skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how you can spend 1.5m and not see any return.

Sure spend 10k, if you don't see results, try something else.

I assume they have customers from elsewhere, so they must have a clue who their customers are.

I don't really get the venture capital model anyway. If my business is anything like anyone elses, it takes a few years to find out what actually works. You don't need millions to find that out, and you don't need millions in marketing until you've actually found that out.

As it is this is a story of a company not knowing what they're doing pouring 1.5m down the drain, and still don't know what they're doing.
It may be due to some bad luck and selection bias, but I‘d recommend against physical HDD from WD, too.
As far as I can remember, the only physical drives I owned that died where WD drives. Granted, they where WD Green, an especially cursed series, but I‘ve not bought another WD product since.
They say often that French are bad at quick math and Chinese are better due to the nature of their numeric system
Amex buyer protection is great for these situations.
That's only because the host javascript which loads the WASM is exposing functions to do webgl stuff. When you use emscripten to compile C++ is to WASM, part of that equation is the JS runtimes that allow you to call translate openGL calls to Webgl, play sounds etc. It's possible to do with moonbit, but it would require some work on your part.
Citation needed.

I personally know people (20s to mid 30s) who are simply unhappy that they did everything they were told and couldn't get jobs in their field, and can't afford a house (so they rent one and which pays for somebody else's mortgage).
Ask HN: How to do a proper electronics tear down?
I have a piece of electronics equipment that is somewhat mass market but has a speciality use case. I intend to blog about it as I tear it down to add to the knowledge graph (besides satisfying my own curiosity). Are there any best practices to follow when performing a device tear down?

Thanks!
"We Spent $1,500,000 on Ads Without Getting a Single Customer" but they did get the top #1 spot on Hacker News so maybe that's all they wanted? Just wine about spending all this money (poorly) and make a post about it and get free advertising with a trip to the front page of Hacker News.
It's incredibly common to only publish a headline and summary to RSS and then have people click through to your site for the full article, so it seems like you're blaming RSS for what is a user error
Haha, you're on point
Replace China with any country's name and article will still ring same feeling.

Not only in 2023, in 60s & 80's as well.

Seems like there was/is demand supply mismatch always.

Extra hard for young Chinese people as they can't vent out openly.
It's a thought we clearly share!
In that case I think it helps to acknowledge that you understand their incentives/motivations and be even clearer than "no" - salespeople are trained that if you hear no the first ten times you ask and yes on the eleventh, that's still a sale.

e.g. "Look, I recognize that it's your job to try to sell me a warranty, but there's absolutely no chance that I'm going to buy a warranty, so let's focus on the product."

If that doesn't work, then you go straight at their incentives - "Listen, like I said, I'm not going to buy a warranty, and this is becoming distracting. If we can't drop the warranty talk, I'm going to guy buy from somewhere else." They want to sell the warranty, but if they know that's not possible then their next incentive is not to have to explain to their boss why they had a customer who spent a significant amount of time with them but didn't close.
> The article says 4+ dimension black holes can exist.

Unfortunately, the article is not particularly precise here. The actual statement is that if you're in n < 7 spatial dimensions, then the existence theorem of the paper holds. (I.e. if conditions A, B and C are met, there will be a black hole, more specifically an apparent horizon.)

As far as we know, we are in n=3 spatial dimensions, though. (Yes, string theory claims something else but the results of the paper only hold for n non-compactified spatial dimensions, so they don't apply to string theory.)
I wonder if there's a density benefit? eg it's more valuable to have 10 cars drive the same stretch of road every day than to have one car drive a lonely highway every 10 days
> I don't think there is anything that's close the the M2 Air on the market atm?

I will be "that guy"; the original M1 Macbook Air struggled to compete with the Ryzen 4800u at launch. Current Ryzen mobile chips put up very well against the M2, considering the architecture gap:

https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-air-2022

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/1604691

This is the sort of discussion the grandparent comment was lamenting though. Honest-to-god, none of this matters; dev shops will use whatever they need at the end of the day. Infecting the discussion with pedestrian "muh ARM revolution" comments always ruins it though. I like ARM for reading e-books as much as the next guy, but server use is a whole different discussion. Even mentioning Apple's consumer offerings is a punch-line like saying you want to beat OpenAI using consumer-grade GPUs. They exist in the ARM space, but they could not be any less-present in the server one. Their relationship to the topic at-hand is fraught and near non-existent if it weren't for their history of failure with Xserve.
“Cope” is slang for what people used to call “sour grapes:” convincing yourself aloud that some negative circumstance isn’t really that bad or doesn’t really reflect on you.
And what would be the point of fake Internet points? Unless this leads neither to consumers
Franklin had multiple fake personas for writing in newspapers, including LARPing as an old women named Silence Dogood

