skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience, Amazon is very good about focusing managers on facilitating talent and trusting engineers with implementation. Not in all orgs, granted, but the innovative / experimental ones are very engineering driven... even the managers generally have some first-hand engineering experience.

They're also good about keeping projects under single org trees - senior engineers act as executors of the VP's will, bypassing slow human management chains. If a team slips on their roadmap, the senior engineer can immediately intervene to provide unblocking advice (possibly looping in other experts) and coordinating scheduling changes with dependent teams... that shadow technical hierarchy is very powerful. It's let some VPs / directors reorg every couple months to shift out bad people managers, knowing tactical implementation isn't being interrupted.

Knowledge management... I've heard Google is much better. Amazon's infrastructure is well documented, but bleeding-edge projects can be hit-or-miss. Their forte is strong separation of responsibilities... which usually means tribal knowledge.

edit:

I say "engineering" because I am one... but it's not just engineering. Amazon management focuses on hiring smart people they can trust to operate autonomously. That means less bureaucratic red tape, flat(ish) management chains, and effective direct communication. Talking "through" management, escalation, is a seen as a last-resort.
No it isn't, for certain certificate errors this is the only way.
It seems like there should be more arbitrage? Google at least has engineering offices all over the world. If immigration barriers were the main issue, it seems like more companies should be doing the same.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13780587

Edit: just HTH; market research/validation, feature requests, min-MVP etc.
A lot of players of massive online games tend to get hand-wavey when there are problems and act like "dude just get more servers" is the answer.

This clearly shows how complex a system is needed that has to handle 3.4 million concurrent, connected users. I think the connected part compounds any scale problems you have since it is implied they are connected to each other.
Gig Economy Grows Up as Lenders Allow Airbnb Income on Mortgage Applications
> The entire investment business (and not only that) is amoral.

Guns are amoral too, but we still expect people to use them morally.
It's inspired by this quote from Going Postal:

"A man is not dead while his name is still spoken." - http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com

So no technical purpose, just a fun way of keeping Terry's name alive :)

In the books, the clacks is a semaphore tower used to communicate, and it's sort of a telegraph/internet system, to compare it to the real world.
While there may in fact be some truths to the allegations this seems more like a standard settlement phrase to me.

Got sued a lot of times myself for various (business related) reasons. Sometimes just faster to pay than see how it plays out.
Super Wood (2018)
Nice! I tried a 1080p mkv video on 2.2.8 before upgrading and it used around 8-9% CPU. After upgrading, played the same clip and it was under 1%. Nice performance increase there!
It's the best mobile client I've used, but thats not saying much.

It doesn't make me sad, which is the best I can say about it
There is a way to get on the ban list of a casino to fight your addiction.
I'm not sure how accurate, but I've read a book that claimed killer whale training only uses positive reinforcement. That you can't punish an orca and then expect to be able to get into the water with it.
Any website with a rich text editor would use it.
IOTA: Cannot be used for IoT, loss of funds may occur
>Another possibility is that U.S. immigration laws act as a protectionist barrier to prop up programmer compensation. It seems impossible for this to last (why shouldn’t there by really valuable non-U.S. companies), but it does appear to be somewhat true for now.

I find this quote confusing. Historically, the poaching of highly-skilled foreigners has been an important step in developing mere import substitutions into products which can be competitive on a global scale.

The Tudor government (Henry VII-Elizabeth I) kicked off its finished-wool-import-substitution program by poaching skilled weavers and machinists from the low countries (e.g. Flanders, Holland, France). Then, as the export of finished wool goods grew, so did restrictions on the exportation of raw materials and the importation of finished wool. Nearly 100 years later, England had the ability to drive European countries to famine by simply banning the export of raw wool.[0]

In the early 18th century, France started poaching British watchmakers, weavers and metalworkers; Britain responded by outlawing the emigration of skilled workers in 1719.[1]

With that context, I find it odd to hear that U.S. immigration policy has started to work in opposition to the what I believe is the largest benefit of immigration. What incentive is there to keep highly skilled workers, along with their advanced knowledge, out of the U.S.?

[0] - Chang, Ha-Joon. Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press, 2008. Print. pg. 40-42

[1] - Chang, Ha-Joon. Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Press, 2008. Print. pg. 129
It doesn’t make sense to apply anthropomorphized motivations to giant corporations. Google’s IPR management is not that different from the others. They will litigate if it’s to their advantage.

