skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best advice is all negative, and may not be applicable.

Don't go a month without your biggest clients hearing from you.
- Just pick up the phone. Doubly so if you bill monthly vs hourly.

Don't send a shitty boilerplate email to keep in touch with clients.

Don't forget old clients when new ones come along.
- I cant count the number of times I have seen a variation of "We spent 500 dollars a month on your product for the last 4 years, but when we wanted to renegotiate we couldn't get any time, now I pay this guy 300 per month on a new 4 year contract"

Don't leave a customer with a problem alone. Solve the problem, or get them to someone they can.
- Like for real, the number of successful businesses I have seen where the person making all the money overall spends time discussing and referring support for problems that have no bearing on their product is immense. Be the expert, lest another expert comes along and suggests they cut costs via removing your service.

Don't push a solution that's not viable.
- The number of times I have seen customers effectively quiet quit a service is crazy. If they cant get it to work, and they stop trying, they are leaving.

tl;dr for the above is that sales doesn't end when a contract is signed.

Good sales leads will come through your network. If you have a good product and you treat your customers well, they will recommend you.

Keep an eye on upwork and similar sites. Facebook industry groups too. Lots of people who don't know what they want ask someone on upwork to make a plugin or macro or patch some hole or something. You will recognize that they might have a problem for which your product can be the solution. These people know they don't know what they want and often respond well to a pitch. Something like 1 in 10 will give you some time. Again these people probably don't want to pay for a stopgap solution, but will want someone who can talk about their problem and offer a permanent solution.

If you land a big fish, and they have needs outside your product scope, consider changing your product scope to suit the fish. Generally these businesses love something bespoke, and they have competitors in the same verticals with the same needs. Especially if you have experience in their vertical. Partnerships can also work here. The number of times I have seen "We used to be a XYZ business, we developed our own software in house\with a partner and now we are a software company to the XYZ industry" is enormous. Legal. Geophysics. Manufacturing. Solve one problem, and go horizontal.

Dont be afraid of the big fish either, even if you need help landing them. I have seen a few instances of small guys getting really scared to offer their product to a large customer. With a push it has turned out that these large customers had large suppliers and those large suppliers were delivering really shitty products and the large customer was actively looking for alternatives. Friendly advertising is just information, and people with limited options love having information even if they dont action it.
You subtly referenced one of my favorite facts.

"In 1920, Pierre Fatou expressed the conjecture that -- except for special cases -- all critical points of a rational map of the Riemann sphere tend to periodic orbits under iteration. ... can be interpreted to mean that for a dense set of parameters 'a', an attracting periodic orbit exists [in the logistic map]."

Friggin' blew my mind at age 20. Still kinda does. :)
"Open"ai really should change their name
Hey! Just sent you an email with the invite.
> At present nearly every min wage and gig economy position in the country is 99% early 20s males from India taking advantage of being able to enrol in a diploma mill to qualify for PR. The Feds knew of this shady pipeline for years and did nothing because it juiced GDP numbers that otherwise would have revealed a recession.

Australia has had the same problem and in the last few years the Australian government has cracked down heavily on education visas, diploma mills, etc. If Trudeau isn't doing it already, I expect Poilievre will. Which means this may turn out to be more of a passing problem.
Inheritance is diminishing, boomers are living longer and elder care is hugely expensive, chances are that’s where the inheritance will go.
Weak countries need the protection of Germany and France
Elon Musk could end fossil fuel subsidies
It's been my experience with myself and observing people that beliefs can form in both reasonable and unreasonable ways. While people often times have reasons of their own, I've learned not to take it for granted, or even assume that my reconstruction of those reasoning is correct.
>Personally, I'm pro-immigration. It keeps the cost of labour down which is good for people like me.

Jesus. Really?
So you're claiming that every temporary student will become a permanent immigrant.

Be good to see a source for the mechanism behind this.
>If it's not clear, I disagree with the idea that ANY motivational prompt (we can disagree over what would be best to try) could get the model to produce a solution of the same quality as it will when allowed to iterate on it a few times and make incremental improvements.

Ok i agree but.. this would be the case with people as well ? If you can't iterate, the quality of your response will be limited no matter how motivated you are.

Solve the riemann hypothesis or your mother dies but you can't write anything down on paper. Even if such a person could solve it, it's not happening under those conditions.

Iteration is probably the bulk of the improvement but I think there's a "motivation" aspect as well.
Nice. At least we have VRAM.

The term VPU is already taken though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_processing_unit
I don't like that model. That's effectively an awesome list with some extra notes, and I've found surprisingly little value from awesome lists.

The reason a link blog is valuable is that it emphasizes what is NEW in a space - maybe not new to the internet as a whole, but new to the explorations of the person running the blog.

It's not "useful links about SQLite", it's "my personal exploration of the SQLite database over time".

