skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apologies: I was feeling a bit tired when I wrote the above so, again, sorry for the unjustifiably harsh tone.

Companies are a mixed bag. Some of them behave in ways that are deeply cynical. Plenty also don't, or at least most of the time try to avoid doing so.

I will say one of the reasons for more concern over employee welfare is that more employees, at all grades, are displaying signs that all is not well. It's simply a very unusual situation so, in some sense, the greater noise around welfare is to be expected.

With that being said, and despite my general disdain for cynicism (I live in Cambridge: there's a lot of people who want to play the "world weary cynic" role and it gets old), it does have to be acknowledged that despite the best intentions of employees and leaders at all levels, when push comes to shove a lot of "core values" and "culture" go out the window.

Especially when the choice is that or the company goes under, or that and a shareholder revolt, or you can see the writing on the wall and it's this terrible course of action now or a much worse course of action later. People will also of course choose to use wider market conditions as cover for action they've been planning or perhaps should have taken anyway.

All in all it's grim and, as such, it's one of the reasons that if I ever run a company we will have as few "values" as we can get away with, and we certainly won't be trumpeting our "culture" with any self-serving presentations.
This is undefined behaviour except when using msvc. For GCC and clang, you should use [] (empty square brackets) to denote a variable length array at the end of a struct. For msvc, [1] is used all over win32 and is explicitly supported for that purpose.

Edit: it's UB because you're accessing past the end of an array with size given at compile time.
> and sent candy in every order

It's amazing how little things like that make the sale.
Jesus, how many people have you ever met that openly stated that X people do not deserve to be alive?
I remember that too. I remember at the time that everyone was worried Google was going to start adding ads. And they did it so soo sooo slowly. They did it so slowly that even today they haven't been able to do a 30 second forced spot yet, like TV. It's interesting actually, someone should write a book about the way they introduced ads on YT. They did it so carefully that you could tell they were very very carefully balancing not having any protest greater than a few hundred people at any time.

That was essentially the major reason people thought it was a bad deal - that you couldn't monetize because people would run to the next platform, I mean it was essentially a doomed business idea because the belief was you couldn't get the advertising dollar above the storage and staffing costs.
We have a much, much larger country, with far sparser populations, and a major 'last mile' problem when it comes to our infrastructure. That fractalline, capillary spread of cable is the killer for nation-wide one-size-fits-all access and data plans.

We /do/ have major problems with offering alternatives to a given location, though.
they are assets in the big machine, being sold or open sourced would reduce them and their associated incomes to nothing
Apple is a baron of customer hostility and anti-competitive practices. Customer lock-in, closed platforms, corrosion of right to own or repair, forced obsolescence. That's how they do business. Is there some point where how you do business becomes the product, and the intended product (e.g. reinvention of the desktop processor) becomes just a byproduct? We've a cultural inclination to focus on the what, and forget the how. But it's short-term thinking. I for one am tired of Apple's how.
I agree. I thought the article gave good overall approach to the core skills a product manager needs to have.
Yes, increase. Not able to edit my comment.
Yes, but you still have a regress: you have to have good reason to trust the oracle.

(E.g. Yin-Yang – A tool for stress-testing SMT solvers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25123138 They found a bunch of bugs in Z3 and CVC4!)
IIRC, there wasn’t a permanent settlement in New France until Quebec City in 1608.
This is why they have you select your specific headphone model, and only support certain models. They are compensating for the characteristics of what you are listening with.

Its not going to be perfectly accurate, but should get you into the same (or possibly better due to lack of noise/business) ballpark as auditioning in a store.
This is in line with how Facebook behaves and operates i.e. lack of ethics.
I'd guess that, like most platforms, youtube content follows a power law concerning the activities, meaning that 99% of the traffic comes from 1% of the content (or something along those lines). In the Netflix CDN, each node has a fixed library that's restocked at fixed intervals, at least that's what I remember from reading their requirement document for ISPs interested in having a CDN node in their network. The Google CDN is likely more dynamic with nodes having region dependent libraries but nothing that you can't manage.
The Tenfold Way
A great PM has a solid read on what the market will pay for. I think PM "job one" is translating a credible and concrete vision of what a product needs to do to the design and dev teams. A Product Manager primarily interprets the market - customers, buyers, competition - both tactically and strategically on behalf of informing direction of a product's development. Analyze, integrate, interpret, explain, communicate, prioritize - all big PM verbs. It is an advantage to deeply understand key customer "jobs to be done". It is a requirement to communicate well cross functionally with everyone. PM is an influencing function -- visionwise you can be a little ahead of the rest of your team, so being smart, credible, empathetic and service-to-the-mission oriented all help in that way.
That’s an interesting question. Officially the answer is “no”, but what if someone with AIDS contracts COVID-19 and dies? Does that person count toward both statistics? How many statistics can one death count towards?

