skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After 15+ years of experience as a Marketing and GTM leader who has grown multiple companies from zero to millions of dollars in revenue, I'm building a healthcare-focused media company with the goal of connecting buyers and sellers without friction.

One of the services that I launched is helping companies generate qualified sales pipeline by engaging with top-tier target accounts through hosted podcast series and panel discussions.

Since 2020, I've run this exact playbook to generate over $20m in annual qualified sales pipeline a year, and garnered over half a million brand impressions per year while doing so.

Just last month, I was able to connect a couple of clients with a couple of health plans who are doing $10 billion and $5 billion in annual revenues respectively.

I want you to check out the link to the presentation, and let me know if you would be interested in it. Also, it would be nice to know why would you not use a service like this?
I'm really concerned by this as someone who has recently broken into DevRel. I understand that there will always be jobs for someone like me, but all of the weird skills I have kinda add up into DevRel. It's kind of a dream job for me because I'm able to just create things for the joy of creation and use that to help explain why things are the way they are.
There used to be a Firefox plugin with much similar features. However since the change of Firefox plugin arch, it's no longer available.
NFTs are not a good solution to buying artwork. They are a novel concept, but translating that to conventional problems around ownership is difficult and probably not the best solution.
Is it just the subsampling?

Naively i would assume that even if you have the unnessary the C_b C_r channels in a greyscale image, they are going to compress really well since they have very little information in a greyscale image.
Yeah, totally. It's where we get the word "apologist".
Cool. I actually worked on this back in the early days of my PhD (https://arxiv.org/pdf/0705.2385). Never expected to see it on HN
That's the true cost of Photoshop. It's not the subscription. It's the time you spent learning how to do everything.

That's why I support Krita, If I'm going to pay that cost, I want to invest it in software that is by the people, for the people.
It's decently rare, but the people who actually like mathematics tend to become mathematicians. Hence they become the spokespeople for mathematics, as well as the experts who are consulted about how to teach and structure curicula. They also become maths teachers.
Countries have treaties with each other to recognize and protect each other's copyrights.
The big issue with Affinity Photo is that it doesn't support non-destructive editing / a non-linear workflow like Lightroom does.

It's not exactly a fair comparison, since AP directly competes with Photoshop, not Lightroom, but that was what made it an immediate non-starter for me when it comes to photography.

Affinity Photo starts you in a "Develop Persona" when you open a RAW file, and allows you to develop your RAW file. Before you can use any of the common editing tools, you need to leave that persona by committing your changes. You need to make a choice to bake these RAW adjustments into a "RAW layer (embedded)", "RAW layer (linked)" or a "Pixel layer". It's not very obvious what these are and how they work.

Most of the common editing tools then work destructively. Once you use them, you can't go back and change any of the RAW adjustments. There are some very limited tools available that can work non-destructively, but again, it's not very obvious which ones those are. And use of the wrong tool can immediately turn a "RAW layer" into a "Pixel layer" without warning.

It's all very confusing, to be honest. It may be a case of the RTFM, but I did so when I tried this a couple months ago, and came to the conclusion that AP simply isn't capable of a non-destructive editing workflow yet, except for a few very basic cases.

But the bundle price was worth it for me for Designer and Publisher alone. So I hope in due time they'll launch a fourth product to compete with Lightroom, on photo cataloging, culling and a non-destructive workflow.

