skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PERT is about more reliable time estimations. This is crucial when talking to a customer, for internal resources organisation and pricing strategy.
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I remember that split. Felt like Pearl Jam and Nirvana; two great things that existed at once but largely ignored each other apart from the occasional jab when you would ask them about the other. What.cd had Trent Reznor so Waffles can suck it
I wonder if AI screen readers will ever use the visual appearance of something to determine what it means. So even if you draw on a `<canvas>` it can still read the text. That would be sick.
Depending on the source[0], average walking speed in older adults is about 0.8-1 m/s. The world record is 100m /9.63 s = 10.4 m/s, so it would not be at all surprising if your grandad were just about 10x slower.

Since the "10x engineer" is defined relative to other engineers, the right comparison is probably more like "other runners" than all people, which of course narrows that gap even more.

[0] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/644554 summarizes some studies in Table 1.
Why go after Amazon specifically, with a profit margin ~2%, instead of other companies like Apple, for example, with a profit margin of ~30%? It seems like the latter would have much more room to raise employee salaries.
seems like that effort could be directed elsewhere considering where Tesla's stock price is currently.
If money weren’t an issue, which institution/doctor would you send a loved one to if they needed such treatments?
Right? They should led the blood bath continue until we're tossing nukes at each other!
The answer is the feature can't effectively be a WebView. Which is the entire problem here.
Nothing that a regular Ethereum based crypto exchange wouldn't solve. If that's already been done, hear me out:

a decentralized decentralized decentralized exchange!

That's bullet proof folks!
Once you've invested, may as well talk it up so you can pass the hot potato more easily.
> most M2- and M1-based computers only support 1 external monitor

This is insane to me in $currentYear. I couldn't believe it when I started a new job and the brand new flagship Apple laptop was incompatible with my 3 monitor setup that had been working with ThinkPads and Intel-based MacBook Pros for nearly a decade.

Glad that someone is working to fix this since Apple clearly won't. And don't get me started on Macbook Pro M1 vs Macbook Pro M1 Pro, whose genius idea was that?
Interesting. I was reading his bio and noticed the do-gooder activities he and his family are involved with. Funny how they end up defrauding people in the long run.
i have not read a single source that claimed musk violated ftc restrictions.
Yes you’re right he didn’t. He ended up paying a $5mm civil fine and was barred from futures business. I misremembered, my bad.
I'm building Multi tenant Segment for SaaS
Hey HN, Many of SaaS (user on-boarding /chatbots) today produce data such as tracking events, generating leads and the customers keep requesting these data to be sent to their warehouses / CRMs / Analytics.

Instead of building all the destinations (CRM & Analytics integrations) in-house, You could use Link from activepieces to offer 1-click integrations for your customers inside your web application.

Let me know what you guys think of the idea and if you see any potential pitfalls.
It might be lighter but how would it be more economical? You'd need a fleet of transport craft just to constantly dock and undock from it and at that point you might as well just make the one plane be able to land.
So much more toxic, 15 million people joined ...In a week.
FTX’s Assets Frozen by Bahamas Securities Regulator
I remember hearing about the writing shed and thinking it was really cool, until I realized it was so he could write his mistress(Felicity d'Abreu Crosland) without his wife finding out about it.
How is it legal to be able to get a loan to buy a company, then transfer that loan to the company you bought, then let the company burn to the ground from the crushing debt?
Exploring "The Waste Land" (2002)
Totally valid criticism.

But blaming blockchain for the failures of centralized finance, which we've seen time and time again throughout all of history, is literally intentional deception.

If a politician or lawmaker or business person blames blockchain for this, it is FRAUD. Full stop.
This.

