skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: How would you aim to improve a big brand company as a CEO?
KEY (suggestion):

<COMPANY NAME>; "!" <PROBLEMS>; ">" <YOUR SOLUTION AS A CEO>

Example:

McDonald's;

! Negative balance sheet

! Wasteful (unrealistic preparation and holding times, non-necessary packaging).

! Stressful work environment (too many expectations on the employee).

! Unrealistic preparation and holding times.

! Bad employee treatment and pay.

> Offer discount on non-fresh food items that are still good to eat.

> Invest in automation for doing inventories and statistics (customer count) via deep learning.

> Increase prices (esp. for animal-based products) to make up for operating expenses.

> Aim for a positive balance sheet (more cash/assets than liabilities).

> Reduce dividends or don't increase them, if needed.

> As a last resort, impose short working hours or lay offs (as bitter medicine).

> Look out for: indoor farming (e.g. "tomato/lettuce growing indoors where customers see them").

> Add reasonable buffer times (preparation) and automate where appropriate (visual cues, let AI recommend where an empoyee fits best: cash register vs. kitchen).

> Impose ban on overwork and aim to strive for an employee's well-being.

> Ensure adequate health-insurance for all employees (including dental care, since employees need to be "presentable".)

> Have backup plans (peak customer flow).

> Cut on advertising, if needed. "Go the Primark or Ferarri way".

> Go the "Apple way" (self-reliant): establish country-wide indoor/vertical farms (sell overflows to other markets), look out for other "passive" revenue sources (cloud computing, software licensing), machine engineering (build the required cooking machines/tools yourself. For example via 3D printing.).
Yeah I don't. It seems needlessly inflammatory in those email threads.
The Brain as a Probabilistic Transducer
> It's clearer - the structure indicates right at the front what it is going to do, namely read a file and pass it through a pipeline. There is no need to read ahead to find out what the source material is.

I only found this out recently, but this works perfectly fine:

$ < /some/file awk ...

You're not wrong though, where cat improves readability there's no harm in using it.
I maybe didn't communicate clearly..

I'm arguing that just because you miss baloon travel, we should make a new airtravel network where jetliners can't exist..

I am saying that there are still baloons and you're free flying them if you want to, and the jetliners have a minimal impact on that.. We can have, and do have, both.. Both baloons and jetliners, and both "new corporate web that is evil for X reason" and small personal pages and everything in between, and that is terrific, and should be encouraged.
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Upwork co-founder launches Ergeon, a startup that builds fences
Another I came across recently was Patrick Collison's website: https://patrickcollison.com/about
Nice to see more competition in that space! I'm a long term happy user of https://unraid.net/, which I can very much recommend.
Ah, thanks, I'll try that
You’d think that would stop them but you’ve only got to see Barcelona’s motorcycle injury rates or Bangkok’s vehicle death rates to see that isn’t the case.
(1) Then you don't have paid enough attention if you think that you need to kill millions for "actual" genocide. Or do you think we should wait until it becomes "actual" genocide until we intervene? Or should we attempt to stop it directly?

There have been multiple warnings by people seriously committed for human rights, but most importantly, parliaments of all Baltic states, Poland and Canada have already declared Russia's actions in Ukraine to be genocide based on evidence available.

Here is an independent legal analysis if you think these declarations were just politically motivated.

https://newlinesinstitute.org/russia/an-independent-legal-an...

It is unacceptable that after largest recent genocide committed, Germany has become a genocide denier because it would be inconvenient to accept it because it would mean serious actions have to be taken to stop genocide continuing.

(2) There exists very clear European values. These are valuing democratic governance, human rights, free movement of trade and people.

(3) Oh, that is the problem? You are personally afraid that you will lose money with Ukraine and will gain with Russia, is this right? What you think, what countries are the net winners in this EU game, Germany and France or the others? Either way, see point (2).

