skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's assuming that the Saudis are being rational with their money. Given that they are currently trying to build a city that's a straight line[0], and a "shape based" floating octagon city[1], that assumption might not be correct. It's entirely likely that the real answer has less to do with Softbank's performance and their need to diversify, and more to do with MBS liking Masayoshi Son.

0 - https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/saudi-arabia-build...

1 - https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/saudi-arabia...
The juxtaposition of phrases like "eye opening experience" to this subject matter make me realize how many sighted metaphors we use as a matter of course. I don't know whether or not that matters, but they certainly jump out at you in this context (another metaphor...)
Well, cynicism isn't the total opposite of idealism. You can have an ideal that's compatible with cynicism, such as to create a revolutionary new product, which people will adopt because (here's the cynical part) they are interested in elevating their own status or quality of life.
I'm trying to remember what the method was, though I seem to recall border-radius being a property which could be applied to tables. And of course, Slashdot was a table-defined layout site.

Nobody does that any more.

(With a very few hackish exceptions, some of which may be news to you... ;-)

Checking IAWBM: the original site design used a Gif for the design element:

https://web.archive.org/web/19980113191222/https://slashdot....

https://web.archive.org/web/19980418031312im_/http://slashdo...
And won't.

I wonder if Tesla owners will ever get a refund for the self-driving feature they bought and will never work.

SpaceX might be able to get to $1M marginal cost for a launch, but you can bet they will never sell launches for that.
> At least 1000 workers of the Rideau Center are out of a job because the protestors kept trying to force their way into the shops without masks.

Those workers are "out of a job" because of the very COVID policies that the truckers et al are rallying against. COVID did not take away those jobs. COVID policies did.
Marketing, sales people, and such are all great but if you don't have product-market fit yet, you're beating up a dead horse here by focusing on growth. One of the first things I do when starting a new SaaS is setting up an event tracker (think mixpanel). At this stage, you barely have any users so no need for fancy analytics stuff. I just stare at the event log until I figure stuff out. Why are they not clicking on that button? Why are they skipping this card? Lots and lots of problems can be discovered and tracked by this way.

After all this, if I have a weekly user retention hovering around 30%, I can't be more happy. Then it's time to grow.
I think this question should have been formulated in a less punishing tone.
Either (s)he started to hire minorities EVEN more because they had some advantage.
Either if (s)he was discriminating them before but (s)he realized the mistake pointing out what was doing was wrong it's not useful given (s)he tellin it already and it might only make the person assume a defensive position about the previous stance.
They don't advertise to consumers.

They have an enormous B2B sales team.

Sales reps are for B2B, not B2C.

Generally speaking, business to business customers expect a certain amount of investment from your company into integrating with them when they offer you a contract.

Sales is part of this.
Data segmentation. Segmentation of existing customers to find similar customers. With a reasonable number of paying customers there is always a sub segment who find you valuable. Wish we had invested more time finding more customers similar to that segment early on.
While I sort of agree, the potential impact of someone smuggling in a bomb in their shoe onto a plane is obviously overwhelmingly larger than the impact of hiring a fake cheater guy for your corporation.

Part of why the answer for hiring fakes is 'do nothing' is because the downside there just isn't that bad, it's several orders of magnitude less destructive than "plane with dozens of people on board explodes".
If you can't justify it. And keep justifying it every time someone asks. Then don't do it.

Max . . . max is pretty easy to justify. But MaxMinusMagicFiveForUnseenReasons . . . not so much.

The point of all of this (I assume TotT) is to have the conversations. If you're not having them at design time or code review time or incident response postmortem times, you're doing it wrong. And you're reminded every time you visit the restroom (again, if it's TotT).

That's my interpretation.
I’m aware of these facts. Although the charter is a federal document, my disappointment does indeed lie in mostly provincial judges and legislatures. This recent article [1] provides a few good examples.

