skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That tends not to equip someone with the knowledge or expertise to write a truly insightful book.

Or perhaps their fallibility in the field and readiness to acknowledge their shortcomings in it promotes lots of cooperation with and review by experts. You note narrowness, but what's more narrow than expecting a single expert in one or more fields to have a comprehensive view about anything, even their own subject much of the time? I can't think of a single person in computer science that I would trust to know everything about that topic, so why would I trust that person to cover it well over someone that has spent a career coordinating information from different people and attempting to distill it to an audience that may not be familiar with it?

And to be clear, I don't see computer science as special in this regard. I think most things interesting enough to cover are probably complex enough that multiple people are likely required to get a full picture of it.
Shouldn't the first name always be Jenny for 857-5309? Otherwise the next person is screwed when the cashier (potentially) asks for a name.
This was before we grew to 200+, but the best snapshot was:

- <80 person team (total); ~60% engineers

- 0 product managers: design and engineering are equally empowered to make the site nice within general business/product definitions defined by GM who would constantly get excited about the work you showed her, making you feel good about yourself and your work

- 0 project managers: business understands that there is no magic formula for delivering products that haven't been built yet and so long as we try our best to hit dates and cut scope as needed, it's on us to track our progress and determine priorities

- gm, cto, and head of hr all supportive of growing team and individual members in a non-political way

- politically-driven employees (typically a head of sales or marketing) shut down and churn out quickly

- engineers talk directly with customer service

- engineers perform rounds helping out in support forums

- domain specialists, but no fences. i might be a web engineer, but if there's a sql query i feel compelled to optimize, nobody is going to stop me.

- company regularly interacts with, and hosts local events for, an engaged user base. engineers actually end up having in person conversations with our users, gathering honest feedback for improvements while simultaneously being told how great the product they contribute to is overall

- relaxed hours ("you're an adult; we trust you to get your work done")

- when dining out or getting drinks, even paying by cash a large group is able to come up with the right amount of money, with no one person needing to chip in more than necessary

- anyone in the company can deploy the site with a single chat room command
Judge much?
Please, tell us about the indictment in the works.
Let us also not forget the Forbin Project.
The first few lines are a straight out lie! Alexa was not developed internally at Amazon - it was bought in, on the cheap - https://www.logicalclocks.com/what-is-it-with-european-data-... .
I work at Twitch, a Subsidary. We do the 6 pager process a lot (esp when working w/ amazon). We do it with shared collab doc editors though. It's an interesting twist.

Digitally has 2 big benefits:
- You can see when someone is commenting on a thing and skip down so not everyone dog piles on the same thing.
- In lower level meetings you are very unlikely to have a note taker, so in digital form everyones notes are in one spot. In the paper form of the meeting you either collect / decipher everyone's notes, or you have argue/defend/explain your doc while also taking notes.

Paper is better for:
- Keeping everyone focused. You don't pop that laptop until you're done marking up the doc, people often don't even bring laptops to paper doc meetings.
- keeping comment arguments from forming in the margin in the digital document.

Some parts of amazon are trying to do it digitally, esp those that are remote.
Thanks for the heads up. There's literally no ads or trackers and everything served from my domain.

I haven't tested in Firefox Focus though (haven't even heard of it), and I'm wondering if it might be because of overly tight security headers.
Anyone have a link to the lecture?
> remove patent protection from drugs discovered from tax payer funded research

That would make government funded research a poison pill nobody would rely on. If you come up with the idea for an app, then someone else spends a bunch of money hiring coders to actually build, test, and commercialize it, does that give you the right to force release of the app as open source?
Doesn't, eg, Walmart have higher generally revenue and margins than Amazon, especially if AWS is ignored? It is very early in the game to declare that Amazon's leadership are making significantly better decisions than their competitors.

I mean, they might be making better decisions, but they might just be making average decisions and riding the wave of technology due to having an online presence without brick-and-mortar stores to worry about.
I'm all for skepticism, and agree that it needs to be applied just as much to continuing to criminalize cannabis. I worry sometimes that legalization is seen as a completely solved argument with no grey areas, when that's not the case.
Fuck You, Pay Me [video]
A large pumpkin spice latte at the starbucks down the street from me is $5.15. So two of them are over $10 and there are a lot of people who buy those. Average price of other things on the menu is around $4.
Overwatch Gameplay Architecture and Netcode – A Great Explanation of ECS
I find it fascinating how the word meme came to be so specific and yet so vague. Now you have 'memes' as in image macros, 'memes' as in 'funny images,' sometimes 'memes' as in snowclones, 'memeing' as essentially a synonym of 'shitposting,' and occasionally, 'memes' in the traditional sense (pretty much a general term for things that spread virally.)

