skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a product manager, and I'm glad that many commenters in this thread agree that we are not all useless :) Of course, just like with any role, there are those that are good and bad at it, but I am glad most of you worked with good PMs and know the value such a person can bring.

I also saw astute comments from folks that recognize that if the product manager role does not exist as a distinct role, someone else in the organization has to take on the work of determining what to build and when, based on market and customers needs - usually engineering or product marketing. There is nothing wrong with that, btw, just different way to slice the same pie of responsibilities. Finally, several folks rightfully pointed out that a product manager (person accountable for building the right product for the market) is very different from a project or program manager (a person coordinating internal activities).

The only thing I'd add here is that product management roles can also be very different, depending on the stage of the company (early stage vs late stage), the type of product it builds (e.g. B2B vs B2C), and the industry vertical. Looking at the author's LI profile, he seems to work for larger companies, in the financial sector, in the UK. Perhaps in that world (which I perceive to be a fairly rigid, regulated industry), the role of the product manager is quite different from what I have personally experienced working as a PM in the Bay Area for early and mid stage startups.
I see what you mean. Thanks for clarifying. Even so, Nix is no worse placed than those other distributions for bit reproducibility. Correct?
People build bridges today that are expected to still be standing in 100 years.

They could have made it a bit weaker, not bothered with paint or inspection hatches, and saved a little money, and had it only last 25 years...

The time-value of money says that any benefit 25+ years from now is almost worthless, so it probably wasn't worth spending anything on those things to make the bridge last longer.

Yet in most cases we still tend to build it to last 100 years, despite the economist saying it isn't worth it.
Happy to take a look through anything you might want to point me to.
Canon's ultra-thin lens "eliminates the protrusion of smartphone cameras"
The Cult of CReativity Review. Riders on a Brainstorm
Hi,
My friend is a research scholar working on voice interfaces of future and i am collaborating with him on a few academic projects. He is looking for pulse of user to understand research focus areas. could you please contribute to this goal - should take 2 mins max. you can request a copy of the research in return.
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It’s kind of annoying I’m better friends with the moms of my kids friends than I am the dads. The dads want nothing to do with other dads but the moms are friendly and we chat way more. Even the dads that should be a great friend match we just never seem to make time for each other.

All my male friends are either from college or work, and like you said they tend to forget you if you don’t follow up.
> anything short of perfection was inconceivable to them

them being the list of leonardo, steve jobs, peter thiel etc..

the part I quoted just isn't true
As a recreational runner I suppose my primary goals are to maximize health benefits and minimize injury and long term wear-and-tare. My absolute pace doesn't really matter, I just want to see it improve over time.

I know I have terrible running form, but I kind of view it as not owning a fancy road bike. Sure, I'm slower on my old mtn bike, but I'm burning more calories. Now I'm wondering if that's a bad philosophy for running, after watching videos of good runners I'm amazed how smooth they are. All my bouncing up and down has got to be hard on my suspension, and new struts are expensive.
Since the service alters the data before delivery, a strong argument can be made that it’s not a proxy per se. Say I did something similar with the goal of assisting vision-impaired users. That’s not just a proxy.

It’s the weekend. He’ll talk to them on Monday.
there's been an issue with MAID being recommended or encouraged to people who don't want to die, but who have complex chronic illnesses that are expensive to treat. there's been a few really shocking cases of that happening, even sometimes crossing the line into coersion.
sheep: we love our freedom, we'll never come baaack
farmer: no problem, i'll just be over here by the food if you change your mind
I never said they were in 2007, I said I bought my last Nvidia card in 2007.

In 2011 I was using R600, without any problems. Since then the situation improved steadily, especially when Steam got native support.
It would indeed be better to state that clearly, then I don’t have to check it (our company has a policy which won’t get this passed).
wait what, I didn't know he had written HPMOR
This is the textbook definition of the religion of Scientism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism
Says WP, which is not just tilting, but completely tipped over to the left. It's hard to evaluate such claims especially from a party that is not disinterested in the demise of X. Additionally, claims from X (also not disinterested in their own success) seems to paint a rosier picture of ad revenue recovery trends, record engagement, etc., as recently as this month. Finally, considering that Twitter was arguably (I'd say demonstrably) tilted to the left prior to the buy-out, tilting right is simply getting us closer to the middle. The headline itself seems engineered to trigger some dopamine receptors in their audience. Ah, the schadenfreude, eh?
Take all that you found out about ammonia from the post above.

Now remember the videos of people putting gasoline in plastic bags and open tubs in the back of their car during the covid shortages.

It will happen with ammonia too if it with some miracle becomes as big as gasoline. People will die.
If it's Turing-complete, someone will try to run Linux on it.
Thanks for your comment.