Now try “diabetes and hypertension”, or “lung cancer”, or “temporary immunodeficiency” and you can start to see how dishonest it is to represent the death toll of this disease as a single number, based on an interpretation that generates the largest possible number, and an interpretation not used with any other respiratory disease.
It isn't written down anywhere. You just watch what other people do and copy them.

It isn't helpful (for a foreigner) in that you ask people "how much should I tip?" a lot of service staff won't give a clear answer. (They think it is rude to answer or something?)

On business trips to the US, I observed what my American colleagues did, and copied their behaviour.

I used to always tip 10% until I saw my American coworkers were always tipping 20% so I switched to that.

Nobody ever complained when I tipped 10% though. (Maybe they are more tolerant of stingy tipping from obvious foreigners?)

(And whether 10% or 20%, it was a business trip so my employer paid for it anyway.)
At least in the US, the current case law is against your conclusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC#Corpora...
There were some studies about how colors had systematic effects on user mood. But they were before the replication crisis and I could easily imagine them falling through - does anyone know the current state?
Not a dumb question! I'm sure there are a lot of different approaches that could work.

For my own projects, I like to keep client-side code separated from the server-side code. The static site (with compiled JavaScript) gets deployed to S3/CloudFront, while the Sinatra API is packaged as a Docker image and deployed to ECS (or any container service)[1]. This means that Sinatra is only handling the API requests, and all of the markup, JavaScript, and other assets are served from a CDN.

[1] For this to work, you'll likely need to set up CORS on the server side, but that's well-supported now and fairly simple to set up.
$80m founder; telling it like it is
google 'equity result' or something similar and you will see them, they're the new fad.

I'm all for splitting US into left and right states, a reverse of civil war but without the war. The nation is nearly split into 50:50 anyways in the last few decades and it's getting more and more divided. Both sides will be happy, and we can compete in parallel and see which system will win. This way, at least, those leftism will not fight for liberal agenda with money from other hard working people's pocket. Please leave them alone, they're already taxed enough and did their share for your dreaming welfare society.
This was posted previously[1]. I am reposting because the "Permissive Security" option that appeared to allow operation of the operating systems has been removed. Wayback Machine[2] has captured the original page. I'm not sure if they are changing their stance or what, I was under the impression this would be allowed. I had to add a new param to bypass dupe detection, I think this warrants a new story. The heading you want to look at is here[3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25145119

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20201117164532/https://support.a...

[3] https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/macos-recovery-a-ma...
Some computer magazines of the 80's actually included so called "Floppy ROMs", actually thin vinyl records, in the magazine pages ! : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Age
How to create comprehensive product requirement docs
Arrow Fx implement this idea for Kotlin ->
https://arrow-kt.io/docs/fx/
DoorDash will never be profitable, because there are three businesses that need a cut from a sale: driver, restaurant, and doordash. That just makes it very expensive.
Sorry. Frustration because I don’t understand how something can be downvoted without commentary or engagement ..sometimes..in literally seconds after posting.

Imagine if this happens in real-time conversations? When we talk to each other..as in face to face..what would happen to communication or civil discourse if we ‘verbally downvote’ before engaging or interacting?

Please consider eliminating drive-by downvotes as policy. Or at least institute a weighted system of voting wrt engagement level.

ETA: I can’t edit it now. But in my defense, English is not my first language. I don’t use any swear words in my language because that seems like it would be disrespectful/impolite but in a learned language, ‘fuck’ is just as potent as ‘lame’ because it’s all English to me. Not having come to an English speaking country until after adulthood, it’s a language whose colloquialism I picked from books and movies. Mostly books. So it kinda..flows. But will try to be mindful.
I've had good experiences with Musician's Friend, and with great deals. I've gotten two great guitars from them in the past few months at $150 and $200 off (for $300 and $350 respectively).

That said, I'd love to go to a GC in person and try before I buy. Just...not during a pandemic.
I'm not expecting this to happen for many financial and sociopolitical reasons, but I wish NYU would sue Facebook before November 30 seeking a declaratory judgment that their extension complies with all applicable laws and also with FB's terms of service (leaving aside the obvious catch-all of "we can cut you off for no reason in our sole discretion").

Too many threats like this from FB and other powerful entities yield unwarranted capitulation. If those powerful entities had to fear a real risk of losing a lawsuit on the topic of their baseless threat, they'd at least think before threatening and would sometimes refrain. Alas.
That’s the point of the entire argument. Elite schools don’t go by scores and grades alone.

Parents who sent their kids to cram school, or tutoring or whatever, and kids with perfect scores are mad that schools aren’t basing admissions solely on scores and grades.