Trusted combo: Fail2Ban + 7G firewall

https://perishablepress.com/7g-firewall-nginx/#download
Maybe 'cause they're phonetically similar?
Nothing makes me think that. :) I just don't understand what's better about the Android App Store, unless it's ad-free. (Which would surprise me, mildly, given Google's core business!)
Gold is legal. So is cash - in fact it’s legal tender for all debts public or private. By contrast, plutonium laced heroin is definitely not legal without the appropriate licenses from multiple regulatory agencies.
I started with ipfw, then ipchains, then iptables and now nftables. That is just on Linux.

To be fair: I just downloaded a ipfw setup and didn't give it much thought. I spend several weeks hand crafting several ipchains scripts. I spent ages with iptables and wrote a rubbish multi WAN effort and eventually ditched it for pfSense for edge. More ages for a host based effort. I also use ufw quite a bit for iptables. I use firewalld for nftables, these days.
It sounds like a good idea until a cop acuse you of been a drug dealer without evidence, take all your money, and then you realize why you need a constitution and a independent court system.
Honestly, why couldn't you achieve it? Your point is self-deprecating.

I couldn't because my goals and ethics do not align with the same outcome not because it's impossible.
I miss w.cd but redacted feels like home sweet home.
My, my, a new chicken and egg problem!

But seriously, this does raise genuine concerns about what is the acceptable limit for microplastics in the egg whites initially, since microplastics have made way to everything we consume today.
"Five patients had stable disease, and the other 11 had disease progression as best response on therapy"

great science, but disappointing clinical results
Maybe.

But I find Bill Browder’s explanation more plausible. Essentially Putin is like a Mafia boss and his organisation has been stealing from the Russian for years and years. To keep up his regime and organisation he needs to create conflicts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Browder

Also watch the documentary by Navalny that exposed Putin… one reason why he is now in prison.
There are plenty of bad franchises (remember Quiznos anyone?) but McDonalds is probably the best counterexample. Opening a new franchise is almost impossible these days and McDonalds does a lot more due diligence on someone acquiring an existing franchise (with right of refusal) than anyone ever did on SBF or FTX.

Even the scammy MLMs these days come with buyback clauses due to FTC agreements so the MLM meme of someone getting stuck with a garage full of product they can’t sell is largely a leftover from the 90s.
"Motivated largely by his own awareness of the discreditable nature of his secret behavior, the covert deviant develops a presentation of self that is respectable to a fault. His whole lifestyle becomes an incarnation of what is proper and orthodox."--Laud Humphreys
So two? What an epidemic.
> Again you are comparing the real world with digital. Are companies manufacturing software from sourced resources, excluding people and labour? Is Apple physically distributing software in trucks to stores across the country. No, none of this applies to digital content hosted on digital stores.

So do you think running the app stores don’t have a cost? Is any company not charging a mark up for being a distributor of digital content?

> You would think digital content would be cheaper,

The physical retail markup is much higher.

> Apple sets its own mark up of 30

As does all of its competitors.

> If companies where able to host their own digital stores and sell their own digital products, Apple could not afford to mark up to 30% on sales because no one would buy anything at the inflated prices on their store.

If that’s the case, why do companies that can sell physical goods on their own choose to sell on Amazon? Why don’t music companies sell their own digital downloads since they can be played on iPhones? Why don’t major publishers of books sell their books from their website? You can download a book from the web directly into the Books app and you can sideload on a Kindle?

The answer is simple, Amazon and Apple are where the customers are and there is no friction buying from either one because your payment details are already on file.

Marco Arment (cofounder of Tumbler and now a well known indie developer) said that one overlooked benefit of subscriptions through the App Store is that everyone keeps their payment information up to date with Apple.

From a consumer standpoint, canceling a subscription through the App Store is much easier than for instance going to the NYTimes abs trying to cancel it.
Except for the fact that these brands do this for a month and then get right back on board.

Every. Single. Time.

