skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the top chart of the article. tl;dr: Other Bay Area counties, with Alameda and San Mateo tops on the list. LA, San Diego, and Riverside round out the top 10.
"Confirming existing models" and "searching for new physics" are the same activity. You don't know what will be confirmed beforehand.

Trying the existing models predictions with a completely new measurement apparatus is the most promising way to look for new physics.
> There's some MSFT narrative that comes up here a lot where people say Ballmer was doing great and Nadella just continued his plans, I don't buy it.

Then it should be easy to say which green-field projects Nadella launched then. I can't think of any, but I'm open to learning.
The problem is that it can hurt your career, especially if you've never worked anywhere else. (random guess: somewhere between 15% and 30% of the workforce falls in that category)

You can learn the wrong lessons: you learn how to go up for promotion rather than build things that work for users.

In the last 10 years it's become extremely common at Google do work that is simply thrown away (because of issues above your pay grade). You could work at Google for 5 years and nothing you worked on ever sees the light of day. That is a problem.

You don't learn what works when your work gets thrown away. You can still get promoted anyway. So why do the work? Just pretend you did it. (It's usually not as black-and-white as that; employees are usually well intentioned but then are surprised when the work that was hyped up by management gets suddenly thrown away.)

I'd say that if you want to have a good career as an engineer, you should focus exclusively on building things from 22 to 26 (or whatever your first 4 years are). If you miss a year or 2 of that because of corporate politics, then you missed a lot of learning, and you may be unqualified for future jobs.

There is legitimately a lot to learn about writing software on the job -- IMO it's more than the equivalent of another 4 year CS degree.

----

This is probably the best description of it that I've read (after working there myself for over a decade and seeing the change in values):

https://mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-google/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16483241

I heard someone describe grad school as "17th grade" for some people with the wrong attitude. Google might be "21st grade" for others. That is, you're following metrics set up by an organization -- getting "graded" -- rather than building things for "the world".

The way some Google employees speak about "the world" highlights that disconnect. (e.g. the wearables thing on the front page yesterday was mocked)

To be fair, this is how things work at most jobs. If you work at a big bank or insurance company, you don't really care about "customers" either -- they are too far away from you. You care about what your boss thinks and his or her boss. This is sort of the "default" configuration of society.
Visualization of 40M Cell Towers
In most companies, once you’ve built or found the people to delegate that too, and handed it off successfully - congrats, you’ve demonstrated you can handle the next level and you get the next round of challenges.

If you’re sitting around with nothing to do, either you’re in a dead end, or no one actually trusts you with more once you’ve ‘succeeded’ because you’ve burned too many bridges or alienated key people - even if the org chart looks good.

Of course if someone is finding themselves in that churn all day for any length of time, you are quite correct - they are busy not succeeding.
Really? I've went to London office a couple of times and have had many colleagues there and they didn't seem notable different to Scots in terms of swearing.
Is transaction queuing Bitcoin's weak link?
Israeli here.

cultural gaps are very much alive and kicking

During my career I've worked with people around the world, all in the Tech industry.

Israeli-Californian cultural gap is huge.

It is made worse by the fact that Israelis usually have a good English level, some even have an okay accent - which makes their US counterpart expect them to use the same communication etiquette they are used to.

Californians will go out of their way to avoid any overt conflict.

Israelis see conflict as a valid form of day to day communications.

An Israeli can go out of a meeting thinking he was just being told "yes", while he was given a glaring "no" delivered in the All-American-speak.
Hi everyone, co-creator of Nx here!

I have just published an article on Dashbit's blog with a bit more context on Nx and the design decisions behind it: https://dashbit.co/blog/nx-numerical-elixir-is-now-publicly-...

