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I've been in MANY different standups. The vast majority of them are not well run.

Standups are also (rarely) recorded, and therefore unsearchable.

Have you ever thought - maybe an email process can also be done well?

Maybe the majority of your email threads are terrible. That doesn't mean they have to be. Maybe you think all of your meetings are well run - it doesn't mean everyone else thinks they are...
Implementing Type Inference in the Polar Language
from the angle of "explaining observations" a fundamentally incorrect theory can work well. but it breaks down as soon as you interact with the object of the theory in new ways. in epicycles' case that means traveling to a satellite that doesn't orbit the earth. usually the theory is disproven before it kills people, but you know, possibility's there
The author of this post mentions the Humanities at the end of their post and TerminusDB. I work on a Humanities based project which uses the Semantic Web (https://github.com/cyocum/irish-gen) and I have looked at TerminusDB a couple of times.

The main factor in my choice of technologies for my project was the ability to reason data from other data. OWL was the defining solution for my project. This is mainly because I am only one person so I needed the computer to extrapolate data that was logically implied but I would be forced to encode by hand otherwise. OWL actually allowed my project to be tractable for a single person (or a couple of people) to work on.

The author brings up several points that I have also run into myself. The Open World Assumption makes things difficult to reason about and makes understanding what is meant by a URL hard. Another problem that I have run into is that debugging OWL is a nightmare. I have no way to hold the reasoner to account so I have no way when I run a SPARQL query to be able to know if what is presented is sane. I cannot ask the reasoner "how did you come up with this inference?" and have it tell me. That means if I run a query, I must go back to the MS sources to double check that something has not gone wrong and fix the database if it has.

Another problem that the author discusses and what I call "Academic Abandonware". There are things out there but only the academic who worked on it knows how to make it work. The documentation is usually non-extant and trying to figure things out can take a lot of precious time.

I will probably have another look at TerminusDB in due course but it will need to have a reasoner as powerful as the OWL ones and an ease of use factor to entice me to shift my entire project at this point.
I depends on the offset does it not? What if you're just paying the lifecycle cost of making sure the material is properly disposed of?
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Why are people editing Wikipedia and Wikidata? What would it bring you if your products were globally linked to that knowledge graph and Google's machines would understand that metadata from the tiny JSON-LD snippet on each page? The tools are here already, the tech is evolving still, but the knowledge graph concept is going to affect web shop owners too soon enough.
Should only be allowed on domains one owns. Could be solved by DNS records or certificates.
Only intentionally, via setup from a hosting app. If an app uses a WKWebView to display web content, it can use WKUserContentController[1] to inject scripts and additional content into the page dynamically, and can inject functions into JS[2] which will trigger native callback handlers when called.

If your app uses the JavaScriptCore[3] framework to run JS in a VM in-process directly, you have even more options for interfacing between JS and native code.

Note that this has to be explicitly hooked up by the app (i.e., none of this applies within, say, Safari).

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkuserconte...

[2]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkuserconte...

[3]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/javascriptcore
Well, Oberon is in fact a system language and definitely much simpler than TypeScript. Just have a look at the specification size (16 pages vs 180 pages).
As it happens the last The Office episode I saw a couple of months ago involved Michael Scott organizing a basketball match during work hours, even though corporate had just been complaining about low numbers from him and his team (if I remember right).

Related to a comment further up the thread about fruits, a close friend of mine told me some time ago how one of his colleagues was complaining in the company chat about the kiwi fruits that were being given by the company as free perks having too much of that “hairy” stuff on them (I’m on my phone, too lazy to search for the exact English term), and how he preferred to be served “lean” and “shiny” kiwi fruits instead. Said friend works at the local subsidiary of a big US tech company of which everyone on this forum has heard about.
It’s knives out time, I’m afraid, for any activist or negative employee. I am flabbergasted by the number of people I’ve worked with who are flat out ungrateful when it comes to their relationship with their employer either being outright miserable and surly, or constantly virtue signalling about hypothetical problems that just drag everyone down the purity spiral.

They get paid and they push code but they seem to think that’s the be all and end all of the relationship. It would be like living with a partner who takes out the bins and cooks every other night but never gives you a birthday card and constantly complains about your behaviour.

I don’t think there’s anything at all wrong with wanting to have good social relationships between staff because the flip side is that every Eeyore, loner, and whiner chips away at morale bit by bit until they are the only people left.

