skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At one startup I was lucky/early enough to have the leverage to declare this as a policy (for me). If I didn't have minimally an agenda with a clear owner and at least one listed decision (or, rarely, a sensible request for inform only meeting) I wasn't going to attend. It got a bit of friction at first but increased the effectiveness of meetings by about 80% I think. It was nice while it lasted.
Damning of the quality of their survey perhaps? I could point them to loads of such people.
Important context quote:
“Instead he says there has been a rise of managerial roles, which are often not very well defined, and where "the hierarchy is not that clear".“

So this article doesn’t apply to tech-focused organizations. For sure, meetings are still relevant there, but should trend to fewer not more
I think that for smaller crimes it would be good to randomly prosecute, say, 5% of all instances of that crime (assuming a truly random choice is made). This stops career thieves from getting away with things forever but reduces the burden on society to prosecute every instance.
At least on my FB feed (which is indeed becoming less full over time), at least once a week someone will raise the question of 'is there anywhere to go after Facebook?' So at least some people are looking.
What could the problem be, then? Do we point fingers at capitalism?

As far as I see it, this is the logical conclusion to capitalism and free markets. Manufacturers produce a product and sell it to many suppliers who all rebrand and mark up in their own ways, competing with each other for market share. As consumers, we are presented with basically only this option because the suppliers have all won the race to the bottom. There's no more room in the market for slightly-more-expensive things unless they work way better than the slightly-less-expensive copycat stuff, because it's not worth the time or energy to compete with the poor-quality stuff. But as a result, we as consumers no longer have "choice" in the market because of China (et al.)'s manufacturing capabilities and leverage driving this phenomenon. Coupled with the consumers' relative disinterest in products of proper quality, because what they have access to is already good enough for the moment, how can we ever expect the crapification of commodities to reverse?
I feel the same. I find social networks pretty valuable but don't like or trust Facebook. I'd happily sign up (and pay for) a social network that brought the same benefits but was (1.) ad-free and (2.) didn't employ tons of people trying to maximize my engagement.
$13/month does feel like an odd price point to me. I imagine people would compare to what they pay for Netflix, HULU, etc, and wonder why this is so high.
Governments around the world should demand Facebook either place a permanent ad banner promoting WT:Social front and center on their website for everyone from that country, or they can pay $x00 million in fines per month. If Facebook chooses to pay the fine, half the fine should then be donated to WT:Social to keep their site running and the rest can be distributed back to the taxpayers. :-)
Interesting, in other words :

-there is no housing shortage in SF/NYC/any big city, just a shortage at what you are willing to pay

-there's no shortage of insulin or medications or health-care just a shortage at the price you are willing to pay.

-no affordable education crisis....
(on and on...)

You see if you don't pay the market rate for the resource, Sh_t out of luck.

sauce for the goose == sauce for the gander
Jeffrey Epstein's Lolita?
Thanks for your extensive analysis!

Did you ever publish the results of your power/load monitoring on the various boards?
Socrates versus Roger Stone
If he was doing olympiads in high school, he was already doing proof-based math then.

I think Terry Tao describes the stages of mathematical maturity really well: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/theres-more-to-...
This is the solution to most of the world's problems... If not all.
How would taking the AP exam in high school be appropriate in this case? That would be the equivalent of taking an AP exam in math 5 years after graduating EE in college.

People are going to have different opinions on whether or not it's worth a 13 year sentence of boredom in order to socialize with age peers, but I really question whether the default high school experience is, for most people, a good thing. Activities like sports and music seem like a vastly better return on effort for advanced kids, with more positive values in the milieu than the typical high school popularity contest.

Ultimately, the world is defined by a vast diversity in ages, backgrounds, and capabilities. If you want to do something in that world, and you're really young, you'll first have to get used to being the youngest person in the room.

Throw all of this argument out the window if the student actually enjoys school, of course.
The problem here is that Amazon wants an automated process, which is fundamentally incompatible with how sales works. You can't reliably go through and identify all of the products you sell by trademark and verify that the pricing is within a certain reasonable percentage of the seller's price or MSRP. And if there's no posted MSRP you're stuck assessing the market price based on how much others have paid for the same piece. This isn't a process you can automate. And Amazon is so deeply a software company that they can't conceive of a way to do this without using software.
John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing (Aspray) is a great historical account and details many of his other contributions (e.g. game theory, automata, but especially meteorology).
#! /usr/local/bin/perl -w

use Lingua::Romana::Perligata;

maximum inquementum tum biguttam egresso scribe.
meo maximo vestibulo perlegamentum da.
da duo tum maximum conscribementa meis listis.

dum listis decapitamentum damentum nexto
fac sic
nextum tum novumversum scribe egresso.
lista sic hoc recidementum nextum cis vannementa da listis.
cis.

