skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 7. There is no such thing as over-communication
> Constant communication might feel like “fluff,”

if it feels like "fluff" it is fluff imo. And that's something that most incompetent PMs suffer from.
I prefer to use Vanced over the NewPipe. New Pipe somehow not always works properly and searching for videos is also not perfect.

But.

NewPipe allows downloading the videos which is great. Sharing video function in Vanced allows using NewPipe for download directly from Vanced application.
I never ever even heard of this one :) The article doesn't really explain what it is, but it sounds like a super expensive IM for financial elites?

But I don't work in the financial sector. I'd never want to either. But interesting to know it exists.

PS: A CLI/Curses interface sounds amazing to me though! :D
Projectium.Network – A networking platform for promoting your projects
Why is GIMP still so crappy?
Maybe I just mean the Republican party, I am not extremely versed in where the political parties and their affiliated organizations start and end.

Anyhow, surely I don't need to provide evidence for the assertion that Barr is a corrupt DOJ and in the pockets of Trump? I'd be happy to, if you insist, but I think this is just known
> What about because you can't bear the thought of having to work 8 hours a day for the rest of your life?

Probably the lowest risk strategy to solve this problem is get a FAANG job and invest at least half your salary in mutual funds for 10 years.
I think there are many different types of PM and the "Great Product Manager" you are referring to is the PM who owns an ongoing Product and who is responsible for some of the business goals.

I think most cases, including my own, the PM owns a sub feature of a major product, or they are somewhat like a mix of Project Manager. That is also different when you consider if you are dealing with B2C or B2B.

In B2B, the problem may be "automate this process" and there is not a lot to discuss or vision to communicate in that case.

Finally, your recommendations will change what is the best if you are dealing with organizations that are more engineering focus or marketing focus.

For example, leading your team suggestions may not apply if you don't have the control of the devs. They are just outsource team and your company's budget is limited. So keep pushing for vision and values may not work.

Another example, if a PM works in a Dev/Product shop, the decisions are usually decided by the client, not the PM; so in that case, what is the best may not apply. The PM can recommend and back it up, but then the final decisions are under the scope of the client.

Finally, I think the other sections such as Communicating Effectively, Being good operator and Running Effective Meetings are definitely good for every type of work, not only for PMs but I'd say any job.
The UI is blazingly fast and largely driven by keyboard and the quick box. There is not much clicking
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15 Sales Metrics Every Revenue Leader Should Track
I've been leading Analytics at Clari, Inc for 4.5 months now & I've just published my first blog post. I'd love to hear your thoughts!

https://www.clari.com/blog/sales-metrics-analytics
That only applies to certain types of products though. Many years ago I was a longtime product manager for mostly large computer systems. I was very familiar with how they worked at an architectural level. But other than getting a cast-off Unix workstation on my desk at one point, I wasn't a user of the systems at all--and being so wouldn't have been practical.
Yup. Cover up your own lack of utility by talking non-stop, holding numerous meetings, and 'following up'.
This sounds really similar to https://www.mobvoi.com/us/pages/ticwatchpro which is a Smartwatch with a dual layer display, one of them is e-ink, the other is an AMOLED display.
Corporate giants shut down Trump texting program
They're not competitors.
Raku Community to Elect Raku Steering Council
For those who care, there have been recent reports that Onyx are actively and deliberately violating GPL.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/hsn7kx/onyx_usin...
Sounds like someone is jealous of him. He was clearly a hacker.
Some of my personal favourites in Brazil: Hilda Hilst and Manoel de Barros, mostly for poetry. In Portugal: Valter Hugo Mãe (vhm). He got a lot of exposure in Brazil recently. His books are widely available.
While I agree that opensourcing would be unlikely to solve any big problems, you frankly can't know. Someone might come along, especially when we're talking in timespans of decades. Probably not. But maybe.

The argument you're using here about the game depending on MS APIs and such is simply not an argument against releasing, and you know that perfectly. It is in fact an argument for releasing it open source. There's no point at which it's ideal to release the code - it can always be cleaner, more optimized, saner, and so forth.

Here[1] is an example of someone using that argument and delaying the release by first a decade, and then saying it probably won't happen at all. It's just complete nonsense - if they were afraid to release their code because it was "ugly" or "not modern", again, that's not an argument.

