skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that simple.

There certainly are those who confidently sell something without having any actual real-life experience with the matter at hand.

However, another harmful pattern is rampant in the tech industry as well: The one that assumes that technical knowledge is the only thing that's valuable and everything else (sales, marketing, business stuff in general, you name it ...) is just bullshit.

This widespread attitude not only tends to relegate those who
exhibit it to positions of - well-paid - grunts, who have no say in a product's or company's direction even if they're the ones who create most of the value.

It also is the cause of an equally widespread resentment towards less technically inclined people, who from that point of view reap most of the rewards while providing little benefit.
The rumor is that recruitment absolutely was affected after Snowden. More damage done to our country by him.

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that he did put the full cache of files online before fleeing, to be able to sell them to Russia. He certainly had the capability to do so. Also, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that he was involved with Vault 7 somehow; it’s another conspiracy theory floating around.

Unclear why this is being downvoted.
In the past few months i've become increasingly aware that many successful people around me completely full of shit. They manage to get millions in investor capital or run financially successful businesses for years with horrible ideas and business practices. (selling coffee on the blockchain, changing business direction so often engineers can't finish their projects).

I'm trying to use this to build enough confidence for me to start my business ideas and pitch to investors. If these idiots can do it, why can't I?
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I'd say this is pretty common outside of small business. Watch the show "Undercover Boss." You see the CEO's of major companies working the bottom rungs of their companies. They are often very, very out of touch, so far that they get "fired" by their own employees...
Not sure I agree with that. When you ask a question, you may be speaking for most of the room. It's just that you're the only one bold enough to say it. And if you are speaking for most of the room, you won't take a social hit for the question. Quite the opposite.

(Of course, it can be that you just weren't paying attention. For questions that come out of that situation, you may in fact take a social hit, and perhaps appropriately. If you just don't understand something, you probably shouldn't take a hit, but you may do so in more toxic environments.)
Slightly OT, but I didn't see an important question being asked:

What is the motivating threat model of ProtonMail?

If I just want to access my email securely, that's done by HTTPS. If I want an end-to-end encrypted solution, ProtonMail can provide that, though only for emails between ProtonMail users. For e2e outside of ProtonMail, I can use PGP.

From what I understand, ProtonMail makes all the PGP stuff easier by baking it into their UI. Is there anything else it offers other than this convenience? Are they encrypting incoming mail with recipient keys and throwing away the original? If so, who is that protecting, and against whom? Presumably the plaintext was stored by the sender and possibly seen by intermediary servers. Can I get similar security properties by periodically downloading my email and deleting it off the server (assuming the deletion is actually happening)?

These are honest questions. I admit I'm skeptical of PM's utility, but I'd this fits someone's usecase and threat model, I can't argue with that.
Dart isn’t difficult to get productive with in a couple of days if you have experience with Java or Typescript.
Brave Browser on Android has been my goto since 2017. It's the Chrome browser, but with an adblocker, which obviously the main Chrome app doesn't support.

That said, I really don't like this scheme. Paying users with a worthless e-coin while putting your own ads on top of blocked ads? Why would site owners opt in to this? So they can monitor 2 different ad systems present on their site?

Not to mention, the conversion probability of a user who blocks ads is much lower than that of someone who sees ads daily. So how much would you really be earning by serving ads to people who specifically downloaded an adblocking browser?
I dislike bullshitters and I've unfortunately had to work with many.

I read the paper and something that really stuck out at me is how bullshitters were more likely to actually try and understand the problem than non bullshitters.

Page 25:
I think about what might have caused the problem and what I can do to solve it
Non bullshitters: 85%
Bullshitters: 90%

I study a map and work out the best route
Non bullshitters: 55%
Bullshitters: 71%

Interestingly, the non-bullshitters were more likely to try and put off the work to someone else:
I leave it to my brother to worry about how to get there
Non bullshitters: 34%
Bullshitters: 27%

Another shocking thing for me was that bullshitters viewed themselves as having more perseverance and perfectionism:
When confronted with a problem, I give up easily
Non bullshitters: 17%
Bullshitters: 8%

When confronted with a problem, I do more than what is expected of me
Non bullshitters: 28%
Bullshitters: 45%

I really didn't expect this. It's got me thinking.
> which means yeah, you have done the entry work somewhere

Even if so, that somewhere doesn't have to be the same industry you go with your first (usually not top-level) leadership position, and neither of those may be the industry in which you end up moving into a top-level leadership position.
Is there a language that doesn't allow any abuse of an API, including APIs that were not written in that language?
The privacy policy contains "If you are younger than 18, please do not use the Services", the terms of service "YOU MUST BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER AND RESIDE IN THE UNITED STATES OR ANY OF ITS TERRITORIES TO USE THE SERVICES." Wouldn't such a disclaimer need to be on the homepage as well?
For airliners altitude pressure isn't structural (any more) beyond tracking pressurization cycles. It's much more about the human factors; passenger comfort (and sometimes injuries such as burst ear drums), and the aeromedical factors of oxygen saturation within the pilots' bloodstreams.
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> On average, Relief’s physical therapy, yoga, and mindfulness sessions help users reduce pain by 60% in the first month. It's more effective than surgery or injections.

