skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are some recommended mods from a previous Factorio discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22933767 Mostly convenience/quality-of-life improvements.

I "completed" the game using a lot of these and thoroughly enjoyed it but it was incredibly addictive.
Kinda interessting how majority seem to be from japan or german countries. And they all have very specific business. I wonder how big they are, and whether their size is somewhat constant through their history. Also, how many of them are really the same company, and not actually a batch of different companies just operating under the same name..

Like if a company operated for some time before it goes bust and some years later a different company continues the operation under the same name, but with different people, concepts, etc. would it still be regarded the same companies on that list? In certain cases continuing the tradition and a good name is worth big money and asien companies seem to have traditions around this concept.
Not passed, but bought since the underlying price will have changed.
Squeezy McSqueezeFace
If so, then space colonisation is metastasis.
“It’s fine”

This situation sounds like a hideous volatile time bomb of complex exponential effects.
If you are willing to by 100 shares at $100 or, say, 200 shares at $50 you can enter the following two bids:

100 shares at $100

100 shares at $50

This will satisfy your demand curve.

In a direct listing, the initially listed shares will all transact at the same price (the clearing price).
i pick lazy over dishonest any day of the week.
I suspect the initial premise is incorrect.

The purpose of a company that makes widgets is to make widgets. Nothing more.

Some rent seekers realized that they could extract some of the wealth created by the company making widgets, and that they could manipulate various people involved in other enterprise to enhance and enforce their rent-seeking abilities. To that end, they have manipulated the various controls on the use of violence in our society such that they can not only continue to extra wealth from the labour of the widget-makers, but that the widget-makers are required to make more widgets and give up increasing portions of the wealth they create.

The cancer is not the company, whose purpose is not growth. The cancer is the rent seeker who sucks the life out of the company causing it to swell and fester and eventually autolyse.
Parallel construction sounds an awful lot like lying
Of course. Thus, "the soundiness manifesto". If you want to eval() your entire program to be something completely different just to spike your analysis tool, go ahead. But in the real world these cases are minimal and asking developers to make some annotations to help out in these cases isn't arduous.

Notably this is largely a problem with JavaScript and Ruby. There are plenty of non-functional languages where we don't need to havoc wildly to handle ordinary program behavior.
> Do lifestyle businesses really have the negative connotation that I’ve been told they have?

My cynical hypothesis is that it's 50/50 of a good chunk of tech community feeling FOMO ("I want to get rich quick too!"), and VCs creating this perception. VCs need fresh young blood to push through the startup grinder.

That said, I haven't noticed much of this connotation here on HN (which is ironic, this being ex-Startup News, and a board attached to an VC company). For this I have another hypothesis: HN has a slightly different bias when the EU is awake, which is now.
Do the skin cells to contain the fat also only get larger? And what about the beer drinking muscle ?
"a Commonwealth based on the accumulated and monopolized power of all its individual members necessarily leaves each person powerless,"

? It was like that way before the 'bourgeois' ever even existed.

Roman Empire? Charlemagne? Louis XIV? Habsburgs?

The problem with these Enlightenment era definitions is they fail to take into consideration that the quest for power has been there since the start, it was just never generally available to the merchant class.

i.e. the notion that the Roman Empire wouldn't fit any of these social distinctions doesn't quite add up - it's just that those wanting power had to take on perfunctory civic roles and be involved in politics in order for their mercantile quests to thrive.

The other thing missing from these quotes is ahem Adam Smith: trade, economies of scale, division of labour, comparative value etc. create enormous value and most of that value ends up in the hands of consumers.

The Nobility were beaten by the Merchants because the Nobility were only interested in control, the Merchants created a lot of value.
Give us five examples of hedge funds doing this in the last year, then.

SPOILER: you can't, because it isn't true. It's an incredibly popular myth, but it is just a myth.
Hilariously, I would pay GM for a software upgrade on my headunit for improved UI and features/bugfixes. It even has a software update function but I've never seen one available.
Xorg does something similar for VESA Bios Extensions: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/xfree86/in...
It's true. At some point marginal incentives tilt away from problem solving and towards something else.
What Carbon Budget?
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Is there a way to read this story without creating a Medium account?
US-China Tensions: Military Flashpoints in Taiwan, Japan and South China Sea
Even though this is a joke (made me chuckle), I have a hunch somewhere, someone is going to use this for real, for job protection or to appease that manager who insists that static HTML is sooooo 2009.
Just remember that during the “growth” company apparently delivers useful goods and services (otherwise people wouldn’t pay it money). In the process company might increase customers’ standard of living and productivity which in turn causes positive effects and growth elsewhere.
Formalizing contracts doesn't require a lawyer. Of course, it's usually in your best interest to pay a lawyer to review something before you sign it.
Having lived and worked in the Bay Area I would definitely say they are one entity socially and economically. It was not unusual to have people live in San Jose and commute to SF, nor vice versa.

