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Show HN: Hotter – Email Outreach on Autopilot

zozbot123 — Tue, 28 May 2019 16:37:03 +0000

Article URL: https://hotter.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20031762

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by zozbot123 in "Introduction to Icon P-Rep Node Campaign. Largest South-Korean Blockchain"

zozbot123 — Sat, 25 May 2019 13:53:40 +0000

So what EOS calls BP's, ICON calls P-Rep Nodes?

New comment by zozbot123 in "U.S. military to analyze 350B social media posts to understand popular movements"

zozbot123 — Sat, 25 May 2019 13:50:31 +0000

Maybe we could all settle on a common insult towards the government then?

New comment by zozbot123 in "[dead]"

zozbot123 — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:54:18 +0000

I love any talk that Bryan gives. The gist here seems to be that after the Node.js ecosystem favoring what he called approachability over his wishes to pursue reliability and expressiveness he had a long think and realized that each one is a worthy goal, but for different audiences and that there are always trade-offs across values.

This perspective, that programming languages have sort of cultural tradeoffs and you should make sure you are happy with those trade-offs seems obvious but it is not something I've heard anyone state before.

It also makes for an interesting way to examine the space of programming languages in general. It is a richer way to compare than the standard OO vs FP, and systems programming vs scripting, etc. Rust wants to be approachable, but their top level value is safety, so it will never be as approachable as javascript.

New comment by zozbot123 in "[dead]"

zozbot123 — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 17:17:35 +0000

It seems that this decision was made without thinking about actual development and implementation. People who silently believe that this is only a matter of EU let me tell u something. A lot of EU copyright laws were adopted in the US so if they find a way to monetise it, or if EU will find a way to accurately control it you'll see how it becomes a problem not only for EU but the rest of the world too. Now every customer orientated business who helps people to create something online and works in EU market will have to implement filters to their software/website/platform u name it which will cost money; otherwise, you might lose a lot of traffic. I think this is a matter of every country in the world who does any business or has any traffic from EU countries. Maybe they won't push this through in a first place. It would be a very unpopular decision before the election. Also, initiatives of brands mentioned in this article are crucial, and I am proud to be a customer, it is an excellent example for everyone.

New comment by zozbot123 in "Scaling, Structure, and Growing as an Engineering Manager with Camille Fournier"

zozbot123 — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:40:54 +0000

> Structure is really just a decision-acceleration process

This is exactly holacracy, teal, and other so-called "flat" leadership models are so inefficient. The power structure is there whether it's visible or not. Ignore at your own peril.

New comment by zozbot123 in "Multiprocessing.shared_memory – Shared memory for direct access across processes"

zozbot123 — Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:52:56 +0000

Both 3.7 and 3.8 have so many performance improvements. But still, what people like most about Python is code readability. Performance isn't as important as in the past, because of how hardware performance has scaled.

New comment by zozbot123 in "Show HN: CUYN – Crypto Underwrite Your Network"

zozbot123 — Sat, 16 Feb 2019 18:19:25 +0000

Sounds potentially useful. My team has been thinking of bringing in someone with more crypto experience for a new project.

New comment by zozbot123 in "Neural Networks Are Essentially Polynomial Regression (2018)"

zozbot123 — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 17:47:16 +0000

I think what you literally need is a network that is "narrow" but also has many layers. This is because what PR features over simple linear regression is interaction terms, and multiple layers are an alternate way to get those. This also hints at one problem with true PR - in a multi-variate context, the amount of coefficients you'll need to fit is going to scale very badly given the number of variables and the degree of your polynomial. NN layers have natural dimenionality-reduction properties that make them more flexible.

New comment by zozbot123 in "Logical difficulties in modern mathematics (2012)"

zozbot123 — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 12:51:15 +0000

Yup, you can define distinctness of constructive real numbers as two algorithms returning rationals that will differ by more than the approximation error ε they were given as input, for some arbitrarily small ε - but equality involves proving that two algorithms will never be apart in this way - and this cannot be done in general. As you say, even comparison with zero is problematic. So instead of equivalence relations, you need to define the apartness relation - the notion that a supposed equivalence between two such numerical algorithms can be constructively refuted. This is nothing new - it's a well-known part of constructive math, and is also the sensible way to formalize numerical analysis.

