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Ask HN: Is Principal Engineer the New Senior Engineer?
I recently saw a posting from a 5-10 year old, post Series B Bay Area company with $XX million raised seeking a Principal Engineer for $130k/year.

This is at odds with what the title connotates to me and I assume others who have been around for a while. To me, your Principal Eng is the guy or girl who built the whole damn thing for you when you were just working out of your kitchen. They have an encyclopedic knowledge of the platform. They do things like patch custom behavior into gdb to debug nightmare bugs. This is their last job, even if they are not old.

Is this the beginning of a trend where the title Principal Engineer loses all meaning like Senior already has? What title will we move to once Principal Eng no longer conveys meaning?
And yet good science fiction writers routinely do just that. I think in particular of Forster’s “The Machine Stops.”

This is survivorship bias. Between them all scifi authors predict everything they can imagine, and a few of them happen to get close enough to what happens that they look accurate, and people conveniently forget all the ones who were wildly off the mark.
These lists are essentially like tinyapps.com.

I don't think adding more details is a good idea - that would essentially be a duplication of content from each link on the list. The biggest value the of form of these lists (and tinyapps.com) is that I can skim them quickly. If you built an encyclopedia, somebody soon would want to have a simple list of all entries.

To add to that: if these lists were to be more detailed, they probably wouldn't exist at all, as expanding and maintaining them would be too much work.
I wanted a 3DFX card so bad in 1998 but I'd already convinced my dad to pay extra for a Matrox Mystique 3D card (which didn't support openGL) and he just couldn't get his head around why i now also needed another 3D card add-on. Even seeing the names of all those cards brings back so many memories.
Show HN: WordPress plugin – new effective way to re-engage website iOS visitors
"Iraq was a historical enemy..." um, no, it wasn't, it was an ally of the US in the 80s when it was fighting Iran.

Before that, in the 70s it was a Baathist secular dictatorship that was an oil exporter and thus reliant on the US dollar, while Iran was a Kingdom with a US puppet as Shah.
I think the questions about ethics is already behind, because most people like to think about artificial general intelligence. The little routines that are separate but together begin to quantity every aspect of out lives? Welcomed with open arms... Privacy rights could help a lot...
not sure if this is the best example – `Functor` would be enough here
>the car with absolutely no buttons.

The Model 3 has plenty of physical buttons, even not counting the door buttons.
Yeah. If he was buying anything it was favorable treatment from the coach, not admission.
https://archive.fo/zjP9W
When your hammer snaps in half, you don't blame yourself for not using two hammers.

When the tool breaks under correct use, criticize the tool. Maybe the user should also have redundancy. The tool is still failing!
Trump may have popularized it, but Clinton created it [0], almost immediately after losing the election.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-42724320
I don't think Github stars should be considered as anything more than built-in bookmarking. Personally, I only use them that way. With this view, it's obvious why lists get more stars than the projects listed.
Massively overblown. Systematic affirmative action is rampant in Microsoft. White and asian men are discriminated against within the company. It will only hurt Microsoft.
Most evidence I've seen supports it. This is especially true when people start integrating stuff with or building on top of a deliverable. Even more if that stuff was designed with the deliverables good and bad behavior in mind. It becomes a legacy system that sticks around. Knocking out its problems ahead of time can have considerable savings. Plus, a benefit not often mentioned is that knocking problems out at design time is easier since everything is fresh in developers' minds. They just wrote it.

Now, it might not apply in an environment where everything is designed to be pluggable and easy to change without breaks. Maybe folks should run some new studies on such projects to see if there's any major benefits for up-front investments in quality. Enough to pay off that up-front investment like in the other projects.
Bayer used to have an illegal sign in Pittsburgh. Never seen a company care so little about everyone knowing they break they law.
Don't you have to be an accredited investor to invest in venture capital and angel investments?
What Twitter Profile and Posted Images Reveal About Depression and Anxiety
Depends on what significant means. Recently, regime change hasn't been successful even with 100,000 troops on the ground.
Ask HN: What are your results for using web push notifications?
Yep, DW german news was covering it. Law suits against Monsanto were being settle after the buyout and a few people were talking about how American court were waiting until Monsanto was bought by the German before the suit is settle.

This is on top of the CEO of Bayer stating to the news media that he knew about Monsanto having a bad image. On top of the fact that Bayer sold HIV blood and supplied chemical during WWII for the Nazi.
Small towns ﬁnd footing out West
Two others who wanted to stop selling oil for dollars were Sadam Hussein and Momar Gadahfi. In power for decades, then they announce they will sell oil for euros or a gold backed currency. Only a few years later from their announcement each one was dead.
Hey, I don't like President Trump either, but having the country in the grasp of that paedophile harpy Clinton would have been much worse for civil liberties and freedom of speech, not to mention the possibility of a third world war with Russia and/or North Korea. Every few years the Democratic Party goes full retard and we have to take our penalty 4-year Republican rule, but hopefully 2020 will be better.
Very interesting approach, I'm excited to try it out. The performance is pretty undeniable.
What exactly does “getting away with it” mean in this context? Boeing will get sued from many different directions, their share price will suffer, and likely they’ll have lost orders for their aircraft.