What it boils down to is that Asian American kids are outperforming most other groups on the SAT for whatever reason. Elite colleges don’t want student bodies that are 70% Asian American.
Show HN: Booktweets #1, “How will you measure your life?”
I guess go convince four billion they should never have been born because we need more nitrogen assimilation ...
You're not being irrational ... Americans are just slimy and deceptive.
This is exactly the model that Target adopted a few years ago, and well, look at their stock lately. It's worked out extremely well for them.
If this works well, and can eventually interface nicely with Elixir libraries like Phoenix, I think it’ll be really exciting. Definitely going to keep an eye on this :)
One time I bought a latin percussion egg shaker for $2. They sent it 2nd day and as always, included the candy. That buys loyalty!
That requires human interaction, and if I'm going to a website, I explicitly don't want that as part of the buying experience. I want a machine that will give me exactly what I want with no delays and minimal salesmanship.
I really don't follow your point here. It's plausible, but lots of things are plausible - it's plausible that the original reporting is correct, plausible that Stillwell is embarrassed about his involvement, plausible that Cambridge was involved in some way that didn't involve Stillwell. You seem to have reached a stronger conclusion, that Stillwell's statement is definitely correct and the reporting was definitely wrong, and I don't see how you got there by just looking at plausibility.
What are the methods of cooking meat at home – information drawer
Variance, diversity, and large population can solve problems by chance. Combinatorial diversity due to genetics helps too. It may suck for some individuals, but for humanity as a whole, 'tis good.
Asserting that scientific culture has some similarities to religion isn’t some deep insight. All human scholarly cultures have things in common. We don’t use that commonness to argue that they’re all the “same”, it’s not an assertion that provides much value.

Your other arguments about science zealots arguing doesn’t provide any novel insight either. There are zealots everywhere, using them as the focus for describing the culture seems like a rather silly thing to do.
Have you thought of going Shadertoy style and doing everything procedurally? Or every block procedurally? That way you can cut RAM as much as you wish. For example, if you have a procedural formula to determine if a block is populated, you don't need to store it in RAM, just use this formula in the renderer directly (in Shadertoys this usually would repeat per-pixel).
Today I decided to "launch" an idea that I had just a couple of hours ago.

The idea is simple: to summarize a book in a series of tweets; if people want to read the book, they click an affiliate link that generates money.

I have no plans for the future of this idea. But I wanted to do, to launch something today.

I picked the book I was reading, "How will you measure your life?", by Clay Christensen, famed author of "The Innovator's Dilemma".

I liked the book, despite I think it could have been written differently, and more concisely.

Let me know what you think - of the book, and the idea of course!
> A corporation (despite our current legal definition in the US) is not a person

What part of that was difficult for you to understand?
Tradecraft – The Dead Drop Reimagined
Yes, it did prove that they can scale on investors money.
Useful in CTF too ;-)
As a European I agree. It's bizarre trying to buy things in America, where you're expected to keep a running tally of state and federal taxes. Just put the actual price on the label, how hard is that?
PCB Business Card running a CNN to classify 5x5 pixel digits
There is really no evidence at all to back up the author's assertion when it comes to AirBnB. I certainly recall AirBnB booming in large cities before it really spread. Here is the one quote the author provides re AirBnB:

> Airbnb's top 10 cities — London, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Barcelona, Tokyo, Toronto, San Diego and Lisbon — collectively account for only 11.9% of Airbnb's revenues, and no city has more than 2.5% of Airbnb's total market.

I mean, all that proves is that AirBnB is in a lot of cities.
Pay wall bypass:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201122160535/https://www.nytim...
I think that the point being made is not that religion has facilitated negative outcomes, but that the trope of "church impede scientific process. church absolute bad" is an example of a biased retrospective view adopted as a common myth in the modern, western worldview. It is important for societies to hold myths as part of their common culture for purposes of cohesion, but we must also acknowledge that reality is more complex and these myths are often ahistorical.
That is not a convincing argument. Middlemen exist in many markets.
I doubt that anti-tech people really discern different companies. Most likely Salesforce is not consumer oriented and therefore not really a name that springs to mind when it comes to tech.
This used to be so much more of a pain before Sass (and friends) came along. Having a red error box with a separate border colour used to be a pain to maintain but it's so simple with darken/lighten and a few commonly used context-specific variables.
Interesting post! I had a look at the Refactoring UI packages, $99 ($79 on sale) seems a little steep for a PDF and three videos.
Older laptops idle at about 12-17 watts according to powertop (so not including losses in the warm to touch power brick), would be surprising if sff from same era were much more efficient.

edit: searching around, people are reporting 10 ish watts on x220 era thinkpads. But still 3-5 watts sounds low for a desktop.

