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Ask HN: Does it help to attend a SaaS conference to get a job in a SaaS startup?
I'm trying to decide whether the price of admission to an upcoming SaaStock conference (1K USD) is worth it for what I want out of it.

I'm on the lookout for a full-stack/front-end/eng. manager role in a SaaS startup. I'd like to meet startups that are hiring and pitch them my profile. I have my own bootstrapped SaaS business that I currently work on full-time but want to continue working on as a side hustle, while I work a full-time job.

Wondering if SaaStock is a quality conference that attracts hiring managers in startups.

Any tips from people who have attended this conference or found a job through attending a similar conference? Also tips on finding a job through meetups, conferences and other unconventional means are welcome.
So it is true there can be some local minimum problems. Sometimes I'll get on a random topic binge for a few days and I'll notice my homepage changing (sometimes for the worse.)

In terms of getting out - hard to say. I rarely if ever use search on YouTube or even most of the discovery features unless there is a very specific video I'm looking for. I don't search specific topics or interests to find content. I don't even use the "subscriptions-only" view because I like seeing the algorithm recommend new things to me and I know good content from any of my subscriptions will bubble up if it is good. A few YouTubers I do watch religiously and will personally check their page every so often.

Most of the content I watch and people I subscribe too I found pretty organically. Something will pop up on the homepage that I like. I'll check out more of their videos. Then the next day that person and similar channels will start showing up in the algo. Eventually I'll subscribe if its consistent quality. Rinse and repeat.

My current homepage consists of indie gamers playing new games, some technology channels like LTT or similar, low-level electronics and circuit board design, a few programming channels, documentaries for speedrunning history, some DIY channels for DIY or furniture building, Ancient Egypt and its conspiracies, game devlogs. I have a guilty pleasure for Minecraft but its been a few weeks since I watched anything related so looking now its completely fallen off the algo.

Every so often I'll get a channel rec from reddit or here and I'll check them out.

Oh - don't be afraid to curate your watch history. If I watched something I didn't like I go into my watch history and remove that video so it no longer has influence on the algo. I like my history to be an archive of what I have watched so I can find it again though so this is rare.
Part of the problem here is too much collective decision-making.

Sometimes it's much better to just assign someone responsibility for something. Then if they screw up, they can learn from it, or you give the job to someone else.

I think a lot of the issue here is due to the fact that there was seemingly a one week period between the decision being made and it actually being communicated.

And then, because no one has been given authority to make decisions and actually be a leader, then everything they say has to be in this weird passive voice like "It's been decided that.." which makes it sound like a conspiracy when it's really just a fear of delegation.

The ruling committee should nominate someone to do things, and then let them do it. They should never try to actually run things themselves, it's always a disaster.
It's annoying for me to share the spreadsheet, but I'm basically implementing the math in:

https://lhc-div-mms.web.cern.ch/tests/MAG/FiDeL/Documentatio...

To do with calculating multipole coefficients from measured data and then doing coordinate transformations on them.
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Anyone knows what ultralight dark matter is?

Edit:https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03254
they should not. the fact that you did not understand this is what I was saying, suggests a lack of practice in social interaction. now this is not meant as a personal attack. think of it like this: you are teaching an arithmetic class - something for which fully functional members of society need to have the skill. you explain that 5+2*2=9. someone corrects you that it is in fact 14. what would you suggest this person do?

this also applies to basic language skills. i suggest that whatever advice you have for the previous hypothetical person, you apply to basic social interaction in your own life.

but maybe I'm wrong, and you did not read the comment to which I was replying. in that case, I suggest that when you read a comment, you should see the comment it's rebutting, prior to posting yours. this also, is a basic social skill.

I'll start you off: I do not own a house at all as I travel internationally and move around too much to stay in one place over a few years. I would also never purchase one in a risk zone, since there are thousands of others available w/o the risk, and they don't cost more.
If it's self signed and TOFU you can't be sure there was no proxy in the middle on first use though.
I'd love to see a chart with all the licenseable arm and riscv cores compared
I was playing with Tokio / Rust on MacOS and hit an about max 500k requests / second limit where the CPU was mostly doing send / recieve calls, not using MacOS asyncio system calls.

I know it's a different library, and asyncio is not as flexible as io_uring, but at least batching send / recv calls from different sockets would be good to be able to do.
> Do hotels or restaurants put profit maximization over customer well-being? If they do, they will be out of business rather soon. If the hospices have competition and comparability (for patients or their loved ones) then the same mechanism should work over time.

This is not how it works and is why the government sometimes needs to step in with regulations. As a founder in the healthcare space once said to me: “I like regulations because it means I can do the right thing for my customers and not have to worry about competing with people who are willing to do harm because it’s more profitable.” Companies need to be able to compete. Some will do better. Some worse. But the government needs to establish the baseline rules so society as a whole isn’t harmed.
See my comment on brinkmanship elsewhere in the thread.

