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I would like to challenge the premise of company first, then team, then self.

A forest is grown one tree at a time.

A company is formed because someone, the founders, thinking for themselves. They want to create a product, solve a problem, learn an industry, or they just want to get rich. Essentially "do the thing". All of these start from "self".

With any luck, the founder get some funding, sell some products, got enough resources to build up their team. A team with people who thinks about themselves. They are the people who want to build a product, solve their own problem, learn an industry, or get rich. All of these joiner start from "self".

Then the founder found first hand that, after all the interview, vision and mission statements, OKR and all the charade, their objectives isn't quite exactly aligned with the teammates. Instead of "doing the thing", they need motivate their teammates to "do the thing".

One more iteration we are at the company level.

As other comment points out, it is really the executive's duty in making the alignment. IMO, you don't make the alignment by indoctrinating the same message over and over, but by understanding your team, and how your team's motivation contributes to a wider company goal. Similarly, you don't indoctrinate your customer how good your product is, you understand their need and refine your product. It's the same process.

Moreover, a so-called company goal is really just optimizing a beaten path, get more user, get more usage, get more revenue. Kodak's company goal back then I bet was about improving some of the measureable metrics. As a company, you do want to harness some creative power. Let some of your people do what they like some of the time is highly beneficial. It is the same creation force that gives birth to numerous ideas.

If there is a higher goal than the company goal, it is yours. How would you leverage the opportunities and resources offered by your employment to achieve your personal goal? That is the question. And you achieve company's goal by tapping that source of energy from your teammates.
Makes sense, if you have a random process with IID variables, the distributions d are the same, so you can view the partial sums process (∑Xi) dynamic as advancing by convolving with d.

In the generating function pic, the distribution is borne as coefficients of polynomials or of formal power series, and convolution is polynomial multiplication. One example of your step is multiplying by (x+1)/2 (Bernoulli trial), and that gives approaches to the gaussian by chunks of normalized binomial coefficients.

Other related limit, described as a functional central limit theorem is given by Donsker's theorem [1], giving the passage from the discrete situation (random walk) to the continous (Brownian motion).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donsker%27s_theorem
AFAIK Musk has also characterized himself as a free speech absolutist but has now re-suspended Ye.

I’d be curious to hear whether you think that this suspension is compatible with free speech absolutism? Put differently, was Musk simply marketing himself as an absolutist (to win over following) but is in reality a pragmatist, willing to bend his stance when he views it in his own or society’s best interest?
I guess you're being sarcastic?

Based on the pictures, those look more or less the same to me...
Lol he's moving from the last hot thing to the current hot thing.
My metacortex
Wool socks in the winter, nothing in the summer.
I really dislike when people use foo and bar. Use something with some meaning imo.
Sorry, I wouldn't know. I got out the frontend world after that experience, and I don't think I've seen any solid answer yet.
> I just felt it's such an outrageous claim

I have used an iPhone SE and a mirrorless M4/3 camera to photograph a sheet of paper containing barcodes of varying sizes (including some with bars less than 1 pixel wide). I then checked which barcodes were readable in the resulting image.

The light levels were the same, both cameras were positioned and zoomed so the target took up the entire image, and both cameras were supported on a tripod.

I expected the M4/3 camera would blow the iPhone out of the water with its much larger lens, bigger sensor, and higher price. But no, the iPhone's image had marginally more readable barcodes.

Modern smartphone camera performance is just crazy, for the sensor size.
> SvelteKit is going ot be Django/Ruby on Rails of frontend frameworks.

I use it for my production app, so I'm a big supporter, but I don't think this is true. It's an extremely light framework that doesn't offer anywhere close to the feature support of Django or Rails, and as far as I'm aware it doesn't have any intention of doing so. Perhaps I'm mistaken?
From my experience this is heavily location-dependent, so US is probably the worst example.
Again, depends on the state. If you're a white person in Texas? It's vanishingly unlikely that your interaction with the state legal apparatus will extend beyond a hat tip and a thank you sir/ma'am.

Think of it as a "barbarians at the gate" type situation. You're defending civilization from lawlessness. Whether or not your life is in danger doesn't matter in many places. You similarly only have an obligation to deescalate in some states.
Seems to me that when robbery becomes robbery with a gun its too late to be a hero shooting robbers. Not many people want to test if unknown person pointing at them from 1-2m is slower than you getting your own gun from some hidden holster, clicking safety / loading a bullet ie on glocks, pointing and actually hitting back with immediate deadly force.

