skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does formal training or education give you that many years of diverse and relevant experience coupled with professional mentorship and self-learning doesn't?
I agree that the work of marketers differs from scale, but it doesn't justify bad decisions.

I don't agree that brand-building is fine just for major brands, where they fight for small % of a saturated, well defined, market share.

Like you said, it's all about scale, and actions of a bootstrapped startup should adjust to it - not to be spending thousands on Youtube campaigns (picking up this post example). If you want some immediate useful action you should focus on media and placements where you have a higher percentage of people that a near to take immediate useful actions - maybe a video platform to consume video content is not the best choice to start with.

Brand building can be as simple as the way you address your customers, how your company looks, how the buying/service experience is, etc - things that change the perception of something random and generic, yet foundational to any brand.

McDonald's was the place to get tasty food without having to wait sitting down for it.
The Rise and Rise of SuperGiant Rounds
Basically, yep.
I've got a '16 Honda Civic and a Google Pixel 2. Android Auto works... but it's buggy sometimes. Voice controlled elements frequently freeze everything, and sometimes it refuses to connect. It seems the source of the problem is probably Bluetooth, because turning that off for a moment generally improves things.

Basically, it's totally possible to get Android Auto wrong. I've rented probably 3 different cars with Android Auto and none of them have the problems my personal Civic has.

I guess what I'm getting at is, I'd happily take a reliable, open source implementation of Android Auto in my car over whatever comes in the stock head unit. Would I actually go around hacking firmware in my own car? Honestly it's a possibility.
>I try to convey to her that at some point time is money. Meaning that she needs to evaluate the opportunity cost of saving a dollar versus spending 2-3 hours to save that dollar.

If you don't have realistic prospects of finding a good full-time job and taking on part-time or casual work would result in a loss of welfare benefits, the value of your time is essentially nil. "Working" for 33 cents an hour to find good deals may be the best option available.

Your friend isn't necessarily acting rationally, but she isn't necessarily acting irrationally either. If you've never been poor, it's difficult to understand just how many practical obstacles poor people face on a daily basis.
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” - James Baldwin
Smartphones are bad for some teens, not all
Tantive IV at 1:1 Scale in Minecraft
I'm kinda prone to make rants, so, sorry if that one came off a bit harsh or offensive. WRT the bartenders, I live in Istanbul, most bartenders I've seen either drink when they're about to close, when everybody's gone except a couple customers that are also friends, or don't drink at all.

With that off-topic thing off the way, well, I do think things like toys and noise at work may distract many people present at the workspace. I for one am easily distracted (for the context, I'm a student getting ready for my masters thesis and academical career, but I've been a programmer for a while), and toys thrown at me or someone else would certainly distract me. Imagine being in the flow reading some paper or implementing a complex algorithm, and something flies through the edge of your sight. For many, including me, that'd be distracting. Jokes and stuff are fine as long as they're between actual friends and not in the actual workplace, or silent enough that only those who want to hear it do. What makes you productive can easily get someone over the other side of the room completely lost in what he was doing, or too frustrated to just continue doing it like a couple moments ago.

Sharing a space is about trade-offs. I guess this case of the article is sth. different than the occasional joke, though. A person appearing from under my desk? I would not only report it immediately but also wouldn't ever sit at that desk again (and I'm a male). The professionalism is there for not having to deal with problems like in this article. And if you still want toys and games, for me that's fine as long as it's in a separate room where there are only those who want to play. In such a setting I'd also partecipate occasionally too, but then completely voluntarily and not losing any focus or work.

WRT privileges, well, first of all I wasn't aiming at you, but yet still having your job (or what I plan to have) is honestly a huge privilege. People in the developed world with wages everybody envy have jobs so boring they quit them to run cafes and stuff. We have the chance to do actual interesting work that we'd probably do anyways if somebody paid us money to maintain ourselves and asked nothing in return. Can't say that of a rich rich merchant or a CEO type, as well as of a sweeper or a call center employee.
I'm confused why you think a lack of empathy on my part is the problem. Of course I can empathize with people doing horrible things with good intentions. It's all the more reason to be clear and definitive when drawing clear moral lines for everyone. So confusing feelings don't lead people to do horrible things.

We don't serve people well by simply putting ourselves in their shoes. That's certainly part of a mature response, but it's far from a complete answer.
Just FYI, the creator of Overcast is a notorious anti-advertising and pro-privacy curmudgeon, and he even wrote Skeptic's FAQ for people put off by the account thing: https://overcast.fm/skeptics_faq

It's very much worth it.
Well, I guess it depends on the actual wording that was used, and I'm by no expert on the subject (by any stretch of the imagination). However, some visa's require sponsorship, and as far as I know it is perfectly legal to not hire someone if they are in the process of getting (or are planning to get) a visa that requires a sponsor -- in other words, they are expecting your company to sponsor them.

