skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just to give you one example: a VC enters into a deal, signs a non-binding terms sheet conditional on doing DD, goes through a full DD and then has to back out of the deal because a large LP does not honor their commitment. The fall out from that would be massive.

Is this in Europe?
If you spent even a day at Microsoft, you would see thousands of programmers (and people of every role as well) just phoning it in.

It is an absolute nightmare. A terrible place to work for anyone who has a spine, ambition, and sense of pride.
It seems to me that the first two are statements, and the final one is a conclusion, which is the only one that's productive to focus on.
I think spending the money adds an urgency to ship. If not it's "just" your time.
I'm surprised that sales reps getting bonuses is a secret in your organisation. That's pretty much how sales are compensated everywhere. Their base salary is often only a small part of their compensation if they're any good.

It's also not uncommon for the bonus amounts awarded to be private.
While Karpov's opinion is debatable of course (although the man knows a thing or two about the subject), I frankly can't see how this analogy is applicable here?

If anything, Carlsen's WC matches fell definitely on the short side (which is one of the reasons why 2 of them were only decided on rapid tiebreaks, which is kind of ridiculous in and of itself; not saying it's Carlsen's "fault", but still). And all but the last one - where Nepo self-destructed anyway - were 12 games long.

Back in the dya of Kasparov vs. Karpov a WC match was at least 24 games long - so for example Carlsen's both wins against Anand in 2013 and then 2014 combined were only as long as a single match before his era. And the (in)famous aborted match of 1984-85 lasted for 48 games. The struggle used to be much greater.

How does the analogy with Jordan fit here exactly?
Interesting, I was promised that a world without law enforcement was some kind of utopia where everone would get together just fine...

It's perfectly fine to complain about police brutality. But it's almost undestandable when you know what kind of crap they have to deal with daily (as exemplified by TFA). It gets old. No surprise only the ones with too thick skin keep on.

And make no mistake, the ones more affected by common criminals are the people with lower incomes. They're the ones that have to use public transport (in some places, of course), go to the sketchy shops in food deserts, where the loss of a vehicle or a phone can be catastrophic, etc
You may very well be right: maybe they're ripping you off and maybe the ToS are unenforceable.

What I'm saying: adjucating these situations is the purview of a justice system (ie courts). If you were ripped off, you can always go after the party that caused damages (ticket issuer). If you want a "short cut" to "justice" provided by a credit card processor, well then they get to decide when & how -- and I don't think it's unreasonable for them to collect "evidence" from both parties to make more-informed decisions. And again, if you dislike their rulings you always have small claims court at your disposal.
> * assume the professors who insist on the newest editions of textbooks are either getting kickbacks [...] or they were forced to by the school's policy and someone higher up is getting paid by publishers.*

Or maybe for logistical reasons? The latest edition will of course be easily available (though expensive). Older editions might not be easy to come by. And allowing any old edition would mean it wouldn't be possible to assign exercises from the book, since the might differ in subtle ways, or just have a different order. While these problems aren't insurmountable, they would make things much more difficult.
If I disabled both, the computer (which had i9) got less usable than my current fanless M1 Air.
Somehow, the hemp enthusiasts don't get excited about the other bast fibers - manila, kenaf, jute, okra, ramie - all of which are used industrially.

Kenaf paper works reasonably well.
There is more nutritious food than before, and there is more toxic/unhealthy/processed food than before.

What's changed is the ratio between the two, but the absolute level per capita of both is higher, which is great for anyone who is discerning and self-controlled enough to avoid the toxic stuff.
North American Water and Power Alliance
It's difficult for businesses to compete with the government printing massive amounts of money and giving it to people to not work.
I agree with your premise, that additional complexity is not always worthwhile. But I don't think this "classic argument" is very strong. Hardly even an argument at all.

