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Well it was published 14 years ago. He was probably in college or something when he wrote it. Not giving him a pass or anything, just pointing out he didn’t write in while in his current role.
> that then turns out to be false.

That then turned out to become increasingly false over time. Buying the early stage product is a risky bet, you hope it will take off like that, but it might not. They do need a plan to address them, and to be trustworthy.
In Erlang function definitions are '^function_name' in virtually every case.
There are tons of scenarios in which I think human observations are all that matters.

I think trying to generalize about populations on this scale from personal interactions is worse than pointless.

I have plenty of value for a reduced statement, one that acknowledges explicitly that the speaker can only legitimately talk about his experiences, not the US or Japanese populations as a whole.
I grew up under fairly constant sonic booms. They always seemed pretty cool because it meant a high performance aircraft was overhead. I'm sure they annoyed some people. They excited some people. And they just became mundane to a lot of people.
The average American doesn't know an Ashkenazi from an alpaca.
You are in a tread this very moment that shows proof of his opinion.
The OP article, the referenced Insider article, and most of the comments here are all pure speculation... based on a single memo. The Insider quotes are laughable, themselves speculative "it could happen" comments rather than "it did happen" examples. "Some say that leads to stack ranking" isn't actual valid criticism or journalism, it's a comment on a possibility.

It fuels the anti-Amazon rhetoric and so everyone just runs with it, assuming every worst case scenario is true and extrapolating every rumor to the extreme to validate their disdain for the company. It's exhausting.
Yep, I agree. No silver bullet, and funding fossil fuels makes no sense (although part of me understand they want to avoid a situation such as in France, where it could could price hikes, inflation, and the population is not ready for it.. carbon taxes make more sense)
Many of their problem was due to the assumption that the electric car motor & batters from AC Propulsion were working as advertised and ready for mass production. That assumption was wrong. So the iteration was because changes in the propulsion system resulted in changes to the car, and changes in the car led to changes in the propulsion system.
Is there? Is facebook really having a hard time hiring new engineers? Last time I checked, it still was super hard to get a job at facebook, implying there are a lot of people willing to work at facebook.
AFAICT this is a static picture. It doesn't show how synapses change. But merely knowing what is connected to what, at this fine scale, should lead to new insights.
It doesn't matter how much Israel attempts to conflate Zionism with Judaism. Pre-judging all Jews because of it is antisemitic.
This is a fair take, but a double-edged one as well. We definitely need to give older folks more credit. At the same time, maybe it isn't the best situation to be ruled primarily by people's grandparents.
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Agreed that it's difficult to responsibility of these companies on the individual. There's a background assumption that "if they exist in this form, they are allowed", otherwise, what are the US government (regulatory functions) doing?

Another reason it's difficult to impossible to collectively fight back is when you read articles about how Amazon strongarms companies into never undercutting the price on the Amazon storefront. It adds an insidious reason to "wow the manufacturer is so silly, it's cheaper on Amazon with free shipping than on their own website!" when in reality it's a dark pattern we don't control and a vast majority don't think about as they "get by".
> After many hours I couldn't find anything even remotely interesting.

This has been my issue with dApps as well. It's always "thing that does some stuff with ETH" which is only valuable and interesting if you already assume ETH is valuable and interesting. I guess most people make the leap of faith by putting money into them, but on sheer technical merit, dApps just aren't that interesting.
Couldn't possibly be that PayPal is a comically subpar service which is why I and several other people/freelancers/businesses I know quit using it. The 2 times I attempted to use Paypal were absolute nightmares and their customer service is practically non-existent. With so many viable alternatives now there is no legitimate reason to use Paypal anymore.
Thanks for the full context. Much of the reaction here is due to his mistake of placing 'If I were a Jew' when based on the rest of the essay I'd estimate he meant to say 'If I were Israeli'. Had he done so the tea shop would still have all its crockery intact.
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For one thing, the flyer in the OP is satirically promoting a debate, not an actual insurrection.
I think in the case of Concorde JFK was preferred because the engines used loud afterburners during takeoff, climb and acceleration to supersonic speeds. For noise abatement they would takeoff on burners, immediately turn south to stay over Jamaica bay, turn the burners off as they crossed over the rockaways (populated barrier island south of JFK,) and then go back on burners over the ocean to finish climbing/accelerating.

A plane like Boom that doesn't use afterburners could take off from any airport as long as they stay subsonic over populated areas.
Notice a pattern here? I wasn't talking about cops and teachers who have unions with political clout. Cops have done a hell of a lot worse then go on racist rants just to be reassigned. It's not apples to apples.