It is hopefully a more in-depth reference than the README. If you have any questions, I will be glad to answer them!
I have one mailing list I'm on where I get this all the dang time, and have to respond and tell them I'm reading, just not displaying tracking pixels.
Except that buying index funds is like paying somebody to take your vote from you. The dollar value of your account is meaningless. Those proxy votes say who goes on the board, what the company’s social agenda is, what countries they operate in, which political leaders they support, laws they sponsor, etc. And frankly, passive funds are anything but passive. With 80% of the money in the market and only yearly retargeting, they control far more liquidity than they need to make any market structure they want. So no, there is no freedom without a hard store of value.
No, everyone doesn't win because that exact situation has already been used before by Windows with UAC and Android with developer mode and malware/virus peddlers just started to include instructions on how to bypass those things.
A big problem with the comparison between big box stores and app stores regarding exclusives is: I can go to Walmart, buy my “Walmart Exclusive(tm)”, and then not go back. Chibi-Robo! doesn’t require I play in Walmart, and, in fact, will run just fine on my DS everywhere. OTOH, for an Epic exclusive, I can’t buy (read: license) the game and then never use the Epic launcher. Because every time I want to play “Epic Exclusive(tm) #9001”, I need to have the Epic Store running.
I have a Hue light on my bedside table that goes from 0 to max over 30min, plus three bulbs in the ceiling socket that do the same, but are staggered. Like bedside can be 6:55-7:25, with overhead 1 from 7-7:30, overhead 2 from 7:05-7:35, etc. So you have the four lights brightening together over the course of 45min or whatever longer period you want.

If it's gradual enough, you won't just bury your head, and if it's enough bulbs, it'll get bright enough to convince your body it's daytime.

There's another trick I've been meaning to do. The Hue app's wake up routine turns it on to a low temperature light, but turning it a little higher temp/bluer once I'm up does help trick me into daytime. I'm meaning to make a cron job on my raspberry pi to make my own wakeup routine that is a little slower to avoid the need to stagger lights, and also increase temperature once it's bright. If you know linux, the pi is easy.

Even without the fancy pi stuff, it's Good Enough. The Hue bulbs add up fast in cost, but it's worth it to me. I have the white ambiance ones.
Thanks for the info and the reference, that was a good read!
"Microsoft became almost irrelevant under Ballmer or was at least trending that way. Nadella’s turn around is almost miraculous "

This is definitely not true.

Ballmer increased revenues massively, and launched a slew of new products (XBox, MS Live, cloud etc.) and realigned the company. Have a look [1]

Nadella has done nothing approaching that level of importance yet, so far, he is riding the wave that was handed to him.

Now the stock price - this is a different thing. It sagged under Ballmer even as MSFT was massively growing revenues, around Naella's time investors realized that MS 'was not fading' and all that extra EPS was like a share price slingshot.

Ballmer was as transformative and important as Gates.

Nadella's early transformations were around culture, but that's just PR.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/267805/microsofts-global...
I take your point, as I often sketch things myself to help me think, but only pencil-on-paper. I would guess there are tools for sketching with a stylus on a tablet, but I have never felt a pressing-enough need to push me into checking them out.
The author seems to have a conflict of interest, do you have additional analysis or proof (ex: peer reviewed papers)?
I figured you were right, so I just signed up for prime.. through the app, and it didn't use the play store payment system, so Google isn't taking a cut.

Again, I have no idea what is possible on the Apple version, but I have subscriptions on other apps that go through the play store payment system. I'm not an expert on app store policies for payments, but I don't use any other apps that have subscription payment that don't go through the play store. I have a LastPass subscription which I purchased through their website, specifically because you have to go through the play store if you get it through the app.
The App Store is also a distribution channel. The 15% seems like a lot but I would have to pay, way, way more to achieve the same level of presence elsewhere (without nasty tracking ads).
Reminds me of my bank. Whenever they change their terms of
service or do anything that could affect my account they send an
automated notification email that pretends to have been sent by
an actual employee, and always with a subject line like "XYZ
sent you an important message regarding your account".

