skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The evidence says that SAT prep courses do not make much of a difference:

"From 1981 to 1990, three separate analyses of all the prior studies were published in peer-reviewed journals. They found a coaching effect of 9 to 25 points on the SAT Verbal and of 15 to 25 points on the SAT Math. In 2004, Derek Briggs, using the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, found effects of 3 to 20 points for the SAT Verbal and 10 to 28 points for the SAT Math. Donald Powers and Donald Rock, using a nationally representative sample of students who took the SAT after its revisions in the mid-1990s, found an average coaching effect of 6 to 12 points on the SAT Verbal and 13 to 18 points on the SAT Math. Many studies tell nearly identical stories. On average, coaching raises scores by no more than a few dozen points, enough to sway college admissions in exceedingly few cases."

(from https://www.aei.org/articles/abolish-the-sat-2)
‘Horrific’ typo valued Wasatch County home at almost $1B
As someone about to undertake a master bath renovation, “to bath or not to bath” has been a huge and difficult decision. A soaking tub like the article discusses is less on the radar than a more compact version, and the decision boils down to resale and what a family with kids wants (vs a personal spa amenity). The tub is winning based on informal surveying of opinion from real estate agents, builders and lots of parents. For context, we’re in an urban enviro where space is at a premium. Probably a no brainer in a larger home.
Yeah Arrow is pretty great. There's a similar work around for HKT in java: https://github.com/highj/highj.

I would much rather some native syntax like K<T> where K is some generic though.
The world we experience in the waking state is persistent and objective. The world we experience during the dreaming state is subjective and temporary. There, I pondered, and it did not make “the puzzle of the universe, infinity and multiverse apparent”.
Things moving in space/time are limited to the speed of light. Space itself isn't.

It's like a blowing up a balloon. There's no limit to how big it gets or how fast it grows, so objects on opposing sides can move apart at greater than the speed of light even if they're not moving themselves.

This rate of expansion is accelerating too, driven by something called "dark" (as in unknown) energy which is overpowering all the gravity that should be pulling things together. It's fascinating to think that in 100s of billions of years, our local galaxy will be the only thing we can see in space. Any civilizations then would believe that there's nothing else out there.
Note that I'm also not talking about companies doing forced rankings and nuking the bottom X%. That's a different form of systemic toxicity and, alas, plays into the technical industry's huge problem with toxic "geek machismo" culture.
@user5994461 is wrong

Train worker do pays "much more" every month for their special pension...

But currently this is not enough and the system is heavily subsidized... But the biggest part of this disequilibrium is that there use to be a lot of rail workers (so a lot are retiree now), and now not so much. If they had no special treatment but a separate pension system, most of the problem would be there too...
What are some examples? Genuine question since I really don’t have a dog in this fight and am curious about learning more.
I got a 760 on SAT-M and I definitely felt tremendous time pressure. I am convinced I could have gotten 800 with no time limit. At the same time someone much smarter than me could probably get an 800 with half the time given.
You may be interested in Simon Singh's The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets which details the show's long tradition of hiring math geeks as writers and the plethora of math-based in-jokes that has resulted.
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If your domain of discourse is the computer itself or the functionality of the computer in the world (store/compute/ communicate) than it is system programming. Else it is application programming.

It has nothing to do with the actual programming language.
Here's the (non-pdf) executive summary:

https://www.gmo.com/americas/research-library/the-worlds-dum...
I relate to your point of view and vented my frustration at the article.

You mention companies fostering and rewarding and I wholeheartedly agree. But not just engineers, anything that creates value for the customer.

I believe that the best products have the whole mission aligned and going to the process of analyzing, testing, implementing, monitoring... then you don’t need superstars, you just need good people with a clear positioning and direction. I think it’s a simpler recipe than fishing for diamonds.

Getting an ‘awesome product guy’ cause you read it in a post is not going to create a magical unicorn that you can ride to VC-Land.

You need a clear positioning of your company towards the product and the users and then you don’t need John Carmack, Steve Jobs and Carnegie in your tram to launch your new CRM, you just need to listen to your users and perhaps disregard a lot of blog posts along the way.
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LOL. The article completely ignores that today's 40-somethings will be 60-something 20 years from now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_State...

edit: Seeing the flood of downvotes I'll give some data. Home ownership increases with age. 60+ers leaving their homes from death, poor health or inconvenience will be supplemented by today's 40+ers over the next 20 years. https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2018/08/homeownership... . We were in the same situation 20 years ago, 21 years ago, 22 years ago, and so on.
Yes. That's one of the few annoyances I have with Firefox. I have to use a local app where the root domain URL results in an IIS error page. Annoying, this always appears in the "Awesome bar" auto-completion list before the URLs I want to go to.

