skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "how can we alignnincentices so that the ten big projects all land successfully and deliver in two years". You cannot. No matter how big brained you are no matter how many meetings. It's impossible.

If you are basically saying we should throw our hands up and give up at any kind of project management, then yeah, a significant part of engineering management is not needed. You seem to be basically saying all can be solved by http://programming-motherfucker.com/ and I get it, sometimes as a sw engineer that's all I wanted to do, but the reality is that often you need coordination and project management to get results you (or the organization) wants in a timely fashion.

> Democracy works differently - people will take an interest when their votes directly influence which stupid project gets ten million this year.

Democracy is super slow for decision-making and not everyone is equally qualified or invested to have a vote. I'm not talking about even "board meetings" here. I'm talking about having a freaking doc with 10 potential projects a given team could tackle this year. Who is going to curate those 10 projects? justify why they are needed or relevant that we should spend time on them? who is going to decide who works on what? as I said, democracy and consensus-building is slow and often will just mean "the most opinionated or stronger personality wins". You need a skilled eng manager to navigate complex conversations and keep everyone aligned on why a given project was picked.

> And finally - no. aligning incentives is easy. Pay me.

I guess this sums it up. You personally may only care about being paid, but that's not everyone. Your whole view is a simplistic take on what it takes to make you specifically happy and that's why you think is easy.
You know what - tough for the actual customers. Who largely keep buying knockoffs.

You want the cheapest shit without any innovation, you'll sooner or later get your wish.
As an EV owner, good. I know it’ll make other stuff I buy more expensive, but enough is enough.
If hydrogen is electrolytic you can as well make it on site. Steel mills are continuous operations and there is not much need to pool/smooth demand.
Let us hope that the veterans of this war are treated better than those who survived the Cola Wars. <https://www.theonion.com/ad-industry-veterans-honored-with-c...>
No, I meant the 8086. The iAPX 432 project was started in 1975 but wasn't released until 1981. The 432 was late, very late, and so Intel needed a stopgap product. That was the 8086, started in 1975 and released in 1979.
Cayman is absolutely thriving actually, our biggest political issue is currently whether we should throttle growth. (Projections have us growing by 10%/yr in population, which is a bit scary.).

Our biggest business here isn't tourism, it's finance and professional services. Our differentiator is being one of the only "legit" tax neutral locations with strong legal protections. If you want to be able to send large amounts of money anywhere in the world quickly and legitimately, without tripping a million anti-laundering provisions, this is almost your only choice.

There are very few Americans here because there's practically no corporate veil - a Cayman company is far more transparent than a Delaware company. This is a terrible place to hide funds.

There are more Canadians here because Canada doesn't tax overseas income for non-residents, but Canadian-resident individuals don't get much out of a Cayman shelter. There's a bit of a "loophole" if you own a property here through a shell company, in that you can rent that property and keep the funds here tax-free. But that only works if the rental is generating and using the majority of the funds, and it's totally transparent if CRA comes knocking, so it's pretty limited in utility.

It used to be a bigger thing in the 80s/90s, before the world started cracking down on "tax havens", but the biggest change has been in enforcement. I wouldn't be surprised if some "old money" on the island for decades is grandfathered in to better tax treatment, I've heard as much, but that's a CRA thing and not a Cayman thing. In general, Cayman has never been a place to "hide" funds, it's been a place to legitimately put funds if your country of tax residency privileges that. Tax loopholes aren't on the Cayman side, they're on the US/Canadian/UK side. Don't drag us into that mess.

Also Cayman rum beats Jamaican any day of the week. That's going too far.
They probably spoke Yiddish and Russian not Ukrainian correct
This was probably what Iridium thought when they started their satellite based phone network.
Real-time quantum error correction beyond break-even
They literally put sauce on a regular one and called it spicy. Terrible.
Ah, the Great Chicken Sandwich War. So many lives lost, so many psyches shattered…I fear we’ll be living with the consequences for generations.