As any UI designer knows, if everything is important nothing is
important, and so I just treat those as the spam they are.
Which lead to a legitimately important mail getting lost, but it
only caused problems for them so ironically they shot
themselves in the foot with their dark patterns.
Funnily enough the new Chromecast with Google TV is a better experience for you than Apple TV. All of the services except Apple TV that you mentioned are searchable and playable from the home screen and Google doesn't have to take 30% of their revenue to make it happen.
If this is considered good design, I don't want to be associated with the web anymore.
Uber and Lyft reworked the medallion system into mobile apps.

Instead of a physical medallion bolted on the car, it's a verified driver ID and rating in Uber/Lyft app.

Uber/Lyft are now collecting what the medallion owners were collecting previously from the drivers.

The apps are more convenient for riders and there are more efficiencies in the routes. But, it's still the same system. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
I'm inclined to say no.

RSS and Atom are great. And I wish I could get every newsletter as feed instead. Emails get lost in the daily avalanche, but RSS/Atom feeds know to wait until I have time to read. But they're already beset by problems with lack of adoption. Any alternative syndication tool is going to make it even harder to reach your audience.

I'd also be careful about platforms like Medium. I wanted to like Medium, I really did, but the algorithmic feed's constant stream of clickbait quickly grew tiring. I ended up muting it, newsletters and all. It seems to me that any platform that has an algorithm is setting up a hostile environment for people who don't enjoy producing or consuming clickbait.
Hopefully the people that created this before can create a digital first solution. Ikea notably was using 100% renders for the products in the catalog, they could make that process interactive
Objective or Biased
Fully understand. You work for (or at least know very well) PG. Others have been helped by PG. Invested in by PG or YC.

I am someone who doesn't fall into that category.
Show HN: Rails N+1 queries auto-detection with zero false negatives
Sure. That's why they do it. (Along with the fact that it's an expected perk in some circles.) Which is also why paying a meal per diem doesn't make a lot of sense. But it's also somewhat understandable why there would be a bit of grumbling about a benefit being taken away, however unavoidably.

Of course, for many employees, the elimination of commuting makes remote work a significant win financially. But others never intended to do much more than sleep in their apartments and the current situation is therefore a net negative, even just financially.
Front-End JavaScript Frameworks: Multi-Year Developer Surveys Visualized
I flagged it because honestly I think it's off-topic for the site. I realize that HN isn't great about that in general but I really struggle to think of anything less geared towards intellectual curiosity (what this site is hypothetically about) than "Polarizing figure dies expectedly".
I've been doing native applications something like forever and all those apps are exactly the same way. Just copy and enjoy. I just do not understand fun of "modern" apps where the amount of tooling and configuration will drive one straight to insanity.
The vaccines themselves and vaccine scheduling change over time. How would we know if something harmful was introduced?

Unless of course as you state we are unwittingly participating in ad-hoc longitudinal studies.

There are any number of `modern` diseases with seemingly unknown causes. It's not a stretch to be skeptical of the safety of modern medicine in general.
That's because Apple's app store has better quality apps due to curation. The minute iPhones are opened up, the value of the App Store will tank considerably, and many devs on here will be up in arms, complaining about all the flood of free apps that have destroyed their market.

The fact is the App Store helps everyone. It curates apps for most people, it helps developers make more money (as you said, double the revenue, well worth the 1/3 cut, that no longer applies to small apps), and it helps Apple innovate on their hardware product.
We have government agencies for secret stuff - spies and the military, they already have lots of R&D funds.
And I had fellow googles spend all their day between PlayStation, gym, restaurants, cafe's, hairdresser etc... without getting any work done.
"made them a serious competitor again?"

They were making money hand over fist, massive growth in revenues almost ever year under Ballmer. [1]

Which part of that massive money train is 'not serious competitor'?

