skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s been a lot of talk about getting rid of the product management role. Some argue it should be merged with marketing. Others think it will be overtaken by engineering or dissolved into design. As product managers, we believe product management will thrive. But something is broken and we must fix it.

I don't think it’s the product management role we should get rid of, it’s the “management” part of it. Truth is we don’t manage anyone and should not act like we do. By removing the “manager” word from our job title, it will be clear we are focused on enabling other teams as opposed to being their boss.

It's not a new idea. Back then, the PayPal team opted to call the product role “producers” instead of “product managers.” To call them “product managers” would have implied that their job was just to “manage things” as opposed to “make things happen.”

They dropped the “management”. And it’s about time we drop it too. There are as many ways to ship products as there are product teams, but some principles are timeless.

With that, our team came up with "The product manifesto": 15 principles for aspiring product folks.

We want to make it a living document — feel free to add your perspectives here.
If you stick to the offers at Waitrose it can be surprisingly cheap! (And the fish counter after 9pm on a Friday can be a gold mine of delicious deals for seafood lovers!)

Of course once they have you in the store they’re relying on you buying all the other overpriced (and highly profitable) items…
Article states 4 trillion in excess profits.

US government had about a trillion in deficits before the pandemic then spiked up to about 3 trillion in each of 2020 and 2021 [1]. That is a bump of 4 trillion dollars suddenly over those two years. The past two years seems to be about 1.5 trillion each and the inflation rate has decreased.

The theory is that printing money to spend leads to raising prices. Somebody gets that excess money so they can buy more of whatever they need, maybe start new projects or whatever and this bids up prices. Since this is not based on removing the ability for others to buy what they want (no tax increase) then the overall demand goes up. If you also have supply restrictions while spiking demand, it is natural for prices to rise dramatically.

This creates wage rising demands which, after much agony, more or less gets everything back at the same actual price levels though usually with a range of incompleted projects and a decent chunk of people impoverished while some got very rich. The particulars depend on whatever sector was inappropriately stimulated in the start of the process.

The Austrian school of economics is a good place to learn more.

Taxes are an explicit mechanism to say who the government is taking money from in order to give money to whomever they are giving it to. Deficit spending is an implicit way of taking money as determined by the market which means those with the least power are likely to lose the money.

The pandemic had about a trillion going directly to people. The rest went elsewhere.

There is also the issue of this is US spending versus global spending. Not sure what other countries did and also unsure how much the US dollar being the main global reserve currency factors into this.

1: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/natio...
Kagi has FastGPT and the AI assistant mode (available via several bangs like !fast, !expert, and !code). Though the latter is beta and only available to Ultimate subscribers
Nicely identified Gary, that was indeed a statement I was pretending to apply to myself when in fact it was being applied to you. Good eye!

But that's besides the point: why do you think it impossible for someone to have an experience that does not align with your preconceived notions with regards to high density housing?
New Study Suggests Existence of a Universal, Nonverbal Communication System
Attacks abuse Microsoft DHCP to spoof DNS records
The beauty of Starlink is while they use a cgnat for ipv4 they assign you fully routable ipv6 addresses. So Tailscale has no problem making that bridge, it just uses ipv6.
> I think the rise of cookie consent banners is one of the crappiest things to happen to the internet as a user

Those have a simple compliant solution: Don't use more cookies (or other tracking) than you actually need to server the user.
https://kagi.com/fastgpt
> The world is entering labor shortage zone

Labor for what? Labelling training data?
Don't forget as well that it's not only a case of them not eating the rice, they also massively increased their intake of fish by skipping the carbs.
This is mimicking the bash syntax.
Russian influence operations adapt for long haul and exploit war fatigue
Reminds me of the Miller Urey Experiment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment
The music is stunning. And beautifully enhances every scene without overpowering it.
I think I cracked a screen on a single phone. Maybe some small scratches on others. Historically I haven't used a case, but my current one uses one of those Apple ones that doesn't cover the screen.
I think there is some truth in that. In a recent interview Shane McGowan's wife stated she was interested in him because he could get her access to lots of celebrities and she was very shallow. She wanted to get invites to parties with Elton John or David Bowie. Then she realised that he wasn't motivated by any of that stuff and would just as soon have a conversation with a homeless person that someone "important". She was very impressed with his empathy and community spirit and it changed her as a person to be with him. Your description would certainly explain their relationship.
I don't at all see from the article how it's "terrible compromised".
The word has a broader meaning in English, though. We'll often refer to things like raw fish alone, ie sashimi, as sushi.
Kagi is great but even though it knows my location is the UK, by default is skews to US-located results. I can fix it by suffixing every query with "UK", but its a pain.