Nuking your desired safe haven is obviously a stupid idea. But threatening them with nukes so they accept you in, that's a reasonable negotiation tactic when you're otherwise up against the wall. If they refuse, making a stronger threat is an obvious next move. There is, however, no obvious stopping point before tensions are so strong that a small mistake - or someone at high enough level getting irrational - will cause the nukes to be launched.
I use both VS Code and Emacs. One of the things I love about Emacs is that if you put enough work into it, it will be like nothing else. There are times when I’m writing code, a text file, or even managing git commits with magit that I can sit back and say “wow, this is genuinely a pleasure to use.”

But, it takes a lot of work to get there. I still don’t have everything working super well, debugging is way easier for me in VS Code. But, I’m still learning (after 25+ years as an Emacs user), and that brings me joy.

It’s like when I’m working on electronics. There’s a genuine joy I get from using my Hakko soldering station, Mitutoyo calipers, or my Engineer hand tools. Using something that is supremely well designed for a purpose brings me joy.

And org-mode. Seriously, org-mode.
Damn, Zero-K really missed on that one...
I've just used `cloc`-ed Lua repo's entire code base, excluding makefile's and markdown's: 33619 lines in total of C, Lua, and C / C++ Header code; very lightweight code base.
The difference between 1-based and 0-based indices is irreverent enough, that’s the reason it feels uncomfortable for choosing to use something that is different. It is like little-endian vs big-endian, but you never see people choosing to use big-endian now
This link is useless, it just links to a substack article with a basic single-paragraph description of the project. A better link would be https://github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx, the actual URL to the project.
I've worked on a number of Hollywood productions.

Pretty much all of what you said is false. Especially the part about tax breaks, since that isn't how film tax incentives work...film tax incentives are statutory, with little to no options for negotiation, require audited records of local spending, and usually have other requirements (such as "cultural" content for French tax incentives).
That's lens distortion, and has nothing to do with depth. Phones will correct it in software automatically, and Lightroom etc can also do it for your DSLR lenses.

It's not usually a concern until you get to <20mm, and especially not if you're going to crop the center of the picture to mimic a 50mm perspective.
Citing: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24308394/ which recommends flouridating salt.

"Children and adults of the low socio-economic strata tend to have substantially more untreated caries than higher strata. Salt fluoridation is by far the cheapest method for improving oral health."

Sure, good for you that you're in one of the higher socioeconomic strata who can take care of their teeth. Not everyone else is.
Actually, I'm not sure about the real situation. The organizations who fund large grants apparently claim that's a reason why they don't like human cloning, but it could be a cover for other reasons they don't want to talk about.
This is one of the worst experiences one can have. Add that the fact that you are sleeping... It's so terrible
All employees in commercial operations should be advised who is ultimately responsible for the earned profits used in part by the company to provide salaries.
Most employees don't realise the connection!
I am from the 70s and my father did both electronics and software so I was raised with both. I think it really collapsed in the 90s but end 80s my university dropped many analog electronics courses for digital. That was enough to have new students not learn enough about electronics.
"private equity" is not the same as "private ownership", no?
I didn't say it was a wonderful or even good scheme; I said it was the best I could think of.
We will fix that, many countries doesn’t have zipcode either.

We will update the number, thanks for pointing it out.
As someone picking between C and Rust for a new codebase, this is going on my list of "cons" for Rust. I'm supposed to build a product above all else. Will the drama get in the way of Rust surviving down the road?
Here's how to think in round numbers about fossil fuels and CO2 emissions.

In 2022 we've consumed about 8 billion tons of coal, 4 billion tons of oil and 3 billion tons of natural gas. The carbon content of these fossil fuels is about 75%, 85% and 75% [4]. Overall about 6 billion tons of carbon come from coal and another 6 billion tons from oil and gas combined. Since one atom of carbon (mass = 12) produces one molecule of CO2 (mass = 12+2*16=44), we get that 12 billion tons of carbon emit about 44 billion tons of CO2. This accounts for about 90% of all the greenhouse emissions (about 50 billion equivalent tons of CO2).

There are about 30 million seconds in one year. That means we burn about 400 tons of carbon per second. Carbon has an energy content of about 33 MJ/kg, so that's about 13000 GW (thermal). It's more than that, because the hydrogen in oil and natural gas contribute too, so let's say it's about 15000 GW thermal.

If we want to replace all this with solar panels and wind turbines and nuclear power, we need somehow to come up with 15000 GW of installed capacity. For comparison the world has added about 300 GW of solar and wind capacity in 2022 [5]. At this pace it would take us 50 years.

The pace will increase for sure, but on the other hand the world will consume more energy too.

Well, this is where we are. Draw your own conclusions.