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/267805/microsofts-global...
The regulation will also benefit other smaller players, no? For example, Tata Cliq, Snapdeal.
I wouldn't consider amazon prime a physical good or service.
Then, no offense, but you might not understand the market very well. Achievements and friends are table stakes these days. Games are primarily a multiplayer experience with friends so platforms absolutely need those things before locking games as exclusives.

This would be like shipping an OS without internet access to end-users.
I know this is a joke comment, but isn’t JavaScript supposed to be the joke language here on HN, not Objective-C/Swift?
You can buy pasta at a few different stores, a caulk gun at a few different stores, clothes etc etc. Why would software be different?
Right, it's a monopoly for app developers, much more than for users.
> exempt from FOI

That's a terrible precedent.
I am not talking about a summary paragraph but a summary line or teaser line. (I probably used the wrong word).
Reflection is independent of whether your code is typed.
Not going to comment on the substance here, but just smirk slightly at the plaintiff being someone who bought calls at $100 just as the roller-coaster was headed up. I am sure there is some appropriate phrase that is the similar to 'never try to catch a falling knife' when it comes to amateurs thinking they can time the collapse of a squeeze bubble.
> I may or may not have passion, but that should be immaterial to the job at hand.

Perhaps this is our disagreement. Employees with passion often perform better and there is nothing "unfair" about employers desiring passionate employees for that reason.

I agree that passion shouldn't be a requirement per se (whatever that means) if job performance is otherwise good, but passion is very highly correlated with job performance.
Excess electricity can be a real problem, and is getting worse with renewables. But surplus energy would be better used to desalinate seawater, or produce hydrogen through electrolysis, or storage.
Same here. As a user, I would rather have direct download/installation, aka sideloading. But absent that, I would much prefer to have all my applciations available on one store. Having to download multiple stores in order to get multiple applications is pretty much the worst outcome.
Here is a fourth:

4. Do you delegate high visibility tasks?

Managers who don't do this work hard to hog all the glory, spend all their time in meetings with other managers or presenting to higher level people etc. It isn't good for them nor their reports, by not growing the reports skills they have a hard time getting to the next level as a manager. Also they create a situation where they are the bus factor 1, which is problematic in itself.
Looks like it was too good to be true. This was never a David vs the hedge funds situation.
But it does speak to how powerful one person's voice can be amplified by social media. Even 10 years ago one person could not have done this.
To me Twitter seems to be the strongest amplifier since it's so easy for news reporters to pick a story and go with it. It's the perfect fountain of stories for them to pick from for theirs daily deadline.
Can you explain how you wash your butt afterwards? Do you take a shower? Sit in the sink and rinse with soap?
That stratechery piece confirms that a number of Satya's "quick wins" were projects mostly developed under Ballmer but credited to Nadella... Which is exactly my point - that Ballmer doesn't always get the credit he deserves, for the sake of magnifying the contrasts between the 2 leaders.
>Once you are at the level where your compensation covers everything you want, it’s more of a game to increase it than necessity.

This is also why many people choose to plateau at a certain point. In the Google/Facebook scheme, that's often L5 - I've talked with a number of employees who debate whether they even want the responsibility that comes with an L6 promo and are quite convinced they wouldn't want L7+

Their mindset would probably be foreign to the author of this article, but I can see it and it lines up with what you said - at a certain point, if comp is high enough, I'd prefer to be well paid AND have free time. I've worked with some truly incredible L7+ engineers, but they correlate strongly with people who never turn off and seemingly never stop working, and that's simply not something that appeals to me in life.
Been dabbling with this framework back and forth. Excited to see it in a stable spot. Finally gonna build a medium sized project on it now.
This presents a fairly narrow view of persuasion, a romanticized version. Broadly defined persuasion is alive and well.

Consider the massive political demonstrations that have occurred in the last year, who persuaded these people to leave their homes and congregate during the middle of a pandemic?

Consider the rapid decriminalization of marijuana and even other drugs. Who persuaded these voters to change the law?