You compare two things and see one is longer and more complex than the other. How much cost is that really? 10x more code sounds bad, but 100 more lines might put it in perspective. And how complex is the code really? And what is the benefit? A common complaint seen on OpenBSD lists is that performance is behind competitors so you take a bunch of those complaints and make an equally sound argument the other way.

I will say that a lot of the tools and libraries and functionality I have seen the hell optimized out of and functionality added to, allows solutions to be put together which would be infeasible or impossible with simple / naive implementations. More layers or custom code or more complexity can be avoided. Let's say a database layer could be avoided if filesystem operations are fast enough. Or a shell script + cmd line tools can be used instead of writing a new program if fork+exec+exit+context switching+pipe IO, and these kind of tools (yes and cat) are fast. If malloc+free are fast then you don't need to write your own caching allocator in front of it. Etc etc. So you might end up with an end-to-end solution that meets your requirements and actually has less code, or at least less bespoke complexity and more that is long maintained and used by many.
Very interesting thought.

As someone who often tries to figure out how I can apply my "programmer's mindset" to other areas of my life : can you give more details on how a graphic designer (would/should) think(s) vs how a programmer does?
More specifically : how were you thinking vs how you thought you should have thought?
:) Yes, I haven't defined "creativity" and I haven't quantified anything. My assertion was empirical, based on the observation that what society usually considers creative comes into being due to a logical train of thought, such as "if X, then what if Y", or an impulse to do something that hasn't been done before. Imitation on its own would not be considered particularly creative.

Yes, you are right, I could be wrong, perhaps this form of statistical imitation is at the core of greater creativity, and not another hype wave in software development. Time will tell.
Another case of 'Good Tsar, Bad Boyars'?

Either the lab got so big that the supervision was close to non-existent, or like a Titanic lab went full steam ahead publishing anything, lack of reproducible results be dammed.

BTW, I doubt one is forced to retract an article because few sentences in the intro or discussion were nicked verbatim from another paper.
The water transfer project is also unsuccessful in the sense that the south also has a water shortage, and much of the water being pumped is polluted.
>Climate change is not being addressed seriously currently, at all. And the trend is towards it not being addressed.

While we could be doing better, we've made immense strides over the past ten years, to the point where we've already avoided the worst outcomes and could possibly even limit the rise to 2°C and avoid most harm altogether.

At least, according to Kurzgesagt.

https://youtu.be/LxgMdjyw8uw
How do they certify that the homes are built according to the code? They do not seem to be licensed contractors or something, getting that license is not that cheap and fast, and you need quite several for a house.

You can live in a structure which is not certified as meeting the code's requirements. But selling it would be hard.
For me, the most startling one was seeing (a) Frida Kahlo smile.
So you're saying that challenging copyright law by breaking it is worth the (IMO fairly probable) possibility of being hit with a fine that could destroy IA's ability to continue their primary mission of preserving digital and physical history?

I really just cannot agree with that. IA shouldn't be broadly challenging copyright law; at most they should be challenging laws that interfere with their primary mission.
I suspect they got this from Karl Rove’s opinion piece in the WSJ today.

No clue whether this is accurate.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/george-soross-conservative-rena...
> I feel like Fide should focus more on rapid, and get more involved in the online scene. Maybe this is the opportunity.

This cheapens the tradition and the prestige of the discipline. Chess has attained a revered status over the years. It's not perceived as a game like any other. That's why it's able to attract luxury sponsors, if nothing else. Shifting the focus onto the "double bong cloud drunk banter blitz" territory destroys this legacy. This casual, fun aspect exists and does very well independently of the official, suited up aspect. They are complementary. But I'd really think twice before trying to remove one of the pillars. Chess is the most known, researched and commented mind game on the globe, it doesn't suffer from niche viewership. There's no need to try and fix a problem that doesn't exist. Tradition and legacy is something no amount of online clicks could ever buy.
I doubt it.

Global first companies only seem to work when they're not expected to be profitable. Stop shoveling money into their boilers and they fall apart.

