skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The post makes a good case for why it's a bad idea to split a business problem into slices.

Why it's a bad idea is indeed demonstrated. But why it happens in practice is not just to obey the "small team" mantra. It's also because as organizations and products mature, the law of diminishing returns kicks in: once easy gains have been made, achieving more gains requires tackling more complex problems - either because they are actually more complex in themselves, or because of the environment has become more complex.

> Even though you have multiple small teams, they still need to closely coordinate with each other.

> But I can't find the next post in the series which proposes a better alternative. Anyone else had better luck?

That complexity actually means that whatever the way you organize, you're going to have more people involved. That's when you need good managers - what I call a good manager is not only competent to manage their own team, they're also good at making their team play in a more global picture without necessarily having a boss telling them to do so.
that's when you start crab-walking
That is not the case. I played around with this technology for a bit and it stores more than just one pattern in order to better understand how you type.
The YouTube channel Medlife Crisis, run by a practicing cardiologist in the UK, did a fairly long video reviewing the Wim Hof method and the science surrounding it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6EPuUdIC1E
Correct. We have agents for desktops (Windows, MacOS, Linux) as well as Mobile (Android, iOS)
We basically run a service that listens for dns requests on port 53 loop back IP, and then we change system DNS to point to that loopback IP.

Now we can do a bunch of things with the traffic between your machine and us: like inject edns0 data to authenticate requests, shift traffic between our anycast networks, and encrypt you’re traffic using DNS over TLS!
This made me nostalgic for RSS. Is anyone reviving that in a nice way?
#DingDingDing

And perhaps the Product Owner vacuum is filled in the sequel mentioned above.

The other point I was awaiting was documentation. Thank you to the one who at least threw a ransom note into the wiki. My software archaeology project would be impossible otherwise.
I had to laugh about the guy in charge of development and rewriting it as a SPA:

> we concluded that it would be quicker to re-write the app as opposed to dissecting the exiting application codebase. This is the primary reason why stacks were canned, regardless of what others might have said. Many times rewrites require reducing features in order to build a new foundation. This is sometimes a good thing, and sometimes not.

And then the pinpoard guy just summarizes the frustration of countless users:

> But the biggest mistake was when AVOS turned off some features beloved by a core Delicious constituency, fanfic authors. In particular, they made it impossible to search on the "/" character in tags, which instantly rendered a lot of the elaborate fanfic tagging and classification scheme useless. In my mind, that's when Delicious hit the point of no return.
Buying the cheapest tool can also easily discourage newcomers to a field.

As an example, I was nearly completely discourage from learning the guitar by the first guitar I bought. It was a really cheap stratocaster clone (<100$) with a really bad amp.

The thing was so bad that playing it was uncomfortable, and it was not even able to stay tuned thanks to the
crappy machine heads.

Looking back, I would have been better off buying a decent guitar from the get go, something in the range of 200$ would have ensure that (brands like Ibanez or Cort are able to produce quite decent guitars in this price range, even Squier (Fender low price brand) could be decent enough).

The point is to at least invest a little, usually avoiding the absolute lower price items, but targeting items one level above.
The problem is convenience. I have to press the elevator button every day. After I disinfect my hand for the 5th time that day I use the stairs. Same with the fingerprint scanner.
It was very much of the same era.
You are jumping to conclusions. EU might have their own problems, but believing EU, a representative body formed from people elected through a democratic process is just the same as a global corporation with a single "rational" goal of "make more money whatever it takes", is naive.

In a way, Corporations are inherently corrupt because they are not measured on anything but getting more money, which does not equate creating more value, but is merely a proxy. Democratic bodies maybe be corrupted, but you have the moral grounds to complain about it. Which you don't have with corporations, as long as they make money, they are acting withing our morality expectations.

And it is weasel speak, because they don't claim that the EU is asking for this impertinent information specifically, but they make it sound like that. I dare you to find "employee medical records" in the search terms.

If they were acting in good faith, they would've ask to enable post dragnet filters, and not to publicly claim the EU is after employee medical records. Which is a lie.
I think it is also hard to compare different candidates this way, even assuming they both have a similar level of commitment on GitHub. A take home exercise at least allows them to compare the same thing
I can't believe I'm defending GPT-3, but...

1) Humans often make logical errors

2) In the religious-split context, who is the original denomination and who is the splitting denomination is inherently fraught/subjective/liable-to-contradiction/open-to-changing-contextualisation, so its not a surprising mistake. The readers may have just assumed it was the author/speaker/washington post getting mixed up or projecting their own opinion, which may have contrasted with that expressed from the reports/attendees of the 'actual conference'.