In terms of the targeting of the protests — I agree, it makes little sense. But it’s a bunch of angry, not-so-rational people. In any case, I suspect the federal government does have a lot of sway, and would still be able influence quite a lot. Trudeau has a pen and a phone, as Obama would say. I’m sure that the lifting of the border exemptions was not unilateral on either side, and there are symbolic things that federal government could do (such as setting an expiration vaccine requirements for domestic air travel).

In the end, I think Trudeau has backed himself into a corner. He probably could have preempted this by “listening to the science” and recommending a relaxation plan with a reasonable timeframe (even if it relied on provincial cooperation) before the convoy reached Ottawa — for example, the UK announced exactly this in mid-January (well before the convoy). Instead he politicized the issue with his “unacceptable views” speech, and pissed a lot of people off. Now, he has little that he can do directly (and the things above are probably off the table, since they require back-tracking) and is arguably making an even bigger mess of it (refusal to meet, going into hiding, now declaring emergency measures).

I suspect that the current rush to open in many US states is a recognition of the same underlying sentiment, and a desire to avoid political issues.

[1] https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/covid-19-pandemic-restr...
"90% of talks about artificial Earth satellites were led by USA, but 100% of works were done by Russia"

Bragging about something in the future is as old as the time. Or are we talking about different meaning?
I don't think it can be saved.

The last time I checkout Firefox was about a year ago. It still uses ugly lagacy windows UI elements in its history/bookmark manager, and switching between personal/school account was a pain in the ass.

I think it is too far away from Chrome and beyond saving.
Frawk: A fast, JITted, statically-typed AWK written in Rust
Interview your customers and ask them what their biggest problems are, and why they like you.

Find and interview people who aren’t YET your customers and ask them why they aren’t.
Replace JavaScript with .NET: it delivers byte code not source code, the byte code was specifically designed to allow JIT into efficient machine code with minimal overhead.

Replace HTTP and HTML with binary equivalents. A human-readable representation is nice when debugging things but binary equivalents are way faster, both throughput (handling strings is slow in general, too many branch mispredictions) and latency (to save bandwidth, text is typically combined with gzip or similar, they have internal buffers, they cause latency).

Implement data templating and data binding at HTML level. These things are essential for apps.

Keep the CSS, it's mostly fine.

Replace SVG with something binary, scriptless, and optimized for viewing only. Here's an example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29629792
The billionaire who selflessly and quietly gave it all away
My CEO spends half of his time acting as a sales rep, writing blogs, hosting workshops, et cetera. Honestly this would overwhelm me after a while and I'm glad he's there to do the job.
> "got natural immunity which is superior" is factually incorrect, at least to every statistical study done by national health orgs.

Natural immunity of an unvaccinated person is superior to a vaccinated person without natural immunity, all else equal, and the difference isn't even close. It concerns me that people still don't accept this.

See https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v... for conclusive proof of this. I don't have my notes on that study in front of me right now but off the top of my head natural immunity was at least 7x superior when compared to people who were double-vaccinated but with no exposure to the actual virus.
Google sells advertisements, Apple sells... access to its store involving a hefty 30% tax.

Goggle's interests are aligned with the surveillance capitalists, Apple is either competitive (see Facebook) or ambivalent.

Apple can differentiate itself by trying to sell the security angle and hurting the surveillance of people in their app ecosystem doesn't hurt them. Comparatively, I would say Apple has a nontrivial advantage in security, though I wouldn't make a broad statement that iOS is "secure".
conda might be another option. Apparently it does anything (not just python packages).

https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge
Card games like Hearthstone seem like they'd be great options, but the turn time limits sure would be challenging! It can be hard enough to keep up at times when you can take in game state at a glance and take actions in an instant with with mouse.
It's a great idea ... for industrial processes and machines. Unfortunately this is not where the hype is, nor where continual profits are. Industrial customers have a nasty habit (from the seller's perspective) of buying stable stuff that they can run for decades, which tends to rule out planned obsolescence based profits.
I work at Google, and I understand it here. Yes, Google can technically fire people very easily, but culturally Google doesn't want to do this. Google doesn't want to be quick to fire full-time employees, generally speaking.

