skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree that many(most? all?) successful marketing people approach the task in this fashion, but I wonder if we really have to do it that way.

For example, take the "community manager" role that is popular in some companies. This is a full on marketing role. The goal is to create good feelings about the product and build a community that people want to join around it. However, I don't see anything wrong with that per se. In fact, in many niche markets (craft beer is a good example), the community manager tries to promote the entire industry (to be fair, in the craft beer industry, converting the average mega beer drinker to craft beer is good for business). Often, these people are working 100% in concert with the desires of the consumer.

Also having to do with beer (hmmm... coincidence?), if you've ever spent time in the UK you know about the Weatherspoon pub chain. It is a massive company, with pubs everywhere. It undercuts the prices of the local, independent pubs and provides a kind of homogenised experience. But, good grief it does a good job. Every pub has an amazing selection of real ale in good condition -- sometimes at half the price of competing pubs. They have real ale and cider "festivals" and promote small breweries. They lobby the government for lower taxes on beer and work with the rest of the industry to create desirable business conditions for pubs (against the rising tide of cafes, wine bars and clubs). They save listed buildings and turn them into interesting venues. It's all of these actions that makes you think, "I just can't be against these guys, even if I want to support small independent pubs". I often wonder where the pub industry in the UK would be without Weatherspoons.

So I think it's possible to take your job as a marketing person and use it as an opportunity to do something good (at least from some people's perspective) when it aligns with your interests. When you get it really right, I think you start working very hard to find those opportunities and ideally concentrate on them exclusively. I'm even going to go so far as to say that it's not necessarily marketers who make this a very rare occurrence. I suspect doing something like that would be a dream job for many people. I think the normal marketing job is really the reality imposed upon them by the business. The business, as a whole, is not interested in making the world a better place. They are interested in making as much money as possible.

As a closing thought, I've often considered how wonderful a job in marketing or sales could be. What better job than to find someone that needs your product and introduce them to it? How amazing would it be to see people who are suffering and to think, "Hey, if they used our product instead, their life would be a lot better"? Instead, sales people are told, "Hey, we know our product sucks, but it's your job to sell it anyway. Sell the sizzle, not the steak. As long as we cut out our competitors, it doesn't matter how bad our product is. The customer will have to buy from us." It's that dynamic that makes marketing and sales a job from hell.
Free software.
Systems Thinkers
Honest to fuck, systems thinking is NOT the be all and END all.. Stop, just stop and when you've stopped, stop some more..
http://wiki.c2.com/?DryWaterhole
Somehow it must be profitable, and is presumably intentional as they obviously fail at the most basic stuff and have done for years. They didn't always though.

Search for a product, find 156 results. Sort by rating or price and it's now often something absurd like 6 results. Where did the rest go? No manager or dev ever noticed this when it's now impossible to shop there and not notice this? This seems like a great whiteboard interview question in our strange alternate timeline "how would you sort a list without losing well over 90% of the list?"

Go back to the original search, tediously wade through the crap and realise none at all of these are the actual item you tried to find. Randomly click around a few of the shitty products shown. Find the actual product, often from the actual manufacturer with thousands of reviews, in the "customers who viewed this also viewed" or "customers eventually bought" lists. Question your sanity. Go back and check search. Nope, the actual item isn't there in the primary search at all. Just the shit.

Fortunately for me at least, there aren't enough other forces to keep me there and I now mostly shop elsewhere. Sometimes it would be annoyingly easy to just Amazon it, but they're not even cheapest or fastest any more.
Newspapers hire editors even though they aren't the best writers.
In the video they say the system is based on the principle of "once untrustworthy, always restricted." I can't see how that's a good idea. The less stake in society you give people, the more instability you're bound to have. Why put people in a position where they've got nothing to lose?
Mathematical notation is not anything magical and mostly there to allow for easy discussion.
Also equations are only a small part of notation and words and definitions are much more important, e.g. "isomorphism".

Since mathematics is abstract anything used necessarily has be precisely defined. Thus, the best way to learn mathematical notation is to get some beginner level rigorous mathematics book for mathematicians, e.g. Rudin's real analysis or Lang's Linear Algebra, and read through chapter 0 and 1.
Books like these tend to start entirely from scratch: What is a number? What does '+' mean? What is a sum symbol?

While each field tends to have some further notation, that is often explained within the paper or in standard references and you should be able to read mostly everything after reading up on basic notation sections in analysis, linear algebra and maybe category theory.
> only read divisive threads and thus see it as a monoculture.

