skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the reality is that no matter how much money and manpower (plus less-than-perfect “artificial intelligence”) Facebook throws at curating hateful or illegal content on its services, and no matter how well-meaning Facebook’s intentions are, a user base edging toward 3 billion people is always going to generate hundreds of thousands, and perhaps millions, of false positives every year.

In re: FB, there was an FB engineer saying the other day that it was impractical to have humans review every post.

I almost responded (but refrained out of a sense of not being snarky) that the word "impractical" here actually means "uneconomical".

No one's forcing Facebook to be what they are.

> no matter how well-meaning Facebook’s intentions are

They want money at the end of the day.

I know I'm beating a dead horse here, y'all know this already, but the service is free to entice the "users" who are then sold to the ad/marketing folks, the REAL users of FB.

It's possible to set up a non-exploitative social network (and indeed, many people are doing just that) but FB/Twitter/etc. have sucked the air out of the room and normal people do not care that they are digital cattle. They just don't, not in any effective operational way.

If somehow FB shut down tomorrow everything their servers do could be done by other servers (the data would be a problem, archive it, yeah, but then who gets to access what? That's just more data though, eh?) FB doesn't fundamentally add anything to the underlying capabilities of the Internet, eh? There are no "magic angel babies" working there.

I think if you somehow went back in time to, say, the 1950's and tried to tell people about FB they just wouldn't believe it. They wouldn't believe that so many hundreds of millions of people would voluntarily give a private company every detail of their private lives (more than the Stasi worked hard to collect) for no more than the Internet dressed up in a crappy UI.

But people do crazy things as long as everyone else is doing it too and there we are.

I don't really have anything constructive to say. Sorry.
> building on top of long-term stable, multi-vendor platforms like the web, or Linux.

For rule #8, is the author recommending to build custom CMS / e-commerce features for a SaaS? If so, sounds like a lot more work.
IMO there are a lot of good ideas how to solve such problems out there and that's not the blocker at all.

The real problem are the managers who only do lip service to better policies but never actually implement them. They prefer to distrust people by default and to play internal politics games so they never get fired. Thinking how the customer can succeed better and thus bring more revenue is practically one of the last points in their priority list. Not even sure that "let the creative people figure out solutions, you just give them the problems" even exists in their philosophy.

To me those are the real issues. And they are extremely hard to solve because those people are usually deeply entrenched in the organisation, they have the ear of the CEO and are being listened to during board meetings. And when those people sabotage the implementation of a policy that can improve the company's culture, well, there's basically almost nothing that can be done.

I might be too pessimistic but I've seen this scenario several times and have grown quite cynical about the ability of companies to change their DNA at all.
Negotiation is price discovery. It is literally the empirical process of discovering the clearing price of an agreement based on deductive reason instead of the blind-man's-bluff bullying of a haggle. People on the privileged end of a power imbalance always think they're being co-operative, because they necessarily know they have the power and choose whether or not to co-operate. Negotiation is the art of managing power imbalances - particularly when someone is using leverage to get you to "co-operate," while essentially yelling "stop resisting!"

To clarify, there was no confusion.

When someone says, "take it or leave it," it's bullying. When someone says, "we're paying you this because this is what everyone else gets and that's fair because I'm telling you it is," that's also bullying.

A negotiated price is a function of the true price at which parties arrive at a deal. How do you deal with liars? Find options that yield information about their intent. This is the real art. It's finding information oracles about their position independent of what they present. Some people are simple, most aren't.

In this sense, negotiation is the pursuit of truth.
There seems to be a misconception that you can only run 10.5 and later in a VM, but you can actually run OSX 10.4 Tiger fairly easily. This is the non server version. [1]

I was able to import almost everything from my old PPC computers. It's not completely virtualized because is using Rosetta and can not use Classic OS apps. But it is still extremely useful, and way faster than my PPC computers ever were.

[1]: https://github.com/ranma42/TigerOnVBox
I wrote about this 2 years ago:

https://www.josephecombs.com/2018/03/05/how-to-make-an-AWS-S...
I support this approach. I learned a lot about online marketing and selling physical products by purchasing a struggling online shop. There's even dedicated web pages like flippa.com or empireflippers.com
Blaming China for our failed drug war and idiotic drug policies is like blaming gun companies for WWII. The only way to help opioid addicts is to help them improve their lives while providing low cost, safe opioids to them until they are ready to quit. If doctors in the US could prescribe appropriate opioids for addiction, if we had safe use sites, and if we helped people find jobs, community, and purpose, we wouldn't have this epidemic. Until we're ready to accept that and while this idiotic drug war continues, thinking that drugs can be stopped despite over a hundred years of evidence to the contrary, people will continue to die in masses. And the only people that deserve the blame are the police, DEA, and lawmakers who are murdering addicts in their crusade against something they are too stupid to understand. The drug war is a crime against humanity, one that will likely go unpunished like so many others.
> That these companies don't treat engineers as a cost structure the way you were talking about.