That's why I like tags so much. Here's that page for SQLite, going all the way back to when I first learned about it 21 years ago: https://simonwillison.net/tags/sqlite/

I have over 5,000 more pages like that, each is effectively a miniature link blog in its own right. Tag pages become an important first class artifact of the blog itself.

The date is also important for links because links rot - and information falls out of date. Knowing that I found a resource valuable in 2019 is important context!
If the developing world develops, there will be less exploitable cheap labor, so everyone in already developed countries will have to start consuming less when their wages aren’t so disproportionally high compared to where their iPhone gets made.
Better keep importing people from one specific province in India by the boatload
How to Go from Copy and Paste Deployments to Full GitOps
These days inheritance almost all the time goes from very old people (70-80 years old) to old people (50-60 years old). It almost never goes to young people
Stand down Maggie, stand down.
Definitely the anonymous username where possible. There are exceptions here and there (well, mostly LinkedIn and job hunting sites), but for the most part I prefer the username.

There are a few reasons for this:

1. My username is actually less common than my name is, so it's more likely to be available on a service and less likely to get confused with everyone else.

2. I've always been taught that you should be careful with your personal info online, and consider it a good opsec to be such. Why give random strangers information that they can use to track you down for god knows what reason?

Especially in a world where death threats, swatting, people trying to get you fired and extremist lunatics are a reality.

3. I just prefer traditional pseudononymous sites and forums over modern social media, and going by a username keeps that feeling alive just a little longer.
This observation is moot and quite frankly pretty boring for two reasons:

Firstly, as much as people spouting the same simplistic tune may wish for, by all means the government is not just a single person.

Secondly, Merkel or anyone else who would have been in that position during that time would have simply needed to deal with the fact that there were millions of Syrians bleeding into Western Europe across dozens of different routes and hence in ways which the legally open borders of Europe were absolutely not equipped to deal with effectively.

The fact countries of entry to the EU did not at all fullfil their legal obligations with regards to asylum processing is.... let me guess: Again Merkel's fault right?

With comments like these, you might win some imaginary "Thanks Obama/ Thanks Merkel" bingo you're playing with yourself, but it's really not contributing to any debate about where we pragmatically go from here into a better future.

I'd love to hear more about the latter rather than the former.
Yeah but I don't think mice are more similar to Zebrafish than us. If you were a little more brave you could inject it into yourself.
The Canadian government has no interest in skilled immigrants. It wants bodies that will work for minimum wage to fill up all the time Hortons
Domain names and hosting are really more of the same garbage.

People should be able to host things on their computer and without having to learn anything. Friends should archive and mirror it and without having to check boxes.

Only with file sharing the establishment went to war. Maybe ipfs will grow to that level.
I have zero experience in sales and marketing, but I was wondering how I would start if I had to do that. After reading a bit about it and googling around, I stumbled upon Alex Hormozi and his YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@alexhormozi

It has a lot of content & good presentation (minimalistic, but crisp). All about sales and marketing. I have no idea how an experienced sales or marketing person would rate it, but to me it sounds reasonable and useful. Give it a try (e.g. try this video: https://youtu.be/FMzKk73iUhw -- his videos have clickbaty titles, and are pretty long -- don't let that discourage you).

He also has two books (sales and marketing), but I didn't read them yet. The reviews say that they are somewhat basic. I'll still give them a try.
Oh, fuckin' A, I love this shit!
What of this is not true for the rest of the country then? I haven't visited at all but what the comment above you mentioned (basically the woes of limited social mobility, bad employment terms including tying healthcare to it if you're not rich, insane incarceration, etc.) is the kind of stats and stories I'm familiar with. The country does some things well also, as the commenter above also said, but it's not a place either of us would recommend most people to live after having known EU life. If there is even 10% of the 'major continent' that is not as described (besides Canada), I'm genuinely curious to know of it
>> It also added as a part of its “enterprise” push:
>> Structured metrics logging with Prometheus.

made me laugh out loud. Everything is better with prom.
Haha, fair enough! Let’s just hope no one ends up eating their own words if Greenland - or even Canada - starts rethinking their options... Arctic politics can shift fast, and it’d be a shame to see China further sink its teeth into the region while closer ties with people who actually share similar cultures and values were on the table. But hey, I’ll happily shelve this take if Denmark and Canada keep things locked down! Good luck!
Actually, it's about Zelle fraud.

At $Job, our bank is one of the owners of Zelle. A few years ago, a possible one-off vendor insisted on payment via Zelle. Our bank's quiet advice was that the vendor was fairly likely fraudulent - because the only real advantage of Zelle, in that situation, was that it was fraud-friendly by design.

