skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a Principal SDE at Amazon. Amazons weakest link are its managers, especially at the L6 and L7 levels. Competent L6 SDMs are far and few. I’m now working with the nth L6 SDM as a direct ask from an L7 peer. Like the other SDMs I was asked to work with, this guy can’t write, lacks technical depth, but he’s able to wow other managers in interviews.

And the person who hired him is too proud to admit his failure and won’t do anything about it. It’s the same damn thing on repeat every damn year.

The problem with L7 managers is many of them are just sales people. Many of them are brilliant individuals, but they can’t hold themselves from trying to shadow architect what their teams are developing. Okay you wanted to be a manager. Now trust your damn people to do their job and get the hell out of the way.

For an L6 SDM, eventually this person will get encouraged to move to another org to go be incompetent somewhere else and become someone else’s problem. It’s unlikely he gets let go, unless it’s an engineer. An engineer is put on a performance improvement plan and removed.

Does it really bother me? I’m helping him write a coherent road map document. His senior engineers are getting flak for the managers poor management abilities. The engineers manage themselves and TPM themselves. Why are he and so many like him here? It makes no god damn sense.

And good, hard working, very capable engineers are thrown under the bus because of incompetent managers. They screw up peoples careers.

I’m just bitching at this point. I know. But nothing will change until it hits our bottom line.
The Oncoming Ransomware Storm
>fallen for the classic car salesman logic of "I'm actually SAVING money by spending more!"

The vast majority of people admit they are spending more to get more - not to save money.

>As if there's this epidemic of devices constantly failing

As far as I've experienced: There is. Maybe not "epidemic", and maybe not "constantly", but you appear to be using exaggeration for effect.

>they're the smartest people in the world for having come up with this novel idea about "spending more on quality."

What's with the hostility toward these people you're envisioning? I've never seen this group of people who think spending more to get a higher quality product is genius and novel.
You can even perceive it from the vernacular of how you refer to "crunch" - it has a feeling of something often talked about, a term used in the industry.
I find statements like "boosted sales by x%" completely out of place on a resume. Imagine you are an account/sales manager at AWS - cloud sales will still go for a while, no matter what you do. So you are basically just riding the wave of booming cloud which is completely independent of your personal sales skills.
I was saying the lifetime warranty and time saved paying $40 more for a product that I don't have to research as heavily is worth i.

Honestly, I was using speech to text while having a drink so my comment came off as kinda stupid.
I think this happens to a lot of people.

I had to fix my dishwasher and searched on youtube for people with the same problems. I found some videos and on a whim I clicked on the profile for one of them to see what else they had videos of, and it turns out all of their other videos were video auditions and screen tests. They're an actor and had a single video of them fixing their dishwasher, and their single little dishwasher video had several orders of magnitude more views than any of their other videos.

I always wondered what they felt about that.
No, some idiots who are going to find themselves made examples of tried to do a ransomeware attack on another group of idiots who didn’t take computer security seriously enough who also happened to control a major piece of us infrastructure that they (claim) they shut down out of caution.

Some people are going to prison, some other people are going to start taking infrastructure security more seriously, and fuel traders are going to make a lot of money.

This is exactly how our brittle infrastructure gets fixed in the best imaginable way. Millions of people minority inconvenienced so that politicians will start regulating a poorly self regulating piece of essential infrastructure.
> no idea that it was Philip Glass

Listen to it and then try skimming around through Koyaanisqatsi.
India is by and large not using Pfizer. Evidence to date points to AstraZeneca (which they are using) being quite effective in preventing serious illness.
You do realize that it was the police who originally stated that there was no driver?
How to Live in the Present?
They're probably in Russia and nothing bad will happen to them.
Matlab I thought use Maple for symbolic functionality, is that not the case?
Page 9, “A persistent or significant incapacity or substantial disruption of the ability to conduct normal life functions”

VAERS forms sometimes have more wording for that category: https://medcom.uiowa.edu/theloop/covid-19-vaccination-requir...
> I have never considered education so far.

Surely though a B. Eng. Software with first class honors is better than a random science degree.. ?
Do you have any tips on vetting property managers, or an appropriate going rate for such work?
Glad to see fellow Nepali here on HN.

Yes mentorship is very important aspect in helping a child grow.

Tinker Lab sounds like an amazing concept. How many schools have you worked with so far?
My car has never allowed AP to be engaged on roads without lines painted on it. There was no update that took that functionality away.
Julia lets you use all sorts of Unicode characters as variable names and even as operators. It works quite well in the REPL, since it supports a TeX-like input method for Unicode characters. It's probably my favorite feature in the language, since it makes the code much more concise and expressive. (I've always hated having to step down from the mathematical beauty of LaTeX-typeset equations into the ugly reality of spelled-out Greek-letter names in a codebase that didn't support Unicode.)

