skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the best product strategy in my org has consistently come bottom up from junior and mid level engineers. Some of the most out of touch product strategy has come from principal / staff engineers and senior product managers.

All engineers, whether junior or senior, need lots of autonomy to propose and try plans. No engineers needs to be “taught to follow the plan” - that is career death.

Meanwhile, the risk of political motives and malicious intent or self-preservation is much higher among senior staff, especially as they become ex-technical.

Finally, many products need teams of specialists in various areas, and their team structures don’t resemble fungible full-stack wishful thinking. A good leader tries much harder to give them what they need instead of imposing the fiction they are fungible.

So, overall the leader of this post is

- overly reductionist

- failing to protect autonomy

- failing to protect specialization

- failing to deal with reality

- mentally representing “senior” vs “junior” as “creates orders” vs “follows orders” which puts political authority as a central cultural value.

These are all classic, well-known leadership mistakes.

I guarantee the company in this example is full of under-appreciated engineers treated like cogs.

Even the overall premise of the layoffs is suspect. Nowhere does the article even ask the question of why the critical project failed in the first place. Why was staffing preemptively overallocated?

If you fire these people, will you have to hire and retrain new people later when things change again? How costly would that be relative to retaining them now?

Why aren’t there senior leaders being fired? The failure of a project with such wide spread ramifications surely isn’t down to a bunch of little guys.

Here’s what happened:

Using the same overly reductionist, chain of command failed ideas described in this post, other leaders pursued a bad strategy and allocated resources poorly. Now, to avoid being punished and paying the consequences of their failed strategy, i.e. actually firing executives and senior leaders who caused this problem, they need to scapegoat it as an IT downsizing and they need some inexperienced twerp (this CTO) to spas out pretending like some critical calculus was applied to make the heartbreaking least-bad fewest cuts they could.

It’s disingenuous to the core. Absolutely this is shitty, low-accountability leadership.
You have to admit that that would be a lot easier if the people you are disagreeing with were making reasonable level-headed arguments, but somehow we are living in an era where large swaths of the population are convinced that there is no difference between what is true and what they feel is true and, consequently, they reject rationality and with it the concept of objective reality.

I know I'm on the record as saying that rationality, which is to say empirical philosophy, is incomplete. Let me clarify that by saying that it isn't the same thing as rejecting it outright anymore than rejecting Newtonian mechanics outright is the same thing as admitting it is incomplete.
The article that GMO wrote puts the best spin on their record. The actual performance can be seen here: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GMWAX?p=GMWAX
Going back to its inception in 1996, their global allocation mutual fund has returned roughly 15%. Not annualized, 15% TOTAL during a period when the S&P tripled. GMO are worthless as advisors.
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Things that helped me as I struggled with this for a long time:

* Fresh air and sunlight during the day

* Strenuous exercise at least every other day, no less than an hour before bed time though.

* Limited screen time especially for an hour before bed.

* A cold bedroom. Leaving my feet out from the duvet seems to help me stay cool and sleep deeply. Might not be for everyone though

* a very dark bedroom, bin the blinds and get blackout curtains.

* No booze, no caffeine after about 3pm.

* Don't head a big dinner right before bed

* Don't drink a load of water for a few hours before bed either, or you'll wake up to piss.

I think that's all pretty standard stuff.
Been using Element for a while now (since back when it was called Riot). So far so good. I managed to convince a few friends to switch over from Hangouts and Signal. There's even a Rust Weechat plugin for Matrix, the underlying protocol. Would love to hear feedback if anyone tried it.
Free speech is not forcing others to support ideas they do not agree with.

Why should everyone have to distribute others ideas?

The idea that we’re just routers for everyone is anti-free thought. Generalizes everyone to personal agents for all.

That’s hardly allowing for dissent.

Physical reality that obliges everyone to support everything equally is not a free reality.
> the proliferation of guns in American society certainly does have an effect on the decision matrix of the government (even if the "citizen militia" ultimately does not stand a chance against a determined government response...

This is precisely the intended effect. Sure some wahoos think they could fully overthrow the military but for most it is about changing the calculus from "tyrannical takeover of unarmed populace with minimal resistance" to "uh oh, they are fighting back". This results in much more of a cause to rally around, feed into rebel propaganda, win over military members to the "just cause" which of course tips the balance, etc.

We saw what only a few hundreds of folks could do when parts of the normal defense are strangely absent. Imagine even a 30% defection.
The EU has regulations, such as GDPR, that applies to any company serving EU citizens, even US companies.

The UK has regulations that companies have to follow to serve UK citizens.

