skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s interesting that you chose 2019 to grow, wasn’t that an off year for elections and political spend?

Either way congrats on starting your own agency! I was an early employee at an agency (not focused on politics but likely similar to yours in other ways) and when I started out there were fewer than 5 employees including two founders. It was very top-led in the beginning, but as we grew to 20 people or so that became unsustainable.

At that point it became about building a system instead of trying to get everyone up to the same skill level. At a basic level we decided that we were really working with clients to set expectations and then meeting (and hopefully sometimes exceeding) those expectations. We too had issues with last minute changes, until we changed our contract and statement of work language to specify the framework for making decisions (usually budget/spend/creative related etc) and how those decisions/changes would be implemented. Same thing with mistakes: part of the expectation from both sides was built in time for QA to catch mistakes before they happened. The more you can set up the framework for success early on in the sales/pitch/onboarding the better. And clients will probably like you more for setting up reasonable guardrails in the beginning.

The framework also allowed for some influence/involvement from the top, which was helpful in filling those inevitable skill gaps. We used some version of the framework until we got to about 45 employees, and then it had to change significantly again to fix some of the bottlenecks that were coming from the top down. It also opened up more time for people at the top to work on business development and sales.

I left out a lot of details but overall it took a “systems thinking” mindset to fix issues once we got to a level where the top-down approach was no longer feasible. The system was set up from top down, but once implemented it could basically run itself with a few tweaks throughout the years. Maybe you can focus on setting up those systems instead of trying to level up every employee to be a mirror of you and your partner.

Hiring/firing when there is a strong system in place also seemed easier: look for people who can grasp/appreciate the system and their place in it, give them agency and opportunity to grow within the system, and evaluate them based on the system and the expectations it sets. We almost never lost talent to other agencies and we rarely had to fire anyone. Maybe we were just lucky, or maybe the system did its job!

My two cents on growth/profitability for an agency: The existence of other agencies, however inferior they may be, means there is a limit to how much of a premium your agency can charge. At some point someone with control over the budget is going to balk at your price and go with the competitor who is also saying they can do everything you can do. Which means at some point you will need to grow your client (and employee) roster or be satisfied with stagnating profits.
There are tons of CEOs here from Tech. Of course this is just my anecdotal evidence.

Internet is amazing, Bowie was right.
You’re right, thanks for the starliner/Orion correction!
I'm not sure why you need to understand the facts to have an opinion. If kicking puppies was legal, you can still dislike people that kick puppies.
I did just this with a sous vide method.

The trick is to cool the meat down between initial cook and smoking. Smoking is basically a reheating process with added flavor.
I thought Inferno sounded pretty cool. I do love a good pun, and it invokes memories of the original Doom.
Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series to cost $465M for first season
I feel that. I lost half a thumb when i was a 7 years old because we went to an uncle's house for a dinner and the grown ups decided to leave me , my brother and my cousing (all less than 10) playing in a room that had a stationary bike in it.

I get your point, parents are stupid for leaving kids playing nearby. But it's not fair for kids to pay the price.
1 dozen krispy kreme glazed donuts is like $8
The bonus is a double-edged sword. There's nothing more demotivating than getting a bullshit explanation for why your bonus is reduced/non-existent.
> Please point out the Japan line which should by your argument be an even semi obvious outlier.

It's like you don't understand my main point: it is difficult to judge differences growth on a linear scale graph. It's like the dishonest COVID-19 graphs early on which showed coronavirus in comparison to other causes of death, and you couldn't see exponential growth it looked boring.

That's why sometimes it's useful to use a log scale, or to just divide the numbers and compare them, to understand rates of growth.

I think I see why we disagree: your entire argument is based on eyeballing (misleading, linear) graphs instead of comparing numbers. I have hit this point 4 times in the thread so far, and you keep making an argument based on eyeballing graphs.
I honestly see it more as a research tool and being able to trace your history more contextually than just by date accessed.
Are there any legal problems with scraping sports data?
Genuine questions: Are you in a management position? How do you reconcile the shades-of-grey people with the black-or-white people? What are the strengths and weaknesses of each position, and how do you harness the strengths and manage the weaknesses? Do people change type depending on the situation, or is a grey always a grey and a b/w always a b/w?
It’s not unlike Hollywood cinema: glitz and glam.

Truth is, we had knobs and switches, then typewriters which naturally transition to command line, then we had window managers which are like a desk(top) covered in papers. Then we had... well that’s all we have. I guess the next thing is AR/VR and 3D UIs but until then...

A mobile phone or tablet UI I would say is like a spiral bound pocket notebook, as compared to the proper desktop metaphor of full laptop/desktop computers.