There are financial and legal reasons why a company might not hire you if you were in this situation. There is more hassle for the company, and additional expense. They may or may not think any particular candidate is worth the additional hassle and expense. So it is a perfectly legitimate question to ask ( again, assuming it is asked in an appropritate manner ).
I wonder if there is "brand awareness" element that resulted from this ad campaign.

It's not immediately obvious - but it may be a prolonged subtle benefit resulted from it.
Either you come from somewhere with extraordinarily talented elementary school students, or you are confusing the OED with a different similarly named work, perhaps the something from here https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/?

The OED that's being referred to here is a 20+ volume set that costs about a thousand dollars: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-english-d.... University libraries will probably have a copy or two, and I suppose some high school (9th-12th grade) libraries might have a single rarely consulted set, but I'm doubtful any elementary schools in the US have one.

The best evidence I can give for its exclusiveness might be the link on the front page of the official OED site http://www.oed.com to the information about the print edition: http://public.oed.com/about/the-oed-in-print-and-on-cd-rom/. It goes to a page not found. Rather than being a standard companion book, apparently so few copies of this are sold that no one has bothered to fix the broken link!
There's a subtle difference between "buying in bulk" and "keeping a reasonable stock".

I grew up in a quite poor family and my parents are terrible with money. One thing that frustrated me to no end is that they would almost never buy something ahead of time. An item would literally have to run out before they'd consider buying its replacement, which meant I'd regularly get in the shower in the morning to find there is no soap, no toothpaste, no toilet paper.

You'd end up going to a local convenience store and paying 2x the price for the item because you need it now. Your grocery budget becomes hugely inflated, and you still end up buying the same necessities. Also when you work on a system of buying one item only to replace the previous, you really miss out on bargains because you have to pay the full price it is at the time you need it, instead of a week or two earlier when the same product was BOGOF.

At the same time, they throw away tonnes of food which has gone off because they can't plan meals and shopping consists of "we might eat that." Food which has a long expiry date (canned foods, etc) always runs out.
depends when you buy... I sold my last phone for the same amount that I bought it for, a year later (bought it on sale and it was not a Pixel or iPhone)
How does non-poor people commenting prevent poor people from commenting?

The author of the original article is probably not currently poor, and yet she is writing about it. Do you see this as a problem too?
This appears to be an thorough overview of machine learning. Even though many bases are covered, I wish there was more on how to create or select features for machine learning in a systematic way. Feature extraction gets 1 paragraph, but feature engineering and selection aren't mentioned much in the 200+ pages!

I don't have a Phd in machine learning, but I have spent many years using it as a tool to solve problems. While the details here can get you a long way, without understand feature engineering or feature selection, you will have a hard time building accurate models.

For any engineers looking for more on feature engineering after reading this, I maintain an open source library for automated feature engineering called Featuretools (https://github.com/featuretools/featuretools). We also have demos on our website (https://www.featuretools.com/demos) if you want to see it in action.
Apparently KaiOS is a fork of Firefox OS/B2G. So... where's the code, yo? I've scoured Github, but no sign of it.

edit: nevermind:

"KaiOS is based on the Firefox OS open-source project and we are committed to abide by the rules of the applicable open source licenses. Therefore, we’ll make the source code available to the extent required by the applicable open source licenses."

So that's a no on giving back to the B2G which born thee. Nice. Another closed-source OS is just what the mobile space needs.
>I would be happy to pay about $250 a year to always have a current flagship

I find this rent-like model very strange. It was the same problem with carrier contracts. Now that contracts, at least in their original form, are gone, not much has changed. Due to a variety of reasons, people still end up paying the same or more than before.
While there may be HN readers who have little income and possessions and are therefore living in "poverty", true poverty is a lack of those things and a lack of hope that your situation will improve.

If you are really feeling hopeless you don't turn to HN for news on the latest programming frameworks.
He is still out there plugging away. Looks like updated ports of old games to the Nintendo Switch.
That's one of my favorites:
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
Makes the site unusable for me at work where twitter is blocked.
Ask HN: Career Change – Skilled Trades?
I am considering a career change and would love to ask a few questions of anyone who works in the skilled trades. I am 32 and currently work as a k12 educator. I went into education due to the mission, but I'm burning out on the time/emotional investment in relation to the compensation.

I have family in the trades (electric & plumbing) - but I would love to hear from anyone who works in advanced manufacturing, automation, or other specializations.

- What specialty do you work within?

- What was your career path?

