skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I just read that search story as well - fascinating!
I work with a large (multi-billion, multi-national) tech company that has a big problem with knowledge management.

My job involves consulting to lots of customers in different industry sectors, and the one small, sad comfort is that almost no one does documentation management well.

Currently if I want some specific tidbit of information I can consult: our knowledge base (bespoke), our collection of product PDF's, salesforce documentation repository, quickbase documentation repository, an aging wiki (twiki), private stash of documents created by colleagues, mailing lists (a subset of which are indexed and accessible from the wiki, otherwise you can only go back as long as you've been with the organisation, and hope you've been subscribed to all the right lists), sharepoint (meant to replace the wiki, but two years later, and no), our learning management system, yammer (seriously), bugzilla, our customer support forums ... or I think about who might know the answer and email them.

My advice as a result of this:

Even if you don't hire a librarian, at the very least appoint a curator -- ultimately you need someone who owns your documentation, and the design and management processes around it, and can encourage/force people to update it, continually reduce redundancy, improve quality, etc etc.

Be wary of your current thinking " We'd like to have a single location to track both kinds of documentation ..." - specifically that there are only two kinds of documentation. Or indeed only n kinds of documentation.

It's easy to fall into the 'let's build a new system to encompass the others' trap (insert obxkcd) and hard to fight it. If you do go down that path, ensure the content from old systems are fully migrated (3 years after it's been 'retired' our twiki is still the best place to go for some things). This is hard - it's rarely budgeted, and involves tedious and/or impossible work.

I suspect it's impossible to have a single system that will manage all your institutional knowledge -- I know many people are working on solving this from both directions, but I don't believe there's anything suitable now.

Whatever you choose it needs to have a low cost of entry for non-technical staff to update, while not frustrating your technical types. This is hard to find.

In 2007 I set up DekiWiki (based on mediawiki, but since abandoned) for a medium-sized gov agency -- in 2013 when I caught up with that team I was surprised they were still running it. It was internal only, so they weren't so worried about lack of patches, and they hadn't found anything better in the interim.

Out of that experience I'd suggest that whatever you do go with, make sure it's easy to extract your data, and that you maintain your own full copies of product documentation just in case the product is abandoned. Also - don't assume products won't be abandoned. MindTouch / Dekiwiki [1] was big in the mid 2000's.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindTouch
You're right of course, just not sure whether the poster was saying this was due to government overreach or a lack of government action.
Grids are most useful in wider viewports (tablets and laptop/desktop browsers).

Except for IE11, basically all browsers that don't support Grid are outdated mobile browsers (pre-iOS 10.3 versions of Mobile Safari, Android Browser in older Android, and browsers that are based on Android Browser and have high usage in developing countries, like UC Browser)
Tesla's head of battery engineering exits
To get video game consoles on shelves, the manufacturers ask the stores to sell the physical hardware at much lower margins than normal, in return promising sales of peripherals with a huge markup.

Having talked to a few people who were directly involved, for controllers the manufacturer get maybe 10% of the purchase price as profit, the store would take 40%+. The markup was basically 100% from what the distributor charged.

This is also why for the longest time consoles shipped with bare bones everything. E.g. External wifi, sometimes extra video cables were even needed. Anything to help the store turn an actual profit on selling the physical consoles.
A product has its components fabricated in east Asia, is assembled in east Asia, sold in Europe, and the profits from the sale are held in Europe. Somehow you consider this “illegally offshoring money”. Somehow you think the US government deserves 34% of these profits. Apparently, the spirit of the law being violated is that the US government has the right to stick it’s nose in anyplace in the world it wants and extract rent.

At a physics conference Wolfgang Pauli heard a talk that was so misguided that his comment was that “it wasn’t even wrong.” IMO your comment isn’t even wrong.
I didn't take Tegmark's argument to be a computational theory. I took it to be an inductive one based upon the trend of the physics over the last decades towards the more and more generified multiverse theories. Ultimately, you land on a model where all consistent mathematical representations of a reality exist. At that level of abstraction, there is no where to go: it is the limit of the induction. There's a rather satisfying sense of self-evidence about it, but that doesn't mean it's falsifiable or true.

IIRC there are no arguments about computation or what underlying medium(s) are involved, it seems like a separate question.
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I don't think the idea that everything is math, is particularly original.
Not only that, but they might be traumatized by the loss of connection with each other.
There used to be a Python library called Pyro, which stood for Python Remote Objects. As the name implies, it as a library for doing RPC/RMI. I remember playing with it over a weekend ~12 years ago.

