skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The effort-value matrix is a magical thing. We use it to prioritize everything at all levels of scale. Yearly initiatives, quarterly goals, what to do this week, bugs, new hires, bizdev prospects, technical approaches,etc, etc.

If people disagree on where a thing should sit in the matrix then a productive discussion usually ensues. If a thing is really valuable and really hard, we break it into smaller pieces. If someone's pet project is lower value than other easier things, we deprioritize it with no hard feelings.

It's crazy to me that the effort/value matrix is not a core part of tools like JIRA/Trello. Subtask[1] does a pretty good job with this though.

[1]: https://subtask.co
Who would actually believe a domain name means anything?
Home maintenance isn't being built by the thousands though, so that makes some sense.
The computers are getting better at writing
To be fair I think Google really was better back then, and unfortunately they've changed.
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I'd be interested to hear her take of many of the things Bill has been involved with, including his time at MS, the foundation, etc., but it looks like this, on the surface at least so far, is amicable so we may not get to have her spill the beans. At least it's not, as of now, a messy one like Jeff B's divorce.
In broader industry these days, UUID effectively means “128-bit unique identifier” with no other standardization implied. I’ve seen dozens of custom “UUID” designs with no public description in the wild used at massive scales. A major reason for this is that the classic standard UUIDs v1-v5 have a broken design for some use cases so companies invent their own equivalents.

There is nothing wrong with designing a custom pseudo-UUID, and in fact there are often real advantages. The caveat is that you will want to use the same scheme consistently.
Parent is spam. I don't have enough karma to flag it, but let's not give it any clicks.
You only owe them if they didn't get their money's worth.
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[Google employee, but AltaVista fanboy previously, been on the internet since the 80s and used all of these as they hit the market, and I remember the joy/excitement as each one hit in those days, like a moon landing. Also a DEC Alpha fanboy :)]

No way Altavista or Inktomi offered better result than Google. I was a heavy user of both, having adopted AltaVista mainly for similar reasons that I adopted Google, because AltaVista had way fresher and more extensive content than competitors at the time, it offered query modifiers, multi-lingual queries, and media search (images, etc), it even had Babelfish translation. It was obviously, unequivocally better than everything else before it. So the value proposition was unambiguous.

Google was similarly an obvious value proposition when it launched. PageRank was objectively better at returning the most salient results. AltaVista did ranking purely based on how the query phrase matched the index. As the Web grew, the amount of junk it would return piled up, it's easy to spam or game such a ranking algorithm.

As for Inktomi, you can read Inktomi's own employee account: https://www.searchenginewatch.com/2012/05/10/why-google-beat... Inktomi employees were using Google Search as their primary search engine. If you're not using your own product, you've got problems, how can you expect your customers/users to use it if you won't?

Yes, Google's brand is strong, and marginal returns in search quality mean most consumers won't notice the difference between engines, and will judge based on brand or UI presentation now. But to claim Inktomi and AltaVista matched Google Search results I think is rewriting history, when Google launched, the difference in quality was quite obvious and striking.

These days search engines have other requirements given how big the web is, how rapidly it changes, and how many adversarial attacks are made against it (blackhat SEO/webspam). You've got to have the infrastructure to index the entire web frequently, you've got to have a robust defense against spam, and you've got to have an even better ranking strategy beyond PageRank because a lot of the long tail may be good content, but doesn't have many authoritative sites linking to it.

There's still the possibility of someone upstaging Google, by building a search engine that not only indexes the Web, but has the reading comprehension to understand it, and understand queries from the context of gained knowledge. The first company to do that will kill Google Search, as the results will be self-evidently better. There are queries today that GPT-3 can do that Google can't, they're amazing when they work, mindblowing. If you can scale that to the Star Trek level computer, you win.

But you can't displace Google with a 2% improvement in results.
>Only spinless politicians that want to appease both sides make transit fail and let the car win.

Welcome to democracy. The only way this could work is if you could decide to have a city where all the people who want cars aren't allowed to live there (or at least aren't allowed to vote there). In other words, a hard boarder with immigration controls, and ideally an independent budget so the Federal or State government can't tax you are require you to build highways to get your tax money back in the form of grants.
They’re a private couple and it’s inappropriate for anyone to pry or speculate the reasons...