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

he'd 100% have an anonymous alt account for shitposting
My parents giving me a name is one thing. The state giving me a number and arresting me if I fail to produce that number to police on demand is another.
Congratulations lol.
But it feels like a cope post. So facts and reading of the article don’t matter here.
Nazis had to start somewhere.
Yes ancient Greek was mirrored (boustrophedon). This is rotated (reverse boustrophedon)
Franklin's irreverence is valuable and interesting in light of his overwhelming civic and scientific contributions. This is not true of Musk: I don't think even the most fervent fan of his can deny that Musk is (1) a businessman, not a scientist, and (2) not a particularly valuable contributor to the civic substrate of the country he lives in.
The 'fuck ups' can be retroactive through. So you could do something that was totally fine and make multiple videos of said things, then have all of them individually flagged at some point in the future.

Nintendo has done this on multiple occasions.
As an EU Citizen my action in that case would be simply going to the nearest police station filing a formal complaint for:

- aggravated theft, due to the previous lock out of my vehicle;

- commercial fraud;

- slander.

A copy of the complaint to my lawyer, and all media I know, stuffed with proof of payments. In the civil process following I'll ask for full refund for anything paid to them so far, legal expenses of course, compensation for slander and fraud, around 500.000€.

Next time Tesla will learn the difference between cloud slaves and Citizens. I do not know much about the legal systems in the US, but I'm pretty sure the same path is very possible. The issue here is in the formal owner behavior, trying to explain instead of directly respond aggressively and politely to the substantial owner, witch as facts prove Tesla.
I think they’re missing the point of noisy cars / motorcycles.

Sure, there are the minority who have noisy vehicles.

But the real culprit are the tires.

Tell me, when you walk by a highway or a road, what do you hear? That sound that is vaguely like an ocean lapping against the shores, just louder and artificial and annoying right?

You never really hear the engine, even at a short distance away.

The tires make a LOT more noise than the engines and exhaust do! And it carries farther than an engine does.

Tired need more regulation, and roads need to be built with quieter materials.
I assume most people aren't wealthy enough to do that, so the measure still reduces the number of cars on the road and the amount of petrol consumed. And the net effect is to transfer wealth from rich people to all the people involved in making cars. Sounds like a win to me.
I don’t think you’d find anyone saying an ad campaign is free. A grandparent comment is saying a coldcall/email campaign is free.
BBC is woefully short on news reporting. More here : https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/economy/2023/8/3/caught-betwee...
The complaint I’ve heard about Adsense over and over is that it can blow past your budget quickly. You can spend twice your budget in a month, spend the next few months trying to tune that, and end up out of your yearly budget by August.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality#Pre-p...

TLDR it's untested in United States court, but yes, the same principles apply. You very well might not own the copyright on that street-corner photo.

There is no way of getting around the human authorship and creativity requirement. There's no loophole that AI can sneak though. If AI output does become copyrightable, it will only be because of arguments that the controlling of that AI is sufficiently creative and deliberate to pass the minimum threshold required by law and the outcome isn't a random or uncontrolled result. Saying that it's "just like pressing buttons on a camera" does you no favors, if photography was just pressing a button then it wouldn't be copyrightable.

And in fact, there was an 1884 Supreme Court challenge over photography copyright that was predicated exactly on the argument that photography was a purely mechanical reconstruction of an existing scene (https://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2020/09/historic-court-cases...). The argument was rejected not because purely mechanical reconstructions are copyrightable, but because the court disagreed and said that photography was both an act of human creativity and that it had a controlled outcome, similar to "writing" or "engraving".

And note that a critical component of "writing" or "engraving" is intent and control. When you write down something on a page, you get the result that you intended to put on the page; you control the "words" that appear. An important question when discussing AI copyright is what the threshold is where we can say that use is actually controlling the AI. A vague prompt might not qualify, an extremely specific prompt that is itself a creative expression might? A more guided process might? (although it's not certain if this would cover the resulting image or just the prompt itself). This is all untested in current law.
At least you'll know when Githubs ToS change ....
> we have been talking about getting an attorney or at least taking this to small claims court

I'm not sure what you'd go after them for, but the fun part of owning a Tesla is that you're only renting the software so you're going to be dealing with them in the future, and you're probably setting yourself up for future headaches and maybe just getting cut off at some point.
Well, there is an exit path for those who want to compile from source. If you mean build from source for Cargo users, I believe there's issues with how feature flags interact with transitive dependencies that make this difficult. At least, there's comments on the issue that speak to this. Maybe someone more familiar with Cargo can chime in.
Suppose I manufacture a compass or a protractor that you use to make beautiful curves in your art - surely my effort is greater than yours. You cannot create an accurate arc without my tool. Surely I deserve the lion's share of credit and profit. Incidentally, my friend the paintbrush maker would like to speak with you.