(plus there's a good chance none of them could give two hoots about, or have any specific knowledge or interest in methodists...i have a religious studies degree and my eyes are already almost glazing over just at the mention of them to be honest :P)
Isn't that what Matrix and Mastodon do? (It is for me) And to some extent Slack/Discord I guess...
The article claims that bad readers memorize a handful of high frequency words and rely on those. I read the parts you quote as saying that those words are not memorized as a chunk and I don't see how a similar process can be done on Chinese characters. I kind of doubt that they are read by decomposing into radicals.
I worked at Amazon on two-pizza teams. I never thought the two pizza team was about reducing communication, but more allowing faster independent decision making. Once you work on something that is big and complicated enough that it requires dozens of engineers, there HAS to be communication and coordination. Hopefully you have good managers (and high level ICs) because they are supposed to do a lot of the coordination so that it is easy for the engineering team to focus on engineering. A goal of independent two-pizza teams is to have the independent teams define how their individual pieces will interface and then the small teams can independently decide on implementation details.

The two-pizza team concept is also about having a heuristic that tells you when to start looking into how to divide responsibilities between independent teams.

I don't really get what this article is proposing. Never work on projects complicated enough to require lots of engineers and thus coordination? It is not realistic to deliver the complex projects that big companies need to do with a single small team doing everything. It will just never get delivered.
I can and have read Wikipedia plus many forums on the extreme left and right's opinions Antifa and if it exists. But quite frankly in this conversation it is the equivalent of X that does not intersect with the government.

And I know about OpenALPR.

And I know facial and license recognition has been around since the 60s.

It's implicit we are talking about the data collection and large scale database and organisational control of that data.

I don't know why that link scares you, but you should learn Tor or AdBlock or Tails or VM's, I don't mind paranoia but lazy paranoia is, well, lazy.

If they are actually doing it, it's a big deal and will make the news. I found the original link, but not that trustworthy, but we will see in the next 24 hour news cycle - https://partisan.space/what-you-need-to-know-about-antifa-un...
It's not a war
I haven't read PG that carefully but had a bit of an idea that he could be on the pretentious side and that he seemed to hold public opinions that one is "supposed to" hold. So I started to read this article with positive "pre-judgement" I suppose, but the author's entire point was to question PG's assertions. However, the assertions seem very likely to be true to me, to the point that it is the author (Nathan J. Robinson) who has the burden of proof. So I have to agree with the comments that are already here, this is just an attack piece.
Hell yes. A few days ago I word by word googled "Delicious bookmarking alternative 2020" and was dismayed to find that there does not seem to exist anything as lightweight today. Can't wait to use delicious again.
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I think its writing exact code down instead of good enough pseudo code - that people hate.

WB interviews should be about problem solving not regurgitation of rote learned algorithms
Only until large sunglasses get popular.
I don't know for metastable glass but you can read about the third law of thermodynamics which address the question of entropy and low temperature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_law_of_thermodynamics

Especially this might interest you:

"A classical formulation by Nernst (actually a consequence of the Third Law) is:

It is impossible for any process, no matter how idealized, to reduce the entropy of a system to its absolute-zero value in a finite number of operations."
It feels to me like some of that was having the same group of random strangers interacting. Rather than a constant flux of single comments.
To me the most important discovery from GPT-3 is actually how bad we are at close reading. Our brains repair small inconsistencies, and even invert the meaning of whole passages, without us noticing. GPT-3 produces text similar enough to coherent thought that we essentially hallucinate the rest of its meaning. The model is nowhere close to sentient, but our tendency to repair and reconstruct ideas is so strong that it doesn’t matter.

Makes you think, how often does this happen with other writing?
Pinboard.in, from the current owner of delicious?
Got me thinking about how I learned. Definitely wasn't cueing, even though I was in the late 90s - early 2000s cohort.

Lots of spelling tests, and A gamified computer program. Can't remember the name, but it was A system with quizzes for literally thousands of books that tested your reading comprehension and rewarded points for how well you performed. Entirely optional. I remember I and one other kid were miles out ahead of everyone else. So much so that we started to run out of big point books to read.

It's curious that this article never mentions the Hooked on Phonics program. It was always being advertised on TV 20 years ago.

Edit: the program was Accelerated Reader. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Reader
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In my country (the Netherlands), there are a lot of huge distribution centers, large warehouses with flat roofs. But instead of putting solar on the roofs of those, rural land is used, and we don't have so much of that. It's a shame.
A counter example.

- Australia Post is a government owned entity.

- Australia Post has a universal service obligation.

- Australia Post is allowed to sell whatever it damned well pleases.

- But, it has a monopoly on only one thing, letters.

