skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think this theory makes much sense when you examine it. But it's excellent at justifying a caste system, one where all workers are controlled by wise managers, and where there's a stable hierarchy of executives above that. I note that the hierarchy established is basically equivalent to those of feudalism. It also has the handy property of justifying high compensation for managers and executives; since workers are cogs and higher-ups do the important thinking, all gains should flow upward.

Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. I agree that metricising performance is only as good as your metrics, and in my personal opinion, metricising knowledge work is a fool's errand (too many variables to accurately capture performance). That is _separate_ from having managers though. Managers can often triage work effectively, help engineers unblock their work, help identify people in the org that contain the domain knowledge necessary to help one of their direct reports, etc etc.

I think the whole urge to track velocity and points and stupid things like that to be absolutely dumb, though. Also I'm an IC and am coming up to the point in my career where I have to figure out a way to not be pushed into management.
I apologize for being a jerk to you. You're right. That wasn't cool at all.

But nothing about the case you just described is trivial or no-brainer. Getting into that situation takes a lot of work, planning, and collusion. I would need to see some serious data to believe that this kind of thing actually happens often enough for it to be a problem.

In a place like NYC, getting places just takes time. An extra 10 minutes to get from point a to b just isn't a thing that people care about.

If you're going to assert that cases like these are common enough to cause Uber to have a default policy of cancelling a ride when a rider's phone runs out of juice, I think the burden of proof is on you to show it. Otherwise, I'm not going to buy into that.

And again, I apologize for calling you stupid.
Those people will still have a passion for something, or they're going to be profoundly unhappy. Consumption (whether it be TV, video games, drugs, etc) can only provide some distraction from the pain, it doesn't make it go away. In fact, the longer you try to deal with the pain by distraction, the worse it gets.
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For a novel set in Norse 14th century Greenland read: "The Greenlanders", it was written in the style of epic sagas.

"Once, in very early winter, when Margret was in the hills above Vatna Hverfi laying partridge snares, a man came upon her suddenly, and gave her a fright. He was wearing a shirt and hood of very thick sheepskin that fell forward over his face, so that she didn't know him, and when he stepped out from a willow cleft, where he had been doing something, she jumped back and gave a cry. As she stepped back, her foot rolled with a loose stone, so that she would have fallen, except that the man caught her elbow and held her up.

There was a man at this time living above Vatna Hverfi district, who had committed the crime of killing his cousin over a horse fight, and had been outlawed for three years by the Thing, although in Greenland outlaws were allowed to live at the fringes of the settlement, sometimes among the skraelings and sometimes not, since there was no going abroad as there had been in the old days. This man was named Thorir the Black-browed, and so, when Margret regained her balance, she said, “Thank you, Thorir Sigmundsson,” and backed away from him, for it was not known how he had been enduring his time of outlawry. Nonetheless, although she was afraid, she took three fat ptarmigan from her pouch and laid them side by side on a flat rock at her feet, saying, “You would do me a great favor by accepting these poor birds, Thorir Sigmundsson." Then she backed away, slowly, not taking her eyes off the outlaw and feeling her way with her feet. The man neither looked at her, nor picked up the birds, and after a while she was out of his sight and she ran the rest of the way to Gunnars Stead.
The next evening, when she came into the farmhouse from the dairy, the three birds, all neatly plucked, were lying on the bench beside the fire. Margret went at once to the door and surveyed the homefield for signs of the outlawed man, for there were many reasons why such visits were not a little to be feared, and the fact tthat they were contrary to the law was not the least of these. Vigdis, the wife of Erlend , for one, would be glad of something new to bring against the Gunnars Stead folk. Aside from this, an outlawed man living above Isafjord had gained entrance to an isolated farmstead and stolen a great deal of food from both the kitchen and the storehouse, althouh the tale that he had killed a member of the family had turned out to be false. But there were no signs of anyone except Olaf and Skuli, who were standing near the cowbyre. Margret took the birds outside around the house and buried them in the midden with a spade."

