skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Expecting this kind of nuance (or any nuance, really) from the mainstream is hopeful thinking. Everything seems to collapse into simple viewpoints after awhile.
I don't know what Google is expecting, but if I were interviewing you those sort of answers would satisfy me, if you explained your situaiton and made a decent attempt to provide some useful answer.

e.g. for #2 they're not actually doing due diligence on your current employer, they want to know about the sort of environment you thrive in, so talk about what you're looking for in a company's culture.

As you said, #3 is a chance to give lots of real world examples and play to your strengths.

For #4 they don't need to actually know about that specific project, they just want to know how you handle projects, so if there's a way you can answer that from your own experiences then that's fine.

I'd say your #5 is fair enough too. At that point that's probably the sort of thing you'd want to turn around. e.g. ask if they have hired people who have come from self-employed backgrounds, and if so how did they handle it.
I hate it sometimes too, and lose a lot of time to frequent interuptions. It still seems to work for us though. I think there may be some differences in our situation based on what you've said.

We don't hunt whales. We actually avoid them (whales take a long time to pay you, and are very demanding). If one customer wants something from us which we don't think will benefit our customer base as a whole, we point them to our various APIs, or just tell them no. That said, usually they want things which benefit our whole customer base, and so we're happy to work with them to provide this.

Customers almost always buy the software 'as-is'. While customers expect to be able to communicate their future needs to us, and expect our software to improve over time, very rarely does a sale hinge on developing a new feature. If it does, I am always consulted and will advise on whether we should agree to the sale (I'm consulted on unusual sales anyway).

The reason we're not 'self-serve' is because we have a services department devoted to providing a complete solution for our customers. Either remotely, or while visiting their facility. Customers pay for this separately.

We'll definitely need to hire more developers as we continue to grow, and I'm sure we'll face challenges scaling how we operate now, but I think the benefits are worth it.

Regarding getting features out the door faster with a single person. This is because I know the problem domain inside and out, even though it's a moving target. I know the domain because I constantly communicate with our end users and services staff (I used to be our whole services staff; very happy to have gotten past that!).

Oddly enough, the frustration of being interrupted is usually rewarded. I've had a lot of phone calls that started with me thinking 'I don't want to deal with this right now...', and ended with me thinking 'What a great idea for adding value to our product! I'm so glad I spoke with them directly!'. Typically the customer asks for something, and then we talk about why they want it, and we eventually (together) figure out an even better way to solve their real problem.

Anyway, YMMV. It sounds like the bigger challenge you're seeing is clients demanding new features, and deciding there's not acceptable ROI without them. That's definitely a problem, but I don't think it's necessarily solved by not having a team that does implementations?
> I fail to see the connection between the computers’ efficiency and standard of living. You seem to have made quite a big leap there. Can you please elaborate?

It is a big leap, and it's probably better suited for an essay than a HN comment. But the general idea is that most improvements to standard of living have relied on technology, whether that's agriculture (past 5000 years); plumbing and sanitation (past 2000 years); transportation and mass production (past 500 years); or calculation, communication and automation (past 50 years).

Humanity has been on an exponential curve of improvement for a hundred years, if not many hundreds. If this exponential in fact turns out to be more of a sigmoid function, and technological development eventually stops, it will have huge repercussions for our entire society.

I'm personally not fully convinced we've reached the end, but there are signs that we already have or will soon. Even if you think the chance of this happening is low, the consequences of an end to technological progress is huge. We need technologists, economists, socialists, politicians, and even fiction writers to be investigating this potentiality. The fact that this is not heavily studied is disturbing.
Realisation of a Key Register of Large Scale Topography in the Netherlands(2018)
Quoting single words in literature and in the media is absolutely commonplace. I can also clearly see that in the two very cases you cite, there was plenty of context, and very specific reasons to quote the single words that were quoted. They are meaningful because they’re demonstrating the character of the framing that the speaker was using, and by quoting it, the author is explicitly suggesting there are other possible framings. This kind of one word quote, for example, is used all the time to convey the sense that the speaker is exaggerating something. And please forgive me, but if we pick nits at this level, it’s invited, right? s/support what your saying/support what you’re saying/
Workwear brands (Carhartt, Duluth Trading, Dickies, Doc Martin, etc.) and some outdoor wear brands provide high quality and durability. If that's what you're interested in, and you've reached the point at which looking hip isn't your thing, and don't care to comb through piles of vintage items looking for a reasonable fit and style, you'll have options.

Aside from fast (tranlation: fall-apart) fashion, my major gripe over the past decade has been a transition to slim styles which offer very little latitude for different body shapes, and frankly feel tremendously uncomfortable in a full day's wear. You'll pay a slight premium, but generally less than mainstream brands.