And people say Perl requires too much punctuation!
Wow how times have changed.
Is there any info on where they got the procedure? From what I understand, LASIK is quite reasonably safe, as long as you don't goto a place advertising "SUPER SUPER CHEAP LASIK ONE EYE FREE" etc. You get what you pay for.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if actually those are from cheap doctors.
I checked it out by creating an account. It detected my country as India, and showed the price to jump the waitlist (currently at 60k) as $12.99 a month or $100 a year. Contrast this to (using current conversion rates from INR to USD):

* Netflix here starts at $2.8 for the cheapest (mobile only, single screen) plan and has its highest plan (4K, four screens) at $11.2 a month. Netflix is considered so expensive that account sharing among a few people is quite common.

* Amazon Prime (with two day shipping plus Prime Video and Prime Music) costs about $14 a year.

* A print newspaper subscription of any major national newspaper would cost about $2.8 or even a lot lesser per month.

* An Audible subscription (one free credit a month) costs $2.8 a month, with lower prices on audiobooks and discounts on them.

* Some premium news publications cost about $30-$45 a year.

I'm not saying that this is similar to Netflix or Amazon or a national newspaper, but it's more about how the more popular as well as niche/premium services have priced themselves and how people perceive value. Comparatively, this $12.99/month or $100/year social network focused on news seems like it's meant for some sections of first world inhabitants. It could've probably done better with a currency adjusted or purchasing power parity specific rate. For example, Cloudflare WARP+ costs about $0.97 a month (compared to $4.99 a month in the US).

Having talked about the pricing, the UI doesn't look great either. I saw a list of groups to choose from and the page looked like it was built more than a decade ago. It ought to look like a modern website (with more bells and whistles) if it wants to command more than premium rates. Even Facebook's site, which I think looks outdated, cluttered and ugly, looks better in comparison.
I'm happy. My work is fairly rewarding, though I have some small regrets I wasn't able to pursue an academic career.

I don't regret doing this. I was a super-fast learner, and I don't think I would be able to bear a full-length school+university circuit.
I saw the best minds of my generation...
Germany Passes Law Forcing Apple to Open Up iPhone NFC Chip to Apple Pay Rivals
It's definitely cool.. though I do think an ITX build may make more sense unless you're actually mounting the NUC to something, since it's much lower performance, and the cost does feel a bit over-priced. Very cool all the same.

Aside, if you're doing a docker host, without doing kubernetes, take a look at dokku, definitely a favorite... `git push deploy` with a Dockerfile in the project root, for most of my one-off projects.
This is an important perspective. If these were the rates for a necessary medical intervention, we would be ecstatic. Because for a necessary medical intervention, the patient's baseline is not good. But wearing glasses is mostly a nuisance, not a health issue.

I've worn glasses since I was seven-years-old. They are a nuisance sometimes. But elective surgery, particularly for my eyes, makes me nervous. I don't want to take even a 1% chance of chronic eye problems to get rid of glasses.
I wonder why PC cooling brands haven't discovered this market yet.

Building a heat sink case with attachable fans doesn't seem all that impossible.
Interesting. True. But is that because we lack the communication skills to explain the rules to chimps, or because they lack the cognitive modelling ability to understand those rules?
Perhaps base your reasoning on first principles instead of the von Neumann who is in your head.
Wasn't NordVPN recently pwned via an IPMI security hole?

iLO is kind of a piece of crap, but I do love my Xen and resource pools
Unfortunately not at the moment. We would have quite hard time to give you the proper support that you need.
I wish they broke that $400m down so we could see how much went to AWS.

> the company has developed algorithms to sift through the more than 5 billion changes to its worldwide catalogue each day
HN is “social”. It’s just not so “social” that I want to throw my router off the balcony upon reading it.
An ultrasonic cleaner is like a hair dyer though. It's not rocket science it's like banging rocks together. My $100 ultrasonic cleaner I have for cleaning brass that is for reloading ammo probably does the same work as the cheap no name brands just with different settings. My no name chinese ozone machine works great for detailing cars. If you're going to bring this up stick with a product that is actually going to be a problem if you buy no name, like batteries, chargers, etc.
Most people spend their whole time in school learning things that they will never, ever use. Pardon my linking to twitter, but this thread really sums it up:

https://twitter.com/3liza/status/1190843201315147776

It's been my experience as well. I used to read pop-sci books voraciously from ~1st grade onward, and as a result everything in science classes from middle school until the middle of college were basically review for me. (As a result, I was bored and did poorly in most science/math type courses)

Another example is a kid in my high school who was running a reptile business during his sophomore year. They had him doing algebra and writing papers about US history. Why? The kid already knew more than the biology teacher about reptiles. And he made more money than any of us did at 16. Why is he spending 8 hours a day training to take the SAT?