[1] https://www.iea.org/news/the-world-s-coal-consumption-is-set...

[2] https://yearbook.enerdata.net/crude-oil/world-production-sta...

[3]https://www.statista.com/statistics/265344/total-global-natu....

[4] https://www.forestresearch.gov.uk/tools-and-resources/fthr/b...

[5] https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/03/22/new-global-solar-capa....
FWIW, it doesn't have to be a land yacht to look like an angry Decepticon.

Just look at the rear design of the BMW i3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_i3#/media/File:2021_BMW_i3...

I'm still at a loss on why they designed it that way.
I've been setting up a WinXP PC for old games (Command & Conquers, etc) and re-discovered the "Fighting 4 FUN" multi-keygens (hundreds of EA games in a single 100KB-ish keygen)

The music is delightful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE2uyF4PzNI
Maybe there's a clock on Earth with a microcontroller and some kind of UPS or battery backup or large capacitor backup?

You could argue that the timekeeping of TAI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time) could be seen as a distributed computation (where different entities are counting the same value and running manual and automated protocols to keep the value synchronized), and that has been running since 1972. It almost certainly hasn't been running continuously on any individual hardware device, but there have always been devices that represented its value and always been efforts to maintain continuity between calculations.

Although I guess the same logic could argue for civil timekeeping in any calendar, because people have actively tracked it as "the same computation" and cared about it for centuries or millennia. Maybe the distinctive argument for TAI is that it's presumably been continually represented digitally in programmable computers since 1972.
Oh come now, surely there must be one good... well, one decent... one not entirely terrible one out there, right?
I am sure the removal had more to do with certain ideological views/content being more likely to be downvoted. The decision came soon after the critically panned Susan Wojcicki YouTube CEO 2021 Free Expression Awards. This probably has the record for the worst ratio of any video in the site's history.
Serious and trustworthy according to whom, exactly?

The term peer review was virtually non-existent prior to the 1960s. And despite that, nearly everything in modern society can ultimately be attributed to breakthroughs that happened prior to the advent of peer-review.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=peer+review&ye...
Anyone who's written long contracts know you start with some boilerplate that contains a bunch of stuff and gradually whittle it down till it's just what you need.

The error they made was assuming people would understand that process.
Public shaming is essential. Anyway it still happens, even more brutally, in the comments.

What they should have done is add more detail on the nature of the downvotes, like the Steam store does for negative reviews. That is, have graphs of positive and negative ratings over time to make any downvote brigading obvious. Maybe have a way to exclude "less-verified" votes, or allow the viewer to look at only e.g. YouTube Premium votes (which are more likely to be real people given the cost). And so on...
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Completely false. Kelley turned down appearing in ST:Generations, despite a large payday.

"In The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years oral history of Star Trek by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross, DeForest Kelley explained that he was disappointed that Dr. Leonard McCoy and his crewmates only appeared in one scene, commenting: "When I read the script and saw we were only in the first ten minutes, I thought it was best to pass and go out with [Star Trek] VI." At that time, Kelley didn't know that Nimoy also said no and he admits, "I certainly wouldn't have done the film without him in it.""
Ask HN: How did Apple manage to prevent Chinese phone makers from running iOS
Wonder how did Apple manage to lock iOS to their own hardware so well, that in 16 years it was never hacked and made to run on other ARM platforms.
GPT's model may be limited to language based, but the vast volume of knowledge it has accessed despite language only, is way beyond any individual human can possibly acquire in a life time. That fact alone makes the GPT world model, or whatever it might be, not to be underestimated. This partially explained why we don't feel GPT's answer is not terribly off mark, even brilliant sometimes.
I’ve been at a few companies that expect leaders to emerge and it always goes terribly. Certain personality types try to assume those leadership roles and they tend to be the last people you want as leaders. And they tend to stop doing the grunt work, prompting the more productive workers to fill the gaps. Those productive workers become demoralized and wind up leaving, and the team hollows out.
The video linked is also a small YouTuber with not many views on their videos. Looking at the comparisons it actually gave a pretty close count. Sure it's not exact, but considering it's a small niche YouTuber it seems to be giving a fairly decent approximation. On even larger YouTube channels it's likely going to give you an even better sample of whether people like or dislike the video.
a 15 minute DIY video in which 12 minutes is ads and sponsorship and rambling intro a
My wording could have been better - I meant that it’s uncommon for engineers to know both iOS and Android at a deep level. Sharing code can let you share a lot of your logic, but you still need to understand the native host environment well, in fact maybe even deeper than normal since you are using unconventional approaches.

So you need engineers that have this deep iOS experience, deep Android experience, and deep C++/rust experience. If you are a solo dev with this skillset then maybe it’s a good choice. But in a team / big company setting such an unconventional stack will always be a drag chute on your velocity in all stages of the project
Just a quick comment on the product, since this it effectively an ad for Altium.