- Is there is specialty that you believe has a particularly positive outlook for growth and/or career longevity?
"KaiOS gives smartphone powers to light and affordable devices"
This leaves me conflicted.

I've noted here (quite) a number of times that I have a disability that impacts my ability to absorb chunks of written material. I've had an occupational therapist tell me that I shouldn't work in CS or IT (I have a CS degree in spite of that), and several doctors have told me I should stay away from the field, while others have told me that just go with whatever works and don't tell employers I have this disability.

I prefer to be honest, but at the same time I also like to eat most days.

I have an interview for a job in a few days, and no clue what I should do. If they don't ask, do I bring it up? What do I tell them? Most employers in the city are highly discriminatory against people with a disability, even if it means they're not hiring the most qualified one.

(I'm not actually seeking advice here, just musing online.)
I think cash cliff effects are harder on the poor.

If your friend comes up a dollar short, she'll miss paying for something. She'll have to choose among food, gas, electricity, rent, meds - all the things & basic services with nonnegotiable prices.

The stress of missing a payment for something critical is enormous. Your friend may be spending 2-3 hours saving a dollar in part to avoid that hard cash cliff and its stress.

Years of that sort of stress will likely degrade one's cognition in ways described in the posted article.
Between my last post and this one, I literally bought a Pixel 2.

I'm salty and aware that this will last me 2 years.
Anyone with a Google Adwords Certificate is a marketer these days.

> No doubt you've encountered misguided individuals, but please don't generalize from specifics.

When the community gives visibility to bad examples, specifics gain other dimension. So instead of blaming me for generalization, maybe understand the context.

I'm a marketer as well.
Yeah plus following a few links to his other posts, the guy rants about arrogant jerks while constantly using arrogant jerkish language. It seems like a lot of his criticism might be projection.
I wonder if this could be a culture thing?
Sorry, but I couldn't take a single actionable thing from that long rant... Lots of really mushy sentiment instead..
It seems like we keep discovering new positive feedback loops for global warming. Less ice means less reflection. Warmer arctic means more methane from permafrost. Desertification means less carbon capture. There was a recent article in Scientific American about likely changes in cloud formation from AGW. Some clouds reflect sun (cooling), while others trap heat (warming). Guess which are likely to increase?

I doubt humans will go extinct, but yeah... we're screwed.
IIRC Android is the most common operating system on Earth, while Linux desktops are still around 5% market share. Seems like desktop Linux needs to do as Android does to take off, not the other way around?
Author seems to lose the distinction between project managers and engineering managers. The tricky thing is that some engineering managers do perform project management functions, but that will make for one overworked manager. In mainstream FAANG-type companies what you will see is:

Project management - manage scheduling, deadlines, track progress, day-to-day or low-level interteam collaboration, resolve blocking issues. They'll usually use a bug tracking system and ensure that it's state reflects reality. They may also need to build out or modify various processes such as new releases or deployments, work with QA on a validation process, or when should code be considered good-to-merge into the repo. (Has there been code review done, CI testing, validation, etc).

Engineering management - HR functions (promotion, performance management), assignment of tasks or larger projects, working with project management on realistic schedule, working with product / business on requirements, interfacing with other teams on high-level matters, strategic work related to the team, and most importantly work that no one ever wants to or has any time to do. (This includes technical work.)

IMO you can have a small org without these two functions if everyone is a has extensive experience/willingness to managing themselves, but if it grows past that things will break very quickly. Modern large organizations deal with unfathomable levels of non-technical complexity.
There should be a different type of foam layer. Modern laminate flooring usually involves a layer of hard foam underneath to help deaden sound. So it could also be contributing.
The Real Financial Crisis Is About to Hit – Peter Schiff
Simple solution to people dying of hunger, food shelters.

There are better alternatives to minimum wage that don't have the same problems with AI.

one example:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax

People think wanting to get rid of minimum wage is to be against helping poor people; it's actually the exact opposite. Being against minimum wage is to be against the problems it brings - not being against the poor.
Ask HN: What do you think of startup collecting data about scam/fraud/dispute?
As an entrepreneur and occasional seller, I knew many risks associated with online buying/selling. Although there are different measures to protect buyers if there were any wrongdoing or fraud, small and medium sellers are at disadvantage and often, they must write off the loss or pass it on to the next customers.

I believe the best way to balance out the table is collecting enough data so the risk can be evaluated in the future. My concern is whether people will appreciate the existence of such database and if there are other entrepreneurs out there currently doing the same thing or interested in such project?
What kind of people would you search for to retain to help sniff out red flags the board might miss in situations like this? I know that it’s in the board’s job description, but who can you hire as a sanity check for such a big decision?
Poor people can’t comment because they’re poor. It’s the survivorship bias problem. People who are currently poor probably can’t comment on HN (or have no idea what it is), so what you see, overwhelmingly, is people who were able to escape poverty. This can lead some people to believe that it’s easier than it is to get out of poverty. And since this is an article about true, abject poverty, “I pulled myself up by my bootstraps with my tech skills” doesn’t really help anyone learn anything.
Solution: Negative income tax and/or welfare.
I'd go so far as to say it should be the default!