Suddenly they realise that countries are more different than they think, and that American problems aren't global problems. Or they realise that other countries have different law, and hit every legal hurdle at once.

Maybe it's better to dream relatively small, and build a successful product for a specific area.
Neal Stephenson in The Diamond Age describes precisely this. It’s a lovely read.
When to optimise [1] and “premature optimisation” has been an ongoing concern in computer science ever since performance constraints and limits were identified (i.e. since forever).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_optimization
Flexibility and efficiency are not the only goals worth pursuing.
Great news, this means bloatware on Android will be no more right? Maybe even YT vanced can continue (still works perfectly fine for me at the moment I will say)?
Crime disproportionately affects the poor.
The Bay Area has never really reconciled being a protective property market (the old money NIMBYs) and being a high-growth business hub. One of the two had to give, and another tech market crash plus remote work becoming the norm (despite wailing and gnashing of teeth from some CEOs and VCs) will probably see SF reverting to the former.
Maybe in your middle class bubble all the smart kids graduate high school with good grades. From meeting people in a variety of walks of life in the USA it seems to me that what actually happens is that your grades are determined by zip code lottery with smart kids in underfunded school districts set up to fail by poor schools.
There's also the CLAP plugin format which might have a chance, supported by Bitwig and with Avid & Reaper adding it - seems lots of people want to escape Steinberg licensing if they can.

https://u-he.com/community/clap/

EDIT: ahh, I see Oskenso already mentioned it. I guess the u-he link is another introduction to it though.
We build Artificial Intelligences, build supercomputers. To solve complexity. But complexity has only grown more, beyond comprehension. Now if we don't control it there will be more chaos. Edge of chaos is place where the organism will need to adapt. But nobody can say for sure if it will.
> I wrote too much,
> said too little.

> Perhaps being silent
> now my greatest accomplishment.

This is powerful. My wife and I just finished watching a BBC drama where a withdrawn and reserved character processes her pain by staying up all night writing her first story. It made me wonder how much great art came about just because the artist lacked the skills or assertiveness to express and process their emotions. How much did their relationships suffer.
Samsung's Austin-area growth: $200B investment, 11 new fabs, 10k new jobs
IBM launches Db2 operator for Kubenetes on AWS
I've watched his YT channel for a year or so and really came to like it. It's good enough to scratch the hitch about the semi-con industry without getting into industry-specific publications levels of details.
Undervolt, friend. I'm running my 3060ti at ~100watts and the overclock is reaching 2150mhz. All while running at around 54 degrees (with a three fan cooler in an air conditioned room)
I feel this might be a false dichotomy: there are shittier jobs to be done for society to function, but the don’t have to be done 40–60h a week per person. What if instead you could make a living working Whittier jobs a day or two a week and doing whatever you want the rest of the time? It’s harder to run a marathon sprinting, but it’s doable going slower.
Seven ways the war in Ukraine is changing global science
Used it heavily for years across many orgs.
Everything you describe only begins to touch on how terrible it can be.
You are lucky to not figure out the blur mode in Teams bc it will bring the MS Surface line to a grinding halt in many cases.
It sucks, but they also support many business needs, so 'we' stick with it.
If only they could streamline a little, fight the bloat, slowly make things better.
Let me take this opportunity to shill my Minesweeper quick-mark patch against the Portable Puzzle Collection:

https://gist.github.com/FeepingCreature/3f5f59ca58fd2134ac8e...

I tried to send it in, but Simon never replied to my email. :( Pls merge!

Just as you can leftclick a free n-tile where n mines are marked around it to immediately reveal all other tiles, this patch allows you to rightclick a free n-tile where n tiles are unrevealed (or marked as mines) around it in order to immediately mark all surrounding tiles as mines.

This turns Minesweeper into much less of a precision clicking game.