By contrast, Sacramento was clearly not part of that unit, even though it isn’t _that_ much further away. There’s a notable gap between the cities, and the cross-commute rate was near zero. (Emphatically NOT zero, there were some people who commuted in from Sacramento, but those were rare, and I never heard of anyone commuting the other way).
As if it started with orange man or if it was his political program at any point before 2019. He never advocated regulating megacorps and started his whining only when he himself got hit. Cutting and regulating megacorps was always initiative from the left side. Orange man just appropriated that idea recently to ride the outrage train.
But it is a blank page...
it is. the whole market is overvalued. But while some parts of the market have some actual things, people want (highly educated workforce, machinery, land, supply chains...) Gamestop has nothing of this and yet is pushed to an even higher value.
it's not. Here's an example

Scenario 1:
1. Client buys share for $400
2. Hedge funds get short squeezed (because trading is not restricted by Robinhood)
3. Stock shoots up to $1000. Client made $600

Scenario 2:
1. Client buys share for $400
2. Robinhood restricts buying the shares (so the short squeeze doesn't happen)
3. Shares plunge to $50 because the short squeeze failed to happen (ie the hedge fund did not have to purchase the shares at higher prices, which is where the capital that the traders would share amongst themselves would come from)
4. Client lost $350
We could add more people to share the happiness.
> The comment you pasted is incoherent rambling.

That's most of WSB, though (after you exclude all the "+1" comments). I agree it's incoherent rambling, that's why gave up on trying to paraphrase it. I'm quoting it because this is the kind of stuff that gets reposted in every single thread there, and is indicative of the general atmosphere there.
Facial recognition needs to be paired with a screening for Racial Blindness with any operator of FR software. FR software provides a filtering, given many faces, here are the best matches. This is where the FR software operator is critical because it is then their task to pick the best match. The final step in FR is always a human making the selection, primarily due to a lack of image quality the "best match" cannot be assured to be the correct match, and even then the correct person may not even be in the FR database. This is the type of understanding and analysis that needs to be present in an FR software operator, but as far as I can tell this area is completely ignored by both the producers of FR and the customers of FR. Disclosure: I am the lead developer of a global leading FR solution.
Less sugar, more protein – Salmon Theory
> A few years ago I looked in to moving to a more honest bank, but I couldn't find one that also met basic criteria like having access to cash points in the UK and having a half decent mobile banking app. Literally every major bank that operates in the UK has stories of doing frankly awful things.

I sense a common theme coming.
Your analogy does not work. The growth of a forest is different from the growth of a company, which seeks to maximize revenue and profit, often via more customers or exploring existing customers.

A forest on the other hand maintains a steady state. Okay, trees continue to grow, but forests have natural ways of ensuring that trees and the other flora do not over occupy. A forest maintains balance, whereas many companies want to eat the world.
Most of the harms of ecigs go away if flavoring is removed. I've had people become upset at this suggestion, as if the flavor is the point rather than the inhalation of nicotine. Nicotine inhalers are an even better option. Sans flavor, of course.
They keep the discussion very high level. The topic is much deeper, but they appear to be constraining themselves to a single-timestep-state. If they loosened up the state to include two timesteps then a lot more could be parallelized. Since the simulation and graphics are in lockstep, this would add one frame of latency. One frame of latency is hardly noticeable against the 7-10 frames minimum added in multiplayer but the payoff could be massive. It’s hard work, without a doubt. An example I like to point to is the minecraft mod “tickthreading”. It was never stable, but the concept is there and sound.
That's a problem with police procedures and training of those who use facial recognition, not facial recognition per se.
I don't understand your question.

If settlement was instantaneous then to sell a stock on an exchange you'd have to have the stock. To buy you'd have to have cash.

Currently market makers don't have either.
I have found the whole interview on Reddit - https://vimeo.com/505445024
It’s a virtuous cycle which allows anyone to spend part of their wage investing and one day retire.
That’s not what people mean by growth of a company. That’s maintaining a balanced, viable system.
The simpler alternative to this is the much vilified and misunderstand system of “naked shorting”.

Basically it would allow credit worthy institutions to meet demand by creating synthetic shares out of thin air. As long as they pay all the associated dividends and maintain enough capital to buy back the shares.

That would remove the entire long and convoluted process of locating borrow, and remove much of the market disruptions associated with “short squeezes”
I already started liquidating and transferring out, this situation has me angry enough to lose the long term cap gain tax break. That's right I'm paying more taxes to avoid dealing with robinhood.
It’s weird when 30 years old company has only 10 employees while working in wide industrial automation field. The owner is just too lazy to go out of town and look for some new customers.
I wouldn't consider "replacing" a lost client or a broken tool as growing. A company with good finances should already have planned for that. Either way I highly doubt that's the "cancer" the article is talking about.
No, I want to hear what YOUR plan is.
(Disclaimer: my expertise on the stock market extends to knowing how to spell "stonks".)