On the other hand, I like the meta-characters that can be used to modify the search results: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet... (though I wish they were easier to remember).
There are no biodegradable plastic cups -- ask McDonalds.

No need to respond to the rest of your post, as you didn't bother reading mine anyway. Go back to hunting stationary target with 50mm rounds, it's perfect, you'll never find the carcass anyway.
When you found a startup and take VC/angel/investor money, the point (from a financial perspective) is the exit. If you're planning to make $10 million USD during some liquidity event, does it matter if your share was $10 million stake was 1% or 100%?
Looking at their job postings, they use Cassandra and Elasticsearch, so I am somewhat surprised that they didn't survive this outage. (I have not ever run Cassandra at scale, but their website says in the first paragraph that it's designed to handle regional failures.)

If I were on GCP and had paying customers, I would use Cloud Spanner. It's expensive, but it's a good piece of technology.
The suggested alternative I got from the essay was "try to cause a real, specific outcome in the world. If the action you took caused the outcome, you passed the test."
In my opinion the most insidious feature of the education system is not tests. After all a proper hard STEM program is not that easily hackable - the easiest way to complete it may be to actually study!

What is worse (and although it is related to grades it is not the same), you only do what you are told to do. Your goals are set for you - read this chapter, solve this problem, answer this question. Thus your inherent creativity is slowly but surely gets sapped away until you become a "professional" - someone who solves problems of others without questioning them much.

Not sure what to do with this though - every way to overcome this problem seems inherently not scalable. Also not sure if this is really a bad thing - a society where everybody suddenly becomes more creative can suddenly collapse because of all the excess creativity!
Those techniques described here were pioneered by Facebook and Google. Basically they are (automatic) CAPTCHA.

I still remember the news articles refering a patent Facebook filed about audio fingerprinting as the evidence of Facebook eavesdropping on the people.

Also technologically with some encryption argorithms, a company can claim that they are not capable to identify user with the fingerprint. But in theory given enough data they still can.
A unique view of what customers think online retailers control and how they phrase it. I’ve never seen a retailer publish all unedited comments sent by customers - good and bad.
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Well, I left to London because I couldn't find a job in France, so too late for me ^^
The key bit is getting people to explain the answer, not the answer itself.

I have had interviews where the company has done that. I would rate all of those interviews to be very high quality. No nonsense trick/leading questions. Just simple: can this person actually program? What does he understand? What doesn't he understand? I felt like it was obvious what I could and could not do...there was nowhere to hide.

Btw, in terms of investment, this seemed far cheaper for the companies too. What is cheaper? Arranging an hour-long interview where you go through a simple problem that is focused and will clearly identify knowledge. Against an hour-long interview where you probe someone randomly about their life and projects that the interviewer has no idea about (funnily enough, no matter how good you are communicating ideas...interviewers almost always get it wrong).
Is he wrong? It's not necessary to care about or respect something to critique it. Is he wrong?
It seems likely that, in the coming two decades, the construction industry will need to place a greater focus on updating existing properties, in addition to simply building new homes.

Remodelling existing stock seems like an enormous opportunity for construction tech.
And I’m also not going to argue with people who have different experiences - I can speak for my own experience, and generalise it, finding others who might think similarly, which is what I’ve done here. This is to say YMMV. But to your questions.

1 - Doing half the things I listed. I hope this is not a loaded question, but I’ve seen people do all of them. It usually starts with people who are both good communicators, are curious about the “why” on things, being interested in how the business works. Then they bring product ideas. The nice you bring product ideas to the table, as an engineer, making pragmatic trade-offs is pretty straightforward (if we build a slightly modified feature, we can get the same business impact, but a lot less eng complexity). The rest is about looking out ways to get early feedback (prototyping, hallway testing etc) and challenging weird edge cases. The first few of these I’m seeing a lot around me.

2 - I don’t fully get the question about product people. Also, I spent a good deal of my career working at Skype/Microsoft and Uber, so I don’t think I can give a definite answer. If it helps, at Skyscanner, a smaller startup, I had even more product say as an engineer, than I did at Uber or Microsoft. I suspect everything I wrote assumes an environment where engineers are empowered and close to the product, and data about the product usage/revenue generated.

