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by Maro 3y ago
For people in this thread, I strongly recommend Rob Fitzpatrick's book on how to write a book as a business, "Write Useful Books: A modern approach to designing and refining recommendable nonfiction": https://www.a
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by Maro 3y ago
No, this is false: "nothing ever enters the black hole". For the outside observer, it seems like nothing enters the event horizon. It seems like everything just gets infinitely close and redshifts and expands, and forms a giant lo
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by Maro 3y ago
This is not entirely true. We can imagine a civilization made up for very sturdy physicists, so tidal forces inside the black hole don't rip them apart immediately. This civilization can enter the event horizon of the black hole, and o
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by Maro 3y ago
I looked at the ToC and clicked into some of the chapters. It seems like this is more like a "Fundamentals of Machine Learning" book, as a lot of it is not really specifically about Deep Learning. Chapters that specific to Deep Le
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by Maro 3y ago
On average. Factoring in growth 2023 annual profits is probably ~$500k. Probably $1m/yr is achievable, great success for such a simple (in a good way) and cool project, and very inspiring for the rest of us!
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by Maro 3y ago
Occam's razor: the most profitable business model for Internet companies with very DAUs and Timespent/DAUs in the last 20 years was showing advertisements. Those very profitable companies are always working on cutting edge stuff,
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by Maro 3y ago
More balanced explanation of the Dutch case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_childcare_benefits_scand...
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Now we know what all those tax euros are funding at CERN!
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At least in Corporates, the point is not the content usually, or at least not 95% of the content. Usually there are 1-2 key slides per PPT that the audience actually cares about, something like the "Roadmap" slide, where you commi
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by Maro 3y ago
I work in a Corporate where we have lots of "strategy" teams and PPTs flying around. What I learned is that PPT are more than a presentation format in this culture, they are a signaling tool: • something that is "just" a
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by Maro 3y ago
I think you should consider the option that your friend got extremely lucky. Finding a SaaS idea that works, generates 6-7 figures in the 1st year, can be run solo, doesn't put high demands.and pressure (billing, uptime, legal) on that
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by Maro 3y ago
Higher prices would be a great incentive to keep my SO on their butt and not flying, and that way I could also fly less.
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The 2010 trillion dollar flash crash(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Maro 3y ago
You also don't use anything in the Google ecosystem, or Facebook, or any online apps? Those all have telemetry..
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Ask HN: Are you part of an open source community as a committer?
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Ask HN: Anybody running a maxed out MacBook Air with 24GB RAM as a dev machine?
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by Maro 3y ago
I've been working at an organization for 3 years that contracts McKinsey (and others, like BCG) frequently. Based on that experience, I automatically ignore everything coming out of these consultant companies.
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https://bytepawn.com
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by Maro 3y ago
For the latest Pixel 6 and 7s, they guarantee 3 yrs of Android OS updates and 5 yrs of security updates: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en#z...
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A Breathtaking Desert Mansion [in California] That Looks Like a Fossil(youtube.com)
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Ask HN: Library for extracting the contents of a webpage?
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by Maro 3y ago
Is it worth watching? What is worth watching?
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Wow, what a terrible marketing video. Everything is moving so fast, I can't really tell what I'm supposed to get out of it. All the videos playing in the search results seem highly irrelevant, I assume this won't be in the ac
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Elizabeth Holmes, left to her own devices(techcrunch.com)
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Thomae's function(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Maro 4y ago
I'll put just one tip here: a 'maybe' is a 'no'. In my experience most bad hires that don't work out in the end were a 'strong maybe' and for whatever reason I convinced myself to still go ahead. One
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by Maro 4y ago
If you store large amounts of money, I would recommend that you have (i) multiple accounts, and (ii) make sure the account-to-account transfer links are set up, and you've tried them, potentially with large sum xfers. Kindof like maki
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by Maro 4y ago
Can you point me to the Wikipedia page for the Theory of Optimal Workplace Layout? Because if this is a theoretical problem, with clear definitions, parameters, boundary conditions and objectives, which has already been solved, so that non-
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This is a very common and popular-on-the-Internet stance. I have worked in open office environments for ~10 years and I have not realized how unpleasant it is.
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I remember in the 90s, when I was a teenager, my Dad's work at Allergan (in Irvine, Orange County, California, not far from Blizzard's office) had a cubicle layout. Sometimes he took me inside, and it was just terrible. This was a

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