But obviously I have little to say about your last paragraph, except to reiterate what someone else said and asking if the code could be released without those parts :-)

1: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Lightwor...
Sony makes one, too, but it seems to hobbled by not running a real OS to make it useful. All it does is read PDF files.
Looks like it is stored in

Linux: /home/alice/.config/dijo/habit_record.json
Windows: C:\Users\Alice\AppData\Roaming\nerdypepper\dijo\habit_record.json
macOS: /Users/Alice/Library/Preferences/rs.nerdypepper.dijo/habit_record.json

https://github.com/NerdyPepper/dijo/blob/master/src/utils.rs...

https://docs.rs/directories/0.8.5/directories/struct.Project...
Dave Conservatoire – a free online music school
Agreed.

YouTube links are automatic ignore for me. Video that isn't a sound byte or "here is that thing happening exactly" is a horrible way to consume information related to a discussion.
A state has coercive power over you, a company doesn't.

From my point of view, the government can do (and does) 100 more damage to me than any single company could do.

A company can sell my personal data if I'm not careful. The state can send me to jail for saying things they don't like or doing things they don't like, even when those things don't do any harm to other people (e.g. using LSD). The state also steals a big portion of people's money, usually for no good reason.
What if Bloomberg made a "new UI", which you could easily toggle to/from, for the benefit of the people who don't like the current UI? Over time the number of people who use the current UI would become a smaller and smaller share of their customer base, and in like, 30 years, they could turn the old UI off.
Picture this grim future:

1. Companies will use models like these to generate automatic job listings

2. People will use models like these to generate automatic job applications

3. Companies from 1) will use automated tools to parse and analyse said applications

We're gonna end up with abysmal SNR, as the sheer number of applicants will explode.
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Where do you put your DNS servers? On-prem is going to be less reliable than cloudflare which has a 100% uptime SLA. I doubt your local ops team can compete.
Its even worse for me, they recommend me the same videos over and over again, even ones I've watched that very same day.
Venus Is Erupting with Active Volcanoes, Scientists Find
Previously msvc's position was to not support newer C standards and instead focus on C++. This was stated publicly at least as far back as 2011 https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-an...

So any movement on C11 is a welcome change.
"Produces hacks" this isn't even a thing.

Can people please stop commenting on HN threads pretending to know about hacking and making false claims.
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I'm a native-level (European) Portuguese speaker, and although I can get through the beginning, it is with some effort.

I'd describe the style as being akin to stream of consciousness, but with a somewhat jumbled sentence structure on top. Of course, I use the term 'jumbled', but I'm sure it's intentional, and it does have a striking effect because of that.
Core argument is for "building codes" for software that is effectively mission critical infrastructure. Data and identify security--and privacy--concerns may drive a fair amount of regulation in the next five to ten years. Here is Schneier's core thesis:

"There are many security technologies companies like Twitter can implement to better protect themselves and their users; that's not the issue. The problem is economic, and fixing it requires doing two things. One is regulating these companies, and requiring them to spend more money on security. The second is reducing their monopoly power.

The security regulations for banks are complex and detailed. If a low-level banking employee were caught messing around with people's accounts, or if she mistakenly gave her log-in credentials to someone else, the bank would be severely fined. Depending on the details of the incident, senior banking executives could be held personally liable. The threat of these actions helps keep our money safe. Yes, it costs banks money; sometimes it severely cuts into their profits. But the banks have no choice.

The opposite is true for these tech giants. They get to decide what level of security you have on your accounts, and you have no say in the matter. If you are offered security and privacy options, it's because they decided you can have them. There is no regulation. There is no accountability. There isn't even any transparency. Do you know how secure your data is on Facebook, or in Apple's iCloud, or anywhere? You don't. No one except those companies do. Yet they're crucial to the country's national security. And they're the rare consumer product or service allowed to operate without significant government oversight."
Wait, what aged poorly about it? I don't know if you meant that but the disclaimer at the top says it did:

>>Warning: This document was written 15 years ago and is probably not relevant for today’s product managers. I present it here merely as an example of a useful training document.
The test itself doesn't rely on one person, though. It's a statistical measure, so for each "game" you have a number of interviewers/judges who test the system.

If the system has any of them fooled, the test can be considered "passed". AFAIK there's no precise number attached to this, so it's not like ">x% people fooled => pass".

So in essence it's not "the human tester" but "the average human tester" for some arbitrary definition of "average".

It's a really interesting dilemma if you think about it: is a forger good if they're able to fool everyone but experts? Does an AI pass the Turing test if it fools the general public, but every AI expert who knows the system would be able to tell after just a few sentences?
I think Bloomberg chat is much less important as a social network these days. It's heavily monitored by compliance departments and any communication that diverges from direct market trading is generally frowned upon.
I asked GPT-3 to make a presentation for me
This is a great list of things product managers should do. Especially around managing time and how to do that effectively.