Wouldn't a divisive thread be seen as the opposite of a monoculture?
Where you have disagreements, you have a range of perspectives.
This is the plot of Marshall Brain's Manna.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)
I don't think the size of the thing is really an issue - they can always make bigger turbines. Smaller and lighter for the same power is definitely a plus, but not the big advantage the article is talking about. The real advantage of this is not having to use a tonne of rare-earth magnet and instead using only kilograms of rare earth material in the superconducting version.
I'm grateful for the fact that I have an incredibly supportive group of friends and family.

In the off chance that I lost my job or something bad happened to me, I know that there's always a couch out there I can crash on. And if it all goes wrong, I can fly back to my hometown and know that there's a bed waiting for me at my parents' house.

And on the other hand, I'm sure that a lot of my friends are grateful for me offering the same. I've had a lot of mates crashing on my couch, I've made it clear that my door is always open and there's always something to eat and drink in my house if they need it. It's the least I can do to help, $5 of food isn't much to me, but can be a lot to others.

I have the privilege of being one of the few people in my group of friends who has a stable job that pays well. So I guess I'm fortunate for that, I'm fortunate that I don't have a substance abuse problem or debilitating mental health issues.
The design becomes particularly frustrating if you're not in the country you're trying to buy from. They don't make it particularly easy to filter "will ship to my country" and more than one occasion I find myself clicking check out only to be told nope.
Would be awesome to fit air liquifiers there as well to replenish the coolant. After all, it's a bunch of pumps and radiators.
It's never been clear to me why people want a mouse clitoris on a computer with a real trackpad.

I've seen plenty of windows laptops with awful trackpads where I get it, but aren't they just a huge step back compared to a macbook trackpad?
To quote Microft: "recreational scolding".
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So I looked. It sounds nice. You have nice partners. But I don't see source or anything like that.

Suppose I wanted to dabble or contribute, how would I go about that?
The crunch of an apple makes me want to run away
Please stop the touch bar
This lack of skepticism is unfortunate. There are some topics where people feel free to say whatever they feel strongly about without supporting evidence. It makes for tedious reading.

When you're a semi-anonymous commenter on the Internet, it's better to share your inputs than outputs.
HTS for windmill park power stabilization purposes is at least a decade old.
DX? This is new to me, and search finds nothing enlightening or seems like it might be relevant. "Deus ex machina" perhaps? :)
If I hear one more comment about the Spotify way I'm gunna
We need chapters and guilds - in short, we don't. Why the fuck is it that so many agile millennials talk about this crock of shit from 5 years ago? This seriously needs to fucking stop..

These fuckers who wander around spouting utter shit, never address the problems of those in front of them. #pish #agile #whogivesafuck

Oh, my favorite thing at the moment.. A coach speaking to another coach recently, the context got on to accountability and the weak fucker said - "I don't feel safe in this conversation". WTF has happened to human race. #funnythough #whatacunt
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>Why do the Koch Brothers take all the heat from progressives when there's still Sheldon Adelson and Robert Mercer and Peter Thiel?

I'm not sure they do. Mercer particularly is getting a lot of flack right now.

I just find it slightly odd that people put George Soros up as some scary liberal billionaire kingmaker while completely and utterly ignoring an actual liberal billionaire kingmaker.
They have both chastised me for "funny" (to me) or intemperate comments. Sometimes I agree, sometimes I don't. But I have never, never felt that they had anything but the interest of the HN community as a whole.

I have never, ever seen any online community moderated better or even remotely close to as well as HN.

I am deeply thankful for HN. It is a surprisingly important part of my life, almost solely because of them.
Very cool, thanks for the link and the terms I should search for online if I want to learn more!
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I don't think you really get why enterprises buy managed cloud services, or why consumers buy in general. Your purchasing criteria seems out of tune with what consumers care the most about: selection, price, service.
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>It is equally unnatural in all languages, therefore the best possible solution.

I don't see what logic connects statements before, and after "therefore", sorry.
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I've never developed the muscle memory to be effective with the trackpoint, but it does have the distinct advantage of being usable without taking your hands off the keyboard.
I could never understand the complaint that Git is "hard to use". Having used a plethora of version control systems over many years, I never found Git to significantly more or less complicated than any other system. Version management includes many use cases, some of which are inherently complex. Therefore any version control tool must be able to perform both simple and complex tasks, and the latter ones will obviously require a more complicated syntax and conceptual model.

