skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My condolences; I was taken with both https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.11673.pdf and https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2018/07/21/dijkstra-and-logic...

(especially wrt the latter, I've suspected that EWD had been attempting to redo with OR/EQL the dual of what EE's had long been doing —whether in knowledge or in ignorance of Zhegalkin— with AND/XOR)
I grew up Catholic and I'm always suspicious of converts. Inevitably they're all reactionaries more interested in opposing abortion and "RETVRNING" to pre-Vatican II, as opposed to be drawn to helping the poor, providing quality education, abolishing the death penalty, or anything else encompassed by Catholic Social Teaching.

Roman Catholicism is not a perfect denomination -- or religion for that matter -- but what is? It is however a lot more nuanced and encompassing than the the facile understanding often promoted online.
Can you give an example where the US government forced a company to lie to the public which we've only found out later?
Go for mob programming. Zero manager, zero meeting, zero standup.
True team work.

Project owner work with the programers (when needed)

https://youtu.be/28S4CVkYhWA
Maybe the first version but I can see several iterations later where this technology makes Siri and Alexa actually Wizard-of-Oz levels of smart where knowledge based tasks that used to require search engines and multiple queries to refine your results will no longer require this level of user input.
Management doesn't belong to unions.
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Why post this? Everybody knows about it, and this home page doesn't contain any information.
A Mysterious Syndrome Can Strike Decades After Polio
If your core business is software, you should always have people working on software. You don't stop improving things once they are built because that's how you fall behind competitors, whether improving means maintenance or new features or a mix of both depends on having a good PO.

If your core business isn't the software you're building, I tend to agree, but then building instead of "buying" would usually be a mistake.
This also has nothing to do with freedom of religion. Freedom of religion is not the freedom to impose your religious beliefs upon other people, nor is it a right of preventing other people's speech offending you religiously. It merely means that you can practice your religion freely without being prevented from doing so.
Yeah I’m having a hard time taking the school system’s side here. And I can’t stand big tech .
As a freelancer I disagree. I get hired by clients, do a product/project, they use that product in production and/or deploy it to their users. I get paid for that phase and then either we enter a 2nd phase of maintenance or the client goes with somebody else in the future for the project needs. When I do enter the 2nd phase, which can last years, usually my work on that project is in average to 10 hours/month vs. the full 40 hours/week when was the initial development phase.

So yeah, there is a development and there is a maintenance phase. On big projects that can spawn years eventually the maintenance phase can be seen as continuous integration, which is what the article's author is talking about, and that phase can be 90% of the project budget/lines of code/lifetime but is still the maintenance phase.

As Ray says it, he is seeing this through corporation colored glasses.
Very interesting! I did some searching but it seems they never had a system for having it act as a bridge between two cybiko nets? I would expect that to be a reasonable thing to do what with the mesh network.
> I suggest giving Kagi a try

Does not have a sound business model. Let's not waste time on something that is not viable.
I just bought this and I don’t know why I didn’t do it sooner.

The dept of the key is a bit too much (I am used to the mac keyboard) but both the keyboard and mouse it’s really quiet and smooth.

The mouse is quite small but has ergonomic shape.

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B089KV4YYX/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_...
> Does the profit motive actually stop Google or Uber from constantly doing useless makework projects and releasing unprofitable products?

Large companies are like mini-governments with their own kind of politics. We tolerate them because despite all the useless make-work that happens in a large company, we usually find that it's still far more efficient than a bunch of smaller companies would be.

And when a publicly-traded company gets too large for its own good, corporate raiders can step in, acquire it on the cheap and spin off its parts into leaner and meaner firms. The whole process is driven by the expectation of efficiency.
Morphology. Shape of things. How we get arms etc. We don't know how to engineer genetics to produce desired shapes. In the 'junk' that's where the secret is...not covered by most of the current published research in gene expression...and nothing like traditional gene expression (rna transcription -> protein + signaling). Currently published science basically knows nothing about how to get shape from DNA
This is one thing that's always fascinated me in corporate and government: why is bureaucracy easy to create and hard to destroy?

Or to put it another way, bureaucracy increases as a result of systems. E.g. 'We want to do a new thing, let's set up a new team to do it'

But there rarely seems to be continuous, automatic counter-system in place. I.e. a generic, regularly re-run reaping process that exists solely to decrease the number of teams/orgs/rules

You have periodic, CFO-org-led centralization / re-orgs, but those are default: status quo. Someone explicitly has to decide to decommission a thing, and that turns into a political struggle.

Is there a reason more companies don't have something like stack-ranking-by-utility for teams/orgs/rules? Where the default is "It's gone"?
My partner’s iPhone 11 Pro overprocessed a shot where I was wearing shorts to the point where we started calling it the “cauliflower knees” shot.
> Boss approval is literally everything.

