skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He's been a big supporter of Amazon's Echo line

Apple doesn't have a competing product. Please read the rest of the GP post.

> he's mentioned a number of Android phones he likes

Yet he prefers the Apple phones to all of them. Again, read the remainder of the GP post.

> on his front page right now he links glowingly to an article about how much better Google Maps is than Apple Maps.

Yet he himself still prefers Apple Maps. Again, read the remainder of the GP post.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/09/30/apple-maps-goog...

Extracting the part of the GP post that matters: "If Apple has a product in the space, only the Apple product is worth buying, no matter how objectively bad it is."
Only under efficient market hypothesis (EMH), which is not necessarily the true state of the market. Under EMH, 2008 would never have happened, because all the (unforeseen) risk would have been priced in as 'knowable' - the risk of default was mathematically provable, even if no one ever took the time to do the math.
> I still think there is a lot of upward mobility even in that scenario -- the smarter people I know earn good salaries and have nice lifestyles. Nicer than their parents, in most cases, mainly because consumer technology constantly gets better and cheaper.

A lot of smart, hard-working, college-educated people I know live in studio apartments or with roommates in their 30s, because otherwise they can't make ends meet. Many work in STEM jobs, but not at one of the high-profile web/advertising companies that are currently printing cash. Their parents at the same age owned homes, often while working in blue collar jobs with one parent staying home to raise the kids.

Regardless of whether we, as individuals, can afford an iPhone or a TV, upwards mobility on a whole is declining. Income inequality is increasing. And the political system is under the thumb of lobbyists and billionaires who frequently act out of pure self interest. The United States government has spent $250 million a day for the past 16 years on wars that most people don't want but are powerless to stop. These are trends that are upsetting to many people, despite the momentary gratification provided by of our iPhones and TVs.
One of the hosts of that podcast is an evolution denier. Not someone I’d expect to get valuable insight from
Why would disolving the FDA fix the problem? If you don't do clinical trials to establish efficacy, then how will doctors know which treatments are effective and which ones are bogus? Randomized trials are important here due to the causality issues inherent in establishing efficacy in hindsight.
It isn't true that they cannot take advantage, that was the entire point of what I was saying. They typically don't, but it isn't because of a lack of income. They're just spending almost all of it.
Apple finally got its tax break to bring billions home
Would love to get some insight into the work at Verily or DeepMind Health for a software developer interested in working in healthcare.
PSA: Any piece of news having "blockchain" in its title is bearish toward "Bitcoin".
> Intel ME is frequently featured here on HN, but the general population is completely clueless.

That's what they want: a backdoor advertised as a feature.
http://cultstate.com/2017/10/13/The-Butterfly-War/

The more you hunt with your "carefully curated lists", the more you'll seek to improve its efficiency by creating a companion list of acceptable black behavior, acceptable gay behavior, acceptable Jewish behavior, etc.

You'll end up relying on cyber phrenology in the end and violate the civil rights of those you seek to protect... just to maintain your waning influence to win points in an attention economy you don't even have meaningful shares in.

All approaches to this challenge will inevitably end up targeting black people because they didn't generate black enough meta data. Oh yes, we will go down that road and we'll do it together, all in the name of your infallible moral supremacy. <3

Enjoy the trap. It took me years to set it up. :D
One of the authors here! We are glad you like it!

The project is indeed driven by the authors listed on the paper and also the knowledge and experience that was accumulated in the AMPLab (the predecessor of the RISELab, see https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/). If you look at the github history, we've been working on it for longer than a year and had various prototypes before that, so it doesn't come out of "thin air" ;)

The lab's sponsors are also helpful, some of them have been experimenting with the system internally and giving us feedback.
>why not do that?

