skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Bill Gates makes an excellent counterpoint for this article. He was known for treating business as a competitive game, trying to win at all costs. Look at the way he acquired MS-DOS for next to nothing from Seattle Computer Products. Yes, he got his start by being genuinely hard working and smart, but from that point on he exploited every way he could get away with.
Why do so many sites choose grey on grey? I hate that design choice.
"How far down the totem pole is the Ops team in the mind of the average product manager when it comes time to decide 'we need a new feature'? How soon are they brought to the table, generally speaking? Compared to other stakeholders, how much of a voice do they have in deciding if a feature is valuable or non-economic?"
I mean it goes deeper. i.reddit.com and v.reddit.com are terrible places to put content if you want someone else to see it on reddit, there are serious performance issues there... and I'm on a wired connection to gigabit fiber in the Bay Area, not on 3G up in the mountains.

It speaks volumes that the best way to browse their social media platform is through third party tools or the deprecated interface. Not only is it a superior way to create and engage with communities (the only good subs are the comment/text driven ones these days anyways, if I want stupid videos I'll go to TikTok and Instagram where all that content comes from anyway), it's more performant.

I don't know what's going on at Reddit HQ but I guess there's a reason I've never heard anyone brag about working there.
Theft isn’t a word I used. I intentionally used the words advantage, leverage and exploitation the way I did for a reason.

Using your example, a billionaire doesn’t hand 1,000 more dollars to a hedge fund manager and get 1,000 times more wealth amplification. They hire a team of accountants and lawyers to do 1,000 times that base amplification each.

Making 100k and having a stock based retirement plan is an open drainage from the wealth factory, it definitely has access to the same levers, but it’s effectively the equivalent of a pension, just managed in the marketplace according to marketplace rules. That earning category is basically the automobile manufacturer lead/plant manager of our generation, the only difference is there’s more people who get that slice. People in this role largely don’t have the capacity to even think about increasing their leverage, they just get “benefits” and call it a night.

People who become billionaires have an entirely different approach. Their work is split between using whatever leverage they have access to, and whatever affords greater leverage. It’s mathematically the only way (given current dollar valuation) that you can get that many dollars.
PM is one of those titles (analyst too, now that I think about it) is one of those titles that means vaguely the same thing at a plurality of orgs, but wildly different at the edges.
Awesome, thank you! You are the first person to ever mention dark mode which is super surprising to me! I bet others have had the thought, just haven't said anything. It will come at some point but it's not a super high priority.
Being useful to one group (in the process of becoming a billionaire) can be exploitative to another group.
The communication doesn't give that impression; instead it says that the paper makes claims that ignore significant and credible challenges to those claims. Dean said that these factors would need to be addressed, not agreed with.

Publishing a transparently one-sided paper in Google's name would be a problem, not because of the side it picks, but because it suggests the researchers are too ideologically motivated to see the see the problem clearly.

Ironically, it indicates systemic bias on the part of the researchers who are explicitly trying to eliminate systemic bias. That's just a bit too relevant to ignore.
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The EV switch for GM seems to have somewhat more thought behind it. Honda is even signed on to share a jointly-developed electric platform for EVs.
Or watch Ad Vitam (it's on Netflix).
Thank you for saying this. I thought it but didn’t write it as I don’t want to offend.

The amount of extra work and complexity that a separate FE introduces requires serious benefits on the other side of the equation.
"What do product managers actually do?"
Sure that’s a fair point but asking for the reviewers to be identified is way out of bounds. What possible legitimate reason could she have for that request?
October was also an election month, so I would assume that more people were checking in to read the screaming matches.
[From one Product Manager to another]

Some have called Product Management the “Visionary’s Whipping Post” as role sits internally between the company’s development, accounting, production, and accounting teams who all need someone to blame for their woes. Others have describes the role in terms of shuttle diplomacy between external customer needs and internal corporate objectives. How would you describe or frame the role of Product Manager?

For your own organization, where do you strike the balance between Microsoft's "Promise everything even if you don't have it" and Apple's "Say Nothing until it's available in the store," promotional strategies and how does your position relate to your unique line of products, industry and customers?

Are you currently in a product expansion phase or option/feature expansion phase?

Are you positioning yourself for a new market segment or extending your reach into the existing customer base?