That's absurd. The reason those companies are making money is because they are costing every single thing. That's the reason why tech gets a seat at the table -- it is a cost and its top of the line managers understand that this is a liability and drive that understanding through the entire tech organization.
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My cat’s scream at me for breakfast. And then run across me... repeatedly.

I love my cats :)
They had multimillion-dollar robots to pay for - you want good cheese, too?

Truly, the customer is never satisfied.
That, or good parenting in the years before.
I'm sure there's enough desperate money like Son's in the VC/PE world that a patent for anything and a decent story can get you a meeting and a term sheet.
Here is the update to this article, 3 years later:

https://amplitude.com/blog/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-featu...
I don't know about US, but where I live they hire you with 1-3 months "trial period" during which the company can fire you any time if you turned out unfit for the job. This is exactly your proposal.
No surprise, because there are laws in many countries that tell you how a map must look like.
"those millions can - by vote or brute force - hold their government accountable."

I am sort of speechless. You advocate people taking up arms against their government all upon advice of "high morals" spread by corporations.
SoftBank will go bankrupt. Such bad and incompetent investments...
> Do you have a better solution? For some people the pain can be unbearable.

Fair point, but the same (edit: “unbearable” cost) applies to wasted lives.

I don’t claim to have a general answer, but it’s important to keep the pros and cons in context.

Unfortunately one half of the balance sheet is an externality, and our incentive system is set to exploit those ruthlessly.
OK, but that's changing the goalposts, the claim here is that communism has more deaths. If we're now saying people are going to die under both communism and capitalism, then "people will die under communism" isn't an argument to go with capitalism (nor vice versa) and we should find some other way to save their lives instead of putting our hope in either capitalism or communism.
> I have to believe they bought it with the idea of doing much much more but hadn't figured out how.

The video gave me the impression of a kitchen designed by a chef or line cook, with a manufacturing robot tossed in there. If the goal was automated centralized production, any competent manufacturing engineer would have designed a radically simpler setup. Of course, finding machinery that didn't have a production capacity too far beyond Zume's needs would probably have been a challenge. Hundreds of pizzas an hour--let alone thousands--is well beyond anything Zume could have handled, because their biggest bottleneck would have always been delivery.

> Lets talk a minute about their "mobile ovens". WTH do they need 56 ovens for? It seems like assembly still has to happen at a "hub", but how many pizzas do you really need to bake on the way? Maybe a max of 10 for huge orders?

The entire concept is a bit wacky. You don't need to bake the pizza entirely on the way; just scale up how New York pizzerias handle pizza by the slice.[0] A plain pizza gets half-baked and when a customer orders a slice, toppings are added and it's put in the oven for a couple minutes until fully cooked. Prepping whole pizzas at a central kitchen and then putting them in a delivery van that finishes cooking the pizzas is something I could maybe see being viable with minimal investment. A very hesitant maybe.

But there are no robots and no wizards (er, machine learning some of Zume's early coverage discussed) for that kind of business. And that probably means no big investments as there are some articles where I can't help but substitute "magic" or "wizards" for certain words and think "yeah, that's probably closer to what some investors or journalists heard."

0. https://www.seriouseats.com/2018/10/new-york-pizza-slice-his...
The first sentence contradicts the other two and it contradicts the previous position where refactoring was done implicitly without anyone above in the org being aware of it.
I think most map makers probably aren't doing business in the countries in question and can just do whatever they feel like.

(The average cartographer isn't working on maps intended for consumption everywhere...)
An alternative question is: how much faster is it with the neural network-based emulation ("AI"), without the used of the specialized dedicated processing chips? I think the answer to this gives the information you are looking for.

The paper answers this question:

> While the simulations presented typically run in minutes to days, the DENSE emulators can process multiple sets of input parameters in milliseconds to a few seconds with one CPU core, or even faster when using a Titan X GPU card. For the GCM simulation which takes about 1150 CPU-hours to run, the emulator speedup is a factor of 110 million on a like-for-like basis, and over 2 billion with a GPU card. The speed up achieved by DENSE emulators for each test case is shown in Figure 2(h)
Skype ist Estonian, no?
Then it seems beneficial to have some somewhere else
In US, yes.

I've seen it happen, people take extended leave of absence on FAANG, to pursue some non profit stuff or simply to prevent burnout.

During those, you're still covered by healthcare plan, but everything else freezes: let's say you take 2 months off. Then your RSU that was supposed to vest next month is now vesting in 3 months. Your vacation days don't accrue during those 2 months, etc. Obviously, since you're not getting any salary, there's no contribution to 401k happening during those 2 months.
This is not meaningful analogy due to being too generic. Using it does not add anything to discussion.