- The combination of universal service obligation is a liability of course, but being able to sell whatever it damned well pleases ameliorates it somewhat. Many firms (like banks) farmed out otherwise unprofitable branch functions to Post Offices.

- Australia Post is, and as far as I know has always been profitable.

From what I can tell, the idea that a government run entity is more poorly run than a private one is myth. If the area has open competition, and the government run business makes a profit (this is generally the case in Australia), then it really makes no difference if it's privately run or government owned.

Differences only arise in non-competitive environments. A monopoly owned privately owned business charges like a rent seeking wounded bull. A subsidised government run business could destroy more efficiently run private equivalents, but can be a fine balance - it can also be a way to efficiently subsidise a service that was never going to be supplied privately. Doing it by subsidising private operators is equally fraught - regulatory capture is a thing, privately owned prisons being a poster child for what can go wrong.
Yep, I have fond memories of delicious (they featured a browser add-on to ease the bookmarking process).

Delicious, Digg, Technorati, StumbledUpon - those were the days!
Well less repeatability issues actually ... since you can think about the counterfactual “what would we lose if they weren’t here” and the actual “what did we gain”. This information is available and you don’t need process to extract it.

As far as “darwinian” goes some of us relish a meritocracy and loathe being surrounded by duds. I understand “Valve” to do something just like this but to a greater extent and they are not having problems hiring.
I didn't IMPLY, I WONDERED. Explicitly, too. Read the next few sentences. I mean it's not that fucking long.
> Britain uses a lot of CCTV but I don't see them doing better on crime.

I think we'd need a comparative trial to really know that.
But did you get any of those jobs? I wouldn't call being invited to the next round successful if you don't get the job. In fact it's a loss, more lost time for the candidate.
What are the things that don't work? Does power management work? Suspend/resume? Audio? Thunderbolt? Multiple monitors?
Could also be rephrased as "Do you mean that the all the CCTV surveillance in the City is decentralised and only accessible by warrant to each system owner?"
I always chose to believe it was Just Another Friendly Aucklander. I knew I was lying to myself, but it makes you feel slightly better than acknowledging 2/3 of your fellow citizens don't like you.
I wouldn't interpret Sony's and Microsoft's decision for AMD graphics as anything other than Nvidia being dickheads.

Keep in mind that Apple is also exclusively building Macs with AMD graphics cards. They don't even support Nvidia cards as eGPU anymore. The rumour is that Nvidia is not willing to do any customised designs and someone at Apple is very upset with Nvidia.
That's only a problem if you are trying to generalise your discovery and say write a paper or sell a product about it. If it's just "a thing you do" and it makes you feel good, then biases don't really matter as much as the end result.
I do this guessing while trying to read an unknown charger but this article made me question the usefulness of that and is exactly why I'm unsure what the process in Chinese should be. Doing this looks more like the cueing process of picking a word with the right starting letter that matches the rest of the sentence and moving on. I certainly don't learn the word by seeing it a couple times in text.
I watched two DW documentaries on coronavirus in China[0][1] -- [1] is now private but you can see what the page looked like on the wayback machine[2]. What I remember from one of the videos (not sure which) was that they had facial recognition with masks working, they discussed it and there was some b-roll of facial recognition cameras set up inside a mall(?) and other places.

The other commenters who have noted that there are lots more variables involved (height, gait, etc) are also right of course.

I think China is a world leader in this field of technology, and I fully expect them to have solved this, for better or (almost certainly) for worse. Imagine if you had an organization with virtually unlimited local currency willing to pay researchers/smarter-than-average/average programmers to solve the who-is-that-in-this-picture problem, but also you had no regulation to answer to with regards to personal privacy and/or data access ("it's for national security" gets you close to no oversight in western nations, but not quite China-level). Consider the problem mostly solved. Even if it wasn't, the fact that just about every citizen carries a cell tower/GPS beacon with them should be enough to help narrow down the search space dramatically, even if your algorithm/methods were dogshit (it isn't).

China has created a real life 1984, and tech helped them get here. I don't know whose (including me) conscience that's supposed to be on but just putting it out there.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K3fy5eKeuM

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm92Rd262qQ

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It never went away. If you want experience similar to Google Reader - there are several clients (but better ones require paid subscription). RSS feeds are still there.
That page contains no comparison with any American cities? Do you have an actual source for your claim?
You're confusing the strong and weak nuclear forces from particle physics with the fission and fusion nuclear reactions.
The (residual) strong force underpins the energy release in both fission and fusion reactions.

You've also linked to the debunked pseudoscience of 'cold fusion', (dressed up as low energy nuclear reactions...) from Pons and Fleischman.