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14305.The_Greenlanders
https://www.amazon.com/Greenlanders-Jane-Smiley/dp/140009546...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Smiley
Sorry but this is like Nokia saying they are spending all this money to make their phones and manufacturing processes awesome, all the while when a iPhone is getting designed somewhere.

Incremental changes is what most senior management folks at places like Ford can do because that is what they teach at MBA schools using linear growth graphs.

Self driving tech is really novelty thing now. And nobody expects it to work anytime soon.

The real deal now is mind-blowing battery tech. Batteries that are rugged, can charge quickly and a car that can give a big range on a charge.

Meanwhile talking of how efficiently somebody can build an ICE based car is really like someone talking about how quickly they can produce horse carriages. Doesn't really matter because that disruption is happening else where.
I don't know. Honestly I think the article is a shot in the dark.
If this is the case, then why are so many bad managers still managing?
On a related note. You'd be surprised how common this is in the healthcare industry. An industry where mistakes can be deadly.
Can't predict numbers but some obvious integration points are... a) on the hardware side a solar panel customer could also buy the power wall (natural extension) and car, which can yield very high LTV per consumer; b) on the services side a fully autonomous ride sharing means low operating cost; c) if Solar City continues to lease out the panels then Tesla could become the biggest solar powered grid network on the planet.
Growing up poor meant that we never saw credit cards. That meant that we had to be very creative when it came to pay online. Something like Amazon Cash would have been amazing to have!
Also the ability to run 240v + 120v right off the inverter for the pack would be a huge thing for contractors. I know many then end up hauling a genset out just because quite a few sites don't have dedicated power.
> The fine was for walking through a park that closes after 10pm.

That seems excessively broad. Aren't prostitution and drug use already illegal?

I have a photo of a sign in New Orleans forbidding this, and forbidding sleeping.

I was amazed at the number of signs showing what was forbidden in public spaces in the USA when I visited. It didn't square with my expectations of "the Land of the Free".

On the one hand, if the laws do indeed vary, then the signs make some sense. But there were signs forbidding things like "lewd conduct and public masturbation", or "public defecation", which I assume are generally forbidden.

It felt like someone thought I needed instructions on how to use a park.
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Posting old content is fine, but the title should be marked with: (2014)
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About the security content of iOS 10.3.1
Let's break it down for you:

1. Telsa has many investment ideas
2. Tesla spends massive amounts of CAPEX
3. Tesla incurs large amount of depreciation
4. Tesla's net income goes down
> I've never had to deal with one of these sorts of problems in my day to day work;

You are from different niche and actually you are being paid less than those guys who knows the stuff you don't

From [0]:

"[S]killed cloud and backend developers, as well as those who work in emerging technologies including Internet of Things, machine learning and augmented/virtual reality can make more money than frontend web and mobile developers whose skills have become more commoditized..."

[0] https://www.linux.com/news/developer-nation/2017/3/visionmob...
I think this is key. In the sports arena, the metrics are VERY clear: if you don't win games, and your stats are poor, you're fired.

I understand where academics are coming from, but at the same time it seems like many people want to be isolated from any objective assessment of their performance at all. FWIW, I see this a LOT among software developers as well.
More info on this please
Pardon my ignorance, but... doesn't Android run on top of the firmware? You're saying newer versions of Android are breaking backward compatibility with older firmware?
But that whole strategy is based on hiring "good people," and by what metric do you determine that? It seems that it's just pushing the measurements to another location, one that's less visible and transparent (the hiring process). Or maybe you don't think that there should be a firm set of metrics at all, but having metrics that are too loose ends up meaning the decisions tend to be arbitrary and based on the whims of whoever is currently making the decisions.

I think most managers would enjoy hiring the best people and then having greatness occur. But the reason these things are in place is because you're not always going to be hiring the best people (or someone might be great in some categories, but terrible in others you didn't know). Saying "hire good people" isn't much of a solution.
If it's so rugged and dependable, why does he need to buy a new one every couple of years?
How well known was Hitler in Germany at this point? He was a relative nobody in WWI, so I'm curious how he can have been a 'demi-god' just 5 years or so later.
I don't think this is supposed to. It's more like when stores started to offer credit cards themselves because it was more profitable. This is the same idea, different execution.
That is, until we get the new cars to run Coreboot.
So it's Linux fault and Fuchsia is the solution, right? :)
> I suspect many of us on HN have a distorted view of how hassle-free online shopping is because we live in buildings or neighborhoods where packages can be left without signature

That's what Amazon Locker is for. Not sure how widespread this is though.