One of the things that makes this less overwhelming is flipping it on its head and thinking about what a product manager shouldn't do. Warren Buffett talks about this idea of "The Institutional Imperative" and what happens when you aren't aware of it and allow the defaults to run your work. It's a great complement to this article, I am sending out a post on Wednesday applying his idea to product management. productsolving.substack.com
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The Jurassic Park Effect (2015)
> Could you elaborate? I thought we were talking about needing to answer questions like "what were they thinking when they decided to make a specific change, at a level of detail too fine for the change description?" What would be critical to your workflow, but only available in past review discussions?

Those discussions are an "oral history" of the project. While we may hope for 100% documentation, it isn't uncommon that everything from implicit best practices to "hidden" decision processes to even customer complaints only ever get recorded in code reviews. "Why did we decide to do it this way?" is often the most common question for an archeology dig, and the answer sometimes is critical to a given workflow. If you want to fix the bug without breaking the user scenario that introduced the bug, that can be very important information to have.

> Nowhere I've worked has used the version control system in a distributed way, beyond someone being able to work while they're on their laptop without wifi.

So? Just because few do it today or think they "need" to do it other than what they believe to be rare offline scenarios, implies it isn't work striving for more distributed systems as an ideal?
I suppose you mean hyperinflation, because inflation is not only not a problem, but a goal of current central banks.

Maybe, we should make a law that whoever predict hyperinflation should tell us, at least, an approximate date for it. I have been hearing predictions of hyperinflation since I was a kid.

It should be also to be forbidden to change the definition of inflation, that is already very well defined. A stock market or real state bubble is not hyperinflation.

It should be obvious by now, after the example of Japan, the quantitative easing programs after 2008 and, now, the Covid countermeasures that the issue of inflation is a little more complicate that the gold worshipers would like us to believe.
I noticed that, too. I kept noticing the chin skin tone "smudging" over the shirt collar throughout the video.
I agree. In my opinion, over-communication is to help maintain alignment between people/teams/functions. It can't replace real, valuable work and results. Ideally, if the PM is a good communicator, execution is a lot smoother for every team (because the PM is carrying the alignment/communication burden).
Those things aren't new, but the scale of it is new. In particular, passenger air travel has absolutely exploded the last couple of decades. According to this [1] chart, the number of passengers have doubled in 2006. It's up by a factor 13 since 1970.

Our systemic environmental problems don't mostly come from new concepts, but from population growth and globalization.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.AIR.PSGR
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The problem is customers choosing to put all their eggs in one basket.

Until relatively recently absolutely none, and now almost none of the tooling allows effective multi-cloud or hybrid cloud/private.

Basically the cloud providers work very hard to prevent the commodification of their services with special incompatible service offerings, lock-in, interdependency, deep and opaque APIs for integration, and networks of training and certification that position change as a direct threat to people's job security.

Cloud providers today are basically Microsoft in the 90s.

Much as open source challenged Microsoft, I would say that the world now needs open infrastructure tooling that positions hybrid and multi-cloud as first class infrastructure architectural cases in order to displace established cloud provider hegemony. Even then we will have to fight the hardware and real estate economies of scale available to large established cloud providers.

I wrote some observations about this space based significantly on HN community comments prior to the rise of Docker a few years ago: http://stani.sh/walter/pfcts/ ... click 'original' ... the conclusions still seem timely.
And yet it can't always correctly subtract two two-digit numbers. Does that sound like a system that can perform arithmetic?

As I say in previous comments, no. It sounds much more like a system that can reproduce resutls it has seen in trainig, but has no general concept of arithmetic.

This would also explain the square root example example easily. Also, the examples in the OP's linked tweet are very simple examples of square roots and function composition that are very likely to have been lifted verbatim from some textbook, or who knows what ...and that's the problem, because who knows what the model has flat memorised and what it's composing from smaller components.

>> It clearly can perform arithmetic, and we don't need to trust OpenAI now that users can interact with the model.

The paper I link above performed a systematic evaluation of GPT-3's arithmetic ability. Playing around with the OpenAI API and eyballing a few results is not going to give a clearer understaning of its abilities.

In general, hitting a language model with a few queries is never going to give any clear understanding of its capabilities. Systematic evaluation is always necessary and the average user (or the non-average user) is not going to be able to do that.
I feel like your reply is a bit dismissive of a very real problem.

