skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So in essence you’re willing to do a lot of work.

Your theories and methods do make some sense, but a business that spends a lot of money on advertising doesn’t need to be inadequate per se.

I’ve been Marketing Lead for 2 startups and have now started 3 companies.

4 of the 5 have grown through advertising.

In all 4 cases, the market wasn’t even aware that a solution like ours existed. (You can’t search for something you don’t know about.)

I doubt you would argue that advertising these products is some kind of systematic failure.

Second; let’s come back to the hair salon example. Let’s just say it’s brand new.

I doubt you’d argue that a brand new salon is making its product suffer by advertising. After all, it is suffering right now because it has zero customers.

And let’s take a third example - where word of mouth is unavailable. There are many products and services where word of mouth is simply not available as a marketing channel. This is common in B2B where the people picking a service just have no one in their networks who would be interested.

I doubt you’d begrudge them the need to advertise?

Yet a huge amount of marketing spend falls into these three buckets.

I should also add that your out of the way hair salon would never have been able to start without the assistance of advertising. You’d have to be insane to start a business in a low traffic area if you’re prohibited from promoting it.
I've got two big reusable bags in my car for that purpose. They fold up and take very little space. If you're buying salad and leafy vegetables, a basket is even better. Next time i go to the farmer's market I'll definitely take the basket.
That is literally pronounced “boleevud”. Can you guess why?

"Bollywood" was invented & popularized in Bombay-based film trade journals in the 1960s & 1970s. It was an explicit reference *by the Indian film industry there to Hollywood. It was additionally a play on “Tollywood" for the Tollygunge-based cinema of West Bengal, which had been called that since the 30s.
In what time frame?
VCs are salesmen. They are selling to public markets.

All of VC is trying to make a product that looks attractive to public markets. VCs are in sales and public relations.

The most obvious signal of this is how they continually select a college dropout or 20-something as a “genius founder”. There are rare examples of this happening but a much more logical play is someone who has worked in their industry for 10+ years and made a lot of connections. The invention of the “dropout genius” was because public market investors like that story to mimic Gates and Zuckerberg. In reality 99% of 20 year old CEOs that are handed millions of dollars are fucking idiots and nightmares to work for, lacking any professional and managerial experience, plus the “anointed one” marking giving them unearned authority.

While I loved the free-money era as an entrepreneur, honestly the mal-investment is absurd and we need a cleansing of the charlatans in the tech industry. VCs are an area that needs to massively contract.
Nonsense. People respond to incentives all the time. I recommend reading up on "zero-determinate strategies": all it takes to change someone's behavior is changing your behavior in response in ways that impact their payoffs.

We are rationalizing creatures, not rational creatures. Once racism, sexism or caste discrimination stop being strategic, people stop buying into them. The book "Pax Ethnica: Where and How Diversity Succeeds" describes several instance where this worked. Voluntary legal protection of minority rights by a historically-dominant group has repeatedly dismantled long-standing ethnic conflicts.
Absolutely not. Don't be silly. We need to be highly selective.
> * Have reusable bags for groceries that last many years.

I find that now I need to buy bags (in a box!!!) for trash. Bags that are much thicker than I need most of the time.

> Buy fresh vegetables/fruits (95% of these are not covered in plastic)

In France, supermarket customers have to self-weigh their vegetables/fruit purchases and only recently did stop making you put things like your weighed bananas in bags. Cashier used to always look at me funny when I just slapped the label on the banana peels.
The model is not written in a programming language at all. The model is in the neural network weights.
This sounds like an EXTREME corner / edge case. Not typical.
I host a full Web app on Lambda like so https://github.com/kaihendry/ltabus
I met Reynold a few years ago about a job and also withdrew because he frankly got too self-righteous and made me feel uncomfortable. Cloudera was a bit warmer but was missing a lot of productive energy. I think the founding Databricks team are just very analytical and system-oriented, even when it comes to people. It's reasonable to expect the early team to have adapted to people management by now, but some of the potential champions of that have left, and the product remains primarily B2B.
This is obviously highly specific to one economy, and expectations of what comfort means.[edit: I was wrong about that]

In my economy, the figure is held to be more like half or less than this, and thats including not necessarily spending all of the capital before you die (which is highly contentious, because the superannuation system wasn't designed to be a revenue stream forever, it was designed to be spent)

Here in australia, $70,000 p.a. is the defined "comfortable" annual spend for a couple who own their own home. Some find that a bit low. If you're still hang-gliding in your 90s then you may need more. Most of us will be playing parcheesi and arguing if the stones or the beatles were better. With a government mandated 4% drawdown, you can do the sums. Once you hit somewhere around $800k in assets (as a couple) you get discounted health services, and below that start to get income support from the state as a pension.

