skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a lot of subjects, sending cold email AT ALL is pushing the envelope. It might be convenient for you to communicate with somebody, but that doesn't mean it's acceptable for you to waste their time.

Unless you have a specific reason to believe that there's been some error in the way your email was handled, or unless you have some positive right to a claim on the person's attention, following up IN ANY WAY is beyond the pale.
Did we reach the limits on explosive power a long time ago? Or have we notably increased the efficiency of explosion per unit ingredient since the 1950's?
I like using Firefox on Android because uBlock origin makes mobile browsing at least tolerable and it lets me use the "desktop mode" view on certain sites so e.g. I can listen to youtube playlists even if the phone is locked without paying for a premium service (for what I consider basic functionality).

Surprised to hear literally the sole reason I use it on mobile is also neglected. Do they think they're going to out compete Chrome on Google's own platform for casual users or something? I don't get it.
ooh thanks for sharing that game
Cool to see my quote in there...

Since I wrote that post, I took a VP role at a startup and am now living on the other side of this. I'm constantly getting emails from people wanting to sell to / partner with / work with / work for Pinecone. I try to reply within 48 hours but the reality is that these emails are competing with those of my team, the CEO, other departments in the company, big partners, big customers, candidates I'm trying to hire, contractors that are blocked on me... And all those compete with time for deep work, family, and recharging.

I actually appreciate a few follow-ups for important or urgent things. And I do sometimes interpret a lack of follow-ups to mean the matter isn't all that important anyway.
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>Pretty soon the world is going to come to realize art/creation is just blending, incrementing and repurposing prior art.

That applies to everything, its even a basic law of physics, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. Any layperson already knows what a remix is anyway so not sure what you think will change
The log scale view of that graph is comforting.
I was only thinking about this for compute related services, which is where most of these surprise charges come from. I suppose you could have some fine grained rules for other services.
From what I gather, it seems like this would be a good choice if a portion of clients are on low end devices and it is more of a MPA/SPA hybrid - not a full blown web app. A lot of E-commerce and informational sites do fall into the MPA/SPA hybrid bucket.

If you really are making a web app (think dropbox, cloud based enterprise software) I think you'd reach a point where there is so much interactivity that you are essentially shipping Preact, custom component JS, and just a little bit of static HTML. The latter bucket is the only one which saves the user network and parsing time (and I doubt much of it.) I'd still go with a properly chunked SPA for true web apps.
Well yeah. But at no point did I infer that everything over http was the same as the projects I'm working on. I literally started the comment with: "In the 'real world' of my own little bubble, The average SPA is worse than the average MPA seems to come up pretty regularly, particularly in the ecom world."

And you're right, we absolutely agree that SPAs aren't needed the majority of the time.
Those smaller jobs you get - how many weeks long are those, usually?
One of my "fears" of doing contract work is having to support clients forever just because I did a small job for them once... and not having enough manpower to deal with everything.
Even worse in what regard? Did you reply to the right comment?

Chrome imitates Chrome far better than Firefox does. I just don't think they can catch up at this point.

edit: maybe you meant addons? Chrome has more addons, with more users, updated more often. Chrome fails at ublock because it wants to, but as long as you're not messing with Google's core business, Chrome is (of course) going to be better off than the product of the endangered company that solely survives from Google's donations.
Do you implement something akin to Role Based Access Control for those 30x20 employees? If so where do you store and manage that data?

I have zero experience with this but I am very curious how people do it in sqlite.
The comment to which you are replying points out the obvious value of such a proposal. Your not seeing immediate value, else suggesting it is not valuable, seems to be your error. All projects benefit more from those who see value in an effort, who are willing to put in that effort, than those discouraging or subverting such effort, given their ignorance of such value.
One I wish was in there is graph of prices / number of space launches
What about in 2022?
Oh, FFS, if you want to help, then stick unimportant mail in a "maybe when I get around to it" queue. Don't ask/train people to be obnoxious.
The Supreme Court has fewer deeply religious people than the country as a whole, because of the appointment process. The religious wing of the Democratic Party (conservative Hispanics and Black people) is excluded, while the religious wing of the Republican Party has to share appointments with economic libertarians (Kennedy, Roberts, etc).

That's besides the point regardless. The "Establishment Clause" prohibits the creation of a national church: https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/inte.... That's what "Establishment of Religion" means--creating an official, established Church. Several states had an established church around the time of the founding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state.... For example, Massachusetts had "disestablished" its official church less than 10 years before the Constitution, and continued public funding of it until 40 years after the Constitution. The "Establishment Clause" prohibited the federal government from creating such an official religion.