The current commercial alternatives for Lightroom unfortunately are still lacking, last time I looked at them (Capture One, DxO Photo Lab). And the open source ones (darktable, digiKam) are ... not good. I'm keeping my eye on "Ansel" though (darktable fork by an ex-dev, anger-driven development), the author's rants sum up very wrong what's wrong with darktable, and why its community is so dysfunctional.
Mostly cost - a 55" Samsung Odyssey Ark computer monitor is like $1800. You can get a similar TV for 1/2 that price.
Dang! Boeing airplanes are literally falling apart in normal operation! I'm not an aviation expert by any means, but are all these "little problems" indicative of a bigger problem at Boeing? Are we just getting lucky that so far the things that have been failing haven't had disastrous consequences? Can someone who knows about these things enlighten me?
This is a Pew Research study…
Does "security" here mean security from the computer's owner, i.e., Treacherous Computing? If not, then what kinds of security holes are even possible at the point when GRUB is running?
Apparently z-library received user donations and at some point used that donated money to make purchases intended to promote the carrying on of unlawful activities, probably buying hardware or services relating to the operation of z-library, which qualifies as money laundering. Even though it doesn't fit the normal conception of money laundering (hiding the source of illegal money) it still falls under the same law.

> In or about and between January 2018 and November 2022, both dates being approximate and inclusive, within the Eastern District of New York and elsewhere, the defendants ANTON NAPOLSKY, also known as "Anton Napolskiy," and VALERJIA ERMAKOVA, together with others, did knowingly and intentionally conspire to conduct one or more financial transactions in and affecting interstate and foreign commerce, to wit: deposits, withdrawals and transfers of funds and monetary instruments, which transactions in fact involved the proceeds of specified unlawful activity, to wit: criminal copyright, as alleged in Count One, in violation of Title 17, United States Code, Section 506(a)(1)(A), and wire fraud, as alleged in Counts Three and Four, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343 (collectively, the "Specified Unlawful Activities"), knowing that the property involved in the transactions represented the proceeds of some form of unlawful activity, with intent to promote the carrying on of the Specified Unlawful Activities, contrary to Title 18, United States Code, Section 1956(a)(l)(A)(i).

https://torrentfreak.com/images/z_library_indictment_0.pdf
Not necessarily. You can for example configure both Thunderbird and mailcow to allow you to reply from any address (of the domains you manage, of course), without having to create the mailbox.
> It's kind of like saying: "Lawyers? I've dealt with them twice -- and let me tell you, they're all a bunch of lying scumbags who ..."

It's a bit more like saying: "Lawyers? Both I've dealt with were lying scumbags so I'm distrustful of lawyers in general."

Not that it's especially more rational but it at least allows for trusting particular journalists.
To add to this, I pirate books to see if it’s worth me buying the physical copy.
Long time ago ive tried to help the project but really its just too complex of a problem for the few people that maintain it.
At same time its dense C++ codebase that only experienced programmers will be able to contribite to. And those programmers often dont value UX/Design much so it becomes huge rift between bunch of designers unable to do anything themselves and few annoyed programmers.
UK party suspected of appointing fake candidates in election
>Plus communism is about sharing with your community.

Adding on to this, my impression of Russian culture, observing both historically and today, is that Might Makes Right(tm) is a core tenet.

That is to say, if you can do it and get away with it you are justice. The two mentioned in the article clearly are (were) getting away with it, so as far as they are concerned they are right and everyone else is wrong.

Russians don't care about ink on paper unless it can literally pickup an AK-47 and shoot them.
Reasoning or Simply Next Token Prediction? Stress-Testing Large LLMs
If you live in the right jurisdiction consumer protection laws might be able to force the seller to get this defect fixed or have them take back and refund the tv.

Where I live (Norway), there is a five year warranty on long lived products, which a tv is, and if it breaks during that period, the seller needs to fix or replace the product. Motion smoothing that can't be turned off seems a serious breakage, and if they seller pushes back, you can point out that Tom Cruise and a bunch of other movie luminaries think motion smoothing ruins movies.

Not sure what the rules are with software updates after the tv is out of warranty. But I do suspect the seller would still be in hot water, if the update breaks important functionality.
It's usually a consequence of working in the microcanonical ensemble, where you're forcing the energy of the system to be fixed while exploring its various states. The most common (and intuitive) scenario is the Macrocanonical ensemble where the temperature is fixed the energy is allowed to vary. In this case, of course, there is no negative temperature.
> Because lighting your candle from mine doesn't diminish my candle's brightness.

