skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Really what we need is for people to stop being crazy ideological zealots, regardless of inclination.

I notice two things worth commenting on here; firstly it seems as though you've assumed a position of being unideological, that is to say, you don't have an ideology, but those crazy people to my left and right do. Almost everyone believes certain ideologies, and most people aren't aware of which ones they believe in. Zizek says somewhere that the most successful ideologies are those which do not appear ideological, which are accepted because they do not appear ideological. Liberal democracy, the conception of rights, the separation of church and state, the precedence of the individual who owns property is built on ideology. In fact, I would say this: your ideology is believing that you live in a post-ideological world.

The second point I'd like to make is that denying "crazy ideological zealots" also denies qualitative change. It means you're excluding their ideas because they are extreme and "ideological". Because they seem irrational. But what is rational and irrational changes in time and place. This is roughly the golden middle fallacy at best, and a strong endorsement of the status quo (whatever it is) at worst.
99.9999% of those harassers die with no feedback. Some of the victims are really stupid.
Why does he have all these footnotes that aren't actually in the article?
Knowing the product niche, pricing, market size, competitive advantage... all in the business plan ahead of time.

The whole point of the lean startup approach is to posit that the "business school approach" is wrong, exactly because you don't know all this stuff ahead of time, and that "business plans" are an outdated idea.

And if what you're doing is a truly novel product, then you almost certainly don't. If you're using the "fast follower" strategy to be the nth company doing a product in a certain space, then sure.

OTOH, even Steve Blank says that there are certain areas where you don't need to do Customer Discovery / Customer Development... like, if you're creating a cure for cancer, it's pretty much all engineering. If you build it (and it works) they will come. But I think that kind of scenario is the exception, not the rule.
For most DAWs the primary control surface is usually a physical MIDI device that has real physical rotary encoders, which you would map to the virtual rotaries on the pretty interface. So it's more intuitive to have both be a rotary.
I think your submission would have fared better if you had used a less incendiary title, like maybe "Seattle Startup Diversity Survey" and linked to the report at https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57b77304b3db2bfb203fb...

But maybe I'm fooling myself and it would've been flagged anyway.
Because I want to use services that are actively being developed and improved, where the development team has a clear vision and direction for the product and are willing to commit to it publicly.
A recap like this is more interesting for this article than most because each comments thread is a snapshot in time of the then-current discussion about what is and is not taboo. Absolutely fascinating to skim from a contemporary perspective.
It seems there are a few explanations, with the truth probably being some combination of these.

* The harassers genuinely believe they aren't doing something wrong / think their victims want it
* The harassers can't control their urges in the moment / over long times
* The harassers don't care that they are doing something wrong / think they have the right to do wrong.

I'm not sure which is worse. And again, it is probably a mix of the above where cognitive dissonance nudges the harassers into after the fact justifications.
> minuscule amount of power x huge amount of users x lots of time played rotating small...

... Equals huge amount of entertainment hours. What you don't seem to be grasping is that the power consumption only increases the minimum amount necessary to meet demand for entertainment hours, i.e. the more power consumed the more entertainment hours produced. With PoW, power consumption continually increases but the amount of transactions processed remains the same. PoW is clearly and inarguably inefficient by comparison.
>it's easier to get someone to try a Warcraft 3 'map' than install a whole new game

It's also safer. Running executables (with full access to your user account) from random people on the internet is the quickest way to get pwned. Games with built-in mod support often sandbox any code within the mod so that it doesn't have unrestricted access to your machine. (Any game with automatic mod downloading upon server join better be doing this at least.) So it's both easier and safer to try out games (er, mods/maps) on random people's suggestions. (Same goes for browser-based games, since browsers sandbox all code in web pages.)
I know a certain framework creator that will be all over this - and has been vocal on twitter about it.

I went looking, this seems like a pretty good air quality monitor: https://www.amazon.com/AirVisual-Quality-Monitor-Accuracy-Pa... (~$400)

There are cheaper ones too; but do your research, as accuracy (and ideas about what constitutes accurate) can vary from manuf. to manuf.

https://medium.com/@dhh/air-quality-matters-but-dont-trust-f...

also apparently, a box fan + filter ain't so bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH5APw_SLUU
They said that they kept logs for only two weeks, because the logs themselves contained private information. Those logs contained no evidence of abuse.
Yes, but even if it is consensual, you need to understand that you live in a world where if you are a powerful man and a female subordinate says your name and sex in the same sentence you're career is over.