I'm being facetious of course. I suspect this technology is going to rapidly push us into radically rethinking how copyright works, but it'll be delayed some 20-30 years by incumbents desperately clinging to their hordes of existing IP.
> I firmly believe that people would choose superunsafecc because they don't know how much it will break their code. After all, it's not called "superunsafecc," it's called "gcc" or "clang."

This might be true, but companies often spend a rather short amount of time selecting a compiler for their projects[1], and they won't switch in the middle of it. As long as "reasonable handling of UB" isn't a checkbox in anyone's product selection matrix, then it's not going to get selected.

The current incentives are for compiler writers to ride the very edge of the standard becuase "X% faster" is something that everybody wants. I don't object to the thrust of your article, I just think you are putting everything on the compiler writers, when what compiler users actually use 90% of the time is The compiler that runs their favorite microbenchmark the fastest. The word "want" is complicated, so I used the term "revealed preference" in my first post, but it's not entirely wrong to say that by taking advantage of UB, compiler-writers are giving compiler users what they want; even if we both agree compiler-users want the wrong thing, and would want something different if they were more informed.

As a side-note, I've explained the ISO aliasing rules to dozens of embedded programmers and they are always insistent that C allows free type punning because "C is just portable assembly." I show them -fno-strict-aliasing (or the equivalent for their compiler) and usually they move on, but about 10% of them want to file a bug against the compiler even after having it explained to them.
Thank you for posting this. It's very good!

Kudos if there's any NOAA software engineers lurking.
wow, this is really cool, i remember krunker going viral when it was launched and how smooth it was. definitely one of the top IO games. so really cool that you're opensourcing this
I met Sven Hirsch a few years back at a summer school in Italy. Smart guy! Very cool to read about his research here.
There's no such thing as an overall average ROI.

"Good" marketing, for a B2C company, is often defined as a 3x CAC/LTV ratio and 12 month payback. That means for every $1 you spend on advertising you make $3 in gross profit, and you get back $1 after 12 months. This is fairly healthy for many businesses, but some businesses may be looking for a 1 month payback, or may be looking for a 5x LTV. It's also possible to trade off LTV and payback, the latter may be more important for a fast growing business so that they're not tying up capital, and they may not yet have enough data to accurately predict 3 or 5 year LTV anyway.

In reality though these things fluctuate all the time, you may have 2-5 marketing channels at a small company (e.g. FB, IG, Adsense, YT, direct mail, out of home, etc), of which some will be better and others will be worse, and you blend them together, changing proportions over time as channels change in effectiveness or cost.
Yes I read the article. It's a cope post.
Suit yourself. It's great for the stuff I don't want to host on my homeserver, like AI Discord bots and big remote builds.

That being said, I wouldn't trust the server as far as I could throw it. It's a bad deal unless you have ephemeral compute requirements that don't matter too much.
ArchiveTeam backs up link shorteners. Might have saved some of this corpus.
I realise the headline story just is a jumping off point for the article, but it still begs the question: why did it take the company in question an entire year (and $1.5M) to realise their marketing wasn't working?

Now that's a story I'd like to hear.
> So Tesla did not accept the payment, and tried to contact the customer to sort it out.

Incorrect. Vehicles are never handed over to customers until they're paid for. (A vehicle that is financed is paid for upfront by the bank, and the customer pays back the bank over the loan term.) The price of vehicles (especially Teslas) is such that it would be negligence, malpractice, insanity for the manufacturer or dealership to hand a vehicle over without full payment. It's always sorted out beforehand.
That X logo is such terrible UI on devices that use an X icon to close windows.
> My software will not be open-source for a number of reasons,

Just to clarify which exact software is not open source? PartsBox looks to be AGPL.

> In-browser camera scanning is available in commercial plans only (due to licensing costs).

