skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not yet to my knowledge. This is new territory which is why you have theses claims being unfulfilled.

I expect we’ll see it in a smallish community like key west first where bussing in service people will become impossible. But maybe they’ll start building employee dorms and bus people in for their shifts (x days on, y days off). Who knows.

No one knows where the breaking point is, only that there is one.
The downvotes on this comment are odious and don't help : downvote comments that are not well-written, not merely because you disagree with the content.
If you can use a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering like Vercel, Netlify, Heroku, etc, you absolutely should! I always recommend those types of tools as the first stop tools to anyone building software these days.

But there are many use cases that don't fit into those neat PaaS molds: typically, as a software company grows beyond one team, one service, one database, etc, they start to hit limitations with the PaaS solutions out there. As you scale, you often find you need more control than you can get from a SaaS: you may need more control over the hardware (e.g., for performance or cost reasons), or networking (e.g., you need service discovery or a service mesh to allow microservices to communicate with each other), or security (e.g., to meet compliance standards), or a hundred other items.

That's when many companies find themselves migrating to an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider like AWS, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, orchestration tools like Kubernetes, and so on. I'm guessing every software company with more than 50-100 developers ends up moving from PaaS to IaaS, and that's when developers need to understand how to use the tools covered in this blog post series.

Perhaps, some day, the PaaS tools out there will be good enough that you never have to migrate off of them, regardless of scale or requirements, but we're not there yet, and probably won't be there for a while longer.
I just think it's implausible that there's been no good research showing solid evidence of choice architecture mattering. Could be, I'm not an expert, but I'd like to see where things stand after a couple more years of research and debate.
why "a few years" why not now?
I don't understand why this is downvoted. I, too, have heard this and what happens is wages rise and people make do. It doesn't actually end up that folks are no longer there.

I would expect to easily find occupation data at census tract level but no luck. Should help easily verify if this is happening.
Seems like most of the technical details are redacted :( This reads more like an obligatory corporate/legal response to an angry bureaucrat than a technical post-mortem.
By the company rules I meant racism for example. Show me a lab leak post that is simply information that was censored
Coding isn't the hard part, it's business logic.
The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi River
D/A and A/D – Digital Show and Tell (Monty Montgomery) (2013) [video]
The American Dream is not when some NIMBY tells me I can't bulldoze my SFH to put up a six story apartment building.

Your framing of this issue is frankly ridiculous - it's SF homeowners vs other residents and property owners in SF who would like to densify their land.

It's not about people's right to live anywhere, it's about people's right to do as they wish with their property.
Rubbish.

Considering a single reactor costs €11-19 billion[1][2] to build in Western Europe currently (Olkiluoto 3, Flamanville (we haven't seen the final bill for that one yet)), an additional 300 million dollars is a drop in the bucket and not the thing that will make the project go from viable to nonviable.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#... (final)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan... (projected, not final)
A lot of gaps not described in the letter:

Lack of independent management plane for core business assets. Driving to the office is not a management plane.

No external visibility of Rogers functionalities. The Kentik analysis of BGP and reachability suggests their tech staff had a lot of analysis to do before understanding of the problem.

No fallback plan in case of a misstep. No immediate detection of a misstep.

Four hour intervals in notifications (which implies lack of visibility into issues and absence of plans).

Secrecy regarding social and first-responder impacts (censorship of 911 call volumes for instance) suggests Rogers views these facts as existential risk, or at least of very high risk to their management.
...and then this happens.

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/bhopal/madhya-prade...
Same. Which is a real pity because Twitter is actually great for some niche communities I was interested in. But I can't do that to my mental health.
My current dog forced me to get mint flavored tums.

He goes crazy trying to get the fruit flavor ones.
Gerald Weinberg has a bit of an anthropological take (due to his wife being an anthropologist, IIRC) in his Quality Software Management series.
In the case of organ donation, Thaler has written that he actually prefers mandated choice--i.e. there is no default but you have to either opt in or opt out--in this case. [1] But I'm not sure why a system where the government creates a default of either opt-in or opt-out (which you can change) wouldn't be a nudge.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/business/economy/27view.h...
(The issue being that in countries that are opt-out, doctors still often ask families for permission on the grounds that the deceased never made an affirmative choice to donate.)
The WCA already does have multiple events for different puzzles and styles of solving, such as 7x7 cubes and solving a 3x3 with the fewest moves. All but the biggest competitions choose from a subset of those 17 events to include because there's too much demand. There's no technical reason why no-inspection can't be an event, too. No-inspection was an event for 6 months over 15 years ago, but I can't find any information on why it was removed. That being said, it's still possible for a event organizer to have an unofficial event as part of the WCA sanctioned competition. I've recently been seeing Face Turning Octahedron appear as unofficial competition events.
Words mean what the listener understands. Most people understand ketchup to mean “tomato ketchup” so the person you’re replying to is correct.
In the nicest way possible, get those meetings canceled. Show initiative by simply saying "I will provide an update by the end of the week; let me do my research first."

