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by sigil 5y ago
Problems with this approach: 1. Recovery. 2. Concurrency. 3. Polling. In more detail: 1. Recovery . Suppose a worker dies while processing a job. The job should be retried, but how do you know this, since expire > 0? You can impose a ti
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by sigil 6y ago
You can see the discontinuity by running: cal 1752 in your shell!
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by sigil 6y ago
Are you in a large market with competitors but still plenty of room, or have you more or less cornered a smaller one?
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Music To Program To(alangrow.com)
3 points by sigil 6y ago|0 comments
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by sigil 6y ago
Can be interesting to tap on the profile of who "Nominated" someone... and keep tapping until you get to the center of the graph. This is an interesting take on social graphs I think. The first time I saw this kind of thing was
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A Simple Model of Grabby Aliens(arxiv.org)
1 points by sigil 6y ago|0 comments
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by sigil 6y ago
A lot! I ran named entity recognition on the Twitter garden hose back in 2012. The top entities were Bieber and the Jonas brothers.
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N501Y is an antibody escape mutation (paper)(twitter.com)
2 points by sigil 6y ago|0 comments
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by sigil 6y ago
Indeed. Consider whether you might be able to validate the idea without writing code, by outsourcing dev, or building your mvp with low-code / no-code. By validate I mean (1) people will part with real $ for something that's a pre
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by sigil 6y ago
I’ve started a couple businesses on the side. First one, took the leap to full time after a year of very long hours. Second one, took the leap after 6 years (!) of less intense work on the side. In the second case I negotiated a 4 day wor
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by sigil 6y ago
> Do you write all of your emails in vim and browse the web on the command line as well? Yes! I use mutt + vim. Composing emails in a textarea is a terrible experience by comparison. (Respect to emacs mail mode users, that’s a great opti
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by sigil 6y ago
Thanks for staying for the credits! I make credits for a living, so I’m biased, but you’re right that they serve a real artistic purpose, as a gentle transition from the dream world back to the real one. No one likes to be shaken awake and
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by sigil 6y ago
In some cases! It sounds like your tool doesn’t (yet) deliver that kind of value. If your viable price point really is closer to $10/seat, consider reframing these conversations as “$1,000/month for up to 100 users.” As patio11 po
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by sigil 6y ago
> Then there is another segment these are large enterprises and they ask us a lot about security, sso and integrations we have quoted them price from 1 USD per user per month to 10 USD and reaction is mixed some thinks even 1USD is high
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by sigil 6y ago
This comment explaining that no, AlphaFold really is a breakthrough: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25306954 This comment on EUV fab processes sent me down a rabbit hole. I had no idea how much the state of the art ha
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by sigil 6y ago
What could we be doing differently beyond what we already should be doing? Are you referring to things like border closing?
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by sigil 6y ago
They discuss these in that TWiV episode as well!
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by sigil 6y ago
As discussed on TWiV yesterday, B.1.1.7 isn't a "strain," which has demonstrably different biological properties, but is still considered a "variant." https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-697/
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by sigil 6y ago
We’ve never met or directly interacted on here, but I always enjoy your comments and unique perspective. They make HN a better place. Thanks for sharing, and happy holidays!
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The Bug Count Also Rises(workpump.com)
1 points by sigil 6y ago|0 comments
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A log/event processing pipeline you can't have (2019)(apenwarr.ca)
162 points by sigil 6y ago|40 comments
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by sigil 6y ago
Avoiding integer timestamp parsing overhead (or worse, strptime-based parsing) is in the rationale for djb’s tai64: https://cr.yp.to/libtai/tai64.html
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by sigil 6y ago
We raised a SEAL round led by Earnest Capital in 2019. We gave up no board seats or equity, and we remained an LLC. If we were to raise a subsequent round or sell the company, they’d be able to participate per their Equity Basis. Under a SE
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by sigil 6y ago
You use libraries. Frameworks use you.
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Building in World 2.0(dcgross.com)
2 points by sigil 6y ago|0 comments
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by sigil 7y ago
Eric might be onto something. I want to believe. It’s not only possible that academia has rejected valuable but threatening ideas, it’s likely. However, the only way forward from this point is for Eric to publish his ideas in definite form
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by sigil 7y ago
Eric Weinstein is a delight to listen to: a polymath, a contrarian, a great interviewer, really gifted verbally. I'm a Portal subscriber and I've listened to his Rogan interviews all the way through. That said... I have the sinkin
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by sigil 7y ago
Reddit has a solution to this problem, and HN should steal it: randomize top-level comment order. This keeps the highest ranked comment from becoming a top-heavy attractor for all further discussion. I agree this is a real problem for disco
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Oil's Parser Is 160x to 200x Faster Than It Was 2 Years Ago(oilshell.org)
3 points by sigil 7y ago|0 comments
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by sigil 7y ago
Agree there are lower risk paths to what most people would consider “rich” than Naval lets on. Still, his points on leverage and ownership are important ones I don’t hear elsewhere. Certainly not as concisely— each episode in the series is

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