I view this less as Amazon competing directly with Walmart than a Safeway or CVS using Amazon to provide more value to its current customer base.
The article addressed Ford because of the market cap issue, but, out of the major american car manufacturers, I think GM is a much better match for tesla.

My sleeper is MB though, overall.
Maybe I'm just naïve but shouldn't the burden of proof be on the city to prove she's the person that was ticketed? A name and birthdate are not proof of anything.
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What wasn't fact?

True the headline not, but the rest seemed factual.

Spin perhaps was high, but it wasn't opinion. They seem to have been careful and specifically only stated facts. "He looked", "it's believed" etc
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I could get on board with that, theoretically. In reality, how do you define history of cancellation. This thread has popped up at least some evidence that indicates that people show up in the system as cancelling rides for reasons that are not legitimate. Driver screws around and then cancels, claiming the user wasn't in the right place. User's phone dies, etc.

Your idea would be easier to make happen in reality if reality weren't so messy.
>no amount of rules or metrics can turn a bad academic into a good one...

I believe you've mistaken these systems as being for reform purposes, rather than existing as a way to weed out bad actors who want to enjoy the substantial benefits of tenure or a large salary without doing the work which justifies them.

When you reject metrics, the insidious thing is that you lack tools to catch bad actors who, due to oft-present subjectives like better than average lying ability, being liked by their team despite being largely ineffective, and exploitation of people's desire to not create conflict, the organization will never hear about them until long after the damage is done, they've made off like bandits, and you can no longer fix what they've done, since you didn't know when it happened.

Metrics cut through these specific subjectives and are therefore effectively necessary.

You can be a dirty academic, but published paper number metrics mean fakers now need to be, minimum, good enough to fake doing the job of a real academic well enough to publish, which means at least theoretically they could reform. Code reviews, pull requests, and similar programming measures do the same, leaving a clear and auditable point at which failure can be caught and later reversed. They further make it necessary to be good enough at programming to not only survive the interview, but also fake a long-term progression of source code which means to cheat you at least need to know how to program well enough to get away with it, which is within spitting distance of actually coding something useful anyways.

Admittedly, I don't think metrics create good incentives a lot of the time, but if you're thinking about the very long term and want to prevent your company's bottom from solely being a feudally structured nepotism contest, metrics are the only way to do so.
> while I'm sure most of the code was new

Is there any reason to believe less than 100% of the code was new?
It looks like you might be picking up the word "remote" from descriptions instead of the heading and then incorrectly showing those jobs as remote positions. For example,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14023471
https://whoishiring.io/s/hn14023471
She could, but it's a workaround to a problem that isn't hers, and the possibility of the same problem happening to someone else still exists (and there is likely many more instances). Lisa Davis is a perfectly fine name; she shouldn't have to change it for any reason.
On that note, Android 7 and newer supports tiled apps. And if the OEM wants to, can even do floating apps (thinks windows).

Also, Samsung demoed their Galaxy S8 the other day. And one of the big tings was Dex, a dock that turned the phone into a desktop computer. Microsoft has in the last year or so been pitching a similar system called Continuum.
I hate Lyft, if Uber is evil then Lyft is just dumb.

I started using Lyft because they allowed me to tip the drivers after a ride. So I preferred Lyft whenever I knew I would be a difficult passenger (like when I have to take my cat to the Vet or my wife is sick and she might have (and did) throw up in the car). The idea was that I would just tip the driver at the end of the ride for the extra trouble caused.

Months later when my ratings were tanked, some driver told me that I had really low rating on Lyft and that I seemed like a nice guy to have the low ratings. It turned out Lyft pooled the tip money together and paid the driver at the end of the week. So now tipping had no meaning other than 'just give your driver some extra money anonymously'.