This is such a sad corporate loser mentality.

Bosses are humans. They can be wrong. They can be convinced. Even manipulated, if that's your game.

> you’re hired for a job. You’re a glorified and well compensated code monkey

Only if you choose to treat yourself like one. I'm hired for my domain expertise that my bosses lack. I can understand 60-80% of their domain, they can understand 5% of my domain. When I'm saying that feature that they want is a nice-to-have and I don't want to build it unless I see evidence of it's value, they usually listen.

> I’ve yet to meet any hierarchy chains that are truly open minded to a low level IC saying anything that counters them

I worked at multiple startups (between 4 and 100 in size) and I always had a voice, even early in my career. Maybe you're the problem?

> you’ll become a bootlicker and actually make progress in your career rather than being stuck in senior/staff

Where exactly does the bootlicker progress? A code monkey doesn't become VP/C-level through bootlicking, there are plenty others with much better soft skills. At best you'll be a code monkey turned manager (which is worse than staff).
It's useful as a learning tool. I can ask it how to do almost anything, or how almost anything works.

When I want to learn how to do something new in a programming language, I ask ChatGPT and it explains in detail with a first pass example in code.
I feel almost maybe 80% as removed from WWI-era society as I do from Roman society, tbh. It's almost equally hard to imagine living in either era. Post-WWII (my parents' childhood's) starts to feel more connected.
I imagine this is wildly different for individuals. For me, 100 years ago does feel about "an eternity" ago.
"That will NEVER replace search engines!!" -Search engine vendor

"Those things will NEVER replace the horse and buggy!" -Buggy whip vendor

but seriously. Search engines are (1) a virtual monopoly for one company. (2) hopelessly conflicted due to being run ONLY in an ad-supported model, just because that early business model was never revisited. (3) prone to a neverending trench warfare against spam and black hat SEO.

Not that AI based replacements for search might not end up with the same flaws, but for the above reasons, I'm rooting for whatever comes out of OpenAI to completely upend Google's current business model (whether or not GOOG ends up being smart enough to be one of the leaders in that space or not).
It's not that. It really is mark-to-make-believe: Institutional investors want PE managers to ignore declines in public market valuation multiples because if the managers were to value their PE investments at current multiples, the investors would have to write off the value of their PE holdings.

For example, say a PE fund invested in a new EV company a bit over a year ago, at a valuation 10x trailing revenues, and then the fund doubled the valuation of that investment to 20x trailing revenues because Tesla (TSLA) was trading at 20x. All investors happily went along because they could show a +100% gain on this investment by the fund. Now, however, TSLA is trading at 4x trailing revenues, but the fund manager contends that it should ignore a capricious stock market and treat the investment in the EV company instead as if it were still worth 20x. All investors in the fund are happy to go along with that too, because otherwise they would have to recognize and report a loss of ~80% on the fund's EV investment.
MacOS supports touch. Natively.

Try using an iPad as an external display on a Mac using Sidecar.

It will accept Apple Pencil input.
That describes a lot of the systems I've encountered perhaps especially in the productivity area such as GTD. Are there some specific good ideas? Yep. Adopt the whole system religiously? That would be a big no.
>I believe the Apple Silicon dev kit ran on a A series cpu

Are any of these even still in the wild? I thought they were basically loaners until the M1 Mini's (and other computers) were unveiled/released.
When they actually commercialize ChatGPT as a search engine, and when enough people get burned on nice looking answers, it’s gonna get relegated back to hobby/fun thing to use.
If the canary is supposed to be updated weekly, but a week goes by and it Isn't updated, doesn't that fulfill the role of the canary?
Generic restaurants can't exclude non-Harvard students.
I figure this is sort of a "hedonistic traadmill" for software.

The software most new users work with everyday is going to be GUI and event-driven. If you start with an introductory language (BASIC, Python, whatever) and all you can do is prompt-and-answer, with no native UI conventions, you're not going to feel like you're a first-class citizen-- any wins you have in terms of code structure and algorithm design are always offset by a clunky experience that doesn't feel native. That's going to be a letdown to some new developers.

There's also likely some conceptual language changes: many new developers start because they had an itch to scratch, and if the tooling they see doesn't let them describe what they want, they won't stick around. Today's new devs may well be thinking in terms of a UI.

Another completely from right-field suggestion is TCL/Tk. There was a period (before the era of Python/Tk) when it was the easiest way to get a GUI project up and running on Linux. It occupies an interesting place between "shell automation" and "full scope programming"
Well that's good to know. last time I've looked was a few years go, not sure what happened with that.
To note, "this team owns X" still has the team justify a budget or even its existence when push comes to shove.