So in practice, policies are in place such that firing people is actually somewhat difficult or lengthy, even though yeah, legally Google could fire almost anyone instantly. So if they hire someone who sucks, getting rid of them would be somewhat challenging just because of those self-imposed policies.
The rendered sample looks notably blurrier than the surrounding text. Is it rendering to SVG? If not, why not?
It works.

These days the secret is you have to hire the good South Americans.

Exploit the fact corporate America hasn't caught on to routing contracts through Upwork et al. Then don't get greedy, keep the TCE delta below 20%, so they stay more than 9 months.

You can take your pick of the finest FOSS contributors Guinea and Paraguay have to offer.

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Startup engineering management is so simple.

Buy a copy of Mythical Man Month.

Read it, read it again. Then re-read chapter 3.

Get two of the best, your Captain and your Copilot.

Encourage them to hire a pimply faced minion to edit the config files so they feel important, and so you avoid single point of dependency.

These days, get someone else who lives in Estonia/Ukraine/Sri Lanka for follow the sun support.

If you need more than two engineers + 2 assistants, you should have hired smarter engineers.

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Your secret path to success with international hiring is to avoid any country you know the name of.

Don't think you're thinking out of the box hiring from Brazil/Israel. Hunt down a decent dev from Ghana or Georgia.

If my Slack/Discord buddies are anything to go by, there's an extraordinary amount of gems out there who've made the choice to raise their kids in their home countries.

There's good talent in Thailand as well. RIP my friend the Thai data/cloud principal eng banking 14k USD.
I presume jdeploy is using its own code-signing to bootstrap the download and installation of other apps. Why not bootstrap a pkg?
CC chargeback.

Zero f*cks given. Sell me crap, pay for it yourself.
First is the right people - don't hire "Frank" from Paul Kenny's talk.

Second is to join sales calls or watch the recordings (Chorus.ai is great for this). Put yourself in the buyer's shoes and coach based on those recordings - I always listen from the point of view of "If I was the customer, do I think they really care about my problem, and is it credible that they will help me solve it?". Right now I watch 1-2 recordings a week and then chat with the team about what they think went well and where we might improve, and we are figuring it out together. That continuous process is what reinforces the culture. When the CEO is focussed on helping customers, and revenue as a secondary concern, it becomes the culture.

Third is probably for the sales team not to be an island. So get the engineering and product leaders to join the calls or watch the recordings too, so that the tiny features or friction points make their way onto the roadmap eventually.
Upgrade RAM to 32GB+

Upgrade storage too, if necessary

Wipe storage, install Arch Linux

If this is my insecure laptop, turn off all mitigations (spectre / meltdown, etc).

Custom compile Linux Kernel with my selected patches and build parameters (like LTO), mostly taken from other projects like Xanmod.

Install particular proprietary drivers (nvidia-dkms, etc)

Setup X11

Install all my required 'base' packages, like fonts, tools, and Fish shell

Clone all my dotfiles

Clone my customized window manager, terminal, and menu (dwm, st, dmenu). Build them and install

Install Firefox with custom configuration to increase privacy and remove Mozilla crap. Install my plugins. Install my greasemonkey scripts.

Install my custom written DNS over TLS proxy, remove the system DNS software (systemd-resolved). Why? Mine is better for my purposes.

Pretty much done, I then use a script to install all my misc software for development.
I don't know about LibreOffice, but my recollection was that MariaDB was initially less a reaction to Oracle actually having been bad for MySQL and more a fear that Oracle would potentially {be bad, close the product, ...}
I think that in order to increase privacy and - more importantly - reduce the attack surface of a Web Browser more efficiently, there will have to be two modes of web browsing.