Do you publish the data that led to these conclusions? Have the statements on this page been evaluated by the FDA?
I agree, I am not mentioning anything about my story in the website so I am only selling the value of the product, maybe it's not clearly explained, I didn't spend too much time on copy..
This is such a frequent question, I'm surprised there isn't a wiki up for this.
I was kind of the same, very shy to ask questions and "look like a fool".

That was until I got my PhD. I still realize that I don't know jack shit, but for some reason now I don't care, I now feel I don't have anything to prove to anyone. So, if I don't know something I just ask. Do you think I am stupid? that's your problem, not mine.

Hopefully you don't need a PhD to realize that like I did.
Sorry - is this paper bullshit? Can't tell if they're just funking with us.
So many sub-debates hidden in this "cross-platform native GUI":

1) I want to write a GUI code once

2) I want to ship something that works on Windows / Linux / MacOS

2.1) I want to ship something that looks the same on Windows / Linux / MacOS

3) I want to ship a binary that works on Windows, a binary that works on Linux, a binary that works

3.1) I want to ship a small and efficient binary

4) I want to ship something that looks like a Windows app on Windows, a Linux app on Linux, a MacOS app on MacOS, etc...

(By definition, "I want to ship something that looks the same everywhere and looks like an app of my host" is meaningless, right ?)

The "holy grail" seems to be:

5) "I want to write a GUI code once that generates small efficient binaries that looks exactly like an app of the host OS, and if possible looks the same everywhere, and let me go back to writing my business logic rather than agonize over drawing a button."

It's seems from the debate that nothing obvious fulfills 4 and 5.

Then it comes to which requirement you're ready to drop.

If you're ready to drop requirement 2) , I suspect you're doing MacOS specific, go for it ;)

If you're ready to drop requirement 1) , I suspect your managers / salespersons disagree.

I suspect your manager / salespersons do not care about requirement 3.1), but it's debatable. Use Qt/Electron, and ship something.

I suspect your manager / salespersons do not care about requirement 4), and I suspect they're esthetics, which can not be defended.

I gave up waiting for someone to make 5, and don't have the resources / skill / time to do it myself.
And maybe we should stop caring and watch the sky instead.

I hope someone is able to get to 1 + 2.1 + 3.1 someday.

I'll use that.
I have (Japanese, Spanish, and Korean). I didn't hate the host cultures because of it.
If you want what you had with Visual Basic in 1996, you're in luck: you can just use C# with winforms, which is like a much better version of VB6.

Unfortunately, in 2019 cross-platform compatibility for native apps has only gotten harder (good luck supporting windows, mac, linux, android, and ios), which is why people tend to default to making web apps (or hybrid solutions using frameworks like React Native) rather than native apps, and this has perhaps also created a vicious circle by reducing interest in what cross-platform options there are (QT and javaFX).
Most users prefer an app over the web on mobile. If installing apps on desktop can become as painless as on mobile, perhaps users will also prefer an app over the web on desktop? Maybe then we can let browsers just render documents and stop trying to shoehorn apps into HTML/CSS/DOM.
I've always wanted to build a public status page for services like Google Cloud and AWS with real tests against different services they offer. Not sure there is a good way to monetize though.
The support library is something that is statically compiled inside of Android apps. That's the reason why it exists - to circumvent the usual Android OS update process to bring new APIs to developers faster.
Same boat friend, same boat.
Well written answer, thank you.
There are such services in my part of the US, too. However, they're too expensive to easily justify.
I don't think the bullshitter problem is at all limited to the tech industry. In the financial industry there was Madoff, and not just him, but the surprising number of people who were ostensibly running their own funds who just put all the money into Madoff's hands and then took fees off the top. And having someone with a technical or engineering background at the top is no panacea against bullshit. IIRC, the top leadership of VW all started as engineers, but that didn't stop them from perpetrating the diesel fraud.
It's a very blurry line between "insufficient resources" and "making stuff up." Everything is easy when you're not the one doing the work.
> Wouldn't this value experience and knowledge (like everything you learned in university) at zero?

Having switched professions twice, I now use practically nothing of what I learned in university from about second year forward. Math and to some extent physics are still relevant, but that's pretty much it.