For instance if there was a “blue check” team of 3 people at Twitter, they’d have a hard time justify keeping the team 100% committed to it for years after the feature is released even if there is some small amount of ongoing work needed.

Looking at estimated output vs the costs, they’d probably hibernate the team most of the time, as you do with projects basically.
It's okay to criticize Democrats, mmkay?

The Democrat platform has a 3,200 word section covering education[0]. It covers dozens of topics, but doesn't appear to contain a single word about administrative bloat or poor use of resources on the part of the public schools system.

It's safe to say that this issue isn't something that Democrats want to talk about, and I think the parent comment is spot-on as to the reason why.

[0] https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/providin...
“The milk drawn from the cows was routinely adulterated with water, rotten eggs, flour, burnt sugar and other adulterants with the finished product then marketed falsely as "pure country milk" or "Orange County Milk".”

Yikes. Hard pass on being a poison-tester for every entrepreneur that dreams up a cost-cutting measure to increase their profits selling me food. Looks like it took years for the image of milk to recover.
I did and strangely my software exhibited weird performance and ran very slowly, I think due to the CPU's being slow and maybe the GPU is virtualised?
I asked many questions and it usually fail to answer the tougher or very specific situational ones.
neuroscience major unmet milestone will be when folk can hit replay to review adjacent past thoughts and perceptions... Monster catalyst to reward those fleeting ahaaas streams which spark off the best thoughts
if i3 just had persistent workspaces I would love to give it a good try, but they seem astonishingly resistant to the feature. xmonad has its own issues but at least it has all the features I need.
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I've been interested in cryptocurrencies back when they were still called "hashcash" so this whole corruption of the original ethos really hits me in the feels.
I have to disagree here. Fermentation temperatures and yeast strains do, of course, have a huge impact on the final outcome, including, but not limited to, the effect of esters. It is not true, however, that all ales smell fruity. With the large variety of top fermenting "ale" yeasts available, as well as some control to be exercised over the fermentation process, it's perfectly possible to get quite a clean fermentation. Kolsch is fermented with an ale yeast, for example.
I think there's something to this. It tickles my intuition.
Kagi has a private session token feature that you can use to carry on searching in private window (also a browser extension that does this automatically).
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What do you mean by "the delta"? I understand what the greek symbol represents in certain contexts but can we just use plain english to explain what we mean?
I agree with you overall.

Just a small nitpick: most ad networks optimize for price of impression, so at the end of the day they charge for impressions (just not always directly).

If your ad has low click rate and average price then it just won't be shown, because it's more profitable for an ad network to show ad with better click rate or with better price (i.e. with better price for impression) .
Plenty of people have worked excruciatingly hard and never done drugs but wound up homeless anyways. Reducing homelessness to laziness and drug addiction is a good indicator that you aren’t familiar with the the literature around homelessness and might have some prejudices against homeless presenting people.

Tangentially, I think it’s much better to use people like Elon musk, or Donald trump, or Sam bank man fried, jk Rowling, etc as examples of who not to become. Bad luck can befall anyone whereas these people woke up and chose violence, repeatedly.
U.S. gov't announces intent to slash citizenship renunciation fee by four-fifths
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I will. As a Kagi user I loved the quality and authenticity of search results but couldn't justify paying $10 / month for it. In my view that is far too expensive for something I can get for free from Google/DDG with concessions.
There are many ways to hold pens[0]. The “dynamic tripod” grip is the one they taught in elementary school, but it wasn’t until I bought a Lamy Safari fountain pen a couple years ago that I could hold a pen that way. I use the “lateral tripod” grip, not because I was taught it or even wanted to, but that’s how I naturally pick up a pen to write. It drove my dad nuts and I tried really hard to do it the “right” way, but the instant I stopped thinking about it I’d go back to my way.

It turns out that both of those are considered good grips. The dynamic tripod is preferred, but both are just fine from a physiology, balance, and control point of view.

[0] https://www.ot-mom-learning-activities.com/correct-pencil-gr...
It's because it is the default on more of the most popular distros. Ubuntu is the most popular distro. Fedora is the third. Both have GNOME. Linux Mint is second with Cinnamon.
Ah, ah, ah, sorry. My bad. Yeah, that makes sense.
Even standard functions can be deprecated and removed over time. A prime example of that is C's gets() function.
Are you implying that advertising is the only viable business model? I really hope you're wrong, if so. Ads have corrupted and made worse everything they've touched online. I would really like to see a new generation of services that aren't ad-based.

