skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the realm of cold calling / emailing, 1% conversion is actually pretty normal. 2-5% would be unusually good. I would stick with what you're doing and don't lose faith!

If you want to try different strategies in parallel, I work in sales for a healthcare SaaS and while my product is results/outcomes oriented, I have much better luck talking to people about RESULTS they want to achieve vs. PROBLEMS they want to solve. At least now we're getting excited about something good vs. something they are already sick of talking about, or know they can't fix.

Some of the pains in healthcare are so structurally embedded in the industry, products purporting to relieve those pains are so plentiful, and ACTUAL pain relieving results are so few and far between, that messages looking for honest input on major pains that doctors experience is too clear of a dogwhistle for "I'm going to try to sell you a solution that doesn't work" and will be ignored.

Many doctors, for example, are still nursing wounds caused by the shift to EMR from paper- pretty much every vendor in that space promises an "easy migration" and the reality is that porting to EMR or switching vendors is a massive massive pain in the ass. ANY solution for a pain, or for amplifying/increasing a beneficial outcome, comes at not only a financial cost, but (perhaps more importantly) an opportunity cost associated with the time investment. Time = patients, patients = reimbursement, reimbursement = money.

Edit: Another thing that works for me is seeding the conversation with something like, "Something I hear from a lot of providers in [specialty] is they have a problem with [problem], or they want to do more [thing]. Is that true in your practice?"
I’m not a Tesla-stan but I can give this one a “it could have happened to any manufacturer” explanation.

Soap is a common method for getting rubber pads onto metal pedals in the aftermarket world. Dish soap dries out and becomes less slippery, unlike lithium grease or other options. It is possible it was carried over from an appropriate and approved installation method for top hinged pedals, where pressing down will push the rubber pad’s grove deeper into the metal shoe and not cause removal. For bottom hinged pedals, preferred for performance cars, I wouldn’t recommend that at all.

One off possibility is that this is NUMI knowledge making its way to Tesla ownership.

I don’t disagree with the takeaway though. If they were trying to Toyota Method/Six Sigma this assembly line properly, they’d have reviewed and approved the change as part of a periodic process and it wouldn’t have been “unapproved” and probably would not be the process they used.

Adding to my “it could have happened to any manufacturer” my EV Porsche comes with a NEMA 14-50 plug/pigtale that was previously only approved for use in 16 Amp EVSEs. The wire says 16A only (10 or 12ga wire is in use). However, they kept using these on 40 amp capable EVSEs. Over the years many 14-50 outlets and these plugs have melted. Through that time Porsche blamed low quality outlets and recommended an industrial model, but the plugs then melted instead of the outlet. Only this year did they issue a recall. This is extremely similar to an issue that happened with Tesla’s EVSE plug adapters. Porsche managed to make the same exact mistake years later despite that being an easy situation to reference.

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2023/RCMN-23V841-8821.pdf

https://www.tesla.com/support/adapter-recall
...to our shareholders and nation-state partners.
I don’t think the US has a similar level of penetration. They don’t let people who smoke weed work for the federal government. Additionally, the pay and job is just worse than doing cyber security for big tech. This means any decent hackers stay very far away from working for the feds.
imho waste of engineering time…
Could you elaborate on how Kant does work that seems to be little more than the obfuscation of trivial or false ideas?
It’s probably appropriate to protest if you think your company is behaving unethically. That sort of behavior used to be encouraged at Google.
The TGIF tradition existed for this reason. It was provided to support transparency and openness.

In no way are these features required for a company to function. They just used to be core Google values. Apparently Sundar has rolled such inconvenient ethical values back.
It was.

https://www.google.com/search?q=hacker+news+google+protest+s...
Discussion about it has been constantly flagged and removed (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40087063)
While the breaks physically will be ABLE to overcome the engine in anything that isn't a dodge hellcat, if the peddle is stuck to the floor and the engine is at full throttle, you won't have much or any vacuum boosting effects! You will have to quite literally STAND on the brake peddle like the bad old days, and a lot of people driving today have never experienced unassisted braking.
> Using Kafka as a work queue is widely documented as a mistake

Could not find any good sources on this. Can you please provide any references?
After a decade as a dev, I work in developer support now. It's often much harder than regular coding because I have to try to guess what the other dev might be doing wrong (or how their edge case could cause a bug) just from experience and intuition, often without being able to see their source code and logs.

I don't think I can teach someone all of this in a month if they have no prior web dev experience. It requires an awareness (if not deep expertise) of the whole stack and various network and caching factors across several codebases and vendors.