However, input method support in editors isn't as straightforward, which can become a limiting factor if you have to work on a Julia codebase that uses Unicode characters and your editor doesn't make it easy to insert those characters.
Collabarate on bringing about the end of crypto currencies like Bitcoin
I see your site isn't using HTTPS yet. Might I recommend trying https://caddyserver.com to serve it? You'll get automatic HTTPS.
The Pfizer vaccine is not used in India, so there's no data on that yet.
This comment is precisely right if the goal is to efficiently allocate capital, or if the state isn't prepared to punish those who violate rationing orders sufficiently to make the risk outweigh the reward (whether on the supply side or the demand side).
So you're saying that Linux developers on Macs are now Microsoft's target market?

Not Windows developers on Windows?
A significant part of the world - all of the EU, but also a lot outside it- uses the IBAN standard [0]. The checksum algorithm is mod97, two digits indeed. Very often, there are two checksums though!

Also, in my native Belgium, bank payments have had automated payment processing structured messages attached to almost all {b,c}2b payments. That one contains a similar mod97 check.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bank_Account_Num...
Says somebody with time to cook. And probably a fulfilling job. Spend a double shift being yelled at while making change for rude people, then imagine how appealing shopping for all those things, then spending another hour preparing them, then 5 minutes eating, then another half hour cleaning up. What joy!
Interesting to see this and contrast it with all the HN posters leaping to the conclusion that the unsubstantiated accusation of fraud from the GP poster is true and upvoting it. If one follows the link from the accuser, all it shows is that the trademark for "Thermapen" is registered to ETI, which is explained by the blog post on Thermoworks web site. Zero evidence of wrongdoing has been presented.
When I was first starting out of university, I sent about 40 CVs out, and just started copy+pasting different combinations of paragraphs together for a cover letter.

I did eventually get a job out of that, but since then I've never sent a cover letter, and just keep 1 file updated as I hit notable milestones at my current job.

Conversely I recently had a position I did actually really want because it aligned very well with my background before going into IT as well. I got through a phone screen and then got rejected after a 2 hour programming test which wasn't complicated enough to actually signal anything. Going after 1 job you really really want is going nowhere.
This is what a lot of folks are missing- real estate investment returns aren’t necessarily higher than other vehicles but the leverage is awesome.
You can see everything from space nowadays. How is that a helpful argument for anything ?
It would also be great if we got retractions of all the "burned uncontrollably for hours" reports where the firemen "couldn't put it out, and Tesla didn't respond to calls to help".

Turns out, that was all nonsense too:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36189237/tesla-model-s-fi...
Maybe the coal-rollers are freaking out and looking into buying a Prius. Time to buy Honda futures!

On a serious note, infrastructure security is almost always the last thing infrastructure designers ... design for.
What if I don't?

What if I let them dictate all of their terms?
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted...
That would tend to allocate the resource according to wealth. It's probably not the largest issue here, but historically this has turned ugly when food shortages were involved and the market cheerfully prioritized middle class hoarding over lower class life-and-death needs.
> agriculture likely developed independently in China and certainly in the Americas

and let do not forget New Guinea [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea#Early_history
Request for feedback on a project in the area of cities and urban development
Hello everyone, I hope you are well.

I am recently working on a project in the area of cities and urban development of the future and I want to share it here with you in search of some honest feedbacks or ideas that can help me improve it. I'll leave the link to the page that explains the idea a bit and any questions you can ask.

Link: https://town.vercel.app/

Sincere feedbacks are greatly appreciated.
Pipeline hacker apologize promise to ransom less controversial targets in future
Yeah! It made perfect sense like 2500ms into the video! I just think it's kind of neat to get such clear telemetry on what my young brain thought of Philip Glass. I didn't remember the music literally, just my impression that the circle animation was neat, but ruined by the music. :)
Interesting study. Riot Games has done similar internal experiments on suggestive language to dissuade their users from toxic behaviour. I believe they were able to measure how effective the "pre-game tips" were at reducing toxicity by the sheer number of reports they get on game data.

I also couldn't help but chuckle about the thought that given the experimenters here have no way of knowing if the participants actually cheated (or were cheaters), that an alternate explanation for the results in experiment 2 could be: giving participants the verb condition may enhance latent psychokinetic powers ;)
Im curious why anyone not out of school would take an amazon role. Is there tc that good? I feel like the idea that one had amazon on their resume as a plus is way overplayed.
your faulty line of logic, that you can’t both serve an individual and a group, just condemned most vaccines. Why bother giving kids a chicken pox vaccine when the infection is usually mild for them. Or from the GP, why give them rubella vaccine when it mainly hurts pregnant women.
Continuously modifying the URL with the search term wreaks havoc on tab history. Why not wait for the user to finish typing first?
The middle bit that triggered the author’s disgust was “that was not a unique thought of my own but just echoing memes, and apparently this is what the community sees as value”

I personally at least sort of disagree but I can understand the reaction. I.e., is peak Twitter just an kind of skinner box full of people with their brains turned off, echoing memes to each other in exchange for hits of dopamine, while ads play softly in the background?
If I want to convert a string to all caps inside of the browser, I can push F12 and then use the JavaScript console (it is also useful for doing simple calculations, and more; really, the web developer console is a feature I use a lot, despite not doing web development stuff). If I want to do so outside of the browser (I don't want to do everything in the browser; the outside stuff is often better), I can use the tr command.