Personally it seems weird to me that people assume things like search and email must be completely "free with ads," while nobody expects anything in the offline world to be free with ads. Even TV, if we're being honest, since while broadcast technically exists, it seems the vast majority of people who watch it pay for cable. Why couldn't ad-free gmail and search be a $20 addon to your internet plan? Most people couldn't function normally with NO search engine today, so what's wrong with allocating the kind of money to it that would buy 2-3 cups of coffee?
Similar, from 10 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34163559
I was taught Palmer script in grade school--always one of my worst classes. Basically can't do it any longer.
So what you're saying is that, except for all the times you come back to work on the code because something broke, it works reliably? Nothing about the parser could be improved so that it doesn't break on data format changes? Nothing could be improved such that instead of alerting you to failures, it could be pro-actively adjusted to accept new formats before something fails?
But those are all coming from the same progenitor life form. Initially selected components are relatively fixed from that point onwards. For example, mitochondria having their own genome and replication machinery feels like a poor solution, but it is "technical debt" that can never be corrected. A different set of circumstances could have favored all organisms having skeletons instead of exoskeletons, a singular orifice for ingestion and excretion, etc.
> People seem to accept that it's all downhill

Not everything will go downhill. Some things surely, but not everything - some things will go uphill. For example, suppose climate change eliminates half of Earth biosphere, including half of humans. Chances are, their medicine, technology, education, social structure will still be better.
There observably is enough now and for the foreseeable future. We know population won’t grow without bounds unless we become multiplanetary. Whether we eat fake meat or real meat is asymptotically irrelevant.
Capitalism in general favors monopolies for the simple reason that more capital makes more profits, all else being equal, and more profits give ability to acquire more capital. That's why any society that wants a capitalist economy to remain competitive needs some kind of anti-trust enforcement.

Internet just happened to be the fertile ground (for all kinds of business) on which the present flock of monopolies grew after anti-trust has been severely curtailed under Reagan.
Ok but this does not match what you said above. There is a long timeline here and interbreeding is a factor. Denisovans are certainly possibly just small H sapiens but H erectus did not exist 200 kya and Neandertals had a substantially different brain case. My guess is if they got language they got it via interbreeding with H sapiens.

The lack of evidence does create a lot of space for suggesting pretty much anything.
Supposedly it's not legal but they do it anyway.

https://www.quora.com/Can-police-disable-your-security-camer...
> Fixing anything non-trivial becomes 10x more expensive.

It’s the same model as car repairs. You can do checkups and small maintenance every month, or have the whole thing checked and repaired when enough time passed or something critical broke.

IMO it comes down to wether you can afford for it to break . If it’s a subsystem that can be broken for 2 weeks, regular maintenance might not make much sense for instance.
This is how the elevators work at Apple Park. I have never seen it work anywhere else, but I've never tried in Japan.
> Is there a reason more companies don't have something like stack-ranking-by-utility for teams/orgs/rules? Where the default is "It's gone"?

Isn't that called an audit? They're rare because you can't force bureaucrats to always be making the argument for their usefulness without impacting their actual work. Impact assessment for policy is also gaining some ground, at least wrt. government. So that when a policy fails to achieve its goals, that failure is a matter of shared knowledge.
Because, for centuries, religious sects have spread the idea that beliefs cannot be questioned. Personally, I think this is obviously because if any religion is examined with even a mote of reasonableness and informed inquiry all the religious claims are clearly wrong and based on fairytale-and-wish-thinking.
Tire and break pad wear produce quite a lot of microplastics.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...
If I’m reading this correctly, you’re saying that there needs to be someone on a higher level to ensure that the correct work gets done.

How do you balance the additional work needed to provide the necessary transparency to this decision-maker?

Providing this additional reporting often becomes an unreasonably (I think) large part of the job, creates friction, and unexpected changes of direction interrupt flow.

As a manager with experience and sensibility for both the importance of doing the right thing and productivity, satisfaction and flow - what are some ways you lower the cost of managing?
Thanks to you and all the other i3 maintainers. i3 is a life changing experience for me. It completely changed the way I looked at computers themselves (having been raised on a steady diet of Windows and OSX, i3 was the first time I became aware of the fact that there could be other desktop UI paradigms, which changed how I look at nearly everything else as well).

On a more practical level, I’ve never been more efficient as I have been i3.

So a deep thank you to all the folks responsible for building such great software and making it accessible to so many so easily.
The core business is rarely the software. We're not all lucky to work at Jetbrain or Atlassian, some of us work at banks, search engines, social networks, marketing web agencies and stuff like that.

And buying is impossible in a lot of cases: if we're gonna be differienciating vs the competition, we wont use an off the shelves software, and sometimes the clients want customization so complex, we could have bought the thing and still need a big team to customize it.

I think the guy is basically saying projects need to come back, which I can accept but then we need to know: are deadlines good or bad ? is the client supposed to invest his time in the product or wait for completion ? can requirement be known before progressive iterations have shown a building skelleton to the client ? are developers wasting more time waiting for project design completion or fitting arbitrary scrum sprint scoping ?