A few classic items can offer many years of excellent wear without appearing dated.

The changes to mainstream clothing have lost my patronage at any number of stores. And the practices described in this NYT piece strike me as both alien and revolting.
Which company did you use in Romania?
I agree with your principle, but I don't think transparent pricing is an item that should fall under that umbrella. It's just basic honesty.
> I'd rip you to shreds on that one.

What a wonderful way to phrase talking about interviewing your potential future co-workers. You must be a very pleasant person to work for.
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> psuedoExample

should be pseudo-. Then I looked at the language page on C. The second sentence begins

C (, as in the letter c) is a

which seems to be a wikipedia quote, so I looked. Wikipedia has

C (/siː/, as in the letter c) is a
With regard to OS, they held a 90%+ market share in the 90's.

Today they retain a 70%+ market share of desktops and laptops.

And with Surface they are a top 5 hardware manufacturer as well.

It's impressive.
Is reality that harsh? Certainly there are immutable truths to be found, and of those, a certain subset aren't pleasant. But by and large in my experience, reality is largely neutral. What's often much harsher than any reality are the status quos of societal systems, and though they may be difficult to mutate, they are mutable.

As much as I detest things like the Men's Rights movement and MGTOW and other such groups, they've sprung up largely to fill the void left by the various (and rightful) excisions made into masculinity by progressive politics. We've learned how much of what was traditionally defined as masculine was not only sexist, but also just straight up harmful, both to men and everyone else. The problem is we set about destroying these elements of masculinity without then replacing them with something else, and nature abhors a vacuum. So now we have large sects of male demographics leaning into the toxicity, because having a bad identity is better than having no identity.

If I have one serious complaint with progressives, it's that the majority seem to regard men as privileged so far beyond everyone else that they have no legitimate complaints, and it's bullshit. And not only is it bullshit, it's ultimately self-defeating. With each lonely young man who is ignored and cast out of any kind of progressive minded group, the alt-right and MRA activists gain another pawn, easily radicalized against those who hate him when he himself has done nothing wrong.

So no, I don't think reality is that harsh. I think humans are harsh.
I'm not sure I understand the bit about digital technology, but this seems to me to be pure gold: "For me, what I've been trying to practice is that when I start to feel angry, to say "I feel angry" instead of "what is wrong with you??""
> Do you mean the mainstream press or something like this ? The fading out of single thread performance has been the major topic in computer architecture for a very long time.

Yes, computer architects have been thinking about this for a while, but so far it's largely stayed in their domain. Everyone else keeps thinking the "nerds" will keep on doing their thing and progress will continue exponentially as it has for the past 50-100 years. But what if that exponential stops, what if it's a sigmoid and not an exponential at all? We need folks outside of the computer industry to consider this possible outcome.
Rape, murder, death of family and friends, famine, cancer, torture. Getting stabbed. Being shot. Being enslaved. Total war. Being exterminated. Stuff like that.
After using food delivery and takeout services, I felt the plastic waste it generates is incredible. All the folks that care even a little bit about the environment, please just get out of your homes and just dine-in. Silicon Valley startups just don’t care about the environment, you can change that one person at a time.
Haha, way ahead of you on that one, bought a C64 and learning assembly/soldering and looking at how to make my own computer on FPGA (async. CPU) with my own OS/programming language and in parallel to that my own P2P radio internet: http://radiomesh.org

Even looked at making my own gerber editor and print my own PCBs with my AxiDraw plotter.

On the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ODzO7Lz_pw

I looked at your github but nothing is playable out-of-the-box, you could make something presentable?
Testing new website concept – Fixrly.com
Hey everyone. Trying a new startup and in the very very early proof of concept stage. Looking for some users to take a look and give any feedback. There is no cost of course.
The concept is Fixrly.com; which is an online social network connecting home owners, car owners, potential clients and do-it-yourself'ers with all kinds of handyworkers like plumbers, carpenters, mechanics, electricians, general handymen and construction.
Through Fixrly anyone can ask a question for free, and handyworkers can answer those questions for free. As we continue to build out the site, a potential customer can also search in their area for a handyman they want to hire. Handyworkers will gain points and achievements and level up their profile both in contributor level and with an overall score that they can use in their own marketing. Eventually the profit side would be through advertisements and pay-per-click through our search function.
Right now we are just trying to get some users signed up and any feedback we can get so we can take the concept to investors.
Nice! Good luck with Chinese.
There should be an anti price gouging law which states that a doctor can only change their prices every month or something, and must publish them publicly. This could also include stats indicating with which percentage what procedures are done for a specific complaint. Ex, for a head injury, in 50% of cases an MRI was done at cost X.