But just to be over the top obnoxiously clear. I'm talking about the private sector.
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The head of racism was found to be racist. If anything, he deserves a bonus.
What's to stop an artist from selling you a print as an original through an NFT?
The idea is to not have your money lose half its value on a daily basis. Or to have relatives send you money from abroad. There doesn't need to be an endgame, it just fulfils a need of these people.
Yes, but the average American also thinks of an Ashkenazi Jew when they think of a Jew, and has no idea that Sephardim & mizrahim even exist, even if they don't know the words for any of it.
Here is a collection of hype cycle graphs for various emerging segments, from Gartner: https://imgur.com/gallery/noBKI

HN has has much discussion of such graphs, so you might want to check all these results: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
That entire comment reads as gibberish.

> It’s not universal yet but many of the tenets of Theory being incorporated into public school programs are, within the frame of considerations of parents choosing an educational track for their children, akin to the same concerns (or benefits) when choosing to enroll them into private religious schools.

> Fortunately some states are banning taxpayer funded teaching of things like race-based guilt or complicity. In theory this would ban educational programs which incorporated tenets of white supremacy and other race-based illiberal ideologies, but in practice we can see the only programs that actually are being surfaced as likely affected by these restrictions (to the point of possibly having to cancel entire, active curricula) are the ones grounded in Theory.

What is this "Theory" you keep referring to?
There are a lot of differences, some of which cause more discomfort than others. Color and contrast are two smaller ones; VR headsets aren't HDR yet and it really shows when trying for realism.

There is also focal length, which is fixed (generally at 2 meters) in VR and creates discomfort, especially when reading. Facebook has eye tracking and motorized varifocal lenses to deal with this, but they're too big and loud and they haven't been able to put them in commercial headsets.
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I don’t disagree. Just sharing my opinion. I understand people might look forward to going back to the office, but I’m not.
OP's point is to refer to these people as Ashkenazi. To think of them as that, instead of (or perhaps in addition to) as Jewish.

My point is we are a long way away from that, despite how many Ashkenazi Jews live in the US.
Are you the head of diversity? If no, then it doesn't matters. You won't have outsized power and influence.

Kind of hard to claim diversity matters when you install a demonstrable racist at the top.

Who else is he discriminating against that we just haven't found yet?
CPUs are much much more (understandably to us?) structured than the brain. We still don't know if there are repeated canonical cortical micro-circuits. Seems like there should be, but it's still an open research question.
Probably not much as changed. Regulations and laws are slow to change and a company with deep pockets can pay for plenty of lobbyists to make sure it doesn't change or changes in a favorable way.
I think Steve McConnell was calling for statistical modelling even earlier than that. Definitely not a new idea!

I'm working on the assumption that it hasn't caught on because it's a pain to do without proper tooling; but it's also true that many engineers believe estimation is useless, impossible, and a waste of time or worse. It can be hard to overcome the pain of having been burned by a too-tight timeline.
If you supported the firing of Antonio Garcia Martinez this should make you happy. If you thought that Apple overstepped their bounds by punishing a new hire for old creative work, this should outrage you, too.

Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a lot of consistency in peoples' views on these two closely related incidents. Why?
I teach at the high school level in the suburbs of a major metropolitan area. Generally, it is a middle class community in which the basics are provided for (that said, there was obviously an uptick in family crises, job loss, transient housing, etc.)

About twenty percent of my students handled the transition to distance education just fine. Many of these students told me they missed friends/clubs/etc, but enjoyed having greater control over their time (my district encouraged, but did not require, synchronous learning).

The middle sixty percent were mixed, but generally plateaued in perceived achievement or struggled to keep motivated. Since going back to in-person about six weeks ago, the majority of these students are back on track. Achievement remains somewhat below a typical cohort, just a little less snappy and insightful with observations and arguments. So it goes.

The bottom twenty percent were various flavors of missing. They did not or could not cope with the transition to distance learning. Some of these students were struggling prior to going online, but the reduction in structure and support pulled a lot of kids into this group that wouldn’t typically fail.

No objective here. Just sharing.
Also empty words are one thing and deeds are another. We can look at MS past actions which already happened, and one of them was - the first thing they did after buying Skype was to disable p2p calls which they couldn't intercept, and reworked app architecture to centralized.
> How do you prevent interleaving of different threads then?

The GIL.

> Why? Python 3 broke a whole lot of applications and libraries.

