skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Arguably both alternatives lead to the big company getting crushed in emerging markets. If you pay for performance in hot emerging markets you cause resentment in all the other divisions, which leads to them underperforming (which is often a more dangerous problem, since this includes the slow-growing cash cow divisions that finance the fast-growing emerging markets). If you don't pay for performance, everybody gets complacent, and you miss out on new markets to hot new competitors.

I spent 5 years at Google hoping the intrapreneurship thing would work. AFAICT it doesn't, and eventually I came to accept Paul Graham's conclusion that big companies are constitutionally incapable of innovating and that's why he makes lots of money funding startups. In my observations the biggest problem isn't even compensation: it's that there are too many roadblocks to launching things and trying things out in a big company, too much incentive to be risk-averse, and too little feedback from the market itself with too much feedback from irrelevant decision-makers within the organization. The flip side of fixing those is that it radically increases both the failure rate and the rate at which the company pisses off outside people, both of which would be fatal at Google's scale.

IMHO the way Google does compensation is the best I've seen, it's just that "the best" will still result in good companies getting crushed by upstarts. So just accept that and try to create a good working environment while the company continues to print cash.
It's not unusual, but if you know the game, it's fun to see how it's done.
Did you look at the build log I posted ?
I disagree.

Near realtime (say sub 1-minute) feeds can be leveraged to extract a lot of value out of the data you're collecting. Perhaps maybe not for your typical SaaS startup, but for free-to-play video games you end up leaving so much value on the table if you can't quickly (automatically) respond to spend or churn indicators.

I think a good rule of thumb for this is looking at how fast your decisions are made. If you're making decisions daily then refreshing your data every 24 hours is probably good enough. If you're making decisions every hour, then every 60 minutes is probably good enough.

Another factor is scale. When you're dealing with 6-figure CCUs and are trying to optimize conversion or retention through split-testing, figuring out which variants are anomalously poorly performing quickly can save you a whole lot of money.

I reckon there's at least a 50 titles that can benefit from streaming analytics, which immediately affects anywhere from 100-500 employees (analysts, engineers) and likely influences over 1000 (broader company). That's a significant portion of the field.
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What about a modern mountain bike? Those are built to cross worse paths than just a regular dirt path.
Over the years there have been countless times when I had to convert an easy to understand recursive program into a messy state machine or a heap of callbacks, for one reason or the other.

I always did these conversions in an ad-hoc fashion but this approach based on CPS + defunctionalization is definitely much clearer and easier on the brain!
> As with all companies paying workers to do a job, the compensation should reflect the confluence of supply and demand in the market.

This isn't currently the case by a long shot, compensation is more driven by a monopolist control of the market than anything else. For retail, manufacturing and similar positions (like the amazon warehouse) compensation isn't being allowed to freely vary - businesses have become unreasonably entrenched and therefore retain a strong control of the capital for production, leading to an unbelievably strong wealth inequality. If you asked America who would be willing to take Jeff Bezos's job for a tenth of the compensation (including some stock options to make up for the fact that Bezos actually is paid quite modestly) everyone's hand would shoot up, among those there would be plenty of qualified individuals (including plenty with the aptitude but lacking the prior experience expected) - but for some reason the board of directors hasn't taken this action...

This is a sort of "free market" but not the sort of "free market" that I appreciate.
It's great to collect stats on how many people clicked it.
The problem is that workers in this position are getting squeezed by opposing forces.

On the top you have automation. They have jobs because they cost less than robots. But every wage increase or company benefit or break that reduces worker productivity is a step closer to cost parity with automation, and therefore the unemployment line.

On the other side, they can move away from that line by accepting lower pay or worse working conditions. And there is a trade off between the two as well -- if the job sucks more in a way that allows the business to hire fewer people then they can each get paid more without crossing the line where the jobs get automated.

Blaming Amazon for this is like blaming the local power company for world energy prices. They're just providing one corner of the triangle -- you can work there and have a hard job but better pay than most other unskilled work. If you want an easier unskilled job, those exist too, and they don't pay as much.

But the option to do easy unskilled work for high compensation isn't there. That's the corner of the triangle where the humans cost more than the robots. And maybe that's for the best, but the workers don't need Amazon to actually do that to get the same outcome from their perspective -- they can just quit.
That's a huge part of reddits charm for me.
In civil law countries it is outright illegal for purchases of children going through if parents disapprove.

For example art. 19 Swiss Civil Code (https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/19070042/...) says: «[...] may only enter into obligations [...] with the consent of their legal representative.»

In other words, children can only «buy» things if parents don't object.