I don't understand anything about biology/vaccines or anything else relevant - but there have been several stories in history of medicine that was thought to have no side effect, that ended up being taken off the shelves because it was more dangerous than first thought.

If we're going to inject a few hundred million (if not a few billion) people with something, we need to be really really sure it won't harm then, and considering the fact that COVID has a mortality rate of 1%-ish, the vaccine has a huge burden of proof.

And more importantly to anything that I say as a non-expert - most experts on these issues seem to think you need at least ~10 months of human trials, if not more.
Quick Thoughts on GPT-3
The Exceptional First American Century
Sounds like you are close to the philosophy of people like Mr. Money Mustache:

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/
I became a PM last year only months after learning what a PM actually is. I did not have a software or product background, but I did have a significant technical background in the product domain for which I was hired.

I have found the entire experience both incredibly rewarding and incredibly humbling. I've never worked in a position that is so broad - from technical expert to support to tech writer to customer success to management.. every day is different. I do think this sums it up well:

> 14. Be on top of your shit. Until I figure out how to better articulate this, I’ll say it ineloquently as “just be on it.” Know your business, your product, your team, be responsive, communicate relentlessly, make good decisions, own your results, get 1% better every day.

If you're not constantly on top of everything, it becomes chaotic and obvious very quickly.
The GitHub Jobs Platform I Wish Existed
The economics will be different (more interesting/tempting) indeed. The point of the anecdote was that vaccine fabrication has been understood for a long time in the context of the scale it's required (again, the case was from the 50s-60s). I don't think any of the "promising vaccines" that are being tested now would fall in the trap of such a production scaling problem. Labs know this will be demanded in the billions.
Did that happen after the LIBOR scandal?

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2012/12/why-was-libor-rate-ri...

> What the complaint makes clear is that it should not have taken five years to bring these charges. The traders effectively handed the Justice Department a slam dunk case by documenting each maneuver to rig the international interest rate benchmark known as Libor via instant messages recorded on a Bloomberg computer terminal.
> you have a lack of imagination on how you can beat "the math"

I.e. I don't invest in ignorant fantasies.

I recall going to Lake Tahoe once. Buses would pull up to the casinos, disgorging mobs of silver-haired people rushing into the casinos to spend the day losing money.

It's sad.
The thing is that five years ago this stuff did not exist full stop. Five years from now it's going to be massively better. And societal institutions just don't respond to external shocks in five years, modern governance institutions are just not wired for it (e.g. the US Senate has six-year terms, Supreme Court terms are 30-40 years). So it's basically a complete inevitability that society will not be able to handle this, and in four years we'll probably see an election where a deepfaked video massively swings public sentiment (e.g. one of the candidates saying the n-word or something), and eight years from now, an authentic video of a candidate actively conspiring to commit a crime will be dismissed as a "deepfake" because of the experiences of four years earlier.

How is a society governed when Western Englightenment ideals of logic and reason have failed due to the inability to have any axiomatic truths? The way that societies were governed before the Englightenment -- religious fundamentalism and "might makes right."
To be honest, you could probably get more convincing results than this just by using spaghetti-Western-style dubbing of existing footage.
I've been a PM for 25 years. All the principles in the article can be applied to all of the items you mention, when I'm the PM. I don't consider myself great, just experienced and willing to learn more all the time. In the past when I've seen things like this, if I don't agree with them I have gone to someone more experienced to see what they have to say about it.
People are acting hysterical because they have suffered a collective trauma
If the delay is consistent, it shouldn't be too bad. I spent 3 weeks on a business trip to Europe, when my devserver was in Sunnyvale, and did all my editing via ssh as I usually do (in joe, not vi, but pretty similar) and it was mostly fine --- I do recall doing some tunneling to reduce the latency a bit though. It was not as fine when they sent me to India with the same development setup, so there's a limit... But it's closer to 200ms than 100ms, so 15hz should be ok in my mind.
Completely agree. The PM is there to help the team figure out what to build, and help them succeed in building it. They can do this in a number of ways: Being an expert on the product is "must have", but they also need to know the market, the needs of users/customers, the metrics, and more.
> ...though I've heard that that doesn't apply to having a family.

It 100% applies to having a family. (Source: have family.)
Awesome article, Alex!

An FYI: your link to the book Inspired is broken. You might want to put an Amazon affiliate link :)
What? that's the opposite of the truth.

Firefox, Chrome, Edge, IE, do not support HLS.

https://caniuse.com/#feat=http-live-streaming