What products or industries do you admire or see as well managed?
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I believe that front-loading, horizontal axis washing machines are quite a bit more gentle on clothing. When I switched 2 decades ago, the reduction in lint in the dryer catch was remarkable. They seem good for other reasons as well, but that I almost never wear out clothing is another $$ and ecological benefit.
Mutation coverage definitely improves the testing process. It is much harder to accidentally write bad tests once you are using a tool like PIT: https://frequal.com/java/HighQualityTestsWithPitMutationTest...
Buyout makes sense for all parties as existing dealers obtain more of the declining cadillac buyer/owner market share.
Wow, that is what most of us do in good sites like HN. The signal to noise level is way beyond normal. Thanks all.
I'd be fine, I'm not that rich. I'm also not that heavily invested in Amazon, so I'd be even more fine.

Again, how will things be worse if Jeff Bezos was worth $50,000,000,000 instead of $180,000,000,000? That's what was supposed - that it would make things worse if we made him pay a fair rate to the American people for helping maintain his wealth.
> ...I’d wager that it’s more likely that their appointment reminder system is held together by duct tape and baling twine...

The conventional car industry has coming up on two decades of observing what Tesla did right with their software and customer service experience, and what they screwed up. Tesla is still very vulnerable (QC, capacity, and infrastructure), and that window is closing fast. If conventional car dealerships become economic roadkill in the future, they only have themselves to blame.
What UI behaviors necessitated you to move beyond stimulus? Could you provide an example?
I have no idea why you're being downvoted.
My dad used to run service departments for a dealer chain, about 15 dealerships.
This is one of the things he did. He was also very process oriented and was able to 'money motivate' employees.
He took every dealership he worked with from negative or low yearly income to substantially higher yearly income and everything he touched grew customer base.
I have a tesla but I have no idea what they want me to do here
I don’t. I don’t believe more than about 10 million should be able to be passed on to children. Maybe less than that. Just having been born to such rich parents is an opportunity that gives them incredible legs up in society, let alone them getting a ton of money due to the luck of their birth. If a parent that rich cares about their child they have many ways to help them achieve in life. If it is actually possible for a person to be so much better at creating things than another that they deserve billions of dollars, the parent can pass on that skill to their child. It’s hard enough to keep wealth from accumulating without also letting it accumulate across generations.
Being a large source of tax revenue does not imply political power. Campaign contributions do.
Is it really racism to prefer to prevent the fading and eventual disappearance of ones own unique tribal bloodline through new gene inflow? There’s no ethical reason people should not prefer being around genetic lines most similar to their own and only breeding with individuals who share that line. To force others to do that is wrong but a group that collectively wants to genetically isolate for whatever reason is hardly unethical .
Sex education will stop rapists and child abusers from uploading videos of their victims to the Internet?

I don't think Kristof's solution is necessarily the best one, but you sound like you don't take the problem seriously at all.
Sadly, it's an invite-only alpha. It looks pretty good so far, too.
Not yet! I plan to but it's not fully supported (I think Safari is the only one missing?) and you still have to handle quota exceeded errors anyway. My first step will be handle the quota errors gracefully and warn users that it's not locally saving changes.
Agreed. But should be contained in specific subreddits/forums, in my opinion.

Yes, I'm one of those people that doesn't buy the "everything is politics!" mantra
Or their ability to focus on other higher margin production than clothing may be a net gain. Or not, I don't know. But I don't think it's as simple as "local clothing production suffers".
You're making extremely strong claims, counter to scientists with no incentive to praise Google being quoted with reactions such as expecting a mass exodus from computational biology. I, and I assume we, are open to hearing more but I'm not sure cherry-picking a couple examples is enough to credit your claims contra theirs.

For instance, the gentlemen who was presented as a skeptic is instead shown to also say it's solved, and in reply to this you say "everyone" is looking at the "wrong" metric, and it allows errors of 8+ atom widths - he notes the median error is 2.1 angstroms, or 2.1 atom widths.
I wonder if this is down to worldview rather than practical reasons
Didn’t consider drugs for vision. Spent like 20k on glasses and eye doctors to little success.

Have increased cranial pressure. Makes eyes want go double. 5th or sixth nerve gets weak.

Diamox lowers pressure. Nerves work better, double vision goes away. Prism glasses help if I’m having a bad time.

Other issue was black disc / hallucinations in vision.

Doctors found I had a genetic clotting disorder. Only found due to clots showing up elsewhere in body.

Blood thinners are standard treatment.
Aside from double vision all my eye Problems went away in a few days. So basically eye mini strokes.