Oh, look, it is still around: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pyro/3.16

Admittedly, the last update was five years ago, but still.
It's a balancing act, not (just) an arms race. As a government, raise corporate taxes too high, and corporations leave and/or overseas corporations outcompete them and/or new corporations form overseas instead of domestically. Raise tariffs too high, and domestic consumer choice and quality decrease, and consumer purchasing power decreases. These aren't consequences that dissolving your domestic corporations or jailing their managers address.
Yes. “Still doing stuff” is an underestimate. From what I gather, he is very active both at the academic and the industry.
About two months, on nights and weekends.
Are airlines or landlords worse nowadays...?
It would be more akin to the US taxing a dual American/Irish citizen living abroad. Which they do. You cannot just pretend not to be a US citizen when convenient.

Of course, typically you aren't taxed on the first $100k of income abroad, but likely businesses have similar carve-outs...
WebSockets are a completely different use case (i.e. client-server vs client-client among other things).

Also, you don't need to know/implement those protocols, library abstraction should help you avoid it. The low-level implementers do. That's like saying you have to know the WebSocket protocol/upgrade details to use it.
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Not to say that I think that the world is a simulation or anything like that (I don't), but I think that computational complexity and related things probably do induce a natural notion of "naturality" on the different mappings.

Even if there might not be a single most natural mapping, I think it makes sense to say that some mappings are more natural than others. I think there is a natural sense which is independent from human perception and intent, in which a computer running, say, a graph coloring algorithm, is doing that more than a waterfall is.

Even if there is a bijection between a collection of initial states of the waterfall with the input of program, that fits together with one between the outputs and the results of the waterfall.
Also, Aristotle invented logic while studying cats (reality). That's what I am telling you: reality is amazing, not math!
I liked PyCharm's feature list but the index-the-world behaviour definitely like it going back to the pre-SSD era. Not a show-stopper for my biggest project but the cost for everything else definitely left me hesitant to switch.
After a tax crackdown, Apple found a new shelter for its profits
If you think Google saw you as the "customer" in that exchange, you're very mistaken...
Yeah, the world is also not designed for people with no legs, or people with no arms, etc. Yet people with those handicaps demonstrate amazing abilities to adapt and with the help of technology, they can overcome their limitations even better.
Is this the technology behind Greyball?
>Sure, in this case ideas are objective and not subjective, but Berkeley's "mind of God" argument also leads to an objective, albeit immaterial reality, doesn't it?

No, it leads to a subjective inability to know anything at all. It's a difficult philosophical view to talk about, because the people espousing it can not possibly actually believe it and usually don't even understand it. The non-existence of a shared, knowable, objective reality means that, even in a totally solipsistic model, inductive reasoning can not be applied. You can not assume that attempting to breathe in the next moment will extend your life rather than extinguish it. You can not conclude that the air in your lungs will not suddenly become ants. You certainly can not leap to the extensively complex chain of reasoning necessary to believe that between this sentence and the next the English languages will turn into French. It introduces aggressive, pervasive, impossible-to-dismiss inconstancy in all things, including ones self.

A true believer in a subjective universe would remain still in their bed, doing nothing, until they died. Any action whatever beyond automatic biological functions instantly betrays their belief that they know their body, know the environment they are in, and know how the mental activity necessary to cause the action will elicit a change in the environment which is not likely to destroy them. And that is a thing they can never know in a subjective universe.

The 'mathematical universe' on the other hand is simply discussing how the shared, knowable, material universe we live in came to be or is best understood. I happen to think it is factually wrong on a few points (the author just off-hand claims that if we had a big enough supercomputer we could exactly calculate the future development of the universe which is fundamentally untrue for one) but it certainly doesn't amount to subjectivity.
That is an important caveat and it's hard to accurately pin down since there is no idea of how many of these views are generated by users or by bots.

For the real view number of billions to be wrong bots need to account for over 90% of the views if we're only considering the two channels the article referenced.

That bot percentage would have to be much higher if you factor in other channels of similar veins. https://socialblade.com/youtube/top/500/mostviewed

Though you also have to factor in how many channels are just run of the mill content egg opening content vs more disturbing children's entertainment.
Top products (non-tech) you use everyday and wouldn’t compromise on quality?
Curious to see what you come up with. Your input can help us improve the shoes we are making.