I don't know why I expect more intelligence from VC's. They made millions/billions and they have a simple choice: try to have sex with a subordinate which most of the time will not be the best sex in the world and it will be possibly ruin my life vs escort/model. They made millions of $ and can't make a simple decision.
Most of these systems are inherently insecure. Tbh, I cannot think of a simple way to make this really secure that doesn't require a somewhat more sophisticated system, especially if you don't want the machine to stop working if network connectivity drops, or servers of the vendor are down. If you come up with a really robust system, you're probably gonna charge quite a bit more than the company offering this system, and I'm pretty sure most customers just don't care or take this seriously.

The other point is that often times these machines that support an app get set up in companies for their employees, where you can be reasonably sure that everyone will play by the rules. We have a coffee machine at work that uses RFID tokens to handle credit with no security or encryption, and it works, even though we're all IT folks. A university with a CS department and its respective students is a different story though. :-)
I wonder how experience is corrected for. Someone who comes in here as a PM usually has previous job experience and an MBA. So someone who has been a PM for a year != SDE for one year.
What is the typical overall experience of a product manager in their first year vs the overall experience of a software engineer in their first year?

No one is getting a product manager title at 21 right out of college. Lots of people are getting SWE titles at 21 right out of college.
It's reactive rather than proactive, so yes, I view it as posturing. YC already controls access to the founders, they can leverage that to make sure that founders are kept safe. This concept is not unprecedented: I can't even chaperone a field trip at my own kids school without taking a sexual misconduct training class and signing a statement that I've never been convicted of a sex crime. YC can and should require the same sort of thing from their investors.
Factually incorrect.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/25/17160944/facebook-call-hi...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/03/facebook-...
Clearly it wasn't just saying "build the wall," from your own link:

> All of you: fuck off. Take your morally superior, elitist, virtue signaling bullshit and shove it.

> I call it like I see it, and I helped meme a President into office, cucks.

> I could give a shit less about your respect for me or anyone else's. Build the wall is exactly what the fuck it means: build the wall.

At almost any office job in America this is not an acceptable way to talk to your colleagues. At what programming job am I allowed to call people cucks for disagreeing with my politics?
He's about to be your WORST NIGHTMARE, too.
Show HN: Made a drone video in Switzerland (ps: watch with sound)
>> There's a single counter-example that I think demolishes this entire line of thinking, and it is the rise of "Asian privilege".

> No, it doesn't.

>> If Western power structures are inherently racist

> They are.

I'm sorry, but the null hypothesis is more likely unless you can provide compelling evidence to the contrary. Repeating the same thing over and over again doesn't make it true.

And the standard is this: show how specific "power structures" discriminate against people based on race in ways that are not attributable to other factors. For example, if the effect is largely explainable by poverty, then your hypothesis has not been proven (even though it may point to another issue).
I skimmed some of his blog posts:

> "On the private beta launch, I posted a link to Hacker News and it fortunately got covered on the top page and it resulted in over 1,000 beta entries. Beta users gave me lots of suggestions and bug reports and they helped me evolve the app to be ready for the official release."

https://blog.inkdrop.info/how-i-built-a-markdown-editor-earn...
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There is actually no evidence for that. Programmers in general seem to be faster with whatever they are used to. I personally have trouble parsing code in fixed width fonts versus proportional ones* because I’m used to the latter and the kerning of fixed width formatting annoys me. Keywords pop out easily with syntax highlighting in any case, making syntax pretty obvious.

* to be fair, I’d have trouble with a bad proportional font like Times New Roman, but I’m sure many would have trouble with Courier New on the other side, the specific font matters.
An electric bus doesn't produce particulates and NOx right where people live and work. So it has the least effect on local air pollution.

CNG is at least way better than diesel.

If you have to use fossil fuels a combined cycle natural gas plant generating electricity and electric buses is your best option.

That said I tend to discount arguments that compare things to coal since coal just needs to go away.
I imagine search history data is used to facilitate and optimize repeat searches, e.g. repeatedly looking up your secret crush or exes.
This article is written with an implicit assumption that expressing opinions is useful. I'm skeptical about this. Sharing sources and stories of our personal experiences (our inputs) seems more useful than sharing unsourced summary outputs.

But that's more difficult, so all I'm giving you is yet another opinion.
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it doesn't mean it, but there is evidence to it being true.

According to sallaries on glass door, in sanfrancisco with 10-14 years exp:
Product Manager: 145k$
Web Developer: 110k$
Software Engineer: 135k$
That thumbwheel...someone was on crack.
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> Take the open office. This is the norm. IME this has always been manageable with headphones. YMMV.

As someone who has developed tinnitus from this, I disagree.
I have been speculating for some time that we are looking at a commercial real-estate correction or crash as many of the leases are now being held off the market by big firms (Blackrock) while larger retail is actually reducing its foot print. I don't know what the disconnect here is, but my nefarious interpretation is that the larger funds are actually holding off a crash by not leasing, thereby hiding what would be a downwardly market adjusted portfolio value. The counter to this is that office space could fill it up, but again, large firms are contracting their downtown footprints for a wide variety of reasons, including cutting costs. Only a few tech companies are expanding.