So are you saying authors don't deserve any compensation for their work unless they produce books in physical form?
needs a Dockerfile
Lisp-style parentheses are still better than brackets because at least they don’t waste verticat space.

(if x
(if y
(if z
foo)))

versus

if (x) {
if (y) {
if (z) {
foo;
}
}
}
Same for me. I can't stand watching sports with fast motion or large panning scenes on a low refresh rate screen.

But agree with the post above that 24p double exposed is even better. Smooth and no artefacts. Luckily that's an option Sony TVs have by default if you pick cinema mode.
At worst you can just go into sales engineering no? Better paid anyway, same amount of travel probably.
I gave up on TVs. Luckily I watch very little TV anyway so it's no big deal. I remember my friend buying a TV for thousands a few years ago and seeing just how laughably bad the interface was compared to Kodi on a Raspberry Pi 2 that I've been running close to 10 years now. Literally it's been on almost that whole time (just had to replace the power supply once). Not only does it play everything on my NAS, I can stream to it and control it from my phone etc. I never update it because it just continues to work. I use a projector instead of a screen because it's better and thankfully they are still dumb. Oh and a huge sound system. And all of that costs less than that one shitty "smart" TV...
I seriously love this app. I use it nearly every day. I scoured the net looking for a FOSS sqlite Mac app with a table exploring GUI. This is the best one!
> My best plan at the moment is to work on my skill set, get a few certifications, and create an impressive project or two to showcase my new skills.

I suppose certificates aren't worth a lot in most software engineering roles. This might be different in your area but you should definitely reconsider it. I value actual experience in ML or some working projects on GitHub more than any related $BIG_CORP certificate.

An easy way to make use of your time is contributing to some existing and relevant project. It doesn't need to be React, Pandas, or Tensorflow. But usually you have worked with some smaller package in your jobs and encountered some idiosyncrasies. It's much easier to contribute to existing projects than spin up something meaningful yourself.
>I'm having no luck getting calls
>Are there any sources on skills that are in high demand today?

Do you look at the things you are applying for? Presumably you have sent out multiple applications, meaning you have looked at many listings, for sending out a dozen applications you likely already looked at hundreds of potential positions. That should have given you a great overview of what employers are looking for.

It is hard to answer what specific skills are relevant to the industry and geographic location are relevant, but you are currently in a great position to figure that out. Your resume and skills should target a particular industry and a particular area and you should start out by actually finding some match between what your skills are and what you can do and what you want to do.

>My best plan at the moment is to work on my skill set, get a few certifications, and create an impressive project or two to showcase my new skills.

To what end? Do you want to be employed by a specific industry where these certifications are relevant? Do you think your employer needs to see "impressive projects"? How does an "impressive project" look, which you made for the sole purpose of having an "impressive project"?
Probably for collecting donations and moving them through the SWIFT banking system.
Another excerpt from the article that is worth pointing out:

> What you probably should avoid is weeks of customers flagging the same issue with no meaningful feedback or updates. Possibly even more important, your support infrastructure shouldn’t be difficult to navigate or have their own bugs that hinder their use. In this case, there’s both.

This is probably an intentional design choice - make it as difficult as possible to report any kind of issue, thus cutting down the number of issues that actually get reported and reducing the number of support staff needed.

The point where I would have given a giant corporation the benefit of the doubt that this was not intention is long past.
> A system that is Turing Complete absolutely can be programmed to reason, aka it has the ability to reason.

you can write C program which can reason, but C compiler can't reason. So, program part is missing between "Turing Completeness" and reasoning, and it is very non-trivial part.
Likely an unpopular take, but I switched to the "Natural text editing" preset in iTerm2 to get editing shortcuts that match the traditional macOS ones. It has the advantage of just remapping to the normal control sequences inside terminal apps, so you basically get this functionality everywhere without needed to change it in multiple places/worry about readline support/etc. It isn't perfect (I have rarely needed to enter sequences manually that then are remapped), but I find I have used way more command editing since its part of my muscle memory.

https://pliszko.com/blog/post/2021-10-31-natural-text-editin...
Ozempic flew off the shelves in my region 2 years ago when people thought it was a risk-free way to lose weight. More than half had side effects but still insisted it was working.