It might be painful to admit, but the practical value of that rather specialized knowledge that took me several years of hard work to obtain is pretty much zero now.
Another thing that has failed: journalists. They get sent press releases and do the filtering. Something like 80% of 'news' is PR. But they don't want you leaving their news website. That would be bad for revenue, allegedly.

Imagine a 'newsworthy' story about a budgerigar that can dance to jazz music. The source could be on a website that has all kinds of fascinating stuff about budgerigars. But this you would never know, perhaps you might get a link to the original tweet but that would be it, no link to the website that gave rise to the one thing that went 'viral'.
And Now, an Entirely Different Kind of Quantum Computer
1. no one will be allowed to do that if you work in a team environment.

2. No one has been able to come up with a better alternative.

I wasn't implying its a prefect metric or even a reasonable one. If you really need a quantifiable metric then thats all we got.
And it is hype if the tech isn't real.

I mean, it's called "auto pilot". It is not an auto pilot. It is not nearly ready for unattended driving. And yet, people use it as such and are surprised when they crash into a divider or something.

There's a built in assumption that because the tech has progressed from point A to point B that it'll easily move to point C in the same amount of time. That's not at all guaranteed, and for all of the millions (billions?) being poured into self driving tech we don't have to show for it. It may be many, many years before we do.
Not exactly a step by step tutorial, but "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers is fantastic reference material for this.
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Samsung exec on coin rumors: “everyone in Samsung works with blockchain”
It's not even THAT simple.

There's a difference between thinking sales and marketing is all bullshit, and thinking that the sales and marketing people you're working with are bullshit.

A previous company of mine hired a product manager. I definitely don't think product management and direction is bullshit. But this guy just wrote "synergy" on white boards all day, made us start sizing our tasks, and never gave anyone good ideas or direction.

Hearing me complain about this, you might assume that i'm just another engineer that thinks anything but engineering is bullshit.
> That's not the claim that was made, which was the corporations are the real holders of power, which was offered as an explicit denial of the claim that a narrow set of wealthy individuals hold power.

That is a refutation of that claim, because the distortion takes the control away from any individual and constrains it within the path defined by "law and corporate governance documents with regard to governance of the corporation while it is a going concern."

Bezos can make himself CEO despite not holding a majority position, but if he gets cancer he can't decide to liquidate all of the company's assets (not just his personal shares) and then use it all to look for a cure. Because he's still not in control of it, the corporation is, which is different.

He also can't decide to purposely suffer major losses in order use the company's resources to solve significant social problems like climate change, even if he wanted to, without the consent of the other shareholders.

> In fact, it concentrates power even more narrowly in the most wealthy by suppressing the effective power of the diffuse minority of wealth held by broad masses in a way somewhat similar to how FPTP electoral systems dilute the political power of diffuse minorities of votes.

Yes, absolutely, but the thing causing that to happen is the incredibly large size of corporations, not the wealth of particular individuals. If Amazon was 10% its current size and correspondingly Bezos owned all of it, he would be in control of fewer resources than he is now despite having the exact same amount of personal wealth.

And then he could decide to use the company's resources to cure cancer or fight climate change, because he would be the sole owner, so there would be even less power bound up in corporate restrictions.

> No, it nominally belongs to Apple.

You can't have it both ways. Either the corporation is a legal fiction and the real power lies with some natural persons, who for a corporation are nominally ultimately the shareholders, or the corporation is a thing unto itself with its own rules and goals and is the owner of the assets, in which case the distinction between the corporation and the individuals is quite relevant precisely because it affects how the resources are used.
If/when driverless cars are reliable, human's learning driving skills may become obsolete.
Wonder what are the implications if we are able to reliably communicate our thoughts using AI. Can training vocal cords to speak become an obsolete skill too? On this trajectory - I also wonder what other core capabilities can be delegated to AI and what role this could plays in evolution of future generations.
Yeah, sorry. Your income is at the bottom 11%. It doesn't qualify for the bonus redistribution program.
I take it you have never used Azure's UI? AWS is much better. I can't comment on Google Cloud because I've never used it.
AWS keeps their status page up2date these days. It's probably easier to check that page than combing through posts on HN, but to each their own.

This makes me wonder... do people keep posting and looking here because they want an element of control, they don't trust or know about status.aws.amazon.com ... or why?
I want status pages to show traffic to the status page itself over the last 24 hours (or some time period). A sudden uptick in traffic but green across the board would indicate that there is an issue, but they just haven't updated the page yet.
Is the tool out yet? Not sure if I'm missing a link somewhere on that page. Excited to try this out!
> Some softeners do have protective oil or silicone or polysorbate that will coat the fabric

I thought they all had that. I really dislike fabric softeners in part because I dislike the perfume they use and in part because they tend to render everything some degree of waterproof (bad for towels, particularly).
>My whole argument doesn't revolve around "Tesla says"

You wrote in this single reply:

Elon wanted...Elon referenced...Elon said...Elon has said...Elon believes...