But nah, I doubt it’s any particular product issue. If it’s not just a matter of goosing the share price, it’s probably due to commodity prices eating into profits.
This sounds regressive and pointless. FM/AM vs. FM radio has to be pennies. In some mountainous areas, only AM radio works.
Once the malicious package is added to the universe of acceptable packages, it doesn't matter much. Prompt engineering is not a solution you that.
Big deal.
I lost a wife.
My fault though, I get it.
Ah. That makes sense
Oh baloney. Doing the same thing on my Ryzen 5650U won't crack 50 C, it regularly idles around 30-40 C whereas the MBP I don't think I ever saw below 45. And my prior Skylake system was way cooler too. Usually was around 70 C gaming. The 2018 15" MBP chassis is particularly terrible for the chips they put in there. The i9 infamously would perform worse than the i7 in benchmarks for long duration tasks.
I think McDonalds stock just did really well. This is surprising to me. It's literally at it all time high.
Part of the job is to unblock their teams. Sometimes that's achieved by their own technical knowledge, sometimes by coaching, sometimes by coordination with other teams/resources. It's very situational.
there is some world-class shit posting happening on this—quite enjoyable!
Great write-up.

It saddens me to think of modern online games, and how many of them will be lost once they become unprofitable.
In the piece, the Arena Man and the Priest in the Arena are two different archetypes.

You may not agree with the analogy, but you understand it. Also, many people with extensive religious backgrounds do not think highly of priests. I used to admire the priest who runs a soup kitchen near me until I spoke to him at length and discovered his contempt for the people he feeds.
Also if you specify the seed you get deterministic output, assuming that the interface allows to specify a seed.
The AM/FM radios are jellybean standardized components that have existed for decades.

Winter in the mountains where FM doesn't work, AM is essential.
> Actual monetary compensation is decent ...

After you take into account the much higher cost of living in the places you mention, it remains hard to save much. For example for an excellent job in London it was the choice to live centrally and enjoy the experience, or to commute several hours a day and be able to save for the future. Besides the hours are long so you end up living it up far less than you expect.
American culture isn't to blame for consumer choice. Why are almost all the Eurovision songs in English?
> The Saudi's want to help prop up Russia indirectly.

Source?
The orange space suits aren't worn in space, nor were they worn on the moon. Armstrong and Aldrin wore white, despite the moon being a bright gray. These are for recovery operations on Earth.
I believe plastic pipes?
White is fine on the moon; every person who walked on the Moon wore a white suit. The Moon looks light colored to us on Earth, but its albedo is about 0.14, which is roughly the same as worn asphalt or dirt.
They need to fine these companies and mandate they disclose the chemicals they are impregnating the fibers with to make it “grease resistant”
The US is a tax haven mate
Why sHHbbsinstead of sSHbbs, given it's "SSH + BBS"?
I don't get it. The gif shows the bot generating a recipe. Where is it that it's "autonomously develops and manages businesses to increase net worth"? Which businesses? What net worth?

Can someone explain?
your comment made me order 4 popeyes chicken sandwich
Ouch. I've lost girlfriends. I just came out of a nasty divorce though. I feel your pain.
I'm pretty sure you can't just launch satellites into orbit randomly without govt blessing it or stream data to ground stations legally (Eg: India doesn't like satellite phones), at a certain point Starlink could itself be the monopoly you dread.
In this case Google kind of painted themselves into a corner. Their ad based model was always counter to producing a good product. As time went on Google profits were more and more aligned with black hat SEO practices. They have now found themselves in a position where in order to fight the SEO spammers they would have to take a huge loss in revenue. They sort of just gave up at that point.