Also I am hopelessly addicted to ./loopy.

edit:

this already works | this is what the patch adds
left click the 4 | right click the 4
X X X X X X O O O X X X
X 4 O -> X 4 _ O 4 _ -> X 4 _
O O O _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Assuming you have the pricing power to not be affected by the broad market, you would simply increase pricing to maintain ARPU.

If you cannot increase pricing, then your performance is coupled to the broad market regardless of how it is measured.
I really don't understand the Intel hate in this situation. A third competitor is a good thing, and on DirectX 12 titles they are good price for performance.

Stop being so negative.
I liked the quote from Turning Pro [0] that was mentioned:

> Sometimes, when we're terrified of embracing our true calling, we'll pursue a shadow calling instead. That shadow career is a metaphor for our real career. Its shape is similar, its contours feel tantalizingly the same. But a shadow career entails no real risk. If we fail at a shadow career, the consequences are meaningless to us

I've unfortunately experienced first hand the tendency to fall back onto paths that are easy, low risk, and comfortable.

[1]: https://www.nateliason.com/notes/turning-pro-stephen-pressfi...
I tried using a Dell Inspiron 14 for a while and it was not a good replacement for my Thinkpad. Quality-wise it was ok and looks-wise also, but the feel is not as nice as my Thinkpad T470s. The many, many issues on the r/dell subreddit chased me away from XPS laptops.
Eh hem... spam functionality tho? It's a killer, and Google has it down pretty well for obvious reasons.
Currently using an XPS 13 9370 on ubuntu 22.04 without any problems so far. Battery is "ok" at around 5/6 hours.

I had thinkpads before, and they worked also great
Ironically it separates "marginalized or vulnerable groups" from the rest in the first place.
Huh? The population was booming in the post-war USSR as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Uni...

Compare with the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...

And population growth in the pre-WW1 Russian Empire was even higher, despite having regular food shortage and hunger period. In general, pre-industrial agrarian societies tend to have much higher birth rates than industrial and post-industrial ones.

For some strange reason the US nowadays is comparable in the percentage of prisoners in USSR in worst Gulag years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_United_States_in...

I don't have an explanation here, TBH. The US is a rich and socially advanced country. In comparison to Europe this feels very wrong.
It always amazed me how fast “yes” is. Whenever I need to generate a really big file for whatever reason (e.g. testing multipart file uploads), I will run something like “yes > myfile.txt” for a few seconds.

Similarly, I tried writing a naive version in node.JS a few years ago and it was several orders of magnitude slower than coreutils…, which is usually the case whenever I try and clone one of the “simple” utilities from coreutils.
> I don't claim to "never write security bugs."

Sorry if I gave that impression; I wasn't trying to put those words in your mouth.

> And I am doubtful that most OSS actually gets all that "other eyeballs vetting" that everyone talks about.

Agreed, but a reasonably popular OSS project has a much higher chance of getting that vetting (or any vetting at all, really) than a bespoke library that the public never sees. The chances are a little higher for a nice / little-used bespoke library that you end up putting on GitHub or wherever, but it's still pretty low.

> In fact, I remember a founder, on this very forum, declare that "If you don't get physically sick, looking at your MVP code, then you are spending too much time on code quality."

I would never want to work for such a founder. I get the tension between getting a MVP out before you run out of money, but experience shows that prototype code ends up living in production a lot longer than anyone plans for. And I've personally seen those prototypes cause 6 and 7 figures of damage to a company later, when they haven't been properly replaced or at least improved when they should be.

I'm glad what you're doing works for you (you sound like you probably actually are an above-average developer, unlike -- by definition -- most people), but I don't think I could in good conscience recommend your approach as a general practice.
I think they are just being nice to people like myself who much prefer to skim a wall of text than sit through a video of someone talking.
Weren't these already using ZigBee? Does anyone know whether the Flipper can handle those frequencies as well?
They did. And in a perfectly valid way.

Better to not announce to the world "Hey everyone! Whaddya think?" If you can only tolerate approving answers. No one made them post a bad version of a one-liner that could already be googled up from 20 other examples already out there and better engineered.