If I want to deal with pictures, I always use external programs, such as ImageMagick or my own Farbfeld Utilities (although Farbfeld Utilities cannot currently read animations, so ImageMagick must be used instead).

It is possible to download web pages to run them locally, if there is some function you want to do on a web page which is less shady. I don't know which web pages are designed to do that, but you can write some if you want to.
I’ve heard that the presence of Autopilot is actually viewed negatively by insurers.

This goes against intuition-wouldn’t a machine that behaves very reliably be better than a human driver - but my dad used to say that the insurance company’s calculation was only ever about how likely they thought they could win if they sued the other party. I don’t know if that’s true, but something rings true about it.
> This is a false assumption as they have different mRNA instructions

Depending on what you mean by “mRNA instructions” that might not be the case. Both vaccine mRNAs encode exactly the same variant of the spike protein.
The unemployment office website for my state is (or was a few years ago) closed outside business hours.
We likely missed our chance to limit warming to 1.5°, but we haven't missed our chance to stay below 2.5°. Every tenth of a degree counts.
Resume Hacks That Convert
The main cluster reboots in 30 seconds or so, so you’re not without the speedo for long. The speedometer isn’t a safety-critical feature over that time period.
This reminds me of Almost Live's Boeing Union Negotiations skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHBQLxynrI
Yeah, I used to love that place. Alas, the last time I was there, I got in a bad flame war which left a sour taste in my mouth. These days, the place is (mostly) dead, although they did have a nice eulogy for Brian Kantor (who actually killfiled me because of said flame war)

[1] It seems to have picked up some during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020
They're not your parents, but it is their site.
> This is exactly how our brittle infrastructure gets fixed in the best imaginable way. Millions of people minority inconvenienced so that politicians will start regulating a poorly self regulating piece of essential infrastructure.

I'll believe it when the next cold snap in Texas doesn't wipe out the grid.

This happened in 2011. The feds even made a report. Nobody did shit.

This happened in 2021. Nobody has done shit.

This will happen again. Nobody will do shit.

If doing shit costs money, nobody will do it. If you want it done, it needs to be law and the penalty needs to be jail, not fines.
Covid batters India’s aspiring middle classes
Old disease names frequently found on death certificates
You still do not adress the domestication of fire. This leads to cooking, pottery, metal work and technology at large. Other animals never ever reached that step.
$65-$110 roughly.
What is the value of always setting it to UTC ?
Well yeah, humans can survive underground huddled around breeder reactors for hundreds of years. It's pretty hard to get us extinct. It's imho a lot easier to destroy modern civilization as we know it. Widespread wars for water and arable land could totally do it.
Batteries and brushless motors help start the microturbines. The microturbines come from the RC hobby world... Cheap hobby jets made this experimentation affordable. They apparently also used metal 3d printing for the jet suit, although I'm not sure that's as important.
Patrick OBrien made up a disease "Marthambles" which other authors have sometimes used (probably, taking him as a reliable source because he mines the letters and journals of real napoleonic era naval people and associated families)
> The only reason they were going for $179 previously is because thermoworks was buying the thermometers from sellers and reporting them as counterfeit. Thus making it difficult for sellers to sell them which keeps supply low.

Do you have anything, that supports this claim?
You're against bold, italics, underline? Headings? Any image support at all?
I don't know why recursive grammars would be considered abstruse on a forum populated by programmers.
Agree. I bought one in February 2012 on Amazon "Sold by: ThermoWorks, Inc.", apparently before counterfeits became an issue. It's fast and accurate and still working fine.
Probably because you never need to switch between F and C
Firestore's Technical Advantages
How's it going to beat Mathcad?
FWIW I incidentally feel very similarly. I can write reasonably effectively (if longwindedly), but if I'm particularly invested in a subject I curiously just don't want to figure out where to start because the whole process feels utterly overwhelming.

A few things come to mind that might be related.

Firstly, (I think that) parts of my thinking/reasoning process route through and leverage the language center of my brain like a crutch, or a like sequence of stepping stones, that my brain somehow uses in order to stay focused and retain my train of thought. I've found that the whole talk-to-the-air/sounding out thing public speakers do has helped me to better elucidate ideas. In that context, I'll talk about something as though it already exists.

