skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I took the role at a twenty year-old software company that's never had good product management, and the place is horrible.
> Over and over, the staff were pounded with "we are an engineering first company." Well, that means the engineering teams were allowed to do whatever the hell they wanted and chase the shiny newest techs. There's 3.5 main products (really 4.5) each made from a different tech stack. There's another eight or so legacy products we have to support due to legacy demands. There's no inter-operability of standardization between products. Basically, there's no knowledge transfer, so the cost of development is through the roof.

I read this and thought you worked at my previous employer (household name in IT).

Engineering first company. Oof. This meant that as a PM, I got introduced to two of the products I'd be managing when Engineering and Architects had come up with a grand idea to build a component/subsystem to replace a previous one which had been over-engineered and never gained traction. They hadn't talked to any customers who used it, or that had liked the idea, but not the execution. They were just given a wide latitude to experiment (don't get me wrong, some experimentation and exploration is useful), got a greenlight for some time to prototype it, and did so.

And then, and only then, was I called in as a PM, and told, here's our prototype, here's some vague documentation of what we wanted to solve with this - "Now, Mr PM, can you shoehorn a Product Requirements Document around what we've already built and where we see it going, and can you do the Market Requirements Document to answer the questions we probably should have asked before getting this far?"

And then I would get catch-22s. Express doubt over the needed research and potential for the product and I was told by management that "PMs need to be passionate and fearless advocates for their products"... and then when I do try to eke something out, but lo and behold, our internal 'market', let alone customers are ambivalent about why we are working on a "v2" of this feature, when the market is either accepting the weaknesses of "v1" or have long built out their own solutions and moved on, and as a result we have a stakeholders meeting where we decide to end the experiment, and I'm chastised for "poor product management judgment" for not killing the project far earlier... the project I have no authority to kill, because it's an Engineering first company, and the project whose existence I learned of when it was tossed into my lap as a 90% complete prototype/proof of concept.

And then you have a few hundred (yep) Product Managers in our BU all trying to do their own thing, some empire-building, some truly product-focused... and it's a shit show.

I love being a product manager. I took a similar path as you... although most of my engineering background is SysAdmin/Devops/SRE/infrastructure and then management thereof. I love being a product manager, and thought that this role, at this company, would have untold potential and I could settle in, learn, grow, build from there. But it was everything from a Dilbert cartoon.
A release ist just the begining of a product. After that you have to collect customer feedbackand figure out what to prioritize for the next release.
> Human communication is full of nonverbal cues which do not translate at all over text. In absence of those nonverbal cues which our brains are (usually) wired to pick up on, we end up mining the text for semiotic constructs which conform to our ideals of the other person, rather than the reality of the other person.

I don't agree because this is a two-way street. Some people just communicate more directly in chat than in real life, especially because the nonverbal and physical side is not throwing off distractions all the time.

There are many "nonverbal" cues you can pick up on in a person if you know them very well in a chat environment. The time they suddenly need to reply if you ask them something emotional. The wording they use that is slightly off. Things like that.

Also, I don't really imagine the other person if all I have is a nickname. They remain just that, an entity. I don't imagine their physical appearance at all.
https://www.peruforless.com/blog/quipu/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu?useskin=vector
they were more like ledgers or logs... not money. (Early databases perhaps?)
Unless you're in Europe.
Hyperlinks are now available for Rio terminal
YouTube is free to make windows and Mac apps, and turn off their web views.

They're relying on me doing work to run a browser that renders their ads, rather than providing a binary. They're not sending me a page of ads, they're sending me a couple files that I can choose how to show and what to put through a JavaScript interpreter
A crypto exchange is centralized infrastructure. It's just a web2 service. If it was a true crypto exchange (for example uniswap), then there'd have been no way for him to steal funds. This is a shortcoming of traditional infrastructure, crypto is the solution.
More comparisons here[0]. As is important, it's noticed that models even from the 80's made fairly accurate predictions. That's the real kicker: models accurately predict observable outcomes 20-40 years later (and have only improved since then).

I'm not sure why there's so much contention about climate science given that we've been observing this trend for nearly 50 years now. Scientist makes prediction about something 50 years later and 50 years later the prediction is shown to be accurate. It feels weird to not trust a source with such a good and observable track record...

