skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't necessarily think his writings are a crock. I haven't read much of his work, but I read Paths to God and found it enjoyable. Largely, I guess I'm trying to contextualize judgement vs. non-judgement. If you're saying you can punch someone's lights out without judging them, my interpretation is that you're going through some process like this:

1. Suppress emotional judgement. (Maybe do this by re-framing their actions as something that is the way it is, like a tree or a river)

2. Evaluate the situation with a calm mind

3. Come to the conclusion that their behavior is undesireable in one way or another

4. Decide that in order to dissuade them from behaving that way in the future, you should punch them in the face.

5. Punch them in the face

I think it's probably a reasonable goal to insert a "stop and think" step before doing drastic things like punching someone in the face.

But I also think there's a non-negligible effect from using your emotions (in this case, the emption of judgement), to propel you to actually take action. I think it's very unlikely people are spurred to action by something that doesn't move them personally. There's just a bit of difference between "I'm mad about Trump. I'm definitely judging the hell out of him." and "I've come to the conclusion that Trump is a suboptimal president." I think a person in the former mindset is more likely to actually take action.

And again, I think in the context where people are too judgemental, and spend a bunch of time unproductively stewing about things, Ram Dass's advice to remove judgement is a good corrective.
I think you're misunderstanding who these spaces are for and what purposes they serve.

Are also you saying difficult conversations cannot be had by people sharing similar interests or beliefs? And since when are all private clubs bad?
Malnutrition Hits the Obese as Well as the Underfed
Might want to look into Cambridge Analytica:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/23/leaked-cambr...

It was pretty sophisticated and they obviously had access to a lot of Facebook data with which to microtarget people.
Well the part about a counterweight being needed does ring true.

Though that still seems like to evils counter-balancing each other. There is a real need to legislate against this on an overall level.

The average guy on the street just isn't equipped to survive this highly sophisticated data driven type of attack. Hell I'm not confident I am.
I don't think that's likely. It takes the closest star 5,000 years to move the distance our moon covers in the night's sky.

Video of ten years worth here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10160104518220167
Yes and no. It’s not acceptable to overlook safety. During the documentary, there are situations where you can see the instructors prioritize the well-being of the candidates (as opposed to saying “no, keep going”). One candidate complained he was feeling dizzy, and the instructor sent the candidate to get checked even though he personally felt there was nothing wrong with him. Wish I could remember the timestamp.

There is also the concept of being rolled back due to injury. If you sprain your ankle, for example, you can’t keep going. It’s a persistent fear of all candidates, since it’s a big setback. But the flipside is that apparently you only get rolled back to when the next class catches up to where you’re at right now in training. It’s one of the cooler parts in my opinion, since you can see they truly value the candidates rather than thinking of them as disposable tools (which you occasionally feel like as a programmer...)

But, ultimately, you’re correct: it’s inherently dangerous. Everyone signs up knowing the risks.

EDIT: Found the timestamp: https://youtu.be/AGvvNKBGgUw?t=2266
I don't use Bootstrap anymore
You should try crossfit.

It is basically like Fight Club if the first two rules were the opposite.
Not everyone has the luxury of failing. Everyone’s cost-benefit analysis is different, and one takeaway from this discussion is that founders need to stop skewing the cost by depreciating the shares non-founder early stage employees get.
It pains me to no end to find both of you correct on some level. How does one reconsile one with the other in policy moving foreward?
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What if it means you can afford to pay rent?
It never ceases to astonish me how ready some people are to feel hurt and disrespected — and to brand anyone who disagrees with them as "shallow and pedantic." I have no desire to expend scarce brain cycles trying to keep up with who wants to be addressed in what manner.
This is awesome! I'm going to attempt it.
Working on it. This isn't an official launch, was just fiddling around with the website

please be patient ':)
Yeah, pretty much all cars don't need it except for sports cars. Although it's pretty important if the car specifies that it needs high octane gas. I know one person trashed their engine cause they thought it was a gimmick... whoops!

I think newer cars have knock sensors, which just means you're engine will run rich and burn way more gas than you need to in order to protect the engine but I wouldn't risk it. If you can afford a sports car you should be able to afford the premium gas to go along with it.
> China's brute force, no rules approach

Is there any evidence in all of human history that demonstrates that a "brute force, no rules, unlimited resource" approach ever does anything but eventually collapse upon itself?
HN is certainly not a safe space. No large anonymous internet community can be.
> The burden of evidence for publishing a hit piece is much lower than that for making an actual business decision.