Let’s say we wanted to get really punitive... who do we blame? The engineers that worked on it? The Boeing CEO for not personally verifying every piece of software on all of their aircraft?

Do we throw someone in jail? How does that help improve safety culture exactly?

Boeing & Airbus are largely responsible for the massive improvements in flight safety over the last 40 years. It’s incredible that flying is as safe as it. Yes the deaths are a tragedy, but every time I get in a plane I accept the fact that the physics of flying could ultimately kill me, and I trade that off against the convenience of getting somewhere quickly.
Where is Zulip? :)
Ask HN: How to deal with no confidence in product dev?
So, basically I'm the technical cofounder and so far the only technical person (though we are planning on hiring now).

While building the CEO and I did product dev together -- he more high level like sussing out user problems and processes and I designing and implementing the solutions.

Now since we're expanding he isn't able to do that any more so he got a product dev guy. I wasn't consulted. I didn't discuss this directly but I suspect he doesn't think that I'm capable of doing the product dev. I do admit I could improve but I'm definitely capable of doing it.

So, the issue now is with the hired product dev. He's been around for a couple of months and he's a smart person in general but he just isn't good at this. First, he doesn't know the business and while you could say that he can learn that, the second thing is that he just isn't skilled at the dev part.

It's difficult to explain without giving concrete examples (there're multiple) but often he can't actually justify why something would be the solution. He comes up with things that don't really address the issues we're tackling.

The reason I'm writing is it because today he wrote a new story about an issue we've been having and his solution requires a lot of work in a totally unrelated page (that isn't even used a lot). The part of the experience where this issue originates from he didn't even address, until I asked about it and then it was a hasty after thought. He hasn't even suggested the most obvious and simplest of solutions that could get us 90% of the way there with like half an hour work.

So, all in all I really don't have confidence in working with him and definitely not in taking instructions from him.

Is this relationship doomed? I do feel slighted by the CEO because I wasn't even considered or consulted.

Should I try to train the new guy?

Or be straight with the CEO?
Your made up horse name made me just think of (which may already exist outside my awareness) a corollary to Poe's Law.

"That without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of race horse names so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere and accurate name of a horse."

We could call it the "Derby Law".

I actually searched for "Fancy Dancy Magic Prancy" because I thought that might be an actual horse. I found out it's a reference to PBF, but nonetheless it /could/ have been a real horse.
Definitively, this.
If only there would be a browser extension for anything other than safari on OS X. Manually copying passwords (and then saving in chrome) gets real annoying
Obama was a Clinton puppet, Trump is the only one free enough to actually pardon him.
Global Counterspace Capabilities
Seemed to freeze up after I loaded a sample and clicked a few things inside it
Los Angeles Is Having a Loud Economic Boom
That to normal people sounds as ridiculous as the idea that Trump and Assange are Russian assets.
I've had a class in Hydrology and also read "Salt Dreams" (about water in Southern California) and a book about the history of water development in Fresno County.

Modern people often seem to have mental models of the world where a river has a set place, similar to a road. This is not accurate.

Water percolates down into the soil. Rivers meander. The amount and type of plants impacts rain patterns.

Water is constantly moving and cycles through the air and moves through the ground, both largely invisible to the naked eye, but critical to the pieces we can readily see. Plus, its movement occurs in a larger context, such as the Moon causing ocean tides.

The human body's relationship to water is similar. It isn't just limited to how much you drink, how much you sweat and how much you pee.

Like the Earth's crust, your skin takes in water. aso, for example, you can get hydrated with a bath, especially a salt water bath. This is helpful to understand if you are so sick that you are having trouble taking anything by mouth.

My condition predisposes me to retain fluids. I've made progress on reducing the chronic bloat in part because I have mental models for how water moves through the environment.

Invasive species disrupt ecosystems. This is not unlike infection.

Trying to fix a thing like that is far more complicated than our current medical mental model of just giving out antibiotics for infection.

On some island, someone wanted to eradicate mosquitoes. They poisoned the mosquitoes, which all died. Small animals ate they poisoned mosquitoes and they died too. This went through several layers, almost like the Biblical plagues (deconstructed and analyzed by modern science on some TV show).

Those sorts of things influence my concept of the body's relationship to disease. I don't accept the mental model that "Well, just add antibiotics to the mix and voila! All better now!"