If the skip-level is refusing to stay out of your lane and not let you do your job, it might be time to dust off the resume. Thankfully, the market is crazy hot for anyone not a junior. Still, that sounds bloody awful; I am sorry you are going through that. :/

And in the best way I can say this, but deadlines don't matter if they are not set by your engineers AND accounting for the time to add unit tests/integration tests/bug fixing/clean code. I've inherited plenty of salvage projects with terrible codebases that eventually get scrapped wholesale and redone from scratch - so if someone tells me to cut corners for bullshit deadlines, I'll push back with those stories and keep the course. Call me cushy/inflexible/unrealistic, but I refuse to write a salvage project of my own.
Execs at Covid vaccine manufacturer create property boom near Boston
Ahh. Ok. I was speaking that as a person of faith, my faith is more important than fighting politics of the majority. I walk away because the space and freedom to practice my faith is more important than anything else.

If democracy/secularism is the prime directive(here: France)is hostile to my daily life, then that’s a problem. It is a good thing that there are 53 countries that have declared themselves to uphold Islamic faith as their prime directive where personal faith based issues can be protected. Why isn’t this a good thing??

[..]"France is an indivisible, secular, democratic and social Republic, guaranteeing that all citizens regardless of their origin, race or religion are treated as equals before the law and respecting all religious beliefs" states the Constitution of 1958.[..]
One thing I noticed is missing from the outsourcing discussion, which I noticed after I started doing it myself, is that they don't factor in how many transactions just simply wouldn't have happened if it wasn't outsourced.

Like domestic labor was never a factor, one project just wouldn't have been pursued because the overhead costs would have ruled it out.

I know people think about their massive enterprise getting cheaper labor, but its prudent to think about smaller shops and smaller clients who simply wouldn't have built anything if it wasn't for cheaper labor.
I like the takeaways, perhaps with some minor modifications. But I'm appalled at the toxicity in the replies!
Yea the efforts of people like you pushing anti-nuclear views. Can't wait for the greenhouse gases to make warming even worse while we use NAT gas and coal to smooth over wind and solar.
In the example you cited I don't think that's a nudge? Or is it?

I ask because I am sure that changing defaults DEFINITELY works, especially if the user does not have a strong existing preference.

You're not really changing user behaviour most of the time, you're changing the outcome of what they're trying to do, which is to reduce their cognitive load by ignoring as much as they possibly can.
The AI will need a knowledge base wiyh real world information. That may take a long time before it exists. If the scaling hypothesis doez hold you could get that knowledge base as part of a large language model.

You could have a setup like the Socratic Models paper where the code AI talks to the language model AI which is fine tuned on facts about the business context.

I just don’t know how far out we are from that. Someone at Deepmind, OpenAI or Salesforce (Salesforce have their own code AI research unit that few people know about) should work on this.

If someone reading this has a background in economics I’d like to hear what they have to say about this. In all these discussions on this topic I never see anyone bring up economics or empirical economics papers.
> The separation of MacBooks and Windows/Intel laptops based on a chipset or OS is completely arbitrary and opinionated.

There's a reasonable line to draw between consumer and professional needs, but this isn't it. The average person probably won't notice the difference when they're web browsing or futzing in Photoshop, but they're definitely going to notice when none of their Steam games install and the program their boss sent them won't run.

The average laptop customer obviously isn't going to look for a specific ISA. However, they're definitely going to notice when those old Flash games won't boot, their code from 2 years ago doesn't compile or their Photoshop plugins break when switching Macs. That's the Apple Silicon problem.
Prove that's the reason you were banned. What if you're lying to make a political point?
Which would also imply a total lack of funding for counter-narrative research.
I was going to link to this; top form fellow Engelbartian!
The nuclear waste 'problem' annoys me because it's absurd in comparison to everything else.

I challenge anyone to go onto google right and give me a firm number of people that have died from nuclear waste, not just nuclear accidents.

I'll start -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_...

about 200 for all nuclear accidents. Waste itself? Zero? Which is less than people that have fallen down the stairs, tripped over a cat, or choked on a pizza.

