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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

This is a question that is asked every few years.Some past iterations:- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13326535 by mdoliwa- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367243 by kewball- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16482392 by pyeu- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25614966 by codester newsJust like in past iterations I am very curious to see the results, and maybe there have been...

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Ask HN: First Steps as a new grad SWE in Europe?

Hey HN people,Long-time lurker here, just about to finish my Software Engineering degree and get started on an internship. I've picked up a ton from the threads and comments here over the years – all the tech wisdom and life lessons. Now, on the edge of launching my professional life, it got me thinking: What nuggets of advice would you have given your fresh-out-of-college self?Also, a lot of...

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Re:Trapped in Silicon Valley’s hidden caste system on Wednesday March 02, 2022 @10:42AM (#30528550)
I don't know how you see it as racist. He meant they have the same material standards as the average Chinese person (from the PRC)
Yeah, I pretty much understood some of it because it is very clear. I was researching some explanation or first-principles approach to the TikTok algorithm but going through ResearchGate/Arxiv but found few technical reports and the best one was this one (and very recent). And going through Google is a mine-field because of marketing companies SEO bombing the words "Tiktok" and "algorithm"
I was searching some information on what are the principles behind the TikTok algorithm/recommendation engine and I found this very recent preprint. I wanted to have some opinions on its validity.