(But to be fair to the banks - I'm sure they have millions of customers who want the zero-friction, zero-overhead power to do anything whatever with their money - but as soon as that goes wrong, they expect price-no-object nanny state customer service.)
This is very neat. I miss the era when novel and elegant algorithms like this delivered magical experiences.

This could just be from getting old, but I feel like games have lost the magic they had when availability of hardware resources was limited. Back in the 80s, 90s and early 2000s we saw games push the medium forward practically every year, and certainly every generation. Developers squeezed all the performance they could from the hardware, using novel techniques and pure wizardry. Hardware advancements certainly helped, but it was never in abundance as it is today, so developers couldn't get complacent. Necessity is indeed the mother of invention.

These days I find fantasy platforms like the PICO-8 much more interesting than the latest rehashed release from any AAA studio. I don't understand how games that are essentially asset flips can be so successful year after year.
I think a difference here is that a person who is discerning enough to use an LLM product to read more information on a given subject is probably going to be turned off by the horrible UX of ads. YouTube and Facebook and Google can be plastered with ads on every page because the lowest common denominator of user wants to use those products. One of ChatGPT's main draws was the clean no bullshit, Apple-like UI and I'm positive the only reason it doesn't have ads provided by Microsoft yet is that they know they'll lose users and mindshare the moment they do it.
The issue with voxels is sparseness - to have any hope of storing a world in the ram we have available it pretty much needs to have some variable length encoding, which makes it extremely difficult to use in a parallel manner as required by hardware.

It's why for display pretty much every modern voxel engine processes the sparse voxel world into a dense surface list - which then maps (reasonably) well to triangles.

I'd argue this difficulty in parallelization is a bigger hurdle than "just" engineering effort.

Much of the way a GPU functions isn't because we decided we loved triangles, but we found things that parallelize well and worked backwards. And then on modern GPUs don't actually devote that much area to dealing with "triangles" - so little is gained that it's often not worth redesigning to remove that capability from data centre "GPUs" that will never see a single triangle in their lives.
The streaming services my wife and I subscribe to cost somewhere between $8 and $19 per month.

If both of us pay to see a film in a movie theater, we're almost certainly talking an amount in excess of $20, potentially higher than $30 and not inconceivably over $40.

From my POV, a streaming service has to provide us with 1 film's worth of "decent" entertainment per month to be "worthwhile". Although all of them occasionally fail to do that in a given month, I don't think any of them fail to hit the "12 film's worth" over the course of a year.
or just pepper in some erotic pictures of copyrighted characters
> I’m solidly middle-aged and I’m reasonably certain I’ve never even known anybody who could do a name-able dance of any kind

I'm pretty certain many could correctly identify and name a waltz.
The fact you think that big changes more often than not necessitate a rewrite makes you sound like someone who’s never worked on a very large strongly typed code base where big changes and refactors are absolutely possible, and happen in a reasonable timeframe, without having to resort to a rewrite.

Of course it’s not impossible to have a good JavaScript code base, it’s just much harder to have a very large one where it’s still economically feasible to make significant changes to it without having to resort to a rewrite or needing to write tests which would be covered by the compiler in a strongly typed language.
It's basically Perplexity, but in some ways better. I'll edit my comment to make that more clear.
I will not comment on the European data here, but this is so wrong on the Canada side.

Sentiment against immigration is real in Canada. You're comparing refugee numbers when in reality Canada's population grew faster than most of the G7 in 2023 [1]

[1] - https://www.scotiabank.com/ca/en/about/economics/economics-p...
Just a nitpick -- the "overheated property market" sounds like a bad thing, but I don't understand why it must be that way. In the end -- property developers are Canadian companies, and must bathe in money. "Younger Canadians" must be enjoying elevated salaries at these companies.

The only reason I see why it is that way is when other Canadians restrict the supply of real estate (NIMBY) to inflate their own property value. Same for most other democratic real estate markets in the world in the past years, not just Canada, regardless of immigration levels.
Anthropic reaches deal with music publishers over lyric dispute
The one without quotes means "people moving across borders" the one with quotes means "people we've chosen to label as scary and dangerous because it makes you vote for us".
Has there been any progress on the analysis or formalization of the how or why of the Mandelbrot set's infinite beauty and complexity from such a simple formula? Sorry for the poor framing of my question... Just seems there is something to be learned from the set beyond just that it exists and looks cool.
Google is the world's fourth most valuable company.
The book of mormon makes no claim as to geography. Nobody can point to "Zarahemla" on a map. Joseph Smith was almost certainly thinking of the regions he lived in as the basis for book of mormon geography (north america). You just need to read the story of "Zelph" [1] where he picked up a bone and went on a rant about how it was actually a Lamanite warrior named Zelph that lived there.