On the other hand, my previous job was just a frontend dev. It paid better but had way less responsibility and required very little cross-domain knowledge. I'm pretty confident I could teach someone to do that within a month. My partner there was actually a boot camp grad (few months of education), but he was terrific. It's not terribly difficult work, just requires an eye for detail and some empathy.
You're right. It's just, of course, easier to feel one extreme or the other.
> Google fired 28 employees involved in protests

This is incorrect; every uninvolved worker who spoke to them was also terminated.

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/google-worker-fired-protest-i...
It was on every major news network I follow. Maybe most people on HN thought it was already old news.
You learned to program on Windows, didn't you?
I have a strong preference for non-activist workplaces. If I'm not values-aligned with an employer I can always leave. So I'm glad to see Google take a firm stance here. I'd expect the same reaction if the protesters were chanting about the Israeli hostages held by Hamas rather than in support of the other side.

Meta: this thread is much more useful and relevant to HN as a discussion of workplace culture than a flamewar about Israel.
Thanks for the feedback! You currently cannot target individual users, but adding a way to upload a list of user ids to any alert, so the alert only gets shown to them, is on the roadmap.

Re dashes in the name, yeah, I agree. Cheers!
Email the mods and ask them to correct the issues you’re seeing. @dang doesn’t work at HN, and you’ll need to send that email to get his attention and reply here.
Funny, just today I read about things like waves or energy being arguably on a "different plane of existence" than their medium/embodiment :

http://www.av8n.com/physics/black-box.htm#sec-plane-of-exist...

(Which made me realize how little I know about eastern mysticism...)
Calories are pretty important nutritient too, one of the most important ones actually. And what sugar does is that you can get them in cheaper.
What kind of updates have you received? New maps? Or do you have to pay for those
Head crabs
I was on the opposite side of that when I was young and first read his work. I eagerly read piles and piles of philosophy and quickly shelved any interest in him and his work as building on completely unconvincing premises.

But many many years later, there's been a lot of churn in whose work I value and whose I don't. I wouldn't be surprised if I see his work in a very different light now. This news may be what gets me yo pick it up again and find out.
Nadella has such practiced corporate-speak it's impressive. I went to a two-hour talk and Q&A he did, and he didn't communicate a single piece of real information over the whole session. It was entirely HR filler language, the whole time.
a better example of the banality of evil:

denying the holocaust through comparing it to other dissimilar events in order to minimize the catastrophe and reduce cultural complicity
I mean, regardless of the opinion on the issue at hand, the 'protesters' did what they set out to do. They brought attention to google's polices that are in relation to the war. At any rate, if you are taking over your employers' campus, preventing others from working, your expectation should be that you will not be working there anymore. The thing that confuses me is the narrative that them being fired is a kind of unexpected move.
They more or less did this against diapers.com. They simply forced them to be acquired by selling diapers at a loss.

The thing is, it's easier than ever to start an e-tailer. I've been using Deliverr (which is now owned by Flexport) which does 3rd party logistics along with Shopify. If Amazon pumped their prices on diapers, it would be really easy to start an online diaper store. The threat keeps them honest to some extent.

Obviously, you can't fight Amazon directly on selling everything. But 3rd party retailers to sell targeted things can be spun up quickly if Amazon lets their prices in any one category creep up too high.

And Amazon competes in individual categories with a lot of people. I can buy a lot of home repair type things on Amazon, or at Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Lowe's, Menards, etc. I can buy a lot of electronics on Amazon, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, etc.

There's a lot of competition in retail in general and likely always will be, there just isn't a lot of competition in everything stores and it's hard to see how that would change.
> You can implement the C equivalent manually of course

But you have to implement the C version manually as well.

It's not really a downside to Rust if it provides a convenient feature that you can choose to use if it fits your goals.

The use case you're describing is relatively rare. If it's an actual performance bottleneck then spending a little extra time to implement it in Rust doesn't seem like a big deal. I have a hard time considering this an "unfortunate detail" to Rust when the presence of the Option<_> type provides so much benefit in typical use cases.
> The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing.

Who's defining "right", here?
Same here. I was saving the article for when I have a few hours to really dive into it, build upon it, learn from seeing and doing. Imagine my disappointment when I had the evening cleared, started reading, and discover all they're showing is how to concatenate a string, download someone else's black box model which outputs the similarity between the user's query and the concatenated info about each object, and then write queries on the output

It's good to know you can do this performantly on your own system, but if the article had started out with "look, this model can output similarity between two texts and we can make a search engine with that", that'd be much more up front about what to expect to learn from it

Edit: another comment mentioned you can't even run it yourself, you need to ask ClosedAI for every search query a user does on your website. WTF is this article, at that point you might as well pipe the query into general-purpose chatgpt which everyone already knows and let that sort it out
I've seen a lot prominent folks deriding the employees. It's well known that IBM played a key role in the Holocaust [1]. It's also clear at this point that Israel's offensive has reached or is close to 'Genocide' status [2]. It's incredibly poor taste to deride these employees for doing whatever means are in their disposal to prevent what happened with IBM. What would you do if you worked at IBM during the Holocaust?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
[2] https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/26/israel-not-complying-wor...
I think that devs often underestimate just how difficult it is for users to report problems. The most common problems are that the users feel ignored, like they're being a burden on the devs, or scolded (for not reporting it correctly, for "not holding it right", etc.). It's even common for there not to be an easy way to report such problems ("use Discord", "sign up for an account on this website and report there", etc.)