Also, Pi 4 idle power consumption at launch was significantly higher than with current firmware, those early Pi 4 figures were the only ones nearing 3 watts I think. And of course the less beefy Pi Zeros are sub 1W.
Github repo the author put up: https://github.com/PaulKlinger/cnn_card/
You are going to be shocked when you learn how flu deaths are counted. Hint: positive test is not even necessary.

And fascinatingly, you don't worry at all about people who died without test missing from statistics.
Corrected title: Amazon employee maps sidewalks of Seattle

The title sounds like the robot is doing it, but not only is it remotely controlled (I first assumed via mobile data), the person controlling it has to walk with it. They might as well be pulling a cart with sensors, there isn't anything robotic about it.

Anyone know what that thing on the front is? The one tilted 45° and looking like a passive cooler with an aperture science-like logo on it?
Counterpoint to the counterpoint: Door Dash and Airbnb realized that things won't improve so their management and investor decide it may be better to cash out now and leave the little guy holding the can...just saying
In customer focused companies and at most places I've worked, many team members are indispensable product thinkers (from the CEO to the most junior developer). Simply put, you don't need to be a product manager to be a great product asset or excel at any one of these traits listed in the article. On high functioning teams, product is democratized and many contribute to the roadmap. When product is described as a role, such as product manager, the individual is responsible for bringing teams together through a collaborative process and rallying the team to go all in on a initiative/roadmap to achieve a goal for the business or company. There's other traits involved such as collaboration, practical management of deliverables and timelines, people management, and relentless focus on quality. Last but not least, the article's focus on intuition as a trait didn't seem like the right fit, since many ppl think of intuition as inherent and not learned. Intuition is a combination of experience and continued learning. Anyone who talks with customer, studies an industry, or listens deeply to their coworkers is building intuition around the problem. In practice, I think by saying Data and Intuition, the author intended something more akin to pattern recognition - which again is something available to all of us!
Does anyone actually advocate that? insane mis characterization of the other side is another reason politics should be avoided at work. People who would otherwise get along just fine become enemies because they are fighting the most despicable possible interpretation of the others position. It's nuts.
Always tip (in the United States) because your server often makes depression-era wages and sometimes, in some establishments, your server also has to split that tip with the kitchen staff. The people who create your dining experience will be underpaid for their irreplaceable time if you do not tip. Consider tipping 30% for breakfast because customers tend to sit for longer, resulting in lower customer turnover and fewer tips than other times of day.
Sounds like Sears
>their products have only gone up in price (as with the yearly iPhone releases)

Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The iPhone 12 mini base price is $699 with 64GB. iPhone 3GS in 2009 with 8 GB was $599, or $727 in inflation adjusted 2020 dollars. Never mind the incredible increases in data rate, speed, display quality, and other capabilities.

Or, take the iPhone SE, an incredible phone compared to the 3GS and it has a base price of $399 with 64GB. 200 dollars less before inflation.

Apple has introduced premium models at higher prices but that leads to an incorrect comparison. It's just not reasonable to point to a 2009 iPhone and a 2020 iPhone Pro and suggest some sort of relevant price comparison.

In actual or inflation adjusted dollars it costs much less to own an iPhone today than it did a decade ago and you get a lot more phone.

I agree that we shouldn't expect a cheaper laptop, but I don't think it is because they care about cannibalizing their own sales. They set margin goals for each product and have demonstrated an unwillingness to discount below those goals solely to pursue market share.

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone
It's interesting, there seem to be two primary camps when people talk about technologies that "bring them joy".

One camp feels this way about maximally-dynamic environments like Lisp and Ruby, which presumably provide "the highest bandwidth" when it comes to translating ideas into code.

Whereas for me and others, it's the exact opposite: these languages create nothing but anxiety. Joyful programming, for me, is programming where I can feel confident and peaceful knowing that every possible contingency of a given piece of code has been either accounted-for or prevented. Knowing that I'm not going to be blindsided by anything, being able to narrow my focus to the problem at hand instead of being overwhelmed with the infinite number of things that could go wrong.

I wonder what causes such a divergence in mindset
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. You are correct. It's very much possible to improve scores by practice. By simply taking a lot of practice tests over the summer, my daughter was able to substantially improve her ACT score from 30 to 34 - which is in fact what she got in the actual test.
It's hard to document such things, but one place to look would be Point of Sale systems that show the most popular tipping options. They usually default to 10, 15, and 20%. I've also seen 15, 20, and 25%.

Of course, the merchant can change the setting to determine which options are shown as quick picks. I'm just talking about defaults.
very, very cool and all..

.. but what does it sound like??
My biggest issue when I'm trying to put together a palette is that dark mode comes first in my eyes, with a light mode as an option later should people request it.

So much of the existing advice seems easy to follow in light mode but doesn't click for me the other way around.