skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> pros and cons of interviewing people using the MOM framework

I gave a fuller answer elsewhere in the thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28669204), but it's highly reliant on the specifics of your idea/industry/bizmodel.

B2C and '10x improvement' style ideas tend to need to lead with a prototype (although you ideally first do enough discovery conversations to understand what they're already doing and why). The early product iteration is what Uber got right and Segway got wrong, and it's why the best videogame studios (like Blizzard 10+ years ago) always begin with prototypes of isolated core game mechanics, iterating those ruthlessly until they feel "crunchy" (the game industry term for immediately rewarding interactions).

Whereas ideas that are solving a well-defined, unsolved problem (which is way more common in niche B2B and the sorts of ideas that you'd bootstrap toward) can be pretty fully validated with ONLY conversation, which is obviously extremely quick and quite advantageous.

Apart from those two big categories, there are a million edge cases where the whole suite of approaches you mention can feel like a (somewhat situational) superpower.
Yes, I am claiming that saving 5 seconds out of 86400 in a day does not matter to any healthy person.

As a web developer I generally prefer things being faster and/or smaller too, but I would not change a working field-tested library for negligible effect. The problem in the case that is being discussed is not which library would be chosen when none is being used yet, but does it make sense to replace an existing one to save 90K of disk space and maybe a few seconds per day? To me this looks like very definition of bike-shedding and yes, I would definitely not switch library if these are the only compelling reasons.

4x smaller than the other one doesn't really tell anything without considering how big the whole app that uses this library is. On our fairly basic Nuxt project node_modules directory takes 250M. Do you really think any of us should care about 90K?

And lastly, you don't know me. Save your "disingenuous" remarks for people you do.
I wonder if this will be a net-loss. I'm not discussing whether or not Amazon's system has merit, nor if algorithmic performance evaluation is inherently bad.

Look at standardized testing in the USA (SAT, ACT) - there is tons of coaching and preparation specific to the test that isn't training anyone on the material. Instead, we know how much time to spend per question, how to quickly eliminate possible answers on a multiple choice to improve odds when guessing, what patterns in the language a question exist, etc.

I think this is so so similar to customer support and that issue big corporations (and especially us, as their customers, face) which is that quality evaluation is not something that can be boiled down to quantitative measurement. Sure, it can weed out many common problems, but it's just not worth it.

Judging workers solely based on some rubric will create a class of people who min-max the system and will lower the overall quality of the service provided, while disenfranchising the best employees.

On the other hand, maybe this will help move these opaque and (almost certainly) biased processes towards some better baseline.
The vast majority of productivity articles have two traits:

1. They are anecdotal, and reference other anecdotal articles for evidence

2. They focus exclusively on how an individual should be productive.

Keeping the first in mind, their accuracy is dubious at best. Real experiments and studies on "productivity" are harder to find and worth more.

And as for the second... there's only so much an individual can accomplish alone. The most efficient gear in the world can only do so much for the machine as a whole. There is more to be gained by improving the productivity of groups rather than individuals.
While the article says that these are enriched uranium models; leaving a molten salt (thorium) reactor is much more practical.

Add in the concept that micro power plants would really boost local infrastructure and you spread freedom through capitalism.
You're right. I imagined that the light would start to fill up immediately after turning off but it looks like thats not how it works, it really is completely off for some time.
You can just pay Apple to swap in an original screen. It’s not cheap but it isn’t $2000 either.
If an advanced invading army requires solar power, as an freedom fighter u
I’m going to lob mortars and snipe those panels.
The Complete Guide to Organic Bins Cleaners
Organic waste is also used as an alternative to landfill disposal, thus it can be recycled easily by the consumer. And there are so many organic bins cleaners in Surrey. We can use antibacterial cleaning products like biodegradable wipes to clean our homes, offices, or spaces that are not easily cleaned with chemicals.
Indeed. The only time I have ever achieved enlightenment was when I took a pill of hydromorphone.
true but it would've helped with the issue of being overloaded at least abit
Outlining in this context means to break up a bigger structure in smaller parts. Like break a document up into each individual paragraph, or sourcecode into functions. Each smaller part is then available to be handled in (semi)programatic ways.

For example, you can link one part to appear on multiple locations of the document. Or you can write a script which filters the parts and rearranges them in your desired structure.

The point of something like leo editor is to have theoretically a unified way to do all that.
I'm just stating that those things are not necessarily responsible for suicidal thoughts. Not trying to claim they are exactly the same as instagram. Good point that all my examples are somewhat more passive though, I could add some others:

Making or curating content people like to consume does not necessarily make something responsible for those thoughts. Television stations, Hacker News, video games, magazines, books, movies, whatever.

