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Nemanton Sharing AI progress in mathematics

Can someone with a math background explain the significance of these and previous problems that have been solved by AI?

Does some real problem get solved in physics, chemistry, biology, materials, etc? Or are these fun puzzles for mathematicians with not much real world impact? Eg solving the 8 queen problem in leetcode.

Nemanton Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response

A lot of practicing Muslims also fast Mondays and Thursdays and the “3 white days” of the month[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting_in_Islam see “Days of voluntary fasting”

Nemanton Intermittent fasting from dawn to sunset induces anticancer response

Welcome to Ramadan!

Nemanton Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings

They don't work, do they? I tried a few but nothing works. I'm on Chrome on Mac.

Nemanton Netflix CEO explains why he pays technologists huge salaries

This is BS. Netflix pays market rate, the same as the rest of the FAANGS. The only difference is that they pay everything in cash, while the rest of the companies pay a big % in stocks. However, because of the tech bull run of the past decade or so non-Netflix FAANG employees have made significantly more money than Netflix employees.

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How is this different to FCM or Urban Airship?

Nemanton Tether Critical Announcement

Could you elaborate more on this point?

Nemanton The Bitcoin Cash Flippening

source?

Nemanton Ask HN: What is your preferred method of sending large files over the internet?

https://www.file.io/ is the simplest most convenient way to do this.

They also have an API: https://www.file.io/#one

They limit you to 5GB for the free version.

Nemanton Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

Hi Richard,

What's your plan when the number of people with criminal records reaches 80 million, 90 million, etc? Have you already acquired the other domain names?

Nemanton Is WhatsApp down?

Will you publish a post-mortem?

Nemanton Is WhatsApp down?

Down in the SF Bay Area

Nemanton Is WhatsApp down?

Has WhatsApp done post-mortems in the past?

Nemanton Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber

You should name every single person involved

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My grandparents emigrated from India to Pakistan (~1947, formation of Pakistan)

My parents emigrated from Pakistan to Spain illegally (~1990, I was born in Spain). They almost took one of those boats you see sinking in the Mediterranean these days, eventually they found another route.

My parents (+ my siblings and I) moved from Spain to the UK (2005)

I emigrated from there UK to the States (2014).

I've also moved cities within these countries.

I consider myself from planet earth, period.

Today I work at Google working on a product that affects 1B+ users.

Nemanton A founder's perspective on 4 years with Haskell

The Better platform gets around half a million learning actions every week and it has been running for well over a year with no downtime or maintenance. We still don’t know of any bugs.

I'm guessing people use your learning software during weekdays and working hours (5 days and 8 hours/day). That's 3.4QPS. How many machines are you running on?

Also, I'm really shocked to hear you've not encountered any bugs. How many humans are using your systems? A scale is good enough (100s, 1000s, 10000s?).

Nemanton Ask HN: Help me see why everyone seems to love TDD?

Before trying to sell TDD I would sell the idea of writing tests. That shouldn't be hard, it's mostly common sense.

Nemanton Coup attempt underway in Turkey

How do you know that's his jet?

Nemanton Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

Welcome to the Amazon sweatshop.

Nemanton Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?

I recently came across getprove when looking for no. verification. I always wondered why anyone would use it when there's cheaper options (nexmo, twilio, etc).

I also thought that since this more expensive service exists, perhaps it's worth building my own wrapper around twilio and provide a single service that does 1 thing and does it simply just like you do.

Which service are you wrapping for getprove?

Edit: Just saw at the bottom of the page that you're using twilio :)

Nemanton Show HN: Automatic private time tracking for OS X

Only 7MB! Good job! Product looks awesome. If it works well for the next 10 days I'm definitely buying it :)

Nemanton My time with Rails is up

What is a good alternative?

Nemanton My Biggest Regret as a Programmer

What is more depressing than OP is the HN crowd agreeing or saying how "programming is a dead job" and "it's easy" (see @okyup's comment).

These are what you call script kiddies who create CRUD apps and pretty UIs. I'll probably get downvoted by the hoards of script kiddies. I mean c'mon, these are the same kids ranting about how their world coming to an end with the whole left-pad fiasco.

Nemanton Ask HN: Should I change jobs?

"up your title by 2" means nothing at all. 25% pay is a good enough reason, BUT! Do you currently enjoy your job/team/manager? If the answer is a definite yes, then stay. 25% is not worth the risk of going to a crappier team.

What you want to do is become a better software engineer, the title & money will come by itself.

Nemanton LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value

Most of my linkedIn activity is on incognito mode

Nemanton How to Raise a Creative Child. Step One: Back Off

Just had my first baby 2 weeks ago. I guess I'll be returning that Haskell book I bought for him...

Nemanton Kinto by Mozilla – An open-source Parse alternative

I found this guy come very close to Parse: http://www.baasbox.com/

They have Push notifications and "Cloud Code" which most other alternatives don't have

Nemanton Ask HN: Good Parse alternatives?

Just provides a DB, not much more after that (push notifications, "cloud code", etc)

Nemanton Facebook is closing Parse

Next thing you know is react/react native is no longer supported

Nemanton Amazon's customer service backdoor

Somebody should try getting Jeff bezos' address. I tried a couple of times and failed.