Everyone and everything is a show and the trolls have been directors for a while now.
why? everyone has PTO, and nobody is required to do all-nighters. If they want to, they can just go on vacation, wait it out and pick up severance when they get the chop.
I feel Spotify recommendations are pretty good for my account, but homogenous. They tend to stick the same type of music I’ve been listening to recently and it gets bland after a while.
I'd love to learn more! May I ask what your use case, and what you mean by "buildkit access"?
Any backdoor made for law enforcement will eventually land in the hands of bad actors, and sometimes those backdoors will be used illegally by law enforcement.
Just added some Digital Ocean IP blocks to my firewall config.
Try listening to what passes as mainstream J-pop/J-rock. By Japanese standards, the vocaloid scene is actually pretty innovative.
Please explain how their actions were / are not stupid?
Trevor Something - Death Dream
Emacs can shell out just fine. Even the opposite is possible: You can ask a running emacs server to eval arbitrary code. I use both frequently.
That's true, population matters more. As does wealth and cultural influence, both of which are hugely outsized in England's case.
Minor copy changes shouldn't break your tests. If you're selecting elements by their content the tests are much more brittle.

Nor should unimportant stylistic changes in class, or changes in element order/positioning, break our functional tests. Thus we give important elements data-attributes which are resilient to all forms of refactoring.
Reminds me of this story:

https://spellbinders.org/the-smell-of-baking-bread/

The smell of bread in this story is the knowledge that treatment exists.
Yes that middle school thinking is called “arithmetic“
This called a "leveraged buyout". Everyone who learns about them is shocked, and they absolutely should be illegal, but they aren't. It's very common for companies purchased in this way to go bankrupt, because the debt is too heavy a burden. Many name brand companies have gone down over the last decade because of this.
Social Media and Online Retail are big nothings compared to Finance and Health Care. Finance shenanigans cause global recessions and health care is consuming 20% of GDP and growing. Since politicians and journalists love Twitter though, we get to hear more about that instead.
It's embarrassing that they do this without even apologizing.
The FDIC is backstopped by the government itself, but the amounts of insurance it has on hand are why it jumps down bank throats quickly.
Wonder how smart dinosaurs could have been. Brains weren't large compared to body, and we don't know much of anything about their structure (folding, various types of matter) but they had a long time to improve their intelligence if it helped them hunt, hide and rear.
But this isn't about drugs. This is about editing genes to manufacture T cells. That's a lot more like engineering than drug trials.
Stupidity is not necessarily a lack of intelligence, but also a lack of common sense. He's clearly intelligent. Some of the most intelligent people I've ever known are quite frankly the most stupid and dangerous with actions conceptually and verbally.
You're also training google's robots to be more human-like.
I wish I could meet that guy and befriend him or her :). These are the people I would love to chat with. Sadly, I’m not a member of redacted. Maybe I should try to get in.
All of the examples linked so far sounds highly artificial, so much that I'm guessing part of the charm for the listeners is the artificial and robotic sound/voicing, so the producers make it extra so in order to giver higher satisfaction.

Is there any examples of songs out there going the opposite way, trying to use something like Vocaloid to make the voice and singing as realistic and human-like as possible?
Just rubber necking myself and most of these ceo types seem to be that way, possibly a job requirement. iirc he did insert an ominous note regarding the future of the economy and possibly that was intended to imply a high cost to snap quitting.

But far more interesting to me /g is:

"HashBackup uses a block-level incremental strategy that can restore any version directly and is designed to efficiently handle backups with thousands of incremental versions."

Do you have a write-up on this? Love to see it.
Not drawing parallels, just responding to parent poster who brought up both those characters.
Most of the people judging Musk are unaccomplished 20-somethings with massive inferiority complexes, or mercurial line workers who loved Musk until he publicly rejected the nonsense of their precious political cult, I mean party.
> I would like a recommendation/discovery engine that eliminates that anxiety.

Is “anxiety” the right word? This is an unexpectedly serious way to phrase things and I’m not sure I understand you correctly. If you’re viscerally bothered by the presence of autotuning, I can see why that must be very frustrating.

> I just want the option of filtering on artists whose creative vision _is_ the original vocal recording.

