skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A real mission statement is suppose to provide a lens through which tough decisions can be viewed, similar to the military idea of “commanders intent”.

I think a well written and deliberately structured playbook of org strategy (or departmental playbooks) is better than a mission statement for this.

Taking your military reference: these are akin to Field Manuals. Commander’s intent is meaningless unless there’s an established tradecraft behind it that governs how to execute on that intention in a way that brings alignment to behavior, initiative and decentralized execution of said intent.

Mission statements probably give you a “North Star”, but they don’t-on their own-necessarily help teams execute
I prefer to do this directly in vim with Goyo: https://github.com/junegunn/goyo.vim
The Jews from Ethiopia who confound Israel’s law of return
Plenty of companies I've worked for will at least allow people to move around between teams from time to time, so I feel like that 99% comment is at least somewhat of an exaggeration - at least when applied to companies that are large enough to have multiple teams.

Sure, a transfer from team A doing line-of-business applications in Java to team B doing line-of-business applications in Java is probably straightforward, especially around the time that team A's project goes live and team B's project is just ramping up.

But if our hypothetical Java dev was bored of Java and wanted to do something completely different, and would take some time to get up to speed in the new thing, that would be a harder sell, and ironically gets harder the better you are at your original job. Say you had been cranking out CRUD apps in Java and had a reputation for it and decided that you wanted to do machine learning all of a sudden. I think you would struggle to do that even in large companies. The best you could realistically hope for would be a promotion within your current silo. Unless you went somewhere you could start afresh.
Well, you'd need a couple weeks before you expect to seeing measurable impact on cases/hospitalizations and another couple weeks before it starts really showing up in deaths. The daily data is noisy to start with so it's hard to eyeball trends, but it looks like cases have started to trend up recently and deaths are still mostly flat, which is about what you'd expect at this point in time if the lockdown that was lifted was having a significant effect on limiting COVID impacts.
The section of the article titled, "Complacency is Cancer" is, in my opinion, very offensive to those with cancer and their loved ones. I personally get very offended with this hyperbole.
I was just thinking the other day that it must suck to have been born after the internet was taken over by a bunch of corporations. To never know what it used to be, how it was welcoming and user-centric. How there were many communities everywhere, where people could talk about everything without faceless corporate moderator oversight.

I think kids today would agree with this, it's just that no one tried to explain it to them. Engagement-driven social media is addictive because it's designed to be so, but once you've understood the difference, there's no going back to it.
The "single board computer" meaning of SBC dates back to the mid-1970s when microprocessors first started coming out. Whatever a session border controller is, it's unlikely to pre-date that.
I submitted a link[0] of a Twitter thread to HN[1] explaining how we do it.

I often see this question pop up, either in the form of someone wanting to freelance, or someone asking about how to deal with clients. That thread has a few pointers and could be useful.

PS: For context, I live in Algiers, Algeria but we have a presence in Paris, France. All of our clients are in Europe. We make bespoke machine learning products for enterprise at different degrees of maturity (from "I want in on the AI stuff" to "we have an in house data science team but we need help" all the way to "we are an R&D arm, specialized in artificial intelligence, of a major group and I co-invented something you used to get here, how can you help us innovate faster?").

[0]: https://twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/131066829330549965...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24809257
Yeah, perhaps it could make sense economically down the road, once it's all BEVs that are being shipped. It's really hard to to that calculation as an outsider though. Maybe this project should work with a BEV company to do a preliminary feasibility study of this. They've probably already thought about this though.

Edit: It will also become more feasible with energy density increases in batteries. I hope it's not entirely unrealistic to expect a doubling in the next 20 years.
DDoS is sometimes used as a form of censorship -- in this case the attack targeted specific videos.
I think its important to stay informed, but to an extent for the information received to be actionable. For example, if I want to know if I should wear a raincoat, I check the weather. I don't worry about every storm around the globe. Periodically, I'll check for storms in the winter. If a large system / blizzard is coming, I'll make provisions.

I would apply the same to Covid-19, but there is a catch. Policymakers are making decisions in real time to respond to a crisis. Its apparent they are being swayed by interest groups that want to protect their businesses and rationalize the impact to public health. I am torn by this, because I don't want to be glued to the news, however it is necessary to hold politicians accountable for the factions they are currying favor for.

This however, doesn't require 24/7 coverage. I can at least research the news on a weekly basis and do what I can with that. Stay informed for the next election, sign letters, etc.
In Rust:

"a, b".split(", ")
Google is pretty invested in TPUs for their own workloads but I fail to see any durable encouragement of them as an external product. At best they're there to encourage standalone development of applications/frameworks to be deployed on Google Cloud (IMHO of course).
F1 is more a soap opera for petrol enthusiasts. There's much better racing out there but F1 has the drama, or at least the reporting and coverage of every who said what about whom etc.
Mockups are part of the iterative process. Building a mockup to test is part of what I was describing.