Even as a dev, I resist doing it because of how unpleasant it can be. If I can come up with a workaround without having to report the issue, that's what I'll tend to do. And if I have to talk to tech support rather than the devs? That's simply not going to happen unless I'm trapped into using the product.

We still haven't cracked this problem as an industry.
advertising: $200k

ruining your reputation by the CEO: priceless
Not the same thing dude. This interface is straight outta 2005. Chrome's interface has been being tweaked constantly over the years. It doesn't need an overhaul because it's not 15+ years out of date.

But I mean, you do you man. There's nothing wrong with liking retro interfaces. I once tried to do everything to make my computer look like Windows XP just for nostalgia. Regardless, the product has nice features that would be cool to use, except most people don't want one application on their computer to look like it was there when 9/11 happened while everything else looks new. There would be nothing wrong with having an application with the same features that's not off-putting to most users.

But sure, they can block themselves into a niche of people that don't care if UI looks nice if they really want. That's allowed. Not illegal lol.
DO tell them you are doing /market research/ and really appreciate their experience and insight. Generally I have offered an "honorarium" of say $200 for a 30 minute interview (for doctors you might want to offer $500). 90% of people never collect the money, just that somehow offering an "honorarium" makes the whole thing seem more legit and organized. A high honorarium (like $500 for doctors) will also demonstrate respect (and they really won't collect the money).

DONT include the question in your request. That will Heisenberg results.

DO ask then about /frustrations/, rather than /problems/. Frustrations are externally caused. Many people proudly believe that they are already handling any /problems/
Yes, it was traditional "philosphers of mind" who found him dismissive,
mainly because those are all basically Mysterians.

For instance, he cut Chalmers no slack on the incoherency of Philosophical Zombies.
This is all a simulation, folks. The "universe", not the website. I mean, the website is inside the simulation, so it's technically a simulation of the simulation it lives in...
Good recommendation if you need to test for some target application's performance.

However, when the service you provide is the network itself, e.g. to a customer who just bought XYZ performance from A to B, you need usage-agnostic test tools.
Handbrake
Copyclip
ProtonVPN
Pomodoro timer
I'm struggling to find any accounts of jews in 1930s germany raping and kidnapping and murdering a bunch of germans people and then hiding in tunnels under hospitals and schools.

Has anyone asked the palestinians if they consent to being used as human shields? If they do, then well they're getting what they asked for but if not, then the only bad guy here is hamas.
They're competing in the same market, people expect the same quality.
Personally, I like Google's response to this, and the whole idea of publicly campaigning against your employer (especially during normal business hours) is completely foreign to me. Maybe I'm just an old fogey, but "back in my day" you'd earn lots of money and then go use that money to advance your social causes on your own time and in your own way.

If you disagree with the company's direction, then do what you can through normal channels to change it. If you don't have that kind of power, then vote with your feet and leave. Go work somewhere else. Go start your own company and run it how you want.

And BTW, if your protest can't have any meaningful consequences to you - if there's no real potential "cost" to you - then it's not a protest but a performance.
Right, but do you feel tesla changing icon sizes was critical?
Make every math homework a test
And you know how much Coca is needed to make Cocaine? Might as well compare chewing a piece of sugar cane to drinking HFCS.
Nothing bad happened here and they caught an issue without any incident or injury. I wonder if there will ever be a day where Hackernews isn't actively rooting for the downfall of innovative technology companies
Fairness has nothing to do with anything here. First of all, it's the reality of having a Tesla worked on, regardless of blame. Second, Tesla's lack of a US dealer network is very intentional and they've fought very hard against the legal status quo to avoid having one at all.
US is paying dearly for outperformance
Read the interview of one of the fired engineers – https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/google-worker-fired-protest-i.... He was genuinely shocked that the company would take action against him, and compared it to fascism.