Because "applying intelligently" obviously means "applying them selectively at the discretion of whoever's doing the enforcing".
I can't seem to get any info on how much power is actually transmitted/received... it's hard to beat the Inverse Square Law.
Couldn't the bot just report the imposter accounts instead of engage them? Pretty sure it's against TOS to impersonate someone without declaring it a parody account.
@ZenoArrow is correct. Nenad Rakocevic supported himself, with modest donations and other work, until he could raise the initial investment money. He and another full time developer have been working on it for a few years, using those resources. This is the next phase, with one goal being to grow the core team, but also encourage community involvement by being able to reward people.

One incentive for backers is if they want a say in how things are prioritized.
Anyone here from the Amazon Minneapolis office?
I'm interested in learning about the Amazon Minneapolis office -- such as what type of projects are being worked on, and what the engineering culture is like (is it as cut-throat as other Amazon locations?). My email address is in my profile, if you'd rather talk that way (or in person :) Thanks in advance!
It works on some fronts. He particularly likes to invest into businesses with moats. It's a theme he has spoken about constantly for decades. His personal problem is he doesn't understand technology businesses well enough to identify what those are or when they exist. It's equivalent to the specialized knowledge required to understand which biotech companies have competitive advantages or not, Buffett would also fail on that knowledge front (that is, he'd fail at it, not due to the lack of moats existing, but due to his own inability to understand the businesses).

Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Facebook, eBay, Amazon, Google - all tech companies with massive moats around them (now or in the recent past) that have helped to protect their core monopolies (or quasi-monopolies). Microsoft had a ~13 PE ratio five years ago (while paying a dividend), Apple was down to something like an 11 PE (pre the recent market bubble run); those are the kind of valuations Buffett likes in quality companies. So why'd he wait to invest into Apple until after it had already gone up so much (why didn't he buy it early into the iPhone ramp)? For the same reason he made a bad investment mistake with IBM, he doesn't understand the technology business at all (he thought Watson was some kind of special competitive advantage, that it'd be a dynamite business etc; he had no idea what he was talking about, it was out of his expertise to pick the winners in that area).

Microsoft had an epic moat circa 1995. Buffett was friends with Gates at the time. Why didn't he invest? Microsoft was an adjusted $5 / share in 1995, it's $85 now (and has paid out a lot in dividends etc). In that time it has generated several hundred billion dollars in profit. Buffett has publicly stated it was because he had no particular ability to understand their business, to identify its competitive advantages; that doesn't mean those things didn't exist. Others with specialized knowledge of tech could identify those advantages. Google as another example has had an extraordinarily obvious monopoly moat in search for 13 or so years at this point.
Linked lists can prepend, append, and have items inserted or removed anywhere, and are explicitly built around references to other nodes.

They're neither append-only, nor are they ledgers (which are basically just logs, nowhere in the definition of which is there an implied reference to any other item).
Nope, there is quite detailed book on that. They were on place, in Germany and occupied territories. Installing machines, designing punch cards with cooperation of users and training users. Some machines were directly in concentration camps and some on railways used to transport Jews. If you got there to maintain, you seen them. Some were used to sort people by race on occupied territories - and even if you not knew about holocaust you knew it is about finding and mistreating Jews. That much was clear to contemporaries.

Bosses were aware and managed operation. That is true.

> It's hard for many techies, by nature idealists, to fully grasp how the world truly works

Not all techies are idealists and it is not necessary to be idealist to have good hard skills. Also, idealists tend to be focused a bit less on those hard skills then pragmatics (being attracted to ideals). While some techies (on the spectrum) have hard time to grasp world, many many don't. Those who do were less likely to get goodies.
> Personally I tried BASIC...

JavaScript is the new BASIC, in the sense that it is universally available and a great first language to pick up.

