colmanhumphrey

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Show HN: Mind the Hive – a daily Schelling-point game (match or dodge the crowd)(mindthehive.app)
2 points by colmanhumphrey 4mo ago|0 comments
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by colmanhumphrey 11mo ago
I kind of love this, although I feel like I'd need to try it out to understand exactly how it feels. I'd even like to see a video if Zed could make one. It would be good to understand e.g. if the issue of "who wrote that?&quo
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by colmanhumphrey 2y ago
haha, not sure I agree with this one at all, I think a name is pretty far down the list of priorities for a business. I would be extremely surprised if "customers who started trials but then didn't use the product at all, but then
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by colmanhumphrey 2y ago
This rings true, and I guess further backs up how important it is to carefully choose your initial customers, so the product is actually good enough by the time it gets to the broader swathe of companies. At least, that's my guess — I&
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by colmanhumphrey 2y ago
I am surprised to hear you say this given your previous experience founding a product that from a distance might look to cover some similar space to retool but in practice is quite different. My perspective: only investors ever asked us abo
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by colmanhumphrey 2y ago
a very generous comment! Very interesting you say that, I believe we did at some point have some thoughts about targeting B2B2C, but sadly that was one of the areas we failed to fully learn about / experiment / iterate on.
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by colmanhumphrey 2y ago
oh that's an interesting perspective. I would say you're right, and maybe I didn't phrase it well. I probably should have said something more like: if you don't know how, or if you can't learn how (through iteration
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by colmanhumphrey 2y ago
That sounds like a very viable and valuable type of business, but it's kind of a different category of business model
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by colmanhumphrey 3y ago
If instead I had supplied a time series for eight years ending just prior to all of OP's data, you wouldn't discuss "comparing" the charts (I assume!), so it's a little unclear what the concern is with comparison. I
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by colmanhumphrey 3y ago
It includes the Nov 1 post, you can see the data here: https://slight.run/apps/colman/job_seekers_vs_job_hiring_hac... (Vega reads 2022-11-01 into your local timezone, hence why you're possibly seeing 2022-10
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by colmanhumphrey 3y ago
Here is a chart going back to 2014: https://slight.run/graphs/colman/ratio_of_seekers_to_hirers_... Not quite as drastic as yours, but still not ideal. The underlying query and data source: https://slig
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by colmanhumphrey 4y ago
exactly! It's a version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusion%E2%80%93exclusion_pr...
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by colmanhumphrey 4y ago
I got 71.13647% on a first pass. So we want P(all 4 in 9) = 1 - P(not all 4), and we can split that out a few ways. To not get all four, we can restrict ourselves to three, so that's (3/4)^9, but there are four ways of doing that,
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by colmanhumphrey 4y ago
I'm surprised to read this — while the examples could be more cleanly presented, I felt like the title for this post and the initial gif on landing show what this does reasonably clearly. I do see what you mean about the PRO part.
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by colmanhumphrey 4y ago
Can’t begrudge anyone involved, but this feels kind of lame. I thought Figma really could compete long term with Adobe.
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by colmanhumphrey 4y ago
It’ll make some naive approaches work differently, but it’s overall more info: both the selection effect of what images humans share, and the surrounding context (eg what comments are people making about the image)
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by colmanhumphrey 4y ago
Bryan and Steve, who are getting https://oxide.computer/ up and running? Probably best to leave them at it! Chris has his own AI company too.
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by colmanhumphrey 4y ago
honestly yeah, I like living in density with other people around. It generally leads to more local businesses too: even if the number per-capita is the same, you get more choice, better opening hours etc.
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by colmanhumphrey 4y ago
Slight | Frontend Engineer | REMOTE | Full Time | $140,000 + equity https://www.slight.co/ , role: https://www.slight.co/jobs/frontend-engineer Slight is looking for a frontend engineer to join us in ma
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by colmanhumphrey 4y ago
Hey this is nice! I created a little app here that's quite similar but can be run without knowing SQL: https://slight.run/apps/colman/hacker_news_monthly_top_level... , and a graph to go with it: https:/
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by colmanhumphrey 4y ago
That’s not the rule from the question in the link nor in the original game (the game’s rule isn’t quite the same as the classic problem, it’s even messier). Your proposed rule doesn’t uniquely extend the original, it’s just one of the possi
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by colmanhumphrey 4y ago
Seems fine to me. Do you want to stick with your original or switch to one of the remaining 98? It’s still worth switching too, just a smaller increase in probability.
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by colmanhumphrey 4y ago
I agree, I had the same thought last year: https://twitter.com/colmanhumphrey/status/139338571650012365... . It still helps but now only a small amount: (99/100)*(1/98) ≈ 0.0101, vs 1/100 without swi
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by colmanhumphrey 4y ago
Gurobi is so frustrating. I had the same experience: blistering performance on my problems, much better than OR-Tools, but just couldn't make it work at all with the licensing. It's like they've never heard of the cloud, or h
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by colmanhumphrey 4y ago
Thanks for the ping on twitter Phil! Your search criteria make perfect sense for benchmarking. I think we could indeed add that to https://slight.run/datasets , as I think we can justify the benefit for companies searching t
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by colmanhumphrey 5y ago
Slight at https://www.slight.co/ , jobs at https://www.slight.co/jobs/ . Full time roles, all remote. We’re currently hiring for two Software Engineer roles. Our rust focused role, https://www
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by colmanhumphrey 5y ago
Slight at https://www.slight.co/ , jobs at https://www.slight.co/jobs/ . Full time roles, all remote. We’re currently hiring for two Software Engineer roles. Our rust focused role, https://www
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by colmanhumphrey 5y ago
Maybe "Gradual Scripting" could work
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by colmanhumphrey 5y ago
Slight | Frontend and Full Stack Engineers | Remote (US/ET-1 to US/ET+6) | Full-time | $140k + equity | https://www.slight.co We’re currently a team of three and are hiring a Full Stack Engineer to join our core team:
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by colmanhumphrey 5y ago
Slight at https://www.slight.co/ , jobs at https://www.slight.co/jobs/ Full time role, remote. We’re currently hiring for our Software Engineer role, on the core/founding team, primarily in Rust. P

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