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Ask HN: What are some product management communities online?
I am a frontend developer/bootstrapping founder, and I am interested in learning about and becoming a Product Manager.

Where can I virtually hang out to learn more about Product Management?

If there is any PM reading this, I would love to be some sort of apprentice (as a volunteer - I just moved to the US and will get my work permit to work here in two months).
Don’t do this if you’re an American—it’s illegal to bribe anywhere in the world.
Our goal is to make the research as accessible as possible to the AI community, so we include descriptions of the algorithms and pseudocode in the supplementary material. However, in part due to the potential negative impact this code could have on online poker, we're not releasing the code itself.
I don't think it's implied considering the articles compares the poker bot to go and chess bots (which are the non-multiplayer games the title is referring to).
indeed, I'll stick to coding. Tried a number of times to do some wood work, a simple mitre joint is way harder than you'd think. But then there are few true carpenters left, its mostly low skilled work e.g. framers.

Knew a guy who could do the most precise joins, its a skill people seem to be born with, or its grown somehow. If the only jobs in demand demanded the ability to construct a dovetail joint, I'd be in big trouble.
If true in cash games, it is funny since it is a not uncommon strategy in high-level tournament play to control pot size.
I want to like Librem's smartphone, I really do. I like having control over my software, and I like being able to really understand how it works and tinker with it and stuff. But I have this sinking feeling that the Librem 5 is just vaporware, or worse, that it'll get released with a half baked UI and a barebones list of apps. On that latter one, I really don't see how they'll fix the problem. On the former, the thing is that the affordences for bad UI design are a LOT tighter on mobile devices and it's taken a long time for desktop Linux to get their game together. Plus, all of Librem's other stuff is over priced and a bit cheap looking, and I'm not sure I want a phone like that.
Ah yup this was the only one I had seen before, and looks really promising! Didn't know about the others posted so thanks all!
> In the case of poker, it appears that adaptability is not as good as pure mathematical optimization. Humans can adapt their strategy, but it’s basically just worse regardless because this thing has cracked the code.

Adaptability is beaten by perfect strategic play in games with clear victory conditions.

My familiarity with optimal control theory is nil but Kydland (1977) applied it to monetary policy to show that the right rules dominate discretion. What the right rules are for monetary policy is still an open question though, because while the victory conditions in economic policy are clearly defined the surrounding environment is very far from static so you deal with out of training set data regularly. Once AI can deal with these kind of out of context problems it seems plausible GAI is a matter of time.

http://www.finnkydland.com/papers/Rules%20Rather%20than%20Di...

> Rules Rather than Discretion:
The Inconsistency of Optimal Plans

> Even if there is an agreed-upon, fixed social objective function and policymakers know the timing and magnitude of the effects of their actions, discretionary policy, namely, the selection of that decision which is best, given the current situation and a correct evaluation of the end- of-period position, does not result in the social objective function being maximized. The reason for this apparent paradox is that economic planning is not a game against nature but, rather, a game against rational economic agents. We conclude that there is no way control theory can be made applicable to economic planning when expectations are rational.
In a way that's already happened, though maybe not in the way youre thinking of. Machine learning data is more and more being collected by volunteers or paid content curators. These jobs are generally low pay and in foreign countries. There's a huge outsourcing of "blue collar" mechanical Turks going on right now that is essential to most supervised learning methods.
Disney owns a city in Florida (Reedy Creek Improvement District), Scientology owns a city in Florida (Clearwater)...

I would assume that the best real estate speculation would be to buy land with higher margins.
It's happened before and is taught in every human factors course

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
There is far more ambiguity when you are competing against five mostly-aligned strategies vs a single shared strategy.
After years of looking at Detroit "ruin porn", I finally got to visit in person last month with a friend from the area as my guide. Photos don't do it justice! The station is enormous and very imposing.

(Also 4 minutes away is an amazing ramen place - Johnny Noodle King).
Trollish usernames aren't allowed on HN because they end up trolling each thread you post to.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

I've banned this account for now, but if you want to email hn@ycombinator.com a new username, we can rename the account and unban it for you.
Yet another apple shill. All they care is making money by hyping their second-class tech to tech-illiterate rich fellows..
There was an interesting IRL poker game a few years ago. The player who was running behind started going all in on every hand without even looking at their hand (with a huge amount of success).

Out of curiosity, how does a bot deal with oddities things like this?
> By this logic, they should add a +3% tax on every foreign business.

That's precisely what a tariff is.
We played 10,000 hands of poker in the 5 humans + 1 AI experiment. The number of hands won isn't a useful metric in poker. If you win only 10% of your hands and make $1,000 on those hands, while losing only $1 on the other 90% of hands, then you're a winning player. The bot won at a rate of 4.8 bb/100 ($4.8 per hand if the blinds are $50/$100). This is considered a large win rate by professionals.
I completely agree- even if it's something small.