You can't trick nature.
Real estate is 3-5% of GDP for construction of new homes. And 12-13% for housing. That includes rent, but also the owner's imputed rent that they would pay. I think sales are counted as capital gains and I think not included in GDP.

I'm not too surprised that countries have similar housing, there is percent of rent that can afforded. I'm surprised that higher home prices aren't reflected, but that may show up as higher overall GDP.
> They aren't portable. You need to package up your editable project for an offline system? Too bad, virtual environments use hardcoded paths and symlinks that will be broken when you try.

This isn't 100% true. If you carefully use the same python version and the same path for your venv and python then copying the venv between computers works perfectly. I've done it many times, actually last time I changed my computer I copied over all my projects and venvs and everything worked flawlessly.
That person on the floor must be, and usually is, indemnified

That's not how FAA submitted documentation works. Just don't sign it if you have any questions. I never signed anything until I had personally verified the data and/or the code for myself.

If there are young engineers out there reading this, please disregard these people telling you that you are indemnified. Talk to a lawyer yourself if you don't believe me, but please don't follow the advice these people are laying out.

Signing off on something you know to be untrue and submitting that to the FDA or FAA as part of an approval process is a federal crime. Not only that, but the way our lawyers explained it to us, each time we sign off on something that turns out to be false, it counts as one count of lying to the federal government. And, no, you being an employee who was directed to sign does not absolve you from culpability.

Any 1L knows that you cannot, under any circumstances, contract away criminal liability. You are always liable for the actions you take that turn out to be criminal.

Again, don't believe me telling you that you will be committing a crime if you sign off on a fix or design that turns out to be bunk. Definitely don't believe these guys telling you will be protected if you sign off. Go talk to an attorney for yourself. You'll find what I'm saying is true. You want to find that out before you sign off on a fix or a design. Not after. Believe me.

Just some fatherly advice from an older engineer to younger ones. Please protect yourselves.
Altman, Huffington launching AI health coach
Cloudflare offers this as a service: https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/wai...
Hiring is way down. It's a numbers game - you have to apply to as many positions as possible and lower your standards.
Ah, yeah. I’m just hoping the justice dept breaks them up and ticket sales move to something like the airline model.
...which was done on a novel legal theory (like people are alluding to in this thread). I realize the analogy triggers some of you but it's not a bad one.
> some of the money will actually go to the people responsible for producing the work.

As a gatekeeping entity that barricades taxpayer-funded docs behind paywalls (from the taxpayers who funded their creation), the thing Elsevier produces is unethical rent-seeking behavior.

> Sending money to the pirates, though, will only produce more piracy.

Until meaningfully ethical alternatives emerge, folks work with what they got.
Yes, they have learned. As much as I hate them they are mostly a well-run company.
Most people ain't steered by first-principles thinking, though, and that's the problem. To most people, first-principles-driven thinking lacks sufficient actionability; they just want definite answers, and first-principles-driven thinking tends to produce answers that are anything but definite.
Substack rival Ghost federates its first newsletter
I once worked for a Cambridge startup called Sayagle where you would Yagle for SayaCash (don't ask).

I started after the website was built by a cheap offshore team. It was built with JSF and we soon found that no one thought about multithreading because they only ever tested it with a single user.

Needless to say, when more than 10 users were active on the site, they would start to experience problems, like seeing eachothers data and stuff. "We" fixed the problem by adding more servers while I tried to rewrite the whole thing using spring and jsp.
Return to Office Tango
Yup, I use my brother laser printer to print probably 20 pages a year and it’s been going strong for 5 years now on the cartridge that it came with when I bought it on eBay.
Stepping down to the next unit doesn't necessarily make anything tidier. If I need to cut a 3.5-foot piece of wood into thirds, then I cut it into 14-inch pieces. If I need to cut a 1-meter piece of wood into thirds, I cut it into 33.3-centimeter pieces.