This sort of send-up is actually perfectly on target, and frankly actaully light hearted.

Everyone posting critiques like this and like my own, knows full well that they have their own excrable works of art out there. We've all been figurative 7 year olds and made terrible crayon drawing programs, and even been ignorantly and adorably proud of them at the time.
Apple could just set it up in privacy settings to allow location spoofing if you wish. They could even make it automatically change occasionally within your region. Facebook would have no idea if the location data was correct or not
OP was a mid-level non-management marketing role post-Series C, for a company which has seen considerable dilution over five additional rounds since. I imagine OP's outcome will be at best a few years worth of annual salary, maybe shy of $1M if lucky. Dilution is a bitch (it raised 90% of total funding after OP would have been granted equity).
Analytic versus Continental Philosophy (2009)
> Thanks, but I'll keep my "polite society" vehicle and properly planned highways in Orange County.

Ah yes, my fondest memories of the US are passing the dead and the dying in their little metal boxes after the long backup of other funeral gazers.
A merchant ID in a separate "more info" field makes sense. But not to replace the description. The description should not only convey where the purchase was made, but also what product was purchased (ideally in enough detail). Only the merchant knows that information and so it's right that it's set by the merchant.
you can't get past permits and inspections without building to code. the main builder does not need to be a GC or have any kind of contractor license what-so-ever. There are still some pesky laws in the way, but it can be overcome with some fixes to red tape.
Human existence is way to complex to be expressible explicitly, in a form of non-fiction book. Hence, humans have always used storytelling to convey the concept which are difficult to put into words otherwise.

My favorites:
- "East of Eden" by Steinbeck

- "Map and Territory" Michel Houellebecq (especially recommended to tech crowd/founders, as it is about alienation of a modern creator). "Platform" and "Atomised" are also fantastic - the guy is potentially the greatest living writter today.

- "From Here to Eternity" James Jones

- the big ones by Dostoyewski
Not terribly helpful. The issue I run into constantly with attribution is that the place I want to use a work does not have room for attribution. If you use a texture in a game for example, you can't just slap the authors name on it. If you put in the credits, nobody knows what texture it's referring too. If you make a list of filenames that links them to the author, it can get easily lost whenever somebody renames a file or reorganizes the directory structure. Some file format allow metadata, but not all and even that is sometimes lost when things get converted or updated. If you do derivative work it gets even more complicated: You make a screenshot of the game, who do you credit now? There might be hundreds of textures on display.

What I miss is a library for Creative Commons work where everything can be registered and content-id-hashed so it is easy to find, even without attribution on the work itself. A set of command line tools to verify that all your data files have proper licensing would be extremely helpful as well. It would also make a nice resource to just browse Creative Commons works instead of having them scattered all over the Web. And it could allow back-linking, so you could see all the places where a given work is used.
> It added no value to reddit.

Well, many subs don't add a value to reddit. At least from my perspective and personal opinion. I don't understand why you cannot just unsub and don't read it.
GitHub handles technical debt with a smile
According to Rachel Potvin, VP Engineering at GitHub, tackling technical debt improves developer morale. In a recent CTO Podcast, she shares how GitHub's runs fan-out project to handle technical debt like feature flag removal
I really like how people striving for freedom in software are always ready—and eager—to take away the freedoms of companies they don’t like. “I want to be able to do whatever I wish for with software I use, but I don’t want people who make software to be able to do anything with their own products”, huh?
I think they all achieve different purposes.

"The world is awful" highlights a problem that needs solving, a concrete goal

"The world is better" tells you that something is working, which you can build on top of or improve

"The world can be better" gives a proposal for a course of action

While the 3rd might seem like the most useful, the 1st is extremely important too, because if the proposal fails then you need to fall back to thinking about the problem. The 2nd is important for both motivation, and also for promoting incremental progress