I think the idea of “original vocal recording” gets weaker the closer you look at it. You want something that’s not autotuned, fine. You want to logically explain your personal preferences in terms of preferring the “original” audio recording? The logic doesn’t hold up. That’s okay, you don’t need to logically explain your personal preferences.

In fact, I’d rather you didn’t. Pet peeve of mine. Maybe if you get a visceral reaction to bad autotune, I get a visceral reaction when someone explains the “logic” behind their personal preferences. It’s aesthetics. Maybe someone can bridge the gap between logic and aesthetics someday, but I haven’t yet met somebody who has succeeded.

> The only reason that man has a career is because his geriatric target audience is too old to know what autotune is (hence his denial is plausible).

The reason I brought up Bublé is because it illustrates that autotune is sometimes used even when the singer denies it, even when it’s unnecessary. Please don’t lay on the hate.
This is a very naive. As a techie that became a physician and I'm now back in the tech world, it took me a long time to understand a fundamental difference in approach. The medical world moves very very slowly and it seems very very inefficent to a tech person. It is a necessary evil. In medical world, lives are at stake. The ethos is first, do no harm. It is inherently and arguably necessarily slow to change.

The ethos in tech is just fundamentally different. Move quickly, break things. Its an Agile mindset of quick changes, pivots, rapid advances. Inefficiencies get identified and are tackled.

Medical world is different. The inefficiences are a feature not a bug. They are there to exactly do what they are doing, slow the rate of change. Clinical trials is one place where both worlds collide, the fast pace technical innovation world is about to interface to the slowly changing medical world. All of these guys frustrations is exactly about that.

He might think the solutiom is to speed up clinical trials phases. It isn't. Even if you did, sooner or later you will still come to another traffic stop of slow changes and inefficiencies because the medical world moves at a different pace, and necessarily so. When lives are directly involved the burden of proof to enact changes have to necessarily be very very high.

And what techies do not understand and probably keep asking is "doee it have to be so?". Yes it does. We didnt arrive here by accident. Even if we started healthcsre industry anew, it will inevitably end up in this slow-changing equilibrium. When lives are directly involved, better to leave things as is, than change and make worse. The burden of proof for even the slightest of changes is extremely high. what's optimal for health is indeed a slowly changing world. It is not for lack of talent or intelligence, as this author naively suggests. If you want to solve problems with quickly, don't go near that world. Stick to the world of optimizing ads
Someone could explain me what did i miss? I started on Napster, went on with the usuals torrent portals and now a sad streaming user... What was different about this website?
I took the interview in the early days, and I "failed" because I didn't rote memorize whether 192 VBR MP3 would trump a MP3 V2 or something like that; "you look it up in the site rules" wasn't an acceptable answer. I get they want to exclude clueless humps, but at some point you're not testing for cluelessness but memorisation skills. That kind of turned me off.
How to speedrun a business into the ground... by Elon Muskrat
"the brand image" of twitter, lol, go on
<em> does have its uses. If you have an entire paragraph that's styled as italic and you want to emphasis something within that, usually what you do is make the emphasized span non-italic.

Italicized paragraphs or long spans are more common than you might guess. Sometimes they're used to indicate speakers in a dialog or to signify editorialized interjections. No idea if browsers are smart enough to render nested <em>'s this way now without specialized CSS.
To 'subduct' is to take away or subtract from.
Wall St. calls it "Creative Destruction"
If someone wins the lottery, does that mean "they're a genius at picking numbers?" How many people with musk's starting wealth have started businesses? Do you think every single one of them is less of a genius than he is?

Musk's success story is just anecdata, as almost all wealth stories are.
Good thing about a standard is you just bring those issues up there.
What if they don’t know who it belongs to?
One, I'll admit I'm not an expert in this, I have an aerospace degree and took some aircraft classes but it was 90% on the space side of things. But I'm trying to be devils advocate here since its not just pop-sci articles.

