skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a huge mischaracterization of what I said.

As I made clear, I clearly do value UI/UX and I'm not some old person making trades over the phone (I'm 24, directly in the Robinhood demo). What I'm saying is that in this specific use case, it's not nearly as important as correctness/reliability, which Robinhood has a terrible history with. An improved UI could be a factor that would draw me away, but there are simply more important things when it comes to where to bank my savings.

Again, the point here is that there's not a huge gap that people seem to try to say there is. They have a fully working website, apps, etc. They're regularly updated and all, see UI refreshes, the usual. Trading may take 4 clicks instead of two, but it's just so much more minor than people claim.

> if these companies don't evolve they are going to keep losing younger millennials and beyond to Robinhood as time goes on

Maybe to other companies, but I think Robinhood may never recover from this. Whoever does draw these away will have to offer bank-level correctness standards in addition to the nice UX. I'd be willing to bet Robinhood had a steady stream of bigger players leaving the platform as they got older because the product is optimized for new investors, not long term financial management. Maybe that niche of new investors is all they need, but their UX won't keep those who age/grow out of that type of user IMO.
Always fascinated with bees. The swarm behavior, individual unit, and produced goal. The hive. Something I came across is how they regulate heat within the hive. And also how they collectively raise their body temperature to make it too hot inside should a wasp/intruder enter.

A 2 degree tolerance allows the bee's to survive than a wasp which enters the hive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNroEwFxh6I&t=1s
IBM also has 5 Nobel prize winners, but this was different time. I don't think we'll see it again.
I don't think anyone prefers the screen keyboard over a real one. I use my phone mainly for consuming information, any typing can wait until I get to a real keyboard. Even when I had a Blackberry, typing was only marginally more tolerable.
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Wish windows phone was kept alive :(

I had an 8330 BB though dang ball would get dirty
Interesting; they kinda look like condensed pitch decks.

Are they ever used for anything besides pitching, i.e. after a project is completed?
No. Betteridge's law of headlines . . .

Although, I support setting a similar type of legislation targeting Major websites ( 50 million+ active users ) to enforce something akin to the Fairness Doctrine.

Other than that, a long-term solution is to improve education so that a democratic society has enough critical thinking skills to make better judgements.

With that said, all the conspiracy peddling may actually condition people to be more critical. I see the youth today as far better at detecting bullshit, simply from being exposed to so much of it.
It's a matter of corporate strategy... Amazon is like a combination of different entities, one of which is AWS, and AWS arguably does cloud better than anyone else

Walmart doesn't have the same capabilities. Being larger doesn't mean they can do it.
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Absolutely. If you know what you want to buy, it takes seconds to find the absolute cheapest place on the internet to buy it. Then it's up to you to decide whether you trust the site or not. Brand name helps with perception, but definitely not discovery.
My 19-year old Beyerdynamic DT 990 PRO are currently powered with Topping D50 DAC and JDS Labs Atom for headphone amp.

I had some friends come in with newer headphones to compare (one with Audeze) and their amps and I was not impressed. It may be that I am just so used to my phones.

Now, I also own other phones. I currently own four pairs of Bose headphones. One (SoundSport) for running, and three QuietComfort which I bought as new generations were produced. These I used when I travel because DT 990s are 250 Ohm and require a bit of stationary hardware to work.

I also have one pair of Beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO which I bought more recently and use when I need to isolate from environment for some reason.

None of these other headphones are as good as DT 990s IMO.
"We give it free!" "... for a percentage of their revenue"
I think you’re making cash a bigger deal than it is.

If you have collateral that can also be transferred in real-time, can’t that back a cash loan immediately with extremely low interest costs?
> I'd rather not have the Australian parliament forming an opinion on the order of my search results.

It's sad to hear such opinions about trusting "corporates more than democracy" ...
Sounds like a great example of how a non-island can successfully control the virus and how when the govt stops trying, the virus comes straight back.

Also, I bet that when "the public demanded" it was a loud and public minority who wanted travel (and Covid-19) back.
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> It can be a challenge to see how the UK government could have dealt with this worse.

For example they could have delayed ordering vaccines, like the Europeans have.
I'll take a look. Thanks for the recommendation!
More on Carta from last year:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/30/business/carta-workers-in...
>> On the 'repeated failures' piece, that's somewhat new for aerospace

Unless you go back to the early pre-Mercury program days of NASA - they had lots of failures, and that was just trying to go up without re-usability, not land and reuse. There's all kinds of fun failure reels (e.g., [1]) and lists (e.g., [2])

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79K-R7xTFo
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...
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- Join the Scena 360 Discord community where we post product updates, exchange ideas, give deals, host workshops, and share news about Scena 360, Social VR, WebXR, and technology: https://discord.gg/XSRjyRu4Re

- Watch the first Scena 360 Demo/Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7wRs2oxow4
It sounds like we probably agree on most things and use fidelity in roughly the same way.