Everything comes back whenever I try and go off meds.
It does feel off, and it’s easy to read as Google trying to suppress her findings. But there’s a simple charitable reading as well. Gebru has recently and very publicly developed a reputation for behaving with hostility toward colleagues. Google is a company that prizes (or at least claims to prize) psychological safety of employees. I can see all of this being the chain reaction caused by a number of her coworkers expressing that they were unwilling to give an honest opinion about her work if she would be able to tie it back to them. If an ordinary employee caused their coworkers so much concern they would probably already have been dismissed, but Gebru is especially talented and was high-ranking.

I imagine some reviewers extracted agreement from management before giving negative feedback on this paper that the “anonymous” in “anonymous feedback” was a promise. This explains the unusualness of the situation, why the feedback flowed though a special HR channel, why specifically management was unwilling to let her have a written copy of the feedback (that could be closely analyzed to de-blind the reviewers), and why management accepted her resignation and the resulting fallout rather than agree to de-blind the reviewers.
Nissan dealerships are effectively franchises and don't get much money from those chargers, if at all (and even if they did, it can't compare to the amount they make from car sales).
Hm, interesting. I’m guessing it’s the lack of socialization more than a lack of movement that’s affecting people’s health.
My point is that someone building a Threadripper PC has to pay $2,000 to $3,000 just for the CPU.

Lets assume that all the other parts, high speed RAM, SSD, power supplies, cooling, motherboard, etc cost another $500, and that operations, assembly, marketing etc average 20% and the manufacturer aims for a 5% margin. So they sell their low end Threadripper PC for $3300, and their high end Threadripper for $4,700.

Then Apple comes along and makes it's own high core count versions of the M1 (lets call them the M16 and M24) for $1,000 and $1,500 with similar performance to the Threadrippers. When Apple builds high end Mac Pros out of the, they also spend $500 for other parts, giving total parts cost of $1,500 and $2,000, it marks them up 50% for their typical margins, and sell them for $3,000 and $4,000 and have the same performance as the ThreadRippers from the lowest margin manufacturers at for 10-15% less.

And on top of that, the M16 and M24 use less power and generate quite a bit less heat than the Threadrippers. They don't need any fancy cooling systems. That can lead to smaller packaging and even more cost savings.

Obviously when Apples 16 and 24 Firestorm core Mx chips come out newer Threadrippers will have evolved to smaller process as well, and that will help increase their performance, while reducing cost and heat. But there is little doubt that Apple's Mac Pros will be much more competitive price and performance-wise at that time, and if they keep leveraging TSMC first there is a significant risk that they actually take some of their laptop cost/performance advantage up to Threadripper levels.
Given that Timnit ostensibly does not know who the people who gave the feedback, nor how they did so, and elsewhere notes that she was able to see the feedback, but was told she couldn't share it because it was privileged, can you explain how you reach this conclusion instead of that "to" was a typo in a tweet and instead should have been "via" or similar.
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I once worked on a federal IT contract where the project manager for the team was from another company. He was a dishonest, backstabbing snake, and it reached a point where I was quite fed up.

I told my company that I was fed up and the only way I would continue in that situation is if I was given a sizable raise because I wasn't paid enough to put up with him. They gave me the raise rather than having me walk. I worked there for several more years after that.

I never issued an ultimatum before or since. Maybe there are people issuing threats all the time, bug it seems to me that people usually do that if they're frustrated but they want to stay at the company. For IT folks with desirable skills it's far easier to just get another job.
The business case for native apps (whether on desktop or mobile) is that it's not just another tab people can X out of. Installing a native app feels like a commitment. The icon is there. It might be sitting in the tray/taskbar. It commands attention. It can push notifications that most users wouldn't turn off.

Most users do not know what a PWA is and won't install it unless it was done for them. Even then a PWA is at the mercy of the host browser's configuration and addons which can degrade the experience. (And on Apple devices it won't even work.)
It's not about brilliance. Technology and organization allow your impact to scale to superhuman levels. I used the JK Rowling example because it's obvious that without her, we would not have the multi-billion dollar franchise that is Harry Potter. Without Harry Potter, there is no guarantee that another franchise would have taken it's place.

It's also not a stretch to suggest that Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates have created over 100 times more value than Rowling. Their roles are more nebulous, but they certainly did something better than their competitors. Microsoft Excel alone possibly has possibly saved trillions of hours productivity.
Probably about 15. Most multiple times.