I posted a chain analogy elsewhere[0]. My understanding is that short interest being > 100% just means that the average length of the "short-lend" chain is greater than 1 "short-lend" pair. I don't think that such a chain is anything special - just that getting rid of the earlier short in the chain requires getting rid of the latter short in the chain first.

--

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25956325
Frameworks are excessive for documents and presentations. They start to shine in development of apps, where you have to wrangle views, manage data bindings and react to user input in nontrivial ways. It's possible to roll out your own boilerplate and utility methods, but it's almost always counterproductive - this is not a part of task you have at hand and you'll miss on structure and conventions invented by framework team that really had resources to do it.
I think to say lockdowns didn’t work raises the question - why did NYC cases & deaths peak only after all white collar workers stayed WFH for 4-6 weeks and the city looked like a ghost town?

It’s clear to me that keeping us out of offices and trains stopped the spread. Unfortunately it had been in the city for 2+ months prior and then ravaged the elderly & medical&front line workers who were out there dealing with it while we got to WFH.

Close, especially indoor contact, without masks, in cooler dry weather appears to be the recipe for disaster here.. ‘
We are seeing it play out in Wave 2 (or 3?) here as people have all gotten very sloppy, even if they are WFH.

From March-October in my social/family circle I knew 0 people with COVID. We were all at home, and people got scared straight pretty quick. Come summer things opened and cases dropped..

From early November to Christmas I knew 30+ people with COVID. Where did they get it? Kids came home from college with it. They went to bars indoors for hours. They dined indoors at restaurants.
I recently discovered https://github.com/weirdNox/emacs-gdb/ . The installation is a bit unconventional compared to the usual Emacs package installation process, but works pretty well.

This recreates the Visual Studio style workflow described in https://twitter.com/pervognsen/status/1098453808651202560 and https://youtu.be/0woxSWjWsb8?t=254
Its basic evolution - any successful species is programmed to increase in numbers. A species that aims to stay static will die off when conditions change, and of course one that aims to shrink in size will not last. The cancer word is just clickbait.
Classic article, and important distinction. I’ve found that those who aren’t familiar with the distinction tend to be less aware of what and how they’re testing. Lack of awareness or understanding tends to lead to thing like excessive mocking.

Poorly named libs (e.g. mockito) just exacerbate this problem.
There's also closh (https://github.com/dundalek/closh) which also provides scripting capabilities appart from the pure interactive shell.

As a newcomer to clojure my question is: what would be the practical differences and deciding factors for doing what would be a ".sh" in babashka vs closh?
> They call it Autopilot. On their car configuration tool, the text that appears in the biggest font says "Full Self-Driving Capability".

I don't think you understand. "Autopilot" and "Full Self-Driving Capability" (FSD) are two completely different features. Autopilot comes free as standar.
While FSD is an optional feature, that adds things like: Navigate on Autopilot, Summon, Auto Park, Auto Lane Change etc.

FSD Beta can take you from point A to B with minimal to zero interventions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaJCYYiDzQQ

> Navigate on Autopilot: automatic driving from highway on-ramp to off-ramp including interchanges and overtaking slower cars."

But it current does that. I used it everyday on my commute! That feature is called "Navigate on autopilot".

https://youtu.be/j6S_-35O_w8?t=406
> Oh, and they left the firm 3 months ago.

Hey, that's a EUR 300/h worth senior consultant!
Exactly. Many controversial instagrammers create a backup instagram account that they only barely use, and occasionally refer to. If their "primary" account gets banned, the backup already exists and has a history.

I suspect people do this with Twitter and other social media accounts as well.

I suspect you can do the same thing with groups. For example when WSB went down there were already backups within minutes.
The supply of shares for covering is not constrained by the number of actual shares in issue in the ordinary course of trading (you can create this condition artificially if you want to but people usually don't). There can always be more shares created for short sellers to cover with through shorting itself.

Short squeezes are usually not about supply constraints, they are about forced buying caused by margin requirements. High short interest just indicates a lot of potential forced buyers in the event of a price spike. Except in special cases there is particular magic to having 100% of the float on loan except that this is a high number which suggests many potential forced buyers under the right circumstances.
Sometimes, other times only if you ignore externalities
At the cost of the destabilization of many other species and ecosystems.
I don’t think we have to worry about the HN hug of death. Wube posts their updates to their own subreddit that has 230k subscribers. Afaik their website has never been smothered by traffic.
The same wrong incentives apply to individuals. It’d be better just not to tax people’s wages and also not bail failing companies or careers out, but let people and business find their own balance.
"there IS no answer"

Sure there is.