How have you rewarded camaraderie, positive attitude, leadership, and goodwill today?
Any idea why six minutes and not some other?
Regular people don’t think giving up some privacy is the same as selling your soul…
>Having parts of the OS crash, dealing with the terminal, using ADB over USB...

I bought a phone from /e/ and have never had this happen in almost 2 years.
I started as a test engineer on an SRE team (ads database, which I think no longer exists), did a mission control rotation, and then sort of found a way to be a software engineer (non-SRE, which pissed off the SRE leadership) and run my own projects in prod without any real oversight (that was exacycle- using all the idle cycles in prod). I used my knowledge of SRE and my good connections with SRE to run my service with minimal impacts on the $MONEY$ services.

Later I did stuff that involved working closely with SRE and hwops but always SRE-adjacent, not part of SRE. I had a standing offer to join multiple SRE groups but chose not to because I can't do oncalls while my kids are still at home.
> Or maybe, just maybe, interviewing based on esoteric computer science problems isn’t the best way to identify high performing builders.. but a great way of identifying people who can hack a process to secure maximal reward.

If anything, that might be the best way to identify someone that fits in a large corp like Google. Someone that doesn't mind going thru the drudge of studying esoteric CS problems probably will be more attuned to go thru the drudge of working for a large company like Google.

I'm thinking most of the time spent at Large Corp. Inc. is doing menial work, rather than hot projects where you learn and get to work on the cutting edge.
Assuming you're referring to the Buddhas of Bamiyan, those were blown up by the Taliban, not ISIS.
> this is the same company that just gave police DMs that aided in an abortion investigation

They were served a warrant. I'm no friend of Facebook/Meta, but any company served a warrant is going to turn over what they have.
"“Late term” abortion typically refers to abortions obtained at or after 21 weeks, however it is not an accepted medical term, nor is there a consensus around to which gestational ages it refers. Members of the medical community have criticized the term “late-term” abortion, as it implies abortions are taking place after a pregnancy has reached “term” (37 weeks) or “late term” (>41 weeks) which is false. In fact, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has written that “late-term abortion” has no medical meaning and should not be used in clinical or legal settings."

"Abortions at or after 21 weeks are uncommon, and represent 1% of all abortions in the US. ... Reasons individuals seek abortions later in pregnancy include medical concerns such as fetal anomalies or maternal life endangerment, as well as barriers to care that cause delays in obtaining an abortion." (https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/fact-sheet/abortion...)
It's weird to say, but there's a genuine lack of headcount all over the company while Pichai (and probably Zukerberg) also does a correct assessment on the situation. This seems a contradiction, but if you take a deeper look into mid level managements there are a good number of teams responsible for billions of users/revenue and driving their growth but screaming for more headcounts. (Yeah, I'm in one of those teams) # increases to hundreds (or thousands?) at smaller scale. IMO, they deserve more headcounts for their scope. But it's also clear that the overall productivity of those companies begins to plateau.

Why does this happen? Of course I don't know. I've seen some clues on bigger structural issues but cannot say for sure. But the famous "I just want to serve 5TB" video gives us some hints... Most of the particular issues mentioned in the video have been solved but its spirit hasn't gone away. And now back with a good reason. Which makes it much harder to solve.

Think about launching non-trivial but small features in their major products. At a small company, a competent junior engineer can usually do that within a quarter. In Google it's not that simple. There are so many stakeholders. Privacy and security. Legal. Downstream dependencies. Infrastructure team. PA wide modeling and quality review. They're also busy and might not like your launch. At least PM will likely be your side but they may have a different priority than yours. To navigate this organizational complexity, you probably want to have a good manager/tech lead. If you don't care? You're going to piss off them for sure and if the things go very wrong then you could get indivisible attention from the VP level...

And you're now dealing with several hundreds of millions of users so a minimum level of engineering quality should be ensured. You gotta deal with resource planners who also need to allocate finite hardware resources among unlimited demands. The service should have some level of reliability, scalability and redundancy. Thanks to all the works done by core and technical infrastructure team, this is easier than other places but the inherent complexities don't go away. Oh, did I mention that most of the complex infrastructures have integration tests that run over 1~2 hours with a good level of flakiness? If the build dashboard doesn't go green, you might miss your launch by 1 week. It's just a tip of iceberg for productionization, multiply the work by 10x. This is a death by thousand cuts and I don't see a silver bullet to solve everything at once.
"Brave new world" made a very good case for Mill's side of that argument. I found it convincing, for what that's worth.
Yeah this is definitely a problem, but I blame the companies. On the one hand, yes, for a long time there have been a lot of people that don't do much work. They should've been firing those people long ago, but they I guess were too scared/defensive. They felt it was better for business to just keep them.

