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What's the ratio of creators vs readers here?

I'm considering writing a book and I want to learn more about the publishing process. What should I keep track of?

Hi, I recently applied to a job from a HN monthly post and I was told that the company is looking for more experienced people. That made me think about metrics for measuring experience. Which made me ask myself…

I've been thinking about a practical take on the P = NP problem. Traditionally, it's about whether problems that can be quickly verified by a computer can also be quickly solved by one. But what if we framed it in terms…

Hi! I'm leading my first paper that involves managing the work (kind of) of 5 other co-authors (1 from my group + 2 from another group + 2 group leads). It's a multidisciplinary project and we're having a deadline in…

I noticed it happening to me a few times and I was curious too see how common it is

Hi HN-ers, I'm looking for research ideas for my master thesis and I'm quite bad at determining what's feasible to do within 6-10 worth of work (approx. 15h/week). Currently I'm thinking about either measuring…

I'm now working on some challenges, but I need help

I wanted to check the 100th page of Google to test a thought of mine and I found out that it's surprisingly difficult to get access to that page. When did this happen? And why? Edit: I wanted to add the following as a…

Asking for a friend :)

Servus HN people ^^ I just got my first writing published & I wanna share it with the world :DDDD I received a link with 50 days of free access and I'm posting it here for ideas, opinions, critiques, questions, remarks,…

Hi, I'm trying to improve the way I do Machine Learning and I'm curious about how the HN people are dealing with it. At the moment I'm creating a python project from scratch and I mostly rewrite all code each time (I've…

I keep seeing critiques against working on tasks that are meant to maximize user engagement. A recent comment that I saw on the subject went in the lines of: <these are not the big/important problems of our lives>.…

I'm trying to get an understanding on what quality means in terms of publishing research and I learn best through examples. Any recommendation is highly appreciated ^^. I'm also interested in papers from many…

I sometimes feel like reading some fictional biographies of people pre-modernity, but I can't really find that many that would suffice. I'm curious to see what other HNers think.