I'm not saying instagram can't be criticized or improved, I'm saying it's not as simple as just assigning complete blame of all suicides to the place or thing where suicidal thoughts first arose. It's simplistic and I don't see how it is helpful or will lead to actual improvements.
I might be a current tree, but I'm just a permanently stunted sapling. Seems like a chunk of coal is more valuable.
Who can say about aircraft-transportable, but it says "mobile" right there in the title of the article.
let me try and find the post about it

*edit

https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ here is a post from moxie himself about why its centralised not decentralised
Really depends on what you mean by large. If you mean truly large, you will need a cluster to train it in any reasonable amount of time. You’d probably want to look at servers built on the HGX platform (8 A100s per server). We use servers leased in bulk from traditional server providers (think Dell, HP, etc). If you mean more like “as large as personally affordable”, then you’d probably want to look at something like the RTX 3090, if you can get lucky and find it at MSRP, it has 24 gigs of memory. Nvidia also has their workstation cards with up to 48 gigs if I remember correctly, but if I were buying cards for myself, I would wait until I could get two 3090s somewhere close to MSRP, instead of paying the markup on the workstation cards (unless you want to have more than 2 in a workstation, in which case you’d need to go for those)
Symbian Toys' RomPatcher+ is open-source now
Isn't buying existing stock wrong way to solve the problem? Shouldn't the money be spend instead to build new stock thus increasing supply? Providing under-market rate housing to some people just removes it from elsewhere increasing prices for rest and eventually pushing the rents in general up...
Facial (a)symmetry is an important factor in neurological/psychiatric diagnosis.
Most programming can be made modular in a way that many, even all some times, functional requirements can be made distinctly areas of the codebase. It makes sense to break them down to singular subtasks for making various requirements explicit. Add general things such as documentation, deployment etc, and you're able to provide far better estimates.

Through retrospectives teams slowly but surely create a checklist of things to consider when estimating and my experience is that teams get better and better at anticipating the scope of a task and estimating it.
> I consistently argue that the issue with Plex is not income, but desperately attempting to rebrand as a “legitimate” media centre.

If they are low on income due to non-recurring life-time purchases (which I have made myself), and the streaming thingies offered is a income-driver...

I say it's both.

> Look at the marketing materials and features from the last few years: Specifically trying to avoid any thought of pirated content.

I realize this may not reflect the majority use-case, but using Plex for non-pirated content it's still absolutely something people do.

Personally on my Plex-server, I host Photos from all the family, music I've purchased either digitally, or ripped from CDs I own, more accessible copies of DVDs/Bluerays I've also bought and owned, not to mention other DRM-free movies, media and various courses I've bought online.

In my jurisdiction none of this is illegal, and using Plex to manage that media makes managing that media-collection so much better. Why everyone assumes Plex can only be used for pirated contents beats me.

Plex just works(tm), everywhere, no matter what I feed it, and I remember with great dismay how things used to be before I had Plex.

The day Jellyfin gets good enough, I might switch, because it's FOSS and I like FOSS, but for the time being, the simplicity and just-works-ness of Plex means I'll stick around.
This is going to keep happening, isn't it? On distraction and FOMO
By that logic we have proof that tiger dongs cure erectile dysfunction.
Atlassian Confluence also just had a multi hour partial outage.
A related read about the Seleucid innovation of the monotonically increasing calendar

https://aeon.co/essays/when-time-became-regular-and-universa...
Does anyone really believe the arrow only goes one way? Besides really hardcore finance people.
That's what you think. The person running that web site probably thinks differently. If they came to power, they would perhaps censor sites that promote the holocaust. See how that works?
You sound almost as jaded as me.
IANAL but I've been told by a lawyer that international law is messy. The US has jurisdiction if your host country says that they do. Countries are also free to tell the US to pound sand.

I'd just like some answers. I'd like it to be tried in court. I don't think the trial would necessarily be unfair. These conversations go in circles because we are all denied the truth so we argue hypotheticals.
People have different ideals. A lot of people really care about free speech and freedom in general.
Is this not just as simple as recommending to use an input mask, or date picker or lookup list so it's impossible to end up with an invalid value in your system?

I always took it as such.
The Taliban got equipment that the US gave to the Afghan government military. The US didn’t leave them with sensitive or specialized equipment. Anything left behind that was sensitive was permanently disabled.
I don’t think it’s accurate to say that DDD advocates ignoring how things relate. It’s more like finding the higher level concepts that do relate to each other. You don’t need to know about internal combustion to write traffic rules. In fact, it’s better if you don’t know about that because your rules shouldn’t need to change when the mechanism that moves the car changes.
To me, 3x is not "accurate" at all: it might be the approximate average, but I've worked on tasks that take anywhere from 0.1x to 10x the original estimate (or rather, a guess). Some were even infinite, in that they were scrapped when the real cost was uncovered.
Human sacrifice has been practiced by cultures in every single continent!
Yep. I've by now driven three projects trough successful exits, but when I apply to leadership roles I get talked down because I'm too young and don't "look the part", so to say.