However I can imagine that it is sometimes simply impossible to get the monay back. National law as empty words.
Can you imagine having a bicycle made of casting iron with the technology of the past? Tetanus would be a problem, people wouldn't be able to have bicycles close to the ocean, it would be even dangerous if the person fell on the ground.

It certainly is amazing how people take for granted the marvels of current technology.
I learnt it from Milton, but it's nice to still discover other people figured out this.
If a three year old came into your hardware store waving his mother's credit card and assured the staff that he had parental permission to buy a chainsaw, would you fire the employee that sold him that chainsaw? Or would you, like the company in question in this article, refuse to respond to phone calls from that confused mother?
Since when was proof required when talking about climate change? If there was actual proof that human activity makes a difference, there wouldn't be any denial.
Unless (like me) you write your papers in org-mode too!
Thanks, but no I don't. I use the ESC key on the touchbar all the time.
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Did you read the article at all? A game says it is for 3 years old and above and it uses trickery to manipulate a 5 year old into thinking that real money is just game coins. How are you supposed to control that?
Camera connectors and card readers work on most Android phones, and it's awesome to be able to swap them back and forth with my laptop. If you work at it a little so do USB drives and yubikeys. I can also charge my laptop, phone, camera, headphones, and tablet from one charger.

I'll take 10 minutes extra effort every few years to order the correct cable in exchange for that...
There's exponentially more background noise than there used to be

It's easier to return the most relevant 10 results when there's only 10 thousand options than when there's 10 trillion options with 10 thousand new ones created every day.
A foodbank at a local university ran basically autonomously because the donations were food. Walk in, close the door for privacy, and either give or take items at your leisure.
Or, they shut down those voyages because they were economically absurd.
Recently, I left a company where resume driven development resulted in projects being months behind, buggy, hard to work with, and over complicated.

The people who chose to use unproven tech for uses cases it wasn't designed for were obviously promoted.

I don't know if there is a good way to deal with the situation if your managers are hands-off.
> I agree with the worker in the video, they should be treated as human beings. One of the issues is doing a simple, monotonous task every 8 seconds, 10 hours a day, 5 days a week, without creating anything of value, is going to be dehumanizing and unfulfilling regardless.

If it’s a task that can’t easily be automated and needs to be done, the doing it is creating value.
My supporting quote is describing a developer who pushes back against bad requirements to find a better solution, not someone who just acquieses to what product managers want.
Not if people only have so much time+energy+motivation to protest things. Attempting to get people angry at one thing is implicitly an attempt to "spend" the limited currency of their motivation-to-make-the-world-a-better-place.

Righteous indignation works similarly to the "warm fuzzies" that cause people to donate to charity. Each person craves some set amount of these resources; once they have enough, they're satisfied, and they stop bothering to do things whose only reward is more of that resource.
CEO's sit on board for other companies where they get to decide on the salary for CEO's who sit on the boards of companies where they get to decide on the salary for CEO's who... well, you get it by now. Like the revolving door between politics and business these people generally do not bite the hand that feeds them so generously.
My question is about OP's assertment:

> Unreal Engine, like Unity, right now has to be used with Autodesk products like 3DS Max or Maya

I am asking why they think this is the case. Not the circular reasoning of "most professionals use it" but I am interested in what they feel the Blender is missing.
If you haven't seen it all ready just take a look at the infamous "Let's Go Whaling!" talk here [1]. They're not even hiding the fact the these are the type of people Free2Play/Pay2Win games prey on anymore.

[1]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNjI03CGkb4
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There's an emphasis on the word "likely" in that article, so it's speculation at best.
A reply, now deleted, pointed out that AnimalMuppet's "source" appears to be more of a work of ideologically-motivated fiction than a source of credible information, as described in the Amazon reviews: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RKTM14HNQUUFO
Live coding a compiler for CP/M, from scratch
Maybe these open web apps should be built on the... open web?
The TV series "Connections" did a great job demonstrating how often that more often than not we're not short on ideas or inventions or inventiveness.

Usually there are a lot of great ideas, but availability of materials in quantity, or a key part is what is missing, sometimes for centuries, and often comes from someplace you might not expect.
So to make an easy commercial usefulness, one needs to make them from cheap metal alloys, apply enough electrical power (V vs A) to make them go hotter then any environmental changes and voila!, you'll have a better then current hydraulic solutions. I hope this takes off since I never liked hydraulic ones due to danger of spilling fluids and not so easy maintenance requirements.
Yeah, this is just a list of favorite apps among the indie Apple developer crowd.