Maybe the reason Google hasn’t been suing much until now is that they’ve largely been on the borrowing end of the deal (cf. Android’s debt to Sun and Apple).
Whatever Cravath pays, the rest of the Big-law-NYC industry follows.
They did get rid of a handful of employees that were considered rowdy, handsy or sexist. Internally, I’m told the changes are quite dramatic. The public tone around the legality of their offering, notably in London, is a bit like this note: far more consensual but not clearly stepping down. They want to serve London and Londoners need the service (minicabs aren’t able to produce software at the quality Uber does) so to me, that sound much better. More recently, they did publish detailed data to help a conversation on gender-balance of their driver compensation (not where I expected them to have their main problem, but good for them to inform the conversation on pay gap).

I don’t think Dara is an angel, far from it — I got internal rumours that he’s more than willing to punish good people if that makes him look tough and, honestly, he needs to. Rather than let him cull randomly until he feels like he’s done enough, we could help him pick the bad:

Were would you expect them to lead? Serious question: I know many employees read HN, and I’m happy to point some of the more respectful and change-prone ones to your suggestions.
Everyone claims they are following “agile methods” but few actually do
Based on the evidence it seems that is very much the point of universities these days, and research only exists to secure funding and prestige, not to push the boundaries of knowledge.

This is not a happy situation, but it seems to be where we are. And it probably won't change for a long time.

It's not impossible to disintermediate teaching and accreditation. But I can't think of any workable way to disintermediate high quality research, especially when significant resources are required.

The best approach might be to herd postdocs into research-only facilities - like Bell Labs and Parc, but independent - and throw money at them to see what happens.

That's not very imaginative, but research-only labs seem to work well when they're managed correctly, and a lot of smart people would like the chance to do pure research without having to teach, mark, and justify their existence with constant grant chasing and committee meetings.
Use Angular to Create a Cross-Platform Stellar XLM Desktop Wallet
Not discounting your experience, just giving another data point: I dramatically prefer the experience of AirPods to any other in-ear headphones I’ve used. I’m not enough of an audiophile to notice the quality difference, and I love the comfort of not having an annoying wire.
Try it - the release notes specifically mentioned HD playback improvements
Relevant to your username - people who don't challenge themselves are self-limiting. To grow, you need to go outside your comfort zone, you need to take some risks. And "not terrible" certainly doesn't sound like top 1-5% material.
> it's because the rich are hoarding them

The enemy are not foreigners man, the enemy are the rich!
Double yikes, the precursors are not hard to find at all.

The only comfort I can find is that the process is probably just complicated enough that 50% of the idiots who try to make it will probably maim themselves instead of succeeding.
This was a very positive branch in the history and adoption of cryptocurrency. Here's the full testimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWQmQ_0Ovxs
What benefits does thunderbird provide over mail.app apart from being open source?
Revolutionary as in the "different from conventional" rather than "en route to revolution." I guess my choice of words was poor for this case. :)

It's not just educated, but also interested. For two reasons.. the first is that a nuanced change to the origin of money narrative is not really interesting in itself, without the context.

2nd, because the really interesting implications (imo) come from merging the barter and debt narratives. He doesn't get into it very explicitly.

A lot of modern economics (eg much of Friedman's work) orbits the money multiplication concept.

(1)Savers deposit money. (2)Banks lend the money. (3) borrowers buy a house with it. (4/1)The money gets redoposited by by the seller (5/2) banks lend the money....

Each time they lend the money, the total amount of money in existence (in people's bank account) multiplies. This process controls the supply of money, and its inflation implications. It's how (most) money gets created. It relates to banking stability. Business cycles. Stimulus. A lot of the complicated implications of money stem from here.

Graebers story is more elegant, with a single mechanism. It's all debt. The banking money multiplier predates money, and is the real way money came to be.

I immediately thought of bitcoin. My current thinking is that bitcoin will be real money when people start borrowing it, not when they start buying stuff with it. Or else, maybe bitcoin is not really significant since it's just a way of denominating money.

Anarchists will be interested for the anthropology, the history of debt rebellions and such. Not a lot of anarchists out there, so I assume modern writing from anarchist perspectives is generally interesting to them.
Reading other comments here, it seems that nearly all HN users read the comments and not the article. If no one is reading the actual article, then that means HN users are reacting to an article title and to each other (also reacting to an article title)?
> information can never be property

Property is an artificial construct, it's up to society how we define what property is and how laws protect it. In this case, Google and Waymo are literally building fake cities to create this IP. That money needs to come from somewhere or that research won't happen, and a temporary monopoly on the IP it generates seems like a fair trade-off for society.
The article is somewhat misleading because the Russians claim that the technology was provided by a state actor and that it was only made to look primitive in order to provide deniability.

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On Tuesday, the Russian Defence Ministry appeared to accuse the US of being involved in the latest attack, claiming that an American Poseidon intelligence aircraft patrolling over the base during the attack was a “strange coincidence”.

