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by bcherny 4y ago
This article reads like this person has not worked in a well run engineering organization. In a good org: - Managers do not set goals. Teams set goals (EM, TL, PM, DS, etc. need to collaborate on the goal and be bought into it). - There is
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by bcherny 4y ago
Dumb question, as a layman vaguely scared by easy access to this kind of tech: how easy is it to engineer bad stuff using these kits? (say, drug resistant bacteria)
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by bcherny 4y ago
Not to agree or disagree with the quote itself, I’m simply giving a possible explanation for why the commenter may have changed their mind.
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by bcherny 4y ago
“He who is not a républicain at twenty compels one to doubt the generosity of his heart; but he who, after thirty, persists, compels one to doubt the soundness of his mind.”
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by bcherny 4y ago
True, but it’s disingenuous to fail to acknowledge the difference between that and, say, the US State Department having a board seat at Meta and directing which posts should be boosted on everyones’ feeds.
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by bcherny 4y ago
The difference is the Chinese government has a board seat at ByteDance, not to mention soft control via broad government authority over markets. If China wants, boosting content to manipulate US elections or tracking the location of people
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by bcherny 4y ago
Downloaded! Funny, I suggested building an app exactly like this a month ago. In unusual HN fashion, I was immediately shot down as “that would never work” [1]. I feel vindicated that Consumer Reports built this :p. [1] https://n
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by bcherny 4y ago
Any tips for passing the N1 with ease? It seems daunting..
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by bcherny 4y ago
Quick corrections: 1. N3 isn’t that easy. You need to learn 600 kanji, plus reading and grammar. It takes over 1000 hours of focused study [1]. It’s a stretch to call it “basic” or “very easy”. 2. There’s no double taxation for US citizens
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by bcherny 4y ago
As a foreigner living in Japan (similar situation to the author), this article hits the nail on the head.
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by bcherny 4y ago
10 years of writing code (PHP, JS, SQL, Basic) without knowing anything about CS, then realizing the intuitions I developed are beautifully explained by existing CS concepts (thanks to someone’s post on Reddit, I think). I was a professiona
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by bcherny 4y ago
Putting this info all in one place is an excellent first step, but seems far from “simple”. What would it take to turn this list into a 1-click opt-out for all of these services?
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by bcherny 4y ago
Wouldn’t every other grocery chain in the area be incentivized to let you in? (If your answer is “yes but many areas have just one store”, then maybe the real problem is uncompetitive markets?)
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by bcherny 4y ago
Every major site is already pretty effective at blocking bots, and has been for years. I don’t see why that would suddenly start to become less effective, given their approaches largely focus on behavioral signals, not specific content.
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by bcherny 4y ago
US police already use force too often. Presumably, something stopping police from using even more force is that they too are human: they need to look their victims in the face before deciding whether to use force. I worry what will happen i
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by bcherny 4y ago
It’s interesting that IMEI seems to be the primary key that much of these backdoor commands rely on. Collating your IMEI against historical info, the government knows where you’ve been and with whom; collating it against other personal data
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by bcherny 4y ago
Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, etc. all have European offices. At least some of these allow fully remote work from Europe. If you’re looking for a big tech company in particular, I’d start by checking out their job boards.
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by bcherny 4y ago
Technology isn’t everything. Sometimes focusing on a problem and executing really well is what matters. Even Google can get distracted from the core user need it was built around.
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by bcherny 4y ago
Wow, this is seriously impressive work, if it really works as well as the code examples make it seem. Many of these ideas I have not seen in other JS typecheckers: - Inferred generics that work - Effect tracking - Prepack-style AOT evaluati
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by bcherny 4y ago
I didn’t see Japan mentioned. I wonder how the popularity of onsens (gender-separated nude spas) compares with the declining popularity of European mixed-gender nude beaches.
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by bcherny 4y ago
Ah, sounds similar to PuzzleFighter, an older Japanese game.
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by bcherny 4y ago
I mean, TikTok can manipulate public opinion and access to information more easily than that, by simply artificially demoting/promoting certain content — no user data needed. Eg. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology
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by bcherny 4y ago
Both things are true: people wanted more interactive apps; at the same time, most engineers don’t work on those kinds of apps. A frequent analogy: React raises the ceiling for the kinds of experiences you can build in a browser. But not eve
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by bcherny 4y ago
Your causation is reversed. People demanded more interactive web apps, which led to more stateful UI, which led to React. In the case of Facebook, the motivating app was Ads Manager — an enormous, highly interactive single page app for adve
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by bcherny 4y ago
What are some examples of what your friend's mom would use this service for?
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by bcherny 4y ago
I’ve been using BeReal daily for a few weeks, and love it. It feels much more authentic than a lot of social media. Super unfiltered.
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I’ve seen them for sale in supermarkets.
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Or, hiring.

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