...but I can’t help but think it’s related to the Gates/Covid conspiracy nonsense. It wouldn’t surprise me if the stress from having to deal with crazy death-threats and the like contributed towards the breakdown.
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And now you’re a semi truck driver.. how did that happen from soft developer to semi truck driver?
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You can't both protest something and not burn bridges at the same time. You have to choose one or the other.
My nostalgia makes me wish she’d reprise her role at MS as GPM for their interactive multimedia titles and relaunch all those cool Microsoft Home CD-ROM titles.
I'm sort of curious how to fix this. I mean, in the abstract, I would really like to meet people who are different from me. But in practice, if I wanted to meet some, I could just hop on Twitter and find partisans of any ideology I could think of in mere seconds. And that's not what I want.

In the abstract, I don't want to live in a bubble, but when the alternative to doing that is to leave your bubble, it's a very uncomfortable prospect indeed.
> Am I supposed to use... excel to do that?

This is gratuitous. You have a clear bias, granted, because it seems your domain is so specific, only a procedural language will do. But it seems you are unfamiliar with modern SQL tools. Some of the obvious ones that come to mind: Metabase[0] for visualisation or Apache MADlib[1] for in-database statistics and machine learning.

[0] https://github.com/metabase/metabase
[1] http://madlib.apache.org/
"the worst places the ground is sinking 2 feet per year due to pumping."

Is that number accurate? Thats would be bonkers, any kinf of infrastructurr or houses would crumble it it's foundations move at that rate.
If you had no clue about how domains are allocated, why wouldn't you believe it? "These domains are given to group X" sounds totally believable - and is indeed the case for some TLDs?
Review of antidepressant withdrawal effects: Are guidelines evidence-based?
All the video conferencing apps do this - Teams or Webex always try to download the app before they give you the option of using the browser unless you carefully navigate things.
>why would he criticise Bolsheviks while supporting Soviet Union.

I would suggest doubting what Nazi propaganda has to say about Einstein supporting the Soviet Union.
I would say that your moral obligation is to speak well of Microsoft when you speak of them - as they treated you well it would be wrong for you to disparage them. You don't have any obligation to work for Microsoft longer than you want to though.
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It's taxing fair market value of the land. So, if you erased a skyscraper in downtown, how much would that barren plot of land be worth? Tax all of the value there. It's one of the only known taxes that doesn't negatively distort the economy
I think these comments were the main reason:

> “I strongly disagree we live in a white supremacist culture,” Singer said. “I don't believe in a lot of the framing around implicit bias. I think a lot of this is actually racist.”
"not require you to disclose to buyers that they're in a flood management reservoirs."

I live in Uk, and this sounds downright fraudulent. Its basically knowingly selling defective product.
What fraction of your properly educated, civically minded individuals drive over the speed limit on public roads?
I see this getting downvoted quite a bit. I for one have upvoted it, as I too have noticed this toxicity toward decentralised finance, yet all other forms of decentralisation are celebrated here.

I asked this question to better understand the resistance toward decentralised finance in this community, and so far this answer has been the most eye opening.

So thank you!
My friend's company (https://www.linkedin.com/company/submittable/) does a lot of NET. Not sure if they are hiring, but worth checking out the site.
> My answer would be that you there is a narrow range of behavior you feel safe with, and that you find anything unusual to be threatening

Alright, well you didn't give a good answer.

Unfortunately, if you cannot figure out as for why someone who spent a decade in social isolation, might perhaps not be the best person to talk about normal social interactions (given that isolation is literally directly related to the question of social interactions and experience), then I can't help you.

> if I can guess why you think the person is insane

You can read my previous post/question. Do you understand how you have dishonestly just rephrased my question, in a way that I did not ask?
First - Yes. Valid enough. Any infection can kill you or leave lasting damage if you're unlucky. It's best to avoid them altogether. Still, the vast majority of young people will clear this one without problems.

Second - I did not say it explicitly, but maybe in these crazy times it has to be said? It is, obviously, profoundly wrong to selfishly risk the lives of others like that.

But are you suggesting that even going for a jog is supremely selfish? Stuff like that is actually recommended by the health authorities where I live, as it is very low risk and people need exercise. That's sort of my point.