> We're discouraged by moderation here from arguing about why things are flagged.

Thanks for informing me, I wasn’t aware of that. I did know the part about emailing. Though, I wonder how this impacts in a fast-moving forum like HN where if a post fails to meet a critical threshold, it gets dropped.

(I am aware of the second chance queue but I don’t know if they too have similar weights of “needing upvotes steadily to survive”. I think the posted article was important for HN readers to see and hence asked in my first comment.)
> Nobody is immune to advertising

Someone pulled the wool over your eyes to sell you ads if you believe this. Maybe they even showed you a study they funded.
If all you need is a strep test or a Z pack, urgent care is a great deal.
Aren't you mixing two distinct things here?
I'm in a similar situation - my girlfriend is Korean and speaks perfect English but some of her friends and family do not (and are rather self-conscious about it). I'd like to meet them halfway by getting to a basic conversational level in Korean. Any tips? What has worked well for you so far? I've been working with Duolingo for a few months with mixed results. I just started Anki with the Korean Vocab by Evita deck [1] and it has been really great for vocab at least. I'll be checking this post out later as well.

[1] https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/4066961604
Depends on the irl situation.
Dance hall: loud music, lot's of alcohol. What's left of the information?

The ideal situation is an honest dating selection system. Only if/when it is honest, good combinations for dating emerge. There you have it: dating happens in irl.

I can speak from experience that such systems exist(ed) in electronic form.
leeches are still in use…
People pay for the roads that is being used while riding a bus. It is built and maintained by their taxes. Bus fares is going towards other costs from operations to salaries. YouTube on the other hand is a freeloader on the internet infrastructure.
I just realized that archive.org might also in violation of Vercel's ToS given its ability to bypass paywall.
Not hypocritical at all.

There is no "entitlement" to videos. They are free. YouTube sends them to us for free. They do so hoping we're gonna look at the ads. We're under exactly zero obligation to actually do that though. It is not at all our responsibility to make their business model work.

Abusing open source developers is the true entitlement.
Fidelity has marked down the value of Twitter/X by 65%
> The ideologies you've listed work in some ways, fail in others – namely that every time they decide that 'we know best' they crumble – especially when it comes to trying to force change in behaviors deeply ingrained in our culture.

I was attempting to list all the ideologies I could remember the names of.

That things eventually fail is only trivially correct because all empires eventually fail, except for the ones which still exist, which is tautologically always true from the point of view of any finite observer.

But it is absolutely 100% false to say that their failures occur "every time they decide that 'we know best'", as this is not only what it even means to have laws (and thus will happen instantly regardless of how long a nation state or empire lasts), it is even demonstrated by the internal group dynamics in various primates and wolf packs.
They don't want to solve your problem over a messaging system - and prefer you to come in - the MD can't bill anyone for answering you questions over the phone or even via messaging - which is why they push for an appointment.

Not sure what line of work you are in, but are you willing to answer endless emails and or voice mails from customers, all for free? I know I am not - and while you personally may only ask one question a year, a typical MD may have a panel size of 1000 to 3000 patients (at least the ones I know); multiply one question per patient by 2000 patients, and all of a sudden you find out you worked for free for most of the year.

Maybe if insurance companies had a billing model that allowed the MDs for charge for this type of 'support', that made them some money it would be workable - but I can't blame them for not wanting to give out free care this way.
So good! Its crazy how legal information is such a spread out mess.

Whats worse is that git is such a perfect solution for legislation.
Your per person figures seem low to me, and you're calling it profitability but then taking expenses out of that. Is that an industry term? Where does that number come from?

I would think at least before expenses it would be quite high as medical visits cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
Migrating our backend from Vercel to Fly.io
Sounds like he fired a type of project manager - one who controlled the team. A project manager can manager the team by supporting them and unblocking them while doing non-implementation type work such as managing and reporting the project's budget, managing and reporting progress and delivery aims.
Not the GP but I spend very little time on YouTube. Even me binging YouTube is watching maybe one or two videos in a row. I hate YouTube ads because they're usually worse than the most obnoxious TV ads with blaring audio or just obnoxious content.

I don't watch YouTube enough that Premium is anywhere close to worth the money. So I happily block ads and will drop YouTube in a second if they block me for using an ad blocker.

They'd be better off limiting the quality of streams to ad blockers. By blocking those users YouTubers lose paid placement online advertising.
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I think the answer is in better education. There is never a logic class in elementary school or middle school. Why?
omg yes!!!! this too.
Only 5,000, but look at the pyramids. They're cool to look at, and the construction is fun to think about, but they're utterly useless. For any sort of 10,000 year space project, there's little (1%) harm in having a 100-year cool-off period to see if it still makes sense and how far technology has come.
> Amazon until 2022 really genuinely exemplified this.