The main reason the North/Central America geography were abandoned is because significant archaeologic evidence surfaced describing pretty much everything about the native american population that lived there for 1000s of years (spoilers, no correlation with the BoM story). That's why in roughly the 50->80s the church started pivoting to pointing to south america as the geography of the book of mormon.

The church has spent a lot of time burying stories like "Zelph" because of how bad they make JS look.

> But for a long time people claimed no body even lived there.

Show me one reputable person that has claimed there were no ancient inhabitants of south america.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelph
Are tech companies rapidly expanding in Canada to take advantage of all that cheap labor?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42590568
Linguito – CLI tool for your translations
It is not open source.

"HarmonyOS NEXT (Chinese: 鸿蒙星河版; pinyin: Hóngméng Xīnghébǎn) is a proprietary distributed operating system and a major iteration of HarmonyOS, developed by Huawei to support only HarmonyOS native apps."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS_NEXT
I used org-mode for a while, but I wasn't an Emacs user, and using it just for that was not a great fit. No one ever says that, but let me say it:

If you aren't an emacs person, it is not going to be a fit.

Workflowy is a pretty easy-to-use web version of the outline part, which requires zero setup and the other features of org-mode I never got into. Other things extend beyond this into the PKM space ( Roam, Tana, etc ).

Also, Zettelkasten is an interesting thing, but more as a curiosity, some process that worked for a specific researcher in nineteen dickey two, not as some process you should use.

For me, the big great outliner was workflow. Roam improved on that, and things improved for Roam.
Yes, I can imagine multiple reasons why an author might decide to change their pace for whatever reason. my observation was that it changed.

Based on my experience (both personal and from colleagues), when a project is not in active development, the team starts losing knowledge of the codebase along with its context. For example, something that was at your fingertips while actively working on the project would be much more difficult to recall after a year. The difficulty of maintaining or extending the project grows over time if it is not actively worked on.

‘Stalled’ = contributions become less and less frequent.

If a project has stalled, there isn’t much new happening. For a simulation like this, the sky is the limit—you can make it as accurate as possible (e.g., accounting for light pressure - esp. significant around blackhole acceleration disk, the Yarkovsky effect, etc.)
Germany has no domestic military power to speak of, military is comically underfunded. No nuclear deterrence. Not sure what kind of protection you're thinking of.

We can send beer to your enemy in hopes they opt for boozing rather than shooting.
The Computer History Museum's long form interviews are a wonderful resource.
Modern times: a bunch of matrices of floating point numbers can chat with a human

but also: no one knows what the red squiggle marks mean in any textarea anymore because they no longer use them to write anything
How did you know they were Cloudflare and not some other service? Was there a "cloudflare" word or their logo?

HCaptcha is still a thing, it has "find all dogs": https://developers.nopecha.com/recognition/hcaptcha/

I get flagged by Google's reCaptcha all the time, it's super annoying: https://developers.nopecha.com/recognition/recaptcha/

Archive.is made their own check page (probably based on HCaptcha), which uses same color scheme as cloudflare and same general design.. except if you look closely, you'll notice there is no word "cloudflare" anywhere on page, it's a homegrown solution: https://www.reddit.com/r/SaintMeghanMarkle/comments/18c3ea7/...

For some weird reason, people like to attribute every captcha to cloudflare, even if they no longer offer this service...
Big fan of Suno - I just applied to the Design Engineer position, and have a background in audio signal processing and music!
> They have the resources and connections to find experts and become reasonably versed in these topics so we should expect them to have informed correct opinions on complex topics or they shouldn't be in the job.

Do they have the time?

There are only so many hours in the day and week, and only so many things that are able to be done in ((sub-)sub-)committees in those hours. Further, legislators have to pass law on every conceivable topic, whereas agencies have a focus (FCC, FAA, FDA, Coast Guard, etc).

And if the situation changes the legislators may have to circle back and pass new bills/regulations and that may take a while given finite resources (time) and other priorities, so various industries may languish in sub-optimal environments due to outdated legislation.

That's the whole point of the agencies (and executive?): delegation to subject matter experts so legislators aren't mired in minutia and can perhaps look at the bigger picture.
I prefer (maybe intentional) spelling mistakes to ai generated drone and verbosity.
>I find this to be an impossible problem because everything that any consumer could possibly want already exists.

I find the opposite. Almost every business is a unique mix of requirements and theres usually few if any existing perfect solutions.

Businesses often don't know that they are overpaying for one service or another, or are doing something in an extremely expensive manner.

The best sales engineers look at a business, sell a product that saves their customer a significant amount of money, taking a slice for themselves.
> could not calculate an arbitrarily deep zoom that required 10^81 bits of precision. Right?

I’m here to nitpick.

Number of bits is not strictly 1:1 to number of particles. I would propose to use distances between particles to encode information.
European Space Agency Benchmark for Anomaly Detection in Satellite Telemetry