Now I may have had less problems if I had taken the baby aspirin like I was supposed to. As that is a mild blood thinner.
Isn't the correct term mirror? In any case, this is awesome. I hope the developers add a feature that lets you see removed comments, and previous edits as well. Or maybe even a "time machine" type feature. That would be cool.
Porn producers in the United States are already required to maintain a registry of their performers so that it can be verified that none of them are under 18. I'm not sure why you are reacting to a solution that is in some sense already implemented with such cynical sarcasm, especially when the alternate is "let this tech company continue to profit from sex crimes"
In my view, the retailer isn't even legally at fault. Oculus is, for modifying the your device such that you can no longer use it.

Imagine buying a chair. A year later, the carpenter who made it lets themselves into your home and modifies it so it has three legs instead of four. They say it's an improvement because it's lighter now and easier to move around. But your elderly parent can't use the chair any more because it's less stable. Despite both arguments being valid, ultimately they had no right to modify your device.

This is a Tort (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tort).

In the US, they'd probably be able to argue that there's some ToS that permitted this. In most of the rest of the world, I'd argue that there was no ToS at the time of the sale, and that therefore it cannot be valid (especially as there was no consideration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consideration) associated with that modification).
She was ultimately able to hear the exact feedback, just not keep it. So this doesn't seem compelling in light of that.
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I have to somewhat concede your last point. What percentage of AMD sales are Threadrippers in any year?

It's possible Apple just doesn't think the investment in a 30 core CPU is worthwhile and stops around 16 cores, which would still be higher than any i7 or any i9 ever made.
This should be illegal. This is literally the equivalent of a console manufacturer deciding to brick your entire console if you get banned from their network. I'm sure Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft would love to be able to legally do so.
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> - prescription for oxycodone

or Codeine or Hydrocodone

Those high school football back injuries are tragic
Algorithms only get better. Did Google "solve" computer Go when AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol, when Master beat Ke Jie, or when AlphaZero learned Go from scratch?

Even though Google only won 4/5 games against Lee Sedol, that was the moment that sticks in peoples minds as when Google solved the problem of computer Go. What happened afterwards was a process of perfecting the algorithm. It seems likely the next few years will bring the same for AlphaFold.
Why would a billionaire by necessary?

As mentioned, there are other vehicles to obtain financing. Secondly, when billionaires disappear, their wealth doesn't disappear with them. Not sure what you are asking.
What are examples of upper class culture or habits?
Countries use the building material most available to them.

In much of Europe that's stone because wood has mostly been harvested to the point of extinction (and wood is expensive to transport long distances). Whereas in North America wood remains an inexpensive building material. Wood, combined with modern insulation and building codes, can be safe and efficient enough for modern homes.

As someone who has lived in both parts of the world, wood takes some getting used to but you start to appreciate it after some time. Specifically brick may provides better noise isolation, heat retention, arguably can look nicer than drywall, but on the downside once a home is built modifications can be extremely challenging/expensive (whereas drywall/wood is almost like LEGO in terms of being able to re-configure non-load interior walls, even for handy homeowners themselves).

Will a brick home outlast a wood home? Absolutely, no question.

But that advantage is largely lost in the US. Cheaper land means homes are more spaced out, and wood construction means they're cheaper to re-build, so homes are often completely gutted or entirely re-built so a new owner can put their personal "stamp" on their home, whereas it is impractical to rebuild a European home due to neighbor proximity, cost of brick construction, and land size (i.e. there's often no other configuration that's workable for the lot).

So these days, I don't consider one superior to the other. They both have advantages and trade-offs, and frankly the contest is irrelevant as brick isn't suddenly going to get cheaper than wood in the US nor wood get cheaper than brick in Europe.
That's a point about the general population, not founders, who form a pretty different (and pretty small) subset.

The other thing I'd be cautious about here is that the curve you describe basically always happens. Shit was always cooler when it was newer and we were there before everyone else, etc.; people say this about everything. I'm not sure how to correct for this, but it's a strong skew.
showing removed comments and edits are huge privacy issue. you don't know why the comment was removed, or why it was edited.
I never said taxation was theft or that taxes shouldn't exist. I said that private ownership of property was good for creativity, this is independent of taxation. You can pay taxes and still own things. Indeed, we do.

You seem to be proposing that taxation is an unalloyed good and that more taxation is always better - that all problems are the result of insufficient taxation. Do you have any actual plan for how to spend all this money you propose to collect in taxes, or do you just want to throw more money at the people who are currently doing a bad job with the money they already have?
How could taking someone else’s content and displaying it on your site be wrong?
The conversion ratio is under 1.0 for energy and feed if you live on a small piece of land and the chickens can free range and forage for bugs plus table scraps.