That's not reflecting reality at all. In a big enough company you don't really decide, you do both. Alternatively, you choose all three of the options. There's often no reason to fully go for one thing. This as in a big enough company there's enough resources that someone somewhere else does something else, likely the opposite of some other decision.

Eventually something will fail, or it'll succeed. The things which succeed will hopefully be implemented everywhere.
“maturing” and behaving unethically and breaking laws are not synonymous.

Google, for a long time, did things in nonstandard, intelligent, innovative ways. That time is gone, but it wasn’t a foregone conclusion that that time would end on a schedule.

Also, most employers, Google included, are nothing without their staff: it is decidedly not “their field and their ball”. Organizing is important and powerful, and that’s why it’s supposedly protected.
I've lately been reading about the notion of "managerialism". The book Confronting Managerialism defines it as "What occurs when a special group, called management, ensconces itself systemically in an organization and deprives owners and employees of their decision-making power (including distribution of emoluments) and justifies that takeover on the grounds of the managing group's education and exclusive possession of the codified bodies of knowledge and know-how necessary to the efficient running of the organization."

It's a really interesting concept to me, because it's been the dominant business culture my whole life in the US, so it's sort of like a fish discovering water. But once I started looking at business philosophy and history, I realized that there are a lot of other ways to do things. Toyota's example, of course: the managerialism of the big 3 let Toyota go from Japan's post-war decimation to the biggest carmaker on the planet.

I still don't feel like I have a great grip on the alternatives, and especially how to practice those alternatives when managerialism is the norm. But I definitely aim to find out. At least once, I want work at a place that really has its shit together. That gets things done well on purpose.
The article talks about only 9% surviving five years. That's probably me. I'm three years out from Whipple Surgery (the only fix in 2019) with no sign of a cancer return. My blood is tested and I get CTscans often enough to know everyone by name.

Because I'm a pancreatic unicorn people come to me all the time (a German camgirl recently approached me on her professional account when her uncle was afflicted).

It's very sad and I often feel survivors guilt because I know how it will end for them. Pancreatic cancer is not a pleasant way to die.

Once it has spread it is fatal 100%. When Alex Trebek said Stage 4, I knew his fate was sealed in spite of his positive vibe. Undoubtedly Alex knows too.

How did I get lucky? I got sick one night -- vomit and poop simultaneously. It had nothing to do with my cancer, but it got me the tests that found it. Once it was found I was on the medical conveyor belt.

I am 69 and I've never experience medical care close to this. The care was proactive. They made the referrals and appointments. I just had to show up.

To have my cancer removed (there is no cure) took around a half dozen small procedures where I was put out and an angioplasty where my cardiologist yelled, "Geoffrey, I'm trying to work" when I asked too many questions about the technology. This was followed by a six hour, two surgeon Whipple Surgery (consider small by Whipple standards), a week in the hospital, sixteen staples holding my belly together (and diabetes now that I only half half a pancreas), chemo, radiation and more chemo.

I currently receive NO TREATMENT for cancer. No one you know is luckier. I am playing on house money.
Yeah but Google does that by being a monorepo.
And can VCs help address this problem?
It's a menu. The items in a menu don't usually look like buttons on any platform.

And I happen to like the gray text underneath the setting name that tells you the current value of the setting. It makes it clearer what the setting does, and saves you a tap if it's already set how to want it.
Be careful with boxing - taking hits to the head is very bad for brain health.
So the exact statistic is indeed about "entrepreneurs who make it", those who eventually create a successful business, how many time did they have to try?

Average is ~3 times, and your typical successful business (across sectors) takes ~2 years in "survival mode" (most don't make it past that mark), then 3 more (~5Y total) before things may feel "sustainable", cruising.

So indeed, we are not all considering those who don't make it in this picture. Creating a business is hard, very hard.
Except for those that go down, of course.
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Indeed. For instance, suppose you thought you had a path for a general cure for cancer, but getting regulatory approval for use on humans would be too expensive and time consuming.

So cure dog cancer. Regulatory burden would be far less, and everyone would love you (if it works...).
Something in the foreground that was originally misclassified as a star?
I was thinking of the first moment when the bubble appears in quarantine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(Egan_novel)
I think furthermore, not only is it fearmongering, it's actually wrong.

What the article calls AI is just machine learning. And America leads the way on this when it comes to cutting edge. Look at self driving cars.

It seems the article hinges on implicitly defining AI as adopting mass surveillance/freedom restricting tech.