I’d argue Craigslist’s design is ugly, but quite good - it’s dense/high bandwidth, does exactly what people want without fluff. It’s fast. They also benefit a lot from network effects, but even ignoring that I think the website does a pretty good job doing what it's supposed to and is easy to use.

Fidelity is ugly and bad. Hundreds of hidden menus. Many things can’t be done via the app. Some actions require a phone call. Options trading sucks.

For an example, I wanted to wire my rent. The place to do this is via transfers.

Specifically: Transfer -> to bank account -> that I do not own.

That’s the flow to wire money to an external person. It’s not obvious and buried and it can only be done on a desktop.

Automated deposits are similarly cumbersome.

The app is also quite slow and the login flow is painful.
Precedent. Doing the right thing. Showing that we learn from our past mistakes and grave errors.
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-jeff-bezos-chose-comp...
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> This seems like nitpicking.

I don’t know if it’s nitpicking. If it’s true that the Amazon #2 employee took time to post this here, Jeff Bezos should have remembered and be precise in his speech.
> Fwiw, there have been instances of Google straight up not being able to restore deleted content. When you go to delete videos, you do get warnings that deletion cannot be undone

As there’s (former, no-NDA) YouTube SWEs/SREs here - can anyone shed light onto how YouTube’s storage system works? What amount of storage redundancy and retention is available for the vast majority of videos that only get a few views ever?
My side-project convention is all-caps, e.g. ELEMENT. No underscores. Always one word. It looks like a generic parameter and its name conveys meaning. It really helps when there are multiole generic parameters.
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And Thomas Edison didn't invent the light bulb. History doesn't look on him any less kindly for that.
Yandex is a much, much better search engine than DDG. The only irritating part about it that since it is Russian, it often shows many Russian sites in the top results. The best part about Yandex is that it also conveniently allows you to also search on Google or Bing if you don't find their result satisfactory. This allows them improve their search while also not upsetting their users.
Any experience with opensuse?
I'm not familiar with Amazon, but the equivalent level at FB (according to levels.fyi) represents just 1% of engineering. So this isn't only "experience, seniority and progression", it represents something really unique.

It's hard to look at a list like this and say "oh I know what to do now", but it is useful as a rubric; is this person meeting most of the criteria? Just a few?
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As an owner of sailing license (but no yacht) I can attest that there exist no ship where you only replace sails and rope. Ships of any kind even in best shape require stuff to be repaired, replaced or painted ALL the time. Especially if you want to enjoy it for a long time and not deteriorate after couple of years.
This isn't reddit who cares about upvotes here?
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I appreciate this pain in the exact opposite way! Just because I’m on a wide (or big) screen doesn’t mean I’m browsing with a wide window! I’m the guy throwing off your resolution stats if you do analytics, I do all my non-phone computing at a desk with a 42” 4K screen @1x. As in:

- My available pixels suggest HiDPI, but that’s wrong

- My browser window is probably twice as tall, and half as wide, as you think

The worst I usually encounter gratefully is bad scroll position content disclosure (sites designed to show or transition content on scroll assume a certain height and don’t even check, or mistakenly assume I’m looking at a different header than I am).

I’ll say it’s actually hard to accommodate my use case. I built a site that uses scroll position to progressively present content and my own browser window was harder to accommodate than any other (at this time on a 27” monitor with the same pixel density before 4K/5K was common). Regression testing the more common screen/window choices was a huge slog. It’s almost definitely such a weird set of circumstances that almost no site would bother. I don’t blame them. It’s very challenging and very unlikely to be your visitor who needs it.
Since Spring 1945, Korolev was much more able to control resources, getting to reconstructing V-2 manufacturing - Soviet version, of course, dubbed R-1 - then upgrades to R-2 and R-3, then even more powerful R-5 - all alcohol-based - and then, starting from 1953, working on R-7.

One interesting piece of history (Chertok wrote about it in his memoirs) - in Spring 1961, just before Gagarin's flight, which, of course, was priority number 1, Korolev managed to worry about upcoming R-9 testing, saying to his people "after Gagarin, they won't allow us to work on R-9 as easily".