I get the point of results counter to common wisdom though. The pendulum is always swinging so sometimes one side is right and sometimes its the other but that doesn't make it wrong. Life requires timing along with critical thinking.
> Node took off because it allowed an already-existing huge ecosystem of libraries, tools

It didn't. JS didn't have a huge set of existing tools and libraries when Node showed up. And the ones that did exist certainly didn't work in Node, considering they were written for the browser without a care in the world for other environments.
I don't really get why you keep playing the contrarian in this thread. Linux works for me for all the games I play. I get incredible performance. And the anti cheat stuff I don't really care about. I used to play CS 1.6 and there were cheaters sure but it didn't really change my ability to be a PC games enjoyer.

I'm not gonna read your comment and be like "omg he's right. my linux install sucks. back to winblows". I used to constantly wrestle with my Windows install and now I wrestle with my Linux install less.
Hire a bookkeeper.

If the business can’t afford a bookkeeper, it probably isn’t viable because bookkeepers are a cost of doing business.

Yes you can be your own bookkeeper and stagger along in zombie mode. Just realize that’s what you are doing.

Good luck.
...by sending it a Voyager-style "please don't kill us" message?

This is full-on fantasy wish fulfillment for this author. It's borderline infuriating to see something as complicated as AI adoption boiled down to a wishlist for Santa. If AI comes to the conclusion that humanity has a net negative impact on the planet (which seems reasonable), then maybe we don't put it in control of democracy? None of these futurist hellscapes these authors present are presupposed.

It reminds me of those never-ending Flying Car articles Popular Mechanic used to run. Philosophy and nerd porn that moves magazines, but doesn't translate to any meaningful speculation in real life.
This would imply every human action is 'unnatural'...
Vertical is non-optimal for mobile, but it was on okay read for me when I switched to horizontal.
Also don't have to worry about somebody going postal at the corporate office.
Every Confederate killed during the Civil War was a US citizen too (secession is illegal and not recognized). At some point, if people are trying to kill you, you kill them back.
RBC's revenue and net income are up double digit percentages since COVID.

By all appearances, the WFH era has been very good to RBC...
Interesting. I'll check with our CA then. I've paid a significant amount of these 5% taxes over the past 2 years to ebixcash. They outright reject transfers beyond 700k INR otherwise.
things like transformers have a 1-minute load which, if you don't exceed it, they'll last 40 years, but if you exceed it significantly, they'll often catch on fire and explode within a few minutes

it's true that there's probably a load right at the rated load which will gradually cook the transformer over the course of 10 years or so, but that's a pretty narrow window

that's the kind of capacity that needs to be expanded
People keep buying that sewer of bloat and crap ware unfortunately.
That's generally impossible as native UI widgets are windows. Consider this:

<div style="overflow:hidden">
<input type="text" />
</div>

In order to clip out that input in case overflow the container must be a window too.
This leads to situation when all DOM elements must be windows. That's too much.
"...A fully stabilized and error-corrected logical qubit whose quantum coherence is significantly longer than that of all the imperfect quantum components involved in the QEC process, beating the best of them with a coherence gain of G=2.27±0.07. We achieve this performance by combining innovations in several domains including the fabrication of superconducting quantum circuits and model-free reinforcement learning."
> LLMs will change all of this.

LLMs have weighted predictive algorithms for auto completion which are often useful but do not and will not have the necessary understanding of context, ever. By design.

Therefore the reliability of their contribution will always be limited by the complete absence of context.

If my understanding is incorrect please help me understand why.
OOT: You've just described my exact most memorable gaming experiences over the last two or so decades. I've been struggling to find something I liked enough of late.

Would you mind sharing what you're into these days?
Same for me. I see it as the combination of 5 things:

1. It lowers the activation energy of getting started; for me motivation tends to come after action, and it gets me to that point.

2. It taps into the intense drive of "someone is wrong on the internet!" as per https://xkcd.com/386/

3. It's a new and different way of working so it doesn't trigger the same mental scar tissue.

4. It's vaguely social and high-status (delegating tasks, correcting and reviewing), as opposed to feeling solitary, so it tickles different reward centres.