(4) And what bell should Navalny exactly ring? I know exactly what he is and it is irrelevant. He is repressed (mild label for attempted murder and political imprisonments, I guess) for being in opposition with the self appointed ruler, most importantly, for exposing corruption and having some level of actual political power regardless of his political views.

Is it your opinion that we should tolerate this because you have labeled him as "far-right"? Do you realize that on the political spectrum of Russia, he is very far from far right?

And what is in your opinion so colorful about Khodorkovsky?

So we can't accuse Russia in attempt to destabilize our democracy because we are trying to protect its democracy? Sounds like a fair comparison, does it? So in your opinion we could also not accuse North Korea in cyber attacks because we are having economic sanctions against it? Is that right?

(5) So in your opinion it is preferred for Europe to buy natural resources from a bloody genocidal despot instead of democratic nation that is in union with Europe and not in opposition and in constant attempt to undermine it?

(6) Do you think is there anything to do with Russian influence in Ukraine why it has been constantly in miserable state, or not? But my point was not about Ukraine but about Europe. If Russia is cut off from European revenue from natural resources because Europe can satisfy its needs internally then it will become democratic economical power house. Get it?
Well to be fair to the guy in the video, he is a practicing cardiologist in the UK. https://www.youtube.com/c/MedlifeCrisis/videos

Afaik he does mostly videos and dont do blogs. Anyways one argument presented in the video (but dont know if its relevant to this post) is that the datasets used sometimes dont differentiate between medical error and medical harm. Medical harm is where you need to do a particular intervention, but the possible side effects of the intervention leads to the patients death. Furthermore the line between medical harm and medical error is fuzzy especially when you dont have all the information at hand when doing the procedure. The datasets for the papers mentioned in the video were retrospective
Literally all already squatted.
And did Bird actually borrow any of this money and at what rate?
I'm also seeing very bloated headcounts for startups. Startups that haven't even hit product-market fit now have 500+ people.

I've been out of touch with the startup world the last few years, but something seems to have changed where otherwise mature companies with low-mid four-digit employee counts still work as "startups" (complete with the lack of profitability).
Yeah, totally clueless BSD fanboy. I have seen many during the time I was a heavy BSD user.
It’s an in-progress project. Regarding topsort, my guess is the algorithm was useful for some part of the project, and the author decided to make it available generally.

> Don't you think Google has the resources and the incentive to make gRPC faster?

You’d think that, but A) Gmail, and B) having worked for a Google competitor, I can assure you a passionate developer can write more performant code than what a massive corporation will generally produce.

> I would heed caution at trying to solve every problem all at once.

Agreed, but I hope the author throws caution to the wind. I’m tired of having either A) 1 million npm dependencies or B) boiling the ocean in my own projects, so it’d be nice to have a batteries included project you can rely on.
I agree, the rate hikes are still very shy, and the supply-chain issues are not going to improve prices.
Estonia (where I live in Europe) has 20.3% inflation, it's insanely bad and the ECB is a snail to react to the situation and still claiming "this is transient, don't worry".
Hey, off topic but I love your cameras and the attention to detail you put in them, especially in regards to what helps the tech install them.
Print is your best debugging tool
No one is shipping water to California. The water for California agriculture is diverted from its natural flow, yes, but it comes from mountains located on the east side of California.

On the far side of these mountains you will find the humid wetlands and the wide rivers of ... Nevada. Perhaps you can try kayaking on Groom Lake someday.
e135846e2594f4ddb45abee1e27c8521329e440b9af77891a29ae54f8cd71bbc - 137.21GB .7zip titled "CTGHistory"

Pasword ; 0xdC56BCccf3fa51687f339E2425E9Bc1a2acB42Ee
But usually using the wrong format string would just read from undefined memory locations. While that could be bad, it’s not as obviously catastrophic as writing to arbitrary memory locations.
>Yeah, of course, a single-node container tool is easier to run than a Kubernetes cluster.

