skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll add here, even if it's not really what you're looking for. I'm a director, not at faang, fwiw.

My first 2 years of managing was hands on, probably 50% coding. I had a small scope and the energy to do people things while also doing coding things. What I found was that this doesn't scale and that if I ever wanted to lead larger initiatives and have a bigger impact, I'd need to give up coding. During this period, I burnt out trying to grow both technically and managerially. The context switching required of me was too much.

When I got to a position where I could do people management 100% of the time, it was transformative. In the same way we think about coding - what skills do I need to develop, how can I optimize XYZ, is there a better pattern for this, etc - I now started to think about management. Part of this is that I joined an org that truly valued management and was able to be mentored and allowed to develop my skills.

Now as a director, I insist that my new managers don't code. There is a period of time where you need to focus on management and nothing else. Later on, I don't care if you want to get into the code, but at that point, no one chooses to.

It does seem like the industry is split on where a manager title exists and if you're hands on. Regardless of which way you go, you'll find career growth imo. I would consider if you feel like you're being the best manager you can be though.
> The telemetry-driven desire to redesign everything and remove lots of 'infrequently used' features is a real plague on software

I disagree. Maintaining features requires engineering overhead. It sucks to have to maintain features that barely anybody uses when you have a backlog of features that are in demand by a large number of your users.
You don't just lose seconds of data. When you drop seconds of writes, that can effectively corrupt any data or metadata that was touched during that time period. Which means you can lose data that had been safe.
Everbody in USA already pays to subsidize flood insurance for rich people who insist on building houses on the coastline.
That article is from 2018. And no, that proposal never went anywhere.
Given you're aware of doing this, could you take some action to prevent it?
As you're driving along the 105 near Hawthorne, CA, you can see what looks like a smoke stack rising above some large industrial buildings in the distance. That's the Falcon 9 First Stage standing upright outside the SpaceX factory.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/oGKEa5vht2HUNLai6
Does management know that all meetings are being shared with another company?
This feature should be replicable in a plugin: it just needs to inject an appropriate Content-Type header into a response (similarly to how user-agent extensions override the User-Agent headers in requests). A fancier plugin could even remember overrides per domain/path/site, making it even more useful than the original menu.

To be clear, no such extension appears to exist yet, but it should be a matter of time before one is created.
A Password manager that only has a local "vault" and simply syncs an encrypted file a much safer security wise way to operate.
The BIG question is whether the remote server does any processing of the websites (for spam, malware etc) in which case it decrypts the website name.
That becomes a big temptation to log and on sell. Not the logon password just the address.
Having an emergency access code or method is just another security hole.
>The design is now thoroughly outdated.

Not really, fundamentals doesn't change that much. Starship is not equivalent, it is entirely new, different category.

>better fuels, modern computers, etc... have made dramatic differences to the design and construction of these rockets.

Saturn V used RP1 and LH2 fuels, both are still widely used. Gas generator cycles are also used in modern engines. You can have smaller computers now but I don't think this would change costs significantly.

Really only thing that changed significantly are manufacturing processes, but that doesn't invalidate the entire design, that you cannot make 1:1 copy doesn't mean you cannot port it to modern manufacturing methods, like this proposal for F-1B: https://arstechnica.com/science/2013/04/new-f-1b-rocket-engi...
Being against transgenic animals is a form of xenophobia - they have as much right to exist as older species. The additional genetic diversity is fantastic and a great chance to improve nature. If they are inferior they will die on their own, if they are better they will prosper, the most fair outcome. Nature isn't supposed to be a curated and fragile garden.

I'm sure this is only a harbinger of things to come. As genetic engineering becomes cheaper and more accessible, genetically modified animals will become the norm, to the dismay of people obsessed with genetic purity everywhere.
This article is has a lot of good stuff to chew over, but I couldn’t help but get distracted by the second sentence: The phrase “Scale is growing incredibly fast right now” has to be up there with “Valve releases Steam” in terms of “you named your whole company just so you could make this joke?!” moments. Excellent work, well done.
On the bright side, it's very likely that any losses in rental income have been more than compensated for by a huge windfall increase in equity. Beyond that, the losses in rental income can probably be written off on taxes.
Someone’s really worried about Roko’s basilisk.
I have something similar. We have a "blameless" culture which is nice. Genuinely appreciate it because people do make mistakes.

But our codebase has become progressively worse because nobody tells the truth about their experience. There are teams making bad choices which throw other teams off the cliff. Sometimes product managers come up with elaborate projects without due diligence only to waste 6 months of engineering time.

Because of such activities, engineers lost faith in their team/org. They just coast or switch teams/companies or straight up lie to management.