18 year olds can know quite a lot, they're just not allowed to spend time learning things. Instead they have to learn a bunch of useless crap in school, from elementary school onward. All the way up to upper div in college. This is only getting worse, since school (especially "college prep") is sucking all free time out of the lives of children.
I’m running two 4k monitors with two+ year-old Intel gfx right now. Depends how old they are really.
I love what Jimmy contributed to the world with Wikipedia. This, however, is DOA. The site barely communicates a value-proposition, doesn't give me a sense of what's behind the curtain unless I pay $13/month. C'mon the best practices for building product are WIDELY available now.
These stories stick in the mind. You won't hear the stories about how something didn't happen, like someone with an expired license was let go and allowed to get home in time to keep their job and therefore didn't end up stealing because they lost their job and had no other way to earn money.

Going to jail can have a huge ripple effect on an individual and their community that isn't accounted for.

The parable of the broken window (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window) seems apt here.
The key takeaway to me here is that if you are gifted you should go to a top-tier school, not necessarily wait.
Ah! Then I would argue that your original sentiment is too vague to be understood that way. How I read it was that the poster who doesn't look disheveled doesn't look like s/he cares about his job.

For what it's worth now, I agree with you 100%. The loudest person to talk about how useful they are, generally are the least useful.
Kemal framework used. Interesting.
Do this with plot files and dxf's and you can sell it
> TLDR: Architecture is derived from use cases.

This, completely.

I always try to explain to startups that they don't understand the problem until they've built the first version and launched it, and until they understand the problem they can't spec an architecture to solve it.

Needless to say, it's not a popular opinion ;)
I think it is way more than the "ninth most popular website." I'm quite sure the Web would be a very different place if it hadn't existed. In fact, I would rank Wikipedia alongside the Web and perhaps the Internet. Not only did it establish that information about nearly everything would be available free and without commercial motivations (obviously, with tremendous caveats, but still far closer to those ideals than any of its contemporaries), it also provides an incredible corpus that is the basis of many machine learning approaches. With the excuses people make on a daily basis, there's no assurance something like Wikipedia would have happened the same way. And it continues to develop important projects. Separately, Wales doesn't deserve all the credit, but I just can't leave that the summary of "Wikipedia" is it's "almost as popular as Facebook."
> a ton of people are making it through the education system without learning anything at all

Well people learn something. What is interesting in the NCES national literacy surveys they've consistently found that around 45% of adults who didn't graduate high school are illiterate, about 20% of adults who did graduate high school (but no further schooling) are illiterate, and about 10% of the population overall is illiterate. There's also non-zero illiteracy results for various levels of college graduates, ranging from 1 to 4% depending on the degree level.

Now these students that are graduating high school and college illiterate are extremely interesting. What's going on? Do they have incredible memorization skills and learn from listening to books on tape? Or have they selected degrees and colleges where literacy is not required, perhaps an art or physical education major or something of the kind at a small private college. They are submitting at least some papers and taking tests in their classes most likely. Papers can be bought or ghost authored, is that happening to the extent that illiterates can get a degree? Test taking, perhaps some professors will give everyone a passing grade just for attending even if they turn in blank tests. Is that happening? Or perhaps the illiterate people self-reporting to NCES that they have a Masters degree (1% of Masters degrees holders are illiterate) are lying either about about their degrees or intentionally failing the literacy testing just because they thought it was funny?

At the high school level though I am pretty sure the case of large numbers of illiterate graduates is that a lot of schools pass you with Gentleman's C's just for showing up, remaining quiet and obedient, avoiding fights, and not causing any disturbances or problems for the teachers. If you do this and don't turn in a single assignment and guess randomly on all tests you can graduate from many US high schools.

I have met several illiterate high school graduates so I know it is a real thing that happens. They all had great personalities. Some of them are successful business owners. Graduating illiterate might require some people skills.
> "People don't do concrete things any more," he says.

I (dev) and my team certainly do.

To that end, I've started putting a standard caveat at the end of all my team meeting reminders on chat: Everyone is optional, but everyone who goes must have read the agenda and linked pre-reading.

First couple of times I did that, some people self-called-out as not having read the notes (after asking questions specifically addressed in the notes). After that it's been mostly good. People have thanked me for my efficient meetings, but all I did was to make people read the agenda :)

"Therapy" meetings certainly have their place, and I've personally grown a lot as a person in those. We have one (retro) every two weeks. But if most meetings in your organization are better thought of as therapy meetings... well, it's no surprise people don't do concrete things any more.
It's becoming a huge peeve of mine when people seem to have forgotten what thread they're in and take a statement out of all reasonable context or nitpick about things that do not materially degrade the point (quotes are a little fussy that way, who knows how people will interpret them).