Sorry, I mean it must remain that way if it is to maintain compatibility. We’re assuming that breaking compatibility is unacceptable.
A criminal is not some who allegedly breaks laws but someone who is convicted of breaking the law. Even if you were arrested by police you still aren’t a criminal.
I don't like FB as anybody else but FB was not alone there at that time. There were many other social networks and FB was the one that succeeded. Other social networks were born later on and FB is still here. Beating the competition and surviving almost 20 years is quite great enough IMHO.
Because media has a narrative to push.
Might be, indeed - but it's definitely not unusual or incredible for a large organization to have misaligned incentives, ignorant executives making some of them up, and then being reluctant to admit they weren't as good of an idea as they thought.
Any ideas on how to instill that do-or-die mentality in people who haven't gone to the military?
HN's disdain for redesigns in very short-sighted.

Nobody will be using your cool backend algos if they are not exposed to the user in some meaningful, user-centric, consistent way.

We should be thankful so much effort is put in UX development, otherwise all the cool backend algos would be pointless.

Especially since Firefox did not just say "hey let's make this button bigger and this button green“.

They did empirical research, heatmaps etc., to analyse how the UX could be made objectively, measurably better.

I invite everyone to read this article about how Wikipedia took several years to implement the "show preview when hovering a link" feature.

This is how much thought needs to be given to UX to not make it half-assed

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2018/04/20/why-it-took-a-long-tim...
It's "fun" that the first thing that people who don't know a thing about homeschooling state is socialisation.

Homeschooling doesn't mean living in a cage or away from others (well sometime it might, especially in some religious approach of it. Extreme cases are what people hear about and that might be the reason of those believes).

Kids can still go play with friends, do sports or any activity !

On a personal note, my wife and I homeschooled our kids between their 7 and 10 (mostly because we were traveling here and there), and now that they're back in the school system, they have no problem and have good marks.

It's way more easy to teach 2 kids (maybe we were lucky, as they're twins so are at the same class level) than 25 to 30. You can cover official curriculum pretty quick, and it leaves time to do other (fun) stuff.
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Why haven't Germany, France, etc. pressured Ireland to stop this?
> You mean it actually requires management.

No, I mean it requires more management. It’s not about butts in seats, it’s about communicating and keeping people on the same page.

Anecdotally, when shifting to remote work we often saw managers struggle with a tendency to micromanage and check in too frequently with remote employees. I know “butts in seats” is a common trope but in practice it was easier for people to get away with doing nothing at the office because managers assumed that in office meant they were working.

Communication overhead is absolutely higher in remote companies. It sounds more like you were describing a broken company culture that you managed to distance yourself from by going remote, but the culture is still broken.

A team that communicates properly in person will have more overhead to communicate remotely.
People visit sites outside of apps and those sites feed back data to Facebook for targeting purposes. On desktop, people use FB in browsers, too.
Yes, people on the Left haven't realized women's innate biological tendency towards neuroticism, which renders affirmative action self-defeating.
> Countries have different rules, the world is a diverse place.

Some countries have democratic governments, others have illegitimate ones. Some rules are totalitarian, others are not.

> Is having a button to report crime on your website some horrible end-of-the-world moment?

That it isn't literally the worst thing possible is hardly a convincing argument.

> Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc. all have these buttons on their site

Incorrect, as you've just been told.

> A UK man on youtube taught his dog to salute and got arrested for it because people reported it.

A Nazi salute. I guess you forgot that detail.

> A pregnant woman in Australia was thrown in jail for organising an anti-lockdown protest on Facebook.

I don't know the context but that sounds pretty bad. But how does it excuse the CCP?

> The people who decry the oppression in China, also actively support the suppression of opposing views and jokes back home. Maybe we aren't so different after all.

1. It makes a difference what views you believe should be suppressed. Trying to protect democracy and rule of law is fundamentally different from trying to protect the CCP autocracy.

2. The set of people opposed to the CCP autocracy isn't actually identical to the set of people who "support the suppression of opposing views and jokes back home".

> If you want to rant about Chinese laws without hiding behind the pretext of mobile OS discussion, make a proper HN thread about it or write a blogpost mate.

Why, because you want their "rant" to be less visible?
… which would be?

These are criminals, often state sponsored criminals, that are carrying out literal acts of war against US infrastructure.

So what’s the “media’s narrative” here?
Sounds like an anecdote.

I've worked with people who have made it a fine art to appear busy, to hold earnest conversations in hallways, to comment in IM frequently, yet do 10% of the work of the good performers. And we all knew who the good performers were.