[0] https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-well-have-climate-m...
No it’s 6240 / 3 000 000
Hey I'm not saying it's the only thing I have in my life. It's not like that at all. In fact I do a lot of physical stuff with other people (a lot more than most I would say :) )

But some people I only know online for logistical reasons.
A few years ago I saw a young doctor and all she did was put stuff into an iPad that told her what to do next. I could not run from her fast enough. Medical care by iPad app is not the way to go
It's a money-saving measure. Pay a typographer once and own your own font, vs. having to pay Monotype or whoever a yearly sub with endless licensing issues.
You could just measure the running speed of every hunter in a bush tribe--there is a group of people who are in very good shape and run all the time.
Yeah, communication is so much better with Dale's after lunch Cheeto breath to go with your stand-up meeting before going back to your soulless cubicle. /s

You're describing the way normies work, and that's greta but not everyone is NT.
> The normal way to run Service Workers is using Node.js.

This is false, and is not claimed in the original post. Service Workers run in the browser, and Node.js is not compatible with the service worker API. By which I mean that in Node, one cannot write `self.addEventListener("fetch", event => ...)`
AMA lobbied for a cap on CMS residency funding, and I believe you need to do a residency to get a license, so effectively yes.
In his mind his above royals, so a royal road would be demeaning to him.
Kinda just a bucket list item really.

Go to the moon - check

Been there, done that, to expensive and the cocktails where shit.
Sometimes, even if someone is sentenced to life in prison they are let out and kill again.

Also, putting remorseless killers in prison also represents a threat to other prisoners. We haven't figured out how to prevent that yet.

Should capital punishment be more strictly controlled with a massively high barrier to use, yes, but there are solid reasons to use it.
I have not seen youtube's warning on iphone safari (not logged in, firefox focus and 1blocker legacy content blockers)

but that could be because i am using vinegar[0] to replace youtube's player with a <video> tag

0. https://andadinosaur.com/launch-vinegar
OK I wanted to pass for valuing both of our time until I read the links...

[1] What a blog of pseudo social/political science is that, I've never heard of 'Rule by law' and very much doubt it's genuine valid research. For reference there's always the common complaint of injustice in China attributing to 'Rule by man' [https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/45293/] instead of rule of law. The legalist (法家) school of thoughts have nothing to do with it (well it was the school to make small weak country in terms of man power to be more efficient in agriculture and economy among other warring states but still doesn't fit).

If you read the actual constitution it mandates the democratic dictation against the enemy of the 'proletariat' (i.e public).
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_democratic_dictator...]
So it is unbelievably consistently 'lawful'. I wouldn't want anyone in the world to read chinese law but please bring logical and well researched papers I'll be very interested to read.

The list of wrongly accused is from 2013 but majority is from 2019-now. There are 374 resulted in jail sentence (with some suspended). No one is doubting it is bad and my uncle had been jailed in the 90s wrongly over his superiors corruption so you can tell the prevalence back then. Another big factor is that in recent years due to quick response to reports, more cases are being reported to authorities [https://www.12377.cn/]. How updated is that list I can't know. Is the equivalent incident rate 1000 times lower in the US, or even zero? I haven't checked.

Party member numbers: I meant anyone with at least 3rd tier city level HuKou (which is the insanely backward ancient land-born-based rights for local resources). Use my hometown as an example, while the whole population is 3,4 million (4 counties in one city). The 'urban' HuKou is only 540,000 Using googled stats https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_22126669
https://www.statista.com/statistics/270163/age-distribution-...
there are fewer people if you account for people aged between 20 and 60 (usually you would need to go through the previous prep youth group stage). The membership is as easy as joining a local gym. All my older family members are in party despite that they do nothing related to the government. Basically I'm saying party and population in 3rd city level HuKou holder are one.

Lastly I apologies if my commenting in English is so terrible that what I meant by 'bias' is confusing you. These might all be true but funneling one-sided or eye-catching stories only is the definition of biased reporting for me. Yes we don't have US/UK style press but it doesn't mean they don't get covered.
> his leadership at execution was such that a $350M, 20 month implementation, with collaboration with construction, tech, and external suppliers completed 45 minutes ahead of the original schedule

This made me smile. I'm assuming you mean 45 days or something. Not that any number 'ahead of schedule' is inherently a bad thing (within reason), but my mind went to "Are there really companies out there tracking 2 year projects and counting the minutes?" (and sadly, there probably are).
No I don't think so because the other person had this too. It's a more direct connection between minds, with no distraction of physical attributes. I can physically like the appearance of another person or dislike it, and it really affects my behaviour. Because this I'm not really being open and honest because it will introduce other factors that have nothing to do with what we are talking about. For example if the person is a beautiful lady I will be very inclined to impress her and this will affect everything I say and make me really shy. In a chat environment this is not a factor. That part doesn't exist, I'm just communicating with their mind.

Also, I don't really imagine the other person if all I have is a nickname. They remain just that, an entity. I don't imagine their physical appearance at all. They don't have a face or even a gender until I know it or is obvious from the nick. All I have is the things they say, the beliefs they have. It is more pure than their physical appearance which in many cases they don't control. Is that so weird?