In any case, we are supposed to be professionals. Complaining that Git is hard to use is a bit like a machinist complaining that a CNC machine is hard to use. If you want to accomplish non-trivial things in any field, you have to be prepared to deal with some level of complexity. /rant
Presumably 'developer experience', given how it's used in conjunction with 'user experience' for a developer-focused product :)

Admittedly not the most easily understood acronym, and I'm sort of guessing.
I was agreeing with your post until you went off on your windows rant of fud.
That's definitely a serious and important problem.
Pay walled.
Are you talking about Turing Tumble or a different marble game?
I keep hearing that Google seems to be lacking in the enterprise sales area, but from what I’ve heard, G Suite seems to be doing quite well. What explains that?
Maybe it's because I just skimmed the article, but what about the security implications of this? Doesn't dynamically loading third party ressources and serving them under your own domain open a whole can of worms?
> I assumed confidence to be the probability of each task. However, often they do not add up to 100. If they do not represent probabilities what do they represent?

The probability of each being true independently?

> How can Google possibly predict activity type between IN_TWO_WHEELER_VEHICLE vs IN_FOUR_WHEELER_VEHICLE ?!

Two wheel vehicles can often make it through traffic, in between cars.
SingleFile does not seem to embed images in the file. I tried this[1] and it seems to work fine. It seems to be closed source though..:(

[1]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-as-mht/hfmodl...
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What Did Tommy Read?
This was on HN once before - when it was, I signed up, because I struggle with prioritizing things that I need to do in my personal life over my professional life. (Hair cut, clean car, dentist, what have you.) I figured I didn't have anything to lose, really.

Manasvini, who emails me regularly from the service, has been nothing but wonderful. Every email I've gotten has been encouraging and positive, and it honestly helps keep me accountable.

I really can't thank Manasvini enough for that. Never once has there been any scolding, nagging, or negativity - just gracious reminders and a good attitude.

(Manasvini, if you're reading this - thanks for putting up with me, and always being helpful getting me back on track, even when I manage to completely derail myself.)
One thing I really like about Amazon is that they're not pushy about their mobile app. Anything I can do on my laptop, I can do on mobile web without them prompting me to download/use their app. Reddit is one of the worst offenders for this issue.
> I have actively stayed away from AWS in the past few years b/c it has such a bad UX/DX and yet....it grows.

A lot of people are probably using something like puppet/chef/ansible/terraform and don’t encounter the web console very often.
Presumably developer experience, the developers experience working with a particular project, tool or whatever.

Sometimes referred to as "dev x".
Grateful for the money I made within the last 10 years. I was aggressively trying to get to that point years ago and now here I am. Guess what, I haven't even spent a penny of that money, turns out I'm a minimalist. All I need is the drive to do things. I am simply grateful for that drive. Money made me realized that I don't need money.
My biggest complaint with Amazon is the site is slow even on my powerful desktop.
That's the key, bus. You can batch the task. In US you have 1 or 2 people per car.
I also don't know if it should be on the list since it hasn't shut down yet. There's a 10 month sunset period. By that same logic it should include Inbox, which it doesn't, because that's also in a sunset period.

EDIT: Also, only the consumer side is shutting down. G+ for G-Suite will still exist.
Is "customers who viewed this also viewed..." not good enough for you?
Yeah I agree. I have an XPS and it's cool but despite the MacBooks faults I still enjoy using it over the XPS.
It does embed images (and all other resources). Can you post a URL showing this issue please?
I thought PAs just helped you forget about menial, boring tasks like setting meetings, making initial calls, etc. so that you can continue working on the real problem. I didn't know they got to bust your balls if you slacked off.
People talk like crutches are a bad thing. They're legitimate medical devices! You wouldn't try to walk off a broken leg, and a wheelchair or some crutches will help you get around while the leg is healing, while keeping you active and fit enough that you do actually hopefully heal.

Some people break their get-it-done-femur instead. Why not embrace some crutches if they're effective?

> This is for the same type of person that believes in setting New Years resolutions.

More like the kind of person who knows damn well they're not going to keep those new years resolutions, is sick and tired of it, and wants to try something that might (or might not) be more effective.
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Excellent write-up! Two things jumped out for me:

1. "Upvotes don’t give you anything unless they are from the people who are really interested in what you are offering."

Such a great point! Your goal isn't to game the upvote system, it's to get your product in front of interested people. All tactics you choose along the way have to keep this goal in mind, first and foremost.

