skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the sake of conversation, let's loosely define a manager as someone who is responsible for enabling teams to succeed and assessing performance of their directs. Could you pay that manager equal or less than their direct individual contributors? How would the market respond?
Not in every case, but if a manager previously did the work their direct reports now do, and this is a needed role, higher pay is how you incentivize someone to make that move.
I'm wagering he has some kind of connection or relationship with the software or developers. There's just no way someone would espouse the views KSK holds without some kind of external factor / ulterior motive.
I think this article is a little misguided. Sure, commodity products such as Duracell or cheap clothing companies might be in trouble, but such companies were weak brands in the first place. Their main appeal was low cost, good enough, and Amazon is just doing the whole low cost, good enough thing better than anyone. But high end brands like Apple, Nike, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, are not going anywhere, that's for sure!
Except that many managers are hired externally.
Baumé in Palo Alto has two Michelin stars – and only two staff
Here's a simple rule for you to know. As you rise in your career and the ladder, you get paid (more) for results, not actions or efforts.

Managers and leaders get paid more for that singular reason. Shepherding a team to achieve a desired result is harder than it seems.

Of course there are bad managers...
Please don't. It's off topic, against the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and generally stops being true after awhile. Instead, just give a corrective upvote and move on.
As per your description, engineers would be individual contributors.
Thank you. Came to comments to find this out.

Evaporative cooling is a very powerful technique, but does not work quite well at small scales.
Absolutely. I get irritated, anxious, and easily-stressed when I'm sleep deprived - a full night's sleep makes me feel so much better.
How did you train yourself to solve cases? I cant help but let the hacker mindset speak for all of us and ask how did you "disrupt" this case, how did you learn, self teach? yourself what's necessary to solve a case? What were the legal channel you took to get someone exonerated? What hunch inspired you to investigate in the first place? And why that case? Surely there are many cases where the evidence just isnt compelling? What steps did you and your father take to go about getting this man out? How did you convince the DA?
Currently GitLab lavks global/group level setting to connect a k8s cluster, so we have to set it up one by one for each project hosted on it.
lol you're out here arguing that the people who are (without FULLY disclosing it) bundling malware that downloads and compiles DATs/unsigned binaries from anon domains are in the right, but you have a problem with Apple's revenue model for the App Store?
In the traditional market, I send a photo of the brick to PayPal or my Visa issuer, and they refund me.

You've explained how transferring all this risk to the customer is great for the merchant, but how is it great for the customer?
Needs information about your company on the homepage.

I realize you are small but i am unable to do even basic due diligence on your company/software on the site. Immediate nope.
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You literally posted this elsewhere:

> I'm not going to tell someone how they should make their living

Be consistent. Don't tell apple how to make their living.
Opus is awesome for audiobooks at 24kbps (probably one could go lower than this even) and music at 96kbps. I don't hear any difference in quality. It makes a big difference for my mobile which is limited to 128Gb.
I was interviewed by the manager of that guy who wrote Swift. In my limited interaction with him, he seemed like an incredibly competent manager. He managed a high-functioning team for around a decade, and somehow also wrote the original Clang static analyzer. Here's what Chris Lattner had to say about him: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/01/13/lattner-kremene...
Presumably a separate RSS feed. There are podcasts that have separate Ogg RSS feeds.
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> So, literally everyone deserves to be out of business?

No.

"If X, you deserve Y" is a figure of speech which means Y is a reasonable consequence of X. Just Desert.[0]

However, "if you can't do _basic security_, you should be out of business", I mean that one in the literal sense of it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_(philosophy)
I've been amazed by how much sunlight affected my sleep quality - a year or two ago I purchased a curtain rod and a pair of black-out curtains to put in front of my bedroom window.

I can't emphasize how much better I sleep with it. When I forget to close them some nights, the next day I feel significantly less rested and my sleep quality after sunrise is a lot worse (I often wake up several times as well).

Check it out especially if your room gets lots of sunlight in the morning.
It's not for games. We are dealing with big data, we need to highly interactive UIs on the web that we can use to communicate and interact with this information. Something like this is where I see the future of web:
http://globe.cid.harvard.edu

That is not real time, but very difficult to pull off on web (harder than using C++ on desktop! Debugging webGL in JS is a nightmare). I don't see any issues with an ARM processor. The Harvard globe project if done in C++ could definitely run on a 2004 era computer. Most phones these days are much more powerful.
Scientists are building a DNA database to fight illegal logging
The following is simplified.

Managers are people who enjoy being around groups of people more than they enjoy being around “things”.

ICs tend to reserve more time thinking and working alone and enjoy talks with individuals more than navigating group-dynamics.