This is the foundation of your argument.

Elon also said he was taking Tesla private and had a buyer at $420, and settled after being accused of fraud. Things that Elon says, wants or believes are not facts. That is my point.

>Citation needed for it not being industry leading, for their specific use case

Go look at NVIDIA’s products, or the press release they put out after the Autonomy Event. Do you think NVIDIA knows a thing or two about autonomous vehicle tech and this use case? Because Tesla’s entire program up to this point, the one I’m sure you believe is best-in-class, is built on NVIDIA product.

Can you provide a single citation that the Tesla chip is industry leading?

>I wouldn't say ~1MM chips per year is small volume,

First, 1 million is small. Second, you assume that they'll be building 1MM cars a year anytime soon, probably because "Elon said". Tesla produced ~70,000 cars this quarter. That's the reality. There is no evidence whatsoever that Tesla can produce, nor that there is demand for 1MM of these cars annually.

>I suppose it's possible you have financial interest in Tesla failing and haven't disclosed that

Ah yes, baseless accusations. You "won't make assumptions", but you'll throw that out there anyway. Just in case. If anyone disagrees about the future of Tesla, they obviously have some agenda. Elon said as much. If this forum had any neutrality, the admin would be warning and/or banning people making these accusations, which violate a number of the HN guidelines.

I don’t short stocks. I buy the odd put. I'm long everything, including Tesla through various funds. I don’t get paid by the oil industry. If Tesla went belly up tomorrow, it would harm me financially. How about you? I’m willing to bet you own a Tesla car or stock, but didn’t disclose that, while speaking with vehement positivity about the company. Why not, if you expect it of others?

I am interested in this subject matter because I find it absolutely baffling and mind-bending that there are so many red flags with this company, and yet there are segments of the population that simply cannot or refuse to see them. Of note: there seems to be a large overlap between that segment and the one that likes accusing other people of financial malfeasance or astroturfing.

>Do you think Tesla will completely fail? Do you believe their stock is overvalued?

No idea, but I doubt it fails completely. There's value in there somewhere. Probably selling high-end, high-margin EVs to wealthy people, the market they probably should have stuck to.

Is the stock overvalued? Of course.
This thread has been very informative and gives me a lot of reading to look into. Thank you so much!
I don't find this surprising at all. People who lie, first lie to themselves. In many cases I suspect they're being entirely genuine and don't see where they fall short of their own self-assessment.
I remember simpler times of the Web 1.0 age when Epinions would just mail me a check every few months. Outside of the reviews I wrote on their website, I didn't have to lift a finger to get paid.
Yeah, same with the $700 million one in November.
If you can write a perfect automated status page - can't you basically write perfect integration tests and make sure no bad code gets deployed?

Bit of a chicken and an egg problem :)
Some people are suggesting that nothing really works. I suggest that our imperfect processes are still probably a lot better than randomness.
A lot of companies are really tightening their belts to deal with the cheap debt they accrued over the last few years that they now need to pay off.
According to the AWS Status Page

Alternate link is available at: https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/v2/home
Yup, it doesent even seem to be one of the usual culprits spreading this bunk science. The author should very much know better.

https://www.sapiens.org/authors/stephen-e-nash/
Unfortunately, there probably isn't; on top of that, EEGs are extremely susceptible to noise from nerve signals going to the head/face, such as clenching your jaw or raising your eyebrows
Can they make an AI robot that files for bankruptcy?
> it'd block YouTube ads and similar on my Smart TV and mobile devices - it didn't

thats because you need to tell DHCP to use the pihole's address as primary DNS
Actually I wonder how hard it would be to run node in a browser, given that it's already JavaScript. You obviously have to have to implement some amount of API surface at a minimum and it's possible that browsers are geared to be servers and clients, but it certainly sounds plausible at a first pass.
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The shorts are why the stock got to where it is in the first place. It was around $40 when there was a huge short squeeze, and that popped the price of the stock to like $180.
In both i3wm and awesomewm I use super as my main modifier for window management. I am also glad programs don't often touch it so that it's available for this.
Human beings are almost never credible witnesses. We are deceived by the simplest optical illusions.
I mean the first result on google was https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-well-have-climate-m... which seems to cover most of the major players, including the IPCC reports looking pretty consistent within uncertainties.
I wonder if making sure your site is readable without JS also has the effect of making your site more legible to screen dictation. I haven't met many web devs who make accessibility a primary concern. Mozilla seems to note that heavy reliance on JS can break accessibility.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Accessibility...
FreePascal with Lazarus, the true cross-platform GUI framework is similar to Delphi's VCL or .Net's WinForms, it's been in active development for over a decade, and you compile your program into native machine code to a lot of platforms.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
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