On reddit they'd just invoke /r/lostredditor

My latest strategy is to hit back with humor. I don't know if it's working, but early results are positive.
I received two nvme ssd's in a padded envelope. They could easily have been destroyed. They delivered a $500 video card by slapping a shipping sticker on the product box and shipping it that way.

On the other hand, I received a $12 box of wet wipes that came in a giant, nicely padded box. The product itself was in a sturdy box. $400 dollars worth of computer storage was shipped improperly, but Amazon made sure I got my box of wet wipes safe and sound!

More often than not, I receive small items in giant boxes. Amazon used to ship one order in one box, now they ship one order in many boxes.

I don't know how much waste Amazon generates with lazy packaging, but it must be a colossal amount.
Socialization is an education too and it takes as long as real education or longer.

I can't imagine isolating a child like that at a university.

It's not the same socialization as with your peers that kids need.
If we allowed kids to choose what they wanted to learn, they would all be playing video games all day.

We really shouldn't care about what a 13 year old thinks they should be learning.
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> which were highlighted by incomplete coverage

This is the single most important part of code coverage IMO: we don't care about what the tests cover, we care about what the humans never considered.

For this reason I'm a proponent of 100% coverage with a major caveat: Any code you explicitly decided not to test gets marked "no cover", so it doesn't count for or against the coverage score. This way branches that were accidentally missed really stand out, and we're not bogged down by having to test 100% of the code.
> But wait! Even looking everywhere else it's the same situation as Amazon!

It isn't a problem on Walmart or Target's websites, because they don't allow white-label Chinese goods to be sold on them.
What's your goal? Learn technology? project that may turn into a business? a game?
How Much Does It Cost to Attack You?
I didn't know banks weren't allowed to use NFC for payments in Apple world. That's frankly crazy, there's no way that'd fly in the long run. Any insights to why Apple even tried this?
> She didn’t need glasses when she got the procedure, so it frustrates her that now she does. She blames LASIK for making her eyes worse.

WTF would you get eye surgery if you don't need glasses to begin with!?
Well we can't blame all clever sayings on Ben Franklin now, can we.
Obviously not. But gotta reinforce the fat and lazy American stereotype
I've switched to dailies and it's wonderful. I don't normally need them, but they're wonderful for meetings in rooms with 10 foot displays, movies, concerts, etc. Since I don't wear them every day, I can buy a normal 3 months worth (90 pairs) and they'll last me a year. I don't have to worry about keeping them clean, making sure solution doesn't leak.

I work between two offices at the moment, so I keep a few pairs in both desks just in case as well as a pair in my car. I considered going back to glasses before I got dailies pretty much out of convenience alone, but I hate glasses as you don't get an undisturbed field of view and the lens distortion at the edges usually give me motion sickness. Having some dailies really is the best of both worlds.
I also want to add that it can get even more complicated than simply rich vs poor districts. I feel that public education is not the HIGHEST priority in many districts around the nation. One example, Hillsborough county in Florida recently voted to raise taxes to assist with providing public high schools with proper access to air conditioning. Their schools do not have proper public transportation (school buses) or access to proper HVAC across one of the larger counties here in Florida.
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Treating people like individuals instead of cogs? That's some dangerously democratic-sounding idealism there pal.

Get back to your oxcart, peasant!
In Ireland we’re still in the let’s privatise everything phase that the UK went through in the 80s. It’s now falling out of favour in the UK.

They’re trying to connect every home in rural Ireland at great cost even through research found that only a fraction will take it up.
Not sure how many people would want to pay to do their own jobs.
I'm from the Netherlands and this story is not entirely true. This kid has been given a highly customized program where he didn't have to complete massive amounts of coursework that normal students have to complete. While I find it nice that a university provides this opportunity at the same time I also find it a largely unfair to other bachelor students that have to go along with the normal long program.

It's a 3 year program that I believe the average student could do in at least half the time if they where give the same freedoms this boy has been given.
Not mentioned directly in the article, but it's also interesting that the ME runs an Intel modified Minix 3.
How do you know it was an old person with cancer rather than just an old person who smelled like an old person?
Very true. Planning your life as a kid is a big gamble. How are you supposed to know which industry will be viable for a good career through the next decades? How can you know that other careers that are great today will die tomorrow? Some of us have lucked into the currently hot industries but that’s not because they had great insight when they were 18.

We really need a system where people actually get opportunity to change careers and retrain instead of just being thrown away by companies as it’s happening now. I have seen a log n of perfectly capable but maybe older than 40 people being laid off without much advance warning and no opportunity to even try to adapt.

Companies throw people away and the whole country throws away whole regions when trends change.