Managing employees in an office doesn't depend on having butts in the seat, or "eyes on them." It depends on understanding what needs to be done, communicating/delegating, and then getting out of the way.
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>Concorde had a bit of bad timing. It was released during the worst crisis of aviation

It doesn't feel like Boom has the timing on its side either. Feels like we're still in a massive aviation crisis and I'm not sure how long it's gonna take before things look good for the industry.
Yeah there are a lot of ways people dodge that people live (and die) like slaves so we are able to buy smartphones. This is just another one. They still live as they do because of us no matter how one jump through hoops to not acknowledge it.
Childcare can still be used with wfh post pandemic. And having a parent at home benefits both children and parents. It’s not a great thing that we’ve ended up in a situation where children are raised by strangers in day-care. I think WFH is great for parenting in general - it may not be the best for worker efficiency and lack of distractions (although that can be argued) but it is good for children and I think most parents would pick their kids over the office.
True, but then again this was 14 years ago. People can change.

Steve jobs had just launched the first iPhone when he made that blog post. That feels like a life time ago.
13 years after founding. Most startups don't expect to exist that long.
> mid-2020s
> in a couple years

This means around 2025.
But the whole first screen is pointless. Why not show the log-in prompt directly on the first screen? This is counter intuitive and an example of "function follows form" (and not the other way around).
Education is about more than just your particular children. We all benefit from a society where people are better educated. (A more informed electorate creates a better society.) If the act of pulling your kid from school causes that school to get just a little bit worse, you’re making society just a little bit worse as a result.

There’s a similar reason why, in countries that have state-funded health care, you’re not allowed to seek out private doctors or private insurance. The point is to not allow the rich to siphon the best resources away from everyone else. (This is obviously very anti-capitalist, but I think for some institutions like medicine and education, it may make sense.)
I've used this technique before at an employer. I thought it was crazy at first but I came to really like it. No more story points and estimating the size of tickets. The monte carlo simulation handles the forecasting for us so the engineers can focus on completing tasks. The PMs focused on user stories and acceptance criteria. The stakeholders had a continuously updated forecast for when things would likely get done.
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Google is not threatened by "cancel culture". What are people going to do? Get them banned on Twitter? Won't happen, and that's the extent of the possible damage.

Google does this because someone in the corp didn't like what this guy said, and canned them. People do that because they have beliefs. In the U.S. firing people, protesting, and overall underhanded methods are also a Hallmark of "the right" whenever someone does something they don't agree with. Or have we forgotten that the overwhelming majority of day to day business isn't conducted on Twitter?
Neither am I. I just feel like it's not true that applicability is ignored. In fact I feel like books that demonstrate applicability are far more numerous than the theoretical ones.

Set theory for example (since you mentioned it) is introduced in many probability books in an applicable fashion since probability is concerned with events which can be modeled as sets of outcomes. So while you might not find a book directly on "set theory applicability in the real world" you can find many introductions to it in a particular domain which are applicable.
This is the correct answer. The amount of anti-semitism shown during this recent Hamas Israel conflict in the woke left has been very worrying. We are likely to see a big resurgence of anti-semitism in the next period. It's more and more socially acceptable on the left.
I've refused going on WebEx calls and claim technical reasons why it doesnt work.

ANYTHING is better than Webex. Even smoke signals over IP is better.
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Thanks for linking that. It puts the issue in perspective. To be honest, I'm amazed that a blog post like that can make someone lose his job as a "head of diversity." Apparently, diversity at Google means that people should never voice critical opinions about the Israeli government, not even privately.

For me, the lesson to learn from this is that to never apply for a job in the US or for a job for a large US company. That's easy for me to say, though, since I'm working as a philosopher in academia and these are not wanted or needed in corporations anyway.
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> the odds of clones selling for anything would be minimal.

Why do you think so? If you call it ${NFT_NAME}_2, don't you think people who couldn't get ${NFT_NAME} would be at least slightly interested?
If you were your ancestors who were "run out of town on a rail" you would care very, very deeply about your familial bond to Israel. Like yours, my family was run out of town. Unlike yours, many in my family did not run fast enough. If only there was a place they could run to either as first resort or when quota had been reached in other places. If only there was a place that could make running a specific people out of town a very costly pursuit for those who were making those people run.

Israel is and will always remain the eternal Homeland of the Jewish people. Am Yisrael Chai.
I am sorry to point that out, but this argument is true about almost anything.

Most russians have nothing to do with putin's regime and it's hackers. Those hackers' nationality may not even be russian. Yet, "russian hackers".

There are scientists deeply upset with state of official science, indians disagreeing with what fellow indians do, and so on.
How far is it OK and relevant to look back for dirt in someone's posting history? 20 years? 30? Rants to their college newspaper? High school yearbook? Today's sensitivity yardstick is much less forgiving than it was in decades past. It's getting to the point where it is safest to just not participate at all, in case something you say today becomes taboo in 30 years.