That said, I'm a paying customer and will continue to be.
Quick, someone port Doom to it!
Maybe the more interesting stats for parents:

Average distance to primary/elementary school: 500m (with on average 3.6 schools within a 1km radius, 27.5 within a 3km radius)

Average distance to secondary/middle-high school: 900m (with on average 10.8 schools within a 3km radius)

That's why starting from age 8 or so most kids cycle or walk to school themselves (there are no school busses in the Netherlands AFAIK).
Tokelau (.tk)
Interesting thread.

We can find notable takes on this subject from bawdy folk tales/stories/plays/poems from many cultures. For an English translation of many Sanskrit texts from Ancient India on this topic see the works of A.N.D.Haksar - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._N._D._Haksar
Your rant is from a decade ago. Everything is delivered nowadays. Sure in the 70s the average housewife wouldn’t work and would walk to to the local shops during the week. Nowadays everyone works, so shops need to be open more hours.

The restrictions on Sunday trading are the worst things - the one time I do actually go to a shop is when I’m doing something like DIY and find that I need something at 4pm on a Sunday and a redox is closed, or when I’ve been away for the weekend and can’t stop at the normal local Morrisons as it had to close early.

If you want a town centre to be appealing then make it worth going to.
I use Zoho for my client's email host and I like it for that, but I try not to use any of its clients except for necessary configuration.

I configure Zoho into my clients devices for them in their phone mail app (with iPhone I use EAS so they get the email instantly with push). For my personal Zoho addresses (admin stuff) I have them send to my FastMail account. I really like FastMail's web app and Android app. So much better than Gmail and I have had only one or two minor issues with the Android app, usually when I have a spotty connection.
14 days is the minimum legal requirement for returns without having to state a reason. And they have to give you back real money no some funny store currency. There are also munimum warranty periods.
That’s an unfair description. He’s not uneducated.
Was it this guy:
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web...
Physicists 'Entangle' Individual Molecules
+1 for this, code should be layout to express business logic, abstractions that difficult the readability of the business logic are not worth it, it is a distractions. Yeah takes a while for juniors to understand when/how to use DRY.

Repetition is not a terrible evil, it has its place
In 2024, the Tension Between Macroculture and Microculture Will Turn into War
The Fellowship of the ring. What I found was that reading these stories that I think I know so well to my children (8 and 9) is that you get a new appreciation and understanding by reading them to someone else, particularly a child. I find my self recapping and explaining the story multiple times and become far more aware of the details than I would re-reading it myself.
That makes great sense.

I never used "tag" properly, then.

But for complete elements, like <br /> or <hr />, would it be proper to refer to them as "tags"?
Answering the title: yes
I was totally unaware of this. Thanks for sharing the link, time to go find a new job!
The 30 km/h limit will apply to all vehicles, including bicycles and in particular electric "fat" bikes which have become a particular problem in the city lately.
> assuming that privacy = breaking the law is something you are foisting on, and is in poor form.

What privacy do you have that isn't subject to the law? Outside of your own brain, can't literally everything be subject to a legal order to gain access?

It seems to me that your definition of absolute privacy is extreme, extremely specific to you, and renders the word essentially meaningless; This does of course make it very easy to argue in bad faith and rant about companies that you don't like.
Even if you had that on Android, they won't allow you to open a network connection in the background if the device is sleeping. You still need to send messages through FIrebase.
Very true! The real limiting factor on the success of this feature is the lack of posts on my blog :D

Works much more effectively for posts about topics I've covered a lot, like SVG or web audio. Happy with the outcomes in general, though, as I can now apply to more content-rich projects.
For a user, this has been my biggest frustration.
‘300x150 is the default specified in the SVG spec if it isn't specified in the document svg element.’

In practice, this means that some SVGs appear fine in apps that calculates the size in some other manner, but in others that follow the ‘spec’ only 300x150 appears. Safari & Jupyter notebooks for example.
Seriously annoying, but at least I was able to figure out why.

https://svgwg.org/specs/integration/#svg-css-sizing
Which one? The only ones I've been able to find have either terrible reviews, or I ordered it and it turned out to be terrible. "You sound like you're talking to us from under water or behind glass", was my colleagues' description.

Couldn't get a work phone with headphone jack... privately I dread the day where I need a new phone and need to probably forfeit both headphone and microsd to get something that's not seventeen inches in diameter or released more than three years ago so already out of support. Internal storage is overpriced, and I use that headphone port literally every day when falling asleep with an audio book; bluetooth buds are too thick to lay/lean on and would also get lost under the blanket and crushed overnight.
Thank you for the offer, but I insist the cropped numbers are unimportant :)!