Fear, in disproportion to the risk, can cause people to take "doing their part" too far. Some people are refusing to go outside to exercise. There are stories of people not getting injuries like broken limbs treated at the hospital, over fear of COVID-19. Stuff like that is fear driving people to irrational calculations on risk-benefit.
Ah, here we are, pretending the movie "Idiocracy" is prescient. Thats cute.

Unfortunately, the pressures creating this disparity are far from natural.

And lets not pretend that some global, universal "intelligence" is some inborn genetic trait, as Eugenicists would have you believe.
Ooof. I thought VCVRack was an unusual but interesting balance between open and closed with lots of potential, but such shenanigans are terrible.
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Looks like he's got a case. I don't know what YouTube is thinking. It's him in the video that was stolen by the other YouTuber.
I don’t follow. Why would you be suspended for that?
As a US immigrant, it's very interesting to me how COVID-19 and vaccines became a political issue in the US. I guess if something that requires government involvement will become political at some point. Especially that US is a country with people from all sorts of backgrounds and experiences, makes it a very complicated country to govern.
So those NDAs become void. Excellent.
Rich people aren't anti-car. They are pro-car for themselves and anti-car for everyone else. Donald Trump will have no problem affording the Manhattan congestion tax. All the food service workers in Long Island will have to abandon their homes and communities or pony up an extra $300 per month.
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AOL was a big brand name as a dial up provider right? Why didn't they just move into dsl, cable, fibre, mobile broadband, etc? It seems like they abandoned that business completely and moved into media.
It corresponds to the value of the unimproved land. So the tax paid by a skyscraper would be roughly the same as that paid by an empty lot of the same size next to it. (You can imagine a system where a tall building would have to pay more tax for blocking out the shared light).

If the burden of the tax were shared equally than the penthouse would contribute the same amount as each of the floors below it—some small fraction of the total for a tall building.
Why a small handful of counties generates the bulk of US death sentences
Back when I worked at Google I got to walk past a decrepit shack next to the office everyday thanks to property taxes
I think the fact that you put this much care and consideration into your driving puts you well above most drivers. It's no different than learning how to ride a bike really; go slow, maybe get one of those "student driver" stickers, and you'll be fine.
I agree with the point of 'doesn't mean credible', but the traditional TLDs of .com/.net/.org are also much better recognized as an actual TLD.

If I start a new taco truck company and put "burrito.services" or "burrito.catering" or "burrito.ai" in a huge font on the side of the trucks, a fairly large number of people aren't going to immediately recognize that as a web site address.

On the other hand, if I'm lucky enough to get the domain burrito.net , most people will recognize that as something they can type into a web browser address bar.
VaC (Vaccine as Code)
You make some good points, and it raises a question I've been wondering about. My scientist friends--those who are working in labs and doing actual research--have all been really hesitant to make any hard claims about COVID since the very beginning. Pretty much every conversation I have with them is, "We don't know, we think X, but it's way to early to be certain."

On the flip side, as you've pointed out, some of the scientists advising policy seem to have... not that attitude. They present theories as hard facts, and then confuse the public when those "hard facts" turn out to be only partially true or even false.

My question is why there's an apparent disconnect between the on-the-ground scientists in their labs, and the policy-advising scientists. Is it because the policy-advising scientists worry they'll lose their jobs if they don't sound certain? Is it because they worry the public won't listen if they don't sound like they 100% know what they're doing? Is it purely political motives? A mix of all three?

I have no idea, and I don't know nearly enough about the biology field to even begin to guess. But I wish someone who's more well-versed on the topic would write an article about this.
You don't judge the quality of food by the amount of calories in it.
because in my audios I look (hear?) smarter without it :-)
It's a real mess all around: https://www.google.com/search?q=abry+partners+donuts+dot+org...
Corporations are not people. I'm not talking about politically, I'm talking from a "conscious being" perspective. Do not think of it as a person who consciously did something "for" you. It is nothing more than a hive mind structured to create wealth as efficiently as possible. If it helped you in some way, it wasn't intentionally; it just happened that its own interests overlapped with your own for a blip in time. But the nanosecond that its interests run contrary to yours, it will swiftly trample you into the ground and will be incapable of feeling sorry about it.