Independently of all that, I also find I reason about a few ideas or topics using a sort of indeterminate/open-ended/unconditional focus model that seems to have a bunch of cues associated with it that allow me to carefully isolate the focus process from the traditional "oh meep, solve problem... yay, done!" beginning/middle/end reward cycle, such that I just find myself pondering the ideas on occasion, then naturally drift away when they become boring without associating them with the friction of mental exhaustion in the same way that I tend to do with almost everything (including the discussion topics in the previous paragraph).

Critically, I don't tend to reason about the second group of things using language, instead using nameless compound associations I typically perceive as instantaneous point recollections of That One Time I Thought Of A Thing.

So it seems I have writing and "funnel entire thought process through language center" on one side, and complex problem solving, ideation, long-term focus retention aaaand unfortunately _memory_ on the other side, of a rift I've been puzzling over for years.

(Naturally, if I try to reason about any of those instantaneous recollections, they fragment like waking up from a dream. I've learned to leave them alone, and just try to stumble into them a lot. Not a very effective method.)

This whole issue makes writing about those particularly/exceptionlly-interesting ideas next to impossible: because this rift creates the equivalent of a block against sensible random access to all of those memories, I can only write one-dimensionally about a single element of a given idea that I know I have a much deeper understanding of... and the result is that it feels pointless.

Hm. I just realized this is way more specific than I thought it would be before I wrote it out. (Caveat emptor.) I'm now very curious if this is even remotely tangentially relevant to what you describe.
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Ask HN: Do companies hire DS/ML consultancies based on their blog articles?
How do companies that can afford to spend a respectable amount every month on consulting - say $15K/month and above - go about hiring data science / machine learning consultancies?

What is the thinking and process they typically follow?

I see a lot of DS/ML consultancies publish blog articles on DS/ML topics. Sometimes they focus on industry use cases and sometimes on theory/engineering.

How effective are these blog articles really in acquiring clients?

Do you know any instances of CTOs / CEOs who look for such articles and evaluate a consultancy based on such content?
Yep, already riding.
Has anyone found out what version of Windows got hacked?
Chinese made?
Probably not, but I will say the timing is suspicious.

There is currently an ongoing shortage on fuel tanker drivers[1] as the pandemic depressed gas demand, so the drivers went elsewhere. You need special certs to haul thousands of gallons of boom down the highway and when those drivers leave, they can only be replaced my themselves. Add the geopolitical situations in a number of hostile countries that I need not list and you theoretically have a pretty good opening for keeping the US at arms length long enough to play games.

All that said, I don't think the impact is great enough to actually be effective in this sense. The US has a decent strategic reserve for this kind of event. If the intent was to put the US in a poor starting position to prevent intervention in a foreign conflict it has not likely been sufficiently effective.

If this interests you, Red Storm Rising is a rather solid work of fiction about a similar event.

[1] https://kstp.com/business/experts-shortage-of-tanker-drivers...
Attorneys general urge Facebook to stop plans for an Instagram for kids
Here's a very simple solution: just don't do code reviews, at all. No company I've worked at had a meaningful code review process. In my current job, I get a few requests a day that say, "Could you just quickly approve this?" Code review is mindless rubber-stamping, a cargo cult of process that you've been told is important, for some reason, but it's hard to see why. I don't understand the purpose or context of 90% of the code I rubber-stamp. My coworkers don't understand the purpose or context of 90% of the code I write.

I can imagine an idyllic Valhalla of textbook software engineering practices where everyone diligently reviews PRs with utmost concentration, but that is not the reality I occupy.
Depending solely on electricity is a bad idea. In a past weather event that lead to a power loss for nearly two weeks, everyone I knew was thankful to have piped natural gas. I am not sure I trust electric cars and fully electric homes to be sufficiently redundant.
You mean bold, /italics/, and _underline_ ? Sure :)
Dune, 50 years on: how a science fiction novel changed the world
Interesting... where can I see Lex Fridman's shelf?

It seems everyone and their mother is working on a knowledge management / list curation tool these days—well, including myself (I'm working on Trove [1, 2]). IMO, the key value that has yet to be unlocked (though we're trying to do this with Trove) is layering a community / social network on top of a tool like this—so that it's not just a single player utility.

Always happy to chat / share notes if you have any thoughts on this! (email in bio)

[1] https://trove.to/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26582658
> Social media are the Trojans at the gates of your mind. Their wooden horse is magnificent. It glistens with all of the fittest memes. I let those Trojans into the fortress of my mind, and it was a mistake.

In the true spirit of social media, let me miss the point and note that the Trojans are inside the fortress (the Achaeans are at the gate).

Good post though.