In reality if America cares about winning the 'tech development war' (I think a better goal than the nebulous 'ai war') with China, it should be worried about improving it's education system. And working on reducing corruption (both in government spending and in private industry such as banking and health care) - In the end, it was education, freedom and efficiency that allowed the west to beat out totalitarian governments. Not the adoption of totalitarian systems of oppression.

Imagine the US trying to adopt the USSR's system to 'obtaining and classifying information' on dissidents since it was part of 'information technology'. I find the article to have a borderline fascist/anti-western-ideals of freedom undertone. Some people think in a way that seems to be completely lacking in the ability to learn from history.
Calling half the country “bad people” doesn’t help your point or bring us to any shared solutions.
Unfortunately that’s not true. If you look at the thorough reporting of Cambridge Analytica’s operations for example, it shows that their targeting was not based on issues but on psychological profile, which they determined with personality tests. Specifically they focused their attention on people exhibiting signs of neurosis and anxiety, and then experimented with various content designed to amplify their fears. Once they got the right level of “engagement”, they hammered crucial electoral districts in swing states with a deluge of weaponized propaganda. In that election the issue (“payload” would be a better term) boiled down to “Hillary Clinton is corrupt and belongs in jail”. The point is not to convince millions of people to change their minds, but to manipulate a few tens of thousands of crucial undecided voters into distrusting one candidate without really knowing why, just enough to change their vote (or perhaps just stay home - Cambridge Analytica had conducted vote suppression campaigns in other countries as well).

This is essentially large scale human experimentation. We have to accept the fact that it works, and is not at all politics as usual. To expect to be targeted with “issues” is to expect to be treated like a human being. But to be targeted in this way is to be treated like a lab rat.
The tendency to compartmentalize mind and body never made sense to me. The brain is adapted to navigating the physical world, so it should be unsurprising that physical exercise is a prerequisite to proper functioning. Why else would the "memory palace" be a thing? If our memory/perception is inherently spatial, then it relies on a privileged observer capable of interacting with its environment. The rest of the nervous system is basically just feeding you training data when you exercise.
Indeed. Especially when all this can be implemented with regular email directly.
We never want to break the law or abuse privacy rights but having "public goods" data like maps makes everybody's life better.
I monitor air quality in rooms in my home using Awair Glow sensors. They log temperature, humidity, CO2 (ppm), and VOCs (ppb). When CO2 or VOCs hit 900+, I start opening windows to encourage airflow.
We never want to do anything illegal.

Different laws apply to different places.

We care about privacy.
I don't think you need 200 developers to make it worth considering.
There are charging standards and you can charge a tesla at the generic chargers, it is just slow. Similar to being able to put 87 octane in a sports car but then it won't perform as well (and there is a bit of risk as well should some sensors not be working properly)
If you just want a light filter for quality/price/utility that a fellow geek applied without having done a buttload (but a bit) of research, I bought one of these and am satisfied:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D9SH4M5/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Unfortunately, it's showing out of stock. :-(
Don't let the Crossfit brand turn you off of the whole thing. If you ignore the weird culty online culture, it's just a bunch of people doing a hard workout. You'll make lots of friends, get healthier and you'll start to enjoy the workouts a lot faster than you think.
I didn’t actively manage pricing, which I do on Airbnb - and had to charge a lot more on booking for the same revenue, as their commissions are fairly astronomical, if you want to feature anywhere other than the last page of search.
> the real solution (assuming that you see it as a problem) to overbearing and entrenched government power will probably be self-sustaining space colonies

Why in the world would you think that the politics of self-sustaining space colonies would not devolve into the exact same (dys)functional states (pun intended) as politics here on earth?
Could just move them to the equator once.
This is still super interesting, two years later but does anyone have an update?

Susheel Aroskar, a Netflix engineer, did a talk about push notifications https://www.infoq.com/presentations/neflix-push-messaging-sc... (2018)
To understand how pissed off and desperate boeing are - he didn't take time off to spend more time with his family. No face saving for him.
This is a very good point. On a more general note, the younger you are, generally the more risk you can take. And in this case specifically, entry-level wages can be only slightly lower than Big Co (not always), but what you learn and the risk you take can make it worth it. If it doesn’t work out, you can always join a bigger company that will value what you learned.
AI is a tool. It's algorithms. Those algorithms are going to be developed and improved, regardless.