It is easy to forget that self-taught programming is motivated by that intrinsic discovery factor, and JS feeds the dopamine loop!
For lack of a rebuttal to the FDA dissolution comment, which I'm sure others are more qualified to respond to, I wanted to address the efficacy/safety remark:

A growing number of people have voiced objections to the burdens of the FDA's efficacy testing requirements, but it's worth at least thinking about why they're in place. The main issue is that "safety" in the context of pharmaceuticals doesn't mean "perfectly safe" or even "non-lethal" — it really means, "safe enough, given the benefits". Side effects of a chemotherapy drug that can completely eliminate a tumor, for instance, could be acceptably substantial, because it cures an otherwise terminal illness. Side effects of a drug mildly lowering cholesterol levels, by contrast, must be strictly limited, because many Americans may take such a drug for much of their adult lives, sometimes in combination if the effects of a single drug are too weak.

It's hard to know if the benefits outweigh the risks if you don't know what the benefits are. Obviously, this efficacy testing carries a huge time and monetary burden, but without it, contextualizing acceptable risk would be difficult, if not impossible.
Oh the poor little innocent ingenues! /s

Techies aren't idiots (any more so than anyone else).
To be fair to Esperanto, when it was invented English wasn't nearly the lingua franca it is today, and the Internet didn't exist.

I don't think it's fair to critique it just because its original intent was as an auxiliary language. I would argue that intent failed. But it has native speakers, and it has communities who use it, and that itself justifies a language's existence.
We live in interesting times.
Interestingly, a project I have been tracking, called Monero, has an Esperanto-centric nomenclature for all of their projects, with Monero itself being the name for “coin”
Wealth and income inequality are only bad insofar as they have an effect on consumption inequality and leisure. (Another issue is that wealthy people may use their money to get politicians to pass laws that are harmful.) When people who are richer than you spend their money on yachts, the resources (labor, materials) used to build the yachts can't be used to provide other people with cars, food, homes, computers, and drinks from Starbucks. Since billionaires have most of their money invested, income and wealth inequality matter much less than the news try to make them seem.

According to this article, though, there has been an increase of consumption inequality from 1980 to 2005 in the US according to various papers: https://web.stanford.edu/~pista/JEP.pdf. But the consumption inequality is far less outrageous than income inequality and can be estimated to have been in decline in the world at large through data from the World Bank's DataBank.
> In Esperanto nouns are male gendered by default, and a suffix is used to make them female. (e.g la patro means "the father", and la patrino means "the mother").

Unfortunately, that is indeed the common usage, but it would be equally consistent with the affixes and structure of the language to use patro for parent, virpatro for father, and patrino for mother.

i.e. the sexism is strictly speaking a cultural problem, not a language problem.
Well, it's "useful" to know the FCC actually approved this, but it's at the barest end of that. But this piece doesn't include even the barest of technical details.

If it included things like which band (5GHz), what power (claimed to be 4 watts at 5 feet--how does that get by FCC?), or any other technological point, I probably wouldn't be so annoyed.

As it stands, this is quite obviously a stock pump PR piece, and this company has a history of doing this since at least 2014.

I do have a flag button, but I normally reserve that for things which are ferociously offensive rather than just scummy.
I had no trouble picking out the pairs at the bottom of that site (whether they are generated or not is in the URL for the audio, so you can do a blind test fairly easily)
Passive Fingerprinting  of HTTP/2 Clients [pdf]
You're confusing what people can do with what they actually do. I've known people who make close to the median income and support 4 children, own a home, and still had enough savings to buy them all cars and pay for their college tuition. They have some amount of retirement savings as well, though I don't know how much. I've also known people who make nearly 6 figures and just spend all of their money. A more expensive apartment than they need, a more expensive car than they need, eating at restaurants all the time, buying a bunch of what are essentially toys for adults, etc.

Although this is in the midwest, the cost of living is much lower here. It's quite possible that you just can't do this on your typical "middle class" income in other places.
eMMC via the ZIF connector on the Rock64 is a bit of a pain to get setup, involving a serial console and uboot commands, but I see better than 20MBps on an A1 class uSD. I use a USB3 SSD for my /home, it's even faster.
> After the meeting, I found myself wondering why otherwise smart people so easily slipped into this kind of business bullshit. How had this obfuscatory way of speaking become so successful?