We know antibiotics kill gut flora. We know gut flora are critical to our digestion and even help provide certain nutrients. We know that killing gut flora not only screws up digestion, it also promotes the overgrowth of Invaders like E. Coli.

Yet we currently do not have a policy of making sure to remediate what antibiotics do to the body. We assume the gut will just repair itself over time without active intervention.

Some individuals know to at least eat yogurt, but doctors do not give out handouts with recommendations for "The Post Antibiotics Diet."

And then we kind of shrug if someone "mysteriously" develops serious and chronic gut issues. Broader society also seems to fail to understand the gut as the foundation of the immune system.
I disagree, it's trivial these days to get a list of anything
(books, movies, software etc.) simply from google, so if you are going to manually compose a list it better be A) really strictly selected based on true personal experience B) contain any kind of explanation why the item made the list. It's not supposed to turn into an encylopedia, but e.g. I find annotated bibliographies with 2-3 sentences of comments by someone knowledgeable in the field much more valuable than just a list of books.
Inmate with a Wool Allergy Has Spent 10 Years Trying to Get a New Blanket
It's controversial because it's based in matters of fundamental worldview, not matters of unexplored complexity. So, given your fundamental worldview, the conclusion is pretty easy. There's nothing that a council of great thinkers is going to be able to illuminate for us on the question. We know what the arguments are. It's "easy" in the sense that the textbook trolley problem is "easy": there's nothing more to be learned about the question itself. We understand the problem and the arguments on both sides, and a council of great thinkers can pull up Wikipedia for you if you'd like.

Hard questions, as I mean them, are ones where there's a lot of complexity to even reach a potential answer. Google's trolley problems are those where the decision isn't just "flip the switch," it's "should we gather this data" or "should we conduct this experiment" or "should we participate in the market in this way" where there are unforeseen side effects to doing so, and you want a bunch of smart people in a room to try to figure those out and shake out all the complexity in the problem that you haven't even managed to state clearly.

But if you can't decide whether it's better to kill one person by action or five by inaction in the first place, figuring out whether taking/not taking the action has unexpected ethical implications isn't going to get you closer to any answers.
>I would trust an ai ethicist with a PhD in philosophy or ethics of their ideas were coherent. Tech backgrounds are not necessarily required.

I agree, it doesn't require technical AI skills but I would expect a person in this position to have SOMETHING relevant in their background that they could point to as a qualifier.

Honestly, I read the article and it left me feeling quite sympathetic to this lady. It seemed like another clear cut case of political correctness run amok. Then I looked up her bio online and found she has a Bachelors degree in Education from the Hampton Institute and her entire career has consisted of a series of political appointments the highlights of which include Director of the Office of Personnel Management (despite not having any HR related background) and the Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Services (despite not having any public health background). She has neither training nor experience in either AI or Ethics. Politics aside, she was not even remotely qualified to be on an AI Ethics Board for Google.
Sounds good. I'll contact you over email. Thanks!
it used to be called investor diligence. if a small startup was selling at a loss like Microsoft can, nobody would be crazy to have their money there.

now big finance saw they just need unicorns, not actual business models, so everything and anything is fair game and stocks are less sound than Vegas.
Family finds camera livestreaming from their rental, Airbnb does nothing
Instead of just assuming pricing based on Google pricing (which we weren’t talking about), you could always just find AWS pricing.

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/pricing/

Storage cost of 500Gb of data for four years - $2400

Backing up is free up to the amount of online storage.

IO request are $0.12 per million.

Transfer to/from VMs in the same availability zone is free.

A r5.large reserved instance is $6600 a year.

Of course if your needs are less, you could get much cheaper cpu and memory.
You think by throwing around labels he want two-way communication?
The vultures of Spain skirt around the Portuguese border with uncanny accuracy
You cannot put a railcard on a contactless card.

Very roughly, age 30-60 aren't eligible for discounts. Older or younger than that are.

It should be possible for TfL to accomplish this but thus far it's not done.
The difference being that the fed can actually reliably keep that promise, since they can issue new currency and borrow at extremely low rates...

Edit: https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/5400/why-is-the-fr...
This uses TeaVM to compile Java to JavaScript. Launches faster in browser than the desktop (once cached). Download is 1.2mb (compressed) - much smaller than desktop version. Runtime speed seems the same as desktop.

http://teavm.org
Yeah, the loan-shark model.
That's why innovation happens. People don't just role over, they invent open source cell phones, and cryptocurrency etc.
I don't see poems written by mice, movies directed by monkeys, or starships built and crewed by dolphins. There's no lion embassy anywhere on the planet. Maybe only the cats plot to conquer the world.