Its either 'redneck' approach when any such encounter is a gun encounter (with its consequences), or just give them wallet/phone and accept the loss&hassle in exchange of much higher chance of surviving.
Money is in Mobile games. People need a carrot
Because they can get away with it. That's it. It's a power struggle.
I sold my DSLR gear in 2015 including my absolute favorite 35/f2 lens, and I have an X100V on backorder in 2022 for its 35mm equivalent f/2 prime lens: seven years of AI missteps and absent bokeh in my preferred framing has finally gotten to me. I know that my phone will take better telephotos, and I know my phone has RAW mode and three lenses and takes amazingly great pictures. So I'm specializing my camera to exactly where I love it most, and will let my phone handle everything else, and I’m content that each has their strengths.
By design and necessity - I suspect people would not be happy if they saw what actually came off the sensor (or had to carry around a better sized sensor).

https://skylum.com/luminar-ai is probably the closest I have seen
> If there's noise you can't speak.

And that's really what moderation is ultimately about. On every forum and platform: suppressing noise and increasing the signal-to-noise ratio.

> If you're trying to muddle the waters of free speech with false narratives and strawman arguments like spam and porn, that's just cheap manipulation.

How is that trying to muddy the waters? It's absolutely relevant. They're both great examples of speech that's completely legal and yet universally banned.

> Spam is by definition something nobody wants to see.

But then what's spam to one person might not be spam to another. There are always some people who do respond to spam.

Same thing with hate speech; most people don't want to see it, but some people disagree on what it is. And let's face it, hate speech is the thing that some people try to defend under the banner of free speech. And unlike spam, hate speech can pose a real danger. It can inspire people to commit violence against the group being hated (this has happened plenty of times). If left unchecked, it can create a culture in which violence against the hated group becomes acceptable.

All meaningful speech has consequences. Calls to violence definitely so. Is this really something that needs to be defended when spam and porn don't?

I'm not saying it definitely does or doesn't, but if you want to have a meaningful discussion about free speech, you have to be willing to go into specifics, and not just wave meaningless platitudes around.
I don't know who this is true for, but I am proud of the fact that I was armed and able to protect my pregnant wife. I feel absolutely no remorse for it. I didn't enjoy it and the entire situation was unpleasant at the time.

Had the situation had been different, say I was alone and it was merely a robbery by some kid or something, sure, I would feel differently if I killed them (and I wouldn't). I just don't accept the initial premise of your statement for my experience and those I have spoken to in similar situations.
JSX is not JavaScript, so if you're using it, you're wholly in the "new syntax" camp.
That's already been adopted in Python with its "Truthy" or "Falsy" values!
cpp2 is more about freeing c++ from its syntax nightmare rather than making it a safe language to work with.
much of the the physical work for the report on EDVAC was indeed done by others or discovered by them, but his formalisation of it would not have been possible by those individuals.

To even hint that he is somehow undue the reverence he is afforded is wrong and any exploration of his work would easily dispell such notions.
I guess it's because in general it's hard to be on time. If you rely on public transportation (I do) most probably you either arrive early or arrive late. So you ask yourself: do I want to wait for others 20 min. or do I allow myself to arrive late 5 min.? So, I usually choose the latter. Obviously if I can arrive 5 min. earlier and wait for others, then I will choose that.
No, they're very different, but I agree that the pictures look alike.
Even with less outdated cameras (e.g. the last high-end APS-C from Nikon, the D7500), HDR bracketing is much worse than most mid-range phones from the last 5 years. And assembling them after manual bracketing in post-processing is also not great. Nikon HDR creates halos, doubling, even on relatively fast shutter speeds.

That said, I don’t have the experience of phones being "good enough", and even my Sony RX100 (edit: was "RX1", my bad) first gen which is quite old is out-performing 99% of the smartphone market in picture quality on a good screen, if you exclude HDR.
Everything by Topaz seems to fit the bill.
Except what do you do about sound? Bluetooth (audio) has way too high latency for gaming
Are you really sure about it? Can you be really sure about it being always true?
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There's no passengers involved as PSR refers exclusively to freight rail. It's still in the public interest to not have sick rail workers die on the job because they are not given time off to access health care or recuperate from illnesses. This is what the dispute is about.
thank god meta is not right
It was going to be balls to the wall until that PHOTO. There was a plan and it failed! Look how many people were saying this is it, thats all we need. Where are those stories? Right next to the ones saying SBF is a great man!