It’s like trying to reinvent the book. It _can_ be enhanced, but most of the time it doesn’t change the overall reading experience.
Honestly, I think people underestimate how good humans are mechanically. Like, a human arm is a 7 degree of freedom arm capable of incredibly fast motion.

Some of the songs on Beat Saber, on Expert Plus, are effectively impossible for any existing 7 axis serial robot arms to actuate fast enough to equal the best human players if you strapped VR controllers to where the end effectors are. Maybe some sort of parallel robot (like a SCARA) robot could do it.

Two robot arms with 7 degrees of freedom (the extra degree to allow them to avoid colliding with each other), plus the camera has to also move to avoid obstacles. It'd be really tough to beat the best human players, from a mechanical point of view. You'd need custom robots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLb7cLTrSCE
Uhh, that's why I have the Android app too on my phone that's always in my pocket. It syncs everything offline.
Not sure I follow. If US Multinational charges license to Italian Subsidiary, then the pricing impacts the profit allocation between the two entities. The IRS will say "the license should be really high" so the profits in the US are higher. The Italian tax authorities will say "the license should be low" so they get more tax revenue.

For a complicated technology that's licensed, remember that neither taxing authority has any clue as to what it's actually worth. They don't care. They just want tax revenue. Remember to think about both taxing authorities when analyzing these transactions and imagine the ridiculous situations multinationals are put in.
I did just this about a year ago. Big project, lots of "company will fail if this project fails" type of talk. So they trot out a bonus system. I literally didn't read the email.

Turns out it had a 2 part payment plan. Our team nailed the metrics for the first payment...and then didn't for the second. Which left management in the weird position of explaining how even though we had just signed 5 customers (in a quarter that had anticipated maybe 1 sale), we hadn't met metrics...and so no bonus. Watching execs peddle obvious bullshit to an undeniably successful team not interested in the smell was more my bonus than anything.
My conjecture is that the article undersells the possibility that rich people derive non-income utility from their jobs. For example, it seems plausible that jobless young men like video games because they revolve around competently meeting and overcoming (artificial) challenges. As far as I know, most people in high-paying jobs at least feel like their work consists of competently meeting and overcoming challenges.
To be fair, the profile of a data scientist at a F500 non tech company and at a company like FB is slightly different. Facebook's data science crew is known for being heavier on the stats lighter on the software (relatively speaking) and probably can design a good experiment.

That said, anyone who signs up for a job at Facebook doesn't give a shit about ethical design of experiments.
Richard Geldreich (Ensemble Studios) on Whiteboard Interviews
I don't understand any of what you listed, but I believe corporations should pay a mandatory minimum tax. Also, I believe people can have opinions even if someone is being condescending to them.
What if you’re kicking a puppy that’s biting your leg?

Understanding of facts is very relevant to form proper opinions. Without it you’re very easily manipulated via emotions.
Depends on whether the explorers self select for survival traits.
You're leaving out the part where corporations lobby relentlessly and effectively for the tax loopholes that best suit them.

The structure and implementation of corporate taxes in the USA strikes me as needlessly complicated and corrupt, and I think corporate influence over the tax code is deeply unethical in many ways. At the same time, I wouldn't tell any individual or company that they're ethically obligated to forgo tax relief that's legally available to them. These two things are not in contradiction.
This is quite an interesting data point. I'd expect one with this level of dysfunction not to be able to communicate well with clients either. People are complicated.
In Firefox, I don't see an article, I just get a pop up error message:

> ServiceWorker script at https://ash.ms/sw.js for scope https://ash.ms/ threw an exception during script evaluation.

Edit: seems like it was uMatrix doing something, although the log didn't show anything blocked except googletagmanager.
I ship an app (Talon) which runs many kinds of wav2letter ASR models on consumer CPUs. It has real-time inference pipelines for both pytorch and flashlight. (I wrote the pytorch code). Performance of both inference pipelines is fine and comparable between the frameworks for me. I'm not sure what you're talking about wrt speech recognition performance.

Maybe for training? But there aren't that many cpu bound components there, and you can write those in native code.
Agreed. Even the Thanos solution was only a temporary stopgap. One population doubling time period and you are back in the same boat.
Step 0: remember that people have been creating scam charities for a long time, so the IRS looks for it, knows more than you do about it, and does not like it.
The outcome of this experiment is that for a few days, around 150k people posted ~0.3% more negative words on Facebook.

Is that something engineers and data scientists should be imprisoned over? I think most US politicians cause bigger effects every time they tweet.
not using semantic HTML for links is a bigger sin than hijacking the right-click IMO. Maybe even worse than scroll-jacking
yes, become a consultant and charge 10x for your work.

no leetcode.
All organ damage heals around six months unless you had an C-ARDS diagnoses or chronic deficiency of Nicotinic Acid.
>Comments like "companies should just pay their taxes" are like when laypeople say "companies should have websites that always work instantaneously & never have any downtime".

