skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this mooreds! This is definitely a groundbreaking article for me. I never thought about marketing this way before. So I want to share some takeaways around defining your niche & target audience that inspired me after reading this.
https://www.developermarkepear.com/blog/paid-advertising-dev...

Rather than looking for new audiences, I am looking for people that already show interest in the type of problem I want to solve, and learning from them. That means that I am currently focusing on understanding who the target audience is, and understanding their problems so that I can do a bit of pre-validation & prioritization of features to build steadily.

Steps:

1. Define who the target audience is? What is their role or job title?
- I want to build a product for (job title) saas/ecommerce company founders who already value pleasant & snappy end-user experiences.
- I’d prefer to work with saas/product founders partly because they have a shorter sales cycles than large companies, and mostly because they are simply more interesting to talk to than people working for large/established companies.

2. Where does my target audience post/communicate?
- Look where the target audience posts so you can talk to them, and eventually sell to them. For example: I am looking for places where saas/ecommerce company founders post such as Product hunt, https://www.producthunt.com/topics/saas because it is community of people who build products. That’s exactly the type of person I want to work with.

- Another idea is to google & discover who wants/already shows interest in the problem you are trying to solve. For me, it is figuring out where do people who care about snappy & performant websites congregate online? Which website, subreddit, or hashtag did this discussion take place in?

3. After finding where, understand the type of content you should post:
What’s your goal with posting content? Do you want views/signups or credit card #s?
Measure & understand if you are on the right track/making progress. If you link to your product in your profile or in a post, how can you know when you are on the right track. I am going to measure views, bounces, and conversions. Conversions could be things like email addresses, or credit cards.
- Look at similar companies to yours, who is their founder? Did they post or comment more as they built up their audience?

4. TBD: After I gather more insights on who is interested in website performance, I want to know why they care about this, so that I can make sure my product solves their problems in the fastest & most intuitive & reliable way.

Would LOVE to hear from saas founders here, and see how they approached this.
The paper seems to suggest that those are the only pairs of photos. Yes, they both sort of scream awkward photo at best, cat-prop at worst.
In short: An automated process made a mistake and a customer made it worse by being mean.
The taxes could absolutely come out of car users.

Roads are way more subsidised than public transports. I suggest we make drivers feel their impact on cities.

Of course it won’t achieve anything, because it’s impossible to make people understand how bad the current system is, especially in the US. So far gone…
Would tigers count?
Wasn't the article exactly about this need for a massive over capacity of installed PV, and that it still is possible to do?
So that's 5 empty homes per 1000 population.

San Francisco has 40k empty homes for a population of 700k. So, about 10x as many.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/how-many-vacant-homes...
It tends to be tightly correlated to energy use up to a certain material standard of living. At that point they start to decouple.
I spent two years with Emacs. I had it configured to my liking and so on. It wasn't worth the time investment.

You analogy with head, grep etc. falls apart because you're not configuring a one-off task. And god knows, I've done plenty of those using bash, and python, and ruby, and..., and any combination thereof.

Yes, all the "pipelines" you build for editing text (esp. in programming context) can't hold a handle to actual specialized tools.
Better by vehicle weight as road damage is exponential function of weight
> You're acting like the random support guy is an idiot

It's exactly the opposite. I'm treating him with enough respect to think he can think for himself. You're assuming he's an idiot and needs to be coddled. You're actually being condescending even if you mean well.

> Is this random guy making 8.50

Why does his pay matter? It feels like an assumption that he's dumber because he's not well paid.

> supposed to read your mind

No, he's supposed to read my words. If I believe a peer could understand me easily, why do I need to dumb down what I say for him?

I've worked retail before. There are people that are just assholes and there are people with legitimate complaints. I laugh at the assholes and they make my day better, not worse. It's the people with legitimate complaints that I try to actually help.
Maybe we need a categorized, hand curated directory of sites that users can submit their own sites to for inclusion and categorization. Maybe like an open directory. Perhaps Mozilla could operate it, or maybe Yahoo!
Any dating research from a decade ago is useless IMHO. The dating apps and newer generations of folks have totally changed what it's like to date on Tinder/Hinge/etc. today vs. eHarmony/Match.com/OkCupid/craigslist back in the day. Those old sites were all about writing and describing yourself, with a few pics on the side. Everything today is about making a super curated Instragram-style glamorous couple photos and that's it. The apps barely have any text description and are all about very fast decision making, yes/no, from just the first photo.
Yes, every item gets a vote of 1 automatically, even if no one votes for it.
That's super cool, what sort of times were you able to achieve? I think it's "cheating" to even use the 180 degree flip button (but obv everyone is free to define their own rules for a game where you're essentially playing against yourself). I can play with zero finesse OR I can sub 50 seconds, but I definitely can't do both at the same time.
I am surprised they emphasize "development of the cognitive functions required to excel in soccer" but not physical development from meat (and hence higher protein) consumption
Great Hill, and specifically, Paul Maidment ruined Deadspin forever. His name should not be forgotten.