'In the begging' it was was invariably led by some kind of founder/owners, and the values of the company were intimately related to their values. For better or worse.

A public or widely held company not led by founders tends to have a more political class of executives who are more likely to report to the board on the basis of 'making them money'. Maybe not, but probably a little more so than otherwise. Every situation is different.

So the answer to 'why' is simple: the board probably makes the expectation of the CEO, who requires that of the team, one way or another, and that trickles down into various plans of various kinds. It's really just that.
Ask HN: What is that one simple change in your life that gave great results?
> I'm not the biggest fan of this analogy.

Personally I find it very fitting and apt analogy for a lot of modern business practices. If the goal is growth only for the purpose of growth then that's pretty comparable to cancer.

Possibly even down to the ultimate consequences: Usually it's not the cancer itself that kills people, what's killing them is being starved by the cancer as they can't keep up supplying their body, and aggressive cancer, with enough nutrients.

Imho this analogy holds similarly true for businesses that have as their main focus perpetual growth, just like an economic system that's based on perpetual growth, while being stuck in a place where resources are actually finite and as such can't even realistically sustain perpetual growth.
> It's a trade-off. SMD-soldering takes up way less space, which is important in an ultra-portable.

It does make sense for some forms, but look at all the offerings of Lenovo, especially for home users - even the bigger laptops all feature soldered RAM (or even the weirder combination of soldered RAM + 1 DIMM slot at a more expensive price!).

(Then there's the other factor - unless we force them to explore upgradability in such form factors, they will continue to avoid doing so because the current option is more profitable for them).

From a consumer point of view, soldering RAM / SSD / CPU etc. to prevent easy upgrades and make it very difficult to repair takes away control from consumers on how they want to use their device. It leaves you vulnerable to price gauging and pigeon-holes your device to specific limited use-cases only (for e.g. a new recent trend now with home users is to create a "RAM disk" for heavy torrenting, to reduce the wear and tear on the SSD or HDD - obviously with limited non-upgradeable memory that 4 or 8 GB RAM will no longer be seem sufficient and even though your machine is more than capable, your options are now limited to an expensive upgrade by changing the whole motherboard with a bigger capacity of soldered RAM or buy a newer device with more RAM, hopefully upgradeable this time). Apple is a great example of the price gauging that happens to consumers when you have to depend on them for more RAM or SSD "upgrades option" when you are buying a new system.

Most of the common disparage against my post here is that 4 / 8 GB is more than enough (yeah, just like 640k was during its time /s). Perhaps most have forgotten that one of Microsoft's business model is to sell their OS bundled with the machines (OEM license). Thus, Microsoft obviously has a selfish interest to ensure the OEM's well being (which is obviously in selling more devices for more profit). And so they help them by making their OS more and more resource intensive, thus forcing its users to consider upgrading their hardware (which with soldered parts now means buying a new device). Ofcourse, hardware has outpaced software in the last decade, and with Microsoft also considering a change in its business model (renting softwares), we haven't noticed this trend in the last decade. But that's another threat we consumers have to live with.
"/r/WSB voluntrily shut themselves down" is the point. It was self-managment. When a tech oligarchy - FB, Twitter, etc. acts together to censor that is my concern. Like there wasn't lot of silly banter or still is on many forums, except this one pissed off hedge fund managers and traditional investors. Mark must have lost money ;)
I did some work on a programmable head unit in 2000, it ran a JVM written by the author of Drupal [1] and had a colour LCD with touchscreen, GSM modem, GPS, CAN interface.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dries_Buytaert
A symphony orchestra does not grow or rot. It stays mostly the same. Of course the value of the institution and the quality of the output may fluctuate over time.

I don't think it's growth that is the key for healthy organization - it is the drive to deliver quality output. When that drive withers the rot start. I don't see the quality of output and the drive for quality necessary linked to a constant growth in terms of revenue and so on.
This is one of those cases where it is best to not judge it before you try it. Mindustry has a bespoke assembly language that lets you control the behavior of drones and buildings. The complexity cap is far above factorio.
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I think of this every time I’m in an airplane looking down. I can’t see the effects of all the other animals, but the effects upon Earth by humans is drastic and very infectious looking.
No. A growing company can enrich society. There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with growth.

A civilisation where the only firms allowed to operate were small 500-year-old artisans would be–let’s face it–absolutely crap.
No. I feel like a lot of people aren't parsing the title correctly.

IF the purpose of the company.

Not the purpose of all companies. Humanity doesn't have purpose other than what we make of it. We can strive to maximize enjoyment while keeping population flat if we wanted to.

Edit: The title was changed, it was something like: If a company's sole purpose is to grow, then it is no different from a cancer.