On 4chan, it started with image macros, reaction images/gifs, demotivational posters, etc. and at some point, all of those just became what 'meme' has come to mean, and if you say the word meme without context people just assume image macros, a la meme generators.

I suppose there's nothing wrong with this, since all of those things do indeed tend to be memetic, but it made so much more sense early on than it does now.
It's not like it's particularly bad luck. A marriage certificate is not a requirement of getting married.
Now I’m really curious which national laboratory, though I’m guessing if you were comfortable saying you would’ve done so.
This is a very naive view of information security. The most sophisticated approaches to modern security - either in technical app/net sec or in risk management - begin from the assumption that vulnerabilities exist and will be exploited.

Every security team should be proactively trying to eliminate security vulnerabilities. But they will happen nonetheless, and the mark of truly secure organizations is in the way they respond to such vulnerabilities.

At the CISO level this becomes even more important: a CISO is not only responsible for setting the organizational mandates for security. They are also responsible for being the public face which responds to notable security events.
I can't help but think that if your point is to communicate a point and/or change someone's mind, a more approachable, conversational strategy might yield more benefit.

In other words, just because something can be expressed some way doesn't mean it's useful to do so.
> I guess my point of disagreement is that since the low interest subsidy is basically turning any mildly dense area into a rent treadmill, then why isn't the goal to directly address that as the problem?

Because nobody wants to touch it with a ten foot pole.

There are basically two ways to get interest rates back up. The first is that you just do it, and nothing else. We've discovered that doing this at anything faster than glacially slow when people are as leveraged as they currently are causes the world to burn. If interest rates doubled over a short period of time, the thousands of dollars people are already paying in interest would also double, and eat all of their disposable income and then some, requiring them to borrow even more at the now-higher rates in order to make rent. Bankruptcies would follow. The higher interest rates would make it harder to get a huge mortgage at current housing prices, so housing prices would crash. People have borrowed money to invest in stocks because the return on stocks has been higher than the interest on money, and raising interest rates tends to be deflationary in general, so you raise interest rates fast and the stock market crashes. At the same time as the housing market. Nobody really wants this version. It's terrible.

The alternative is that you raise interest rates against a backdrop of a series of pro-inflationary policies, that allow wages and the price of everything other than housing/healthcare/education to catch up and rebalance. And you need for people to pay down their debts so that interest rates can rise without bankrupting everyone, which means they need money to pay them with. But money comes from two places. One is debt -- banks create money when they make loans. But we can't use this one because the whole point is we need less of that.

The other is the government creates it. They need to create enough money for people to pay off their debts with, which destroys it again. That would be trillions of dollars. And then enough on top of that for wages to catch up to housing prices. (A UBI would actually be a great way to deliver the money to people.)

The banks would hate this with the fire of a thousand suns, because it would mean that the total amount of outstanding loans would fall significantly. In other words, their industry would shrink, by a lot.

So those are your options. Lots and lots of bankruptcies and a huge economic crash, or printing trillions of dollars for people to pay their debts with. Either way the banks are stuffed -- and they're the ones with the largest influence on this kind of policy, so they're firmly in the "kick the can down the road" camp of leaving interest rates low.
> Why didn't they design it to go in in any orientation?

'They' ( Ajay Bhatt and his team at Intel ) considered that to be a good idea, but decided against it for cost reasons at a time they were trying to get USB adopted. A reversible plug would have doubled the wiring complexity in the connector and that was considered financially unviable. USB at the time had to be as cheap as possible to make it 'universal".

Incidentally in the UK we have a non-IT equivalent to the problem, the Standard Lamp Paradox. Since there is a switch on domestic electrical outlets, and another switch on a lamp, it often takes three tries in the dark to turn on a lamp since the initial switch state is unknown.
Railing against trends is less a commentary against the premise of the site, and more a commentary against the emergent whims of groupthink.

Points systems amplify the perception of groupthink, and getting karma stomped into a ban happens a lot.

Getting banned for a greyed out comment is kind of lame, and I think a certain sort of darwinism, of letting vitriolic people express their contempt has utility.

In other words, more people should develop a thick skin, and fewer people should be silenced. In theory, that sounds good, but obviously it can also go wrong, to let people bloviate too much.

I think the solution is to permit the full stream but classify and sort the responses, but in most cases, NLP just isn’t good enough to automate grouped selections of comments, so we get stuck with a one dimensional mechanical turk voting rank. Yay versus boo!

I don’t enjoy the idea of AI submerging buried comments deepet, but trusting people to vote according to quality of discussion is a dubious gambit, and you really only get an edge detection doppler return revealing the joints of political fault lines, which gets old when holy wars guide many an opinion.
For me, it seems like the reason I was content to stay fat was that I didn't have any real motivation to lose weight other than people being assholes to me. What eventually changed that was finding an athletic hobby where the easiest way to improve was to lose weight.