Your concern is with how those algorithms are used/applied in our world. Just like CRISPR. It's a valid concern.
Crossfit appears to be about chasing fatigue, which is why I don't understand the appeal. I do moderate cardio and strength training.
His chart for Internet use goes from 1995 to 2019. He forgets that TCP/IP was invented in 1974. So it took 20 years to get to 16M users. The first cell phone was invented in 1983. The first personal computer around 1975. Even neural networks were developed before 1970. All big ideas take much longer than everyone thinks.
Another upside to working at a tech giant: you make enough to be an accredited investor. Which means you can do angel investments, which is an arguably better way (Than being an early employee) to get those “outsize” returns from startups.
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Since everything in physics tells us that FTL travel is impossible (as far as I am aware), then when a civilization detects signs from another civilization in another solar system it knows that 1) that civilization was advanced enough to produce signals into space light years ago, and 2) by the time it reaches it at sublight speeds (hundreds, possibly thousands of years) it will be more advanced still. That means your extermination mission might be facing a technologically superior enemy with home field advantage.
> The two things I really like about working for smaller places or starting a company is you get very direct access to users and customers and their problems, which means you can actually have empathy for what's actually going on with them, and then you can directly solve it. That cycle is so powerful, the sooner you learn how to make that cycle happen in your career, the better off you'll be.

I think that author is confusing ability to get access vs being forced to do it.

At big company, there's so many other things and layers, that you can easily spend your whole career without touching anything related to users. But, you can also just work on directly customer facing parts - that gives you direct access to customer problems. Just be careful - there's more problems that you can imagine, the bigger the company and customer base.
Trump again airs dubious claims in latest attacks on windmills
While there are qualifiers for things like mental illness, the system assumes free will by default making rare exceptions for responsibility for people in some states of mind. Whatever that is, it's not determinism.
That is extremely rare at google these days. The average tech manager has more like 6-8 directs.
So does it just serve completely incorrect data when a request for the 'old' cache key come in?

Seems like this would always be undesirable behavior for a cache?

It is definitely being advertised as a map-like structure, key goes in, bytes come out...
I’m more effective and more detail-oriented in dark, cold winter months. If there is bright sunlight outside I get distracted because I want to go for a bike ride, and above 25C I’m just less effective.

Daylight lamps sometimes triggered headaches for me.

Probably I should move north.
It depends on the granularity you write your BUILD files with. You can certainly write a target for each individual test, and track dependencies independently. In practice, you might glob together all files in a directory and put up with a few extra test runs in exchange for less bookkeeping
Isnt this state based transition what react/redux tries to accomplish ?
> Convert your time and human intelligence into money
This describes literally all paid work
https://lwn.net/Articles/775238/

Dave Doyle and Dylan O'Mahony did something pretty amazing related too with websockets for Bose.
I see this a lot. I am conflicted.

On one hand, guards, staff,etc need to be paid. Someone being a criminal should not put extra burden on the rest of us, and our social services. Many for-profit prisons are incentivized to better serve than state-run institutions.

On the other hand, many prisons, private and otherwise, seem to play dirty rent-seeking bs with insanely low conpensation for work done, exorbiant fees for calling, visiting,or even emailing family, and systematic mismanagement.

Clearly there is a way to optimize this system, and both profit, and improve lives. Maybe someone here has a vision.
I disagree completely.

For a business to be good for customers it needs to be accountable to those customers. These businesses are only accountable to governments and even then only ever X years when the contract comes up for review. Their motivation is therefore to service the government not the customer and the customer suffers.
Agreed. I think this type of company (high-growth and 2-3 years away from IPO) is a much better first job out of school than working at a big tech company. Sure, your cash comp will be 10 - 25% lower, but if you want to start a company someday, this type of experience is on average much more valuable than big tech co.

I've been working at a high-growth company for the past year and as OP mentioned, have learned from early engineers, experienced engineers from big tech co's, and started leading medium sized projects six months in. I'm on the growth engineering team so I've also been able to learn about best practices in growth from people who led teams at big tech co's.

From this experience, I now feel ready to be an early engineer at a startup or build my own thing. I was able to get the benefit of working with the best people from big tech co's but in a high-growth environment where there are more problems to be solved than people to solve them.

For this reason, working at a high-growth unicorn is seen as just as valuable as a big tech co. If not more, for product/growth eng roles.
I spend much of my free time either playing or listening to classical music, so I'm very familiar with articles like this... and every time I read them, my mind translates the author's lament to "remember the good old days when cultural relevance and value was determined exclusively by upper-class middle-aged white people?" I make no apologies for being a cultural reactionary, but I question whether "the wider culture" - as opposed to the educated white elites writing for national media outlets - cared any more for Shostakovich in 1942 than they do today, or why indeed they should care in the first place.
I think if you struggle to get an ICBM you're going to have a hard time getting off of the planet let alone out of the solar system