>>comparing even to plain Docker – not to even mention Kubernetes

>Why do I need to rebuild without Bluetooth support?

Because you don't need it? Or you don't want it, but cannot deactivate it in bios? Security and Kernel-size

>> services gonna start because it will be different each time

Please read and don't make your own interpretation like with docker -> kubernetes
>I vaguely resent the implication that wanting things is so rarely coming from endogenous desire of self-fulfillment for purely self-motivated reasons rather than sourced from some other source of power or peers.

You have no way of knowing what is truly endogenous desire, from what's not - even if you perceive it, after some reflection, that it's endogenous... the reality it that it just might not be.

A chunk of us is a product of what surrounded and surrounds us. It's the human condition.

So I maybe the exercise you should do is to accept your humanity? The fact that you are human and that's doesn't have to be a bad thing, to the point of being resented about it. You can see it as a constrain, but it can also be a source of freedom once you accept it.
This is really cool! I've been looking for something like for a while - my learning path was through LYAH and Real-World Haskell (also tried Haskell from the first principles but a bit too extensive IMO). I think this would fit in perfectly between LYAH and RWH.

I am using Haskell mostly for writing compilers (https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp currently), but I believe if the tutorial isn't using a lot of specialized libraries/frameworks (which seems to be the case from the first glance), a majority of the material taught should be transferable to any domain.
I have only used Jekyll in the past but I would try Hugo nowadays since it's the "brand new stuff" (only because it's written in Go). Jekyll hasn't been abandoned which means that both are good and I'm sure they have the same set of features.

As for using GitHub to host it, it's still free and you can use a custom domain which is nice.
> Video games are a small niche in the universe of technology products

Sure it's a niche but not a small one. Just like cryptocurrency mining, it certainly drives shortages and high prices. My point is that only such specific applications require brand new hardware: for other usecases the second-hand market (which is dominant in the Global South due to tons of containers shipped full of 2nd-hand equipment leaving Global North shores) is more than enough. So in that sense it makes sense to tax the new hardware.

Even without considering the actual applications, taxing new products is a good incentive to keep existing hardware running, which is much better for the environment (most pollution and energy used in the lifecycle of IT is in production).

> By the way, no one is forced to buy tech enabled products

That's definitely not true. Most people who want a car/truck/tractor want a reliable mechanical device, not a random piece of electronic junk with literally hundreds of microcontrollers who can all fail in mysterious ways and are hard to repair (if possible at all). The movement for the right to repair, which is strong amongst agriculture workers, would explain it better than me.

Also, there's plenty of situations where people are forced into owning IT devices. In raising livestock at least here in France, there's mandatory regulations for chipping all animals and equipping your farm with high-tech. Many public services will not talk to you anymore unless you have an email and cell phone to give them. There's probably plenty of other examples from specific fields: i recall friends working in libraries and hospitals mentioning how their IT tools (imposed on them) are driving them crazy and degrading their quality of work.

> And tech products are very low on the list of environmental issues in the world.

That's definitely not true. Please take a look at the stats before making such a claim. If only by CO2 emissions, IT is a great contributor. If you add industrial pollution, IT is one of the worst industries you can think of due to requiring complex multinational supply chains for mining, refining, assembling hundreds of different materials, and failing to recycle billions of devices.

> Not sure why an extreme tech pessimist is on HN anyways :)

Oh i'm not a pessimist. I just think we should not obscure the dark side in what we do. I hope IT can become a field of human emancipation again (helping people accomplish tasks, instead of controlling them) and we can build 100%-recyclable computers as a priority (instead of aiming for more DPI or more GHz). I'm just really sad about the current state of our trade and how computing is used to both destroy the planet and ruin many people's lives :)
> It's easy to go back after the fact and analyze a case where someone has a poor outcome and say 'we should have done this another way'

summarized by the meme

it takes two wipes to know you need three, but three to know you needed two
Well, if they took any lessons from Upwork, it's going to turn into an exploitative nightmare for the vendors/contractors on the platform. Can't wait until they create a real life version of their online work monitoring.
Did that feel good?