The Establishment Clause does not prohibit people from voting for laws based on their religion. That is to say, it does not put a thumb on the scale in favor of beliefs based on secular philosophy versus religious philosophy. Voters (at the state level) can close stores on Sunday based on Christianity, no different than doing so based on secular beliefs about workers needing a day off.
Dunno, this thread really puts words in people's mouths.

TFA is about the fact that emails fall through the cracks and that following up is a good idea.

This can even happen to work emails, but I don't think any of the examples in the blog post are work related.

Whether the receiver has a catastrophic organization failure or whether it's a one-off accident doesn't seem relevant to me beyond couching some lectures in these threads to hypothetical people: in either case it is a better assumption to go "I should follow up" vs "there must be a reason they never got back to me, so I won't."

This is good advice beyond email. Dating is another place this comes up. It serves you better to politely follow up than to assume someone is avoiding you the second it may seem like it.

Meanwhile, "Oh, she got distracted and never responded?! Pfft, well she should get more organized if she wants to talk to me!" is kind of the vibes I get from this thread. While that's fine, to be clear, you may also be missing out if that is your default mode.
So the whole point of AWS is you can scale up on demand. The point of it is there's no capital expenditures so you can scale up crazy fast. More scale more bills. Bills on demand.

Now, there's two sides to the second part of this. The following is a tiny bite of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

The good is that Amazon has a policy of leniency. So writing them personally and explaining and asking will probably--and for publicly viewable problems I've seen them come through. For me personally too, now I've also entertained a bad impression of them because they sold me some counterfeits, but one of the items I was sure was a counterfeit and which because of this whole crazy thing on the mail and on the phone they ended up forfeiting, turned out to be genuine compared to the genuine item from the maker itself. I could never distinguish the items in any way other than context.

But the ill part, and I considered posing this the other way, ill before good, but in this case it's good before ill, is that they actually have to make a profit at some point. Now they make a lot of profit, but this doesn't change that, the basic thing in business is that it's not just granting, it's charging for what you grant. Both. It's not only about survival, it's also about integrity, because if you never charge you starve, meaning in practice you debase your values until you can eat.

Which brings me back to the main point, which is this: they used real energy they had to really pay for, and real hardware that depreciated, and you got the code wrong. Now Amazon I've heard doesn't have training wheels, you want training wheels. Like if you play with assembly, you can fuck up your computer, that's $2000, and since here you don't know what you're doing, they will tell you to like replace the logic board, do this whole thing, computer repairmen for sure screw people.

Just like riding a bike, you ride with training wheels until you go through the pain of learning to ride for real, and you fall, and you scrape your knees, again and again until you finally ride for real. And you keep falling off your bike indefinitely, just less.
Right, but use a check constraint and not a data type constraint (i.e. `varchar(x)`).

That sounds more like a code review issue -- `blob` would've been an appropriate storage type in that case.
The `$...$' and `$$...$$' delimiters are used in TeX. LaTeX uses the more superior delimiter as `\(...\)' and `\[...\]'.

All the MathJax and KaTeX related markdown for math should use the LaTeX delimiters and avoid the TeX delimiters.

For more info see https://docs.mathjax.org/en/v2.5-latest/tex.html#tex-and-lat...
Still sounds like a good ratio, I'd say.

Live coding isn't very, but I found live code review + occasional adjustments quite effective when interviewing candidates.
I am arguing that using more emotionally charged language like “baby” and “mother” in place of a “fetus” and “pregnant woman” is manipulative.
My 2 cents: One of the reasons why I left is that there was no longer any symbiotic relationship between product management and engineering. Product makes unilateral decisions, throws them over the wall, and engineering is expected to quit whining and just do what they're told.
Really needs plugin support (if it's there, I don't see it). Plugins can make an otherwise minimal editor viable.

For example: compression, normalization, and ducking seem to be missing, and I wouldn't want to edit speech without them.
This also. Avoid keywords, avoid "URGENT"/"PRIORITY"/crap like that, and pick a solid good thesis statement

Don't try to categorize my time and attention, that's for me to decide, and you're just wasting characters in your title.

Vague statements don't make me curious, they make me bored at best and frustrated at worst because it breaks my filters and it's hard to find. ("Maybe you can help on this" style titles are the worst as I have thousands of messages like this. I'll never find your conversation among them even if I want to)

The right balance is probably something like 20% uniqueness 80% action needed. (these are bullshit numbers, just guessing) Unique item we're dealing with, action request of the email, line above the fold on email preview should state the relevancy for me right away (usually you get about 15 words for most email clients)
maybe doing recursive calls on lambda was not the best course of action?

I've been in teams making dozens of lambda based apps without issues,

lambda itself is the smallest item on the bill.