There is zero incentive for anyone to improve anything because pointing something out is bad for "optics".
One of the things I miss working at Facebook is the internal FB (called Workplace). It basically replaced email for the whole company, and worked really well for long form posts where maybe you would write some proposal up or make an announcement and get a bunch of comments. I now work at a slack centric company, and it just doesn't compare - there is no 'newsfeed', so unless you remember to check all the channels, you end up missing stuff. You can send out a group email, but people are reluctant to reply-all, so this doesn't get good discussion either.
> What people forget is that payloads are deeply coupled to their launch vehicles. The launch vehicle will dictate the maximum weight and dimensions of the payload. You can't just take a payload designed for one vehicle and put it on another.

This is generally (but not always) false. SpaceX has been negotiating a lot of their commercial contracts in a vehicle agnostic fashion. Namely that SpaceX can pick which vehicle to launch a given payload on. This will allow them, as soon as Starship is flying reliably, to swap Falcon 9 payloads on to Starship. Also payloads that were designed for one rocket have been swaped on to Falcon 9. One example: https://spacenews.com/spacex-wins-contract-to-launch-nasa-sm... https://twitter.com/B_Garelick/status/1291029153119178754

> It's likely Starship will launch ISS replacements but is there sufficient demand there for this ambitious launch vehicle? What else will it be used for? That's a bit of an open question.

Starship is being designed with the intent that it will cannibalize all Falcon 9 launches eventually. I don't think it's an open question at all. It's been stated to be the case explicitly in fact.
Chip's Challenge on Steam WTF? (2020)
Yep - my 10 year old son has a x2 pump and a Dexcom G6. Hopefully the software starts to improve at a faster pace with smartphones becoming more tightly integrated:

https://www.tandemdiabetes.com/landing-pages/remote-bolus
I wish Slack had a feature to "threadify" comments that have already been made. I wouldn't even mind if Slack channels could designate certain users as "thread czars" that had the ability to move other users comments into a thread.
> Don't you think this is splitting hairs?

No.

> How is censorship "a political topic that intersects with tech", when Tech companies do it without being compelled by law?

Censorship isn't technology. It's social. “Tech companies are among the actors in society that do it” is...well, mostly an artifact that certain media companies are called “tech companies” rather than “media companies”, but tech companies doing social things doesn't convert those social things into tech things.

> Your last paragraph, especially ("We could debate the merits of the specific articles") could charitably be called "weasel-wording." Yeah, we could debate the merits -- why don't we?

Because you, in debating the exclusion, chose to debate the relative merits of broad topics rather than specific articles. The reference wasn't general, it was to the specific thread.

> A reasonable addendum to the flagging process would be for the moderator to disclose:

> 1. Who flagged it?

> 2. Why did I agree?

No, it wouldn't. One, because HN is community moderated; flags aren't necessarily reviewed at all. Two, because this adds nothing of value, just more distracting meta. If you want to challenge flags, you can email the mods. If you want to discuss an article that has been rejected by HN, you have the rest of the internet, as well as a variety of offline discussion venues.

> An open question would be whether to disclose when the moderator does NOT agree.

If a mod reviews flagged articles and doesn't agree with them being flagged, they aren't flagged any more (usually, there will be an explanation posted as a comment in the thread when this occurs.)
So are you suggesting that GOOG is using bounce rate on the target site (assuming it uses gAnalytics I take it - otherwise how would they know?) to alter the ranking of search results (like "90% of users bounce in the first two seconds on scam.copycat.com/seemed-useful so we're demoting its rank by 20%"?) That would be interesting, I was musing more about if GOOG does any session tracking on their end to try and infer how happy/unhappy users are with a given set of results. Of course they could do both at the same time.
Everybody’s T1D experience is different and it’s not that melodramatic. Before I had a CGM I went so low at night my partner had to call 911 in the morning.

Sure I bounced back and got a CGM, but only because I could afford one. I was terrified of going to sleep at night without a handful of alarms set to wake me.
I know I am a little drunk and that makes my inner socialist pop out, but is there any particular reason why we don't tax Schmidt and then use the 125M to invest in AI, plus other things, with the outcomes being released openly?

It's time for that conversation.
This is a weird article. It is short and lacking detail, does not link any sources, and presents its data as if it's a first (it is not[0]). It reads, to be honest, as propaganda, especially considering the current rise in consumer prices for fuel and news about Saudi Arabia refusing to increase production[1]. What is the purpose of this article and why is it on the front page here?

[0] https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...