I wonder if you checked out https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Barcode_Det...
Do you frequently search for things you've seen on your computer?
Do you hate:
* trying to find that article you've read but didn't save
* find that email that you need
* recalling details mentioned in that zoom call you weren't paying attention

I'm trying to solve the problem of forgetting and retrieving information you've processed on your desktop.

I'm launching a solution next week and am looking to talk to people who are in the tech/productivity/engineering space. 20 mins of your time and you will get free lifetime access to the app when launched.
But if you're a 'founder' of a non VC company, you have less money than time, so you're better spending your time budget than your money budget.

Of course the calculations if someone's throwing enough money at you that you can throw away 1.5m on marketing without results.
I'm shocked but not totally surprised.

The job market became awful ~6 months ago in a fairly short period (largely because of interest rates IMO). There's just no comparison with how it used to be in the zero interest rate era, sadly.
Or he'd shitpost on main. He has the same brilliant autist with puerile sense of humor vibe as you see in Mozart and others.
I don’t know, I think it’s not so much the smell but how distinctive it is, that mixed with knowing what it is (compared to something macabre) reinforces nostalgia. I think it also helps that many books are timeless
Well, 1.5M did get you 15min of fame (on the HN frontpage).
> it's pretty difficult to have a thought without using language

You get to be today’s 10,000! (xkcd reference)

Not everyone has an internal monologue! 50% to 60% people experience their thoughts completely nonverbally. There isn’t a voice constantly narrating their lives. Some people don’t even process words as words but add pictures instead.

Best part: the two groups don’t realize the other group even exists. We all think everyone thinks in the same way as us.

Sauce: https://www.iflscience.com/people-with-no-internal-monologue...
> We might see 4,000-10,000 advertisements a day[1].

Yeah, that’s definitely false. At best 100+.
You can "use" the platform without being a user of the platform: Clicking a link to a tweet or reading an article with embedded tweets.

Useful habit, if you're a journalist or a blogger or such: never ever use native embeds, if you're caring about the longevity of your articles.
Could have been a broken click-through URL
That’s why the PPC or PPE model is so appealing—you know that you’ve stood out from all the other messaging they saw that day, at least a little bit. Their own analytics or sales funnels take over to assign a value to the click to compare to what they paid.

(That’s not to say everyone should be spending money on ads, that currently spends.)
>What chemicals cause that nostalgic old book smell?

>Compounds like benzaldehyde, vanillin, ethylbenzene, and 2-ethyl hexanol are often responsible for old book scents. Benzaldehyde has an almond-like scent, vanillin smells like vanilla, ethylbenzene is sweet and plastic-y, and 2-ethyl hexanol is lightly floral.

All of these are chemicals having very characteristic strong odors in their pure form, and can be somewhat overwhelming.

Ethylbenzene is an Aromatic hydrocarbon normally found in major concentrations in some paints and thinners, and industrial felt-tip markers containing the xylene-based inks which are flammable, toxic and can make you dizzy breathing too much.

2-Ethylhexanol smells even worse, it's really rough. If you get one drop on your foot, you're going to want to leave your shoes outside when you get home.

These kind of things just smell unique and are detectable in such low concentrations, plus can form a type of barely perceptible "bouquet" that imprints well enough to guide a potential effort toward its elusive source.

I would have to estimate the dose makes the poison like so many other things. Freshly printed publications seem to have more solvent offgassing than aged materials.
> Humans use techniques like natural deduction to apply a series of transformations that do not lead to absurd results.

All men are immortal.
Socrates is a man.
Therefore, Socrates is immortal.

If you were to give a group of CS students the exercise to determine whether the this deduction is valid, they would all answer yes. So no, humans that apply natural deduction can also derive absurd results.

That said, I don't think all C programmers would agree that the result of that optimization is absurd in the first place.
Also locking the entire issue from further reactions and comments since "a workaround exists" is a really bad way to handle the PR for this.
> OpenBSD doesn't even have that: if you don't reboot quickly after installing a major upgrade you're going to have a bad time

that's interesting, can you share bit more details/links?
On the other hand, Jobs would buy a new Mercedes every week just so he could park on the handicap spot closest to the entrance of the Apple office building.
Not sure which is worse.
Is there any basis to believe that mosquitos perceive time at all?
The screen in between the filter and the chamber top is to prevent grounds from entering up into the chamber, but boiling pressurized water absolutely does flood the entire chamber including the plastic region. (It's not just a wall of pressurized water in nice straight lines, it's a mixture of solids liquids and gasses.) Eg: When I clean my E61 group head, I have to remove a fine mesh filter to get to the brass outflow fitting, and it is still covered with oils from the coffee.