Any mathematical model is 'compressed' form of reality and that's why they works well. Instead of compressed, simplified or abstracted, is better term. Machine Learning adds heuristic data driven model to scientific model.
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> Sure, Rademaker doesn’t put their enormous frozen pizza technology in a van.

I bet if you gave them enough money to bother trying, they could squeeze a pizza machine into a van. Making a pizza in a van seems possible, but pointless.
Those aren't actually contradictory. But anyway, the point of this article is that he's distancing Facebook from the "utility" category, not trying to join it.
Google Maps scale changes because of Spherical Mercator implementation
> And that feels like a pretty unfortunate misallocation of society's resources.

Unsuccessful startups don't do much damage to society. It's the successful startups that you have to watch out for!
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Germany has less unicorns than Portugal?! How come? I thought being Europe's strongest economy would help.
Are you saying that if Google choose to display certain borders, the real borders might follow?

I might call that "delusion of grandeur by proxy"...
The concept of int hasn't aged very well. People think it's fine because it's always 32 bits on their machine. Go recompile on a machine where it's 16 bits and see how that works out.
I concur, and it's the same on the Pakistani side[1]. If you don't play by the rules online, you're blocked in the country.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22337891
Do you have any examples of "enormous", tangible benefits from machine learning own data? I can see some benefits on the margins, but I have not found any evidence of disruptive productivity enhancements.
Why do they lobby as much as they do if they’re getting everything they want?
I’m not sure about the Windows ORG, but office always made time for dev led architectural improvements. Back in the old days it was called Milestone Zero.

I’d be absolutely shocked if Windows didn’t have a similar process.
Webdev firm wins suit vs. Walmart: source-file theft, nonpayment, scope creep [pdf]
yeah but its selling ads, not tech. tech is the facilitator but google mainly monetised ads. sure from a worker’s perspective it sells tech, but it doesn’t.
Makes sense.. borders aren’t some universal truth, they’re relative to the observer. Especially when you get down into the weeds, every country has border disputes.
In the same spirit, and in my opinion much more powerful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw

The way that storm builds up in the music is incredible.
> Forcing roaming prices down just pushed up other tariffs

I pay less than twenty euros a month for 10 GiB of data throughout all of Europe. What are you talking about?
Not editing that typo because it’s funnier with employee...
so your company sells apis, software frameworks or hardware? or does it leverage these to sells some other non tech product?
For some opiates are might very well be the right tool. Just as you said.

There are some questions to which I’m in no position to give an answer:

- is a little temporary pain really problem?

- are there less invasive measures?

- what preventative measures do we have?

- are opiates just an easy way to cover up symptoms that could/should be treated properly?
A lot of these, but not all (JSX for example). And then you have to worry about support - caniuse is great help, but it gets very tiring.

But to me the main benefit is something else. React & co. let you define the state and then rendering based on that. It is incredible what this means for code maintainability... Try it, it really is worth the effort.
I know what they're trying to do, it just feels amateurish and jarring because cause it's jamming two concepts that are somewhat opposed together.

The whole point of saying the party is invitation only is so random people don't ask you to come.

I think the normal way this is normally done is to say "we're being very selective with who we partner with at this point. Please apply if you think you qualify and we'll get back to you."

That they've chosen not to do the obvious seems purposeful, and that it was done so jarringly on purpose is odd.
Why is this so hard?
But also, why doesn't JPMC implement webhooks? Webhooks will solve half the problem.
(Random aside: For like three years I thought your username was arguemonkey, with an 'r' & 'e'. Derp) :-)

That's an insidious aspect here: people trust doctors, the drug dealers found an angle that blindsided the system.
Ask HN: USB-C Connector Mechanical Durability?
I recently upgraded and old Lenovo laptop to a new one which uses a USB-C charging connector. The old connector was a sturdy cylindrical/barrel plug, but the USB-C feels very flimsy.

I believe the flimsiness is an intentional design choice for USB-C connectors, but it does not instill much confidence that it will last as long as the old one (many years), and that i can easily damage the female part of it (in the laptop, PITA to replace). Every time i plug my laptop into power and the power cable runs off the table, the connector is at all sorts of angles, with seemingly only 1/4" of plug body for mechanical leverage.

What is people's experience with the longevity of the USB-C power connectors vs the old barrel plugs?

thanks!
Aside, but I've always wondered how pan and scan was done in practice for converting film to VHS. It seems either tedious or sloppy.
So long as certain content (that is not restricted by external forces, i.e. the law) is prohibited from the platform, I fail to see why they should be considered anything other than a publisher. If the platform can only be used for content they approve of, they can't be defined as anything else.
the crucial difference here is the East India Company & friends systematically used opium to weaken their enemy (not just in China but also Singapore where they kept their coolies on drugs). This wasn't even kept secret in the UK but was an actual part of their strategy against China.