Korolev did enjoy significant freedom in how he did things - the Council of Main Designers was created thanks to that freedom, and von Braun's decision to add fifth F-1 to Saturn just because he felt it will be needed - bypassing all bureaucracy - would be quite understood by Korolev and his team, they had similar things done themselves. It was often the case that Korolev went to Kremlin with some space-related offerings, and got green light, after the principal work was already done, and more scaled-up development was all what remained. You have to work your asses off this way of course, but you have full support of your political bosses and you're a hero for everybody.
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SpaceX themselves made a failure montage for Falcon 9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvim4rsNHkQ

It's easy to forget how many failures that had, but look how far it has come, at this point I don't think they've had any major failures in 5+ years. Maybe a couple sea drone ship booster landing issues but zero mission failures in a very long time.
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On the contrary as someone who moves somewhat comfortably between Java, C# and TypeScript projects the tendency to use especially I in front of interfaces but also other letters in front of other things are an explicit pain point.

(Java has others like just like how every time you open a Gradle project you can expect someone has invented yet another unique way of structuring build files for this repo. :)
Treat and fight them like the US continues to treat and fight the Taliban?
Context obviously matters and I think it is important to understand what
I mean by "Very High" and "High" impact employees. High impact employees can still do everything by my definition, it's just that they aren't doing everything. Obviously some business/projects do not have the luxury of attracting lots of talented employees, so "Very High" impact employees are inevitable.

If you look at the busfactor stats in the deep dive section

https://imgur.com/tiGFmFf

The number of files that are being changed with only one author is 419 (or about 25% of all the files changed in the 90 days window). So 75% of the files changed in the 90 days window have two or more contributors, so I think those working on the vscode project aren't being siloed (based on my quick observations).
I'd say 80% for their trackpad but 40% for their mouse.
> they accept without further thinking what Putin says that the protesters are "foreign agents".

No, many Russian police are well aware that protests in Russian are often driven by honest local frustration with the Russian government, and these frustrated people do not need pushing from abroad. (I speak from personal acquaintance with several.) Some police officers might even sympathize with the protesters’ lack of opportunities. However, modern Russia is a country where people affiliated with the force structures live much better than the average citizen, and so naturally they want to hang on to their own families’ prosperity at all costs.

If Russia ever liberalizes, then somehow appeasing the force structures for their loss of privilege and stability is something the new regime will have to ensure, distasteful as it might seem. During the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime the US insisted on completely disenfranchising the old Baathist functionaries, for example, and this was a major driver of the civil war and instability that ensued.
Productive software engineers aren't "exceptional". If you focus on removing obstacles, you can make most software engineers productive.

The point is learning from those who've succeeded before you, instead of claiming it's just magical chemistry happening. Or worse, starting again from first principles.

No, that won't produce product-market fit, nor does it open up once in a lifetime opportunities, but it allows teams to execute well. The belief that productive software engineers are unicorns, however, and need to be valued above all else? That's what destroys companies.
Nice hopefully ever mission ever to space fails from the us
"The Cleaners" is a great documentary about this.

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/thecleaners2018

One really eye opening thing that was super obvious in retrospect is the societal context that's required for a lot of the content moderation. No matter how many people you cram into a room in Malaysia, they aren't going to be able to fully appreciate the nuances of things like satire targeted towards a US audience. For the same reason, you can't have a team of well paid moderators in San Francisco moderating political discussions happening in Burma.

This is what makes the problem of content moderation so intractable. There are extreme financial and political incentives trying to evade moderation, and no matter how many people you throw at the problem, from any number of backgrounds, your coverage is still going to be dismal.

Couple that with the fact that this is probabally the most traumatizing job in the world, with incredibly high suicide rates. It's really really hard to build up a moderation team that can make a sizable dent in the flood of horrific content that floods these platforms. Your best bet is a swarm of AI doing its best, and as many humans as you can hire double checking their work, which is the state of moderation on most major platforms.
I don't understand the term belly flop or rapidly reusable. Do You mean that it is becoming horizontal to reduce the falling speed rate to land on its belly?

shuttle was reused and landed on wheels parallel to its belly.
For percentage of LICENSED revenue. So if platform makes no money from the content that is being used, or they use public domain, royalty free, creative commons content or content is blocked, then it's free.