Consider all the new start-ups and other business that rely on a sales force to persuade customers of their value and to sign up?

Persuasion is very much still alive
Household Debt Climbs to Record in U.S.
How exactly would opening up app purchases on the iPhone to competition bring about the scenario that you describe?

You gave an example with reckless driving and homicides but it is not clear how that applies to app store competition.
Marketing Research for Startups
Guinea declares Ebola epidemic: First deaths since 2016
where exactly are you located? There are a ton of "boring" software jobs that exist to support a business in medium sized cities, not like them "world changing" tech jobs in the bay area but they pay the bills.
Feel free to complain to Google, Yahoo et al about this. I'm just the messenger and engineer who needs to cater to their rules or risk getting kicked out.
Powerpaste: A Good Paste to Progress the Cars of the Future
I agree. The Moderna vaccine was created in a weekend, it took many months to run trials in a way that compiled with bioethicist diktat to prove efficacy . The limiting factor in the speed of the clinical trials is the rate at which people acquire COVID naturally. During the summer there were serious worries that the vaccine trials would fail due to low transmission rates.

Had the clinical trials run in a "less ethical" way, say by taking young and healthy people like myself, vaccinating them and then deliberately exposing them to COVID, then we might have seen vaccination start much sooner. Far fewer would have died and the colossal impact of lockdowns would have been mostly avoided.
Really interesting visualization and I definitely love the map. I am amazed the way you handled such large amount of data
I've noted an increasing trend in US papers that the headline or the first few paragraphs sort of level where the author expects your beliefs will be, and much of the article is precicated on such beliefs. For me personally, it makes trying to read the rest of the article, whether I agree with the headline/first few paragraphs or not, much more difficult.
Why is Amazon better than Google in innovation?
Ego: Build confidential-computing apps in Go
Now that people are "writing games and web servers" in Julia (as per some commenters) and that the use case list for Rust grows exponentially I cannot wait for the most epic of collisions, Julia vs Rust, astronomers must be rubbing their hands for this one.
The cost of cycling in a non-cycling friendly country
Imagine knowing that white supremacists use ‘14 words’ yet being so ignorant that the gp pattern-matches to white supremacism.
It begs for SVG export.
Yes, I still use UML diagrams. But, it's mostly a sequence diagram. A sequence diagram helps you to explain the interaction between objects using messages. I always put this diagram whenever I document a system design.
You make that choice when you buy the phone.

You are not buying an iPhone and the software separately. It is one product. The App Store is the product.
You still need some way to distribute the git commit hashes so it's TOFU and less secure than Bitcoin.
Recent Breakthroughs in AI (Feb 11 Talk by Andrej Karpathy, Socher, Johnson)
TLDR;

The discussion mostly looked at the novelty of transformer based multimodal models such as CLIP and DALL·E which have both shown interesting results.

TLDR

- Data is king! Getting better data might be the single biggest bang for buck in terms of performance improvement.

- Data curation toolkits, MLOps (and companies in this space) and will be increasingly important.

- Transformers are unifying the deep learning problem/solution space i.e transformer-based model architectures can be effectively applied to multiple domains e.g. image, text, speech.

- Models that can be parralelized and optimized for today's hardware will have more impact.

- New Research Frontiers? Models that learn continuously; Models capable of logic/reasoning; New objective functions and application areas; New approaches to data labeling; Model-first approach to benchmark design; New approaches to creating massive datasets (e.g. via simulations)

The talk was moderated by Russell Kaplan (Scale AI) and the panel included Richard Socher (You, Salesforce Research), Justin Johnson (University of Michigan, Facebook), Andrej Karpathy (Tesla).
If Apple charged a reasonable commission level - say 5-15% - these problems would not occur.

30% is completely uneconomic and drives all of the profit to the platform owner. That's why were seeing so many acquisitions.

The problem here is with the 30%.
Building a Tabs Component