I'm surprised Daring Fireball didn't end up on there somehow :)
Microsoft to allow Alexa to integrate further into Windows 10
That is very much dependent on department.
That is somewhat misleading as some apps are essentially shareware, aka free with a single in app purchase to the the full version.

I think Apple would be well served by limiting in app purchases to either 200$ over the lifetime of app or 20$ per month. That would get rid of most bad press without costing them much. They could even then allow specific exceptions on a case by case basis.
As much as people in finance love their excel spreadsheets, it’d be lovely if the programming skills of data scientists were adopted. Excel is so horribly inefficient when it comes to reproducibility, auditing, and updating. I can only imagine how much time is wasted throughout enterprises updating models like this because someone some time made a change that wasn’t documented — giving erroneous results.
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Not the design, no, but bicycles themselves are trademarked and sold as a product. It's a free-as-in-beer problem rather than free-as-in-freedom.
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Can the use of the term “surprise mechanics” not in itself lead to some definition of gambling? eg.: Gamblers continuously perform some
behaviour in order to
activate some sort of “surprise circuit” within the mind?

Surely their definition is not too far from that of gambling or the mechanics of the circuits activated by gambling/surprises, within the mind.
There is a lot you can do, but you shouldn't have to. This isn't someone burning down their school. This is the first world becoming the third world in digital.

In the third world you always to watch yourself so you don't hurt, scammed or abused with little recourse. So being curious, doing something different or challenging the status quo becomes a liability. Eventually there isn't much development at all, only corruption and people knowing their place.

When you buy something in a store with cash in person, after having it shown by an employee, you can still in most cases return the thing at your will. But when some clicks a button moving a few bytes with a digital payment that in reality costs nothing, there is of course nothing that can be done. This industry is just increasingly rubbish.

Don't click this, don't open that e-mail and don't answer the phone. You don't know who it is from or who it is going to. Don't have that password, don't type it there, don't have it too long and don't make it too short. We can automate your job, but not authentication. Don't publish that, don't vote like this and don't live here. Know your place.

(At least my banks haven't offered virtual cards for many years).
My guess is that Instagram users on average probably follow more people than they did one or two years ago but probably give out about the same total number of likes.
Not OP, but the ones I know of are RAND, SpaceX, Illuminia, RevGen, and Tesla, in no particular order. Not saying they are good places to work, but they do seem to have more smart people than not
Is "an efficient market" the only goal?
Absolutely, the butterfly effect renders all back in time plots fatally flawed. Never mind killing Hitler's grandfather or making sure your parents still meet, your very appearance in an earlier world, even for an instant, would guarantee that before long you and everyone else who would otherwise have been born afterwards would certainly never exist.
This is misleading.

It is true that people are rewarded for impact, which usually means new systems. But this does not necessarily mean new products from an external perspective. I know a lot of people who have been promoted really high based on stuff that they have led that has zero visibility to external users but ends up being worth oodles of money (or whatever metric you are trying to impact).

Zillions of product launches seems to arise from a combination of a largely bottom-up company with a ton of employees and a culture of building things themselves rather than using existing solutions.
As someone not actively involved in crime, gangs, etc. my chance of getting murdered in the US is roughly zero

But I do have political beliefs which would put me under threat in China were I to voice them or act on them. And I would want to raise my children in a place where they won't be discriminated against for being LGBT (although discrimination still happens in the US, at least you can be out and proud. In China, to my knowledge homosexuality is very much "don't ask don't tell")
> " Young gamers are getting so used to it "

Young consumers of all sorts are participants in a war many of them don't even realize exists. A war in which their opposition are marketing professionals, trained in psychology in universities to trick and exploit children. Against this, a lot of kids don't stand a chance. And it seems the marketers sleep at night by blaming the parents for failing to protect their children from predators like themselves, or by making what they (mistakenly) believe to be favorable analogies to other predatory industries targeting children, such as "collectable card games" or 900 number "video game tip lines."
This is a huge reason we use Target over Amazon for skin care products and household items. Trying to find an item, then determining if it is legitimate, if the reviews are real or fake and then comparing prices and shipping options its much easier to use Target. Of course in-store pickup with Target is even better if you need something faster than two-day shipping.
Do you have a link/name of the wifi power plugs? Sounds intriguing.
Well, cables in question are mostly backwards-compatible, so as long as it would actually transition forward, the prospect of using a single ultimative cable with any device with identical ports seems actually nice. The problem is not that USB-C is a bad standard trying to combine too much in a single port, the problem is that there are multiple different cables absolutely identical from the outside at one time on the market and not only they are not color-coded (as it was with USB3 long time ago) to be distinguishable, manufacturers don't even bother to write on the box what exactly standard/generation this is. That is, even when you specifically buy a cable in a box, not even to mention situations when some piece of wire came to you with a phone or whatever.
That is a very bad example. In Switzerland, if you are a severe addict, you can get heroine in pharmacies. The most important restriction is that if you buy the stuff, you are also bound to go to a therapeutic clinic and have staff assisting you whenever you want to withdraw. There are also clean injection rooms and other social mechanisms that help you get off the stuff.