3 - I’d say have a lot of curiosity on how the product works and how users use it, and generate value for the company. Then you need good communication skills to build trust with the product stakeholders - to understand more about the business, how they think, and to be able to showcase your ideas, prototypes and accommodate feedback for them.
From the section "Conclusions":

> It's important to distinguish between a "FOSS zombie" and a project which is simply done. If that's the case, you'll find out easily by reading the documentation.
Perhaps, Purism (Social Purpose Corporation) could fit: https://www.hostingadvice.com/blog/purism-respects-user-righ...
In case you're curious, here's some logs about their status https://status.cloud.google.com/summary

Looking at Cloud Compute, the one responsible for the outage today and I think the big one a few months ago (13 hours!!!), they still do achieve 99% uptime (having been down 81 hours total this year).

While 99% uptime "sounds" great, this is paltry in comparison to AWS, which has set the standard for 99.99% (also known as "4 9s") in reliability, translating to about an hour of downtime per year.

Just gives you some more perspective and concrete numbers. Perhaps one of the reasons you find GCP "faster" is due to more devotion of resources to "speed" over "reliability".
Not sure why it's so en vogue to communicate this way any more. What's the point? If you're trying to rile up your tribe members I suppose it helps there, but it doesn't actually change anything. Folks that don't agree with you are going to go shields up and bounce everything you say.
I can't imagine not having a bath. I don't take one that often, but I really like having the option. Also, we need it for the kids.
The notification on their website is interesting:

Rackspace announced that it has completed the acquisition of Onica, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) Premier Consulting Partner and AWS Managed Service Provider.
I usually find PG’s writing to be very illuminating, but I largely disagree with this piece.

I think the reason founders want introductions to influential people is not because they think that this is what you need to be successful. It’s because they have seen many cases where influential people talked up startups that seemed to be pretty mediocre, and it helped them succeed. And they think “well my startup is at least as good as those other ones, so publicity by famous people will accelerate our path to success.”

They’ve seen press coverage of lousy startups propel them into fundraising successes and growing revenues, even if they never became profitable. And they think “I’d succeed faster if my legit startup had that kind of exposure.”

It’s not that they think these things are a substitute for having a good product. They think (correctly) that having these things will accelerate their growth and somewhat lower the bar to success (particularly if there are network effects involved).
> 90% of interviewers half ass their interviews

Good interviewing is difficult, it may not necessarily be because they don’t care.
> But it took waaaay too much effort to get there making it a very poor value proposition for developers.

It’s funny that this is always a criticism levelled at the CPU and not the developers.
Not OP, but I do all those things at a company with 4 engineers. I have only met a couple (as in 2 or 3) engineers that I estimate would be capable of doing most of those things, but it's not impossible.

And regarding 3: both, of course. But he'll probably care more about users in day to day work, as those are more directly relevant to his goals (making a good product).
> The state owns and controls the SNCF, its expenses, subsidies and pricing. Its debt is meaningless, in that the government decides how much in debt it is in.

The debt is a sign of the amount of additional subsidy needed to cover the benefits / expenses being paid. This amount (largish for France) will need to be paid by taxpayers. It is not meaningless.

> Retiring based on the status and position you've reached is common in many workplaces/industries, in many countries.

The french system normally pays based on a 25 year average pay (inflation adjusted)?Using most recent (highest paid) 6 months is not the same or standard. Can you name any other country that uses this method? Short periods like this are also prone to manipulation.

> If you mean to say, that if they do their job, the company can't fire them, then I don't see a problem with that.

The prohibition on layoffs consecutive to economic difficulties or technological changes is one of the benefits of the railway job - I'm just pointing that out. Other jobs even in france allows dismissal for economic reasons (if you offer employee modified job etc etc).
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I felt more like the post is aimed for engineers looking to improve their game and not for management. The post pointed out several things I recognize from my own working life as valuable skills.
Thus you are calling for a system of fines designed and intended to punish the poor and disadvantaged harder. Forget about assessing means and circumstances. The minimum wage guy pays the same fine as a billionaire. You've just made a load of laws optional if you have enough in the bank (OK, justice systems can bring some degree of this, but via unintended consequences)

Do you believe that will have the same deterrent effect across society? I sure don't.
You are correct that it is indeed preferable to own 51% of the shares. Being able to do that and raise the amount of capital you need, however, is the tricky part!
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Does that somehow change how many current 60 year olds will be moving out of their house in the next twenty years? A demographic change isn't what's being discussed.
I hope this article raises visibility of this mindset in engineering management. I’ve always found product management very appreciative of the product-minded engineer, but engineering management to be apathetic at best. Engineering management is responsible for the engineer’s career, so their ability to make the politics work out is critical. For example, minimum viable needs to be viable, which costs more than the minimum that engineering was incented to deliver.
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As I mentioned in a sibling comment, the toxic (and incompetent) manager problem is fundamentally a leadership problem. The single biggest responsibility of the founders is the culture of the organization -- everything stems from that, one way or another.