The actuarial conversations become quite focussed when you're within 5 years of retirement/vesting age: How long do you plan on living? Thats going to define your draw-down rate.

Bloomberg clearly plan on us all living forever. The annuity returns on $3m (about the worst return you can plan for) would be north of the australian "comfortable" income stream.
I like to think that it’s not always a direct individual outcome that helps. With enough soft complaints the regulator might write a reminder letter to the given HR dept which could go over relevant law and warn about repercussions of breaking it. And that might be enough to straighten out some practices.
consider pre Twitter blue:

someone created an account named USEmbassy_SaoTome and that had twitter verification = that was indeed the official account of the US Embassy there.

consider after Twitter Blue

someone creates an account named USEmbassy_Kiribati and has the twitter blue mark. You dont really know this is an official account. anyone can pay for this

PS: this is just hypothetical I dont really know if those embassies exists.
I use echolocation all the time. Granted, I can definitely not explain how a bat feels, but... I was born with 20% vision, and kept it for roughly 6 years. After that, the world officially went dark. However, my brain was quite stubborn in not accepting that.
From that point on, my auditory system, in particular echolocation, took over. My internal field of vision did not change much. Echolocation, and my prior knowledge of the world, was used to build up my idea of my surroundings.
At first, that built-up internal image resembled very much how I saw the world prior to going blind.
However, after a few years, things started to become abstract. I lost almost all notion of clear-cut edges, and color "perception" smeared itself all over the color spectrum.
These days, what I see in my minds eye doesnt really reflect what a sighted person would visualize.
However, my minds eye still has the same function, it creates my surroundings in my head such that I can navigate and interact with the world.
I remember a Silicon Valley historian / older generation entrepreneur was speculating whether the entire environment of this area was a product of 2 things:

-- low interest rates

-- favorable capital gains rates

And any ebb/flow to that could dry up what we take as granted about the circumstances that produce the VC, startup, tech landscape we have been accustomed to.
>A roux can be prepared on the stovetop or in the oven

The oven? Three hours?
One of my worries regarding AI is that we will decide to deskill ourselves instead of using the extra productivity to improve ourselves. In this case, students may end up with a smaller ability to write their own thoughts but in return get fill-in-the-blanks exercises.
If crypto was actually free of regulation that would be a perfectly acceptable tradeoff, but it clearly isn't. Sometimes projects get boned for no reason with no instructive guidelines, often to the point they even would have been better off just ignoring the feds.

The US Gov taking a hands off position — "none of this shit is real, do whatever you want but don't expect us to protect you" — would be an excellent and satisfactory outcome. In practice, they would probably feel compelled to step into extreme cases like FTX where laws were violated immaterial of the jurisdictional status of blockchain assets, which is a good thing.

A firm set of regulatory guidelines, which does not imply a bailout by any means, would also be a good outcome. The worst part of what we have now is that the legal status of this industry in the US is completely opaque, and the constantly changing uncertainty is driving investment in the technology overseas or stifling it all together.

The government is completely failing its mandate with this policy of inaction and indifference. Pick anything!
Unresolved security vulnerabilities in older MinIO versions
At least we're doing all doing our part to make those seat pitches shorter and shorter.
> I don't see myself retiring unless I become unable to work in tech. Unless I somehow got rich.

Assuming you get rich from working hard for many years:

With some probability, you really like your work.