Regular browsing - in my opinion - should default to privacy and security first, whereas trust to web apps should be granted on a per-domain basis. This is basically what I'm doing in a crappy manner in Chromium and Firefox, where I have all my Browser Extensions in regular browsing mode with uBlock Origin, Cookie Autodelete and whatnot... and where I use Incognito Mode to use Web Apps.

Additionally, I believe that a Web Browser that's decentralized has an almost infinite amount of advantages when it comes to bypassing censorship, increasing trust and the ledging aspect of (temporary) online resources.

My idea of building a sane architecture of a Web Browser is that the Browser itself is actually a locally running peer-to-peer web scraper service, and the "frontend or GUI" is a bundled webview that's pointing to localhost:someport. Web Apps can then be used by spawning a new webview instance that's sandboxed with its profile in a temporary folder, so it cannot infect/spread across the regular profile folder that's being used for the "regular private browsing" mode.

This architecture allows all kinds of benefits, as everything can be filtered, cleaned, verified (, and shared with other peers) at the network level before it reaches the webview - whereas Browser Extensions currently cannot filter any HTTP responses because there's no API for that.

AdBlockers currently are based on a disallow-list based concept, which means the advantage is always on the advertising side, and by default nothing is filtered; and scammers/blackhats have always the advantage. Once you add it to a filter list, lots of people's machines have been compromised already. But what if AdBlockers change instead to an allow-list based concept - meaning that the Browser maintains a list of resources that are allowed to load per-domain, and the default being just text and images?

If you want to take a look at where it's at right now [1] [2], my Browser is open source; and I hope to fund development via a access fees for a peer-to-peer "Knowledge Tracker" that allows to share automations for the web with other peers, aka macros, reader-mode like extraction beacons, and other awesome treats (p2p search and recommendations are basically included in this concept).

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth

[2] https://github.com/tholian-network/retrokit
Thanks! My DM's are open, or paul at [my HN handle].com, happy to talk to anyone making this transition.
Pets.com, Webvan, or Flooz.
There's a reason all those consultants went general though isn't there?

Historically speaking, building your practice as a specialist consultant is difficult. It works for certain niches only.
I started using this when I saw the initial announcement that they were working on integration.

I've got all of my diagrams ripped out of lucidapp and into project repos, but the issue I'm having is that IntelliJ is still shipping a year+ outdated version of mermaid, which makes ordering nodes impossible in some cases.
My point is just that the “crypto” part of cryptocurrency seems disconnected from the advantages you names.
Disproportionately so.
Warning: arguments over monetary policy are generally much more subtle than “hawks vs doves.”

If you want a book that covers different views of monetary policy, you need a textbook that's likely to be math-heavy and assume a background in theory. Carl Walsh's Monetary Theory and Policy is good but hard.

If you want something readable, start with Friedman and Schwartz's The Great Contraction which deals with monetary issue around the Great Depression.

Barry Eichengreen did a good book with Globalizing Capital that deals with more recent times from a more Keynesian view. (I should say, Keynes himself was very readable and you can find seeds of Monetarism in the General Theory.)

The Austrians' economics is a lot more religious than rigorous (Hayek himself said he was wrong and Friedman was right about the Great Depression). If you want something well done and rigorous but very critical of the Fed through a libertarian lens, look to Allan Meltzer’s History of the Federal Reserve (the two volumes run about 1500 pages). You can probably sample chapters of it.

I never read his book, but Scott Sumner is one of the best economists in the market monetarist school of thought, and with its emphasis on nominal gdp targeting it very much cuts against the grain.

For other good, contemporary economists focusing on monetary policy: John Taylor, Stanley Fischer, and Ben Bernanke
Portland had rioting for over 90 consecutive nights with firebombing of federal buildings.

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/09/100-days-of-prot...