2. This tip was fantastic: "If journalists don’t reply to your email 3–5 days after you pitch, it doesn’t mean they’re not going to cover you. I recommend sending a follow-up email in the evening of your launch — not the same pitch — with the result. You could even do it the next day so that you don’t bombard the journalist with the same press release over and over."

It sounds simple, but it's often overlooked. Follow up with journalists and media outlets (even if they didn't respond to your initial outreach) soon after your launch to brief them on your launch results.

Again, excellent post. Thanks for sharing it.
Could you define what you mean by "fringe", "globalist" and "progressive" here?
And the reason for typewriter control is that typewriters are somewhat unique; all the typewriters used to be registered (i.e. the security services have their writing samples together with the owner/location of the device) so that if a particularly unwanted type of samizdat (e.g. actual political agitation) was detected then they could and would determine that this was typed on the typewriter in your mom's office and go in and determine who participated in making these copies.
This would make a good basis for a Black Mirror episode. Ask the question, "How far will they go to hold you to task if you don't complete your goals, or what happens if you lie?"

Name the episode "Safeword."
Yea except you are supposed to compile it and run each line and iteration in your head
I'd agree with this for amazon.com and consumers.

That still doesn't explain AWS v Azure or GCP which have similar (or better) services, more than competitive pricing and in Azure's case, waaaaay better support.

In fact, everything about AWS is typically worse. Perhaps AWS entered the 'no one ever got fired for buying AWS territory' even when there are a ton of better options out there. If that's the case, kinda sucks for devs who are stuck using their crappy services when so many others exist.
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I used it on an internal website and when I opened it, it didn't have the image in it. In place of images I only see blank place holders. But it did preserve the structure of the website.
Although, by that logic G+ shouldn't be on the list either. To be clear, I agree that project that are still sunsetting but not dead should probably not be there until they are fully down, just pointing out the inconsistency.
> nothing's changed

2FA, E2E communications, TLS everywhere, tightening security on our phones and computers, Congress rolling back some of the NSA’s dragnet powers, allied countries switching to open source and re-evaluating intelligence sharing agreements, and a sharp rise in VPN use is nothing?
> they may have a way to do some kind of International Phonetic Alphabet kind of text now

A recording is a better idea. Even meticulous IPA isn't going to be a good guide to the pronunciation of any language. Consonants are straightforward, but vowels are points in a continuous multidimensional space and all IPA characters for them are, by necessity, only rough approximations.

To get good pronunciation of IPA from a computer, you'd need the computer to already know (1) what language it's supposed to be pronouncing in, and (2) how it should interpret IPA vowels for that language.
Good points overall, I don’t disagree but I’ll try to give another POV.

I think the focus on stashing is that it’s basically an hidden state. If for instance you switch back to a branch after a while and you don’t remember you stashed, it will just be lost work. Overall I wish stashed were shown as candidate commits, I actually end up making temporary commits that I amend afterward, most of the time.

For the switching between branches during conflict resolution, it might be for people like me who check back and forth reference branches when merging code.

For instance a conflict can be between two feature branches I want to merge, and I’d need to check on master what is the current behavior. Or what’s the behavior on other branches that will need merging as well. Currently I’d just open github/gitlab on the other branches and compare from there, but I’d see the value in switching the local files.

All in all I feel git is too aggressive in making the user deal with all the details when it could have sane non destructive defaults
I think Donald Trump would have to be far more popular for him to be dangerous in this sense. I don't think calling him a tyrant is realistic, either - tyrants are typically popular across broad sectors of society, not extremely divisive.
But adobe runs terriblely on OS X?!? OS X has some awesome apps like sketch. But adobe really sucks on OS X.
> we (the techies) didn't adequately explain it to them

We’re also perfectly happy making money in the employment of those making the problem worse, e.g. Facebook. Silicon Valley has neither the political stamina nor moral high ground for solving this problem. In its absence, there isn’t a clear coalition leader.
there is a patch you can apply to some kexts to get around this and support 4k@60hz
Obligatory disclaimer: Facebook has massive overreach, human trafficking is evil, etc...

I love to hate on Facebook, but given the near ubiquity of Facebook, and the internet, is this Facebook's fault? Isn't this just a consequence of ubiquitous technology?

There were so many different human technologies and inventions used in this tragedy, why lay the blame on Facebook, if we rewrote the headline, which of the following technologies are also to blame:

A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off using the World Wide Web

A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off using the Internet

A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off using DNS & TCP/IP

A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off using mobile phones

A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off using written and spoken human languages

A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off using money and the abstract concept of trade