Plenty of work is being done in the field of handling radioactive waste from nuclear fission. My field (decommissioning and waste management) is entirely dedicated to it.
ActivityStreams is essentially a revival of RSS. It is the foundation of stuff like ActivityPub, the Fediverse, and the upcoming Social Linked Data (SoLiD) effort led by the W3C. So I'd say that there's plenty of reviving going on.
Certainly not the first, but a glorious explanation of the schlub/anti-hero is Updike's character, Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit,_Run
I just completed this exact challenge (Yes, for Sennder) and I think their challenge is fine. It is not really difficult or takes much time at all. They didn't seem too strict in their review and I was able to discuss some of the "mistakes" and choices I made in the tech interview. Including some PEP8 violations. Despite these mistakes I passed the tech interview just fine and I just have the CTO interview left.

I don't see how mocks would have doubled the scope of the project. I think I have mocks set up in a few lines of code or so. If your project is so difficult to test or if it is difficult to set up mocks for it maybe there is a serious flaw in your project structure?

> Providing an HTML response rather than JSON when the spec asked for a "page, don't bother about styling".

I don't understand what you mean with this. Did you provide a HTML response or did you provide JSON? I did a super simple HTML response with no styling and that was fine. If you did JSON I could see how they would mark it as a mistake when they clearly asked for a HTML page.
Thats a big pizza.
I still always laugh when I read the phrase "personal pizza".

That's what non-US people would call "pizza".
> Do you have some concrete evidence for the claim that other countries’ failures are due to being "shut down by the US"?

I'm actually surprised you're asking this, because this phenomenon is fairly well known, but anyway. TSR2, Black Arrow and Concorde (with France of course) are a few examples from the UK, and the Avro Arrow is an example from Canada. It does require capitulation from weak or compromised leaders in the producing nation. Take France as a counter example of a country that refused to capitulate to US demands e.g. military aircraft, rockets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picaresque_novel
yeah, you’d have to jump into the IL/RL/IRL/infogan tarpit :)
> Hopefully you have good managers (and high level ICs)

Looks at Jira and weeps.
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>If you think we're more violent now,

Don't strawman me, I didn't say that, or anything about violence. All I was talking about was distribution of income.
At what cost and how different? would the benefit from different results offset the cost?
I'm really not sure which approach I prefer. If you contextualise it to a company, it's crazy to think you could develop an effective system by having top-level management of a country-sized company devise a monolithic, cookie-cutter plan that gives teams zero autonomy or ability to use their personal judgement. You have to allow the men on the ground to innovate, and adapt to their specific problems.

The cost of autonomy is that some teachers will teach creationism, but it also means the people who are closest to & have the biggest stake in the learning of each child have control over how that kid develops, which in general seems better aligned with incentives.
> which has actually been demonstrated

For certain values of "actually be demonstrated". I don't think it's been reliably shown to be a real phenomenon, has it?
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I've posted this before, but here's one service I can absolutely foresee:

Automated job applications

and

Automated job listings

Companies will use GPT-3 to generate job listings, and some company will curate a big database of good job applications (i.e those that have landed someone a job), and make a service where you feed in the listing, and out comes job application / letter.
Another classic was (is?) V8 using the textual size of a function as a heuristic when deciding whether to inline it in the jit. So changing a comment could have a large performance impact.
> A 30 byte version string is totally fine.

As long as it maintains total ordering. The primary job of a version number is so that you can compare two of them to tell whether one version is behind or ahead the other one (and, preferably, by roughly how much).

I've seen people using VCS commit hashes as version numbers, which defeats the purpose of having such a number.
cf "Franchise", Isaac Asimov, 1955: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_(short_story)
Not if management implies non-technical. Maybe an architect role would describe it better.
In case you missed it, they are basically talking about "cold fusion".
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The days of the movie theaters are limited. With the pandemic the theaters are closed unless they bring back drive-ins. People are staying in their houses and would rather wait until the movies appear online sources to watch.

I got a stir crazy popcorn maker with a Super-Kist II butter topping same as the theater. We got a large screen TV and stereo surround. I used Amazon Prime for my movies and tv shows included with the price of Prime. Better than movie rentals because I don't have to worry about returning a movie. I get 48 hours before it expires.
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If you are not writing a paper, building a product, or treating it as scientific knowledge does it really matter?
> The all-might account creation hurdle will kill all such initiative.

Doesn't federation solve this? You're identified by the server you signed up on.
Agreed.

There have already been a few 'iffy' situations in London where facial recognition trials have caused upsets.

Big Brother Watch has been highly vocal on the subject and worth keeping an eye out for on social media etc