I'm an intern in a big company with an internal robotics and automation group, and I recently got to wire up a pretty basic control panel, install it, and watch workers use it. That was so cool, and made me appreciate what I was doing a lot more.
Ah, a fellow optimist.
I don't understand why we bother. If places outlive their economic usefulness, just move somewhere else. That's exactly what people did with Detroit - moved on.

Why bother saving, or resurrecting it? Did we forget how to build grand buildings?
I am amazed even on hn, too many people compare privacy / security properties of android to iOS w/o knowing about f-droid & degoogling.
Taxes are not paid on revenue. They pay sales tax on these goods sold in any case.
Unfortunately we don't have any plans to do that currently.
1. Is it really too much to believe that someone with a physically demanding job might be in good enough condition to do something else after work? I'm pretty sure folks in all sorts of physical jobs have physical hobbies as well. You never hear this sort of excuse about carpenters.

2. It's hard to work full time and go to school after. It's by definition going above and beyond.
Does anyone know if this will work with Mac running Windows in pArallels? Really wanna tinker with it but stuck with a Mac :(
Agreed. Doubt sdk will be OS/Linux friendly either. Previous Linux kinect drivers (libfreenect) were all community driven, it worked, but not as polished as the official stuff.
The G is not the only train connecting Brooklyn and Queens directly, though it is the only such line to go to LIC. The J goes directly from Queens to Brooklyn before Manhattan, as do the A and the M. There is also the Atlantic branch of the LIRR, which connects Brooklyn, Queens, and Nassau county (though the fares are higher).
I've used SharePoint to collaboratively create and edit a few 50 page export controlled (read: cloud not an option, at least back then and for cheap) Word documents. It was surprisingly usable and worked fine. Everyone just used word itself (not the web app) and things kept updating when we pressed the sync button. Way better than like, confluence or that stuff.

I tried getting execs to use markdown and rst with git and phabricator for version control/review/approval but just haven't succeeded yet.
I don't think anyone is arguing why there is systemic corruption. The parent was merely pointing out that it's a problem today.

If it's of any comfort - corruption is alive and well in most other countries as well, they simply have more resources per citizen and as a result, it is better disguised.

The solution seems to be to raise the standard of living of everyone involved - corruption is not going anywhere, it seems to be a deeply rooted human trait.
Trump says I'm 'not a fan of cryptocurrencies, and Facebook may need
Microsoft Might Crush Slack
> sure its better than not having 2FA but only a little better.

I'm becoming convinced this is a pervasive fallacy (perhaps not for all users in all cases, but for many). Having SMS as your 2FA potentially makes your phone, phone line, and everything linked to it an attack target. So you might lose a heck of a lot more than you would if they were all unlinked. It depends kind of on what your current security practices are, but I think for many it can well be indirectly risking more damage than it's preventing.
How much oil has been burned without paying for its environmental costs? Does that make it a better product? That’s the point. Cheaper does not necessarily mean better.
Why I No Longer Want to Write Software for Companies That I Don't Own
I'll start by saying "Agile Project Management Is Farce and does more harm than good". I've been researching tech turnover for a bit now, with a focus on programmer turnover, and with no reservations I can say that so-called Agile project management is a leading cause.

The goal of Agile project management is to make software development a more customer-centric and more iterative. This is a noble goal. Agile however, whether intentionally or unintentionally, has had a secondary effect of robbing developers of job satisfaction.

Here let me give you an example. About 10 years ago I worked with somewhat of an influential in the Ruby community. We both worked at an "Agile" software consultancy. After finishing a task on our project work board I remember watching as that developer went back to claim the task the followed logically from what he just finished. He was shocked when he saw that the task's card has been claimed by another. He then said, right there in the office, quite loudly and openly "I am not getting the satisfaction of completing a thing when working like this."

So Agile robs developers of sense of satisfaction of ownership and completion. Well if the developer is being robbed of this satisfaction then to whom is this satisfaction being transferred? Well, project managers. Who get rewarded for the "velocity" of the team, which is more of a product of the hard work and less of a product of task management.

So developers have three things making them want out:

1) No ownership satisfaction
2) No completion satisfaction
3) Someone else taking credit for their work

Ok, this are not the only reasons for developer turn over but this is a big one. There are others like toxic environments, Title VII discrimination, and so on.

It can be denied that 1.5 - 2.0 year developer turnover at tech companies is pretty woeful. We are dropping the ball somewhere and its hurting business bottom lines and developer careers.
Is this about as interesting as the fact that calc.exe is bigger than slack in terms of installs?
True, though it was (slightly) better when I was a teenager -- back then it went all the way to Forest Hills and the trains had six cars (R46 equipment for the subway nerds).
There are a bunch of different programs targeting different cohorts. Associate2Tech and AmazonCareer choice are targeting the fulfillment center workers.