Now search for deaths to humans (and wildlife for that matter) from fossil fuel pollution, oil spills, gas pipeline explosions and so on.

As I've said before if we bury it in a mine, and lose the ability to read that it's down there and dangerous, we've likely lost the ability to dig a mine in the first place.
If it's as bad as you say it is, collect evidence and prove Mythical Man-Month to them. Explain it's wasting more time AND money, and the deadline is missed regardless. Hopefully they'll listen.
Say what you want about the actual pills, but the film is canonically a trans metaphor. https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-53692435

LSD by the way does not wake you up from hallucinations. It causes them. Are you referring to psychedelics raising one's sense of connection to the world around them?
Humans are not in fact rational actors which means most of our understanding of economics is deeply flawed.
It's still up, but it looks like the certificate expired.
Eh. Writing code that is maintainable and bug free is a skill.

Meeting the acceptance criteria with guess and check isn’t hard.
> By the time we need storage

We already need it. During summer we have an overabundance of energy. It would be so nice to have it stored and used in winter, wouldn't it?

Oh wait. "Cheap storage" in no way, shape or form translate into efficient storage. You might have to cover half of Europe in batteries to store just a few weeks worth of energy.
I’d guess you need some kind of floating point bignum to do this. You can cache/memoize repeated Evals of the same point. But I think it would have to be the same point to some pretty tight tolerance (determined by screen resolution at the time). Regardless this video clearly had a lot of compute put into it.
Volcano erupts on western Japanese island of Kyushu, no reports of damage
Isn't locking down the obvious departure from a "nudge policy"?

I've seen the claim a lot but it all goes back to documents like this one which discusses strategies for communicating to increase compliance with lockdowns.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Yes, the UK government received such shocking insights as "Messaging needs to emphasise and explain the duty to protect others", and "Messaging about actions need to be framed positively in terms of protecting
oneself and the community, and increase confidence that they will be effective".

Of course, the government did pick and choose what to follow, so it would be absurd to say the entire COVID policy was "based on behavioural nudging". The UK's adherence to isolating after positive tests was thought to be one of the lowest of any country. When SPI-B pointed out that financial support would increase adherence to isolating, no reaction from the government. https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/government-su...
(Other co-founder of Neeva)

We wrote an op-ed last month in Fast Company re: the challenges of crawling at scale in today's world: https://www.fastcompany.com/90759792/with-google-dominating-...

tldr; there are two big challenges in crawling the web:

* quantity -- how do you crawl the web at O(B) pages per day

* quality -- how do you make sure you are crawling the high quality parts

On the quantity side, the web is a much trickier place to crawl than 10-15 years ago. Even if you build a system that is well behaved, respects rate limits and work w/ webmasters and CDNs to make sure you are treated as a good bot, the following things will bite you:

* some sites only allow googlebot/bingbot via robots

* even when sites allow all search crawlers, you'll see 429s, 503s, crawl delay directives that limit you to very low qps, and other mysterious errors. (most retailers and aggregators)

* working w/ webmasters works only if you manage to get a response from them (good luck)

* many sites require JS rendering (which is 100x more expensive in terms of the number of assets you are crawling)

(OTOH, Cloudflare is a force for good: https://radar.cloudflare.com/verified-bots)

On the quality side, crawl prioritization works best when you have click data, which most small search engines don't have enough of. In the absence of that, good seed sets and high quality inlinks are your friend.

In other news, eng blogs are being written up as we speak. Will post here on HN as they roll out. Also, like marginalia_nu pointed out, we share whatever we've been working on on a weekly basis on our Twitter account.
Against unnecessary databases: Parse, don't normalize
If you wanna make this a competition I've been in the industry for 16 years.

I'm a technical lead which does have a little bit of people management responsibilities. Turnover on my team is probably well below average, we had two developers leave for other jobs in the last year out of 15 developers and one fired for poor performance. I can't remember anyone leaving the year before.

To be clear, I don't think this article is wrong per se, just obnoxiously naive and doesn't have any empathy for the real world constraints that people have to work with. It's just... uhhh... rubs me the wrong way.
Interesting -- the problem may be a misapplication of funnel plots for metaanalysis.

I'm not sure what theta is representing and only skimmed the paper, but especially in social scenarios and across social papers, seems unlikely to assume the same distributions and parameters across tasks & populations. Sometimes comes down to 'is there any effect??' and sometimes a precise notion of effect size in a lucky/clever specific scenario. Likewise, social science is one of the hardest fields to setup a good experiment, and few publications accepts negative results, so mostly only 'good' p-value ranges getting published seems normal. The Wikipedia page on funnel plots shows, afaict, the same criticism of the technique.