API Gateway is multiple times more expensive than the compute (lambda) fees
I've converted some legacy apps into, not a joke, PHP3. In like 2006-8. So, PHP3 still works this many years later (in VMs). Currently working to migrate to PHP7.

It's just moving business data into and out of, in many cases still file based records (but maybe we can upscale to SQL). So, if you can read the COBOl and implement correctly in the next blessed language (with tests).

Harder part is to meet the folks that can get you those gigs than actually doing the gigs.
Agreed. If python had a sensible self contain executable where I don’t have to fight and figure out how I’m going to share this program with it’s dependencies and imports I would use it over go in non speed needed applications.
If 72% of US execs admit to greenwashing, how do we keep them honest?
Pieces of the Action
Whats the requirement for an LLC? I tried signing up for Mercury after getting the email from Brex and seeing it mentioned here but was rejected today. This is a Florida LLC that is around a year old. After linking my Brex account and providing my information I received an email saying that you guys cannot move forward but did not provide a reason why.

Could you clarify the minimum requirements for being a Mercury customer?
What a remarkable group of people you are.

Also I didn’t realize Rollercoaster Tycoon was primarily written in Assembly. That’s nuts.
I would add “synchronization of any kind”. Anything from versioning/code collaboration to syncing any kind of state between separate systems. I have worked with a lot of (mostly inexperienced) engineers who underestimated just how complex something like Git can be and the incredible amount of engineering behind it.
A GitHub bug I recently noticed that seems related:

Expected: When a repo's readme is named `README` (without the `.md` suffix), it is rendered as plain text. When a repo's readme is named `README.md`, it is rendered as Markdown.

Actual: When a repo's readme is named `README` (without the `.md` suffix), the presence of `$` causes parts of the file to be rendered as math. For a real-life example, see the readme in https://github.com/idianal/personal-site.

Can someone please point me where I can submit a bug report/issue for this?
If not receiving a response is strong evidence that they're not interested then yes, but with how the majority of people use email it isn't. A lot of people just miss a large fraction of incoming email.

This approach to filtering does give you a higher level of jerks, but not overwhelmingly so.
I'm making a product that's in a competitive space and I need more time than that. I may be able to work 3-4 hours a day.
Given the state of the science the humanity is not able to foresee the consequences of deliberate genetic changes in existing life forms.

Covid just illustrates that such changes can have disastrous consequences independent of what triggered them.
Most the addons that I use work with collections, but collections are cumbersome to use. Why don't they just have an option to unblock all addons and give you a warning that some might not work?

The day they do that on Desktop, I don't know which browser I'll switch to...
Middle Earth doesn't have Christianity, and indeed the books really lack any real discussion of religion. God exists and so do angels, but there are no clergy or real religious rituals.
Automatic speech recognition for search and redaction too.
Too poor, their alumni don't give back to their alma mater
This is classic bottleneck theory btw. Address the bottleneck in your workflow, not pre/post bottleneck problems.

It's not just common decency, it's actually the most efficient way to deal with your email backlog.
Delta Lake 2.0 Released
Databricks open source propriety features like optimize zorder and many more as part of the delta lake 2.0
You're going really hard in the paint to defend Chinese genocide of Muslim Turkic people.
So you're saying all their comments are automatically dead until someone vouches for them? Or just he was downvoted on reputation?
For many applications you're right. However, in the case of a dashboard for blog articles I don't think it could ever come to that.
I think this is a major factor. The enlisted pay scales are publicly available knowledge and for the lower enlisted ranks especially they really don’t look very appealing.

Although military pay goes up every year, it has not kept up with inflation. The proposed pay raise for next year is 4.6% despite inflation being 8.6%. There are already a lot of military families that qualify for public assistance and one can expect this problem to only get worse.
"Also hot take: we need to stop making kids read Shakespeare in School."

I strongly disagree, though I entirely agree that the plays were meant to be seen, not read. Despite this, they happen to be some of the most profound writings in human history, so only watching and not reading would miss much of high value.

For me, struggling with the language of Shakespeare was one of my childhood joys. I grew up in a very rural state with little guidance and a poor local school system. But I like challenges, so this worked for me.

It worked so well, that I developed a life-long passion for wordplay, etymology, theater, and poetry. Eventually, I graduated at the top of my class at an ivy league school, with a concentration in comparative literature (focusing on Joyce and Nietzsche). I still read Shakespeare almost daily, and he inspired me to write 153 of my own (bad!) sonnets. I am grateful for the time I spent struggling with Shakespeare's language.

Please don't stop making kids read Shakespeare! From my very biased perspective, this is one of the worst things we could do.
Ducking is just reducing the channel volume dynamically. For example when someone isn't speaking.