Looking at the mega projects like Hudson Yards which has lost and reduced several leases before even opening, SF's failed 7X7 mall which opened with ZERO leases and older established locations like 666 5th Ave struggling to find new buyers -- it appears pretty grim.

Putting all that together, you have an interesting crash that could actually affect the current White House in a very personal way.
I'm not going to make any presumptions about his hypothetical behavior, that is not relevant.

I'm simply emphasizing the lack of followup here. We were perfectly capable of investigating Christine Ford's claim fully and thoroughly, and the Republicans in power opted not to.

It doesn't make a great case for the "historical power of allegations."
The Guardian does not serve ads to subscribers. I'm sure there are other examples.
The Kochs didn't make Elon tweet himself into an SEC sanction

"Musk and the Tesla board have decided to keep Tesla public." Decided as in there was no plan in the first place
I'm not worried, I know it.
It doesn't de-anonymize someone, but it's a much bigger hurdle than an email address, which is free and someone can get on a whim. More friction could curb troll accounts.
This seems like another description of the overton window.

The Overton window, also known as the window of discourse, is the range of ideas tolerated in public discourse. The term is derived from its originator, Joseph P. Overton, a former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, who, in his description of his window, claimed that an idea's political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within the window, rather than on politicians' individual preferences.

The overton window is constantly shifting, and in regards to American politics it seems like it's shifting faster than ever. In the 90s Don't Ask Don't Tell was seen as a law that championed the rights of homosexuals in the military, today such a law would be viewed as archaic. The timeline from when the first state legalized gay marriage to the supreme court decision is also very short in compared to other movements (abolishment of slavery, womens rights, etc.)
I actually really want to buy a Model 3 but these stories that Tesla has a bridge note due in March that they may not be able to cover have me concerned. If I buy a car I want to make sure the company is around to service it.

I don't see this article covering that particular article. In fact the word "debt" appears nowhere in it.

Edit: I'm actually asking someone to prove the debt issue wrong if they can. It is literally the only thing keeping me from buying.
Doesn't "UX" stand for "User Experience"?
Such a thing would be seen by many as incredibly dangerous information.
Middle management -- this hits home hard.

Switched to People Manager / Product Manager / Many Other Hats role around the birth of my child.

I find it quite rewarding, but yes, endless hours and high stress. It's also an adjustment from programmer life when you had very short feedback loops, but now as a manager no one ever tells you "Hey, you're doing a good/bad job here!" and instead, you have to just read every situation better and generally don't see results of initiatives or work you've done until months (or years) later

When people grow and you find opportunities for them, it's incredibly rewarding and amazing. That's one thing I could never have as a programmer on my own.

Turning "off" is hard but I manage my hours so that I get home early enough to make dinner and spend the evening with my son before he's in bed by 8pm. I usually work (or think about work) after that unless I have a planned event.

I'm just spewing now -- I think most of us product managers need therapy sessions to just talk to people. There's just so much .. :)
> The details are stunning. Nearly 20% of responders reported sexual coercion or quid-pro-quo.

Doesn't surprise me. A couple years ago my co-founder and I were at a startup event, and an investor came up to another founder next to us and made a comment like, "Oh, you're way too hot to be a startup founder, what are you doing here?"

It's a tricky problem to really make sense of though just because investors are so diverse. You've got things like:

- People who got an MBA and for whom investing is their actual career.

- Founders who exited their own startup and now it's their hobby or second career.

- People who made a couple million dollars as doctors or lawyers and are now taking it up as a hobby in their 50s.

- People who made tens or hundreds of millions of dollars from crypto or whatever in their early 20s and have now lost all touch with reality.

- People who quietly manage family offices who occasionally add a startup to their portfolio.

Not that it necessarily matters from the founder's perspective. But it's just a very different problem than addressing sexual harassment in tech companies, because you have a mix of people doing it as a career and people doing it for completely different reasons.
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Relatively speaking, most of the time the internet has been around, spam and ads have been around. Spam on nntp predates the web, iirc. Bots in the messenger apps were unforgivingly ruthless, and email has had spam at least since the early 90's.

Also, even shows that did have ads, it wasn't nearly as much. If you look at say Buck Rogers, iirc it's about 48 minutes per episode with credits, and back then they didn't share space for credits with ads. Today a lot of shows are as little as 34-38 minutes to an hour of programming. That's 30-40% of your viewing time being advertising. Not to mention product placement and other ad channels in the content.