Point is, "the properties we told ourselves separated our minds from those of animals [that] are not unique to us" result in a qualitatively different outcomes in us vs. all the other animals. For instance, human socializing is about as similar to raven socializing as a computer is similar to a bunch of bowls and pebbles.
...but it's written in node
Yeah I understand, it's kind-of inevitable to head down the rabbit hole into kooky territory, after long enough being told there's nothing wrong with you or nothing can be done.

I like to think I'm coming out the other side with a fairly solid set of experiences and suggestions for others to consider. I hope to be able to share what I've learned more widely and perhaps even get some serious research happening so it can stop being stuck in the fringes.

My email address is in my HN profile - feel free to put your brother in touch if he wants more info or to be kept updated on what I'm doing.
It stood for "Scan Line Interleave". Basically each voodoo card would be responsible for rendering half the display, alternating scanlines between the cards.
Yes that would be Producthunt with categorized filters.

Edit: Well, discovered that this list is actually flawlessapp.io

In Producthunt it was no.5 product of the day.. https://www.producthunt.com/posts/awesome-design-tools-3059e...
I've been playing around with GCP, mostly app engine, the past couple weeks making a toy application to get a little more comfortable with building and designing serverless apps. Just wanted to say you, and whoever else, is writing those docs does an amazing job. Seriously, I've tried all 3 platforms, because of work and GCP is by far the easiest to become productive with and the main reason is the glorious documentation. Keep up the great work!
Handling TCP Connections with Kqueue Event Notification (2018)
It's cool, but it runs at about 10 FPS at best for me :P
does anyone know if there is a similar tutorial in Rust?
What Singer book was it that you read?
You're talking about the cost of the product, but what about the cost of redesigning in itself? Including the opportunity cost of delaying the product to keep reworking the design.
I just got it running in the last couple weeks - still doing some QA to find issues, but in general they have been easy to resolve.
OK, so to follow up with the author of the piece and to maybe throw in a little 2nd order thinking into this equation:

“Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform” - the author makes a broad claim that all smart people use second order thinking to outperform those who aren’t smart.

Questions: What makes the author credible, and what data / research does he/she have in order to support the claim? He/she cites Howard Marks as an example, but is Howard Marks really enough to support the claim for such a broad and generalized statement? What about the fact that even people who try to think deeply tend to get it wrong often-times, which has been shown to be true over and over again? Example:

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/magazine/dont-blink-the-h...

That’s not to say that I disagree with the premise – I think that in general, this piece puts forward a hypothesis that smart people are deep thinkers who think critically and deeply about the effects of their decisions, while those that aren’t so smart might not put such an effort in. There is some truth to the statement the author puts forward, but by no means is this the differentiating factor between smart people and the not-so-smart. I’m not an expert in this field either, but I’ve read a lot of stuff from Feynman, Einstein, and the geniuses of the field, and I find that some of the things which differentiate them from the rest are:

1. Deep curiosity. They were incredibly interested in finding out how things work / solving a problem.
2. Persistence: They worked hard to achieve what they wanted to achieve and didn’t give up.
3. They used their visual cortex / visual systems a lot. Tesla for example would have live simulated conversations with other people and build things inside of his head. Einstein is in the same boat - he would spend hours trying to visualize concepts. This makes total sense from my perspective. We have a heck of a lot more capacity to process information using our visual cortex than other areas in out brains. We can process something like 10 million bits per second vs. a much lower capacity in other brain areas. When you read silently for example, you're only processing around 45 bits per second.

Apologies for the long write up here – I guess I might be over-analyzing things a bit, but I just don’t really see the point of this article, nor do I see it pointing out the real differentiating factors between those that are ‘smart’ and those that aren’t, and I think the author is making a very broad statement and doesn’t have any data to support his/her claim. Howard Marks also by the way is not a class above other investors. He still uses a value-based approach in a time where the value based strategy doesn’t really guarantee maximum returns. It doesn’t mean that he isn’t bright – he definitely is. I just don’t think that this presents enough evidence or data to support the generally broad claim made in the article.
Or if someone is an overweight, depressed shut-in, the treatment will be antidepressants and gastric bypass - when what they really need is a therapist/PT/buddy who plays sports and drags them out of the house to play squash. The medical system is not currently equipped to handle solutions like that.

The inability to account for second-order effects seems to be a chronic failure of the large-scale systems we build. I wonder if it's because specialization means that nobody understands or is in charge of the big picture. A old-fashioned generalist "village doctor" would understand the context of your existence because they were also in your social circle, while a modern GP's role in your life is highly abstracted. Or take capitalism - if you're mono-focused on making Widgets, then you neither know nor care that Widgets are causing trouble somewhere else in the world, and you will fight viciously against anyone telling you to make fewer Widgets.
what is non-partisan? Do you believe there are more than two genders, or not? you either answer a question like that, or don't. If you don't answer, people don't know your opinion, thus you are "non-partisan" via ambiguity.