skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't looked into it enough to have any clear data, but I have always assumed that the distribution looks more like a layer cake than anything else.

If you are X, then the people in the social groups immediately below and above you are assumed to be Y. Mainly because people compare themselves to the people directly adjacent to them. So if you are different enough to no longer be part of the "in group", then you are likely to be part of the "out group".

Don't have any idea if there is truth to that or not.
Some possible similarities to the situation with the late Bill Broeksmit of Deutsche Bank and his son Val: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/business/val-broeksmit-de... .
Wait, is this why we can never seem to get past 3% GDP growth?

B/c a huge percentage of our smartest people are utilizing their smarts to figure out how to coast as lazily through life as they can while optimizing their "observed personality"?

This explains a lot. But, it is not something I haven't suspected.

What would it take to change this? To allow productivity, growth, and proper compensation?

It is not just software engineering where this is a very common scenario, btw.
Chasing AWS's APIs probably isn't a good use of their time, and wouldn't encourage a lot of people to move.

API compatibility is not the biggest blocker to changing clouds -- moving one's data is.

The could work out a deal where outbound data from Google to AWS is free, but that probably wouldn't be in their best interests either.

I think their strategy of being the best place to run K8s is a good one. If you standardize on K8s you can run on any cloud, and they want to be the best place to do that.

Still have the data problem though.
The problem isn't the placebo effect per se. Nor with it's application as a treatment. It's with misleading people as to what is actually helping them. For example selling magical crystals to adjust your aura. I don't know about studies and evidence specific to yoga, but would suspect it's benefits are a combination of real and placebo. Thus it isn't all placebo effect as there is a foundation of actual therapeutic benefit.
Every programmer / tech person I know desperately tries to define themselves by the hobbies they pursue outside of work, myself included. My tinder bio is just a bunch of interests.
My point is actually that it's not possible to do that meaningfully past a certain (rather modest) level of complexity and reuse. How does a library like openssl meaningfully and thoroughly notify all it's downstream users in Debian, Node, Gentoo, etc. what changes to pay attention to?
It's fundamentally funnier to dance with another, but is inherently harder because it require social skills.
The variances are likely to be even more noticeable nowadays as modern (x86 at least) processors do a lot more automatic overclocking based on temperatures.
It's not? I think you'll find 100% of web developers know about it.
After a fashion. The "buying" party would be the readers, and the "selling" party would be... the rest of the Internet. The twist here is that some of the "sellers" don't know their content is being posted. But many do, which makes clickbait and marketing in general an example of the scammer problem that afflicts regular marketplaces.
My objection is that you are not reversing anything, you are treating it.

Do you "cure/reverse" bradycardia and heart block by getting a pace maker? no you treat it.

By your definition you cure/reverse any condition by taking a medicine/getting a treatment for the rest of your life.

Also...Clinically, most people who can treat type 2 diabetes with diet when they are younger, still have to go on some sort of medication (metformin) when they get older, even if their diet stays clean.
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Possibly still a reasonable buy for him even at 3-6x what was expected if the higher price generates enough extra press coverage.
> ...nobody is reading it.

I'm questioning the value of just shipping docs without following up that they meet their purpose(s). That's what I mean by empathy.
I worked for two shops that migrated to GCP, one from leased space in DCs, one from AWS.

> Seems like it would be risky for companies to switch to Google Cloud because it might end up in the graveyard.

Yeah, there's definitely that risk, and in one of those cases, I disagreed with the move because of it.

That said, depending on what you're doing, GCP's key-value store (BigTable) and analytical DB (BigQuery) struck me as technically more sound than the AWS versions (DynamoDB, Redshift/Athena). As an ecosystem, AWS was far superior, there are more offerings, and they tend to have more features. It's just that they're most likely a managed version of an open-source project.

One place moved specifically because of BigTable. They were on HBase (and not happy with it), so it was the least painful migration option.
> Software engineering just isn't that hard.

Surely that depends on the problem being solved, right? Some problems are harder than others. The variety of knowledge domains presented though the lens of engineering here at HN always surprises me.
> it simply doesn’t matter very much whether any particular paper is reproducible

If we are talking about highly abstract types of science, I agree entirely. The problem is that there are strong incentives for groupthink, even where public politics aren't involved.

For example, I'm involved in the aging field. One of the popular aging hypotheses was oxidative stress. Because of the number of scientists with careers invested in that hypothesis, research kept on for well over a decade after it was debunked. In fact, I work with a person who cowrote the paper that authoritatively debunked it over a decade ago, and that person still studies it and writes as if it were still true!

How much more so if the subject is politicized beyond a narrow community of scientists, then. I do not want to get into a political debate here, but evolution and vaccinations have over a century of scrutiny, whereas other fields do not.

