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>At AppSumo, we run paid trials with potential teammates before bringing them on full-time to ensure they’re the right fit.

Not sure that is something I would personally enjoy. While I understand you must fit in, having this process highlights that leaving your current company is even riskier as you might not make the cut and end up with nothing. The trial is one-sided, with all the risks for the new employee, not AppSumo. I understand that any change of job is similar where you may stay forever, however, saying that way make it worse somehow.
We can assume the error will have a random (whether it's actually truly random or merely pseudo-random doesn't matter here, just assume it's indistinguishable from truly random for this discussion) and a non-random component.

The random component I assume to be gaussian (thermal noise, for example) and therefore symmetrical around the real value.
It's obvious we can remove this type of noise through averaging (of which the core operation is integration).

The non-random component I assume to be a skew that can be calibrated out.

With these two assumptions in mind you can see that yes, it's indeed a random walk, but a very well behaved one.
I have a difficult time making something my life, when I know it can and will be taken away at any time.
They probably asynchronously verify that the IP address actually belongs to googlebot, then ban the IP when it fails.

Synchronously verifying it, would probably be too slow.

You can verify googlebot authenticity by doing a reverse dns lookup, then checking that reverse dns name resolves correctly to the expected IP address[0].

[0]: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
Why was the author fired? Just curious :)
The security argument against cloud based monitoring has sailed.

With or without cloud based monitoring, our power grids can be disrupted.

That's the commonly accepted meaning of "that ship has sailed" as a colloquialism with respect to cloud based monitoring.

Also, you, yourself, brought up the idea of cold war style confrontation. The basis of most actions against proxy supporters in cold war style conflicts is plausible deniability. It's not a red herring, it's a widely adhered to tenet of cold war style conflict planning when targeting said proxy supporters.

I tried to cover total war, open war, and cold war to address the full spectrum of likely super power on super power active confrontations. In each scenario, the existence, or non-existence, of cloud based monitoring of solar panels, has no effect on the ability or inability of your adversary to disrupt your power grid.

Which disruption was the central thesis of your assertion. I was simply explaining why it was false.

You are being willfully argumentative at this point. If you didn't want to address cold war scenarios, why did you bring them up? You have a nice day sir or ma'am.
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Nah, this isn’t something you can fight as an individual parent. Not unless you want to be seen as a tyrant anyway.

You might be able to pull it off in specific environment, but I’m not convinced the benefits of such an individual mandate outweigh the negatives (or rather, there are better alternatives).
> Spine is cool, but I find it ridiculous for more and more tool software for games to force Enterprise licenses, rev share, etc onto developers.

Price your software they way you want Spine to price theirs, and you'll fall under the 500K threshold and be all set.
I'll do that as soon as one-click-to-cancel becomes law. I refuse to subject myself to predatory business practices so they won't see my money until a legislative body starts working on behalf of the people.
If the Constitution were truly immutable, different iterations of the Supreme Court wouldn't be able to interpret the same words in different ways. In fact, we wouldn't even need a Supreme Court to interpret it. It would always mean exactly what it says in no uncertain terms, with the absolute certainty of mathematical proof.

But it is edited through the interpretation of the Supreme Court. And that's by design - the Constitution was written to be intentionally vague, which makes it unavoidably mutable.
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This is such an odd take!

The NCBI link is an article put out by the The U.S. Surgeon General (that same one who warns about the tobacco industry you mention)!

It's a well balanced take that shows both sides.

It's true that coverage of this issue is overwhelmingly about the risks. But the evidence itself is much more nuanced.
The oath says "support and defend the Constitution". That doesn't make it their job to interpret the constitution.
The "Coddling of the American Mind" guy? Pass. I was in college during the period he wrote about, and my impression is that he agglomerates mountains of misrepresented evidence to work the older generations into another panic about kids these days.
The fact that you stalked my other comments and then engaged in personal attacks against me in other threads [1] (in addition to ideologue statements such as "I'm fairly sure there are schools ryun by anti-vaxxer nutjobs") proves conclusively that, in addition to completely disregarding the HN guidelines, you never had any intention of engaging in honest debate, that you only wish to push your political agenda regardless of facts or logic, that you're willing to lie and abuse words in order to do so, and that it's futile to respond. I do not need to defend myself against someone who behaves like this.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41290855
The problem is that Rdio's was based on Echo Nest's similarity algorithm, which went private after Spotify bought Echo Nest.

Doing music similarity with Echo Nest was great back when it was public. I did a project in grad school with it.
He of all people should have been able to find a shorter way to get to the point!
>because it's still so surprising to me, as a European, that people would have guns in their homes like it's the most natural thing in the world.