I don't understand the analogy. Websites that 'always work instantaneously and never have any downtime' is technically infeasible, though you can get closer by pumping more money into the web side of your business. No company deliberately injects downtime into their website, but they do think it may not be the biggest priority, and hence there will be more downtime.

On the other hand, you need to actively look for loopholes, and get access to tax lawyers and accountants in order to do something like a 'double-Irish'. That's not a failure to pump money into your accountancy division in the same way downtime is a failure to pump money into your web division. In fact, it's exactly the opposite - doing a 'double-Irish' would seem to require more money to be pumped into the tax law part of your business.

The equivalent in your analogy would actually be exactly the opposite - if Google hired something like 'downtime lawyers' who would find the optimal way to inject downtime into their website. If Google sought out downtime, and actively pursued downtime.

Pump more money into the web side of your business and you get less downtime. Pump more money into the tax lawyer side of your business and you avoid more taxes. The analogy is bankrupt.

Reality is complicated, but even more complicated than reality is the tasks Google has set its tax lawyers to concoct to avoid paying taxes. I'm sure you yourself have a great many opinions, moral or otherwise, on subjects you don't know the technical intricacies of, but you hold those opinions because of a principle that applies to the base facts of those subjects.

Along the lines of another commenter, I don't need to understand the current debate in moral epistemology and animal rights in order to have good reason to think kicking puppies is immoral, and I need even less knowledge to know that I don't want to see puppy kicking in society. I can dislike puppy-kicking, even if it turns out that puppy kicking is legal, or even moral - and I have a feeling you would too.
The US is just yet another notch in the belt of Afghanistan, "Graveyard of Empires", following all those others who have gone before.

If the billions and billions of dollars that were wasted in Afghanistan had been spent on the US itself, the US would be far better off.
This isn’t about the 3 dimensional structure the neurons occupy, but about their operational degrees of freedom.

Think about how a CNC machine works, you can have CNC with more than 3 axis, for example a 4 axis CNC machine can move left/right up/down backwards/forwards and also have another axis which can rotate in a given plane.

From a more mathematical perspective just think about the number of parameters in a system (excluding reduction) each parameter would be a dimension.
> Goodwill with the government?

No, with the people. What you could do is a direct deposit in each American bank account in a very public way.

180M adults * 10USD = 1.8B

Not a joke but also not that much for Google to build long lasting goodwill among the public

In one swoop you delegitimize politicians by doing direct payments (maybe even a PR campaign with "money for nothing" as soundtrack) and win the public favor.

"UBI-light" offered by Google..so many PR angles to think this thing through
Always be wary of such (and for that matter any) rankings and take them with a massive amount of salt. These NGOs are often fronts for agendas.

https://rsf.org/en/our-supporters

They have the CIA vehicle for regime change as one of their sponsors, the amusingly named National Endowment for Democracy that specializes in overthrowing non-white democracies and regime change.

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

https://williamblum.org/chapters/rogue-state/trojan-horse-th...
Burglaries isn’t even remotely a proxy for “lives saved”.
Thanks. I will check if they have a pricing API available.
> Is also why I think it is silly for startups to provide too many perks

Should the opposite be true as well? Startup employees going home at 5 and fighting unreasonable schedules?
I dunno if removing WPD is really doing any good though. It wouldn't surprise me if it had a chilling effect on the NSFL label. Besides how are we going to figure out what level of warning is appropriate if we can't find anyone willing to see it?
They can, but those opinions ought to carry very little weight with regards to policy or other people's opinions.
No but when you restrict clandestine manipulation you restrict freedom of speech. Giving the government such power gives them the oversight to use the "clandestine manipulation" excuse on other things as well.

Like I said, not so clear cut. It's a complex world we live in. But I get why someone would vote me down. It's easier to see everything in terms of black and white. The truth, however, is grey.

Take freedom of religion for example. Freedom of religion allows cults like Scientology to form. If we allow the government to have the power to eliminate Scientology what kind of power does it give the government over Christianity or Buddhism?

Personally my view is that the cost is worth the benefit, because the alternative is much worse.
Ohh this is so good to hear. The Macbook pro (Intel) that I've got from my Company is on its last legs. I'm eagerly waiting for an M1 replacement. I'm not too concerned about the libraries but it'd be really nice to have R and Python locally with data related libraries. I do most of my work on AWS instances though.
No, this can't be how the world works. It's good that people have and express opinions about outcomes rather than letting the elite who understand the esoteric mechanisms behind those outcomes do whatever they want.
Or give the exercises a try in the browser, using the Clojure(script) port! It’s a lovely book.

https://nextjournal.com/dashboard/sicm
I don't follow. If someone is being condescending to you, your opinion doesn't carry weight?