The whole hiring and human resource management stack is in shambles, built out of century outdated concepts and prejudices.
This is really not true, sorry. Plato was huge in the Renaissance and his academy ran in Athens (not continuously) from about 400BC-550AD. Platonism had a major influence on the formation and reception of Christianity and Islam, as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonism
AGI can find their own purposes in addition to one it was created for. Same way people find life purposes beyond maintaining and propagating germline.
This works by streaming results from the similarity search to the filter, in descending order of similarity. As soon as enough matches are found, the similarity search is terminated.

Postgres does the same thing for many queries if you look at the query plan.

Not really worthy of a blog post - especially one that says "wait till the next blog post to find out how it works!!".
They had the opportunity to solve their own problem. They didn't. Perhaps in the future they will perform better.
Who’s going to sue someone taking it closed source?
Any updates since last time?
I have discovered many a bug in the code I’d written while mindlessly staring out of the window of a subway car on my way home.
I worked at an "agency" that could be described exactly like that, though they were not as successful and additionally have a bad reputation amongst recruiters and the local tech scene as a result of the gaslighting, unreasonable expectations, and deliberately moving goal posts in order to fluster people and have "reason" to fire them.

It seems that these toxic environments thrive when the top level of the management encourages this behaviour.
> How do you know there is no signal there?

Because the shapes of portions of our bodies do not betray our moral character. It is nonsense, and debating this issue is so tiresome. I've worked in facial recognition for quite some time, and thank gawd nobody where I've worked had over-reaching opinions of our software's capabilities. For example, the "emotion recognition AI" fraudulently being marketed - we howled in laughter when those frauds appeared. However, while interviewing at other FR/ML companies, I meet a horror of over-reaching attitudes. I guess someone can work in trained algorithms and yet carry a head full of conspiracy-theory quality logical connections. That must be the case, because physical shape cannot dictate moral character, and debating the issue is Kafkaesque.
As a student I used to drink "Irish Nights" at about 1/5th of the price. Couldn't really tell the difference from real Baileys.

My partner tells me she used to drink "Delayleys" (spelling lost to time), but would not buy it again today.
The interviewers probably don't know the system or how to unlock value for their customers well enough to ask questions about it. That would require them giving you enough background to answer the questions - background they dont understand.
Earlier this month all "Symbian Toys" opensourced.[0]

[0] https://github.com/mrRosset/Symbian-Archive/issues/34
An AI doesn't do "it's thing", it learns with the bias the researcher encoded in the model, and most importantly in this case, with the massive bias of the datasets.

Correcting is just steering a bias from one way to another.
> This includes catastrophic mistakes in the algorithm like the massive groups pushing Q anon early in.

Is it “catastrophic mistakes” or is the algorithm working as intended to maximize engagement?

From Facebook’s point of view I’m not sure it’s a mistake - these Q people have “engaged” plenty and the conspiracy is still a wonderful generator of engagement, whether from the Q people’s side pushing endless conspiracies, from people trying to reason with then or from those merely laughing at them.
> The app isn't making causing those thoughts, society is.

You are right in that the app isn't making it, but it is promoting it with their algorithm to maximize engagement.
Subprime Attention Crisis
As a side note I am really impressed from how the whole investigation process is well documented.

I am also involved in similar detective works, but usually I tend to forget the initial parts before anyone figures out that it is an investigation
Also popular are ready meals and squashed-sponge pre-sliced 'bread' that takes a year to mould.
There is a saying my dad often reminds me of: “It is far easier to find a job when you have one than when you don’t”. I felt exactly as you did. I weighed similar scenarios as you. I had a former manager continually remind me to start looking while I could. The saying my dad often told me holds true. You have time to think. You have time to say no to offers. You have less in the game to say yes right away. You value yourself more and can leverage that knowledge when negotiating. When you leave or are left, there is a desperation that wiggles in and may lead you to pick something you might have otherwise said no to. I was very unhappy where I was. I now work with an awesome group of people, I am challenged and I am making significantly more than I initially thought I was worth. I only learned that after getting multiple interviews and offers.
https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

... is the article in question. Basically the argument is that federation slows down the possible rate of change. If you have but the one server in a system you can change things whenever you want and then push out any client changes.

The root concept here is that constant protocol and feature change is the most desirable state. Not all of us accept that.
Funny, when this happens in the other direction it's called harassment.

The guilt by association here is transparent, as is the implication that it's okay because it's hitting the "right" people, i.e. the right. Who are then immediately labeled far-right by fiat.