Now make a list of things that make the US a developed nation rather than a “third world country”.
TikTok fueled disinformation, political tension in Kenya ahead of elections
The other side of it is mediocrity.

Emotions point in a direction. They don't inform the user of what knowledge, time and meaning that may be needed along the way.

Emotional reasoning often directs people to a mediocre end, most commonly seen in failed indie video games or niche tech projects constantly worked on with no end in sight. People end up in nurturing tribes trying to follow an irrational direction without the higher meaning needed to convert a direction into a result. Eventually time catches up to all of them and you don't hear about the nothing that comes of it.

Your gut is like a wet finger in the wind, it indicates a direction of the prevailing winds.

I think the article was talking more about feelings, sensation and desirability than emotions.
Agent means entity that acts. Time and place are our models that help us act.
I wonder how much performance can still be squeezed on linux JIT/dynarec emulation if support is helped by the kernel itself.
how do i cope with a lack of instant gratification in the context of undertaking a large endeavor?

i know the payoff at the end is worth it to me personally. make sure your undertaking is aligned with your long term goals in life, and its much easier.
I think OP owns these which is why they posted this
Fragmentation has put paid to the dream of Linux ever being bigger than Windows
No, they're required to spend at a minimum 85% of the money they receive from premiums on healthcare or healthcare quality improvement. As the price of medical procedures goes up, so does the 15% amount that they're allowed to keep and so too do the premiums rise to increase their income.
> Yeah, totally clueless BSD fanboy. I have seen many during the time I was a heavy BSD user.

He works at Kyndryl do you know what it is/was?
Somewhere I read that Apple use Linux (there own internal version) as the first target when developing their silicone, before then targeting macOS once development has progressed to a certain point. I can't find the article now though, surprising hard to google for.

EDIT:

It was a HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30729731

"I find it crazy because you know they developed all this hardware with Linux. Just release the darn code."

"Apple does bringup with Linux because the silicon team doesn’t necessarily want to deal with getting the Darwin team involved during validation."

Worth reading the whole thread, some interesting insights and insider(?) info.
Probably Rust, since that's what the project is written in.
Look for a job.

Maybe take a few months off to relax first though. Job market where I am seems pretty good, both for full time and contractors.
I have an alternative proposal: optimize for the product of usefulness and performance.

That is, optimize for (number of tasks user performs using your software) / (time spent per task)

Actually measurable, too.
All of this only applies to hobbists. Serious shops have been using 32 bit mcus since the mid 00s and if you even think about putting an interpreter in there, a senior software engineer will probably kill you in your sleep. Rightfully so.
Corresponding write-up: https://blog.aerojockey.com/post/iocccsim
Microsofts Anti-Consumer History
In an unrelated Z80 testing situation, my son in college was asked to verify a gate-array implementation of a Z80 for a NASA project. He wrote an opcode-by-opcode comparison of a real Z80 and the DUT and stored internal state on both before and after. The DUT failed to set flags consistently on some opcodes! It was some gate-array implementation for custom hardware (a radar unit with a built-in FFT processor). He did some other projects, but still tells the story of getting a part stepped for NASA.

Anyway years later I'm gratified to see a short animation posted here on HN, of the Juno space probe flying by Jupiter. Some of his code (unrelated to testing) was flying on that!
We’ll I think you’re great and that other person is a poopy head.
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I love the section acknowledging the desire for popularity. Can def see a bit of that in myself & I think many can’t admit that to themselves
This sort of thing happens all the time in big cities. Person is arrested, life up ended, and charges end up being dropped or dismissed. Their personal life has suffered a major setback, all for a government oversight.
We don't know whether it is the case or not. It could just as easily be worse than it says.

Probably is.

