worse possible choice, but there are many others).
Do the engineers also have input into the marketing hires?
> What would the world look like if agriculture, like education, healthcare, air, and water be thought of as a public benefit enterprise rather than a private profit-driven enterprise?

Some of us know that, because we lived through exactly that. It would look like evil empire of Soviet Union.

The “public benefit enterprise” of Communist farming pushed for collectivization and reduction of small holding, precisely for the same reason as profit-oriented private farming had: to maximize productivity. It still had not been enough to actually feed the people: shortages were constant, famines were common (though most of them were manufactured methods of genocide), and Soviet Union imported massive amounts of grain from United States.

At the same time, in Communist state, “public property” meant in practice “nobody’s property”, and so Soviet Union oversaw environmental destruction on a massive scale, limited only by ineptness and inefficiency of the entire communist enterprise.

So no, I’m not particularly excited about the prospect of making farming a “public benefit enterprise”, thank you very much. For an activity to actually benefit the public, you need to do more than declare it “public benefit, not for profit”. At the same time, for-profit enterprises have benefitted people immensely, so much so that people don’t even notice that anymore, as it became a constant, basic element of reality.
I completely agree. I think this would've been more impressive if they left the DSi and Switch out of this.

You could dedicate an entire thesis worth of information to the DS section alone. This page should've focused on the Gameboys legacy, but I imagine it was difficult to obtain devices to scan, they likely used what they had on hand, and am glad they did create it.

If anyone wants to work together to make scans of more devices, I own a very large number of these handheld devices and would be willing to have them scanned.
I find it fascinating to consider the potential impact on energy consumption, human time, hardware and hosting costs, etc. of just one patch to just one thing.
No Amiga OS listed but loads of granular of others less popular OS are?

Guess there's a lot of more work to be done there!
That's it! thanks!
This is possible, though it's essentially the same because the tools require an active "VIDA" subscription. So the ECU gatekeeps normal stuff with a high level blocker type thing. And, perhaps there are ways around it, but enough hassle to kill right-to-repair.
> lot of people don't use their real photos in their avatars, so if you wanted to assume based on appearances you couldn't.

That's a great point. Certainly on HN where there are no pictures and everyone is using usernames, but also your avatar/photo point is completely accurate. If you get really deep into indie/hacker spaces on Twitter, you hit a point where 3/4ths of the profile pictures you run into are either an abstract icon or a fursona, and trying to correctly guess everyone's pronouns in that situation isn't really feasible regardless of whether or not anyone is cis/trans.

And we should be encouraging that kind of behavior; it's good that people can go exclusively by a username online, and it's good that people don't need to have everything constantly tied back to the physical world. And pronouns end up being just kind of convenient information to give in a world where people have that kind of control over how/what they present about themselves at any given moment.

> Case in point: I also have ADHD and I'm also asexual, and reading that part of your comment made me really happy

I'm so glad, it always makes me happy when I run into other people in those circles. If you ever want to talk more about anything, feel free to reach out, but it's always just nice to see other ace/ADHD people show up on HN :)
Similar outcome has been observed in an area local to me as well. Los Angeles county has had mask mandates and other measures going back to the Delta variant, while the neighboring Orange County did not. Yet, LA nearly always had higher incidences of new cases.

https://covidactnow.org/us/california-ca/county/orange_count...
Is your trusted source the same as my trusted source which is the same as my neighbor’s trusted source which is the same as my Australian cousin’s trusted source?

If not, at least one of us is going to hate this new search engine.
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Hey, smart people: It's called CURATION BY HUMANS.
Yes. In fact if you wanted to cut out the SEO spam then delisting anything with Adsense would probably be a good start for a competitor.
shameless plug: see autossl.so[1]. it is not a proxy per se, but an LD_PRELOAD-able lib which upgrades plain socket connections to TLS for applicaitions which does not support TLS themself (or using too old SSL versions).

[1] https://github.com/bAndie91/libyazzy-preload/blob/master/src...
Your point is good but I'm not sure I'd say very good given how easily the same SEO spam domains can stay at the top of search results for ages simply by scraping someone else's content. What I'd be most interested in knowing is what their success metrics are defined as — for example, how much of a problem does Google's management consider it if someone searches, finds the answer they were looking for on someone's Stack Overflow rip-off, and stops searching? I could easily believe that a significant amount of what we're seeing here is that they're focused on some kind of user frustration metric which doesn't include things like damage to other businesses.
The fact that you included Reddit, SO, Google Scholar etc is awesome (I thought it was only for main search engines). Thanks for sharing. Bookmarked.