skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but what has this to do with investment bankers dabbling in financial market derivatives?
I like curse words so much that I want to see them used sparingly, lest they lose their impact. There's definitely a time and place for vulgarity and those that use discretion when choosing to employ it get better results than those who don't.
One of the things that amazes me about NeXTstep is the fact that it brought together many technologies developed by Xerox PARC. Unlike the original Mac, where the dominant PARC influence was its GUI, NeXTstep had other PARC-inspired technologies, such as Ethernet networking, Display PostScript (while PostScript is an Adobe product, the creators of PostScript were ex-PARC researchers who worked on a similar page description language called InterPress), and dynamic, late-binding object oriented programming, albeit in the form of Objective-C rather than Smalltalk. These technologies created a solid foundation that is still relevant today; macOS more or less is still influenced by NeXT despite gradual changes.

Of course, there’s also the Unix foundation of NeXTstep, which importance cannot be understated, especially during the rise of the Unix workstation in the 1980s and the 1990s. This gave NeXTstep (and later Mac OS X) a user base who could take advantage of PARC-inspired environments while at the same time being able to take advantage of the vast Unix ecosystem.

Yes, the Xerox PARC and Unix philosophies are different and sometimes contradictory. However, it’s impressive how NeXT was able to bridge these worlds; the execution was great, and once again macOS serves as a living legacy.

As an aside, personally I’m curious about an alternative timeline where NeXT decided to go all-in on Smalltalk, building a “Smalltalk OS” with no Unix foundation, similar in philosophy to the Lisp machines of the era. There was certainly research going on in the 1980s to improve the speed of Smalltalk; part of this was continued with the development of Self by David Ungar and other researchers. NeXT probably still would’ve had the same market challenges, and the lack of a Unix foundation may have further hurt adoption. But from a purely technical standpoint a polished Smalltalk desktop would be amazing to see and use.
Individual corporate entities have their own flaws but the competition between them is a structure that eventually forced inefficient entities out. So Intel eventually finds themselves overtaken by a TSMC. But with govt entities, no such structure exists.
Yeah seriously, normally the argument is: 'it will require N engineers to run our own and they cost N * 250k/yr...' but for 65million you could fund 5 Datadog competitors and still come out ahead.
They hired a different company to remake the first Witcher game in UE5. I don't think a fourth one was mentioned anywhere
The number opens up the conversation to:

* Why this metric and not another? How was this number related to the overall goals of your company?

* What was the initial benchmark for how much you wanted this number to change? Did you meet, exceed or fall short of this benchmark? What do you think was the reason for that? In particular, what did you learn about your org's benchmarking process from meeting, exceeding or falling short of the benchmark?

* What resources were required to make this number change? Who were all the people involved? Why was it logical for their involvement to be a part of this number changing? More crucially, were there any people not involved that, in retrospect, you wish could have been involved and why?

* Knowing what you did now, if we were to put you on a similar effort within our company, what do you think you would do differently and how much do you think that would have an impact on that number?

The bullshitters will quickly wilt under the pressure of not knowing enough details to give well thought out answers while the people who drove real impact will get excited to talk it through and lay out both what went well and poorly.

edit: A big part of what I'm looking for with "Impact is King" conversations is the ability to take ownership of impact even in the face of dysfunctional organizations because, surprise, all organizations are dysfunctional!

I don't care about the actual impact you made because that's driven much more by the environment you were placed in than your individual performance. I care that you have a good mental model on how to drive impact and that you can perform at a reasonable baseline where you're significantly above average vs peers at your experience level.
HN's annoying algorithm messes with titles. I edited it now.
If you use ffmpeg’s libavcodec interface then you can get it to give you the decoded framebuffers as exported DRM-prime descriptors which you can turn into textures. This is how Firefox does video decode with VAAPI, using libavcodec as a wrapper.

Edit: missed the part about JS ecosystem. You can move DRM prime descriptors between processes, but I assume you can’t do this from the ffmpeg CLI and would need to write your own little C wrapper around libavcodec
Maybe I don't see the relevance of your question then.