[1] https://apnews.com/article/saudi-arabia-keeps-lid-on-oil-out...
> the match-size freshwater fish were engineered to glow for research purposes

That makes you wonder what other stuff engineered in labs could establish itself in our environments.
How did that work well when nothing was ever in order?
Nothing is preventing you from using a different master password for different accounts, but you'd have to keep track of that yourself, since Hashpass doesn't store any state whatsoever. I personally just use a single universal password, which is not as safe but much easier to manage.
In the main article Slack communication is assumed to be synchronous.
I find life to be a little happier when it's assumed to be asynchronous.
That means turning off some channel notifications.

When I really want effective synchronous communication I tend to escalate from Slack to audio or video a screen share -- it seems like there's an extra layer of collaboration that you can have with a bit higher bandwidth.

For meetings I like to have audio plus a screen share of a shared document -- usually not a Slack document, because it's valuable to have more than one person be able to make edits.
Teams voice/video chat doesn't work on Firefox. Likewise Jitsi recommends using Chrome[0] (it does run in Firefox, they suggest if enough users are on Firefox the performance will be poor).. something to do with the WebRTC implementation.

Source: Click the voice/video chat button in teams on FF and get the popup: "This feature isn't available yet for your browser. Try the web app with Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome, or switch to the desktop app."

Since Jitsi suggests it's engine related, Opera/Edge/Chrome/Chromium/Brave probably all work fine for Teams (unless they user agent sniff)

[0]: https://community.jitsi.org/t/software-unusable-on-firefox-w...
Given that it's known that power users disable telemetry, developers should not rely on telemetry alone when deciding to remove a feature. The opposite is spiting power users, and you can see how that's going for Mozilla.
The intended meaning is pretty obvious, and explicitly laid it in the second paragraph.
Burning incense is psychoactive (2008)
I recall one of my interns telling me they would never sacrifice quality of code for anything else. When they left I asked them if they still felt the same. They said they had a new understanding for why that may not always be the case.

Be like my previous intern.
Must be nice to always live in the middle of the bell curve.
ZWave is nice because once you get them connected to a USB stick, that stick is all you need to transfer to a new owner; you can take your hub with you. The new owner doesn't get your automations, but those are personal anyway.
I love when people try to sound smarter than they are when talking to reporters. This is about the only thing that makes local news interesting when people think they'll be famous for being on TV of a local newscast.
You are asking for snark with a reply like that you know.

I have forgotten to close the garage a few times, so I get a notification if it's open for more than an hour, or past ten pm.

Motion sensor connected lights are great, and even better if they are time aware.

I like waking up to sunlight and yet I still have some trouble opening the shades while asleep, even as a physically fit human.
The thing is that it can deliver that 100 tons to LEO at a lower cost than a single Falcon 9 launch. You would see fundamental changes in how the industry behaves. Now you have incredible engineering efforts that are put into weight reduction of payloads since the launches are so expensive. That will come to an end, engineers will focus on delivering more value, rather than maniacally lowering weight. And you will see incredible things that come with this. Private space stations, actual production in space, and many things that you couldn't even think of will come to life. All because of the accessible super-heavy rocket. and I hope that SpaceX wouldn't be the only company that has such a rocket. We need New Glenn and as many other rapidly reusable rockets as possible because nobody wants a monopoly in the form of SpaceX controlling the whole market.
Yes I meant $10m. Sign me up for $10 launches.

Interestingly there are proposed launch systems that, while not being $10, would potentially be under $1000 and transform passenger and freight movement on Earth too. I am of course talking about orbital rings [1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMbI6sk-62E
Let me guess: premultiplyAlpha?
So now you have to rely on hardcoded heuristics based on the website’s domain name instead of just being able to choose. There are so many complicated heuristics to choose this hard-to-predict factor which it still gets wrong often. Removing the user’s control over this seems like a dreadful move.

> This is a feature that is really not often used, whose omission is not fatal, which often requires several tries to get right, and which is increasingly less useful thanks to gradual changes on the Web.

How often do you visit small indie websites in non-English languages? Because in my experience, as soon as you do, this is not a rare occurrence.
it's a bit like not scrapping 747s after their maiden flight. brings the costs down a bit
> jail time

Might as well go straight to the death penalty.
That would work in an economic free market. Instead, the Feds force everyone else to subsidize flood insurance.
https://www.floodsmart.gov/
Should I have to sit around defensively pressing buttons I like to keep around but don't have use for every day just to be sure the devs don't think they are redundant? Seems silly.

Alright 15 minutes have passed, here we go again. Back, reload, view page source, bookmarks,...
IIRC the Dexcom G7 will have the transmitter built-in (and thus will also be disposable.) I'm happy about this b/c transmitter expiration anxiety is real with insurance companies being so stingy - you're lucky to get your new transmitter only a few days before the old one expires.
Every release of Xcode has been a buggy mess. Every. Single. One. It certainly has lots of features but I'd much rather it had less features and more polish. The worst sin a tool can make is to be unreliable and that's the best word I can use to describe Xcode.
This is so much so that when I want a reply of mine to be noticed, I upvote (or downvote) the parent hoping they will do as you do.
What wouldn't it be useful for?