Then you must be one very insulated or ignorant European. Many people in many European countries own guns and keep them in their homes. Some states, such as the Czech Republic, even have remarkably flexible gun ownership laws and others have widespread private gun ownership to a degree that's not too different from that of the U.S. In Norway and Finland for example, private possession of firearms amounts to something like a quarter of the population measured per 100 people.

I'm also a European, and i'm not sure how being one means a damn thing about categorically judging a complex thing like gun ownership in any other culture or place. This applies particularly since many other Europeans in dozens of different states with their own contexts have entirely different motives for doing something practical one way or another. It's downright absurd to claim that "as a European" you can make any kind of value statement about the tendencies in such a diverse range of countries and contexts. Never mind being able to judge the personal protection motives of people in other continents.

Owning guns has many good reasons behind it in any case. These include the obvious like general self protection, home protection, hunting and collecting, but also less obvious reasons that are specific to very particular places.

I currently live in a country where gun ownership is severely restricted, legally at least, but in which violent crime and firearm homicide rates are rampantly high. Many people here have very good reasons to keep guns, under the real world circumstances of criminal groups and gangs having them, the police being uselessly corrupt, and the practical reality of all of that being something that one can't simply wish away by magic, even if they're wishing "as a European".

It's ever more tedious to see random comments with "As a European" appear on this site, followed by some smug, morally superior little value judgement of others from the perspective of one very narrow, insular mindset.
The article mentions Coherent <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_(operating_system)>, which has been discussed here. I wonder what would have happened if, when going out of business in 1995, the Mark Williams Company had open sourced Coherent. My understanding is that Coherent's 1000-page manual is very readable and complete. How feature-complete is the final version of the OS compared to contemporary Linux and NetBSD?
Okay, but repeating words?
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Unless there's a magical weather controlling radar array out there with an agenda, I'm going to call coincidence on this one.
Last I checked, HN isn’t OPs personal army, as it were.
I’m sure that the replier is aware of what was being asked, and what they were responding with. To suggest otherwise is condescending.

This is a social network. This sort of conversion is not just allowed, but encouraged. Perhaps you’d feel more at home on a Stack Exchange website, where like-minded individuals will stand alongside you in enforcing a strict Q&A format, even when it doesn’t make sense to.
Its the same as all the "we are a blockchain company" startups that popped up looking for a problem to solve with their tech rather than the right way round.

However, a lot of those got a bunch of investment or made some decent money in the short term. Very few are still around. We will see the same pattern here.
Maybe a pinhole and lens? Like a camera but having only the clock inside a chamber
You make this mistake when you're young until you're laid off thebfiest time. Then you're bitter and jaded and DGAF.

If a company was smart they'll hold onto you for life because you will care and give it 110% because that loyalty used to be gaurentee good output.

Obviously none of this exists anymore and it's a damn shame.
> but you can't edit it

That simply requires a prior amendment to make it constitutional.

Then again, there’s absolutely nothing saying you need to follow it at all. That’s just a social construct. You could strike it out entirely tomorrow, and as long as your monopoly on violence remains intact there’s little anyone could do against it.
Yeah but there's always assholes. Anonymity or not.

What defines a community is how it deals with them and as such as steers the sentiment of the entire community. The "they learned to restrain themselves" is exactly what should happen.

And I doubt getting banned is much of a deterrent. After all one can sign up without even as much as an email address. I know many people throw away accounts daily. Imagine doing that on Facebook or X. It would really go off the rails.

Yet the community here is still very pleasant.
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There are easily installable databases of IP block info, super easy to do it synchronously, especially if it’s stored in memory. I run a small group of servers that each have to do it thousands of times per second.
Huh, I missed that first part. That’s a decent way to go about it.
Easily the most approachable yet complete writeup I've seen on the topic. I've always noticed an aura of esoteric dark magic around writing good algorithmic reverbs, this makes it seems less daunting.

Since the author does a quick comparison between convolution and algorithmic reverbs, I'll mention how I often combine them: a small/medium convolution reverb, plus a long algorithmic reverb. The convolution can perfectly diffuse the signal and it can also give a precise character to the sound, depending on the impulse response. It's great for adding a "body" to a raw sound generator. The algorithmic layer then adds a subtle ambience that can be extra long if desired.
> Were you even working in technology in the early 90's?

No as a young child I didn't work in tech. Its a matter of historical record for me. Your feelings from the time aren't relevant. Did you back in the early 90s have detailed financial insight into these matters that are better then what we have now, that books were written on these topics?

Did you work at NeXT?