Enjoyment in groups leads to experience in group dynamics. Experience in group dynamics and having many relationships gets you more chances to climb up the salary ladder.
Novels and stories by Victor Pelevin. Only a few of his works are available in English but these are also the best ones:

Buddha's Little Finger – https://www.amazon.com/Buddhas-Little-Finger-Victor-Pelevin/...

The Yellow Arrow – https://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Arrow-New-Directions-Paperbook...

Hermit and Sixfinger (free) – http://pelevin.nov.ru/pov/en-hermit/1.html
> IQ 1000 is 60σ

But that is assuming that intelligence is a normal distribution, i.e. arises from a contributions of many independent random variables. Which is a decent approximation for underlying natural processes (human genetic pool and environmental contributions).
But it is just an approximation. For starters, there is a lower bound to intelligence (inert matter) so we're not really dealing with a normal dist, the truth would be closer to a skewed, semi-bounded distribution, we just don't see that because we're just measuring humans instead of also including animals on the left and hypothetical superintelligences on the right.

Secondly, modelling it as random independent variables breaks down if you start to deliberately engineer all those contributing factors. Natural processes are exceedingly unlikely to hatch ants from fly eggs due to random genetic mutation. But a process like evolution or engineering can bring such things into existence.

So asking for an IQ of 1000 is simply saying that you want to be more intelligent than random, natural reproductive processes could give you anytime soon.
While its obvious that I have done no such thing, I find it rather interesting that people calling other people "scum" are not reminded of "civility".
Everything is highly situational. I couldn't tell you whether it's better to have your most valuable ICs managed by the best managers, or whether the most valuable ICs need only limited management and you should have your best managers focusing on improving more junior engineers.

(This assumes that the "managers" are strictly people managers. Often, managers might do some or all of managing teams, products, releases, people, or technical leadership. It certainly wouldn't be unheard of to have a manager's team include an engineer far senior to the manager.)
Based on this premise 56 million abortions a year is also ritual sacrifice, on a greater scale than any form of human sacrifice in the past.
>lol you're out here arguing that the people who are (without FULLY disclosing it) bundling malware that downloads and compiles DATs/unsigned binaries from anon domains are in the right,

No, that is a false statement.
I’ve managed people who were paid an order of magnitude more than I was making. I currently make more than most managers whose compensation I know at my current employer. (I technically make a LOT more than my manager, but special circumstances there.)

So it’s not unheard of. It is fairly uncommon however, the average manager is probably making somewhat more than the average engineer they manage at the large tech companies.
Thousands of Bourbon Barrels Come Crashing Down in Kentucky
Thousands of Bourbon Barrels Come Crashing Down in Kentucky https://nyti.ms/2IiyW9e
The capacity and urge for maintenance is a discrete mental capacity which I sometimes experience, but not often enough. If there was a drug to induce it, I would want to take it.

While it's true that sometimes I put my efforts into one thing and not another, I definitely think maintaining things generally is intertwined with mental health - in fact, the somewhat archaic term "mental hygiene" I've often thought suggests this. I generally experience an irrational need to procrastinate that is the opposite of a desire to do maintenance, and I don't see any positive side to it.
I submit that if we are any different today, it is only in degree or manner, not in kind. 56 million abortion a year worldwide is still a ritual killing of human beings. Only difference is stage of development, and not building edifices
or masks out of the remains. On the other hand, we still engage in a manner of adornment by reusing the fetal remains in our medical research, and other profitable consumer goods.
Sure it does.

http://mdpub.com/swampcooler/index.html

https://www.etsy.com/listing/115395443/swamp-cooler-vintage-...

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss/144-3354102-8246507?...
I guess I must have fallen into a time machine since I just purchased Photoshop last month.
Thousands of Bourbon Barrels Come Crashing Down in Kentucky
Got to see a bunch of these when I visited Yazd last summer (which in general is just an amazing city, seems straight out of the Arabian Nights). The fun you realize when you’re there is that they’re just one part of a massive infrastructure of ancient technology that also includes the qanat system and the amazingly beautiful wind towers. One theory for the origin of windmills is that they were invented in Sassanid era Persia as well. Really impressive stuff.
Good non-romantic relationships also often come down to kindness & generosity.
Huh? I am not defending them. You are either willfully or otherwise twisting my words.
What about bug bounty programs?
Considering the downward pressure Amazon has had on prices, I would say the "Bezos Tax" is negative.
AKA, moving their data to a different server.
I'll take you up on that wager. $10,000? I'm dead serious..
JQuery is a low level DOM library, so "JQuery project" in reality is an SPA thats built without any kind of architectural framework. You can just start with jQuery and build a maintainable, robust SPA on top of it - if you had the time and resources. Infact, frameworks like angular started out with having "a light jquery core" which they then built on top of.
I am sorry, your comment didn't make any sense to me.
> With Windows, every six months you have to reinstall your machine because of malware and of course the hour(s) of lost productivity per day compared to linux. Good luck with that.