It also said in an earlier post that the perpetrators needed technology from “countries with high-technological capabilities” and the drones’ explosive devices had “foreign detonating fuses”.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/russia-m...
Changing tides: ecological and historical perspectives on fish cognition [pdf]
> C

Anyone already running a profile-guided fuzzer on this then?
Impala: Scalable Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning
I disagree with you and the title. Bill Gates was a hero since the beginning for bringing the world high quality and actually usable software, the likes of which had not been seen before.

Linus Torvalds has always been an asshole both personally and professionally and he is actually a colossal impediment to having good software on Linux.

Stallman has also always been a major asshole who has a huge ego, who preaches to people like he's better than them and who introduced the worlds shittiest software license which the great majority of people pretty much avoid like the plague if they are aware of it.
Genomic risk prediction of coronary artery disease in nearly 500,000 adults
It's all over the UK. Anyone with a car or van can do it. Amazon doesn't "deliver it's own orders", it's given to a contractor.
US Tech also makes a lot more money than UK tech. Starting with the big ones, ending with the amount of investment funding the area has.
> When you press people (like in person, not on the internet) why they think he's the devil incarnate, you usually get some really wild ad hominem not rooted in reality or a realization that they don't really know why they hate him so much other than he's a benefactor of their political opposition and they were told to.

Sure, but we could probably say the same of the Koch brothers. They both occupy similar positions of power and influence on opposite sides of the fence, and suffer similar attacks.
Helm chart with dependencies to deploy it on Kubernetes https://github.com/banzaicloud/banzai-charts/tree/master/sta...
The reason people refer to these things as privileges is because they are unavailable to the majority of the population.

It's a very privileged perspective to live in a world where these things are considered normal.

Privilege has to do with the idea that these things are so far from being a reality for so many people that it's evident to them that the world does not consider this to be their right.
Well i am quite experienced with Java and in my experience if they have this kind of ridiculous discrepancy in memory use, it implies they had a bad design or made bad choices.
A rewrite in Java with sane choices would also end up with much better results. So I don't buy the "language is responsible" argument.
It's not a /good/ client, either. It's adequate, but has a long way to go to clean up it's UX and normal reading flow.
Sorry, why does living there make it irrelevant? You still just "lost" 100k.
I skim quickly through articles at work, and those I think may be interesting I email them to myself so I can read them in the evening.

I never read any of those in the evening. But for some reason I keep doing the above. :)
What would be a good way of promoting social / socialist policies in today's current environment? Also, while the idea of an earning cap does not seem to grab you, what about enforcing a cap on a given individual's ecological footprint?
I think they detailed in the article that the problem isn't their game servers which are AWS cloud based and can scale up, it is their login/setup/matchmaking (my term) server infrastructure that is the first thing users first encounter that is having issues.

Usually there is a cost/scale threshold with managed providers where it is cheaper do DIY than to pay thousands upon thousands per month for say log ingestion.
I said the argument was stupid. Not the person making it. Smart people can sometimes make stupid argument. Even I make stupid arguments sometimes. I can only pray that the people around will tell me straight that my argument is stupid.

Are you telling me that people in HN cannot tell me when my argument is stupid? Is there some flag that I can toggle to let people know that it is ok to tell me when I make a stupid argument?

I mean, I don't know what else is preventing HN from being a safe place for stupid people to gather, pat each other on their back and feel safe, secure and validated...

Oh well, may be it is already is..
https://github.com/shakna-israel/stacky
I kind of wish the OS Vendors were not asleep at the wheel, and had features to address these issues as a 'built-in' value proposition for their products.

I mean, it seems to me the sort of thing that a computer ought to know how to deal with, inherently .. and sure, some vendors do make an effort to make these kinds of human differences accessible.

But its just .. well maybe there is a broader malaise with OS vendors, asleep at the wheel, not caring too much about this on the OS level any more. We've moved on and its all web now, I guess.

I say this, as my first thought while reading this article was "surely this is just a hash-table away from being applicable everywhere ..." ..
It is interesting that Alphabet will accept stock because that means they believe they can carry it to market (or at least, won’t lower its value until it does) which might still take more than a year.

This could mean Waymo will probably not be able to announce anything significant until then: Uber would suffer from having such a big rival step up. Internal politics at Alphabet must be fun.
Steam engine unfortunately can't make itself. So.
London Bridge terror attackers 'took steroids' before incident
The key to Amazon's organization is that they are built deeply on the startup mentality, where a small group of talented people that go after an opportunity, give them access to great tools/platforms/data via standard building blocks like AWS/FBA/Amazon's site and data and actually everything at amazon is built of microservices(they can mix and match), allow them to experiment but measure performance, push for speed, and don't put any bureaucracy on them.

And once it's time for scaling, Amazon is great at that. And of course, if it's possible, create new building blocks for the next startups.