Not to mention the crap that's happened to youtube that's made it hard to follow/watch channels with content you want to follow in favor of engagement algorithms. It starts to suck pretty badly all around. The last update to my Nvidia Shield TV brought ads into youtube there too, where there weren't any until a few weeks ago.

My GF uses Hulu's "live tv" services, which aren't bad, but still have all the ads, are painful. I'd still rather use torrents, even if I am paying for content.
I saw my spouse go through this a few years back. She was a product manager with 13 years of industry experience in a deep but narrow domain (international e-commerce) when she got laid off. The job hunt was kind of arduous, because we live in the midwest and don't want to relocate, and there just aren't that many jobs in her specialty in our area. Eventually she found one, but it took months.

There were plenty of generic product manager jobs in other industries, but they were all wondering why she's worth so much if she doesn't have experience in their industry. Shifting industries, even with the same generic skill set, would have resulted in a 10-20% salary cut.
Should I bother to read this article?

> utopians who believe that computer technology is an unstoppable force for good and that anyone who resists or even looks critically at the expanding hegemony of the digital is a benighted fool

This is such an absurdly straw-many straw man. Is the rest of the article just a takedown of this nonsense position? Or is there a good faith discussion of techno-optimism?
Since salaries change with time, I think it's important to mention this article is from 2016. Although it's still probably true, we should add the date to the title.
Theirs is 50 percent profit business. Only matter is, it will take time to zeroing their debt.
I’m not sure that that disproves the parent. The PMs I know started as PMs several years into their careers, while most of the SWEs I know started out of school. So a year 1 PM might have 1 year of PM experience, but several more years of relevant career experience and salary history that the year 1 SWE doesn’t have.
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I've done this eight years ago, delivered a prototype in Ruby on Rails with MongoDB for two educators from the mid-west. Six timezones between us and though I kept developing for them, most of the time as the sole developer, I never met them in real life. Expect the company to run out of money every now and then, be prepared and you'll be just fine. That's startup-life :)

Would I do this again? YES. I enjoyed having the freedom to make technical decisions from the database to the amount of tests I wrote (the app still has some 80% of its code covered, the rest is just the admin area I never cared writing tests for). We also got the product out early to customers. Make sure the decisions and implementations you do are there for the next five years. Don't attempt something stupidly new but stick to solid tech with a good ecosystem that you can rely on without having to keep track of it all the time.
Mind you, I mentally wrote off the little equity I had (the hourly rate was great) since it just didn't grow exponentially, I rather see the company around another eight years without me.

What I'd do differently is to set myself a target, say three years. If by then the company didn't grow as we wanted it, I'd go and try with another startup.
I gave it some thought and introspection, and concluded there's no real "me" to have a finite existence to begin with. I'd rather not keel over tomorrow, given the choice, but I'd say I fall somewhere in the middle between "afraid" and "indifferent".
Also `jstack` from the shell
> Likewise, one of the biggest pests in business is the carbon copy—the fellow who always says: “Yes, Mr. Wrigley, you’re absolutely right.”

Perhaps meaning: “Have it your own way, you old buzzard, what do I care!”

Business is built by men who care—care enough to disagree, fight it out to a finish, get facts. When two men always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

- William Wrigley Jr., 1931

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/04/04/agree/
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There isn't much practical difference. MySQL's memory cost is lower, largely due to using a thread per connection rather than a process, so you can have a larger number of connections before running out of memory. But this really doesn't matter since by the time you run out of memory with PG or MySQL you'll probably have run into a situation where performance has tanked due to the amount of context switching going on. In both cases you likely want something like `num_cpu_cores * 2..3` connections to the database for optimal performance.
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Tesla's biggest problem right now is Elon and all the negative publicity he generates. I think the stress and lack of sleep and crazy long hours are finally getting to him, resulting in outrageous behavior that has become a severe liability for Tesla.

Just a year ago I would never have thought I would say this, but perhaps he needs to step aside and hand the reins over to a talented COO-type like with Gwynne Shotwell over at SpaceX.

edit: of course I'm getting downvoted for saying bad things about Elon on HN. Oh well, I've got karma to kill, so bring it on. :)
Not only that, but guile just got a 2-4x speedup in the 2.9 branch (what will become guile 3).

It is a really nice scheme implementation and very capable. The stuff the guix people have done is amazing!

Concurrent ML is my favourite way of writing multi threaded parallel programs. It is a bliss! One can say that reagents in multidirectional ocaml is another step downwards in that it in most regards generalises CNL, but in its base form it is not as simple to work with.

Guile fibers is amazing to work with, and has good repl integration. The performance I am able to get out of it is nothing short of amazing.