Software developers are not negotiating fixed price contracts with their project managers every two weeks. Just how toxic such a situation would be should be obvious. Managers need to understand the context of the job and determine if they're satisfied with the productivity of their employees.

Agile is a development process not a contract pricing strategy. If anything proponents of "Agile" would be more hesitant to quote you a firm fixed price contract than "Waterfall" teams.
Isn’t that the same? Just because you check a file lock in your script doesn’t mean that other invocations of the program without the script will check the lock.
Try RESTwars: https://github.com/phxql/restwars

We used to play this together in the same LAN, it’s pretty similar to SpaceTraders.
Semi-automatic just means you get one shot per pull of the trigger. Very common. Very little is “manual” these days.

I think you mean “militarize into an automatic”.
> but this is blocking authentication based on attributes of the device, correct?

Not precisely. It's requesting capabilities that the Yubikey is not configured to deliver so the browser doesn't show it as an option. There is no attestation or in fact no signed communication other than the RP requesting it in the registration. I don't understand what your desired behavior is here. Do you want to log in to Google with a bearer Yubikey (what do you do when it gets stolen?). Do you want all FIDO2 keys to require PINs, even if they're being used in a traditional "something you have" 2FA fashion?

> It absolutely does, it dictates how that login information gets shared between devices. As far as I'm concerned it's just another part of transport. (...) The lack of portability keeps the standard from being usable

In the same way that a keyboard dictates how a password is typed. Transport has a very well defined meaning in FIDO and it's not about transporting key material but rather signed challenges and responses.

Remember I'm suggesting a mechanism for open sync fabrics to exist, not the opposite. I simply don't see either the value in mandating interoperable sync fabrics, or for a particular vendor in control of the ecosystem like Apple or Google wanting to weaken the security posture of their keys given how the standard works if they allow them to be exported. Also remember that the standard doesn't just cater to users, it caters to these vendors implementing it as well, and more so.

> it's exactly what people say every time these conversations around DRM and fingerprinting come up

Except Webauthn doesn't have any fingerprinting capabilities beyond those in enterprise attestation (not regular attestation). In fact, it's much more privacy preserving that past alternatives. And fully realized, you wouldn't even need a username as an identifier with an RP that can be used to correlate you across services.
Isn't the main difference that Apple is building something like 4-16 channel memory controllers in a mobile device while you normally don't get more than 2-4 channels even on a desktop? That's a lot of transistors and (potentially) power usage but if you can get on the latest node and have a market willing to pay for giant chips it lets you get impressive amounts of bandwidth.

I don't think you need the RAM to be on the same package for that, it just makes the timings easier.
It's the use-mention distinction. Discussing the word shit and its effect on discourse is different from using it and achieving those effects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...
The plumbing fixture analogy only stretches so far, though, because installing a fixture takes a few hours at most, so paying for the plumber's time in a one-and-done lump sum is an entirely feasible affair for a lot of people.

Writing a book on the other hand usually takes weeks, months or even years, so only the richest of individuals could afford to pay an author's living expenses for that period in a similar one-and-done lump sum.

Plus people that read books want to likely read new books more frequently than they need their plumbing fixed, again exacerbating that problem.

So consequently you need some sort of arrangement that allows for splitting the necessary payment to the author up across multiple people and/or over time.

Additionally, artists often speculatively create works without knowing for sure whether the public will take any interest in their work, or not. Copyright certainly has its faults, but it does cater for precisely that scenario by ensuring that you can insist on getting paid afterwards if people enjoy and want access to your work, and you don't need to acquire all the necessary funding up front. If you can't come up with enough money, you can even "just" invest your spare time instead and still get paid back if the work turns out be successful.

Plumbers on the other hand I assume rarely have the desire to speculatively fix up other people's plumbing and then hope to get paid afterwards if they did a good job.