Then we could all use our internet connected phones to find the price instantly. If we are unconscious or decapitated at the time, we could set up a set up a ranking system beforehand weighing price, distance to hospital, and quality of service ratings.
I think you misread the claim.

> So what, then? A company just drifts in the void, with no strategy?

> Not exactly. It's harder than that. What executives need to do is come up with organizational values that indirectly result in the strategy they want.

> That is, if your company makes widgets and one of your values is customer satisfaction, you will probably end up with better widgets of the right sort for your existing customers. If one of your values is to be environmentally friendly, your widget factories will probably pollute less but cost more. If one of your values is to make the tools that run faster and smoother, your employees will probably make less bloatware and you'll probably hire different employees than if your values are to scale fast and capture the most customers in the shortest time.

The claim is that as a CEO, you can't make the right decisions because you're too far from the individual decisions that need to be made. If you intervene in decisions directly, you risk overruling the people who are supposed to have the information needed.

So you need a different lever than dictating the decisions made, even the strategic decisions. You do that by having the right people and getting alignment between them. That's what the author calls values. Telling everyone "our strategy is to have a game-changing product like the iPhone" lacks sufficient detail to be called a strategy. Getting into more detail risks making decisions you may not have the information to make. So you set values, like "we focus on the overall end-user experience, not just hardware or software." You get people on board with them. If you pick the right values, the strategy you want should emerge from the individual decisionmaking of the people below you.
Possibly something that urthecast.com could do.
Good explanation of a good implementation. Thanks for bringing my attention to something that's been right in front of me for years but I didn't know about.
Here's a blog from Segment explaining how/why they use MySQL in a similar fashion to how Rudder seems to be using Postgres: https://segment.com/blog/introducing-centrifuge/
Ask HN: Examples of open-source projects which became closed/proprietary?
Are there any examples of Open-source projects - which for some reason - became closed-source?

Theoretically the project could be forked and continued as open-source, but I'm just wondering if there are many known cases of this and if it's a valid concern...
I briefly looked into this, and from what I remember these were all always based on the "satellite" based wind models which were interpolations of predictions at a very low resolution based on infrared. Winds aloft, as I'm sure you know, are often measured by radiosondes, but the subtle thing being that these samplings only make it into aeronautical forecasts, and at least in the US, stay US only, and don't bubble up to global summaries. These global data sets are not granular at all, and wouldn't provide the detail at different elevations. I wish such a data set was available... perhaps with the global satellite based ADS-B someone could do some kind of sampling based on live flight data, but I'm sure it would be a private (and costly) dataset.
Every bit helps. If you are a male who shaves, just try switching over to DE razors. It has no plastics whatsoever and it feels great on the skin - unless you have no basic motor skills and cut yourself silly.
I switched over a decade ago and I’d never go back to plastic disposable razors.
Oh I see! I was misunderstanding what you meant by "quickly"; it seems you're referring to the sensor delay / how tight the feedback loop is.

Thanks for explaining!
Wow, you clearly have a wide range of experiences with these things, and I'm curious to hear what you could share.

How would you compare what you personally got out of NWT vs. est/Landmark?
saying is "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"
The author has an axe of gargantuan proportions to grind. The whole piece is trash and incredibly sanctimoniously written. A huge shame given that it contains many historical and linguistic nuggets.
How would you get ordering for millions of users? How many Kafka topics would you create? How would you managed failed events, would you reorder whole queue?

I don't think it is inefficient. Segment blog linked below talks about specifics of the problem.
It’s not rape if they were aroused by it, right?

(Once upon a time I wouldn’t have needed to put a /s here.)
> I had big justification in being torqued: I was trying, trying to learn math, physics, and in general science. So, hearing about the course in Philosophy of Science I took a chance, signed up, spent the time and the MONEY, tried, and the result was [... not good].

If you want to learn math or physics, take a math or physics class. A "Philosophy of Science" class will not teach you that. Philosophy studies how people think, how they perceive things, how they organize their motivations ... i.e., why people do what they do. In a "Philosophy of Science" class, I'd expect to learn about why so many people think science is important, why many people feel a desire to learn or have curiosity, and the repercussions of this on the individual and society.

Again, I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but it seems like you were trying to get something out of a class that it was never intended to give you.
In order for people to be in a town permanently the town must provide sufficient and affordable living opportunities for all its citizens. The town must also have a robust vision for young professionals, family life, and senior care, otherwise it's a town which cannot handle the full path of life.
Thanks, that is a good question to ask. I'll have to remember that.
I assumed the plot was not meant to be taken seriously.
1. A single, recent example of harshness:

6 weeks ago Epstein was suicided because his trial might have led to even a few of the super rich 1% from getting reprimanded for raping child sex slaves. Not only is there nothing any of us can really do about it, the world forgot in less than week.