That scumbag hypocrite Peter Thiel, for as loathsome and vampiric as he is, is only half guilty.
Contracts for CTOs: The main legal clauses that matter to your organization
A super-short read about what you should know as CTO
John Wick comes to mind, especially the part where the director explained having the dog died allowed them to have absurd amount of revenge violence committed by the hero later on and still feel justified for the audience. On my phone so I can't look up the articles but the quote was more or less "once we killed the dog, Wick was allowed to do anything he wanted"
But are you owning up to this ?
The prince made their money off $1.00 gas. $5 gas will make the cobalt and lithium nickel and cobalt miners rich.
NFTs will be around forever. They'll be mocked forever too.
I used dreamweaver when they had coldfusion integration. We ended up using the wysiwig just for verification because it would make the code so bloated (by late 90's standards).

I recall using HotDog Professional for my personal stuff. Anyone else use it?
Why would talking about corruption cause you to lose faith in humanity rather than the corruption itself?
f) Rely on teachers less and let their value be established by the free market

Being forced to pay a school that your children don't attend is rent seeking. Strip schools of all rent seeking funding, make tax money follow the child and let the parents on vote what education style works with their children's attendance.
> Yet another impractical vaporware passion project with no use-case/demand.

The use case is services professionals extracting cash from extremely credulous members of the KSA royal family (this is part of the new city project, another insane waste of resources).

Softbank raised $50bn in a ten minute meeting with MBS. They then turned around, set the whole thing on fire...this has been going on for almost half a century (the very first financial crisis caused by the Saudis was the boom in EM debt in the 70s, this bankrupted Citi and wasn't resolved fully until the early 90s...they on the same tier as German bankers when it comes to losing massive amounts of money very quickly).

It is a crazy situation.
> Is this the “everyone gets a trophy” generation shocked by how the world really works?

In my experience, it was the boomers who did this sort of shit to us millenials. I remember the 2nd grade softball games that we just wanted to have fun, and the younger boomers (our parents) then got all of us participation trophies for.. reasons. I know at least 3 in my team that intentionally left the worthless trophies underneath the benches. They were nothing to us.

We 2nd graders just wanted to play ball. Sure, do points (we weren't "allowed to"), and play quick, mix up teams. But no, it must be structured. My generation was also the start of that crap too.

And speaking of participation trophies, schools tried to do that crap too with "gold stickers" on perfect homework. I mean, who cares? I just wanted it done. Fellow students did similar with rolling eyes, like whatever.
So now it's more of a "we're more scared now because of the pandemic we've just had".

This is as good a reason as any.
As others pointed out, that is different then awkwardly posing with a cat that might now want to be held or looks forced.
Lasting scaring?
Campaigns focus more on what people care about, it's easier to get people to care about children they don't know than adults they don't know.

Unsure what point you're trying to make about them being a fraction of all gun deaths, a ban would obviously reduce those as well.
Did you use Udemy topics research tool when deciding about your course?
I agree that brokerages have done similar lately, with massive ad campaigns targeting retail traders, gamifying their apps, and generally obfuscating the risks involved to less-informed individuals.

And as you mention in the second part, it is a very difficult and tricky balance between protecting retail traders while preventing them access to instruments that the wealthy can use to further increase wealth.

As an example, it used to be that USA-based customers could leverage trade (short trade or margin leverage long trade) on crypto exchanges, for example Kraken. However, due to regulatory pressure, Kraken now requires registering as an Eligible Contract Participant in order to margin/leverage trade - the key requirement being proof of $10M in discretionary assets.

On one hand, this is probably a net "good" - short trading or leveraged long trades are _extremely_ risky, with the former having infinite loss potential and the latter resulting in margin calls or a greater loss than the account is worth (i.e. you're in debt to the exchange). I have little doubt that retail traders would've lost more money were this restriction not in place.

On the other hand, this reeks of "you must be this rich to enter; peons need not apply". A wealthy person can 66
misused in which ways?
>> If sites don't want to be found and indexed why go to any effort to include them? On the other hand there are millions of small sites out there keen to be found.

Then they should treat all bots equally and block Google as well. If they block Google as well, then yes, we should leave them alone.

Why give unfair treatment to Google? That's anti-competitive behavior and it just prevents new search engines from being created.
Lucky you. When my wife saw the profile picture of me and my cat, she asked me why the hell I’m posting on dating sites and threw me out of the house.
Why do you say that? Is that what you think?
Not OP, but US would fit the bill
This study suggests that a closer look at the effects of different companion species on perceived masculinity and dateability is warranted.