My goal is to reach a point where not having to work makes me want to keep working.
Yes that's roughly how it works... The insight state is dangerous tho because it can easily turn out to be wrong later but it feels good so I often stop exploring and forget to challenge it until it's too late.
The only way to judge a science fiction story is simply "did it make you think".
That's why you should always do lüften :)

https://www.politico.eu/article/germanys-energy-efficiency-o...
I have taken to calling this shower-driven development—because all my breakthrough moments always happen in the shower.
Does Excel still freeze when trying to open huge .csv files?
An op-ed piece from the NY Times? Not what I would consider an authoritative source. The author says caste discrimination is illegal, but goes onto suggest that other than people avoiding discussing the topic, and aside from a few high profile and moderately successful social initiatives, it’s still very much a thing. The piece doesn’t quite support your assertion, e.g.:

> As India transforms, one might expect caste to dissolve and disappear, but that is not happening. Instead, caste is making its presence felt in ways similar to race in modern America: less important now in jobs and education, but vibrantly alive when it comes to two significant societal markers — marriage and politics…

> Inter-caste marriages in India are on the rise but still tend to be the province of the liberal few. For much of the country, with its penchant for arranged marriages and close family ties, caste is still a primary determinant in choosing a spouse…

…and a bit more. Why do you believe caste discrimination isn’t real? That seems like a strong stance.
The problem with deploying using Docker is that you no longer have any of the advantages of Docker, unless you count a Dockerfile as an advantage. But it’s really just a non-standard way to write shell scripts to configure a system.

Deploying using Docker containers means hosting multiple nested operating systems on multiple separate hardware, and then trying to coordinate them, when you most likely actually want them living on the same machine sharing the same loop back interface (like you have during development) or on the same physical or at least logical network with a hardware firewall between them.
Instead, when you deploy Docker containers to the cloud, they are on different machines (often in different data centers) connected only by a VPC with only primitive software firewalling and no way to monitor the traffic.

Docker is meant to run isolated systems together, to share resources. You get none of that benefit. But the hosting provider does, at your cost.
Also comes down to why the water is non-drinkable. Could it be filtered on-premises?
eerily similar to Brave New World where we hide and ignore all the negativity
There are cargo bikes, but some places are very bike unfriendly and culture is very hard to change.
> We have, but it's not a

> single process.

Technically, biological photosynthesis consists of two different major processes. You’ve got a membrane complex called „photosystem“ (of which they are two types) and an enzyme called Rubisco. The former drives the light reactions oxidizing water into hydrogen and oxygen (and thereby creating reducing agents and a proton gradient). The latter drives the dark reactions reducing CO2 into various forms of sugar.

In some plants CO2 fixation runs at night and, hence, at a different time than the light reactions. In others, it happens in different cells and, hence, physically separated from the light reactions. CAM and C4 plants, respectively, are more efficient in hot or dry biotopes.
Pornography is the obvious answer, but presumably it would at first be Apple providing an initial suite of quality apps (that you can trust will be improved upon) as usual, perhaps with more "demo" type things, along with a good SDK that would drive third-party adoption. This is a pretty standard playbook for them.
He’s talking about serverless functions for a contact form.
This is fair and my response to that was:

> There should be equal ratios of women in Dev vs QA for all races

But it is flawed - it could be easily argued that this group of people are way more sexist than others which could account for that ratios being off vs inherently Caste.
That depends on how abysmal. It may be more effective to just build solar and wind farms to replace the power generated from existing natural gas, if the goal is to have more natural gas and less atmospheric CO2.
Wtf rtf? If they want to preserve that then create an rtf box mode and separate it out for most users which expect something else.
Journal declines to retract fish research paper despite fraud finding
But as a teacher you certify that someone learned something, which is why people get a bit of paper at the end of school/university.

So if you don't even try to stop people from cheating you end up doing a disservice to those who do, as you devalue that bit of paper.
Hindu American Foundation works against Hinduphobia in USA. You are falling in the same trap of working for Hindu causes = modi supporter which borders on racist attitude. Raising voices for Hindu representation doesn't mean that person is batting for Indian govt in US. This is actually racist thinking. Japanese faced the same thing during WW2, russians and chinese during the red scare and now Hindus in America.
I was thinking of Slavic languages but avoided saying so in my original comment to avoid making it controversial.
Good point. I've had discussions with friends about things like the Einstein-Slizard refrigeration and efficiency keeps coming up, and it's always a struggle to point out that we're trying to do things in an environment where there's tons of tropical and equatorial sunlight, and little or no access to electricity. Efficiency is not the primary factor when the energy source is free and unlimited.
That would make a great HN post!
But OpenAI's latest models (and a few others that are basically comparable) make that an obsolescent viewpoint since they are so general and capable and can adjust to a given context on the fly.

