skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OP 'studies what makes companies successful'. The issue is you are only studying the lucky sperm ones (if we take that sentence at face value; maybe 'they' do) as opposed to the complete set of companies. And also you'd never be sure anyway since people are connected to people and you'd never know how a connection resulted in success (vs. some other factor). It's an art and luck it's not (as a point was made) 'science'.

Now that said some thing can work to insure success or make it more likely.

Take the author here. His firm has 'feynman' in their name. On HN who from what I can tell worships Feynman (I didn't even know who he was prior to HN) that will work. In another place it would have the same impact of using 'warby' in 'warby' parker. Meaning good but not stop the presses. (It's clever but some might also say it's annoying to use a cheap trick like that not the same either (it's all nuance) as calling your bagel place 'einstein bagels' (there is one or was one).

I have been 'studying' (you could say) both successful and failed companies for probably longer than most HN readers have been around. Best I will say it's hard work, luck, and of course timing as the major factors. Separately they don't teach any of that when I was in of those really good business schools that people would die to go to.
> I cannot help but note that I do not think they would end up as the winners of any revolution.

This. In our current fascist versus antifa moment I hear leftists scorn anyone who wants less than a revolution. I ask them "Who hoards the guns and is really, really eager to use them?"
Context will be hard for AR. Fascinating and ‘the future’, for sure, - but my gut says it will end up being severely limited (in the way that there is only minimal personalization to the interactions with my Apple devices) or a total mess.
There is a case for it in this article, by the author of the site in the root post.

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/10/21/escape-microsoft-wo...
I thought that compilers couldn't really use this effectively…
> "yogis of California"

Did not know that was a meme before the end of WWII.
The paraphrase the immortals words of H.G. Wells and Kent Brockman.

"I for one, welcome out new robotic overlords"
It's very easy to do shitty touchscreen UI. Even more, it's possible to make it unusable. For example, mcdonalds screens. They use very bad, slow hardware - is it even capacitive? Paired with slow, unnecessary animations and having to go through 10s of screens to order something, using it is a real pain.

It's also possible to do great touchscreen UIs. I'd hate if my phone had t9 keyboard.
Pilot projects are usually a small sample that demonstrated that a protocol can be achieved, not a meaningful set of data to test a hypothesis. So no, it is probably a waste of time.
Procedural art using P5.js in a JavaScript and Python notebook
Right?
Hey creators, because Twitch is forcing viewers to watch ads that give you money, move over to this other platform!

You could suggest that by removing ads, they'll get more of other revenue streams, but that doesn't seem to be the case with Twitch, people chuck money at streamers anyway. So there is no real incentive for creators to move, or even be worried about these changes by Twitch.
> But none of these is a valid excuse to not publish your findings in the scientific record

Are journals even going to publish most no-result studies? (I.e. a result of no significant correlation found.) Journals pick and choose the best articles to peer-review and publish out of all submissions.

It feels like there ought to be some other system for tracking no-result and unpublished studies, something easy and low-friction -- not the trouble of an entire paper, but maybe something more like the length of an abstract?

Then if you think about running a study, you can run a search to see if others have already done something similar and found nothing... and reach out to them personally if you need more info.

Is there nothing like this?
New Berlin airport opens 9 years late with little ceremony
Yes. It was an option: it had the classic text mode, same as ever and very fast, or an optional WYSIWYG graphical mode.

I have it running on bare metal on PC DOS 7.1 (not 7.01, 7.1, the last ever version of DOS, with FAT32 and LBA support).

On a Core 2 Duo it is very fast in graphics mode, and quite usable.
I'm surprised anyone still does. Unfortunately that was deeply tied into the Mozilla stack, and they didn't want to be a platform vendor, so just running an old version isn't really tenable.

(To bring things back on topic, I believe a couple of people involved in Songbird was previously related to Winamp.)
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This comment is either skillfully ironic or blindingly unaware.
I feel like you are a lone voice crying in the night. I tell people this all the time, but they are so trapped in the temporal that they cannot see the bigger picture, consumed by emotional thought that they cannot look past it. If people could just stop looking at how they are enslaved they would see the freedoms that they could enjoy.
I was a die-hard Winamp user for years. Anytime I got a new PC and uninstalled the bloatware, the first of a few apps installed was Winamp. But in recent times, I don't use it much. I'll turn on Radio Paradise now and again, but am finding myself listening to Amazon music nearly all the time.
Why not publish them in an arXiv?
Yes, this is one of the harms of proprietary software (including drivers) - you’re limited to what the developer intended.