Or, perhaps I want to hang two photos on a wall, spacing them evenly - the math from the example above applies again.

Regarding your example of dividing 12 into 32 parts - I think that's another good example of the elegance of imperial units. Dividing a foot into 32 parts is 3/8 of an inch! A nice, tidy unit that you'll find on any ruler or measuring tape.

>In inches if your 13/16th inch wrench is too big, do you grab the 5/8th? or three-quarters next?

Neither - I'd grab the 25/32" wrench ;) You make a good point.

I will say that fractional units become more and more intuitive as you use them more often. In a pinch you can just multiply both parts of the fraction by two.

Here's the thing: with wrenches in fractional units, you can do a binary search. Let's say you start with the 1/2 inch wrench. Too small? grab the 3/4. Too big? Try the 1/4. Work your way down.

...or, just remember that a huge share of bolts you'll come by are 7/16" and just start there.
If you go to My Account within an Affinity app, yes you can see the store there.

It says underneath "You do not need to remain online or signed in to use your purchases", referring to in-app store purchases.
Essentially nothing in Windows requires cmd.exe. Having a terminal in a desktop OS isn't a problem. Needing one is.

Just like having a GUI isn't a problem for a server OS, but needing one is a problem.
Pnpm 9.5 Introduces Catalogs: Shareable Dependency Version Specifiers
Hey now, it's 2024, anyone can twirl their evil mustache if they want to sport one. Just wash your hands afterwards.
Oops, you’re totally right. That was a typo, it’s 7 kW continuous and 21 kW peak
Modern printers are pretty good, now. I have the ender 3 v2 and it was considered a huge upgrade over the original ender 3, but stuff from bambu labs are actually "remove from box, push print, get object" as long promised. The Bambu Lab X1 isn't cheap, starting at about $1200, but it Works As Advertised
Other hand when talking about functional operation. Solar, Wind plus Nat Gas works well together. Where Solar, Wind plus Coal doesn't.

It's technically easy to shutdown, restart, and take Nat Gas plants in and out of standby to make up for shortfalls in solar and wind production. Where you can't do that with coal and nuclear for both technical and economic reasons.
Yeah, the best videos follow the pattern of "What is this thing?" "Why does it need to exist?", How does it fit into the bigger picture?", and then finally "How do you actually use it?" This kind of stuff is essential for helping people skill up to the point that they can understand why they'd want to use a thing. If you are the one that makes them understand why they want to use a cache like Redis, then it's a lot easier for them to branch into the docs.
Un ordi?
About time. I have wasted so much time working around bugs in their D3D graphics drivers, spent days documenting and providing test cases and bug reports that they simply ignore that at this point I cannot recommend buying their hardware.
I’m sorry, I was condescending. My bad.

I do miss the Windows ~NT/2000 every-word-has-an-underlined-letter-that-you-can-use-with-the-alt-key era. Last time I used Windows (10) that felt like it was going away? Vestiges exist but they’re no longer so obvious?

Because that was/is a tremendously simple and effective way to get around, no doubt.
Yes. I'm in vacation in Brittany RN, I'll check the next place I'll have to contact to find a place to sail to: https://www.saintmalo-cancale.port.bzh
No pop-up. I'll bet most ports don't have cookie pop-ups, most public campings won't either.
I am in same place. I keep Mac laptop for graphics because of this.

I know the win version now works pretty well on linux with wine. But the process to set this up is not yet automated (like 20min) and is being worked on. So i was too lazy to properly try it.
Honestly this seems like a good experiment. I am always looking at my phone, but I’m at a very different stage in life than the students at school. With a Nokia phone, it’s not like they wouldn’t be able to communicate with one another or with their parents.

I do worry that it might make it harder for students that struggle finding a group of peers at school and find community online.