This is going to happen again and next time we might not be lucky enough to know the truth before death rains down on us.
I had a similar problem as a non-native English speaking teenager trying to learn how to code for the first time. The function in one of the challenges
named sleepin(day, vacation) had to return true if the day was a Saturday and and vacation was true. I had no idea what that idiom meant and I think that significantly contributed to my struggle to learn coding as a beginner.
Companies want employees rather than contractors in the sense that they want to have a locked in wage rather than negotiate new contract rates for each contract, but companies want contractors rather than employees because employees get benefits in exchange for their relatively slower growing incomes.

Here, we see the tug of war and companies trying to have it both ways.
It's a good theory, but I'd have a very hard time telling if it's concrete effect or just wishful thinking.
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Anyone can join an Ivy League school though. Thousands join every year. Not just anyone can join the nobility.

Sure some of those are legacies, but many are not as well. Every Harvard class has nobodies from nowhere.

You just don’t see the same mobility in other systems. England likes their story about random boys drawing swords from stones and becoming kings, but that just doesn’t happen. Sure maybe our system is not 100% egalitarian, but it’s an improvement I think.
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Probably been recommended here many times before, but for fans of these, I'd recommend Permutation City, by Greg Egan too. It's one of the most existentially depressing sci fi (or any kind) of books I know of, but it's damn good.
> The (white people) self immolated the social fabric of the (white people) in response to desegregation.

It's important to note that Black people never had access to those things to start with. They were destroyed out of spite and moved to private clubs that could get away with not admitting Black members.
I lived (and loved!) in Northern California for nearly 20 years and left in 2017 for personal reasons.

Without a concealed carry permit, any law-abiding citizen who travels with firearms in California must keep them unloaded and in a locked container [0].

It used to be incredibly difficult (nearly impossible [1]) for regular citizens to obtain a concealed carry permit in San Francisco because they had a "Good Cause Requirement" which essentially meant that your cause was not good enough.

Apparently, that changed in June of 2022 with a recent Supreme Court Ruling [2].

There are also [3] many stories of victims who shoot their attackers either being prosecuted criminally or sued for civil damages.

Lastly, while the views on concealed carry vary widely throughout the US, most social environments that I ever encountered in Northern California would find it repugnant.

[0] https://oag.ca.gov/firearms/travel

[1] https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/nation/california/2022/...

[2] https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/get-service/carrying-conc...

[3] Oregon, not CA https://www.gilmanbedigian.com/man-who-shot-intruder-in-his-...
Why you should almost always wash your clothes on cold
Kodak didn't think that, but they didn't anticipate the incredibly sharp drop in film sales. Kodak was the #1 seller of digital cameras in the US in 2005.

Film sales only fell off a cliff in 2006. [0]

The Kodak story as commonly told is something like "don't be stupid like Kodak". This is easily followed by the thought "I'm not that stupid, I'll be fine".

But the reality is much more nuanced and with a more important lesson.

- We have a product making big money

- In the (far?) future, this will probably change

- How fast?

- How much should we invest in capturing the next thing?

- Given the next thing is fundamentally far removed from what we did (chemicals -> electronics) should we even go there or divest and invest in something else entirely?

Kodak chose to go the digital camera way, but got eaten by electronic giant incumbents like Sony (with their sensors), Nikon and Canon. Yes, Canon and Nikon were already giants in electronics, since their cameras were electronic processor controlled since the 1980s.

Kodak eventually lost money on every Kodak digital camera sold. But even if that gamble had worked, they might have gotten eaten by smartphones just a few years later!

Business is just hard sometimes.

0: https://petapixel.com/assets/uploads/2018/10/fufifilm-film-d...
“Measured” violent crime is lower.
> What did Eastern Europe aggressively do, in the last century? Destroy aristocracy.