Another example relatively close to my area is nutrition. Scientists have been totally convinced that fat is bad, sugar is bad, both are bad, all things are good in moderation... Even the public considers nutrition to be a joke for this reason. It is not enough for a community of scientists to agree on something, a fact needs time to "settle".

I agree totally with the "process vs individual paper" distinction, I would just propose the heuristic that "the more politicized the subject, the longer the process takes".

> I don’t know many good scientists who take what they read (in any journal) at face value

Sure, in journal club people tear apart papers. And maybe in private conversation. But then, on the other hand, look at the statistics in this survey. Or look at the way this same papers that they might privately pooh-pooh will be uncritically cited in a grant application or paper if it supports their hypothesis.
> That's US$650 for 100g. ~$32 for one Nigiri, so more like $50-$80 at a restaurant per piece, and only the belly meat fetches such high prices.

It's a PR move more than anything. How much press does this get the buyer and the market as whole? A lot more than he paid for the tuna.

> On a more serious note, won't the high price only encourage fisheries to violate their quotas and drive Bluefin to extinction?

It's a once in a year publicity stunt. They don't pay record prices every day. But yes, if bluefin or any resource brought in record prices every day, it would certainly entice unscruplous people to cheat which would lead even the honest people to cheat - tragedy of the commons.
> you could argue that physicists determined the outcome of WWII

If you're referring to the A-bomb, no. Germany was defeated without it, and the Japanese military didn't really care if civilians were turned to ashes.

You could argue that a combination of events ended the Pacific War, including starvation, no fuel, Russians advancing in the north, the destruction of the Japanese navy by the USA, the destruction of the Japanese army in Manchuria/Russian border, plus the A-bomb.

The Japanese Emperor was a world-class marine biologist and understood the A-bomb in general terms, but had very little influence over the military. He did a radio broadcast and survived retaliation from the military, so he does get credit for that.

Hitler and the Japanese military were die-hard end-of-the-world types. Important to realize when dealing with other tyrants. For them, there is no Plan B or surrender.
>everyone else is so incompetent because he doesn't try and still looks good

I'd argue against the "talent lottery" idea. Over the last 10 years as a software dev I'd argue that the 10x "rockstar" dev certainly exists, but it's almost always a case of situation/environment matching an already-moderately-talented employee extremely well.

I've seen a lot of slackers suddenly explode into a powerhouse when given the right conditions. "The grind" is very rarely the right conditions.
Lol... You had to read a book to realize that dressing nicely and repping your company might be a good idea?
Seriously. They don't learn why not doing it is the right thing to do, they just learn how to hide it better.
How nice to be downvoted for this comment.
I can only guess, but to my mind, if the individual hadn't progressed significantly in that period, they may appear as a "sucker" of sorts. "Naive" and "holding out forever for nothing."
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Isn’t a brief glance at the shape of some congressional districts a smoking gun that it happens all the damn time?
It suggests that the scientists are evaluating results using social proof.

In most fields that is fine; social proof is about as good as anything else if someone is studying literature. But the hard sciences are specifically about studying things that are best proven using technical over social proofs.

If social proof is being used excessively then there are grave questions about what the standard of technical proof is. We don't really know from the outside looking in, but the problem being highlighted is that there is technical evidence of a problem and scientists are proceeding based on social proof that there is not. Not a good sign, but also difficult to evaluate from outside the field.

However the incentive structures built around academics do look risky. Most papers and citations isn't a good incentive for high quality work. It incentivises low quality work and collusion.
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I like the auction aspect the parent described in another comment. However I don't like the idea that the government can revoke at will and eminent domain you out of property even if you paid the tax you won at auction. For example -- what incentivizes people to take their expensive expertise, time and equipment and survey land before placing a bid at auction? If the government is going to be the only one to survey land, that's a great way to kill innovation in the field of natural resource exploration.

Similarly, if you "bought" a piece of land you just use for a single story home near downtown SF 30 years ago, are you still paying the same LVT you got at action back then? Or will the price keep going up and price you out of your longtime house?
Yah, that's why you're paid well, because why else would you do it? If you want meaningful work get into research or work at a uni, but don't expect much money.
There are benchmarks, but they're probably closely guarded secrets of the various search teams out there.

So not very useful public benchmarks, no.
If the most recent election cycles are any indication, rampant corruption is something many politicians are proud of
It's not. You need to get one promo from L3 (new hire) to L4, but once you're there and still hitting your OKRs (loose team targets), you pretty much set the pace.
I dont think anyone is arguing that sugar intake isn't correlated with type 2 diabetes surfacing. But, that same person would start showing eventually regardless, just may not be as soon.