It’s similar to the issues you have with non-x86 architectures. If I have an ARM laptop and I want to run a proprietary application on it that was compiled only for x86... well, I largely can’t. (Microsoft and Apple have both had to develop translation systems for this independently, and it slows things down and eats battery life. At least MS’s implementation, we don’t know much about Apple’s yet.) Contrast that to free software applications, where distros like Debian have thousands of them available in the repositories for all supported architectures, and you can build them yourself if they’re not in the repos.

If you want alternative OSes to be an option, buy hardware that runs with free software.
Yeah, that's fair, just poking fun at Wikipedia having the exact same thing paraphrased slightly differently ;)
> The problem for novices is that a program that behaves correctly looks a lot like a correct program. Until one day it doesn’t.

> And because you’re in production and getting random spurious failures, the panicked (but common) reaction is to wrap every shared resource in a synchronized block.

Yep yep - that's the Java + Threads model. It's (relatively) harder to take single-threaded logic and make it behave in a multi-threaded setting. Compared to the SQL model, where it's (relatively) easier to take single-threaded logic, wrap it in BEGIN/END TRANSACTION, and have it perform exactly as expected.

OK I get you now. In saying that SQL concurrency was easy and Java concurrency was hard I didn't think about what would happen if you tried to write a mixed Java/SQL transaction; I didn't realise there was a bunch of Java running between your SQL statements. So what would my fix be? Get rid of the Java and replace it with SQL.

> Note that you can end up with deadlocks and transaction failures on any level stricter than READ COMMITTED, so the application needs to be able to deal with both of these.

That's cool - transactions proceed completely or not at all.

About the "not transactional" thing, I was applying (a => b) => (^b => ^a). That is, since transactions are isolated, and you demonstrated code that wasn't isolated, I can conclude that it wasn't a transaction. Maybe I need to adjust my thinking a bit:

assumption i) Atomicity says "The series of operations cannot be separated with only some of them being executed".

assumption ii) Isolation says "Isolation ensures that concurrent execution of transactions leaves the database in the same state that would have been obtained if the transactions were executed sequentially."

assumption iii) I use transactions because they're atomic and isolated.

A *SELECT balance* was run, passing its value out to the real world before the commit succeeded. This breaks assumptions i and iii.

"That is only one of the possible ways for transactions to work" breaks assumption ii and iii.

So, I can only conclude I should not use transactions.
Thanks mate

Just looked them up on Amazon and 1.6mm looks awesome!
> It is not possible to read at the get go, but after some practice, yes, any one can read old Tamil.

The "after some practice" makes this a bit of a squishy claim. For example, Malayalam and Tamil split less than 1000 years ago and are both descendants of Old Tamil. I would be surprised if "after some practice" a Malayalam speaker couldn't also read Old Tamil, or for that matter Modern Tamil (and vice versa for a Modern Tamil speaker learning Malayalam).

So is Tamil somehow older than Malayalam? I think not.
It's also a predictably lazy and obvious way to do this. No creativity at all. I can think of better ways to social engineer the HN community to spend time 'delivering the goods'.

> One of the most powerful assets you have as a student is that .edu email address.

I don't feel an .edu is even needed at all. I have an .edu as an alumni even and I graduated a long long long time ago.

Fwiw I did this also pre internet yes people do reveal all sorts of things to students. Old school though it's a bit more difficult.
It could be price controlled in case the police calls them.
I think you might be able to run mplayer in wsl if you want to go one step further in your quest for basic listening experience.
I recommend that you have very clearly defined budgets for the full project but absolutely avoid fixed bids.

Start with a small increment of a day or two and gradually increase the billing increments to a week or two. Don't continue work until you have gone over deliverables with the person who is "writing the checks" at the end of each stage (every few days at first). Agree on a fee for that upcoming period after discussing the work for that time frame. Make sure they are comfortable and if not stay with the smaller periods.
A nice modern writeup on the Dana: https://www.osnews.com/story/131180/the-alphasmart-dana-in-2...

I think if I were writing fiction that might be a really nice option.
Uber's exerting of pressure is a rare example in California of a company exerting pressure that is "conservative" -- though "self-serving" better describes it.

This perhaps gives you a small taste of what it is like to be a conservative in California.
It's a bit high level in that the benefits aren't obvious until you buy into other functional concepts, but basically it's that Options can be layered i.e. Option<Option<string>> is possible. If you just use ordinary union types there's no way to express that.

As an aside, TypeScript is very unsafe by default, and still relatively unsafe with strict mode enabled. Stringent fp-ts usage bypasses these issues.
I think these 'licking' lights are a fad that will pass. Some of the more recent Audis do an entire light show on starting up. This isn't about safety - more about show.
I think a somewhat useful analogy would be the difference in difficulty of making a backdoored compiler versus a backdoored binary. The former has to deal with a lot more things than the latter if you'd like to effectively subvert it.
The current world record holder (in the published literature) for branch prediction is TAGE and its derivatives. The G stands for Geometric. It is composed of a family of global predictors that increase in length with a geometric progression. That's somewhat relieving since it means that the storage growth is not unlike that of mipmapping in computer graphics. A small constant k times maximum history length N.