Because there's no solid link between inputs and outputs. For most management techniques it's almost impossible to measure the output of a given management function. It's unfalsifiable. Like any other domain of human endeavor when operating in an unfalsifiable space you can neither confirm nor debunk a particular technique. The only thing you can do is _assert_ and flit from one fad to the next.

The paradox here is that while management seems to be required for corporate structures to function properly so much of it is fluff or outright BS. I have to wonder if a properly trained ML algorithm could replace 90% of management decisions by cutting out the cruft and ambiguity.
Previous articles claim 4 watts at 5 feet in the 5GHz ISM band via phased array antennas.

I'm as skeptical as you.
Modelica sees a lot of use in building energy simulation [0], [1].

My impression is that the solver landscape is a little uneven (the solver reads a Modelica model and computes its solution). For one thing, open-source solvers seem to lag behind the commercial implementations, in terms of capabilities. Even with commercial solvers, there seems to be a non-negligible amount of work around taking correct models that don't run, and reformulating them to let the solvers run them. Caveats -- I don't work on this personally, but know people in my division who do. Also, these impressions are a few years old, and doubtless the situation is improving as time goes on.

[0] Library of component modules for building energy and control systems (http://simulationresearch.lbl.gov/modelica/)

[1] "Spawn of EnergyPlus", a prototype next-gen whole-building energy solver (https://energy.gov/eere/buildings/downloads/spawn-energyplus...)
I think parent poster is drawing a distinction between sociopathy toward capitalistic ends (i.e. making money, providing something of value to someone) and sociopathy toward ideological ends (e.g. social justice, trying to reform the world to be as one believes it should).

We always knew about the former, and it's in every industry. The latter is the more recent (and relevant) phenomenon.
Esperanto was invented in an explicitly Eurocentric colonialist context.

A nice early Esperanto song goes:

En densa Afrika ĝangalo
sovaĝaj nigruloj sen Di'
jam solvis la lingvan problemon,
per tam-tam' disiĝas la kri'...

This sounds very ominous now.
I remember when I used to think such aggregations of data were avoidable, too. Better times.
They were making us do some Six Sigma training at work a few months ago, and the entire time, it felt like nothing more than business porn.
It's funny you would describe the SE as "tiny" and only having "32GB". It was the same size as all the other iPhone models before it. It was a pretty standard screen size. Oh, and it also comes in 128GB.
I particularly enjoy 'calling bullshit' on my fellow mush-speak managers.

Now, back to first principles.
Probably the most frustrating thing for me is when I’m connected to another terminal via ssh and am typing in a command (without using autocomplete). When I am on a poor internet connection the latency between rendering each keystroke makes me want to throw my computer out the window.

It would be cool if the local terminal could render text at the speed of typing and while lazily sending that back to the other machine.
Pardon? White nationalism totally is covered by free speech, as is misinformation.
Right but I guess to me "password management" and "authentication" are two entirely separate concepts (i.e. authorization vs authentication being separate English words).

I can authorize someone to do something. I authenticate that a person is who he or she claims to be.
https://twitter.com/thekitze/status/945677952091639809
I don’t think this author speaks for a lot of people in tech. His viewpoint seems to be from a very narrow subculture, mainly Web 2.0 era social networking.

Some of us have had a lifelong passion for technology and are actually happy and excited about the current state of the industry (and always have been).

If you don’t like people disagreeing with you on Twitter, just turn it off. Don’t claim that it’s part of some apparatus (that the author feels he helped invent) that somehow brought out the worst in humanity. He should feel happy he can now get exposed to views outside of his bubble.
I share the same concerns. I wasn't able to find enough details to support their claim about "safe, small, and focused amounts" of power.
Consider checking out Italki.com

Personalized language teachers at extremely affordable rates. I've payed as low as $6/hr before.
When did stocks become boring?
Actor model seems to be a good solution - n/w transparency, ,message passing style, lightweight, and cluster-capable.
Great question!