This stopped being true from like Windows 7. Please stop spreading FUD.
https://archive.org/stream/Mondo.2000.Issue.02.1990#page/n53...
Awesome article. Reminded me of Albus Dumbaldore dialogue to Harry. "Curiosity must be handled with care".
Can a DNA Database Save the Trees? These Scientists Hope So
>The original code is just as unsafe.

That assumes zero translation errors as well as the original C code not relying on a particular compiler's specific implementation of unspecified behavior.
raises hand

Question for IP experts: now that I have heard of the existence of WaveNet and a rough idea of how it works (training a neural network to decode low-bitrate speech data with as much fidelity as possible to the original), would I be prohibited from selling a similar product built with the same technique? How about if I had never heard of WaveNet and went about doing the same thing?
Guys, we can't trust you because you've still failed to clean up Slashdot like you promised. Still have APK to deal with, you still don't even have basic unicode support, and your mobile version of the site is garbage. And you promised to fix that.

Feel free to spam HN once again when you can announce you've fixed all of your problems. Until then, not many of us really want to hear from you.
I haven't done startups. But I do work with a mostly remote company. I would imagine that it would be easier to establish a remote-only work culture earlier on then try to transition to it later (where you might need to jetison some established employees who aren't interested in remote work).
Its the same reason that I don't think I can force you to answer any question I want. Its a point of principle.
Agreed. Similarly, when I learned of the Indian technique of stepwall evaporative cooling, I was shocked that something so misleadingly simple could have been derived so long ago.

https://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/architect-uses...

But, of course people back then weren't any less intelligent, they simply didn't have as much knowledge, probably due to the inefficiency of transmitting knowledge from one generation to another without the use of digital technologies.

If anyone is at all interested in ancient (or even just modestly old) cooling techniques, 99 Percent Invisible had a particularly great episode in "Thermal Delight"

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/thermal-delight/
Student debt is killing entrepreneurship
Yeah, it uh turns out God was was suffering from bipolar disorder. The official diagnosis was originally mentioned in a chapter in revelations. But his PR consultants thought that he probably better pull those verses out before it got published. But the good news is that Jesus got him to seek some good medical advice, and he's been on some great meds and things have been a bit better since, despite occasional lapses, most recently in the early-to-mid-20th century.
His viewpoint is also rather reasonable considering the context of the interview, at the dawn of the information age. It's a little depressing however that it's not uncommon to still encounter that point of view today.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
"Legalize Siestas" sounds funny but I think it would change all our lives for the better. It's likely never to happen under our current economic system though.
I'm not saying that paradigm isn't useful, but it seems like you're saying 70s technology is still good enough. But shouldn't we have come up with some improvement in the last 40 years? Really, all we've done is regained the abilities of big computers from long ago in modern microcomputers.

I was just playing around with Selenium, and it was neat what you could do with it, but it was kind of depressing that it is basically a project to do for one application (or group of applications) what people used to have a vision for doing with all applications back in the 1990s (with AppleScript for instance).

We keep redoing things we've done before in slightly different ways, scaling down the grand visions and retrying parts of them.
Don't ever use the word "correct" for any theory we use. If you actually read and understand the basis for any theory or model in use, you will come to see that each is capable of giving "close enough" predictions, but none will give perfect predictions and that there are always anomalous data that these theories and models cannot explain.

Be pragmatic and keep in mind that wonderful phrase - "All theories are wrong, but some are useful."

The problem I see is that it is a common activity to present "settled" and "well established" as fact. Often without ever highlighting the anomalies that have been found and that we only have a "belief" that it is useful.

One of the best examples is the case for "dark matter". It has never been established in any way that such "dark matter" exists. It only arises because the observed motion within galaxies does not accord with "settled" and "well established" theory. So to keep this "settled" and "well established" theory, some additional "theoretical entity" has been added to allow the observations to fit the "settled" and "well established" theory.

Now, that addition of a new "theoretical entity" is, in itself, not a problem. What becomes the problem is when every experiment fails to show that "theoretical entity". At this point, one should be saying that mayhaps the "settled" and "well established" theory is not so settled and not so well established. Mayhaps there is a problem that we then need to be looking at.