But to a first approximation, if you double the density of conditional branches in the program, then you will need to roughly double the size of the branch prediction tables to get the same performance, even if all of them are correctly predicted 100% of the time.
Ruthlessly curating lists of people/accounts worth following will transform your experience.

But who has time for that? The OP said he was thinking about it while working on his car. A real life thing that I expect is a lot more satisfying than staring at phosphor being "ruthless" to strangers.
Fountain pen technology has come a long way! I've never had any problems with leaky pens. You can get some very nice fountain pens for around $20 these days.
> That seems unlikely, given the bike (stock VFR exhaust are very modest, quite suitable for touring, your suggestion is ignorant and frankly insulting to the poster)

Forgive me for know knowing the exact noise levels of a specific motorcycle exhaust /s

Even if you're within explicit noise limits, many states also have laws about 'disturbing the peace' that you can be ticketed for regardless of actual noise, in particular when done intentionally such as revving while in neutral/clutched.

> Many places the rules specifically state that OEM exhausts are legal regardless of how they test.

Some, but not all. In Wisconsin, the only thing that matters is that it's "not louder than stock". In Florida, you cannot exceed a specific decibel rating at a specific distance regardless of stock dbA [0].

> I've always presumed that's the case because Ducati and Lamborghini owners are sufficiently cashed up to ensure legislation is written to accommodate them.

Maybe in some states. Many explicitly exclude motorcycles from exhaust noise limits as well.

[0]: https://www.semasan.com/resources/exhaust-noise-laws-state#F...
Can you define balanced or beneficial? Can you define it remotely mathematically?

If no to the second algorithims are flat out impossible. They aren't magical genies regardless of what you believe. If no to the first you can't even make ill-considered laws.

Even somehow having the concept is no guarantee - it could be a largely useless tautology of the Drake equation. If we knew the density of intelligent alien life and parameters of signals they would actually use we wouldn't be asking why we haven't found any yet. If you cannot obtain the information how are you going to tell if it is "beneficial" or "balanced" as opposed to your own assumptions as articles of faith?
You might enjoy reading Baudrillard on the Cold War, who long maintained that both Communism and Capitalism are effectively just two sides of the same power structure, what he called a 'system of deterrence', that seeks to absorb more and more entities into a system of 'rational modernity'.

"For Baudrillard, the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York also symbolized the frozen history and stasis between the two systems of capitalism and communism. On the whole, he sees history as the unfolding of expanding technological rationality turning into its opposite, as the system incorporates ever more elements, producing an improved technological order, which then becomes irrational through its excesses,[...]"

"For Baudrillard by the end of the 1990s with the collapse of communism, the era of the strong ideas, of a conflicted world of revolution and universal emancipation, is over. Communism, on his reading, collapsed of its own inertia, it self-destructed from within, it imploded, rather than perishing in ideological battle or military warfare. With the absorption of its dissidents into power, there is no longer a clash of strong ideas, of opposition and resistance, of critical transcendence. With the embedding of the former communist regimes into the system of the capitalist world market and liberal democracy, the West no longer has an Other to battle against, there is no longer any creative or ideological tension, no longer any global alternative to the Western world."

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/baudrillard/#TheoFictBaud...
> the politicians presume NSA is safe partner

Do you have any evidence to make this claim?

Or perhaps politicians are the experts at both telling and detecting lies and manipulations?

Maybe they know the risks very well and yet chose their own personal interest e.g. non making enemies of the US...
Since I read the word “Ceph”, I knew what the problem could be. Not the first time I find an old 32 bit binary that cannot work in very large partitions.
I think they could save time using a virtual machine with a virtualized disk, if the data processing is not too intensive.
is it even capacitive

Resistive touchscreens are used because they can be manipulated by people wearing gloves, something that is certainly common in automotive scenarios.
I don’t think the insurance market in California is a free market.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/california/california-bill-b...:

“Amid mounting cries of California homeowners being denied wildfire insurance in high-risk areas, lawmakers want to require insurance companies to cover all existing homes, as long as they meet new safety standards.

The measure, coming after years of deadly fires causing insurers to turn down more customers, would also require insurance companies to give homeowners financial incentives for fire safety upgrades. Existing homes that meet a new state standard for “fire-hardening” would not be denied coverage under the law.”