I engage in my hobby 3 days a week for 2-3 hours, and knowing that my present self will have to answer to my future self for why they're so heavy on those days, as well as weighing myself every day and counting calories, helps keeps me honest.

As others have said, this is a lifestyle change. You will never be able to stop doing whatever it is you end up doing to lose weight without getting fat again. Anyone telling you different is a liar. There is no such thing as "permanent" weight loss, the weight is always waiting, always watching, waiting to pounce on you if you let your guard down.

I can't even honestly tell you that it is worth it in the end. People like to sell you this idea that being not-fat will somehow make your life vastly better and you'll be happy, but that just isn't how it works. It actually kinda sucks because you end up associating the enjoyment of food with hating yourself later. All you'll be is in better shape, anything else is a different problem.
Something Awful did all of that before 4chan did (well, sans the suicide livestream). 4chan was to SA what Reddit and Imgur are to 4chan.
Looks like he's no longer around.
When I was an intern at Big Bank, I was literally put into the printer room. Hardly anyone used the printer/copy machine so I was left alone in there for the most part, other than my boss peeking in once in a while to make sure I was still breathing. The door closed and there were no windows.

It was the most productive I've ever been. The code I wrote was mostly garbage, but I got my reps in that summer and learned how to program.
If the government spends millions to do the fundamental research required to find a molecule with potential, then society should benefit from its investment. It’s a different beast from a mobile app.
Revenge porn laws seem like a valid counterpoint to the Streisand Effect. Even without that, you’re going to share his nudes just because he doesn’t want you to? Gross.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon

LMGTFY
It's not as much a correction than it is a response to a general trend of HN commenters making incorrect assertions while remaining unassailably confident in their opinions and their moral superiority on several issues. In general, confident wrong people grind my gears a lot, especially when it comes to issues that it's common to get preachy about, like "big business", "billionaires", etc.
OS? xiaomi can create their own os? I suspect that.

When we say the word “system”,
it means a lot of foundation of system design and practices.

China companies lag in system design, this situation is very clear now; Still the root cause of this lag is related to the outdated government system.
> Skimming is taught in school from a young age. It's an appropriate skill. It doesn't take much brain power to read something in a detailed way or in a quick way. The notion that we are so susceptible to our brains being influenced by things like this is ridiculous.

I learned to read in kindergarten. Between private kindergarten, public grade school, and state university, I have _never_ been taught to skim things quickly; rather I was taught what was called _reading comprehension_ where we were told to read a small story of 1-2 paragraphs, occasionally being given a short amount of time to read it only once, and were then asked questions about it; later this turned into class discussions, where we occasionally debated wording that would likely have been missed entirely if one was skimming. I have _never_ had a teacher tell me that I should skim a text, and I was in fact instructed not to do so as it would cause me to miss things. As a rather fast reader in school, I was occasionally suspected of not reading an assignment thoroughly and told to read the whole thing.

Having said all that, there is a great deal to be said on how things you _don't_ think about affect you. You don't have to be actively paying attention to something to remember it, otherwise billboards wouldn't exist; neither would the ads on the back inner/outer cover of a magazine or the back cover of a newspaper. Nor would product placement be a thing.
Interesting, I am looking at Zephyr for BLE devices, so you say TNEO is a good option?
What blockchain games can learn from their centralized gaming cousins?
Which part of that discredits what I said about the quality of content at Vice news? Her 18 years working as a “fill in“ news anchor/talking head? In between a short stint as PR pusher a bitcoin advocacy company in Toronto before earning the title as ‘editor’ of the Finance section of Vice?

Even if she’s somehow an exception to the rule at Vice as the editor, aka top tier in her category, she’d be a rarity. But looking at her previous output (only a few as she’s a recent hire) there are quite a few that fit into the clickbait vs signal ratio pandering to an ideological niche.

That’s fine if that’s your thing but I put higher standards on the HN front page.
The Jewish woman of nuclear physics who was denied a Nobel Prize
We..for the wider worldwide we. Used in Asia and middle east. I think some modern passive house designs use directed wind flows to manage the thermal mass but that's a bit different.
A top-notch VP of Engineering who knew when and how to reduce scope (because he was an active contributor to the code base) and was also one of the best coders in the room.

1) Pair programming, with the VP stopping by every couple of days asking "where are you guys stuck" and would actively try to solve our problem.

2) Story prioritization - each PM would write product stories for the backlog in an effort to get them in the next sprint. The same VP (above) would review each of those stories in front of the PMs and developers. If it were really lazily written, the PM was shamed, it was thrown out, and could be resubmitted for the next week. Developers got to ask questions, add tidbits regarding prior work that may need to be studied to complete the story.