New comment by zozbot123 in "Rethinking Giftedness and Gifted Education (2011) [pdf]"

zozbot123 — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 12:16:11 +0000

The whole point of "special education" is that it does things that don't scale to everyone (so it involves guessing who's going to get the most benefit from it, and these are the students you regard as "gifted"-- although in practice commitment and "grit" are a lot more important than supposed aptitude). Individualized teaching for each student, with a "mastery learning" model (i.e. no fixed time-based curriculum; you keep working near your current level in any given subfield until you achieve mastery at that level, then move on) is what gives the best results, but it can only be achieved practically via computer assistance.

New comment by zozbot123 in "Free Money Didn’t Help People Find Jobs, Finland Says"

zozbot123 — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 23:31:38 +0000

No, the point is that it doesn't matter if you "pay people not to work" via unemployment benefits that are stopped when they start working again, or just give them a baseline subsidy no matter what - either way, they'll have the same amount of success seeking work. So yes, it's a bit of a failure for basic income, but a win for unemployment benefits.

New comment by zozbot123 in "CRISPR machines that can wipe out entire species"

zozbot123 — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 13:24:59 +0000

There are measures of genetic distance that happen to correlate quite nicely with perceived ancestry, even though most genetic variation is not necessarily related to it. It's just one of many genetic "signals" that barely rise above the background noise. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_distance

New comment by zozbot123 in "Free Money Didn’t Help People Find Jobs, Finland Says"

zozbot123 — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:35:11 +0000

> So you can say "free money didn't help people find jobs", or you could say "free money didn't discourage people to seek jobs". The connotation is a bit different.

Right. Most perceptibly, you could even frame it as "Disincentive effects from unemployment benefits may be lower than previously feared; switching to free money didn't make people seek more work."

New comment by zozbot123 in "Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results"

zozbot123 — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:13:55 +0000

> There's enough starry eyed people that love the idea of working on games enough that they are willing to put up with total abuse

Have we tried simpler solutions, like raising awareness about the widespread abuse? Unionisation is opposed for a reason - it's a very blunt tool which introduces all sorts of dysfunctional dynamics and this ends up screwing the ordinary folks even harder.

New comment by zozbot123 in "The Free and Open Internet"

zozbot123 — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:00:04 +0000

lwn.net's true solution here is that they open up their archives after a very reasonable delay, right up to the beginning of the site. The "share a subscriber link" is a nice marketing gimmick, but far from essential.

New comment by zozbot123 in "The Free and Open Internet"

zozbot123 — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 09:55:21 +0000

If the "owners" of a newspaper don't have final authority about what it publishes, they aren't the real owners/publishers in the first place; they just provide funding to it, and perhaps own its branding. It's understandable that journalists like "editorial freedom", because it's a de-facto property right. Who wouldn't like that sort of thing?

New comment by zozbot123 in "The Free and Open Internet"

zozbot123 — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 09:50:51 +0000

> You can argue about whether there is clickbait in music and video, but we know that clickbait in journalism is definitely a problem.

There definitely is clickbait in video - see Youtube recommendations. In the long run, we should move towards funding content by crowdfunding and open licensing, perhaps combined with a reasonably short embargo period where the content is limited to subscribers. This gives the right long-run incentives, while avoiding either paywalls (after the embargo) or intrusive ad tracking.

New comment by zozbot123 in "Apple makes billions from Google Search each year"

zozbot123 — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 21:31:26 +0000

Google is actually pretty well optimized for the simplest, most mindless searches. It sucks for anything complex, though - Bing/DDG is a lot better there.

New comment by zozbot123 in "Android Phones Can Be Hacked Remotely by Viewing Malicious PNG Image"

zozbot123 — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:10:23 +0000

It does not actually provide memory safety in concurrent scenarios, only for purely sequential code. Given the predicted use-case scenarios for Go, that's pretty much a truck-sized hole in the language's purported guarantees, especially in comparison with Rust.