If the police were responding in Portland they weren't trying very hard. With no firebombing in Ottawa, the response seems proportionate.
Marketing. Raise prices.
Seeking Great Mind for ML Engineer/Co-Founder
Hi, I am building a deep tech software as a medical device that will hopefully save thousands of lives.

I am looking for a brilliant engineer who has the following characteristics:

People that are exceptional
-Brilliant
-given an idea and needs no further direction
-can move mountains - Scrappy/industrious
Deep skill set in machine learning / computer science
Purpose driven and intrinsically motivated
-Bonus points if interest in machine learning, healthcare, or building a better future
Humility, Trust
Interested in ideas and innovation, passionate, bright-eyed
Team Player
Skewed Introverted
> Not everything has to be a webapp. In fact, most things shouldn't.

And be at the mercy of monopolies.
Lol... look at me, I'm an independent thinker who isn't subject to corporate influence of "vacuous nonsense"! Well, except for Google, Amazon, Disney and Netflix.

Can you comprehend how ridiculous you sound?
I could not agree more. I still find it difficult to talk about me providing services to others. I find it difficult, but once I do the pipeline opens up.

I was actually overwhelmed last year (my first as a freelancer on the side) and will scale back a bit to strengthen the foundations a bit better this year - but actually talking to people and when doing so always trying to create a little bit of value for them (and be it by 'oh now you mention that you need x, Paul over there is great and is actually looking for a way to sell x).

I am part of a business network and currently am working on providing a free short workshop for the people with online shops in basics about usability and conversion optimization. It will already provide them with the tools to make their shops better and also act as a marketing tool for deeper work on that topic with them (or a few of them).

And in parallel, as I am compiling the materials nonetheless I also will create additional ways to use the content in blog posts, Instagram and by creating checklists for others as a way to build an email list.

So this next to a day job and client work will probably be enough for me this year in marketing and business development work.

Let's see what comes of it.

[Edit typo]
"Sells itself" means the product able to stand on its own and raise awareness without paying for advertising to do it.

You of course need people to sign contracts & complete the purchase, that's irrelevant to how well the product is able to raise awareness without advertising, i.e. people interested in buying Tesla's didn't hear about it through any of their advertising.
Oh, thanks. I read through the first 9 screens worth of the page on my phone and assumed that I was past the point where I could reasonably expect an intro!

I shoulda stuck through to page 10.
Is multiple monitors a thing for blind people? I’m wondering if there’s a difference between switching between windows and switching between monitors.
Cheers to your mum for that! One of the trickiest parts of changing the rules in any bureaucracy or medium-to-large organization is if the org are lucky enough to still have people willing to stick their necks out to try to make things better for someone else. I admire the courage it takes to do something like she did.
I missed a qualifier about the length. That protest appears to be a day. Most day rallies have no issues. It starts to have issues when they start to be a week or more.

I would also note that some in this thread are claiming shutting down streets are violence. That protest shut down multiple streets.
Sales and marketing are different - there are TONNES of super successful products/businesses that lack salespeople - or who maybe have some, but the vast majority of revenue is “self serve” (ppl buying the product without talking to a salesperson).

I do agree that virtually every product needs marketing, and many need salespeople as well. But for plenty of products, salespeople don’t make sense - for example high volume, low price SaaS.
But it is just 2 clicks to do the same thing in Chrome (and those two clicks are really fast thanks to Fitts's law).
Oh my, I've wondered about this a lot since I come from a Sanskrit background and I love etymology. I'm also cataloguing the superb similarities between Sanskrit and English despite several mutations spanning millennia.

The optimist in me thinks this is the written script for an early version of Proto-Indo-European. Would love to see what like minded people think :)
I believe that the Tesla Model S does. People were tripping over themselves to buy that thing with no marketing, for all its faults.
Not everyone uses vscode
That seems like it would be incredibly hard to perform convincingly and if you could, you've found your true calling in hosting/announcing/commentating live events not sucking at software gigs.