My point here is that we do not, in fact, have any real or clear understanding of the universe about us. We have models and theories that work within a limited range but they are not global. The simplest of these is that "chestnut" between general relativity and quantum mechanics (the large and the small). The funny thing here is that we can make devices that are macroscopic which exhibit, under certain circumstances, the effects we see at microscopic levels. Why? What is happening here? What are we missing in this crossover realm? Why do we see things in the laboratory and see similar things at extra-solar distances, yet the explanations of these effects do not accord with the "settled" and "well established" theory we use at those massive sizes?
I lived in Germany for a few months so I got to have a few conversations. Most of their transport network was built by Turkish men that were imported. That's why Turkish street food is everywhere. They also were not able to bring their families as migrant workers but I think lots slowly migrated in the late 80s to early 00s.

They also have had issues with "assimilation" for every ethnic culture but lately MENA has caused a divide. It resulted in them limiting their intake. You can read a lot about it via the recent refugee crisis. There were stories of gangs of migrants roaming the streets, I only heard about a case of rape but there might be more. I don't think its right to throw everyone together in the clump referenced. However, from talking with folks there — their collective German culture and German ways of doing things is very important to them. If you don't act or think German you certainly are an outsider. I also never got the vibe it was ever a skin color thing, but it is a language and cultural assimilation thing.
Ignorance may be bliss, but can it be wisdom?
Even works in the embedded browser of the "Materialistic" HN reader app, on Android 5.1.
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These are great questions, but I feel awkward hijacking a thread that isn't really about my experience. The Dateline NBC episode does a great job telling the whole story, including how I got involved. My Washington Post article explains how we persuaded the DA's office.

I am an autodidact, so diving into new subjects is something I naturally enjoy doing. The obsessive focus and intellectual flexibility that helped me in other areas, like computer programming and missile-defense research, worked just as well for forensics and criminal-profiling.

One example that sticks out is how I was able to refute the opinion of the FBI's top criminal profiler by going through and reading the reference text that is the equivalent of the DSM, but for behavioral analysis. He was listed as a co-author, so it would have been easy to assume that he was applying the standards correctly, but I was able to show that his thesis did not match the evidence.

The hardest question to answer is "why this case?" It is as close to a miracle as I've ever experienced ... some force I can't explain caused me to stay up late one night and watch an old TV-special about the murder on my computer, even though I don't watch TV and had zero prior interest in the true-crime genre.

The words of the accused professing his innocence before God were so powerful that, even as an atheist at the time, I felt compelled to look into the case more.

Being used as an instrument to correct a horrible injustice made me reconsider my belief in a higher power.
Yes, I've often thought we can't all live in North America* but we could all live like Americans if the freedom loving peoples of the world were given a chance to import the better parts of our culture. E.g., what if the Mexicans who thought that becoming an American would be better than remaining Mexican all moved to northern Mexico, seceded and tried to live like they were the 51st state. They could adopting the U.S. Constitution, etc. and make friendly overtures. Even if the U.S. didn't annex them they could probably pull favorable trade status and military alliances while retaining local self-government.

*This is a little melodramatic but it gives one a good sense of the scale of the problem with trying to bring everyone to western countries: https://youtu.be/KCcFNL7EmwY
> Don't tell apple how to make their living.

I didn't.
:o Nice..
this elegantly summed up all my feelings on bitcoin; excellent read
I wonder whether they put the head there on its skeleton form, or when it still has it flesh, eyes, brains, etc. which make the images more scary. I imagine having a wall made of decapitated head and its bloody mess is very disturbing. Anyone had any reference on information on this?
This account has been using HN exclusively to promote a pro-Microsoft agenda for a long time. That's a serious abuse of this site and I've banned it.

All: Agenda-driven and single-purpose accounts aren't allowed on Hacker News because they're incompatible with the intellectual curiosity this site exists for. Double that when the agenda or single purpose is advancing corporate interests. It doesn't matter what corp it is, btw; the last time we banned an account for doing this it was a different one.
>annoying about pop archaeology

"HOW COULD THEY POSSIBLY HAVE MOVED THIS!?!?!"

Many paragraphs or commercials later:

"Ok they just put it on top of some logs and rolled it..."
Why should web front-end be any different than the rest of software development? There's much more diversity on the backend than there is on the front-end, and nobody complains about fragmentation.

Whatever works.
They also had climatized buildings, the „badgir“s.
Without the "intelligible" part, this makes me think of what the game Celeste does to give its characters voices without voice acting.

They make voice-like synth sounds, different for each character, that are about the length of the text they're saying. It adds prosody and intonation to the text-based dialogue of the game.

https://youtu.be/TZpQH8kSWNU?t=2m50s
Until it's an option for buyers, I'm going to be quite reluctant to buy from Amazon.