> Also, what you dismiss as "irrelevant" are things businesses pay attention to, which is relevant to this discussion.

Ok. So please explain it to me, because just saying 'X happened' isn't an argument. Yes, the web was created on NeXT machine. NeXT wasn't selling many more machines because of that, apparently nobody cared. They closed their hardware operation completely.

In the years after, NeXT didn't become massively successful as a software company either. They lost more money in that time period. So apparently people didn't buy their software because of it.

So please explain, why the valuation in 1996 should be massively impacted by what Tim did years earlier. By that time browsers existed on other platforms. Nothing about NeXT specifically magically created the Web.

I get that its culturally significant, but in valuation terms I really don't see it. That's why I said 'irrelevant'. Please show me how the first broswer being written on NeXT machine made them a valuable company. Tim using a NeXT machine impacts the valuation in 1996 how exactly?

> Your final remark "They were lucky that Jobs despite not being that successful for the last 20 years had the right combination of ideas and luck to save Apple" is laughably ignorant, and as such, I'm not going to put much stock in anything else you've said.

Again, you simply make an assertion without an argument. What is your argument.

Its unquestionable that luck is involved when becoming the largest cooperating the world. Are you denying that?

Are you denying that Apple in 1996 was in a lot of trouble and it wasn't at all clear that they would continue to be a important company.

Are you denying that what really changed Apple was not the NeXT base operating system, but rather Jobs changing company strategy? In fact, the most important part making Apple work, happened before OSX was even released.

Are you really gone pretend that the NeXT operating system is what turned Apple into one of the largest companies in the world?

I really don't know what even your argument is.
Sorry, I don't mean anything against legitimate self defense, I'm talking rather about "self-perceived need to engage in warfare for childish reasons"

Examples of that would include ego, greed, petty revenge, etc...

But I guess the way I said it did come across that way, so yeah, my bad

I'm just saying that if we could evolve past such petty ego-based sentiments in the world, then wouldn't such pressure to develop weaponry in such massive amounts, and hence we could focus on actually making a functioning society
~1300 EWDs and this one is ~70 paras, so say 100K paras worth of EWDs (+ a similar amount for his published work?) suggesting that 2 paras are still better measured in microdijkstras than in nanodijkstras...
Recent algorithm updates from Google have once again clarified what kind of web pages will rank at the top: those that are "useful to users"
Whether it’s content or tools, as long as they are beneficial to users and the time spent on your page per click is above a certain threshold (while avoiding fraudulent practices), your page will rank higher in search results. In this era where generative AI is becoming increasingly dominant, valuable content seems to be even more precious, and people are getting better at discerning content quality.
A webpage that covers many keywords but has low-quality content will eventually be pushed down in search results due to its lack of usefulness to users. Additionally, backlinks are akin to endorsements for a website, but no matter how many backlinks a low-quality site has, users won’t want to spend much time on it. These are just my personal thoughts, and I welcome any criticism or feedback.
One of my local car dealerships is using an chat system of some kind (probably an LLM?).

It's awful and a complete waste of time. I'm not sure if LLMs are getting good use yet / general chatbots are good or ready for business use.
You're suggesting boring business way to do things. The tech ecosystem is full of startups doing that ridiculous thing you said chasing the hot new thing and raising huge amounts of money off the hype. This AI hype cycle is really bad and before that we had cryptocurrency.
Appreciate recommendations on any neutral analysis about this topic, the links I managed to find are all strongly for or against it, too much spinning in both directions till my head hurts.

Why did it successfully pass in UK (and other countries) and what are the differences in the version passed in UK in actual requirements (to businesses) and protections (to children) compared to this one?

Actual legislation at
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.x...
Yeah, I meant from the perspective of the roblox devs. They can add a more organic default animation if they want. They choose not to.
Nowhere near as good as ChatGPT 4o or Claude (in not one case have I had it outperform those other two), but at least it can do math and data science correctly most of the time compared to the regular model.

I use it as a secondary when the other two are chewing on other tasks already.

I only own it as I am an outrageously heavy consumer of LLMs for all sorts of little projects at once and they all seem to pause one window if you use another.
A lot of people already think about this problem with respect to API compatibility for REST services using the OpenAPI spec for example. It's possible to have a JSON Schema which is backwards compatible with previous versions. I'm not sure how backwards-compatible the resulting JSON BinPack schemas are however.
This reads like the transcript of a discussion comprising a bunch of computer science students.