The point is that you can't simply make a mockup, assume it proves your hypothesis, and then go heads-down building the exact product shown in the mockups for 6-24 months and expect great results. Instead, you need to iterate both the mockups and the product in parallel, engaging with the market along the way.

As in the example I provided, sometimes customers will claim to love your mockups but then decline to pay for the product when it arrives. It's one of the first things every product manager learns in the real world.

> It's a good way to separate the technology decisions from the business decisions.

Trying to separate technology from the business decisions is a mistake. At the start of the process, you need technology, product, sales, and business to be tightly intertwined.

Dividing the labor and sending different roles in different directions is a mistake at an early stage company. You need to get everyone working together to iterate over and over again.
You only get 80% of the gains if your data distribution is stationary and/or you can construct a non-ML solution with near 80% of the ML one. If a non-ML solution is that close to non-ML then I would just stick with that - the advantages in terms of predictability and ease of maintenance would likely outweigh small performance gains.

A model that can't be continuously trained inevitably rots due to data, interface or environment changes (and the code is typically very difficult to maintain across team members - if the author leaves it's often a ticking time bomb). If you're OK with the model rotting then it wasn't that important to your business to begin with. This is not true for all businesses.
Please don't quote me out of context: "these raw parts" referred to the MediaTek parts specifically, not all the parts in this review.

The only thing that SOMs provide is a processor + DRAM + PMIC. If you practice and become proficient at designing around application processors, it should take you no longer than 3-4 hours to get this component of the system (the processor, DRAM, and PMIC) laid out when working with these entry-level parts.

SOMs aren't some magical remedy to all the problems. It's still up to you to design the actual system, which takes hundreds of hours. The difference between using a SOM or a raw-chip design is negligible at this point.

I have no problem prototyping on EVKs --- in fact, I link to EVKs for each platform in my review. But a lot of these evaluation boards are pretty crummy to prototype with; some don't have all the pins of the CPU brought out, others use proprietary connectors that are a hassle to adapt to your hardware. You shouldn't be afraid to spend an 8-hour day designing a little breakout board for a part if you're interested in using it in a product that's going to span 6-months' worth of development time.

Of course there are caveats. I'm entirely focused on entry-level parts; if you need a Cortex-A72 with a 128-bit-wide dual-rank DRAM bus, sure, go buy a SOM. Also, it should go without saying that it completely depends on you and your company's core competencies. This article is aimed at embedded designers who are usually working on hardware and software for microcontroller-based platforms. If you work at a pure software shop with no in-house EE talent then this article is likely not relevant to you.
I think OP is claiming that if Swift had better meta programming abilities that GP have suggested, differentiable programming would have been a prime example for a good use of the capability.
I strongly disagree with the way you paint this - especially the irrational “the math is against you”.

if given someone who unjudiciously spends money, then I agree that paying off a house is a fantastic way to save (versus fancy car, excessive holidays). But this is a psychological battle, and has relatively little to do with finance.

Critically, many people have very little diversification and instead they only have two financial instruments: their job and their home. Investing money in a third instrument (equivalant to retirement savings?) instead of paying off principal should make sense if expected returns are similar to mortgage rates.

For those that have the skill and strength to invest carefully, the equation simplifies down to comparing your mortgage rate versus your expected investment returns. If investment returns exceed interest costs, then not paying principal and instead investing, is the prudent thing to do. There are other life circumstances that affect expected returns e.g. age and capacity to deal with market volatility.

The cliché that you should pay off mortgage principal before anything else is mindless, and may come from the past when interest rates were higher?
RSS? ActivityPub?
Two Amazon Developers Created a $24.9B Amazon Killer ( Medium)
> I don't believe you can extract the meaning of a program without understanding the computer that is supposed to run it (except perhaps by statistical analysis of its results when being run, which is generally how we are studying it today).

This made me think of what forces of life are maybe engaging in within this universe: We can't know the structure of the machine running this simulation, but if we probe the results of the running simulation enough, we can understand everything of the system running it.

In the Einstein sense, maybe that's how we know God? :)
The authors are surely right that we are working on a too low level, and vulgar behaviourism has been slowly going out of fashion anyway.

However, they haven't yet convinced their approach is useful. I note that their approach can't (yet?) begin to answer their own worm question (which head will the worm have?) either, and their analogies to software and hardware seem simplistic.