I attribute this behavior to simple stupidity on the part of Lyft. Since then I just use Uber and pay all my tips in cash everytime I think it would be a problem.
Agree that brand is a finicky and powerful beast. And I picked Starbucks because it's the most ambitious example I could think of.

It will be a while before UX and polish of any automated (or mostly hands-off) storefront could compete favorably with our current servant-based systems.

But even in the case of ambitious examples, I think we'll get there. There are beloved brands that exist mostly as apps, which compete successfully with human-staffed storefronts. Unstaffed or mostly-automated physical storefronts haven't proven they can offer a quality experience yet when it comes to food and drink, but that could change; it's always possible that robotic attempts to date are the equivalent of hand-cranked washing machines.
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Tbh I don't know. But you'd never see that evidence anyway at it'd be behind a very meaty confidentiality contract.
There is a EDIT: significant portion [0] of the population of the united states that is unbanked or underbanked and not able or willing to obtain credit cards. This goes a long way into opening up a new market segment and/or allowing for cash to be used to pay for goods generally as local retailers may not carry the same diversity of products.

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Thanks for the recommendation.
First, love your username. And it's impressive to get this level of a product together!

> Regarding the IO polling issue, I do not think this can be address with a Windows PC or Linux on the Raspberry PI. I tested the USB interrupt for the FTDI FT4222 and this is not very impressive.

Yeah, that's not the right approach. As a controls engineer who builds PC-based test and manufacturing equipment, this is your competition:

http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/374369a.pdf

http://www.ni.com/pdf/manuals/374566d.pdf

These can be programmed with .NET languages and C/C++ using Measurement Studio, or graphically through LabView.

I think the critical differences are (1) using USB directly, rather than a serial emulator, enabling much higher data rates - you don't necessarily need this yet, low-speed is probably fine and (2) using internal FIFOs and Tasks to control IO instead of handling each bit over the connection.

Essentially, what you want to do is push all the real-time stuff off to the microcontroller on the peripheral, and only synchronize every couple hundred milliseconds with the PC, which will essentially take in a large buffer with the history of the inputs at 1 kHz or more, and output a similarly sized buffer with the data to be encoded on the outputs until the next synchronization. Anything that needs to happen faster than that needs to be set up before hand.
Because, having access to cheaper labor isn't a competitive advantage when it comes to software companies. There's already such a vast oversupply of labor, it doesn't help companies if they have even more labor. Unlike other industries, in software, there are much larger factors to success than access to cheaper labor.
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No, I have to insist on this. Some people want the kind of forum where there are no usernames, and that's just fine. But HN is not that kind of forum. Users who want that are welcome to find (or create) such a place, just not to turn HN into it.

It's important to draw clear lines around what HN is and isn't, and this is one of those lines.
The worst I ever had to do was on an embedded machine with no CPU cache. We were getting a crash, but we couldn't figure out how the code was getting into that function. So we hooked up a logic analyzer to the address bus (this was years ago, when CPUs were DIP packages). We wrote to an unused address decode when we entered the function, used that decode to trigger the logic analyzer, and were able to read back what addresses the CPU had been executing before it entered the function. With that information, everything became clear.
3DO, Jaguar, PC-FX, Saturn, N64 were all superior technologies, and PlayStation absolutely trounced them in popularity for 10 years. Initially both the Genesis and SNES outsold all the 5th gen platforms, but eventually their perceived better quality and an increased availability of platform titles took hold.
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First off, that problem already exists in the hardware, the damage is already done (as i stated in my blog entry http://libv.livejournal.com/26635.html under "the patent excuse").

There was another big smoking gun recently, at linaros conference in budapest. Here finally some truth was spoken at 9:40 into the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPjSm_98rgo&t=580s

Like IMG, ARM is not selling just the hardware design, it is also selling driver development services. When the driver is open source, and competitive, everyone can sell such services, and there's a lot less of those services to sell. ARM has revenue depending on this.

This is one good thing about the IMG revenue coming from Apple, it was mostly licensing costs, not services. If IMG had been selling services on top, their revenue would've been reduced by 75%+ instead of "just" ~50%.