Mine are:

Shoes
Jeans
Underwear
Notebook
Sweatshirt
Backpack
BTW here's a video of proof-of-concept ROM I built first to see if I could actually achieve building what I wanted on the console. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59txD0ZyBic
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Ditto for http://sci-hub.cc/. Another example: for those of us (just about everybody) concerned about our health, how do we access authoritative papers on pharamceutical drugs, nutrition, medical conditions etc., Or do we rely on some journalist's piece which is more often than not biased and patronizing?
And the irony is that this is almost entirely tax-payer funded research.
Not sure why this is an argument against simulationism. As far as I can tell, you're just making the point that any system could be regarded as simulating any other system given a sufficiently complex mapping. This seems more like an argument for simulation than against it. In fact, I first heard this argument a long time ago in high school as part of a discussion on panpsychism - the speaker claimed that a cup of tea was sentient because interpreted in a particular way, its thermal states could represent a self aware entity.

The fact that you have to consider the complexity of the encoding scheme and not just the input and the output bit patterns is well understood in information theory. If I have an encoding scheme that has included in it a complete simulation of the universe, I can encode any video into 0 bits since the decoder will always know what I am about to request of it. The more the mapping is customized to the information you're searching for, the less complexity is needed in the input bit patterns to produce the desired output. If you go searching PI for a message, it'll probably take you longer to find it if you use the ASCII values of characters than if you use base64. You'll find it even quicker if you specify that 3='h' 1st 1='e' 4='l' 2nd 1='l' 5='o'.

This all ultimately comes back to Ockham and parameters on a model. Models with more parameters can fit more things spuriously, so you want the model with the fewest parameters that can do the job. Minimum Description Length (and MML) is a great concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_description_length
Halliburton?
at least compare it to vimmode on atom
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I have very hard time smart man as pg doesn't know how Russian money works. However, he may also be smart enough to not discuss his investor's affairs in public under his own name.
That's a very strange quote you did... did you honestly think that I meant the pronoun 'it' to mean 'predict'? I absolutely did not. The universe does it. It executes. It evolves along the pathway and 'calculates' (if you wish) the end result. A thing which no mathematics can, or will ever be able to, do.
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I don't agree with the reasoning. Since we all know that a few currency notes are stolen sometime, the entire usd cash system will be shut down?
Pillow. I spend 1/3 of my life on one.
I made money buying and selling UET (Useless Ethereum Token) [0]. There were open buy orders on an exchange for more than it was actively available for via ICO for a period of about a week. So naturally I made a bundle buying and selling it. In this case it was the confusing ICO terms that made it profitable.

[0] https://uetoken.com/
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Couldn't you just use createinstallmedia that comes bundled with those Installers instead of using a 3rd party tool?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
It speaks to a poor understand of kids, schools, and reality. I think we often underestimate kids and their intellectual capacity, but this is just ridiculous. I started outlining how bad this would be for kids, but the list was getting so long that I had to stop. Let's just rely on common sense here.

I never felt I was "ravaged by capitalism," but I was never forced as a kid to compete in cutthroat markets where I was pretty likely to fail against adults who had fully-developed brains and more experience in every relevant field.

Yes, let's get kids more hands-on experience. But the feeling of failing as a kid is brutal. Don't set them up to fail. More importantly, let's teach them critical thinking skills so they can adapt. Focus less on facts and more on solving problems and finding their own solutions. This is possible without forcing them into a high-stress environment where many adults (with far more experience in markets and as consumers) fail.
Documentation, the thing most agree is a good idea, but nobody wants to do. It's a nuanced subject.

TOOLS

Until recently, we used a combination of Documentum and EPM (Enterprise Project Manager). The intended workflow was to have all documents start in EPM as part of the initial project implementing/building whatever product. When the project closed then the developer was to copy the documents across to Documentum. It was simple in concept. Due to technical shortcomings, it was not. I stopped even trying around 3-4 years ago.

Documentum was a technical horror show. Ten years ago, and for a long time afterward, it supported only one browser, I believe IE. Architecturally, it seemed to use a Java applet for login and, upon successful login, it downloaded an app. Of course, the app wanted a specific version of the JRE locally. But, the real nightmare was authorization. One day you had permissions to update “cabinets” for your documentation. The next day you didn’t. No explanation.

EPM had authorization issues similar to Documentum’s with the added bonus of a project’s link not working all the time. One day you could use the link, which the PM sent out at the start of a project, to access the project workspace. The next day you couldn’t find the project workspace.