3) If a bug made it out in the release, it was no-one's fault. Everyone worked as quickly as possible to either create a patch or roll back the feature completely.

P.S. That VP of Engineering is Andres Camacho. He's in San Francisco. And he's amazing. Work with him if you have a chance. He's well known for hiring Jr developers, training them via pairing with them intensively, getting them up to speed quickly and having them contribute meaningful code within a few days. He's now the CTO of Better Therapeutics.
We emphatically don't agree. I believe the user and spotify have the right to do whatever they like with their property. Spotify having the right to discontinue doing business doesn't indicate that the user didn't have the right to control their own property in the first place.
>> I _suspect_ that using NoScript to alter the page is actually illegal under current intent ...

Yet some would say the pages get altered by the scripts that stuff in the awful ads

In any case, you don't need an add-in to disable scripting. Hell, use curl to fetch the damned page. That's about as "pure" a way of fetching one as you can get.

The day they rule that curl is illegally blocking ads is the day I become a monk.
Yeah, there are headphones like that. I have unfortunately owned a pair.
Came in here to give a shoutout to SA and the goon squad. Also Offtopic housed a lot of creativity in the early days.

After all, that’s how I co-created the 2g1c website.
One Shared House 2030
cargo cult in action
I’ve been in Japan for 6 years now, and I have yet to be favourably impressed by any presentation I’ve seen.

Often the presentations involve dumping literally all their graphs and text on the slide, and then literally reading from the slide.
Exactly, and then the stored MAC is exposed in its un/or-poorly-authenticated API
Care to elaborate? I was as much a member of the community as anyone else, I believe I'm allowed an opinion on it.
> It will be the government's business whether you're out of shape or overweight or indulge in too much sugar etc, because the government is paying the medical bills.

This seems more like a pro than a con, considering currently through lobbyists the government is more likely to encourage to you indulge in too much sugar, etc.
I remember having battle royal games in gmod in 2008. I think a lot of people intuitively felt the potential of a good battle royal game, but it just took a long time for technology, culture and developers to get it right. It’s really inspiring to me that battle royal has been around so long, and that even h1z1 failed, which probably caused most people to finally dismiss BR as a contender for such popularity. I think this is an illustration of how potential and arbitrage is all around us, even in places that have seemingly been exhausted.
Just wanted to tack-on a final thought, related to another HN post from yesterday titled

*The Map Is Not the Territory*

>The map of reality is not reality. Even the best maps are imperfect. That’s because they are reductions of what they represent. If a map were to represent the territory with perfect fidelity, it would no longer be a reduction [it would be the territory]

I think this is relevant when it comes to managing expectations with regard to a description of consciousness. That is, consciousness seems to be a gestalt experience that arises in only the largest, most complex and dynamic biological organs on Earth. So a full empirically-derived description of consciousness, en total, could require a map that is damn nearly the territory. But like the article points out, maps that large are hardly useful. Basically the TLDR is that if you have consciousness, and we systematically probe your brain while you are conscious vs. unconscious, and find some striking differences between the two states, I'd take that as revealing some small, but empirical detail about how conscious vs unconscious brains function. If you collect enough details independently confirmed, we can begin to build a theory about when and how consciousness arises. After that we can examine your brain and my brain and my dog's brain against these theories and arrive at some probability these brains are conscious (at least to what degree they is similar to general human consciousness). So I guess in some ways you are right - we can never know for certain. But that is basically how all of science works. (eg we 'proved' the Higgs boson exists, but only with a certain probability).

https://fs.blog/2015/11/map-and-territory/
There was a good talk about this at 35C3 [0]. Definitely worth the watch.

[0] https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9744-inside_the_fake_science_fac...

Edit: You can change the language to English by clicking on the settings cog in the video.
1 - My idea of a starting headquarters in a country which dont have much VISA issues was to help hire more diverse pool of candidates which is not limited to the US citizens/people studied in USA.They can also do internal company transfers but these things are mostly for people who are really good at politics or that is what I heard.

2 - Yup. But people from India and Indian subcontinent are used to these things.

3 - I mean Amazon already have a US headquarters.

4 - Yup. Indian economy is currently lagging behind USA. But its still a huge economy. Maybe Amazons 2nd biggest userbase after USA and its heavily growing.
So basically on top of dealing with the stress of a life threatening disease, you're suggesting that a family must either decide to watch a parent die, and maintain financial stability, or attempt to live and set the whole family back?

That's definitely a perspective, I guess.
Honestly? When my bosses were on extended leave and I had little oversight and could do whatever the hell I wanted. I got so much done.