1. bigger and much more capable interplanetary probes

2. a much cheaper Webb telescope

3. build a base on the moon

4. make a mission to Mars possible
Reminds me of the Fogbank story:

In a bizarre twist, the new production facility and reverse-engineered production process yielded a version of Fogbank that was of a higher purity than it had been in the past, according to the article. The problem, however, was that for Fogbank to work as intended in existing warhead designs, that previous level of impurity was actually essential. NNSA had to revise the process to ensure the final product was just as impure.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32867/fogbank-is-myste...
Oh I'm sure we can trust the guy who runs the company that fired a bunch of people for publishing research about the harms of AI to also be the person to fund ethical AI research.
> It’s pretty unclear to me whether people use this feature much.

People only dealing with languages that use the Latin script probably don't use it at all. But, speaking from my own experience with Russian, this feature is useful. Now that unicode is the default, text encoding problems are very rare, but they do sometimes still happen. Tools like this[1] were created out of necessity, not curiosity.

[1] https://www.artlebedev.ru/decoder/
A long time ago it was the case that browsers would save passwords locally in plaintext. But these days Firefox will encrypt your passwords and host them for you so that they can sync across devices. If you don't trust them there is even an option to host this password server yourself and configure Firefox to point to that instead. The main downside is that the app (Firefox Lockwise) is no longer supported.
Why is it that those who want to fear monger about the current inflation and how long it will last are so resistant to the fears about sea level rise?

Wait until its determined how high the loss in real estate (especially as a tax base) will be with the sea a foot higher by 2050. Think of areas, especially Miami, that are in for serious impact without any mitigation plans.
Lisa Feldman Barrett was, from 2018-2020, one of the 1% most-cited scientists over a ten year period.

Her work in the cultural construction of emotions is taught widely to psychology and neuroscience undergrads and to dismiss it as a "cult" is doing a great disservice. If you think emotions are "elemental" or "primal" you can certainly try to make that argument with data. From what I gathered in my neuroscience undergrad emotions are not universal and the way we express them is cultural. Also has precious little to do with the topic at hand, which is the ability for language to facilitate working memory processes. Something not unique to this paper from nearly two decades ago.

Check Google Scholar for the keywords working memory and psycholinguistics if you're interested in the topic. Other examples of how language alter our thinking is in gendered languages, where our descriptions of objects is impacted by our native tongue even if we're speaking in a neuter language like Hungarian.
Guess it’s time to demand that all that non political stuff leave hacker news as it’s not called hacker tech? I’ll check back in a few months to see if it’s recovered or finished turning into Reddit.

Didn’t they fund Reddit? Trying to get their cash back I guess.
There are simpler tunneling solutions:

https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
Right -- because you have insufficient insulin available, cells cannot utilize the glucose. So your blood glucose rises. If BG is too high for too long, ketones build up, leading to diabetic ketoacidosis (bad), which is different than the ketosis (good) sought by a ketogenic dieter.

People with T1D are taught to check keytones if BG is very high (CDC says > 240 mg/dL; we were taught > 300) for an extended period of time, or also when sick.

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/diabetic-ketoacidosis.ht...
Not sure why another wireless protocol would be any better -- isn't powerline ethernet the obviously best choice for something that has to be plugged in to work, anyway?
I believe that one of the things that make Texas more affordable is high property taxes. It keeps people from borrowing more money and competing as aggressively on price. So they pay in Taxes what they would be paying in interest. Taxes at least are spent in the community. Schools, roads, parks, etc.
The problem you have is you need enough users signed up for it to work.
I've bought a new iPhone every 2-3 years. You can definitely set them up without an iCloud account. The setup wizard assumes you have one and you have to click through a few 'no I don't want to' nags before you can proceed, but it's definitely possible.
Right, but not all features need to be used often to be useful. This is a great example of such a feature.
I agree with the author that threading is quite critical to maintaining sanity.

In my experience, it's insufficient by itself. I would recommend coupling with some naming conventions around channels and discouraging group DMs for anything substantial.

I wrote up some of my thoughts on this in a post: https://rushabhdoshi.com/posts/2021-08-02-taming-slack/
And why did Obama buy beach front property on Long Island and Hawaii.

Just keep an eye on the rich people.
Did they just re-invent Zulip? :P
The free market is usually better at allocating resources than the government.

Plus, the government already has much more than $125M it could use to fund AI research, why do we need to take away Schmidt's funds to do so?