I'd wager that most/all of them expected to keep their jobs, as has happened before with similar protests at Google and other tech companies.
While it is within Google's rights to do what they did. I find myself less and less inclined to use Google's products.
Meant to say "overconsume" rather than "overcome"
I keep an install of SeaMonkey 2.49.5 on my desktop. It's my preferred platform for browsing FTP and Gopher (the latter with the OverbiteFF add-on), and is the last version of SeaMonkey that has full NPAPI support, useful if I find an old site with a Java applet, or would for some reason need Silverlight. And being based on Firefox 52, it still works with most web sites as well; more recent versions would work even better with modern web sites.

I should try its HTML editor, it might be a nice upgrade from writing my HTML pages in Notepad++.

The vintage UI is part of the charm. Admittedly the "Stop" button is less useful than it was in the '90s, but I'm a believer that we've lost more than we've gained with the trend towards low-chrome browser designs.
Wow. I left my parent comment 2 minutes ago and this thread has already been removed from the front page.

Story has 46 points and is 29 minutes old at the time I'm writing this comment.

Are we not allowed to discuss the actions of one of the largest tech companies?
> My experience with metadata is that a lot of applications don't care about its integrity [...]

This has led me to formally maintaining significant metadata in the filename, for certain kinds of files; everything else gets lost or diverges. For instance, a book file might be named `Title [a=Jim Smith; isbn=9781234567890].pdf`.
I don't know if I can consider my code "Great" but I dedicated way too many months on a prometheus library where I focused on quality since I did it for me.

It's relatively small and I think the main take away would be the use of Protocols for the pluggable backend system. I hope you get something out of it :)

https://github.com/Llandy3d/pytheus
Yeah, that line also struck me as somewhat silly. Even in the days of outright dueling, this was known to happen. If you study the life of Andrew Jackson (who frankly comes across to any modern American as an absolute psycho), he had several duels throughout his life, and while many of them ended in Jackson killing his opponent, he also befriended many of his surviving dueling opponents. It was fairly common for a duel to end with both parties intentionally missing the other with their pistols, and it was probably safer for everyone involved for the fistfight to replace the duel as a ritual test of bravery and honor, though even that is on the decline.
iTTYL: Schedule multimedia iMessage+SMS continuously from Notes on any device
Currently requires a Mac.
How this is achieved
(1) Continuity: launchd process scans Notes
(2) Multimedia: Applescript
(3) All devices: Notes iCloud sync

This project is a divergent fork of the following hackernews post from reidjs, to whom I owe much credit. Note the first comment of this other thread if you do not have a Mac; it's a bit more cumbersome of an interface than Notes, and I'm unsure if multimedia would be supported, but my software literally does not work without a Mac.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39652422
I would say they need to "unfuck" more than 100 years of pseudo science ...
Nvidia Releases Free Courses on AI
Dang has to rescue pretty much every single Israel post as they are getting mass flagged to oblivion.
Have you considered offering them something for their time? Something as simple as a gift card to a coffee shop, so you can have virtual coffee and chat about their pain points?

I know you don't want to sounds sales-y, and there are ways to offer this without sounding like a salesperson. Just an idea
You don't have to go back that far. It's fluctuated back and forth between 160 to 300ppm over the last 800k years. https://science.nasa.gov/resource/graphic-the-relentless-ris...
What is? It's a workplace. You don't like what the company does? You're free to quit, and/or to say whatever you want. Post online, go to the park and have a march. Stop using their products. Put a big banner in front of HQ. Or even...do a sit-in of the CEO, if you like. Just don't be surprised when you get arrested. If you work there, don't be surprised if you get fired. Your right to free speech does not extend to private property, and Google does not have to respect your opinions.

But it is the pinnacle of entitlement to think that you can storm into a private place and not suffer consequences for your actions. Even more extreme, to do so as an employee of a company and believe you will not get fired for doing so...I don't know where people get these ideas.
The comments are just a flame war about Israel. Maybe that's why so many people are flagging it.
lovely animations.

Can you expand on this. Why did you have to use both jitter and Lottie?
Spam-T5: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Few-Shot Email Spam Detection
I realized that it was mostly my problem of not understanding what philosophers do
I tried this, and it seems like this is just raw AI chat, no search?

I do extremely like the Kagi fastgpt feature, which lets you end your search query with a question mark, and above the search results you'll get an AI answer, that is based on the content of the top 4-8 results.

It's very fast and provides citations to the links it used, so it feels quite trustworthy (or at least as trustworthy as the sources it cites), which means I often use the feature and am happy with the response I get.
It was plastered all over Twitter and elsewhere. I think it's good that there's a platform that is mostly unmoderated, you can go there (like I do) for news and social/politics issues or whatever. Make your own conclusions. But I prefer the tighter moderation here, interesting techy stuff, that's what makes me come back here, not random drama and flamewars.
'I Don't Think the Abyss Is Worth Looking into Anymore'
Zizek comes to mind immediately. My younger self used to be more open minded but even then he was way out there and way too bombastic.