I know not everyone has this ability but I do and I notice it a lot. Also, in many cases it does work out in real life. Just sometimes it doesn't.
Perhaps, but that's about as useful as pointing out that monads are a monoid in the category of endofunctors. What's the "image of a matrix?" Coming at LA from a 3D graphics background, I've never heard that term before. And what does the "span of its columns" mean?

To me, each column represents a different dimension of the basis vector space, so the notion that X, Y, and Z might form independent "column spaces" of their own is unintuitive at best.

These are all questions that can be Googled, of course, but in the context of a coherent, progressive pedagogical approach, they shouldn't need to be asked. And they certainly don't belong in the first chapter of any introductory linear algebra text, much less the preface.
None of that makes him a sexual predator. You're using "he's a weirdo" to imply "he's dangerous". Obvious bullshit.
> How come calling victims "imbeciles" is ok while my response is not?

It wasn't ok—it breaks the HN guideline against calling names—but we just didn't see it. The problem is that you responded by breaking the site guidelines considerably worse. That's not ok, regardless of how bad some other comment was or you feel it was. The guidelines are clear on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

By the way (this is unrelated) - did you not see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37488716 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37396401? I've been trying to let you know that there's a problem with your account and I have no other way of contacting you.
If throwing space rocks is trivial (which I'm not sure I buy), surely knocking them off course will also be trivial.
These are always fun thought exercises. IIRC, Sapiens had an example if someone fell asleep in 1000 and woke up in 1500, they would still recognize the world. But if they fell asleep in 1500 and woke up in 2000, it would be unrecognizable.

What it seems like we're seeing is the compounding of science. Much like how compound interest works. I often wish I was born today just so I could see the progress in the next 50-100 years.
Right, track surface is a big differentiator, let alone shorter indoor 200m tracks.

There’s a big difference in shoe technology between road and track too, primarily in terms of the amount of super foam allowed which in terms of the shoe is generally what seems to provide the most benefit.
It is fun to think of knots as rudimentary Merkel trees!
Why did they go closed-source for the 64-bit version?
100 percent agree. Humans love giving credit to individuals for the achievements of a community. It's not that individual leaders aren't important, it's that we give them the lion's share of the credit.

My org is full of people who were promoted because they can talk clearly and authoritatively about the project they botched the implementation of. But then they spent 10 people's time "influencing the team" to fix. But hey, they're loud, sure of themselves, and willing to break things so they must be good
Ish. This is covered in section 6.4.1 of Eelco's thesis (https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/phd-thesis.pdf). It all becomes much simpler if evaluating a build many times can only ever result in one output, but the Nix content-addressed model does permit multiple outputs. In such cases, the system just has to choose a canonical output and use that one, rewriting hashes as necessary to canonicalise inputs which are non-canonical.
The ReactJS + Typescript + Rust + LMDB combo just works so well for me.
I think it's a common joke in the D&D world that D&D sessions are just group therapy sessions where you sometimes get to kill a goblin.
I’d start with rails. It stays out of the way while providing all the core features necessary to grow.
A lot of people are talking about the numbers. But top senior engineers are hard to find. The ones who were let go also took institutional knowledge with them. This is why they are in demand, they are “proven” and they can operate much better in that role than their replacements.

I was not let go, but I left a company along with a wave of others (mostly those senior enough to be certain that they’ll find great work) when the company U-turned on their remote work promises. The team I was on was responsible for a major feature of the product, and only had two very senior software engineers, who both left in protest when it was ultimatum-style demanded that they’d move into commutable distance. It’s almost like we were let go. Like many people, we had moved away from an expensive city during the pandemic and were not looking to come back.

The company has replaced us with more than 15 contractors of junior to mid skills. Despite this, they are now periodically emailing us to come back, and work remote. It started as “come back, we will let you be remote”, and has evolved to much more appealing offers over time.

The difference between us and many more contractors is not that we’re John Carmacks and the contractors are graduates. It’s part seniority, but much larger part - a ton of knowledge about the systems the company had and the types of systems in the industry used for the feature we were responsible for.

Good luck replacing institutional knowledge with cheap labor. Every company thinks they’re special and they’ll have a great time with this footgun. And good luck to them! But I don’t know anyone who has found good employment now and wants to return to that.

Some layoffs could be more “amicable”, so I can imagine people wanting to return. But it will be hard for those in the industry who legitimately got much better jobs, which a lot of seniors that dedicated long tenures to the footgun company did. On the other hand, juniors might be easier to swap out than long-time seniors, though there are still costs to training them. It’s a lot of extra work before one employee is fully replaced by another.
Hypnosis: The day my mind was 'possessed' (2014)
There doesn't need to be a stable API. They should just upstream their drivers into the kernel tree.
How much can they relax the requirements, and what effects would it have on their products?