People with type 2 diabetes, genetically, have trouble removing glucose from cells, this is a fact, eating too much sugar, means that the cells become full sooner, and the body shows that it can't deal with it.
> just study and do online coding exercises like crazy

Is this really the new go-to for the software industry?

Which "online exercises" and "study" tools do you recommend the most?

I would love to visualize what this new canonical basis looks like. Since it will apparently define the software of the 2020s.
While I don't disagree with you, it's worth noting that wind, solar, and hydro all have major impacts on nature. As long as everything goes to plan, nuclear seems to have a limited impact on nature. I'm not sure about geothermal.

I wonder how the potential energy output of a solar farm compares to a biomass farm.
That means you have to buy into another walled garden though.
No, that's Opera, which doesn't have anything to do with them anymore. FastMail has no ads.
They're going to be taxed when the gain is realized. An asset is a durable good anyway, pretty much by definition so how can it matter when the tax is levied?!
>That intrinsic motivation isn't there

it took me leaving a job that i thought i was stuck in to find my inner musician, snowboard daily, and ultimately start my first business.

sometimes being an employee is just a soul-sucking adventure
If someone has worked on 20 projects, they have encountered edge cases, undocumented behavior, or incomplete implementation few enough times to believe 'it's just this framework / library / language.'

When you've worked on 100+ projects (and accumulated a few pathologically obtuse, worst-case horror stories), you realize it wasn't bad luck, but those landmines inevitably lurk in every younger stack.

Maybe you get lucky and don't step on one. But that doesn't change the overall risk based on their existence.

As Torvalds said in the spinlock back-and-forth: it looks simple, until you're looking back over two decades of patching edge cases that you never saw coming without the benefit of hindsight.

And having that experience makes you look forward very differently.

(At least where production, must-work code is concerned. Go nuts with toy / personal / experiment projects!)
All configuration is static. The advantage of using JS (or a language file) is that you run it to generate the appropriate config for that moment and environment.

That need won't ever go away, so not supporting means we're back to users generating their own "static" config files in a separate process. Nothing has been saved, only made more complicated.
Is there room for a genre of "failed to reproduce" journals? Contrarianism seems like it might be powerful enough to support a journal whose only purpose is to dispute major findings.
EU salaries have more to do with their tax structure than anything else.
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No, they don’t serve any ads.
It's not a humblebrag, it's an actual brag. If OP was actually concerned about their situation they wouldn't have included "Google" in the title.

People like OP make me sick.
Is it though? Some ideas are so obviously nonsense to most of us, whereas bad research can have a more robust veneer of legitimacy - which makes that research a potentially useful tool for bad actors. The internet is full of authoritative sounding tripe backed up by "science".
90+% of the videos on Youtube.
IE has a much larger market share, so they probably spend a lot of extra time on IE special cases.
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type 1 diabetes - beta cells (which create insuling) in the pancreas get destroyed by autoimmune disease)

type 2 diabetes - cells that hold glucose are resistant to insulin produced by the body.

As in, Sugar almost certainly doesn't cause type 2 diabetes but causes the symptoms to surface because of the inability to remove the excess glucose from the cells.
I think the tuna is already frozen when they buy it.
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No, what I'm suggesting is that the making of a resource is where someone adds value.

So profit that comes solely from owning a natural resource isn't earned; however, profit that comes from the labor of extracting the resource or from making something with the resource is.
LVT applies to the land value today. If the value increases because a commuter rail station opens, the value of the land goes up, so the price of the tax goes up (you’re effectively paying more tax as you benefit from better society)

If a power station opens next door and price drops, you pay less tax
Hackers deface website for U.S. government library with pro-Iranian message
Yes this is specifically why some old school, perhaps slightly antiquated researchers in various fields, usually Men above the age of 70 , who have had very succesful careers in experimental areas of hard sciences, a NUMBER of them , not all, will often in their graduate office hours use the phrase "SIMULATIONS AREN'T SCIENCE"----becuase the data you get out is only as good as your assumptions, it's not sample data from the real world. and therefore the discussion usually ends with them disapproving of a research dissertation where the results are based on simulation outcomes.

you can do or get whatever outcomes you get , whether by bias, by not bias, by laziness, sloppiness, or by over conviction of a particular hidden assumption you hold.
Whatever it is is, if you want to prove something or falsify it, you can 100% control ALL you parameters in a simulation , even one with 'RANDOMNESS' built into it, which is bullshit because RANDOMNESS IS A useful TOOL but it's not a bias removal magic button.

there's place for simulation. i'm just saying , it's a hallmark of shitty oversold bait science , especially when modelling ANY complex system . that's why much of what passes for cosmology is unfortunately nonsense , or at best , good theoretical math, until it is confirmed with space probe data, or other data sources from real world. Even then, real world cosmology data sometimes fits your model projections in an awkward way, because your model is bullshit.
Quit.