I mean, I sent some electrical impulses through wires and two days later a book materialized in a box nearby. And then I used it to cook a hit dinner, which happened for the first time in a longer while :)

So I witnessed what would be a literal miracle for 99% of humanity from the past! How am I supposed to get angry about a few tiny numbers, without which the book is still perfectly usable? :))
Neovim Conf 2023 (starts in 4h)
I'm not sure I like that you say this as though it's an absolute truth versus your own interpretation of what "elves" are and this theory about them turning into woodland spirits.

First of all, elves appear in many different books, series, movies, and there are no hard and fast "rules" for elves. I mean, they're fictional first of all! There are no dogmatic universal laws governing them.

Also, in the Lord of the Rings, there is nothing canonical that states elves lose their bodies and become woodland spirits without "magic."
Chinese boffins pitch quadcopter for Mars sample return mission
I'm talking about the 'Another Chip' IC, which has laser writing. It's the bottom one in the header image. They use a coat of paint to obscure previous markings, then use the laser on that, resulting in brownish text (not embossed).
Does anyone know of a site that does an "objective" comparison of the various flagships and their ethical claims? like how does Apple's material sourcing compare to Fairphone, compared to Samsung etc.
Along with your thoughts, I feel that Google's problem has always been over-promising. (There's even comedy skits about it.)

That starts with the demonstrations which show really promising technology, but what eventually ships doesn't live up to the hype (or often doesn't ship at all.)

It continues through to not managing the products well, such as when users have problems with them and not supporting ongoing development so they suffer decay.

It finishes with Google killing established products that aren't useful to the core mission/data collection purposes. For products which are money makers they take on a new type of financially-optimised decay as seen with Search and more recently with Chrome and YouTube.

I'm all for sunsetting redundant tech, but Google has a self-harm problem.

The cynic in me feels that part of Google's desire to over-promise is to take the excitement away from companies which ship* what they show. This seems to align with Pichai's commentary, it's about appearing the most eminent, but not necessarily supporting that view with shipping products.

* The Verge is already running an article about what was faked in the Gemini demo, and if history repeats itself this won't be the only thing they mispresented.
well obviously both, but it just isn't a very good point. by making changes to the shared code in that specific way, you are undermining and insulting the developer who is supposed to be part of your team. you can't just pretend that the team aren't humans and that social conventions and etiquette don't apply.
Knowing your enemy is the first step to defeating it.

Let's take ADHD. A set of traits that are often found clustered together. These traits come with a common set of negative side effects. For a person in our society, these negative traits often make it extremely difficult to participate in the labor market the same way everyone else does. It can be extremely frustrating for them and everyone around them.

Now what is worse, having a very real work disability that significantly reduces your work capacity, or having that same disability but everyone thinks you are just lazy and need a stern talking to about it? Imagine if every single responsible person you know gives you a stern talking to several times a week. And you still can't do the task. Your brain simply will not do it. You cry with frustration, angry at yourself for being so "lazy". Oh, here's another talking to from another well meaning person who suggests getting more exercise and cutting out sugar. But you can't make yourself exercise any more than you can do this work task. You desperately want to but are trapped in your own mind.

For this situation, no, identifying that this is a real issue shared by millions of other people does not cause more harm than good. Now the person can start to understand the issue and get scientifically proven strategies for improving the situation.

Do they run the risk of always seeing themselves as the victim, sure, but _they have a real disability_. So does anyone else with a real disability. Of course it can be healthy to not think of one's self as a victim. But sometimes it's needed while processing the trauma of a life lived without knowing why you were different.

Some people, freshly aware of their condition, spend more time thinking about it, talking about it, and learning about it. But then many figure it all out, learn what coping strategies work for them, and then it's just a part of who they are as much as their height and eye color.
Beyond the Status Quo: A Critical Assessment of Lifecycle Investment Advice
Given how small the Venezuelan military is, I’d wager the Americans would see it as too easy.

What Guyana needs is to invite the British and American military in for a joint “training” exercise. The uk has a nice new aircraft carrier that could do with a shake down.
Thanks for the heads up, although the legacy shut-off won't affect this script.

Not sure if it's clear from the post or not, but this script uses the newer, recommended, `v1/chat/completions` endpoint rather than the deprecated `v1/completions` endpoint
Both? When I want to look up something in my native language.
Read the whole thing.

> Stefanik’s purpose was transparent. No matter how the college presidents answered, she won. If they answered accurately — that the question depended on the context - she could shriek neeeeeerrrrrrdddd like a football player bullying a kid with glasses, and credulous people would eat it up. If the presidents answered inaccurately but simply “yes,” she could make her next point: then why aren’t you punishing people who advocate intifada? Why aren’t you expelling students for saying “from the river to the sea”? Why aren’t you punishing people for accusing Israel of genocide? That was her express, explicit purpose…
This app is beyond amazing! Got me interested and curious about birds - only in my backyard I have ID'd more than 30 different species (I live besides a forest reserve in southeast Brazil). I now know them better and learned already how to recognize their music by ear for at least a few of them!