As an article this is worthwhile, and their proposal may well turn out to be a useful research direction, but it's not there yet. Hopefully there'll be a part 2.

P.S. There's no need to convince us that multicell organisms are compatible with PD as the article tries to do - so what if they weren't?
Oracle founder donated $250k to Graham PAC in final days of TikTok deal
If your iphone has 3d touch, it doesn’t need to be the space bar, the whole keyboard does it if you press harder
> What’s bad about: Airbnb | Amazon | Amtrack | ... | Facebook | ... | Intel | ... | Paid toilets | ... | Wendy’s | ... |

This has always been RMS’s problem: He’s obviously an intelligent guy and has lots of interesting thoughts, but the way he presents them makes him come across as a deranged fool.

He’s a legend in the FOSS community and his words hold (or at least used to hold) a lot of weight with regards to personal freedoms online. He has an amazing platform to talk about these issues, which he does, but only if you’re willing to slog through the hundreds of other societal injustices he happens to care about. It’s such a shame and makes me wonder what the world would look like if he showed more leadership.
You're arguing that Linux should be like Windows, because otherwise it's uncomfortable and different from your preferences. You wish to force an entire existing ecosystem to conform to a completely different lowest common denominator and take away the things that make it interesting and competitive.

The fact that the Unix-type world is not like the Windows world is precisely what makes it relevant and worth using.

I completely dislike the Windows way of doing things, it makes me uncomfortable. That's why I use something different.
> As a manager, you're thinking, "I'm taking a risk on this person. Will they be around here for our multi-year project vision?" Someone who job hops likely won't be around long enough for you to execute on the big picture and you'll be back to hiring/training a replacement too soon.

Exactly. Bringing someone onboard, getting them up to speed, training them, etc., is an investment, and one that you want to be confident of seeing a return on.

When it comes to leadership with lots of job changes I become even more wary: I start to wonder what kind of havoc somebody might have left in their wake and, with this stuff, often references only get you so far.

I find myself trying to figure out if I know anyone who's worked with them in the past so I can get a viewpoint from somebody who no longer has a dog in the fight.

There are sadly a minority of people out there who have a habit of changing jobs, with increasing seniority, just frequently enough that they avoid being "found out" whilst in role. I don't want to hire one of them.
For me, keeping yourself relevant is not about money per se, but about freedom. Freedom to control your life instead of being controlled by an employer. By trading some current comfort (good work-life balance and low stress) for current discomfort (finding a new job and challenging yourself to grow) you make your "personal business" stronger (that is what value you and your career bring to prospective employers). That means if I do lose my job or my current employment situation goes south, I have less stress because I know my personal brand is strong and can go many places without fear.

Bottom line, moving to a new job regularly is about investing in yourself and allowing you to control the direction of your life and not allowing others to control it.
Why we're betting on Serverless Side Rendering
I tried to answer your question by explaining how its premise is untrue, but perhaps that wasn't clear enough. If you're asking me whether we do the same kind of moderation on baity right-wing sources, the answer is of course, we do that all the time. If you're asking whether we'll do that on every future article that you might see as opposing your political beliefs, probably not. How we make these calls depends on the article. For sure we make some of them wrong, but you seem to want us to change the entire system by which we make them, and I've explained above why that would be bad.

The main thing, though, is that your question doesn't feel like a question. To me it feels like you're trying to conscript me into political battle for a position I don't occupy to begin with. HN commenters who feel strongly on any topic (not just politics) sometimes make stories in which, for whatever reason, I, or rather "dang", gets cast as the enemy. That's a job hazard and inevitable, but those stories are not mine and that's not me.
That was your takeaway from the article? Nitpicking the grammar?
Esperanto isn't actually that universal. It's very European, using a Latin alphabet, grammar and syntax from romance languages, etc. Its going to be very easy for a Spanish or English or German speaker to pick up, for example. Probably a bit less easy for someone speaking a language on the idno side of indo European, like a hindi speaker, and then progressively harder as you get further and further away from the languages' core influences. Im bilingual between languages from two totally unrelated language families (Indo European and dravidian) - and Esperanto is a lot closer to the former than the latter. I dont know if its even possible to make a language universal between disparate language families.
Because marriage was supposed to be managed by _the states_ which is what the constitution says. Both Obergfell and Roe/Casey created constitutional "rights" out of thin air.
You don't even have to go into a prison to hear people in the US gleefully celebrating the misery that takes place there.

Prison rape is treated as something to laugh about, not as unconscionable violence.
Animals who die to feed us aren't really relevant, are they? These 200-ish animals killed by housecats are on top of the food they're already receiving at home, which is made from slaughtered animals.