Far left extremists are far too high on their own supply, and are torching the principles of free society left and right. And they still somehow think they wouldn't have been the baddies 80 years ago.
How big tech runs tech projects and the curious absence of Scrum
It would already be nice to know whom they serve. It doesn't seem to be the executive part of the United States government. That would mean they completely lack legitimacy for their actions.
For others with similar problems, they have a troubleshooting guide including model-specific tips at https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007318711-Tr...
There’s a broad range of mobility though, Akademik Lomonosov is mobile but it’s a 21500 tonnes non-self-propelled barge.
This right here is my biggest current pain on MacOS
I'm not incredibly talented and have worked fully remote for 3 American startups already. Lots of other people do as well (I'm in Eastern Europe).
Difference here that she is guilty while he is not.
"Thinner and lighter enclosure"

The fantastic battery life of the current batch of M1 Macs was a complete fluke, in an interview Apple managers have said that they were surprised by just how efficient the final chips turned out. Now that they have a handle on that they can make the laptops even thinner and go back to their target battery life of 10 hours of "mobile productivity" (which means like 1 hour of editing Swift code)
https://archive.is/bJCvG
How to create a go-to-market strategy – step by step
Sometimes people want to get paid for their contributions and if they listened to everyone in research fields they come away with laughably ineffective solutions to monetizing.

Token sales are incredibly effective at that part, and yes they currently have to say the proceeds are for "community engagement" but the simple answer is "we wanted to make a lot of money really fast for things in our head that others think can solve a market need"

I think it would be better to find a way to better align the incentives, but you have to keep the earnings attractive and fast, compared to the either non-existent monetization paths, or begging for grant dollars or other lottery style results like founding a company and playing VC ponzi schemes that people just happen to respect more, for now.
It's not a political opinion though, that's the point.

No one's firing him for saying that taxes are at the wrong level.
> How difficult is the transition from Plex to Jellyfin

You obviously need to setup a some new software, optionally on a new server/container, and need to reconfigure all your libraries.

Not a big deal IMO.

> do you lose any capabilities?

I had issues with HDR-output to my TV (on my AppleTV 4K), and that for me was a show-stopper. Also the application is generally not as smooth or polished.

It might improve though, so I'm sure I'll check it out again some time later.

> Also what's the fuzzy feeling you get running FOSS?

You know that the people making it want to solve the same problems you do. That they are not desperately seeking a way to make money, because that can often severely affect the direction the software is taking.
I like Telegram more than either Signal and Whatsapp (security and privacy issues side)

Whatsapp sucks for me because of an unusable desktop client. Their backups system is extremely slow. I've found that messages get sent and received slowest on whatsapp when comparing with other messaging apps even if the gap is almost inconsequential. There's a woeful lack of features that I love on telegram that make the app very barebones and dull. You cannot edit messages. The replying UX is a bit irritating. There's tons of stuff but this is a small gist
Yes, and some would argue that named typed channels is one of the Go key features.

The migration into variable_name type_def also had already taken place, although the Limbo does require : as separator.
Archived/de-medium'd: https://archive.ph/bJCvG
I have never ever encountered anyone that took it as anything other than a joke.

Congratulations on your award.
Perhaps someone out there with skills could make a cloud of clouds to make implementing such a thing easier.
A couple of times I have been tempted to convert my daily-use computers to bcachefs, but this item on <https://bcachefs.org/> has consistently dissuaded me:

> We currently walk all metadata at mount time (multiple times, in fact) - on flash this shouldn't even be noticeable unless your filesystem is very large, but on rotating disk expect mount times to be slow.

Has there been any progress on this front? Most of my disks are spinning rust, and I don’t expect that to change soon. Also, any other reports on how production-ready this is?
You showed them you're paying attention. That usually scares the crap out of people who have something to hide. The lesson here is that you were working in a den of vipers, and you're better off elsewhere.
I did a complete 180 on my approach to personal productivity, and that change is similar to the transition from Productivity 2.0 to 3.0, as described in the article.

Before that U-turn I kept everything in my to-do list and had lots of recurring tasks. However, after several years I realized that I've become a slave to chores -- a very conscientious, diligent slave who has no time or mindspace for projects that really matter to me.

Nowadays, I use an opposite approach -- I don't keep a "general" to-do list at all, and I do chores only when they become really obnoxious. I do, however, keep a Zettelkasten with a dozen projects in it, and several stream-of-consciousness journals for ongoing projects.
At a somewhat deeper level, you realize that there are many forms of non-existence. Yours is different from, say, that of Napoleon, and also from that of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, etc.
How is what you describe _not_ just an efficiently implemented post filter with early out?

If it turns out that’s all pinecone have, then yeah, I’m gonna be disappointed. My mind is working overtime imagining prefixing vectors with their filter terms to root everything and other naive things…