ATA is incredibly successful at small scale. Biggest challenge is scaling it up + making it work for everyone. If you are familiar with amazon's think big and pr faqs, educated guesses can be made as to the end vision for that program.

The NYT article is actually pretty poor compared to https://www.geekwire.com/2019/amazon-spend-700m-retrain-100k... or https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-det... because it misses the apprenticeship which is by far the most interesting program amazon is running since it's targeting the veterans.
Criminal trial attorney. The problem is the rules attorney must follow make it very difficult to step away, even to know how to step away.
Is that remark necessary?

Honestly, the classicist/entitled bullshit about what we (technologists) do is completely unearned. What most of us do isn’t special and the gate-keeping many people in this industry do to prevent others from entering this industry (and I’m guilty of it too at times) is unearned.

I’m glad Amazon is doing things like this. I’m glad programs are encouraging coal miners to learn a new skill.

Programming wasn’t always seen as white collar work.
I'm getting a lot of Ouya vibes from this project. Good UI/UX is hard, and "open platform" might get some kickstarter monies, but it isn't really something 99.9% of people care about.
>You can setup a a CI/CD pipeline in about half an hour with amplify, at the previous company I remember it taking a good 3 weeks to get CircleCi up and running properly.

>And then moving a microservice over to it is basically 1 command, a few options, mostly just copy over the config from your old express backend with a few changes, and you're done. It's insane.

As a an engineer at a decent sized tech company, this sounds pretty normal, because our infrastructure teams have been providing it (and much more) to service authors via internal APIs/web UIs for much longer than "serverless" has been a buzzword.
How is the scientific computing/machine learning ecosystem for Racket? Looking for suggestion from people who are experienced.
Debugging macro expanded code is definitely the number one pain with Hy, although a somewhat workable solution is to view the output of hy2py (comes with hy).

As far as the lack of functional programming semantics go (no tail call elimination is very sad indeed), there is no denying that either, but considering the applications I am recommending (c/c++ inter-op with python wrappers), you are hardly working in a functional domain in the first place.
It doesn't look like vaporware to me. The videos and updates seem legit.

> it'll get released with a half baked UI and a barebones list of apps.

Have you even looked into the project?

It's running Gnome, on Linux, all the regular apps are there.

Check out the videos in this link, it's not half-baked:

https://puri.sm/posts/runs-on-the-librem-5-smartphone-week-3...
That 10,000 total hands number isn't particularly meaningful on the point of adaptability because the humans aren't sharing information with each other. The important number is how many hands each individual human played against the AI. Another question would be whether the pros knew which player was the AI? Because if they didn't, you are basically throwing a modified Turing Test against the pros before they can even begin to try to find tendencies in the AI. Predicting opponents is a huge part of how people play poker. If the AI plays unlike any human, pros are at huge disadvantage against an AI compared to how they would fair against a similarly skilled but more traditional human player.

None of this is meant to diminish what you all accomplished, I'm just highlighting areas of poker in which this AI would be less successful than humans even if it is more successful overall.
My original post was about the author's bias, not about fruitarianism. My "less than optimal" comment was a gentle, intentionally non-confrontational effort to return the focus on bias rather than the specific diet. Clearly my effort failed.
Follow this advice. If you are working for an American company bribery is a horrible idea and in a situation like this would likely be used to make a case against you. The only exceptions made for bribes is if you feel like your life may be in immediate danger, in which case you are supposed to report the incident immediately to your employer and the local embassy.

The other downside to bribery is if you have money, you become a real target as everyone will start harassing you in exchange for bribes.
As far as I know Apple's manufacturing process is not particularly water-intensive.
Google translate implies a little more logical flushing of the septic tanks, rather than the flushing of a toilet, which would obviously not have a specialist.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_1206

"U 1206was equipped with a state-of-the-art toilet that was considered by the engineers to be the state of the art. While the Allies collected the fecal matter in their submarines in special tanks, feces and urine were collected in the conventional German submarines in containers that were emptied into the sea when sailing on the water surface. This led to considerable burdens on longer underwater trips, which became more and more important in view of the Allied air superiority. The high pressure in large water depths made it impossible to discharge the fecal matter at ordinary pressures. The problem was solved by a high-pressure toilet on the new type VIIC submarines. The operation of the same, however, was very complicated, so there was a sailor on each such submarine, which was specially trained in the art. The wastewater was passed through valves through a series of chambers until it landed in a compressed air lock. From here it was shot out with very compressed compressed air into the sea, to which however the other valves had to be closed."
> Just shockingly ugly.