You don't have to understand any of the OP's post to have a reasonable opinion on this topic - corporations should pay their fair share of taxes.
There are plenty of stories of people making high incomes and still living paycheck to paycheck.
As a former FB employee who worked on ranking, I just want to point out how absolutely tiny the effect size is here when we think about normal human emotional experience. On a per person basis, this experiment had an effect that is comparable to other potential changes like slightly altering the padding on the "like" button, or showing 1 extra news post per day, or sending an extra notification once per month.

Facebook didn't make people sad. It made a population post things with slightly more negative words, only significant when measured across hundreds of thousands of users.
Can someone liberate the article from behind the paywall for me?
Milwaukee does offer a warranty and will repair out of warranty but any battery tool is by definition not a buy-it-for-life as the battery will wear out (and better tools will come).

My rule is buy so that when it dies I’m not sad. That varies for different pieces of equipment.
Interesting. I never realized computer scientists categorize "computer vision" as "artificial intelligence". Seems to me OP could have gotten 100% correctness from the "vision" input without going the "computer vision" route then.
I really see the moral of the story here is to simply not care so much what other people think. You do you. There are always these kinds of people who think their way of doing the hobby/passion is the right way or even the only way. You see this in cycling where you have to have a carbon fiber road bike and fancy lycra to be a cyclist, you obviously can't be having fun on an old bike just leisurely riding around the neighborhood!

If you want to collect stuff and organize by country go for it! Don't let people take away the joy because they are narrow minded.
Hmm. I usually have no problem sending to lkml using iOS’s mail app. Gmail also works if I tell it to format as plain text, but the editor is all kinds of buggy in plain text mode.

FWIW, I don’t subscribe to lkml. Instead I point thunderbird at lore.kernel.org’s NNTP feed for the rare occasions in which I need to reply to an on-list message.

To the extent that the list’s rules make it hard to get feedback, I consider this a problem. The whole mailing list is in the middle or a giant migration, and I’ll see if I can convince the new overlords to be less strict. (I usually get Linux email directed to me via MAINTAINERS, so this issue doesn’t affect me personally too much. The x86 alias isn’t part of vger and does not have the text hangup, at least to my knowledge.)
Zuck would be interesting to have on here lmao
Animations on mobile are not always useless. They act as a feedback mechanism on a medium like touch screen where there is none otherwise. They can also work to compensate for delays. The perception of delay can be reduced by showing an animation while doing another task in the background.
> After that I went freelance. And 15 years later I can say it was the best decision ever.

Every time I've left a job, I've been uncertain and conflicted. Every. Time. Then, a week or two into the new job... Every. Time. ...I thought, "Wow! I should have done this sooner!"
> Because if you criticise the Chinese government you disappear for a few months at best. If you’re unlucky you’re never seen again.

Wasn't too long ago that being considered too far on the left in the US was a professional and social death sentence.

Was neither too long ago that anybody who opposed illegal wars of aggression, torture, and state-sponsored assassinations, was deemed a "treacherous terrorist supporter" who might as well have flown the planes into the towers themselves, the earlier versions of that involved sending armed soldiers to violently break up peaceful student protesters ala Kent State.

Heck, "race riots" are a regular thing in the US to this day, yet somehow not considered political, nor the countless black activists that were jailed, left to live in exile, or straight up assassinated in the US [0], somehow none of that is considered "political" [1].

Add in the reality how the US has not just the biggest prison population, but also the highest incarceration rate on the planet, and it comes across as a bit tone-deaf to constantly evoke how in the "evil not US countries" people are allegedly getting vanished in droves, but never ever in the US [2].

[0] https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/11/rakem-balogun-...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/more-than-80-percent-of-the-...
Which drop of rain caused the dam to break? In the book Good Omens there is a demon who considered himself the best not because he was the best deceiver or torturer, but because of his ability to cause mass malcontent.

The real evil isn’t in the experiment, it’s that the researchers found that Facebook makes people’s lives worse. How many suicides are caused by Facebook’s investors? Whether they can mitigate it this way or that is splitting hairs.
I find it interesting how many collections come from a continuation of childhood. Maybe it's survivorship bias.

I've been collecting Japanese robot figures since I was a kid. I always dreamed of walking into a normal retail store and seeing the figures in person rather than browser-shopping. Most of my "modern" collection is comprised of figures I found in person when I was living in Japan. Not only were they usually much cheaper than online offerings (often by factors of 1/2 to 1/4), but the thrill of hunting through secondhand stores imbues is more romantic than waiting for UPS to drop off a brown box.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/13/156737801/the-...
One tiny little extra requirement from the client could make you regret that.

Clients don't care about what tools you use. They care more about flexibility.