They typically present themselves as the most popular solution, but they also very clearly out-price any hobbyist at $10k for a perpetual licence. Their "hobby" version CircuitStudio lacks critical features and has 0 support and 0 updates and the forums are just crickets. But KiCad is free, open source, and looks similar enough that I had a great time following the Altium tutorials by Rick Hartley with it.

In my opinion, that also invalidates their claim that Altium is the most commonly used PCB design software, because there likely are 100x more hobbyists using KiCad than people able to spend $10k on a hobby.

It seems to me like Altium is developing like Eagle. They used to court the makers and hobbyists and then greatly profited when those people started working. But now both of them are mostly in the business of milking companies who have existing data in their proprietary file format.
Or maybe people want to be left alone in the evening?
If you do not train on the training set, then there is no training set, and your example is degenerate.
I use MediaMTX. It’s great. Streaming to ~200 clients flawlessly. The only thing I wish it had was some basic webhook functionality to notify stream statuses.
Improving GPT-4’s codebase understanding with ctags
I started my first professional job in 1988. I remember when Ruby was first introduced in the early 90’s.

My post was not a criticism of Ruby, just the fact that its usage has been on the decline for quite awhile now. I work for a 10,000+ consulting firm and Ruby demand is very light.
Yes you can definitely build your own ladder line. The insulators are available. But it's probably easier to use window line [0] instead.

[0] https://www.trueladderline.com/blog/window-line-open-wire-fe...
> Point being that ancients did not use sunscreen

The statement being made by others is that "ancients" applied a topical substance to protect their skin from harmful effects of the sun, most would call that sunscreen[0] but use whatever word you prefer.

> anything remotely close to the formulae we have today

No one is making this claim.

[0] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sunscree...
It actually makes perfect sense considering YouTube's business model of advertising and "engagement".

While advertising-based business models are ultimately always at odds with the user, they can (and have successfully) coexisted in the past - a product can have a certain amount of advertising/user-hostility and still remain usable. That's what YouTube used to be until now - they had to keep the advertising/user-hostility somewhat tame in order to keep growing their marketshare.

The problem is that in a monopolized vertical, there is nothing preventing the product from going "all-in" on advertising and we're now seeing the late/terminal stages of this cancer in action.

Removing dislikes and having people watch videos that are known to be bad still counts as "engagement", especially if people have to waste time watching the video fully before realizing it is bad. Even better, if they end up doing so and then have to try a different video then it's even more engagement.

The nasty side-effects of this change (up to life-threatening consequences in case of DIY videos for example) aren't their concern nor liability.
Let’s make a Teeny Tiny compiler
I think Valve has a clause in the contract that says the price on other platforms should be as low as the price on steam at most.

Otherwise everybody could just use Steam as advertising platform.

Of course I have no idea how contracts for big companies work
Actually, yes! And you are conveniently ignoring the other examples that don't fit your world view.
I didn’t know much about electronics and still don’t know much to this day. There were certainly electronics parts stores at the time whereas today they’ve all closed. Acquiring parts online has made things easier and there is a lot more choice of parts and lower prices today. I was and still am more interested in computer programming.
There was a large group of octopus homes on the sea floor shelf north of Bogangar Headland (east coast Australia) in the late 70s/early 80s. I used to play with the octopuses as a teen.

I had no idea it was a scientifically significant thing though. I wonder if they're still there, as there's been a lot of development nearby.
Intra-host diversity in vaccinated Covid patients infected by different variants
But let it be noted that "should've" != "bad/malicious" (at least, that would be my reading). Rather I think it's more about bad fit and incompetence in a specific responsibility.
MicroPython is not really the same thing. It’s most comparable to an embedded Forth, which isn’t uncommon.
Seems like a reasonable benchmark to say if we spend X00 billion per year we can double the rate of long term sequestration or whatever. It places things in a fairly clear cost vs benefit calculation.
Given how powerful Emacs is and how important it has been for my computing over the past four decades, I think it would be more useful to me for people to label all non-emacs articles [Not Emacs]
Spring-Recoil engine games like Zero-K and BAR have not only various unit types affected differently by slopes and water depth, some maps even has terrain like ice that makes some units faster on it ! (Also Zero-K has terraforming.)
I remember RadioShack in the 90s? and my father gifted me a "Science Fair 60 in One Electronic Project Lab"[1] so, no I think it lasted a bit longer than perhaps you remember. I agree with anonzzzies' timeline.

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=science+fair+60+in+one+elect...
>I have to question the underlying thesis: Does private ownership always short-change customers, like the subtitle insinuates?

What a bizarre misrendering of the actual question, which is "does private equity systematically undermine the quality of healthcare?"
They don't have to. You can interpret the original comment as "puts an upper bound on the computational ability of a Dyson sphere if it dedicated all captured energy to computation".