I remember Amazon from 2002 — that felt like they really gave a shit. There are occasionally times where it feels that way now, as a customer. But most of the time the customer service experience is slow, impersonal, and painful.

I understand they're a big company, and I don't expect it to be as good as when they started out. But I wouldn't say that Amazon "genuinely exemplified" giving a shit up until last year. Apple might fit that bill, but even they have fallen off recently (apparently you now have to make appointments to buy products in-store?!).
Longest Domestic Flight
Remember APE.
The right medium is always the most

Accessible
Powerful
cost Effective

relative to your audience and available resources.
covered quite a few times over the years

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37514601 (2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31290789 (2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28988778 (2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9595507 (2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1494999 (2010)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=776381 (2009)
I have huge respect for John Siracusa. His articles at Ars Technica, pragmatic opinions on the world of computing always spoke to me, but this article sounds like something written by John Gruber.

Apple indeed innovated in multiple ways and markets, but un-removable batteries wasn’t one.
How did you screen off most? I would think it happened very similar to swiping?
To me it seems like the options for user-defined schema are either push-down the schema (and do one schema per spreadsheet) which lets you take full advantage of your DB's query planner statistics system etc, do an entity-attribute-value table and deal with building your own query planner and collecting your own statistics, or go with a document store and build some kinds of dynamic indexes instead of dynamic table schemas.
I certainly understand the perverse incentive, but that's already the incentive we're working under. And how do you propose we fairly compensate people for the value they've created when making content? How can we support artists, journalists, and so on to do the work that we enjoy?

If everyone did as you suggest, spammy SEO sites will be the last to die, because the effort invested to make them is so much lower than the effort of quality content.
Yes, completely. If you lack any of these things you are shut down completely
Post-truth might actually be ok

It is possible that we become generally more skeptical of all 'produced information and therefore less easily propagandised by those with an agenda to push. As I have got older, I have realised that there is some value in being less certain. One thing haters (of whichever persuasion) seem to have in common is conviction to their cause, a position which can only be arrived at if you have been priorly convinced that it *is* possible to discover the absolute truth, and that you have been amongst the select few who had superior qualities to do so.
See also Jim Lehrer's rules for journalism. That is, when you see these rules broken someone is very likely wanting to bullshit you and/or as a "journalist" has failed to use critical thinking.

https://www.openculture.com/2020/01/jim-lehrers-16-rules-for...
> I don't have a right to ad-free youtube, but I do have every right to try and control what things get sent to and viewed on my computer.

Ars Technica used to autoplay a video every time you browsed on their website.

I am (was) flabbergasted by the sheer amount of pretentiousness that they thought that was ok...
In this context, this isn't the semantic hill you want to die on.
> in charge of planing, execution and governance of a project. They don’t define any of the goals or vision.

This sounds like if you were trying to hire a race-car driver instead hired two people, and put one of them in charge of steering to the left and the other in charge of steering to the right.
I just watched this a couple of days ago. His final thoughts about the future of heavy are easily proven by looking at your own past.

I remember when War Pigs seemed impossibly heavy. But even my own band 30 years ago was far heavier. And there's a lot of music far heavier than that was.

I don't think music has gotten heavier since the 90's though. The heaviest stuff I know is, for example Swedish or Finnish heavy metal. Seriously brutal stuff. Even with modern distortion, today's heaviest bands are not heavier than that.

But eventually something will come up, and heavy will go up another notch.
I went through them a long time ago. It’s not the most in-depth resource, but you will learn enough calculus for when you need to actually apply it or even just pass tests. Also learning math on KA is really fun, there’s something they just get right. I’d definitely recommend giving it a try.

If you don’t feel satisfied after going through the courses, you can always pick up a book afterwards to dig deeper.
I'd like to see some justification for considering science and space exploration as one and the same. It's hardly as if we've run out of things to learn from this planet, after all.
Not to mention Jupiter's or Saturn's magnetic fields, that are far less dense than Earth's, yet both planets have massive gaseous atmospheres.
A released product is not the end of the product. See: Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, X, Gmail, Dropbox, Firefox, etc.
Smallest particle accelerator is 54M times smaller than Hadron Collider
Toyota's tactic for a few years has been trying to Osborne Effect[0] consumers into not switching brands.

