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Hey HN, I love Schelling point questions, where you have to guess what other people will answer, with them trying to do the same. So I built a little daily game with them, but also…

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 underst…

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 trial…

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 broa…

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…

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 fu…

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…

That sounds like a very viable and valuable type of business, but it's kind of a different category of business model

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 wha…

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 yo…

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 dat…

exactly! It's a version of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusion%E2%80%93exclusion_pr...

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…

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 c…

Can’t begrudge anyone involved, but this feels kind of lame. I thought Figma really could compete long term with Adobe.

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 …

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.

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, b…

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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…

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 does…

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.

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, v…

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'…

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 j…