So now what makes sense in my opinion is to keep going in that direction of generality. Take advantage of their API and otherwise work on open source efforts to reproduce the performance of those models or come up with new techniques that can get the same capabilities with less incredible resource needs.
Those "prank" "content creators" that act in anti-social ways and then film the reactions... oh I wish we could punish them with such a mask :)
I view general algorithm problems as a "programming subfield", just like graphics/frontend/AI are. Certain coding techniques are overrepresented in each subfield, and each subfield has fundamental "base code", design paradigms, methods of testing, need-to-know algorithms, and canonical examples.
The _average_ quality of those who where laid off is indeed probably a bit lower than the average quality of those who weren't.

But there's so much variance within those groups! The very _worst_ way of using that information that is:

- Interview everyone; run them through the full assessment process
- Once you have a successful group through the process, nix anyone with this trait

Instead, you arguably want to more thoroughly reference check folks who were laid off, in the same way you want to more thoroughly assess someone's technical ability who doesn't have a technical background. That lets you incorporate _more_ information, rather than acting on the very low-information signal of them being laid off.
WebSQL, like a lot of the stuff Google pushes, wasn't a standard. It was an implementation. And one that raised a lot of questions, like will it track with SQLite or be frozen in time except for security fixes?

With only a single implementation there are risks, like everyone gets owned by the same bug or oversight. In nature mono crops can be devastated by a single virus or invasive species.
Thousandth of an Inch
I also don't get it, calculation is the least interesting thing those models can do, machine calculation has been a solved problem since the early days of computing....
Have you tried asking it to rewrite more in the style of a particular author, or to flesh out story elements in detail or with a bit more vagueness rather than like writing a blurb?
The same way nginx doesn't care about the choice of firewall because it doesn't automagically poke holes in the firewall.

May be a simple question: How are you able run nginx and open http:// localhost without it making any changes to the firewall. Can go on and on.
Thank you, I suspected that was the case. Still trying to figure out the right address. Not sure if the hidden clue is a red herring.
Lets say someone from the EU who's never been to the US keeps telling you, an American, "Don't go outdoors or you might be a victim of a mass shooting like I see in the news almost every day", and you say "that doesn't reflect the reality here", and they say "Isn't very convincing to say the least".

How can I or anyone prove a negative? I can only offer my life experiences as a non-high caste Indian whose both sides of the family eat meat, that caste never ever comes up with any of my Indian coworkers, managers, friends or family. Nor has anyone ever mentioned to me that they experienced issues because of their caste. In rural India and among older folks caste is more important, but in America it's pretty rare for people to care about caste. Any discrimination must be dealt with, but I don't like the generalization on HN than Indians are casteist.
How would living in Seattle proper provide a qualitatively different perspective from living in Redmond and visiting? Are you saying you eventually get used to people on mind altering drugs living in tents (sometimes growling at you as you walk by), and it stops bothering you? Genuinely asking. I have a similar opinion of the city but also have never lived on that side of the lake, and I wonder what I am missing…
Wir müssen wissen.
Wir werden wissen.
I was curious about how they are storing the requests in a file and if they follow some spec. I discovered RFC 2616 [0]. From the page's description:

you can follow the standard RFC 2616 that including request method, headers, and body.

POST https://example.com/comments HTTP/1.1
content-type: application/json

{
"name": "sample",
"time": "Wed, 21 Oct 2015 18:27:50 GMT"
}

[0] - https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html
Not all schools of Hinduism recognize caste, much less consider it unchangeable.

People can practice their religion however they want, but it is also entirely fair to judge religions on the basis of the actual impact they have on the societies where they are dominant. I certainly do with Evangelical Christianity & its support of racism, classism, and sexism.
No one doing these surveys ever details whether we're talking about per individual or per couple, is this a standard retirement at 65 or an early one, and is this in an urban center or a cheap retirement area. Given that it's hard to take any of these seriously other than as a marketing tool for investment advisors.
Exactly this. It shows a very limited exposure to the realities of the IT world and the vast amount of legacy code and systems that is out there that really are not going to be rewritten in Rust or any other language any time soon and likely not ever. Rust isn't a silver bullet, and besides the value of a battle hardened codebase is substantially greater than the value of a freshly rewritten codebase in any other language.

'Rewrite it in Rust' is a mantra that makes a whole slew of assumptions that need to be validated before it can be considered a realistic option.
In the Bloomberg article, 16.7% of people agreed with you regarding Australia, 50% said 3 million. Read the article if you have access, it is an interactive graphic for lots of regions around the world.