I worked at Google for eight years, and fell into a funk, because I picked up new challenges and moved teams, and learned a whole lot, but I also worked on backend infra projects, not shippable features, and you know how well that goes over with the perf review and promo committee.

So, I left for a startup. It was trial by fire, because Google does thing the Google way, and everyone else uses other technologies. Gone were borg, stubby, tap, and in came Kubernetes, REST, Jenkins. It took a long time to learn how the rest of the world works, and Google wasn't my first job, I started there after already working for fifteen years, but in eight years, the world changes a lot.

Now, I'm the main tech lead for a large startup on the verge of success. It's been a crap ton of work, grueling, I've probably made 30% of the income I would have if I stayed at Google in the years that I've been gone, but I've also worked with the best people I've ever encountered - better than at Google, and I feel professionally successful, albeit not financially.
> They’ve operated Android as the bulwark against Apple, why not view GCP in a similar light?

Android has a lot more synergies with their consumer ads business. It's the extreme version of writing your own browser.

GCP is completely different; it's in the B2B space, and it's a pretty standard business relationship between businesses and a supplier. Being customer-focused and business-focused isn't in Google's DNA.
There are other implications, but binary linking is fraught. Minor errors corrupt entire executables, systems, and data stores, including entirely unrelated subsystems. Often statically typed systems use (at the binary level!) type information to trade off defensiveness (checking that array indexing is in bounds, maybe) for other things (latency, throughput, etc.).

Point being, the type information is used for more things than just telling coders about API mismatches. Maybe some libraries could use type information to dynamically use better code paths, but statically typed languages use this information far before that... when the equivalent of a wheel is created, for instance.
Not if it’s inherited. Buy stock at 10$ have it raise to 10,000$ and after death your children can sell it and keep the full 10,000$. Assuming your estate is worth only worth a few million.

Or if they maintain ownership and sell it in 10 years when it’s worth 20,000$ they are paying 15% of 10k gains which is 7.5% of the total gains from your purchase.

PS: For the ultra wealthily there are other games to be played. ‘No forgiven debt is taxable if it was discharged in any type of bankruptcy.’ Play the game correctly and a loss can be deducted from both your and your parents future incomes. While gains are taxed normally.
Well, given the torrent, there's a decent chance that it's too late.
> JDBC driver was using the default fetch size... it was a thick client that downloaded a bunch of reference data at login

not exactly sure what you mean, was the login sql query fetching more data than needed in that case shouldn't you tweak the query?
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There are grades of land. Land in the city is more scarce and more valuable. Rural land is less scarce and less valuble. Land on Mars is even less scarce and less
accessible and less valuablee.

Same with domain names. People are interested in using shorter domains like abc.com, not long ones such as xyajfbeusnfdbdjak.craptld

The scarcity applies to a grade of land or string, not to all land in the Universe or string space in total.

It is difficult to compare the 'grades' of land, because the grading is not discrete but somewhat continuous.
You can judge a musician in a 20-minute audition, but you can't tell if research will reproduce without doing the work. However, there are papers that are so vague and poorly written that they cannot possibly be reproducible, and this is becoming the norm in some fields, so I think you're right that standards would help there.

Also, sometimes strange things just happen randomly (like the CERN faster-than-light neutrinos) and there's no shame in publishing results that aren't correct as long as you're honest about it. Some early-stage, low-power studies are going to randomly show results that don't reproduce, and that's also fine. Suppressing these results would hurt progress just as much as making the opposite error.
Fasting has an extremely positive and rapid effect on my blood sugars. 200 calories isn't far from fasting.
Google is unparalleled at building efficient data centers. Cloud already has tons of enterprise customers with contracts. They've spent $$$$$$ creating the infrastructure to be able to cash in over the long term.

Anyone who thinks Google will get out of Cloud (already more than an $8 billion business [1]), as if it were comparable to Reader (which made $0, AFAIK), isn't looking at the economic realities here.

I repeat: Google Cloud has more than $8 billion in annual revenue. And AWS proves that clouds are a profitable business.

I just can't understand how anyone can suggest with a straight face that Google might shut it down.

[1] https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/google-cloud-annual...
It looks like they're in the process of decommissioning nuclear power plants in most places and they're expected to be functionally extinct by 2055.

https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/png/10-12.png
Not a FAANG/Unicorn? Seems like you might be a fairly early employee at a fairly successful private SV company?