If I had to tell you about all the medical mistakes experienced by just my immediate family, just the facts, I would be at it all day long.
“Change my mind” is a meme. Sheesh.
Firefox mobile can turn off images and web fonts and JS, that's more or less it unless you have a faster host somewhere else that can download and compress for you.
It "surpassed... respiratory disease, which kills close to 150,000 people per year."

For proportion, according to the CDC[1] there were an estimated 100,300 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 12-month period ending in April 2021

Although this report is from 2016, which was before COVID and mandatory masking. WebMD says that in the interim, deaths from respiratory diseases have also soared, but I couldn't find any numbers.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2021/...
Who have an insanely better price anyway because of their negotiating power as a nation instead of an individual payee.
Yeah, I could imagine some spiraling maneuver that would rotate 180° while maintaining constant acceleration. However, a flip and burn would certainly be more efficient (no cosine losses).
*Dropped some more (~120) here:*
https://gist.github.com/3rd/b2d0b2b26493de07ebb2a5ad5e67db1e

Maybe someone finds a name for their blog/project/something.
10 PRINT "There's a fine line to walk between authenticity and masochism"

20 GOTO 10
Last time I commented this, it was not well received here, but I have to comment again. Look at the women on the pictures. They are invariably depicted as a subservient being, the one that occupies the kitchen, the one that has the responsibility to sacrifice their own time to take care of the children, the one whose appearance is more important than other features, the one which supports the man. Another detail: there's basically no racial diversity - nevermind gender diversity - on the ads.

This is less common today. We have really evolved as a society.
The company I work for uses MicroPython commercially to build medical devices. It hasn't fallen apart for us.

Indeed, it's helped deliver high-quality solutions quickly...
Show HN: The fastest way to collect digital feedback
Here's a business plan: copy the features of RequestTracker in a different language; integrate a wiki with custom markdown-like syntax to dynamically pull data from the tickets; have a workflow to publish things from the internal side to a public side that makes it easy to audit for dynamic data flows. Design for self-federation, so that teams can have their own servers pub/sub queues, search across servers, and enact security boundaries.

You now have a product that will work for about 90% of existing JIRA users. Sell it in three versions: open-source no support, self-hosted with support-per-user, and hosted SaaS with support per team.
Not having wealth is a guarantee you won’t 1000x.
> Because you don't need it? Or you don't want it, but cannot deactivate it in bios? Security and Kernel-size

Just blacklist the kernel modules, then. Or even plain delete them from disk.
Nice speedboost, hope they'll continue the work in the future.
Isn’t that how the fans seem too? I’m not sure that’s always true either. All that tunnel and loop stuff by Musk and Boring company are pretty awful.
Usually the whole row is copied, updated, and then appended to a different file on disk. After some time a job runs that removes the unused rows by deleting them for good, thus rewriting files and compacting the database. This has lots of advantages, on a small scale resilience against power outages (journaling), and on a large scale you can e.g sync a second DB / backup by just streaming appends.

Simplifiying a lot here of course. E.g if your DB uses MVCC (multiversion concurrency control) old values cannot be removed until the last transaction is done seeing them.

Of course if you write your own storage engine you can do whatever you want. I wrote one for MariaDB a few years ago and you basically just have to implement the minimally required interfaces for it to work.

DBs traditionally have these technical details figured out pretty well, and the line between what is part of the DB and what is done by the OS can be blurry at times.
It looks really cool but I feel it's too much to take in a one bite. Making the framework do (almost) everything makes me think it won't be able to cover all the nuances of single-purpose libraries. I'd be much more open to trying it if it was just a general wiring around Fastify & Prisma for a better Node.js backend rather than a one tool to do everything.
If you're into this and the history of kitchens in the early 20th century in the US, I highly recommend Nancy Hiller's book The Hoosier Cabinet in Kitchen History.

https://nrhillerdesign.com/2015/01/19/the-hoosier-cabinet-in...

I lucked out and was able to get a copy via inter-library loan.