We don't have any facts linking the CCP or any other institutions or legally run Chinese companies to do what has been done by the West back in these days.
Let's say a 1% chance, and no amount of trying hard can change that percentage, it's a pure dice roll.

(This is proxy for limited opportunity, tough facts like "you have a family that relies on you so you cannot spend 5 years trying and failing at startups," discrimination, economic downturns, the fact that the world cannot sustain more than a few Bill Gateses, and all sorts of other things that are beyond your control even in a capitalist society. On the other hand, I think 1% is significantly above the number of actual janitors who actually strike it rich in real capitalist societies.)
Netscape 6
You may want to check out the Starbucks timeline. They did not raise an astronomical amount of money right off the bat. Blue Bottle is a closer comparison. They also grew organically for many years before raising a serious round. There must be an example of a successful food chain that raised a ton of money in their first few years but I can't think of it off the top of my head.

https://www.starbucks.com/about-us/company-information/starb...
Sabbaticals can be useful be require a lot of planning and saving.
I strongly agree with everything you just said, but is there possibly some benefit in also trying to control the huge flow of fentanyl from China? That's really all TFA is saying.
This sounds like a full stack skillset. You want to "Jack up your trades"? Break into something else.

The next closest thing is Phone Stack Programming! That space has a lot of interesting challenges, and can leverage your current skills.

A good way to be the dumbest person in the room is to diverge hard. NLP, Security/Privacy, Image/Audio/Language Processing, Compilers, Operating Systems, Statistical Modeling.

I consider myself a Jack of all trades from the opposite side. I had 8 years industry work before my first opportunity to Full Stack. Hard switches are hard in every direction, but I am a big fan of "drowning to the top".
> At some point you ought to realize that what you're saying is bullshit too.

My previous startup was a tech one. The current one that is in Vietnam is for production and manufacturing of physical goods. The parts I moved to Vietnam are the manufacturing parts and the parts that moved to Eastern Europe are the tech parts where you can a lot more value for much less.

So no I am not talking shit, you just dont know enough about my specific case to judge it, yet somehow you have managed to do just that.
I created and use this tiny helper: http://g14n.info/aws-lambda-res/

I think it is far enough for my needs, it is nice to use no framework other than the one provided by AWS.
I don't know if this is accurate, but the article implies that printed maps don't do this kind stuff, or at least less so (e.g. "We try to show as much information as we can, when we can, to help people understand what's going on in a part of the world").

I don't know how Google maps compares to other online maps.

> as if they are doing this with bad intent

I didn't really read any implications of "bad intent" here, but rather indifference or callousness regarding these issues.
Estonia is where the work was outsourced to initially.
> Those specific users won't use it anyway even if you add it

These users often understand what features are missing because they rely on them in other products. At that point your product is already dead to them.
Show HN: Encourage Operational Security at your org by pwning your coworkers
Eh, in general, but equating the reasonableness of a fund by the percentage of their total is not sound. $100B can still be dumb money, and inventing valuations as a product of this is actually harmful to actually-viable companies. It sucks the air out with bad money (if you can believe in such a thing).

"VC" is not a synonym for "smart money," and "the idea behind VC" being "everybody is betting tho" doesn't explain their outsized presence and outsized effects.
That’s just called hindsight. If anyone knew at the time of decision what the perfect investment was we’d all be billionaires.
But surely google could just buy Kashmir, or Nagorno-Karabakh, and lease it to the relevant parties?
Companies are not exclusively top-down command economies. Or they shouldn't be.
For some reason this reminds me of the famous xerox copier where the compression algorithm would swap out digits: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6156238
Bing, too, follows local laws that could otherwise get people arrested. At some point they didn't even show the Kashmir border as disputed: https://splinternews.com/how-airbnb-google-and-microsoft-vie...

The whole situation, managing border depictions worldwide, is a rathole. You just can't win.
That was amazing to re-read, thanks for sharing. news.yc discussion back on tfa back in the day is a pretty good read, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16413917
> Serious question: would this investment have been awarded if the cofounder weren't a minority female?

Yes of course. If you read the history, it was the male cofounder that was the “charisma” behind the business.

If anything the minority female is there as the token PR stunt.
The State of JavaScript Front End Frameworks 2019
The last time I felt this way I went to go work on VR software and learned all about 3D graphics, game development, and real-time networking in games for a few years. I recommend it.
If it's just a personal website, you might find it easier to use GitHub Pages (or GitLab's equivalent) and Cloudflare. Both are free for any reasonable personal website usage.

If you don't want to run a build of your static site generator on your computer and upload the result to GitHub every time you make a change, you can just use Jekyll and GitHub will build it for you. I think GitLab supports other static site generators as well. This technique is how https://www.snazz.xyz works.