Does it, though? Quantitatively affirming the existence of a stereotype doesn't seem like any great discovery, more like indulging curiosity at best or lazy grant-seeking at worst.

Here, for free, are some other ground-breaking hypotheses:

Men with dogs will be perceived as more masculine than men with cats.

Men with large dogs will be perceived as more masculine than men with small dogs.

Men with snakes or tarantulas will be considered less dateable.

However, this result will not obtain for women who identify as goths, necessitating the formation of a new subfield.

Men with fish will be perceived as more or less dateable depending on whether they appear likely to eat the fish or feed it, with a small exceptional cohort composed exclusively of shark attack survivors.

Men with sheep present a quandary: are cheap sweaters worth the uncertainty?
Just speculating (I hope) but curious what others think.

Say that a video is flagged, user gets the above response and user simply deletes the video. To me it feels like an implicit admission, not having any additional information like "you were right, sorry" or "it is totally incorrect but easier to do this than to fight it".

And say only this metadata is stored, not the video itself, it becomes impossible to judge afterwards.

And say once in a while these logs are reviewed by another party (law enforcement perhaps). Might that be sufficient to end up one some kind of watch list?
Are you concerned the cat's self esteem was harmed because it didn't get any dates?
Also the photos have completely different compositions.

How do you separate the impact of the cat from the impact of a clear headshot that is front on vs someone sitting awkwardly with one leg up?
Financial transaction taxes aren’t really a concern for people who own stocks. Trades used to cost money before the zero-fee brokerages. An FTT will just be like everyone having to pay a slightly higher fee: a little less liquidity, slightly wider spreads, not much cost if your investment strategy is shaped roughly like ‘buy SPY and then do nothing for a long time, then sell some and maybe buy some bonds’.
I strongly disagree. It's very visible when someone is trying to write (eg) Python in C++ or vice versa, in a way that can substantially harm readability.
Secret Australian marijuana facility exposes location after turning sky pink
https://archive.ph/Tk4Zk
sounds like all that stuff would have made him a worse player.
I’ve tried. Coauthors and journal requirements were my limiting factors, not anything inherent to the typesetting engines…

These days (in industry) I manage to use pandoc markdown to word for everything (for similar reasons), which is even more limiting than plain TeX. You learn to write around the limitations pretty quickly. :)
I wonder if the cavitation is a reference to using ultrasound for extraction? Something like what is described here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.84981...

This looks like an interesting machine, I wonder if there's a way to try one?
Huge taxes on cars, oil, highways aren't always free, parking is expensive.
The most based reply on this thread. Too bad it doesn't include Christof Koch
It works in less arid places too. You can use the humidified cool air to cool incoming air. The now warm air is pumped out. Essentially, you can achieve this by putting a wet filter on the house outflow of an MVHR system, before the heat exchanger. The problem with MVHR is that the flow rates aren't very high. I have an inkling though that with a well designed, efficient house you could maintain a more consistently comfortable temperature with very low energy usage (think a few W and perhaps 1 l/hr water). The psychrometric chart suggests you can get a temperature delta of better than 10 degrees Celsius at 35 degrees with 40% RH.
Is it possible your parent's house is not well insulated/sealed? Potentially _really_ uninsulated? I've talked to people here (45 degrees latitude) who are happily using their heat pumps and we're looking at models for ourselves. One caveat being the people I'm talking to live in above average performance homes (in terms of insulation and air sealing).
The problem with the preprocessor often is that it is a language inside another language and the preprocessor is designed to be almost completely agnostic of the language it is embedded in. So there might be subtle ways to use the preprocessor so that implementing as-if becomes very unintuitive. I don't have a good intuition about this case, if this is 100% designed in a way that it can never provoke such subtle side-effects. Basically what might end up happening is that the preprocessor has to learn some part of the C language to decide if such an as-if transformation is possible and then branch to either do it or don't.
Assembling Our VXR Boards (& Misc)
Well, yeah, but the whole point of inventing a new kind of number to represent a/0 analogous to inventing a new kind of number to represent sqrt(-1) is to eliminate these you-are-not-allowed-to-do-that kind of exception. With sqrt(-1) it turns out to be straightforward. With a/0 it isn't, which is why sqrt(-1) is a thing in math and a/0 isn't.
Once had a neighbor who feed 30+ street cats via an exterior basement entrance they left open — so there are definitely people out there that have lots of cats.
Great read. Let me also recommend Paul Lutus's online book about his sailing odyssey. Over 3 1/2 years, starting in 1087, he would go from novice sailor to sailing around the world in a 31-foot boat.

https://arachnoid.com/lutusp/sailing.html
That is a perfectly fine personal position to take, but an awful position to take as a society.
I've seen huge differences in productivity between people who've been working with a given stack with for years vs months.