> Skin friction drag is a drop in the bucket compared to parasitic and lift induced

I'm trying to rectify it with papers that say "In civil aviation, skin-friction drag accounts for around 50% of the total drag in cruise conditions" [0]

> I’m right and high aspect ratio wings are a harder materials science and design challenge than blended wings

I understand that higher aspect ratio reduces drag too and that the planes should all look like scaled up gliders with their long skinny wings. But as you said, it is harder. So is it a clear cut answer that exploring blended wing designs is a waste of time?

> Let me ask you this, why is the tail of passenger aircraft upward sloping?

To prevent tail strike during take-off and landing when you are at a high angle of attack.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037604212...
God, can we just kill the semantic web stuff already? It's like a bizarre religion that won't die.

By the time the web is finally "semantic" and everything is marked up appropriately, we'll have AIs that just infer the semantics and don't need all the meticulous tagging.
You have a fantastic idea there, and if you'd like to attempt to make it a reality, I'm happy to brainstorm it with you. You keep full ownership of the concept; I'm happy to contribute given the people it'd help.

You can contact me directly using my handle at my domain, which is 21337.tech
If you're seriously interested in this topic, you should look into some vocal processing courses or videos on YouTube, because you are quite misinformed on some of this stuff.

> Compression is a uniformly applied filter. It's like a contrast adjustment or colour curve. It also affects amplitude only.

Very incorrect. Many famous compressors are known for the color (saturation, technically speaking) that they add to the sound. Hell, some are known for how badly they destroy the sound, like the Level-Loc. Analog-style compressors (which most engineers still use for vocals, in particular) also react very differently to different input gains, so it's not a uniformly applied filter.

> (Also IMHO ratio is a better single indicator of severity of compression, rather than dB)

It is not. Talking in terms of total gain reduction is more indicative of the effect on the sound. Using a 100:1 ratio (in practice, a limiter, something like Pro-L on Safe mode) is very common on vocals to catch quick peaks, but only catching a few dB of gain reduction. You won't notice that a limiter is being used on vocals this way. But you would notice if I used a 2:1 ratio on a vocal and set the threshold all the way down, crushing the dynamic range. You also can't talk about ratios when talking about using compressors in serial, which again, is standard vocal processing.
So like how business was done in 2019?
$LUNA zeroed, hit a 10x bump, then zeroed again.

it's a common trend, and a lot of people ride that bump for significant profit.
If I'm reading your comment correctly, you may not be aware that methane abatement is also eligible for carbon crediting programs, which operate under the framework of "global warming potential" (GWP) to translate different gases into "CO2-equivalent tons" (tCO2e).
IMO the best site was Oink’s Pink Palace. After that got shut down, what.cd and waffles benefited hugely.
Not my article, but this satirizes well the various things that can go wrong during a startup, such as

- not once thinking about the customer but only the technology (technology is a means to the end of generating revenue, not the end itself)

- wasting time rewriting if it's not critical to the customer (sure, it will be 1.2x faster each time but that doesn't matter if no one uses your product)

- overengineering in the beginning with microservices etc and only talking to developers, again, not customers

- focusing too much on hiring and not enough on what they were actually hiring for

- spending 10 hour days with no weekends

- thinking launching is only a one-time thing while even YC says to consider launching again and again [0]

- thinking marketing consists solely of launching whereas marketing encompasses a much wider range, with cold calls, cold emails, SEO, content marketing, etc being critical parts of getting customers

- writing a big v2 that no one uses, again

- shutting down the startup with an Our Incredible Journey post [1]

- and of course, not learning the lessons of failure. This comment by SwellJoe on HN is truly one of the best I've read on here regarding this [2]

It is truly astounding to look at the ratio of things wrong to word count this article satirizes, it seems straight out of a Mike Judge / Silicon Valley show playbook. Given the current VC funding and economic climate however, I doubt many future startups will continue to operate this way, but I will probably be proven wrong nearly immediately after making this comment.

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/library/6i-how-to-launch-again-a...

[1] https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2222522#2222678