Alternatively, how much more they'd have to pay to get the same quality of people? I'd assume it's close to 20% more, which should be significant
> Having hex0 doesn't add anything to the mix, other than being shorter than hex1, because you still have the same initial bootstrap problem of how you can prove that the hex0 binary represents the hex in its source vs the hex1 binary and its source

Well presumably you toggle hex0 in on the front panel and then type hex1 with the keyboard, which is easier than toggling in the binary of hex1.
I had the exact same idea, after I wondered why my dog seemed unnaturally eager to go out in the yard, even after he'd just been.

It turned out there was a possum in the yard. I know they're quiet, in general, but they do make the occasional sound. I was thinking he must have heard it, which led to... this idea. Naturalists seemed like an obvious client.
Its all I would ever pay attention to anyway. And it should be fast-forwardable or rewindable. You should be able to see in to the past as represented within the financial transactions data a d in to the future, same.

And it should allow you to fikter your view by temporal categories like year/month/week/day

I can't quite put my finger on the deeper truth I'm articulating but that not every personal finance app implements a significant and front-page forecasting function is insane to me. I dont care about budgets, I care about how much money I have in any account at any given time if I've been dilligent in populating the model and I care when it shows that my balances are red/negative cuz I can't have that in a financial and existential way.

I dunno
I truly wish (and I know some do) that MBA programs had an industry experience prerequisite.

I have 20 years IT experience. I'm a PM. I'm looking to do an MBA for knowledge, learning about more formal business understanding, etc., and to help as I advance.

The PMs I know who are similar don't get an MBA and immediately start playing fuckfuck games (to borrow from military parlance). It's those who went high school > college > MBA > managerial role, without a day's experience in the field except maybe a brief internship half way through their undergrad.
Catalina Island Bison Herd
These "advantages" to sealing the battery are incredibly weak/false.

The weight difference from sealing the battery is negligible. If it saved several hundred of grams, it would one thing, but a replaceable battery adds at most tens of grams.

Even if the sticker price of device is cheaper, I would still have to pay more to replace the entire device once the battery is worn. This is the primary reason for most companies sealing the battery, to force buying an entire phone. Having a replaceable battery would save me money.

Sealing the battery was not responsible for waterproof phones. There were already waterproof phones with replaceable batteries.
Microsoft Windows 95: Jennifer Aniston, Matthew Perry [video]
> Remark. It is easy to prove that zero vector 0 is unique, and that given v ∈ V its additive inverse −v is also unique.

I'm sorry, this book is meant for the audience who can read and write proofs. Uniqueness proofs are staple of mathematics. If word "unique" throws you off, then this book is not meant for you.
Casio fx-CG50 calculator comes with Python built-in
Yes. Make predictions. Wait. Observe. Measure difference between predicted outcome and actual outcome.

We've had scientists making predictions since the 80's, so we have some long term observations. I'll save you the read, historical models are fairly accurate and have become more accurate over time.

I'm not sure why anyone considers this a debate. It's not a debate. It's willingness to look at data or not.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-well-have-climate-m...

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38047743 2 days ago, 110 comments.
That's true, I might have been a little aggressive on the claiming
They must have at least one customer where this makes sense.
Want to corroborate, been through several companies and several PMs. The excellent ones are rare, and have disproportionate impact in the team's performance.
Eternity is a long time, it's not even clear (to me at least) what "human" means on a timescale like that.
I miss when Twitter was 140 characters. This tweet could have benefited from the enforced brevity.
New law will ban rat poison that was harmful to wildlife
Plays in the historical days skipped the 'sex scenes'.

When I want to watch a story, all this 'sex' stuff just gets in the way.

The animated tv show 'Captain Fall' went from edgy to just down right ugg. Even 'American Gods' has a good premise but with un needed injection of 'sex scenes' it just slowed down the plot and in the end, just started to skip 10-20mins of of just to move the plot along.
RIP Matthew Perry.
The Nuremberg Code also limits progress. Will you make the same complaint about it?

If not, then we've established a mutually acceptable baseline for limits on human progress, and a subset of mutually acceptable reasons for imposing such limits. I suggest only that we need not stop there.
> Menuet64 is closed source because M32 was forked and new copyrights just slapped at the beginning of practically all 32bit source files (multitasking, drivers, GUI, networking..) without any permission. You can take a guess about the country in question.

https://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?t=22194
How to enjoy life like a billionaire
Except we'll not always get those undergrads ... When most of the stories are about layoffs, we won't get any more majors, but it takes ~5 years to start (not that many people will change majors).