"We'll have a 1000km battery EV / viable hydrogen car / ammonia engine coming REAL SOON, so don't buy an EV now! But do get one of our hybrids while waiting for our industry-shattering new invention in a just few years".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
my best guess is theyre trying not to "over-treat" me, the problem being its a different doctor every single time i go in, so if they all do that i never get anywhere if i have a real issue. also, at my office its tough to get followups with the same doctor. Note that its partly my own fault for backing down when they do deflect me though, but its hard to argue with a doctor when they say "lets just try this for now". Also, Fwiw i didnt downvote you, im not sure why you were downvoted.
“ Ford even built a Stirling that could drive away from the curb (with relatively low power) twenty seconds after you turned the start key”

Can the engine be started remotely? Just asking…
It is still the same use case. I mentioned the iPhone X and not the earlier models because the X takes really good photos and videos. Sure the later models are better; but it is a bit like watching 4K instead of 1080p on the TV. I can tell the difference but 1080p is fine.
Male CEOs with daughters more likely to champion gender diversity (2016)
Can you link to any resolution? All I can see on X/Twitter is the one submitted post.
Yes I’ve been exploring this topic (and undertaking personal growth work) for well over a decade.
I know all about the twin studies and the way they’re used to support all kinds of claims but that don’t actually hold up to scrutiny.

DNA just encodes proteins. It can’t explain/predict detailed behavioral patterns.
A prominent example of how genetics can influence aggressive/criminal behavior is due to variations in the MAOA (“Warrior”) gene, but the promotion/suppression of this gene is still strongly influenced by environmental factors [1].

Twin studies (particularly separated twin studies) claim to prove that all kinds of things are genetically encoded, because “they must be”, without considering how much is caused/influenced by other factors - the gestational environment and the experience of being separated from the birth family being the most obvious.

That’s not to say these behavioral patterns aren’t deeply ingrained and difficult/slow to change, but that’s very different from being hard-coded in DNA and impossible to change. For n=1 anecdata, I’ve significantly reduced my aggressive tendencies after years of growth work.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3469457/#:~:tex....
The best thing I can think of is flagging, which would just mean that if you agree with me, when other posts like this come up, leaving a comment suggesting that it goes against HN's guidelines, which it does IMO by not being interesting. This might result in it still hitting the front page but spending less time there, which would probably be better than going outside of how HN currently works, since HN already strikes a good balance with its curation.
I use an analog system that requires nothing but half-sized white index cards, laid out in a grid on a table. No lists, no piles!

Every task has a separate card, described simply in a short actionable phrase, written in pen, in the center of the card. The corners have optional notation:

- top left: a location or '*' if the task must be done in a certain place (eg, grocery shopping)
- top right: the date/day/time the task needs to be performed
- bottom right: short text describing some dependency or other note, or an arrow indicating that I've written long context (eg, a shopping list) on the back of the card
- bottom left: contextual area (project name, 'home', etc.)

Often I shuffle the cards around as an organizational method. Sometimes I gather them and then put them out again, especially if they've sat for too long. Or I'll walk around the house (or a project) with a handful of blank cards and do a 'brain dump,' writing down all the things I've been thinking about.

When the task is done, I rip a card in half (and recycle it) — it's a wonderful psychological release!

I've used this system since I read Allen's original book 20 years ago, and it continues to work very well for me.
> There might be actions that are not order-independent, and the state of the CPU might result in slightly different binaries, but all are correct.

Well no: that's really the thing reproducible packages are showing: there's only one correct binary.

And it's the one that's 100% reproducible.

I'd even say that that's the whole point: there's only one correct binary.

I'll die on the hill that if different binaries are "all correct", then none are: for me they're all useless if they're not reproducible.

And it looks like people working on entire .iso being fully bit-for-bit reproducible are willing to die on that hill too.
What subdivision of responsibilities? Clients and servers were divided for as long as clients and servers existed. Full stack is aggregation of responsibilities. DevOps too. Dedicated QA is rare now.

Most companies with product managers have fewer customers and less complex products than 1990s Microsoft.
The more it looks like insane scribbling, the heavier you can expect the music to be.
> Google ad revenues from search alone were at $42.6 billion, up from $40.7 billion in the second quarter of the previous year. This marked a 4.8% annual rise. Meanwhile, gross revenue from YouTube ads came in at just under $7.7 billion, a 4.4% increase from the $7.3 billion in Q2 2022.
Visits delivered by non-physicians, but charged as if they’re all MDs. Late stage capitalism is great.
The Persian Philosophers of the Silk Road really were an impressive group and perhaps more relevant to the modern world than their remoteness would suggest. I once traced the Mathematical lineage of Fields Medalists and something like 2/3 trace their intellectual origin to thinkers in Central Asia.
Like the story of the businessman meeting the fisherman - "once you've built a business you can retire and do a little fishing" - "but I already do that"
Those crushes... they can be quite crushing if not mutual, or if the counterpart is in a relationship, and that happens more than not.
I watch ads on YouTube mobile app because there in no way to block ads over there but why the hell YouTube and Google want me to watch ads on a desktop YouTube?! Doesn't majority of Google's and YouTube's ad revenue come from mobile?
Did you know SICP is in Javascript now?
We have to pay for your secret? I am calling BS!