A sports hunter who doesn't eat their kills but only hunts for fun is an apt comparison, but do they really kill 200 animals per year? That's more than one every two days. Typically that would be a weekend hobby and even if they went hunting 52 weeks of the year that's almost 4 kills per hunting weekend. You really think that's plausible (or even legal, given restrictions on hunting)?
Can you give more context to this?
They weren't seeking Netscape's extinction, they were seeking their cut of the innovation gains that they'd originally funded.
And the same person can be unhappy for different reasons no matter what choices they make. After a few of those, one starts to distrust almost any decision-making framework :)

If it helps (and it probably doesn’t, much) try not to beat yourself up too much. It’s hard to know which big decisions are mistakes and which are great, except in hindsight. I’ve made a few that turned out well; a few that turned out poorly; some that were terrible except for a twist of fate that made them great; and some that were great except for a twist that ruined them.

There’s a lot of rand() going on in life, after all.
Sure! ... and you think it's a coincidence that this article came out now? Not last year? Not 2 years ago? Hell, not 2 months ago. What do you think is the driving force behind the article?
Pretty much this. The author really seems to live in a bubble.
Additionally, if you're anything but a software developer, e.g. you're a process (chemical) engineer, this advice doesn't work in the slightest. New chemical companies don't open up in a bedroom every year, so you can't hop around that quickly. This applies to every engineering profession except for software development (/...engineering)

What about feelings of regret later down the line? I already regret not doing more in my life in my teenage years (I spent it all studying alone). I cannot imagine what feelings of regret I would have if I spent all of my 20s working non-stop.
This seems to be a stark counterpoint to the Great Barrington declaration, and pointedly lays out the argument against herd immunity, with a call to sign the John Snow memo. Which only seems prudent since winter is actually coming, and conditions will only become more challenging.

https://www.johnsnowmemo.com
the problem with these boards is that there are not enough general purpose cores, and the TPU is only really usable for a very small niche set of computing problems. only 0.00001% of developers is really interested in doing anything with AI, which is mostly a fad hyped up by the media anyway. what we need is a 16 core A17 or A72, without peripherals that are only useful to 0.01% of developers out there. these cores can then be applied to a variety of real world use cases where 4 or 8 cores is simply not enough.
It's about as valid an argument as appealing to the pictures of "overwhelmed hospitals". Yes, we've all seen those pictures. We've also seen pictures of empty emergency care units that were created in anticipation of a wave of illnesses that didn't materialize.

In general, we can say that in the overwhelming majority of cases, hospitals did not get overwhelmed with COVID patients like some of the models predicted. That may change as we move into the second winter season, but it's not a foregone conclusion.
Barnes and Noble Suffers Cyber Security Attack
It's word games. The delivery pay is normally, say, $10 without tips. If you tip $5, that goes to your delivery person, but they also reduce the delivery pay to $5. So in practice, DoorDash always pays the driver $10, and your tip is to the company, just with some sleight of hand for them to say "your tip is to the dasher"
I noticed that after I bought some old less known books for < $50, few weeks later they would cost over $1000. I think to myself that now for the amount these books are worth I could buy myself a condo in the Caribbean. Joking of course.
This type of bot pricing is very irritating. Sometimes when I want to buy a book for research I need to wait a lot for it to have a normal price if someone bought it before me.
"Ends support" implies past tense but this will happen in 2024. Not the OP's fault but a better headline will be "will end".
Tell HN: Rackspace apparently lost some storage volumes
First, RS has informed us that they're migrating some volumes and that'll require downtime:

1st of Oct:

"The above volume has been selected as available to clone and migrate to prevent being affected by the maintenance listed below. If the volume migration is not completed before October 16 at 22:00 CST, it will be affected by the below work. New volumes and clones of existing volumes will be placed in the new datacenter location and will not be affected by the below work."

5 hours ago:

"Unfortunately you have one or more volumes that we have not yet been able to bring back online. The following volumes are impacted by this issue:"

Then a few minutes ago:

"Following extensive troubleshooting we have been unable to bring the host server on which your volume is hosted back online and as such we are unable to recover data for your device.

You have the option to deploy a new Cloud Block Storage device."
Even with insecure/imperfect hardware, if the OS does its job, nothing gets to the point where it can exploit the odd corner case.
> Things like non-anonymous tracking, re-targeting, personalized advertisements and bloat needs to go IMHO, but the new technologies can stay.

Having web browsers disable third-party cookies by default is extremely easy to implement and would already be a good start. The only good use case enabled by them is comment widgets like Disqus. And it's an okay sacrifice in exchange for defeating most forms of tracking.