And no, I don’t think insurers will be allowed to counteract by raising premiums. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Department_of_Insur...:

“On November 8, 1988, California voters passed Proposition 103, by a narrow margin (51%), on the promise of providing consumers with a 20% rate rollback”

I don’t understand how insurers still want to do business in California unless there already was something seriously wrong with the insurance market before 1988, leading to high profit margins. But frankly, I don’t understand these ballots.
Being very experienced product designer/developer after few talks with the client I could fairly accurately split big project in few comprehensible stages with the price for each. I do not remember ever being off by any significant margin. I've done way too many of projects either directly or as a director during the course of my life so it is mostly an autopilot at this stage for me. Also my clients tend to be real business people with real business needs. They do not really like to go into methodology level. they just look at my resume, and check references. They are much more interested in how I can solve their problem on conceptual levels before really engaging.
Anecdotally, my wife is doing her PhD in the states and lives in a share house with 5 other people. About 2 months ago I asked her to start taking 800UI of vitamin D, partly because she's a PhD student and never leaves her room and partly because of Covid. 3 weeks ago everyone in her house contracted covid except her.
I remember trying this when my dad bought a Windows PC with Word 2.0 (or something), so I could use that instead of his work laptop with WordPerfect. I do remember finding it really didn't work as well, though I don't remember exactly why any more.

This isn't a great response, I know. It's just a data point for the theory that Word and WordPerfect are comparable in this respect.

(This is going back so long ago now. I was still at school! Maybe the problem was that you still had to interact with the GUI view to fix things? So you could still end up with the usual weird Word stuff, but no way to fix it, because you couldn't get right in there and just manually shuffle the codes around like you could with WP.)
... Yes? I mean, if you're not whole into the js ecosystem you can just use a cache buster parameter on your js requests in development, but I think the recommended approach is to use module splitting so that parts of the bundle that don't change remain the same.

Alternatively if you just hate caching you can set cache control headers on your js.

I think tying caching behavior to Google's web sites is silly, caching is a crucial part of performance for any heavy web application.
I partly upgraded my bike (to a CB650R) for greater visibility. The indicators are LED and much brighter, and they also remain on as running lights.
The difference is that 200 years ago, most work was physically challenging but intellectually simple. When some of those jobs were replaced by jobs that were easier physically but more challenging intellectually, we got different opportunities for different people.

Today would be analogical if we had a population of people with average IQ 150, locked in jobs that require IQ 100. By automating those jobs away, we would open new opportunities that would fit people better.

But instead, we have a world where the average IQ is 100, and the standard advice for people who lose their jobs is "learn to code". So we get the situation where some people are unable to find a job, and other people are pushed to work overtime... and we cannot balance it by hiring the former into job positions of the latter.

(Also, historically speaking, many people starved to death when their farms were taken away. The new jobs appeared later, but it took some time.)
>That's a beautiful, committed, and complete fantasy.

Nice drive-by zinger. Care to, I don't know—cite evidence to the contrary?

Despite being Canada, the facts of the original article support my point of view:

"Three separate police services – YRP, Toronto Police Service and Ontario Provincial Police – joined forces to launch Project Platinum to investigate the violence associated with the tow truck industry.

They carried out a series of raids this past spring, which netted dozens of high-powered weapons and led to the arrests of 35 people who face almost 500 charges, including the attempted murder of Carr."
My wife does that. She sent messages to her people on social media and it turned out many of them wanted to do the same thing.

Now she writes to her friends all over the world. And since it's paper mail that takes between three days and two weeks to arrive, there's no posturing. No boasting. No one-upsmanship. It's people really writing about things that are actually important to them because it takes effort.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24962295
Only for a true race bike. For a track bike, why spend the money and make it harder to sell later?
Let me put it more succinctly than has been expressed, emotions are a shit show, much of modern politics is emotionally driven to manipulate you and thus part of that show. A lot of us are not into German scheisse, so keep that crap at home, it ruins the workplace and keeps you from working with a lot of good people you can learn from.
Around here two pizza team are two people.
Bitcoin is old and stagnant, the future is full anonymity in the form of zk-snarks, used by millions.
No clue, when I get a decade's worth of automated responses with no reason, I most likely haven't grown or learned anything to help me get a job.
NSA's competence or success rate doesn't invalidate the need for such an organization. Individuals part of the organization that behave badly don't either. Other states have organizations like the NSA and in order for the USA to defend itself from them the USA also needs one. We don't question the need for a military because one lieutenant burns down a Vietnamese village, we demand justice and changes, but we continue to support the need for a military. That's my thought around the NSA. I support private companies protecting their customers by utilizing encryption and I support the NSA to do whatever they can to amass all the information they can when private companies fail. Why? Because our enemies are doing the same thing. A moral position that loses doesn't last, and for sure there are some moral positions I would stand by them even if it meant losing, but this one isn't one of them. Not for me anyway.