Are you sure about that? It looks amazing:

https://puri.sm/posts/runs-on-the-librem-5-smartphone-week-3...
You can delete your data from your Google account though.
It's an artifact of the submission re-upping system as described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19774614
> My favorite part of your thorough debunking article is where it was published a month before the one I cited.

It's a debunking of the claim.

Church Militant's silly article was not the first to make the claim, nor was it the last. I can write a "the Earth is flat" article today with claims that've already been debunked for centuries.
How does that contradict what I wrote above?
I ran into a similar issue. I had 1100 dollars in an account secured by authenticator and did not save the recovery codes when I set it up. I had to jump through hoops to get it back, which is good.

But I didnt realize I would have to reset up every single code on authenticator on the new phone. When you have a lot of accounts it's pretty obnoxious even with recovery codes. It didnt help that google support directly told me that they would be automatically be restored on the new phone along with the rest of the settings.
With light deck armor, larger plunging shells would drop down from the top rather than piercing through the side (like hood was designed to withstand). Had the fatal shot been lower and closer she might have taken the blow, but alas, they fell right into her magazines.

Also I'm not a history major or anything so there will be inaccuracies in my posts. I'm just the son of a WW2 buff who himself is a WW2 buff, repeating most of this from memory. It's been a fun conversation so far though!
Poorly-aged tweet - in Who We Are and How We Got Here Robert Reich talks about the strong evidence for the existence of a "ghost population" that interbred only with the ancestors of modern sub-Saharan Africans. It's a ghost because we don't have any physical remains like we do with Neanderthals and Denisovans, but there is an ancient genetic signature that exists only in that population.

More generally - because people use motivated reasoning, you could just as easily spin the Neanderthal finding the opposite way. "Neanderthal ancestry is a secret superpower that makes Asian and European people special!" or whatever. Once you have your conclusion, you can spin the facts to fit your narrative.
Far right, of course, being anyone right of just left of Obama in ~2014.
Few things worry China’s elite more than getting their kids into Harvard
If someone were to develop an iphone-quality design with the same objectives as the librem 5, I'd pay $3000 for it.
How much would the market shrink if that was the price of what would become the librem 5? It's rather niche to begin with, but there isn't any real competition the meets the same objectives, and I assert that the customer base has the money to afford it.
“Gab—which has been tied to the suspect responsible for the Pittsburgh synagogue terror attack that killed 11 worshippers—”

This is an odd statement as it doesn’t say why it is significant that the shooter guy used Gab. I read the article and was expecting some sort of violence ethos with the product.

Citing that a murderer drank coke or uses Windows or curses on t-mobile is not significant, nor interesting. So I’m not sure how it made it past this piece’s editor.

Mastodon is an open source product, anyone can run it. Why is it interesting that nazis use it? That makes sense since it’s likely they were banned from centralized networks.

It’s like writing an article about how terrorists use PGP. That seems reasonable and expected.

The way this is written is that it’s somehow Mastodon, or Gab’s fault that jerks and criminals use their products.
Fair point. Though if the "last mile" commute from the bus stop/train station isn't too far, and in a relatively urban area, you can get an Uber trip in the worst case scenario of the bike breaking and taking the bike to a repair shop the next day.

It will likely still be more cost effective than driving all the time because you are unwilling/unable to take a bike on the bus/train.
And also based in the experiences of many others that have been shared with me. As can be seen in this story and the other comments on this thread.
i wonder if its cheaper to retrain vs outsourcing
New York Times is saying much more than that - they are saying that they are using an unspecified number of third parties each of which is operating independently while having potentially full access to customer data. And throwing their hands up in the air and saying that they have no control over any of this. Google isn't their only vendor and at least Google is likely to be operating within some bounds - you don't know what their other vendors are nor what they are doing. This renders the entire privacy policy moot from the consumer's perspective.

And no this is not something they have to do. The idea that they cannot control what their vendors do is completely absurd - they have contracts with these vendors so they can state exactly what vendors are allowed to do under these contracts in the privacy policy. The only excuse here is that they are either too embarrassed to put what's in these contracts and/or they have no idea what's in those contracts. What NYT is doing is more or less equivalent to selling their users' data, which Google does not do.
Ask HN: Best resources, books, & courses on Data Engineering?
Hi everyone, I'm searching for resources for learning data engineering, but I can't find anything on google because of SEO bullsh ruining the results.

My background is a Computer Engineering undergrad (lots of Java & Clojure, and an intro course to Hadoop), so I'm not starting from scratch. I want books/online resources that are up to date, and extremely practical from the perspective of someone doing big data in tech. E.g. Algorithms for Big Data, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, Scala, etc.

I really appreciate all suggestions, and comments on the quality of others' suggestions.
I’m interested in buying one and doing a hack project. Anyone interested in brainstorming with me?
Righteo, thanks for clearing that up.