But also, a big part of Amazon is risk management. Building platforms(like FBA), that leaves the risky stuff(like importing) to others. And using the data from that platform to reduce risks for it's own startups.
In other words Gaussian distributions will reliably revert to the mean, whereas feedback will always push to the right. Those praised, already on the right, will move against the desired direction, left, towards the mean. Those scolded, already at the left will move in the desired direction right, also towards the mean.
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> Facebook's innovation was trapping users in a walled garden with omnipresent surveillance and advertising

That isn't an innovation. They're AOL 2.0.
Wait, what? You are using python, to use Qt, to open a WebView to run HTML/JS app... Why can't you just use Qt directly? I've done some test on an embedded device powered by i.MX6 and HTML5 animation in WebEngineView gives 8fps, while the same animation purely in QtQuick gives stable 60fps... That's a K.O. I guess...
How does VLC on linux compare these days to mpv?
This sounds like natural career progression (and also perhaps why some get bored doing the same thing for so long). You want to move up the lever of impact. For many this means applying their experience to a growing field (e.g. lots of interest in AI/etc recently) or helping other developers be more productive and not have to solve the same problems they did (e.g. growing k8s, cloud, ci tooling, new languages, etc.)
We're happy that you are happy :)
Once evidence is revealed, there isn’t much new for lawyers to discover: good, experience negotiators know what angle the other side is going to take and after opening arguments, even that is pretty settled.
Python actually predates PHP by quite a bit.

A (non-scientific) look at Wikipedia puts Python's first public release in 1991, and PHP in 1995. But Python's roots actually go back to the late 80s, while PHP was started and released in 1995. PHP was really originally created as a collection of helper functions, not a full programming language.
Out of curiosity, have you considered monetization strategies like an open pay-per-video store? VLC is awesome, and I kind of wish it got the monetary compensation it deserves hah. I've heard that indie movie distribution is a dreadful space.
AFAIK we didn't do an actual benchmark but when doing software decoding/encoding there should be small improvements here and there.
The statement from Uber's new CEO on this settlement is concise:

https://www.uber.com/newsroom/uber-waymo-settlement/
Wouldn’t you be paying sales/service tax on Google ads, and by not paying for its own ads Google circumvented those taxes giving itself a competitive advantage?
Really surprised this ended so quickly. Did Waymo and Uber reach a settlement that early because:

- the former felt this was the "best" it could get in such a situation as their case was not as strong as they initially thought

- the latter was not keen on having its image dragged into the mud any further and may also be aware that more incriminating material could surface if Google or others dug further?

IANAL, but I find the resolution of this case quite puzzling... Also what does it mean for Uber's self-driving car development efforts?
And let us not forget those who ended up working in wildly different fields from their degree or degrees. Such "cross-pollination" between different fields can be very productive.
Our whole block had delivery confirmations and no packages. Next day, the package showed up. Amazon Logistics is terrible. Last week I had an LCD monitor thrown over our 6' fence behind our house.
I was just trying to point this out! Though in a more pedagogic setting: I have a very smart coworker who's been out of school for ~1.5 years. He works quickly and tends to create bugs he has to fix later. I got him to contrast his style against our coworker in his 50s who is slower to merge, but the rarely has to fix a bug!
64bits gives you more registers (very good for codecs), but has longer pointers, so does not help too much for your cache misses.
I'm sure there are a ton of reasons Amazon chose not to build HQ2 in Memphis, TN but I think this was the primary.
Just so people understand where I'm coming from with what I'm about to say, my family has worked and existed in the construction business for a long time. Houses to rent out were considered the safest income producing retirement asset to invest money. Then rent control was introduced.

Fast forward 20yrs later and rent had stayed the same but taxes and municipal fees had increased to the point where they dwarfed the legally allowable income. Add to this new mandates which stipulated how electricity and water could be billed to tenants requiring installation of new equipment in the buildings every few years. Then throw in rising insurance rates coupled with rising maintenance expenses.

So, we took at look at the figures and decided the best course of action was to either bulldoze a set of perfectly livable buildings, let the lots sit for the required minimum time, then rebuild a non-rent controlled property --OR-- sell to someone who could afford to do the same. There was no legal way to earn a profit otherwise. Turning into slum lords was not something we wanted to do. Welcome to being a landlord with rent controlled property.
You can book either Uber or even Lyft from Google Maps (assuming they are available in your location). Once the ride starts, you can follow progress from either Google Maps or the Uber app. You can still book and track the whole thing from the Uber app, of course.

I prefer GM because it has all my bookmarks, it doesn't download the same map tiles again, etc. Until recently, it was quite annoying, because you were trapped in "Uber mode" during a ride. As of a few months ago, you can go back to the base map, start new searches, look up transit directions, etc. and later return to your ride's status.
It rains every day where I grew up. YMMV.