Well, I wasn't a big fan of it, but the reality of the matter is... for most of us, someone else destroyed our aristocracy (and all of our intelligentsia with it) for us.
It's funny, I wrote it very much tongue-in-cheek of course, but as someone who grew up writing HTML and then CSS and using "color" all the time there's probably a little nugget of genuine pent-up irritation hidden in there somewhere.
Its not just about being sick. These guys can work in awful conditions doing a dangerous job and often can and do get hurt. "Sick" leave is not all about a virus .
https://archive.ph/AO4CT
Ask HN: Should Mastodon have global search?
This was brought up in the NormConf Slack the other day. There, an article was mentioned about the cultural reasons why Mastodon’s search works the way it does (https://midrange.tedium.co/issues/how-mastodon-search-works/).

TL;DR Mastodon is a reaction to Twitter and has different norms for engagement. Maybe global search is incompatible with that.

As an experiment I implemented a simple Google CSE that uses a domain list of all known English Mastodon instances as listed on https://instances.social but it doesn’t seem to work very well: https://searchmastodon.social

What does HN think?
This is exactly how most confrontations end, especially if the assailant is not armed with a firearm as well - this is their most effective use. The armed victim shows the gun and they run away. It never turns into the Hollywood bloodbath opponents of firearms think that it will.
That I have seen, this behavior is smaller-scale than "group". Given a (metaphorical) chance to shoot themselves in the foot, in order get somebody they don't like shot in both feet - a whole lotta people will instinctively go for it.
You're right, seems like this usage goes back to at least 1964 in BASIC.
I like when an expert gives a thoughtful reply. For example, last month there was a discussion about blood donation, and I gave a semi-accurate reply, and a physician replied fixing the details and with more details. [1]

I prefer like an ELI25 version, i.e. you can asume that the other person has a major in the university in a technical subject, but not the main topic of the discussion.

It's important that the expert does not give too many details, because otherwise the reply is difficult to understand. Somehow, I think it's easier for me to give good answers about physics than about math [2], because in many topics in physics I already have a simplified ELI35 version in my head, so it's easier to write a ELI25 version.

[1] Whole thread form the original question https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33501848

[2] You can't believe in how many ways it's possible to define the Fourier Transform in math, at least 8, and the advantages and disadvantages of each one. Do you want to read a book about that?
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Isn't RP basically BBC-speak and thus a lot more widespread? Even if it's not the native accent of a lot of people.
Obligatory XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/1357/
Thank you for reminding us about the reality of life for many people. Upvoted and appreciated.
> Now you're not even arguing in good faith.

I'm not even arguing, either in good or bad faith.

How do you argue with someone who places no value on the lives of older people? My intention was, and still is, to end this conversation.
You can download maps for offline use with Google Maps. It's not exactly the same, but very close in practice.
Go Tip: Prefer Function Arguments
There are gameboy pocket sized devices made still that run emulators. But you’re stuck with no new games and grey area legality
Sometimes it doesn't match the address to the dot on the map. My father's house shows nothing in address search but if I click the dot on his house I see his options.
Doubtful. I may have wanted to like Rust more than you when giving it a shot.

I've written a lot of Java and Go but I never enjoyed writing in those languages. I found functional programming languages in college to be very fun, and Rust is giving me that same feeling.
OrganicMaps works well. I travel to Andorra frequently, and because they are not in the EU it’s not free to roam there. Organic maps allows you download the entire country at a time and navigation and searching all work without data. I use it quite a bit in the mountains even in countries I have data in. Since it’s just OSM data it has a decent selection of hiking trails and whatnot, too.

I was pleasantly surprised how polished it is (on iOS at least). I had only ever tried OSM AND before it and this is leagues ahead in terms of usability. It’s more or less as good as Google Maps or Apple Maps, short of real time traffic updates. It’s navigation routing is not quite as advanced either, but it does the trick in a pinch (I don’t use it much in the car but more for searching and hiking trails)
> How could it not be, given that any physical medium has finite information density, and information cannot propagate faster than the speed of light?

You could have a tape of infinite length, and if you only ever request "the next one" then clearly the latency is constant.

> And on a practical computer the size of N ...

Don't be silly. N is the size of the input set, not the size of the universe.
My Nikon D40 still shoots better picture than high end phones. But that is just my opinion.
The "reason" is just to make more profits. All industries can adjust to paid leave, certainly railroads can make it too.

It is important to remember that the railroad industry was THE original big money monopoly that made its money exploiting workers. It's just continuing its tradition in the hands of Warren Buffet and similar owners.
Contractors can also be laid off without any fuss with things like the WARN act.
That was a bit sexist. But most people can't frame, compose or level either. So doing some automated post-processing inside a phone won't help.