Leadership, from the top down, is absolutely responsible for the mentoring, training, and environment created by the management. None of the systemic problems with & induced by management is new. It comes down to: does leadership actually care enough to do anything about it? Companies institute all sorts of formal stuff like internal surveys and NPS scoring and so forth but it always comes down to trust & communication and then follow through. And the follow through is the clearest way to create trust.
All of the things that even well intentioned leaders spout, if not followed through, quickly erodes and ultimately destroys trust. So, just like with kids, don't make promises you won't keep.
I'm sorry, but that's exactly what I said unless I'm misunderstanding your point.

I said what we're seeing was 13.8B light years away 13.8B years ago, since it took 13.8B years for the light to reach us from the point it was emitted. I never said we could see now where they currently are. What I failed to account for was the space expansion during the time that the light was traveling meaning that the light had to travel further to reach us than the point of emission actually was when it emitted.

So really, it wasn't 13.8B years ago; it was emitted later. I don't know by how much, but it seems like maybe the other commenter does.
So, who is at fault when you die or who pays when you wind up in the hospital?

This isn't theoretical--someone already wound up in the hospital "hacking their diabetes". And the FDA came down on the companies involved in manufacturing the devices--even though they had NO involvement.

I'm sympathetic and recognize that modern technology could be doing MUCH more for diabetic patients. However, my measure of importance is how much money is being thrown at the problem. And there simply doesn't appear to be very much money being tossed around for a medical system that will have to go through FDA approval.
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Those users could pay for someone to pick up maintenance and support.
Would you use it in your python project? What next features do you suggest?
Or "Mr. President"
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I first learned of magnesium supplements here on HN. Changed my life after years of sleep problems.
If you have spent multiple weeks on a Webpack bug then you are not trying to fix it. You could have asked Stack Overflow over and over again in a matter of weeks.

There are many options for source maps due to their performance overhead and the docs describe then in detail and provide a guide for when to use each one.
Unix epoch by definition is UTC. An instant can be converted properly to any timezone without issue.
But they also exert more force onto the earth. If you drop the sun onto the earth, for example...
Sorry - I meant elite workers! France has a three class system. Temporary workers and informal workers (sometimes terrible conditions), regular workers (state pension is not great, 50% of 25 year average), and workers with jobs that frankly ALREADY are better (railway admin jobs) AND that have the special pensions (crazy good). You could do accounting at the railway till 52 and then retire for 35 years! I love the idea - but not sure of the affordability.
> In the absence of any objective measures

One would argue that this is the current status.

How objective are, e.g, IQ tests when I can take two different tests in a span of two hours and get from 128 to 146?

How my grades in Computer Engineering can be used to predict my performance as an Engineer in a country where 85% of the graduates would work in non-technical and more profitable fields?

If a company looking for a Quant gets someone with a Master in Math and a good tracking record knocking on their door, would they stop and ask to see if they can get someone with a PhD instead?

You are right that "proper evaluation takes time". What I am saying is that standardized tests should not count as proper evaluation.
Weighted based on what, do you keep IDF values of some sort?

Even then it's hard to imagine how this performs great if these are plain Word2vec vectors. Saying it's just the recall step is a bit hand wavy as these will be actually selecting the documents you will be performing additional scoring on and may very well end up excluding a multitude of great results.

In any case, once more these are very interesting to read and as a search nerd, and I can't help but wonder about all the alternatives considered.
Oh, here’s the recipe, I read some more blog articles on how to talk to people, and some more on how to pester people on the hallway to ask about stuff they might not care about, sprinkle some salt and pepper and this is me, the 10x product engineer.

I only have about 10 bullet points separating me from the Product Gods!

I think you’re right, validation is probably the #1 factor why these type of articles propagate.

Like those ads where they tell you only geniuses can solve this: 2 + 2 * 2, and you click because you want to see who the morons are that arent’t a genius like yourself.
> It would be interesting/weird if the sea filled up with one large, intelligent animal that lived everywhere.

https://www.amazon.com/War-Newts-Karel-Capek/dp/0945774109/
Just for clarity, the post above is more info on the machine I posted. Which, again, seems to have everything the machine the article is talking about. The PDF manual seems to indicate it's been around since 2016. I don't know if it's even particularly special itself. Maybe it's one among many competitors.
They will probably not be an extremely deep expert into specific technologies, and they will burn out on doing work that does not involve improving the product for actual users.

They want to deliver a feature, and sure they want to make sure it's being used well, but they won't want to stick around to endlessly tweak it.
or the short term, if i’m honest.