A couple of hours ago I was lucky to have the app recording when a Mesembrinibis cayennensis flew above the house making loud and curious sounds I can't describe really well. I heard it before a few times, but never knew what bird it was and was never able to spot it in the sky (not even today, which is unfortunate because it's a beautiful bird by the photos online!).

When I get some cash and free time I'm thinking about mounting a 24/7 bird id station to leave in my backyard :D And perhaps a live big beautiful spectrogram inside the house..
It keeps exposing how little most businesses care about their users? Seems useful.
I like the article but I would be surprised if Tolkien gave a lot of thought to these questions
Have you read the book? He spends a whole chapter on this (and for the record, my background includes a Physics degree). The gist of his argument, which he does a reasonably good job backing up, is that quantum effects just don't scale up to the level to affect change to even a single neuron. The other thing, which he doesn't really explicitly call out but is how I think of it: when we talk about "determinism", there are two very different things. One is what his book is about, sort of the more moral philosophy version, which is whether there's really any sense of "free will" as some definable thing that is separate from all the factors that allows us to make decisions truly contrary to our environment. The other, which is more what I'm used to from physics is the idea that if you had a gigantic computer and input all the the state of the universe that you could calculate future states. On that one, I agree that the universe isn't deterministic (even with the hypothetical infinitely large computer, unless Heisenberg's wrong, you simply couldn't measure both the position and momentum of even a single particle to high enough precision, let alone the entire universe). Yes, you could come up with a thought experiment where, eg, Schrödinger's cat style, you make some single quantum event observable and produce a significant effect. That would make things non-deterministic in the sense that you couldn't pre-calculate the effects. But it doesn't really change anything wrt to the free will argument; a person is still effectively mechanically responding to the environment, which might include non-deterministic events.

Anyway, back to the question of whether you've read the book and are criticizing the arguments that it actually makes or are you just reacting reflexively to an imaginary argument based on the title and second-hand descriptions?
You come off as an extremely bitter person. Why so much anger directed at a programming language (of all things)?

Companies you mention HAD to scale up, then their stacks diversified... hell, Facebook was built on PHP, and when he time came for a chat functionality to be implemented they used Erlang, not because PHP is shit, but because concurrency and resiliency was better handled by a different programming language...

Realistically, most applications will never need to scale up. So what's wrong with a nice framework that allows people to just get stuff done?
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38559673
> Abstract bottom to top, not top to bottom.

Amen. With the caveat that this is a guideline, not a rule.
To me it feels more like a cult. Wear this kind of shoes and clothing. Make these hand gestures, talk that way. They look and sound fake, over processed and living in their own bubble detached from the rest of the world.
'Unprecedented mass coral bleaching' expected in 2024, says expert
Sure, I'll write one, but if you don't mind I would prefer to do it in a few weeks, when I cook more recipes and can write something based on real "kitchen experience" with the book?
Neither Gemini nor Steve Jobs faked. They upsold it. It happens all the time in marketing. The worst we can say they did is "overstated".
This article uses the words "workers' decision" several times which sounds like individual workers are deciding to not deliver to Tesla. The truth is that a sympathy strike involves a union deciding to take industrial action against an organisation to support another unions industrial action. So these workers are legally striking against Tesla too, it's not just an ad hoc decision made by individuals.

PostNord employees could not just decide to stop sending parcels to a company without it being part of a directed strike.
Flame was announced two days ago - the above linked blog post is the announcement post. So I'm not sure anyone is using it in production yet except fly.io, its creator.
I don't think that this is how it works. In Italy almost all sushi restaurants are run by Chinese immigrants, but we definitely don't think of sushi as Chinese food.
> Because I think those aren't really necessities, yet the average person in the US has them. We're just quite spoiled in the 21st century, and many would argue (including clearly OP) that the reason for this abundance is (at least in part) free market capitalism.

If you want to consider that "spoiled" you're more than welcome to, but it doesn't change decades of increasing wealth inequality, nor the fact that we have no choice but to live in the 21st century.

> The difference is now you can work reasonable hours (40/week) doing a low-skill job and still have all those things.

My point is that that's no longer possible to achieve this with just 40 hours.
And you can re-inline and modify the special cases in the future if necessary.
They overstated the capabilities. But even with some additional prompts, the results were amazing! If this had been shown 15 months ago, we would all be going gaga over it.
the original linked article in the tweet [0] now returns 404 for me

[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-12-07/google...