But now there is a big uptick in employees not working much, and I think the cause is just that companies are so disconnected from people. For example, Sundar wants people to be more "customer-focused" but everywhere at Google, all anyone talks about is this metric and that metric. Customers are just treated as a number to be aggregated into a metric. They're really not talking about specific customer problems. And they're not empowering employees to have vision for how to solve specific customer problems overall imo.

Also, speaking of their own employees as people, they're similarly disconnected. They just treat employees as part of a metric too to a large extent. And what does that lead to? Employees that also care mostly about that metrics ($) and not building cool, assistive/helpful products.

I mean it all comes back to incentives of companies trying to grow their stock value. So it's really that and not out-of-touch CEOs. But although a recession is heartbreaking, we do need to regain some sense of reality imo. Perhaps return to technology that's actually trying to assist people or fix things in the world. One can hope.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/polling-ca...

Yea the polling crisis shows polls are fake.
Short answer: yes

With the appropriate libraries you can use JS to call Swift and Obj C code.

Long answer: no

All it really means is that the JS and Swift/Obj C can pass data between each other and the library is set up to parse that data and call the appropriate code. It's just an automatic RPC.
Why not just take a step even further and get rid of states. And when done, why not also simplify things and remove all local democracy. Have everything decided at federal level.
Because of what is called assortative mating.
I can't think of any work to be done for a Meta company that I'd find meaningful in any way. I imagine there are plenty of people who only figured this out for themselves after coming on board.
It is indoors, you might be right. The tank might also be from the 1940s for all I know. In Canada, you are supposed to replace the tank every 10 years.

The last time oil was this high, the heating bill was $3800 for the year. At that price the decision is easy.

What could happen is we go into more competition for our natural gas with Europe this winter. For sure the price would be much higher. Luckily (for USA consumers) that the Freeport LNG terminal is off-line..

Oh well foo, they soon will be back on line:

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-regulator-all...
Interesting, but I’d say your case study is a much clearer explanation of the downsides to unfettered capitalism (especially in regards to infrastructure) and money in politics than it is of political power apportioned by population.

Traditionally, the government spends more per capita on infrastructure in less populated territories. This holds true for most developed countries. Within states this also holds true. More state budget is spent per capita to build up rural roads than city ones. They ensure water, sewage, electricity, television, and internet to provide service to remote populations instead of allowing them to only operate in cities (and they charge the same price despite a higher cost to serve rural populations). Again, this tends to be the case despite whether a developed country has a body like the US Senate or not.

When it comes to government decisions, rural territories whether at the state level or the national level receive disproportionately more benefit from their association with more urban counties or states.

It’s ok to get nervous about change. That’s what conservative beliefs are: change is bad. But if I could offer any advice about a better way to think about this specific issue: dozens of countries don’t have a body like the US Senate and don’t decide their elections based on an electoral college. They’re doing fine and in many ways better than the US. The suggestions to abolish these institutions aren’t some untried theoretical far-fetched idea. They’ve been used for hundreds of years in some places. Not so scary, huh?
aka "The Mythical Man Month" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
You seem to have already made a judgement about IME and associated management processors by calling them backdoors. Intel doesn't put IME into their processors to be a back door, but to, as the name suggests, manage the processor. The fact that a malicious actor may be able to exploit the IME as a backdoor doesn't change it's actual purpose.

The fact is that modern processors/computers are so complex that it's simply not practical to build one without some kind of initialization and management processor or other programmable device. Intel, AMD, ARM, it doesn't matter. Any processor of this size will have at least one if not more management processors.

Maybe these companies could do better and release the source code of what runs on these management engines, and I would argue they should. But unless we want to go back 10 years in processor complexity and performance, the "Backdoors" as you call them aren't going anywhere.
Also when you move or resize the window?
Or can you just set the fixed frame for screen recording to a selected window's initial frame?
It is a vulnerability. You the user are just vulnerable to them...
I can agree that some aspects of development may appear negative, but at least with regards to the negative aspects described in the Local Futures documentary (which btw is not something I'd treat as a reliable source - being a linguist trained under Chomsky doesn't make you an economic analyst for example) were already common before globalization came through - drunkards and opioid addicts always existed, the disparity between haves and have-nots always existed, and the traditional local power structures were inherently exclusionary. A lot of these kinds of documentaries tend to look nostalgically to some form of a utopian past, but if you have rose tinted glasses on, you don't see the red flags.