Words are not mathematical symbols. I know you'd like them to be unambiguous, but they're not. First-year law students would probably just smile tolerantly and pat you on the head.
I wouldn’t never work for a company that does this.
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Pros and cons of data ingest on the front end vs. enriching it on the back end
This might be the coolest use case I’ve heard suggested. We’re not quite at the level where all of this is user friendly enough, but let’s catch up in 9-12 months
This is a shortcoming of every music recommendation algorithm except Spotify and Pandora's. Spotify holds holds a pretty hefty patent portfolio of music classification algorithms and Pandora employs hundreds of music experts that spend an hour tagging each song.
To be fair, the overwhelming feedback appears to be that people dont want a general purpose chatbot in every product and website, especially when it's labelled 'AI'.

So... certainly there's a space for new products.

...but perhaps for existing products, it's not as simple as 'slap some random AI on it and hope you ride the wave of AI'.
Covered in 2014: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-noah-kagan-got-fired-fro...
Checked this with ChatGPT and it thought I was talking about WorldCom.
> If I may ask - why mobile-first?

This is a very fair question. The short answer is that there are times when I wished I could look stuff up on our databases on my phone, but the tooling available for this is kinda meh

The longer answer is that there are now way more smartphones than PCs in the world, but we still don't have good ways to do software engineering on smartphones. I want to explore this space more, using SQL as a wedge to crack open the problem space.
I've always heard that tech employers value all the things you'd expect them to value, but I've only ever seen them value LeetCode.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-noah-kagan-got-fired-fro...

This article lists out why he was fired. I was mostly curious if he was screwed over right before vesting or if he was legitimately fired.

Im actually impressed by the author, it takes a lot to move on from such a mistake. Id be interested in reading about that but i figure its painful to talk about
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As for me, I was always stuck coming up with business ideas. I thought, wouldn’t it be better if I had something to help me come up with ideas faster

Please give it a try. everything is free :)
I think lifers tend to be pretty high on the “phoning it in” spectrum.
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5.3 FDIC

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I agree with you that it's a complex and subtle area of law. For more color on this, it's helpful to keep in mind the difference between criminal liability and civil liability. Also, the concepts of "reckless endangerment", "negligence" and "due care." Factors which can change what may be "okay" to "not okay" include private vs public property, intent and, the ever present catch-all, reasonableness.

The likelihood of getting in legal trouble, as well as the potential severity of the trouble, can vary widely depending on where, how, who and other surrounding context.
Then again, just being able to glue libraries together ought to be enough to justify a 6 fig salary, because inflation adjusted that's potentially less than the 5 fig salaries I was offered last century, fresh out of school and still wet behind the ears.
"Trial periods" are actually a thing in many countries with strong employment laws, where firing people requires a cause. It helps to reduce the risk of hiring somebody, and so they are advantageous for both employers and employees.

In the US? Yeah, they don't make much sense.
Sure, where homes are cheaper but salaries are more than proportionally lower, and the chances of a professional couple finding jobs in the same city are low. Which is why people move here…
I don't see how it's much different from working at a company for any period of time even as a fully onboarded employee, aside from specific legal obligations that possibly protect your employment. In any place where firing at will is legal, they can toss you at any time for almost any pretext and claim you weren't a correct fit. It applies in general even if you're fully hired, barring some specific contract (that they might anyhow wiggle their way out of).
> Why did it successfully pass in UK

Among many other legal differences, the UK has no free speech guarantee.
The combined Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs cost around $30 billion in then year dollars, which equates to about $300 billion in today's dollars. That's an average of about $25 billion a year over 12 years. That's about the same as what is being spent per year on NASA now.
Strongly agree with this recommendation! The Manager's path is the most useful write-up of technical leadership qualities I've come across so far.
I'm reminded of a management adage:

One business owner said to another "what if I hire someone, put all this time into training them and then they leave?"

The other replied "what happens if you don't train them and they stay?"
Thanks for saving me the time to type this out myself, but far better than I could have done.

100% in agreement!
It’s all about limits and edge cases. a+b may “fail” at INT_MAX and at 0.1+0.2. You don’t `==` your doubles, you don’t (a+b)/2 your mid, and you don’t ask ai to just book you vacation. You ask it to “collect average sentiment from `these_5k_reviews()` ignoring apparently fake ones, which are defined as <…>”. You don’t care about determinism because it’s a statistical instrument.
For an app like this being on F-Droid gives more discoverability imo. In fact this is how I discovered this very app.

It's much more worthwhile being in a small catalog of quality privacy-preserving software than being in the cesspool of millions of ad- and spyware trash from Google.

I'm sure the mainstream users will find them easier on play but the real target audience will be on F-Droid.

Ps having said that, the ban is ridiculous of course
The weapons technically never enter orbit; they follow a sub-orbital trajectory.