Bad is winning. No path to utopia takes the "let them rich rape children" fork in the road.

2. Emotional armor:

The above example is a single drop in the ocean. Empathizing with the raped children hurts. Feeling your powerlessness to do anything about it hurts. Now start adding the 1000 other awful things that have being done to people. You already have, and you already have shut down. Nobody can feel that much pain. But having armor is more about letting yourself take as many hits as possible before shutting down than hiding. The more cold your empathy, the more you can stare into the void.

3. Better coping mechanisms

Dumping this shit into the safe space would defeat the point. It would just make the world even worse. I put what I can into trying to recruit. We could really use more strong people, if you're interested. Most of it though, I let it hurt me, then I use this awesome feature of being a human where I forget about things. In the moment it sucks, but over time I look back and see a beautiful existence.

Valor is a quality not easily acquired, and I wish to.
It is. It’s informative because people like to talk about “the police” as a homogeneous group of people who all think and act the same way; as if a rural sheriff in Alaska is the same person as a beat cop in NYC or a camera operator in London.

This sort of stereotyping is problematic, because you can’t fix problems if you can’t differentiate between dysfunctional and functional. You can’t make changes if you alienate the good with the bad. And you can’t make things better if you’re making global changes without understanding local context.
It's sad that I don't even know which exec you're referring to, yet it's applicable for all three.

At least, of those, Gates is doing good with all the wealth he accumulated.
In manipulation, there is a technique where if you want favour from someone, beat them to it by giving them something in advance.

This is a psychological ploy, and it doesn't even have to be all that meaningful of an item. At trade shows, it could be yet another novelty pen, an uninflated balloon with an outdated industry joke printed on it, a sticker you'll never stick, or whatever -- something they gave you, and that you will carry around. They don't give out t-shirts or cheap raffle tickets for neon pink Teslas just because they suspect you need one. They're triggering your brain into wanting to give them something in return - your time, your money, your resources. Well, inevitably it's always to eventually sell you whatever their product is, to avoid returns, and get/keep you on board.

A coupon is only one step outward from there. With a coupon, you actively "clip" it or whatever, keep it aside, carry it to the store and then cash it in. Basically a coupon is lame schwag with a hint of psychological manipulation.

If they simply docked the price by 15 cents, nobody would care and the item would probably only sell at normal volume. But on coupons, your brain has been actively trying to pay them back for the honour of having that coupon. Notice, the store honours or redeems them, but only if you hurry and do it before the deadline. You always feel like you're holding up the line and inconveniencing everyone all around for the honour of using them, yet they happily abide you. Because that was the intent all along.

Yes, I'm a couch psychologist. But on this, I don't think I'm very far off the mark.
That’s not what the quote said. It was “that he might have something in common with a friend or brother of the crowd,” which I took to mean that “they thought he might share their sexual proclivities.”
A very tangential point. I would not translate "violenté" by "violated". It simply means being the target of violence, getting harmed. The author states that it doesn't imply a sexual assault yet reads a bit too much into the original text.

Edit : actually, the French language has evolved since then and back when the letter was written, "violenté" could indeed mean (sexually) violated, like our modern "violé". My bad.
I'm not crazy about the Nordic Model.

An awful lot of feminist stuff seems to grow out of the poison seed of an idea that the cure for the way the world hates on women is to replace policies that hate on women with policies that actively and intentionally hate on men.

It is a fundamentally broken mental model that I cannot support. It is a variation of what so many activists do where they decry the injustice of the current system and how it mandates that Group A is allowed to shit on Group B, but their proposed solution is "As a member of Group B, I want a mandate that Group B gets to shit on Group A instead."

If all you are doing is rearranging the pieces on the gameboard without fundamentally changing the rules, you are merely reassigning which parties get unjust treatment. You aren't actually creating a more just world.

Given that this often boils down to saying to privileged people in power "I would like to stop being the world's toilet and I would like you to virtuously volunteer to take my place as a toilet," it's really not surprising that so much activism gets aggressive pushback from those currently in power.

The path forward is to find a rule set which states "Shitting on people is bad and forbidden. We don't care who they are, don't shit on them. Please and thank you (and backed up with a big stick if polite requests don't work on you)."
Great thread , looking for more threads like this one
Does the last paragraph of the article irks you a bit? The author is basically saying "Yes, we could abandon religious practices and eliminate all potential sexual abuse in religious communities, but then people would be less likely to volunteer and be slightly less happy" and somehow the author is interpreting this situation as a net loss. I don't get it.
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