The result -- fewer heroine addicts, fewer drug-related crime, less active criminal underworld (because of lower drug-related income).

An adult discourse and proper handling of addiction and substance abuse not only helps the addicts, but the whole society.
It doesn't need to be, because Amazon has increased their minimum pay everywhere across the US to $15/hr last year.[0]

0. https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-amazon-raising-mi...
> Areas where centralization and high levels of security are important such as tax filing, flight booking, and online banking will likely use proprietary software for the foreseeable future.

Financial institutions, and government institutions, etc. will mostly be using proprietary operating systems for exactly this reason. By not teaching how they work (to a novice/intermediate level, not kernel specifics!) you preclude your students from taking most roles in such organisations. I'm not saying it's good that public services rely on private business, but it is naive to ignore it.
I struggled with how to word that in a way that's both true, understandable, and doesn't give away any proprietary information. Added "indexed" to clarify but I didn't fix up the numbers, so they're likely an overestimate.

Basically, yes, it uses an index and touches only documents that appear in one of the relevant posting lists. However, after stemming, spell-correcting, synonyms, and a number of other expansions I'm not at liberty to discuss, there can be a lot of query terms that it needs to look through, covering a significant portion of the index. Each one of these needs to be scored (well, sorta - there are various tricks you can use to avoid scoring some docs, which again I'm not at liberty to discuss), and it's usually beneficial to merge the scores only after they have been computed for all query terms, because you have more information about context available then.

There's a reason Google uses an in-memory index: it gives you a lot more flexibility about what information you can use to score documents at query time, which in turn lets you use more of the query as context. With an on-disk index you basically have to precompute scores for each term and can only merge them with simple arithmetic formulas.
Sounds like the Boeing 737 MAX problem (without the killing part).
So like, putting the whole airplane in a condom? I wonder what effect modern vinyl graphics have, my initial thought is they would slow expansion, and slow any decompression.
>A while ago, i needed to search something from the cli with w3m, ddg wouldn't work without JS so I had to use google.

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/features/n...
Is DF still relevant? I feel he's lost his independence from AAPL since they started taking him seriously.
Does it still look like such a good thing of you're already in a world that is capable of supplying almost unlimited free entertainment (or education, for that matter). I mean, I'd say the preference for entertainment over education is somewhat depressing/pathological, but let's leave that 'elitist' position behind...

In times passed we had a limited supply of literature, music, games, even god forbid, TV and movies. But these days we can put those on mediums that practically never degrade, and the rate of production has gone through the roof, and the producers of many of those goods are either dead and gone or there is no way to get money to them for their work, and we have the technical means to get them to whoever could want them at an almost zero marginal cost.

In that environment, a population that clocks time mindlessly feeding dollars to another party looks pretty sick. Which is, it would be my contention, is exactly what they are.

It is essentially the same as the old and uneducated who pump billions of dollars through the mindless gambling machines in my country. Not a image of humanity anyone would talk about with anything approaching pride/respect. Frankly, we should be ashamed...
I read a biography of the Wright Brothers, which pointed out that they spent quite some time and effort with their gliders, learning how to fly. So they were already skilled pilots before they attempted powered flight. The book suggested that this idea occurred to none of the other airplane inventors.

There might have been a similar problem with the bicycle: Anybody who built the first one had no idea of how to ride it, and lacked the advantages of being six years old, namely closer to the ground and quicker to heal from minor injuries.

What I want to ask: Why are we still waiting so long for the bicycle? There just seem like so many barriers to more widespread adoption.
I assumed the commenter was in England. I can see how my comment was misleading.

Still, I stand by my point that you can get a note of the local currency from a bank brand new (you may have to ask around) and it will be good enough for someone who just wants to have a new one and isn’t going to get it graded.
Not everyone else is. People may put up with the 'above average' amazon because everything else in the area is still paying closer to minimum wage. If min wage was raised, it might make it easier to say 'no' to the amazon warehouse gig.
The $260M utility token built on a network with less than 10k verified users
A glaring oversight in and of itself. If you're going to have interoperability between mobile and console games, the ratings agencies should have jurisdiction across the spectrum.