Currently, we're moving into a SharePoint site that is more promising. It provides Wiki capability for quick reference items, as well as, a repo for more involved documentation. Apparently, it provides versioning, but we haven't explored it yet.

TYPES

Part of the problem with the subject of documentation is that different groups want different types of documentation. Somehow, the developer is supposed to understand the needs of each group and produce a document tailored to those needs.

Operational people want information on jobs and job dependencies. Support people want lists of things to check and try in case errors occur. (Developers are inherently bad at documentation for customer support. The problem is that we know how the system is supposed to work, so we’re blind to its shortcomings until a user finds them. Rather than my writing a support document upfront, I prefer meeting support people periodically so they can ask questions and develop their own document.)

Management wants everything, all at once. They want it in the amount they want it, summarized, but detailed enough that they can feel like they’re a help during outages and architectural meetings alike.

Users want to know every step for every task they need to accomplish, as well as, what to do in any anomaly, like not paying attention to dialog boxes and hitting “Save” to commit information that they didn’t want to commit.

ISSUES

The major issues, for me, are keeping documentation current and writing for such varied audiences, nevermind having the storage system working against me.
Cool beans. This looks pretty exciting to me; it may not be the fanciest JS framework, but this is a genuinely fun, different project. I'll be watching this project for sure.
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Facebook can just charge 1$ per sign-up and the problem is gone (faking credit cards etc does not scale).

Of course, as others have said, they prefer having more "users".
Hello, if you are being ironic can you please tell me why it was. I saw that article and I've seen lots of really bad examples of sexual propaganda directed at kids. Screenshots that circulated around the conservative sphere of Twitter. I presumed this was the reason Google eventually decided to demonetise gay propaganda in YouTube.

Look at this I just found. Unfortunately I can't find the tweets I am talking about. But this is similar. https://aceloewgold.com/2017/07/25/popular-youtube-channels-...
I guess I should have clarified: Win7
I am only vaguely aware of PoC||GTFO, but I thought I heard a story that some of these do have hidden data, but useful hidden data...
You've got a JetBrains IDE working with OCaml? What plugin are you using with which IDE? The only plugin[1] I've seen seems to be 7 years out of date.

[1]: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/4986-ocaml-support
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Apples and oranges. The Apple phones get better battery life because of stricter app store inclusion rules and native binary builds for all targets instead of generic automated ports.

Plus the rest of the materials BoM on the phones probably cherry picks parts that are very efficient and tuned to work well with each other.

Why aren't Androids in this same boat? My guess is that it's because Samsung wants to release 10 different Galaxy phones a year to have something new and shiny in every product segment instead of focusing on one REALLY polished design and leaving last year's model for their mid/low end.
We just started using Guru (getguru.com) for our 13-person remote team (trydesignlab.com), and it's been quite effective. Some key features that we love:

- Simple UI with well-known metaphors like cards and collections — each task or process you have as a company can live in a separate card

- Tagging combined with lightning-fast search

- A bookmarklet that allows you to search your Guru knowledge base from any other site you're on (really handy for our support agents who want to look up a manual process without leaving their support workflow in Zendesk)

- A "verification" workflow that ensures your knowledge base is up-to-date (previously a huge issue in any sort of wiki / document-based solution — you never know if what you're reading is the latest piece of info, or whether it's been updated since). Cards can be assigned to an owner who can be reminded to verify the information on a periodic basis (e.g. every 2 weeks, 4 weeks, etc.), and anyone viewing a card knows whether it's been recently verified

- The ability to ask questions to individuals / groups within Guru, with answers turned into new cards. Instead of tapping someone's shoulder (or sending them a Slack message), we now ask for info within Guru, organically growing our team's shared knowledge base over time

Overall this has been a tremendous find for us. We had a number of core processes (support, operations, payments, dev, marketing, sales) that lived in various Google Docs (including one monolithic 'Process Guide' doc), but that system was growing extremely cumbersome to use. We strongly considered Confluence, but stayed away after a short trial revealed how bloated the product was — we knew ramping the team up would be a nightmare.

So far Guru's been a winner — would recommend giving it a spin.
Thank you for fulfilling my prophecy
In the future, the only skill of value will be video production. This is common theme, for example in Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End. Getting and holding other human's attention is always worth something.

So possibly all these weird videos that kids watch constitute necessary future survival skills.
I find planning to be an essential communication tool and most of my work involves planning. I think I miss-stated my point. My point is that I don't know where to spend my time, when learning new things, until after I learn them. That I can't predict where my struggle will be.