It’s not that strange and is quite common.
I think you are right regarding white power.
terrorism, and recruiting for terrorists is against the law
Censorship by osmosis?
The future belongs to those who show up.

Yes, there's something going on and you are not supposed to talk about it in polite society—or anywhere at this point.
Even if Trump voters all supported the riots - the majority don't - they aren't going to buy a new mobile phone just so as to install Parler on it.
In most EU countries ToS are pretty much void anyway because they tend to contain frivolous or illegal clauses. For example, a ToS is void in the EU that limits the consumer's rights for legal action in any way.

Here is a list of unfair contract terms that will likely cause an EULA or ToS to have no legal binding at all:

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/unfair-treat...
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> Can you explain why you think there is sufficient additional value in completely---absurdly so---free speech (as per P's scenarios, for example) over limiting obviously dangerous and detrimental speech?

Not simply, no.

It's a very long (book sized) argument that I've been gradually making bits and pieces of over the years. I really wish I'd kept the little bits I'd type out in one forum or another so I could just point at that...

Though, for a fragment and possible intuition pump: the censoring is putting the cart before the horse. You need to determine whether something is dangerous or detrimental before banning it, but the act of censoring it or neighbouring ideas or the kind of people who espouse it prevents that very determination that ensures you aren't censoring true things. You also get all sorts of other effects like purity spirals and fights over which group gets to decide what is censored and groups then doing things even they admit is wrong in order to keep control of the censors ("it's worth a little lie to stop the nazis taking control").

EDIT: You're correct that the comment about kids isn't a full argument, it's an argument fragment that needs various other things to be held and explained in order to be complete. But there's no point in spending ages outlining it all unless I'm going to do so in a less transient medium like a blog post. So instead I post the fragment hoping it's the one piece the reader was missing for things to click.
You missed the part of the history when Ruby could have been Swift, but eventually things went sour, the creator left Apple and ended up selling his work for mobile apps development.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RubyMotion

http://www.rubymotion.com/
No, this isn’t true. It was only for a period of a thousand years (500-1500) in Europe between the loss of the papyrus paper making industry, and the advent of the pulp-linen paper making industry. This latter period happened to coincide with movable type.

For instance, reading, writing and access to scrolls was fairly widespread in the Roman Empire — it was one of the well-known ways for a slave to self-emancipate. (They could earn pay as a scribe.)
I'm only responding to your point, I wasn't making any comparisons. Perhaps if taken literally what you said may be correct - the problem with this kind of imagery is not its advocacy of a specific technique, but allowing people to more clearly imagine it and normalizing it in their minds.

In any case, I stand by my claim that to say you can know the full effect on all minds of a certain image is a poor argument to make, since it's literally impossible to know. I hope you'll at least recognize that kind of claim is worth avoiding, if for no other reason that it inadvertently undermines any other point you are trying to make.
Good input, thanks!

I agree that there certain limitations with local disk space. However one of my main objectives was to get my data away from cloud infrastructures. It sure is different to just put your photos on Google Images or pay for cloud storage which you access from your service.

Still I want to have full control over where and how my data is stored and I want a simple platform (at least for now, this is an MVP). So yes I agree that cloud storages have a clear value proposition but it is only an option for the future.

I also intend to at least offer some tools/reminders for backups. In the end it is the user's responsibility. Beside self-hosting on rented hardware I also think about putting a real box into my basement. This is obviously only a sensible solution for sharing in a small circle. But that's what my project was intended for.

I will again have a look at LowEndBox and also LetBox.
Tesla has already lost market share in Europe and North America. There are many smaller and cheaper alternatives and that’s what people are buying.
> The browser has turned into something we need to completely start over, without Google or any of the FAANG crowds' participation.

That's very roughly what Gemini is going for. Related reading:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23161922

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23597834
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Yep exactly. More bonds, more foreign stocks, even gold can help smooth out returns.
Think it should be logarithmic (n log(n)) or polynomial (n^2)
Let the government regulate it, not a private company.
The events you list are similar in form but different in substance. The substantive difference is that none of the above events were supported and encouraged by a sitting president seeking to overturn his own election loss. It is a violent, physical attack, directed and abetted by the executive against the legislature to prevent it from carrying out its constitutional duty. That is an existential threat to the republic.

A lot of people here are looking at the house on fire and worrying about the water damage from putting it out.
Gab broke/removed the code for federation several months ago, so they're no longer part of the fediverse. See my reply to your GP for more details.
I agree, but this needs to be sorted with regulation, and not blaming Twitter for doing bad when they're able to do what they want on their platform.
Since this tweet comes from the chinese embassy of the USA, it seems to me that this is diplomatic matters and should be handled by the government. For example the USA government could apply diplomatic sanctions to the embassy if they do not delete the tweet. I find it very strange that the twitter moderation team is acting in stead of the foreign affairs department.
In the abstract, that's how information spreads. Just look at conventional media: A small group judges something or someone newsworthy, and then the other outlets repeat it. Or, look at the old email chains that were popular before social media.