Have loyalty for individuals, and sometimes even teams, but never ever ever ever feel loyalty for a corporation.
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If the author of this site happens to be reading this - can you please add the URL in my bio to your list of sketchy .org sites?
> It may also be that, for computing, we would have to look at older generations of our software and look for the forks not taken. As an example, Apple's Hypercard enabled individuals to create their own computing experience, something that could not have been done before without it and other systems like it ... and it was deliberately dropped so that all design came from Apple (iPhones, iPads, etc.). By the metric of return on shareholder value, that decision was wildly successful. But in terms of adding value for our civilization, was it?

The difference between today's computing culture and the "road not taken" you described is like the difference between a scribal culture and a literate culture. I really hope the ship hasn't sailed.
time for a new domain name about how janky CSS and excessive javascript doesn't mean credible. It looks fine for me but I think that's because ublock origin is doing its job.
Yeah and I don't mean like a easy way out or cheat or something. I just don't know if something is wrong with me or what, when someone's spitting stuff and I'm not able to immediately pick it up. But yeah having some subject matter knowledge helps.

But the rote thing, what I write down isn't even legible, it's just the time/process of writing it physically helps me remember and it seems like a bad habit.
I think this is probably the darkest pattern of all.

So many offline devices are forced to have an online component.

Simple IoT devices with just bluetooth - they require an app that will phone home.

More complicated devices with wifi or ethernet - they will nag you again and again until you are connected to the mothership.

Even apple with all it's "privacy is a right" won't turn off bluetooth or wifi in the quick menu - they just toggle it and it comes back. You have to dig into settings to turn them off "for real".
There's also the risk of bad randomness sources and/or bugs.

One popular UUID library got a bug report stating: "We are generating about 1M UUID4 a day, and we are getting several hundred collisions a day". And so they were; turned out to be a bug/weird interaction between the OpenSSL library they were using for randomness and forking. (Details here, although it was all fixed years ago of course: https://github.com/ramsey/uuid/issues/80)

On paper, you should never, ever, ever see a collision when generating a mere million v4 UUIDs a day, much less hundreds of collisions. But that doesn't mean it can't happen!

This is also an interesting bit of analysis; comes from a company that processed a lot of UUIDs generated in browsers, checked, and discovered about 5 collisions per million UUIDs. Again, not what you'd naively expect! (Turned out to be mostly driven by misbehaving crawlers.) https://medium.com/teads-engineering/generating-uuids-at-sca...
"Fried ... began the meeting by apologizing for announcing the policy changes by a public blog post rather than first telling all employees"

The fact that no one internally was given a heads up about the post shows you how much respect the leadership team has for their employees.
Is it affordable because of the zoning, or because it's a mind numbingly boring flatland with no geographic barriers to endless sprawl?
> If we were to try to get into it as a group discussion it would be very painful and divisive.

This really sounded to me as "if I were allowed to tell you my true feelings about all this, a lot of you would be angry," or "oh, if it's open-season on white men, let me tell you I can dish it on the rest of you... lucky for you I'm not allowed to."
You don't need AI or advanced software for automated background bureaucracy made well. All of that is possible today, and the amount of extra work it is today consuming human time is still ultimately a choice of humanity.
Yeah the requirements thing I usually have to be absolutely sure I know what they want me to build, sucks having to backtrack. At least when you have like requirement ids and definitions/drawings... that helps out.

I'll check the video out I love Metallica
> Has the average American’s life really changed because of Bush, Obama, Trump, or Biden?

Yes? Lots of life changing events have happened for many average Americans because of those presidents' decisions. Going to war, being able to afford health insurance, losing health insurance, dying of covid, etc.
If there is shortage of chair, you can start a business making chairs.

If there is shortage of land there is nothong you can do.
Thank you! Looks like their open positions are more senior-level right now, but I appreciate the suggestion!
so they:

- Announced a new company policy publicly before telling the staff

- Deleted internal threads that would go against their narrative of why they did so

- Had a conservative senior employee go off about politics on the call discussing the new no politics policy.

- refused to reprimand said employee on the call

- had one founder take this extremely sensitive call from his bed with his camera off and on mute.

- After the employees resigned, did not send any sort of public message thanking them for their time at the company.

Can't believe only 21 employees walked. What idiots these founders are. There is no way to defend this poor management even if you agree with the rule they tried to put in