With the new-ish priority mode and "do not disturb" modes, I change my ringer volume about as often as I change my "alarm" volume (which is almost never).

I only ever change my media volume, and thanks to apps like that one it can become the default.
These are called conversion pixels, Google Analytics should have nothing to do with it (assuming there is a Chinese wall between AdWords, Doubleclick, GDN and Google Analytics.) Obviously Google offers some built-in integration within its products but you can achieve this within the ad-buying platform itself.
And this is why American coasts are grossly over-developed-- the government undercuts private insurers who would charge a much higher market price.
Frankly, a couple of rounds of Angry Birds doesn't seem like a great way to decide important policy. How many of the studies cited in the article were at least replicated a few times?
I love tinkering with hardware. I just hate the debugging because now you have both physical on top of code debugging you have to deal with in order to find out where things go wrong.
> Maybe a specific Chinese dialect will be more regular than the bigger picture of the whole language.

Standard written Chinese is based on the grammar of spoken Mandarin. If someone mentions a Chinese dictionary without mentioning a particular dialect, they're almost certainly referring to Standard Written Chinese (essentially Mandarin).

Also, Chinese is less a single language than the Romance languages are a single language. The more far-flung dialects share less in common than, say Italian and Spanish. If Portugal were a province of Spain, Portuguese would probably be considered a dialect of Spanish. As my Linguistics professor used to say, "A language is a dialect with an army." One rarely deals with "the whole Chinese language", if by that you mean the union of all of the dialects. That would be like dealing simultaneously with Romanian, Portuguese, Romansh, French, Italian and Spanish as a single entity.
Too bad in the United States there is pretty much no chance for a NIT, so minimum wage is the closest we can get.
We should get rid of this whole "C-" idea anyways.
Comes from rigid social ideas about how to organize companies, that tends to push down the importance of product and technology roles in favour of giving more social power to roles that in practice actually contribute way less.
My purpose for mentioning that was to say that I'm not the only Tesla owner who takes long trips. It was directly relevant to my point.
How UPS delivers faster using $8 headphones and code
No, I meant stocking up. If there is a sale on toilet paper, poor folks can save some money this week but cannot buy a couple of extra packages because they don’t have those discretionary funds available. It’s not space, it’s budget.
Boostnote v0.10.0 Release
I agree with that assessment. Xi is certainly accelerating the process.
As a sub-junior developer, how does one go about architecturing software to scale?
For me, everything important is on a remote Git repo or on a service like Google Drive or Dropbox. If you regularly review and cut back how much data you need to store, I don't think you need anything more complex than this.
Probably pretty valuable which is why Stripe is doing it for their customers: https://stripe.com/docs/radar

I am not sure how viable this would be as a standalone product though.
See https://www.carbontracker.org/ and their 2014 report for some good information. The target audience is the financial sector, but its still readable if you are careful about the infographics.

https://www.carbontracker.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Unb...
Nah you can have debt, you just have to pay a penalty (higher rates) to bring your profitability up. It's just not a game I want to play.
As a followup, I am a Real Poor! I am self taught, underemployed (I make less than $200 per month in the USA), and have pretty much been the poorest person in the room for my whole life.

I eat exclusively off of foodstamps. I am uninsured and partially disabled. I have been able to pay rent for the past few months by working off the books for a couple places, and cashing in on a very limited amount of goodwill that I accumulated in my youth. I have no reason to believe that this will last into the future, or even rent for March.

Anyway, if you have any questions, ask away!

As an aside, I am not great at Angry Birds.

Edited for clarity and typos.
Disagree. I had a startup selling a piece of software that immediately solved a major problem for a small niche of users. Paid for conversions on common search terms and they were ROI positive since each click converted at 25% to signup, and then the product spread around the companies where one user adopted. Sold the company for >$10m.
1. A bad plan is better than no plan.

2. An institution establishment requires several generations hard word.

3. Society will be more fragmented.

4. The big bomb in the future.
I dont know the specific claims you are referring to, but the effects of price floors are well known and theoretically easy to understand.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_floor
Except with iPhones they don’t get to delay the release.
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The Evergreen Meltdown
I can't represent everybody, but I personally read HN so that I can eventually, one day, learn some stuff that leads to gainful employment.

Like I said, I know what website I am on.