A Side Chain controls some effect on one channel based on the signal from a separate channel. Such as "ducking" background music when someone is talking.
Serverless isn't just about scale, it's about deploying code without having to touch any infrastructure. The lambda free tier is also very generous (1M free requests per month).
> Time to take standardization to ISO or another "real" standardization body.

If you want to see how the web could be worse, do this.

The ISO process is openly hostile to the development of royalty-free standards. You can direct a lot of criticism towards the W3C, but they got the patent policy right.
Excited to finally use this!
Next up: NFT Radiance Fields, NERFs for NFTs
You're trying to make a scientific or analytical response to what I've just said is a moral issue. You can surely disagree, but many people find late term abortions repugnant. Some people find any abortion at any term repugnant. You can have these feelings without associating them with religious views. I'm not religious, as I've said. However, my broader point here is that people are making a mistake directly associating views on abortion with religiosity or conservative political views. It's not that black and white.

I live in New York. Abortion is legal for any reason up to 24 weeks, and then legal for any medical reason beyond 24 weeks.

Nationally, about 1.3% of all abortions are after 20 weeks. I don't have further data as to what percentage of that 1.3% were due to medical reasons. Big round numbers here 1.3% is roughly 8,500 20+ week abortions in the US per year.

> Why 20 weeks?

With current technology it is roughly where viability starts to climb from 0%. Possibility of feeling pain and/or terminating a living, viable, being. At 24 weeks the viability can be as high as 70%. It is okay that you do not find this disturbing, but I do find it disturbing. It's disturbing to me to think about voluntarily terminating a pregnancy after 20 weeks with no medical issues for the child or mother.

If given an option this is how I would vote. Unfortunately, there is no nuance in most American political issues. I don't have a choice to vote on allowing abortions for any reason up to 20 weeks, or for any medical reason afterward. I typically get to choose between "ban all abortions" and "allow almost all abortions."
I don't know about now but at one time Firebird made this question moot.
It never received the love it deserved in my view.
Daniel Vassalo writes about this extensively. He talks about building a portfolio of small bets. Lots of great resources to parse through.

https://twitter.com/dvassallo?s=21&t=tGgSR5Ycxu1oYZLJQA-mPg
I thought as of PG 9.2 expanding a varchar column was metadata only operation and therefore low overhead.

I know in SQL Server there are two issues with doing varchar(max) for everything and increasing a columns size is metadata only. First indexes have a limit of 900 byte values and will fail at runtime if you index a column with no max length and insert a value larger than 900 bytes. PG seems to have this issue as well but the limit is 2712 bytes.

Second the query planner makes use of the size to determine how much memory to pre-allocate for the query, with unlimited length field it assume something like 4096 bytes and wastes working memory if your values are not actually that size. Not sure if PG has the second issue, having a max value defined is valuable information to a database engine along with other type information such as UUID's only taking 16 bytes instead of 36 bytes.
> Rayiner. Dude. First, using the word 'plurality' the way you introduced it is confusing at best, and possibly just wrong.

The polls literally show Republicans with a plurality in the generic ballot.

> Second, the 538 poll aggregation has massive margin for error.

And in the last several cycles, polling error has undercounted conservatives.

> How confident are you that a 5% swing from Democrats to Republicans over the past year represents an actual ideological change mapping directly to abortion ideology?

I didn't say any of that, and I don't think that's true. My point is refuting this idea that Republicans are some sort of minority party. We're a closely divided country, as demonstrated by the fact that the GOP has won an absolute larger number of votes in more than half of House elections since 1992, and regularly pulls ahead of Democrats on the generic ballot.
If you are just getting package disturbed 100% of the time by TSA, that makes it useless to detect whether or not somebody else also tampers with it.
Personally I downvoted you because it isn't productive to reduce something down the way you did
I'm thinking too much of myself if I assume that you will read an email I send to you and follow up with me at some point if it's appropriate? I guess that reveals what is thought of me...
I had to double take here because that just isn't true. I can't even remember when the last time was that I sent an email over the wire without encryption and if you're using one of the big free providers (most are) you can be absolutely certain those emails are encrypted at rest.
Is there a way to automatically break on exceptions in Java, or at least on AssertionError? It looks like it's possible in IntelliJ at least: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23955273/can-intellij-id...
And then there's Mary Miller (R-Ill) who celebrated the ruling as a victory for white life. She claims it was just a mistake, but she's also the person that used a quote from Hitler in a campaign speech so "who knows." IMO it's an example of what I'm talking about: using the wedge issue of abortion to move folks closer to white nationalism and fascism in general.
It's the responsibility of the party with more to gain to follow up/ensure they see the emails. Anything else is just sugar coating the power dynamic.

But telling people they are expected to follow up is important for people who think that they aren't supposed to. I think it's universal that anyone who would have questions about following up should.