We have two departments, broadly "Business" and "Product". With over 60 full-timers working with the company now, it's important to recognize that these two departments have different cultures, and BDRs joining the Business team end up having a bit of a different experience than, say, a Python programmer joining our Product team.

The "Business" department is centered around sales, marketing, finance, and operations. It only formed as a (large) department of its own in the last 3 years and it has a significant presence in NYC. However, business team hires are even told that "NYC is not HQ" on their first day, and that a better way to think of the office is as the "NYC Internet Cafe". It's a nice Internet Cafe, though! Gigabit Internet, mesh wifi network, and standard issue bamboo sit/stand desks.

The "Product" department is centered around engineering (mostly Python programming), user experience (mostly JavaScript programming) and design (graphic/web). I'm one of the two co-founders of the company and I lead the Product team, and, importantly, I am not based in NYC. This team is 100% remote, and has about 25 people on it. Everyone on this team works either from their (tailored/optimized) home office or from a co-working space. There are actually zero full-time hires on Product that are based in NYC -- this usually elicits some surprise from office visitors.

There is a legitimate concern for some of the Business team hires that if you are not based in NYC but your team lead or some of your team colleagues are, you might suffer from "out of band communication". We try to reduce this by forcing people in the office to use Slack and video conferencing (our conference rooms are set up for GHangouts and Zoom.us) instead of "shout-net" (that is, shouting rudely across the office). This is only a concern on our marketing and support teams, where they have a geographically spread-out team but with a lot of folks in NYC, as well. But they've navigated it well. It doesn't affect our Product team in the slightest because, as I mentioned, we have no team members in NYC and "NYC is just an Internet cafe".

Funny enough, one of our highest-performing salespeople had her best year ever while doing "Remote Year". She wrote about her experience on Remote Year here: https://blog.parse.ly/post/3538/digital-nomad-sales/

We do sometimes use NYC as a retreat location for our Product team. Since it's an easy city to fly to and we have co-working space available via the office, it's often used for week-long hacking sessions of small sub-teams on Product.

p.s. as a result of your comment, I'm going to have the person in charge of hiring Business Development Reps remove 'headquarters' from the job posting -- I think it was just an innocent terminology mistake when drafting the job req.
If this is such a selling point then why is there no widespread adoption of this level of voice control on smart phones? It's certainly technically doable.
I'm trivialising it a bit but at its core the bullshit speak and the like gives hollow people a shield to hide behind.
This is now an internet classic.

Here's an article from 2014 where critics of Vietnam's government were hit with "report abuse" spam to silence them.
https://www.theverge.com/2014/9/2/6083647/facebook-s-report-...

Or perhaps you've heard of "Youtube Heroes"?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/09/2...

All you need is an appropriate mob to target politics it doesn't like to shut it down with these automated social media systems. And it can always be abused by your enemies.
I often see complaints about Agile and SCRUM met with, "You're just not using it correctly." In some circles, it's almost like a religion that you're not allowed to criticize. After all, it's The Process(TM), I guess.

But from where I'm sitting, "correct" SCRUM looks like a whole lot of weird not-overhead-but-totally-overhead that seems difficult to manage across multiple projects. For example, what a "point" represents is constantly in flux.

Instead, I actually prefer subsets of the methodology. When the company I work for was young, we all worked from home, and so daily standups were extremely effective at keeping us on task and productive while maintaining good balance (once you're done, you're done -- no creep). The board has been effective as organizing tasks and their progress.

What would not have helped, or been in any way productive, would have been spending time trying to figure out how many "points" my tasks for the day are worth. I still don't see how that system is actually different from just using hours beyond philosophical arguments.

Basically, I prefer a more focused and leaner version of the approaches.