5. More gets done for the same effort, so the cost/benefit equation is better and the feedback loop tighter.
If I submitted a candidate, it would be this:

>^

Tiny bright green triangles on blue background buttons immediately next to each other without spacing.

The first button is initially volume up and the other button is volume down, except the direction of the arrows and functionality change randomly with every press or tap.

EDIT: The wheel of volume is creative.
The PCG family is somewhat harder to predict than Mersenne Twisters, but not nearly as hard to predict as cryptographic PRNGs. PCG’s author goes into some detail about it here https://www.pcg-random.org/predictability.html and the conclusion is:

“ The PCG family is designed with being difficult to predict in mind, and the default generators are not trivially predictable. But the primary design goal for most members of the PCG family is to be a fast statistically-good general purpose generator, and so by design they do not work quite as hard as most cryptographically secure generators.

“Most of the PCG output functions involve nonlinear operations and only reveal partial state, but as we saw from Knuth's truncated LCGs, that's no guarantee of that PCG generators can't be cracked.”
Even with node.js, it's possible to be faster and/or use less memory than better-sqlite3. For example, here is an opinionated sqlite addon I wrote that shows just that (while executing queries asynchronously): https://github.com/mscdex/esqlite
Yesterday. Haven't today yet since I went for a hike with my dog.

My social life and my work life are not the same thing.
> they murdered another human being

this is what it means to be a sovereign state - they _can_ do this. And if the subject being murdered is a citizen of the USA and the gov't doesn't respond with something, then they are implicit.

However, if the subject is not a citizen of the USA, then the USA does not have the legal right to respond (other than to talk trash about it).

I'm not saying the murder was just - it isn't. I'm saying that there's no mental gymnastics, and there's little to limited things the US can respond with.
Your most recent comment outside this thread calls DEI a "religious cult [whose] goal is power and control". Did you come to this conclusion about treating different world views with good faith between that comment and these ones?
There's a Cadillac where the glove box open button is an option on the main car touchscreen.
This was originally published in `Windows Sources: The Magazine for Windows Experts, March 1995` as far as I know.

It's been discussed on Hackernews a few times over the years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1866486

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6818556

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=552821

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5372726

Personally, I think the broader problem is that most software engineers, at least the ones I've worked with, have a flawed model in their head for how the business they are employed by works.

Partially this is why startups are attractive to some because you can actually connect the work you do day to day with the company's overall success. Even then it doesn't take much scale (something on the order of 1 level of hierarchy) before people lose touch with the dynamics of the business.

There are hard realities like the fact that the best technical product doesn't always win in the marketplace. That many times it's the wrong business decision to invest in innovation. That most programmer's jobs aren't to write code but to solve problems (and software just happens to be pretty good at doing that).

Marketers take over companies when you're selling a product that has become commoditized because brand is the thing that adds value to the company at that point. If sales is the thing that drives profit, sales will eventually run the company. If you want to work for a company that is run by engineers find one where the vast majority of the company's value is tied to the intellectual property their software source code represents.
regarding your sponsorship demo, i would expect the amount that i enter to be the total that i'll pay, because it is determined by the money that i have. the fees should not be added but subtracted from that amount. they also should be shown on the same page as the split to have a complete overview of where the money goes, not hidden as a surprise added on checkout. (hiding fees is actually illegal in the EU. i am not sure if this qualifies, but i'd be careful)

btw: consider a monthly (or other interval) repeat option
Twitter (the product) has changed a lot since then too. It's much more complicated and does many more things. What it was like at the beginning isn't particularly relevant anymore.
So then just use the n-word? Call disabled people the r-word?
No. You can have style without being offensive. You dont have to punch at someone to have style.
Generally shit floats, but I’ve never observed shit dynamics in a storm.
Refactoring is a large part of programming, full stop. Yes, even if you're making a silly training game.
Stock Ubuntu with gnome is effectively an appliance. Annoyingly simplistic.
not particularly. The bread machine is doing the baking though, so it likely takes time to heat up and does not get too hot.
According to eternally recurring themes in myth-legend-history the next one in the sequence is: the engineer/developer/artist in the arena.