The whole point is that we can offer this system exactly because we get to share the upside with the platform, rightsholders and creators.
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I’m really sorry about that. I see it now (found it in a spam folder). We’ll look into this and get back.
You could use something based on DPDK, like pktgen-dpdk: https://git.dpdk.org/apps/pktgen-dpdk/
I wish it support ProtonMail address book.
Yes, that will never die, if only because it is a staple in the defense and aerospace industries and I wouldn't be surprised at all if there is still development done in that arena, iirc even the A380 had a VME rack somewhere in its guts.
It's interesting to see that during Moon Race, in USSR there were 3 space design teams - Korolev's (later Mishin), Chelomey's and Yangel's - competing for resources, while NASA established centralized planning with everybody doing parts of the common project (with lots of money of course). It seems that "capitalistic" approach in USSR lost to more "communistic", central planning approach in USA.
There's no money in proving that different brokers have varying execution quality, and it's not a regulatory requirement to execute instantaneously. I'm not sure how Nanex figures into it; there's nothing nefarious involved.

If I am in New York and I send a limit buy order to Schwab that is two cents through the offer, Schwab may route my order to a market-maker in Chicago who uses a decision model to either take the other side of my order on the offer, or post my limit order to the exchange with the best offer. Let's say the market-maker doesn't want to sell me the security and routes it to an exchange in Miami. By the time he posts the bid, the offer may have moved and my limit order may no longer be marketable. That doesn't mean Schwab broke the law. Routing orders between computer systems and making risk decisions takes nonzero time, and factors like latency and exchange fees can affect where the order goes and when it arrives.
> We also aligned our incentives with the success of everyone involved.

Great! In the interest of preserving that alignment into the future, it might be helpful to lock in important aspects of the business model by limiting your future decisions with a Ulysses pact[1]. Cory Doctorow gave a tall[2] about using Ulysses pacts in the tech industry:

>> It's not that you don't want to lose weight when you raid your Oreo stash in the middle of the night. It's just that the net present value of tomorrow's weight loss is hyperbolically discounted in favor of the carbohydrate rush of tonight's Oreos. If you're serious about not eating a bag of Oreos your best bet is to not have a bag of Oreos to eat. Not because you're weak willed. Because you're a grown up. And once you become a grown up, you start to understand that there will be tired and desperate moments in your future and the most strong-willed thing you can do is use the willpower that you have now when you're strong, at your best moment, to be the best that you can be later when you're at your weakest moment.

>> The answer to not getting pressure from your bosses, your stakeholders, your investors or your members, to do the wrong thing later, when times are hard, is to take options off the table right now.

Designing for durability and failure safety is still important when designing business models.
Can you elaborate on specifically what you have that's getting a couple miles? I tried out Meshtastic with a bog standard board exactly as it existed. I carried it down the road and found it got ~500m of reliable range with no obstructions. Has the software improved significantly, or is there different hardware to support getting multiple miles?
It's likely that this is indeed done by Huawei, but if it wasn't it would be very likely for Huawei to inadvertently retweet some of them.
Yeah, I think Cook and Apple are doing well.

Google is doing poorly, but they have a monopoly on web advertising. If they lose that they'd be in trouble. They also weren't doing better when lead by Page (Google+ era).

Microsoft was on the path to irrelevance during the Ballmer years and Nadella has pulled off a miracle to save them.

I hope Amazon is more of a Tim Cook story than a Steve Ballmer one.
It's supposed to be the stock chart.
Dangit, that's the one I meant to link to! I copied the link without checking. Thanks!
You're probably going to get downvoted for that, but I, too, find it ironic that someone in the CIA said this, given their history of funding several terrorist groups to help act as a insurgency to overthrow foreign governments not aligned with America.
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It feels like 4Chan decided to punk Reddit readers... its all just so toxic
That Amazon characterization of a Principal Engineer is great, and approximately how I've viewed the ideal role of the title.

Sometimes the title means being very highly skilled and experienced IC, or having deep historical knowledge of a particular system or organization, or being a niche technical expert. I like what Amazon's description adds to it expressly (which many have sometimes done unofficially), such as leading by example, engaging, and seeing humility as a quality of the role.
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It was interesting to see how South San Fran. got more red. Granted SF is still overwhelmingly blue, but still, interesting to think about the change.
I don't think that your reply answered my questions. Don't the historical and scientific details matter?
What do you mean by "work"? If you assign a default parameter value, you never need to mention undefined or null.
simply not true, why is such falsehoods just thrown out?
MDR-V6 here, 20+ years, several pad replacements and several (mostly more expensive) headphones later, still my daily driver.

To be fair, I also have a pair of AirPods Pro (not Max), which I only use on-the-go and for (mostly work-related) phone calls.
> Italy has a lot of historical continuity. If you go to Rome, the manhole covers read SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus).

That is... not an example of historical continuity. That's like calling the architecture of the US Supreme Court building "historical continuity" from classical Greece.