But, more importantly, people like to spread what they want to believe, even if it's not true. Trump really played into that: He started by promoting the birther theory, which people who didn't like Obama chose to believe. Finally, he promoted the theory that there was widespread election fraud, even though it was thoroughly disproven. Again, people chose to believe Trump's lie even though it was thoroughly disproven.

IMO, we need to strengthen our slander laws, and have a higher "burden of truth" on our media companies. Specifically, if a media company covers provenly false information in a way that implies it is, or could be, true, that media company needs to be prosecuted for slander, or worse.

But, more importantly, we need to prosecute elected officials who contradict fact; and ban candidates who brazenly contradict established fact.
This is what 8chan does and it did not fill up with it.

They're permitted to implement restrictions on that only humans and not bots may post, not on content, provided that it be legal.

8chan had a system where one had to solve a captcha every day and where one was not permitted to post more than one message per minute.
For anyone wondering what Panda is:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda

“Google Panda is a major change to Google's search results ranking algorithm that was first released in February 2011. The change aimed to lower the rank of "low-quality sites" or "thin sites", in particular "content farms", and return higher-quality sites near the top of the search results.”
I'm not sure why I chose to phrase it that way. Probably because it's ongoing, multifaceted and victim to some very very dirty tactics. Also, we like "waging war" on things here rather than solve them.

Briefly, our education system in the US is one of the least well performing systems amongst modern states. It is also the least well funded systems with conservatives trying to practically hand it over to private schools.

Then you have public funding issues too numerous to list that contribute to the low quality of education including student loan debt being debt you cannot bankrupt your way out of, or cutting off funds to channels like PBS...
Bridge WhatsApp with Matrix (and Signal, Telegram, iMessage, Mattermost, etc.)
Why not? Half of leftist twitter has their own ASN, is peering with each other, and running kubernetes clusters in racks in their living room. (often because mainstream platforms wouldn't host their content either).

That setup works just fine, often to serve significantly higher amounts of traffic than you could afford at any regular hoster, too.

Look at the anarchist network setup at chaos camps, serving 100Gbps+ in the middle of rural nowhere, from server racks set up in chemical toilets, powered by geenerators and solar panels.
> GMO's assets under management have collapsed by well over 50% over the years

Do you have a source for this? It looks like they've been hovering at $64B discretionary AUM since 2014, and that hasn't changed through 2020. [1][2]

All I could find was this article, which I think might be misleading. [3] It seems like it might be conflating GMO's total AUM with the AUM of its asset allocation business, but I'm not sure.

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20150408043537/http://www.gmo.co...

2. https://www.gmo.com/globalassets/documents---manually-loaded...

3. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/i...
You just watch yourself, sarcastic twits are fourth down on today's list. And you just outed one.
or the most cynical statement
But would this hold up in a court?
chapter 4 of https://sci-hub.se/10.1007/978-981-15-1259-9
Startup Founder? When do you think about compliance?
Many startups are likely asked for a SOC 2 when trying to sell to their first mid-sized or enterprise customer. While it is hard to predict when that first customer will surface, when do you typically start to hear about it and prioritize it?
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Well, the one I bought works damn well for heat and had one huge advantage over wool. I can bungee cord it to my car and be very, very visible to any search going on to find me.

I would hope people going out in winter also have proper coats and pants, but extra blankets as well a proper survival kit is a very good thing. Small grain shovels are also quite nice.
Sorry I did over simplify things a bit...
Protests are nasty but there is no problem of secession like in the EU. Remember that Britain already left.
I'm old enough to remember when the government made it illegal to mention homosexuality in schools. And when it was illegal for a particular elected MP to speak on television.
Yes, no doubt some people were talking about it. Some people participating in BLM were talking about killing all the cops. Neither one of these is a representative view of most the protesters. Indeed in the Trump case, apparently some of the violence was protestors fighting protestors to stop them from getting into the Capitol.
Instead of policing what Twitter can and can't allow on its website, we should look at the root of the issue: the global public square should not be controlled by a single corporation.
I think the author is implying that T transforms the data (implicitly) to a target schema. So, if T comes at the end (at query time) you are in effect schematics (or using the schema implied in the query). If T comes before L you are mapping to a target schema before L.
I dropped the Netflix N in FAANG and added a T. Netflix is out of scope because they are an editorialized publishing platform without liability shield already. And added Twitter, which usually isn't big enough for FAANG, but in this context, by reach and influence, they deserve to be in the list. Could have been less lazy and just spelled it out. Sorry for the confusion.
It's incredible that this material is being provided for free, and I hope that law firms far and wide encourage their associates and partners alike to update their knowledge with this. Understanding which parties and systems touch, transform, and transmit data is central to practically every legal matter in modern times, and standard intro-to-CS coursework is neither sufficient nor fully necessary for legal experts to know the right questions to ask domain experts. The clarity this brings will be a huge benefit to society.
How many riots can you list where the rioters were specifically targeting a joint session of congress, with the VP in attendance, for the explicit purpose of overturning the legitimate US presidential election at the behest of the current US president?