The quality just isn't even close. Recently I outsourced a project to two groups of people. A jr dev who had 2 years of experience but all of that experience was with the tech stack, and 2 sr devs (10 yrs experience) who had < 6 months experience with the tech stack. And the jr dev (who was an inferior dev in general) blew them out of the water because of the tech stack experience.

And honestly in terms of raw talent I think the sr devs were better, but it just didn't make up for the lack of tech stack experience.
Easy to say when you're not going hungry.
Have you used Tokyo's multi corp transit? It can be a real headache.

Also, the MTA is private (mostly) and the subway costs a fare, yet there's homeless folks everywhere on the trains. Implementing a fare !== homeless people not setting up shop in subway cars or on the platforms.

* the homeless and housing situation is a deeper issue with many variables. Just pointing at the claim that was made
Surely the free road system is the most serious distortion in the market. And free access to public transport could help rebalance that. We may end up with unintended consequences, but that is likely to be better than the negative consequences we live with right now.
I am very pro crypto, and I am also in many ways a libertarian, but I do agree that most people are simply not smart enough to handle their own investment decisions. I think picking stocks, investing in crypto, buying specific bonds, investing in anything other than market ETFs should be banned by anyone who isn't an accredited investor.

The nice part about the definition of an accredited investor is you can now just pass exams if you aren't wealthy enough. For me, that is enough to ensure sufficient liberty exists for those who want it. You do need sponsorship though, which should change.

I consider myself someone who is pretty adept at investing. I have a degree in economics and I've studied finance on my own time for many years. I've had many conversations with friends who simply lack the discipline to learn about finance, make a strategy and stick with it. Many friends have been hurt by investing in crypto, panicking, then taking their money out.

People are simply too stupid to make these kinds of decisions. If you want to take those risks, go pass Series 7, Series 65, and Series 82 exams. At least then you're somewhat competent enough to know why you make a bad call.
Thanks for the info. I still consider LaTeX more modular since the only assumption it makes is the name of file you want to include.
That only works when you don’t want it to (you’re already in a relationship). Group photos just make you wonder why you’re not dating them already. Or which one of the group owns the profile.
I don't understand your comment or how it's remotely relevant to the thread. Is this just a non sequitur Luddite rant about the very existence of new tech?
Correct. Science only concerns itself with the natural world. Supernatural is by definition “outside nature”. From a strictly scientific perspective the parameters of the ghost just aren’t known to sufficient precision to start to try falsifying. The statement you’d actually be trying to falsify is “there’s no ghost” and the only way to falsify that is to see a ghost.
Sorry to hear that. The distributed nature of small community groups and a lack of central management can lead to situations like this.

As a member, when you stop in to spend an hour working on a project in your space during non-public hours it can be hard to accommodate unexpected interruptions. There would be times I'd drop in for a 5 minute project and end up there for 2 hours helping other members use the space, etc. I'm happy to help folks, but it takes a toll after a while to the point when you avoid using a space because it uses you more than you use it.

During public hours there may not necessarily be a single person who's job it is to greet non-members for tours. If a member of the public drops in and there's a lull in members present or a particularly anti-social member is all that's left to greet new people then it doesn't put the best foot forwards to the community. Hopefully it's just a momentary lapse in outreach as bad introductions like this are what get communicated much more than good introductions. I can certainly understand not wanting to return with things working out like this for you.
What Is a Token Burn? How Crypto Is Removed from Circulation
Ask HN: Could you tell the world which search engines you are using?
> Poor sports, I’ve always struggled to understand people who’d partake in hacking competitions and then get upset because someone got onto their computer and took all the flags.

The sport is about everyone racing to solve the same puzzles. If one team is sabotaging the puzzles in the process, it's a different kind of competition than the players expected. Frustration is warranted.

It would be like signing up for the 100m dash but then having your competitors throw obstacles into your lane. That wasn't the intent of the competition.
Absolutely, John Wick stands out. Though I think he started out villainous in the backstory.
Forte was never a system for performance review, it was for peer compliments to make you feel good. The actual performance rating never use Forte - the performance review always happen before Forte due date.
I don't understand this. I can't understand how the thermodynamics works to not simply heat the air back up again when you dehumidify. I guess you can somehow have all the latent heat of vaporisation go into the water? Can anyone explain this? Surely an adsorber based system must release that energy at some point.
The two particular cat photos they chose for the study seem almost comical, like a parody of a posed cat photo trend from the 80s. There are much more “normal” ways to have a picture with a cat that I wonder if they would perform differently.
I get your sentiment, but I don't think a single comment here, or anywhere is positive about their plan.

This is not good publicity for Saudis the same way that those man made islands wasn't good publicity for the UAE.

It's wasteful and pointless "building" measuring.