Whether about the effect size or how it is reported, funnel plots seem an inappropriate choice for debunking something as general as 'nudges' across heterogeneous studies. Skimming made the metaanalysis feel rather lazy (lack of cross validation, interpretation, ...).
Not my field, but I would have had to do some digging before accepting this metaanalysis in review, and by default, would be 'not ready'.
Start by just using ssh keys and disabling password auth.

If you wanna go further, use something like Tailscale/WireGuard to move you SSH daemon off the public internet. Or use something like Teleport or Vault to issue short-lived per host keys backed by your centralized auth source. Or do both of the above.
You don't plan out the entire solve in your head during inspection. At most you plan out the cross and maybe the first F2L pair, the rest is dealing with what you see when you see it (so for the majority of the solve it is a question of dexterity, pattern recognition, and look-ahead ability).

My issue with saying "they're already solving the cube" is the implication that more inspection time would let you get even shorter solve times and I don't think that's the case (unless you went really ridiculous and gave everyone an hour to do a smallest-moves solve on paper).

(There are also practical issues with this kind of format that nsilvestri pointed out that I hadn't originally considered.)
Airbus to Test an Open-Fan Turbine Engine on an A380
Links to references are entirely broken in Firefox on the PNAS website. Does nobody test for these things?
God damn, I love this comment. We manage 8 Linux servers total for an application that is lightly used by our customers but heavily used by our internal workers that constantly reach out to internet services and check for things. Everything we've done has been in Go and bash, and our deployments are easy and take seconds.

I'm tired of seeing so many posts for Docker, Kubernetes, terraform, and even so many of Amazon's service offerings. Guess what? All these tools are abstractions, and it's insane to me that so many would rather learn to work with these abstractions, as opposed to learning some Linux basics, which would allow them to solve the same problem with much less overhead.
We have two webservers, four workers, and two database servers. All of our code is written in Go so our dependencies are limited, and this has been my reason for not needing Docker. However, we use Docker locally to spin up our local dev environment, so developers don't need to have MySQL installed on their machines. The primary benefit I see with Docker is dependency management, and when your dependencies are minimal, it's not worth the overhead.

All of our servers are built from bash scripts that are executed on the server on the first run. This bash script creates folder structures and user accounts and sets permissions. If a server needs to be destroyed for whatever reason, it can be rebuilt as new from these scripts in < 10 minutes.

Code deployments are done using SCP and rsync and systemctl to stop and start services remotely. If we were using an interpreted language where dependencies are a bit trickier to manage in prod, certainly we'd use Docker then. Still, for the time being, this Go \ bash ecosystem works for us, is easy to manage, and limits dependencies overall. Debian & Go all the way, baby.

The longer I work in this industry, the more I realize a bigger hindrance to accomplishing goals is actually overthinking and over-engineering. I see startups with no customers using kubernetes and terraform. People building noahs ark when they've never experienced rain. The pain points in your process will become obvious. Let the process tell you it's time for these more advanced tools. If you can manage production code and deploy updates easily without them, then don't waste your time. If you don't know any other way, then maybe it's worth spending the time to learn Linux a little bit better.
It’s mostly just going to drive up developer productivity, resulting in even more software.

Even without AI, with modern languages, frameworks and SaaS/PaaS the amount of code writing you need to do is quite diminished, as opposed to plumbing and troubleshooting things that won’t work with other things.
I noticed they used to switch me back to "top tweets" after I had clicked on latest. It has happened several times. I'd click on "latest tweets" and it'd show the latest tweets for a while, then I'd visit the site and would see the top tweets and find it weird, and have to click on "latest tweets" again.

I found in sleazy. It's not happening anymore recently.
This is usually why people make the distinction between “leadership” and “management” — if you use “management” the way your comment does, you no longer have a word for someone with multiple direct reports.

But yes — totally agree that “technical leadership” is 100% part of being a senior+ engineer and that almost always requires understanding the business and customers.
Some shitty tracking links on that page...

i.e.: https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=6798&awinaffid=42888... redirects to https://www.edx.org/course/probability-and-statistics-in-dat...
Of course -- just look at all of those successful centrally planned economies throughout history that definitely did not regularly subject their population to famine
>I'm fairly sure anyone who has done A/B testing at scale has plenty of evidence that nudging works

Lol! A/B testing in practice is rife with P-hacking and various other statistical fallacies.
There's a lot of junk behavioral science out there, but things like "people often go with a default or recommended option so they can move on with their day" seem so obvious to me that I become suspicious of this debunking for debunking too much.