What exactly do you think a coup attempt is?
In layman's terms, how much does this cost?
Luckily this is HN and someone wrote one already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25715385
Hard not to speculate this as part of the coordinated purge of right wing media right now, as they were conceivably going to move to darknets, except suddenly new onion addresses aren't available. This would be consistent with the level of attack a state would use.

The when always matters more than the what.
Absolutely love what you're doing, and I may come to you later to discuss possible commercial support and collaboration. Right now I'w working on a Prometheus to XMPP gateway with advanced filtering capabilities ( my idea is monitoring and alerting loop has to be tight , so you need means to deliver alerts using only things under your control), and XMPP is the right choice for this task, and I’m using Prosody as an alert delivery server component, with Conversation as a mobile client, and Dino on desktop.
Again, all options are a zero sum game. No value is created or destroyed (outside of trading fees), just transferred between parties.

I think you might be confused by the name "binary options."

The word "binary" doesn't refer to the fact that they are specifically zero sum. This doesn't need to be called out, because again, all options and futures are zero sum.

The "binary" qualifier refers to the fact that they result in "yes/no" outcome. Did the thing you bet on happen? Yes? You win. No? you lose everything.
Fyi, people have been predicting the crash for about 12 years now. I'm not saying their won't be another crash. It's just that anyone claiming they know when it will be is either lying or a 1-in-a-million genius who could make a fortune working for a hedge fund but for some reason is giving the information away for free on HN...

I have a share portfolio that's 70/30 stocks/bonds because that suits my age and risk appetite. If it crashes I can live with losses, if the market goes up I can live with the missed opportunity.

I have some "gambling" money in a separate account that I buy risky stuff with. If I lose it all, cest la vie.

That's all anyone can do really.

(Edit, I should have been clear: my portfolio is in index funds, not individual stocks. The "gambling" money is in individual stocks ONLY because its gambling money not a real investment. Index funds are where 95% of us should be with 95% of our case IMHO.)
No, meaning, if they argued in favor of Parler, they'd have lost my support.

My principles don't include "force tech companies to host content for terrorists trying to violently overthrow a democracy".

(ACLU, on the other hand, I expect to take the free-speech-absolutist stance...)
It does I agree, but when talk changes to action (in the recent case violence) what do we do then? We've seen what happens when a minority fringe extremist group is able to take control of a country, on many occasions now. I in good conscience can't see a world where if we failed to stop it earlier I would be able to sleep with the consequences because we let them talk it out in protection of freedom of speech purism. Would it be right to let that happen and then spend years and lives having to re capture our government?

Obviously these are all hypothetical scenarios and questions, but if the mob a few days ago had any aim and organization they would have clearly seized our government and they're being whipped into a frenzy by things like Parler to try it again on the 17th so I'm told.
I don't feel negative towards Prosody, Prosody is an awesome project.

My criticism is about XMPP in general and its ecosystem.

I stopped my XMPP server a few years ago, Dino was still in its infancy. It's good to see that the client is reaching some maturity but then, looking at the supported XEPs I can see that MAM is not supported for group chats:

- https://github.com/dino/dino/wiki/Supported-XEPs

Fortunately Matrix and the respective clients have been evolving quite well, so I don't see the need of going back to XMPP.
Oh I see. Yes I agree nobody should be compelled to distribute the ideas of others.

What bothers me is when people celebrate the suppression of others without seeing how that knife can cut the other way very quickly.
One one contract I asked for some changes. The company said that they've dealt with hundreds of companies who agreed with the contract and didn't see why it should change.

I pointed out that the contract had several places where it referred to other documents I must agree to, referenced by URL, and the linked-to documents didn't exist.
I’m not sure how it’s done now, but Wikipedia had special promotion on Google ranking (which would have probably set lower manually if it would run ads, while people would stop comtributing content).

That guy who wants to run ads on it sounds like a really evil person: he doesn’t get it that Wikipedia changed the world already, it doesn’t need to do ,,more good’’.