From the Aesir/Vanir, the Titans/Olympians to the French & Russian revolutions.

“The ultimate structure of the myth, then, is that the three estates of Proto-Indo-European society were fused only after a war between the first two against the third...”

(The third being not those who engage in (corporate) warfare or (rhetorical) magic, but those who working with concrete stuff (modern day fertility cults))

From the wikipedia article on the aesir-vanir war.

For the decentralized subculture, perhaps “the persons above the arena”
Whats erong with UWP/ store apps?
I think you are conflating assembly language vs. C and cross vs. native development.

All four combinations were possible and all were used in the early 1980s too. Cross-assemblers, native assembler, cross compiler, native compiler.

Not everything was a C64 either, but in that example and other early home computers, game, graphics, music tasks required hand written assembly to squeeze out every last ounce of performance and code size. Whether that was cross or self-hosted probably varies.

The choice of cross or self-hosted development probably depends much more on the availability (or non-availability) of a self-hosted toolchain (assembler or compiler), and the availability or not of a host machine than the performance.
I assume when you say two choices you mean Gnome and KDE?

But there are other options like Xfce, and there are quite a few variants, like Cinnamon, MATE, i3, etc. [0]

I still think Windows 10 looks and feels relatively polished (if you don't dig too deep and see just how many iterations they've gone through and still haven't gone back to fix.) I think Windows 11 feels a bit goofy - like they are trying for polish now, but it's in that modern overly spaced out and flat look that I can't seem to appreciate.

I found Linux Mint Cinnamon to be quite nice, and KDE is really nice in my opinion. More consistent than Windows in some ways.

[0] https://alternativeto.net/software/gnome/
As I understand it, these models are deriving high level patterns out of the source material and the combining those patterns to produce the output.

It's like going to a painter and asking them to list everything that inspired their painting. The answer would basically be "everything I've ever seen".
That's the post-Tog era.
I have to imagine it’s mostly driven by the record inflation the last few years
> How will the readers find you?

Just like with other products and services: you market it.
Yeah and a few years ago people were saying ender3 was as good or better than mk3. People have a tendency to believe dumb stuff.
Life expectancy in the U.S. varies greatly by region
reducing the carbon dioxide emitted by 40 percent at the same load does in fact meaningfully ensmallen the global warming problem, unless there's some compensating extra emissions somewhere else in the system, like methane leaking from pipelines
Give the kid an Apple II.
I would think municipal (the kind you find in a town) campsites - the kind you find in a town would be closer to a Michelin starred-restaurant - also usually in a town, then on average when just looking at total area.

Anyways, it's fun to look up things on the Internet I guess, but maybe go and camp in France, and go have some dinner out every once in a while - a little meatspace joie de vivre certainly won't hurt. Usually.
> memorable side stories

I struggle to remember any aside from the cowboy detective (because he was so unimaginably annoying) and the magic taxi.

Magix taxi was fun, but the ending was fairly unsatisfying.
> I think lots of devs feel weird about coding for 20 or less hours a week because it’s the part we associate with work when in reality we’re delivering real business value in those stupid meetings, it just manifests outside our view.

Blink twice if you’re saying this under duress, because otherwise, this just sounds like post hoc justification from someone who gave up and dedicated themselves to promulgating the soul-sucking management games that made producing real value untenable.

Spending less than 20 hours a week actually writing software is a horrendous use of a developer’s time. It’s a marvel when anything intelligent gets written at all in such an environment.
the dough cycle takes a couple of hours, this had rest as well as mix periods though. So I am unsure of the mix duration
Tax haven rules are on the US side, not the Cayman side. FATCA makes Cayman way more transparent than the US itself.

Like, what does "stop being a tax haven" even mean? "Start charging a corporate income tax you don't need"?