PS - I wouldn't extrapolate this conversation about indigenous communities in Inner Asia with those of the First Nations. There are a bunch of different political, economic, and social dynamics that cause this to be an apples to oranges comparison.
I don't agree at all.
Many articles were published about the polling crisis in 2016 and on.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/polling-ca...
Organic Maps was forked from Maps.me when they started adding ads and trackers.
The FDA also currently has basically 2 statuses: "banned" and "covered by insurance".

Making an intermediary step which is "not banned not covered", would allow things to progress faster. I'm ok with reporting requirements allowing for this phase to act like a large unblinded test too.
I agree that it may be the goal. We just can't know it.

But in the post I was replying to it was stated as a certainty rather than a possibility.
What prices are you seeing? For me in Europe, the single speed is only €240 cheaper than the cheapest Aluminum bike.

€3990-€5200 Carbon
€1590-€1990 Designer
€1490-€1990 Aluminum
€1250 single speed
I would go to the office to play basketball with my team. I'd think that it'd build team chemistry and cross team collaboration.
Full Text: The Taiwan Question and China's Reunification in the New Era
Yep, this is a feature, not just for tracking but also containment when navigating to external links. Big reason why all of those apps and others aggressively push users from web to mobile.
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>Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn’t be here. And part of my hope by raising expectations and having more aggressive goals, and just kind of turning up the heat a little bit, is that I think some of you might just say that this place isn’t for you. And that self-selection is okay with me.

He might realize that nobody cares about Facebook, they just care about their fat compensations for relatively little work (according to him). Honestly, aside from the experience of working with technology at that scale, are there a lot of other reasons to work at Facebook? I think we all are recognizing its had its time in the spotlight and its on its way out.
That sounds good in theory but most leaders are so removed from engineering that it would take them a week ramp up to produce even the most basic tiny change/feature to push to production. A VP should not be spending one week of his or her time doing that. They should rely on engineers to identify and fix whatever is broken at that level. That's why we have staff+ engineers.

But that's also pretty divorced from the topic of what makes good interview questions. There's no way that a VP who spent a week to push out a color change to a button in prod would have any meaningful insight into how to change the coding interviews. That should also be left up to the engineers themselves to decide.
Ask HN: Product led growth project managers, networking and education?
Hey, I'm interested in transitioning from marketing into growth led product management. What are your favorite resources for learning about meet ups and to find good networking opportunities?
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Ah thanks all for the clarification. And awesome un: TheCoelacanth
You are completely ignoring any operating costs. For all we know monthly profit could be negative, and not 100%.
"I have at least two homes where I have to build a half-mile to get to one house," Mauch said, noting that it will cost "over $30,000 for each of those homes to get served."

That's over $11 per feet. That sounds about right. I paid $18 per feet to have a private fiber optic line of 1000 feet installed at one of my houses (in the US), going down a very long driveway, with 3 patch panels, 2 at each end and one in the middle at a gate. That was just for my LAN, not internet access. I needed the link to hook up intercoms and security cameras. I absolutely wanted 100% reliability of the network link, so wireless solutions wouldn't have been adequate. The previous homeowner had buried a cat5e line in the first 500 feet, with a cat5e repeater (underground), but its electronics failed after a couple years and its exact location couldn't be found. And he had not even put the cable in conduit.
I was thinking more that the facility near you may not be following best practices (if there are any) yet.

I definitely think our facility was just loading things on the truck as they came in at first (especially since things would be on the truck, be near our house, and then go back to the facility, only to be sent back out later).

So I think your second paragraph is correct.
I'm not so sure. Have you ever seen a guilty dog? That's meaningful self-reflection in my book.
My experience with the IRS has been that they always assume the worst over trivial errors--you report earning $4312 when their records say $4321 and they're after you for the whole $4321 rather than just the $9 of the error.

They also seem to be unable to accept zebras. I had a run-in with them in the 90s because they lost record of having gotten some money. Took me 6 months to convince them that they really did get that money. In the 80s my mother had a run in with them because of "unreported income"--in hindsight, probably an illegal using her SS#. I went off to college before it was resolved and never did find out what happened.

On the other hand, I know someone who was substantially dinged on the hobby loss rules. Overall, I'm sure the IRS was right, he was engaging in wishful thinking that it was a viable business but I know he feels wronged by the IRS. (To me, he's wronged by Congress, the hobby rules are very unfair. I'd allow income-producing hobbies to file on C but losses are carried and can't be claimed.)