Rewarding artists after they've already produced the artistic work if they're successful also makes sense in that the quality of artistic output can vary, and so there's a bigger risk of disappointment if you need to pay far in advance, before the work has possibly even been produced.

And because the quality of an artistic work is also very much a subjective matter, it'd also be much more difficult getting your money back in that case, whereas plumbing can mostly be judged according to much more objective standards, so getting your money back – through the legal system if required - is again a more tenable affair.

Of course the existence of Kickstarter and the like or even just plain old pre-orders show that to some extent people are willing to take that risk of paying in advance, but whether that would be enough if it was the only reasonable source of funding for artistic works? It'd also mean that if you can't convince people to pay you in advance (and good luck with that if you're some unknown newcomer), then good luck getting any more money afterwards, even if the book/… then turns out to be wildly popular afterwards.
Amended bill would keep tenure at Texas public universities
I like the UI. seems pretty straight forward. Best of luck.
75? That's generous. On Kaelon II it's 60.
Is the difference that now the basic search functionality actually works?

The previous standard GitHub search I found to be remarkably bad. I would be looking at some small public repo, search for an exact string match I know exists in the code, scope the search to that repo only, and still see zero results. Even copy-pasting a line of code from a file in the repo often resulted in zero matches.
It seems that there is now an increasing number of startups and researchers trying some form of completely unusual cement production to lower the carbon footprint. This is in principal a good thing, but...

I can't help to think that such overhyped reporting isn't helpful. Concrete will not be caron-negative any time soon. This is very early research. It's good that it's being done, but it should also be clear that this is very far away from an industrial process that can be used for real.
I had another boss at the same company that filled a NeXT cube to capacity with motherboards. For the sake of a good story I will say he had them all running under the same Mach kernel. He described the simple thing he did to get it running, but I have forgotten.

Technology was moving really fast in those days.
"Affirmative defense" is a specific legal term. It means yes, I am guilty of <copying this copyrighted work> but that's OK because <fair use>.

As for the rest - you'll have more luck discussing the specifics with your lawyer at this point. Good luck and I hope you find what you need.
I’ve seen an attempted move from DD to OT and it was a nightmare of undocumented features and little compounded issues. Tracing was non functional. It doesn’t seem mature enough yet.
228 and it seems impossible
I got 10 years of free legal schooling with nothing else to do but sit and read case law in my cell. Props to a fellow jailhouse lawyer.
Hmmm.

I have NGINX -> Gunicorn (Python) -> Experimental WSGI App (Python) serving a website.

A hit from my cellphone initiated that type of request and it caused a strange error. I was able to identify the issue and successfully guessed it was asking me to yield these resources in that specific order.

Now "devtools" shows its HTTP/3.

My load time improved too. The homepage loads < 200ms and its self-hosted on an old Pixelbook.
:shrug: that would be a very bad problem if it happened.

Removing it from the spec would be better for precisely this reason, but making it harder to use is the next best answer. Bing AI's browser restrictions for example are a pretty big restriction on the service -- that comes with penalties that will discourage many sites from going down that route.

If Google also drops attestation for synced keys then it would become even harder to use attestation, and harder for Apple to go back on its decision. But yes, you're right, it would be better to have stronger guarantees about the future.
Logits are essential concept
Highly recommend the documentary "The Creeping Garden" for an insightful look at slime moulds and intelligence:

http://www.creepinggarden.com
<looks at his apple mail showing google>

Seems to still work here...
> In criminal court at least, evidence is only admitted based on a chain of custody.

Prosecution has a freer reign during deposition and can play a video from Youtube[1] and ask the subject of the video if they were at the location at a specific date and time, and if the words are their own.

1. With the courts permission.
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Exactly, law is very much a relationship business. 15 minutes of free time for them to hear your problem and give you a template letter (or better yet, put one on their letterhead and mail it for you) is absolutely a price they're willing to pay for you to say to your friends and family how great they were and how they fixed your problem for free. And let's not forget that some lawyers are people too - sticking it to someone who is taking advantage of others illegally is a not-often-discussed perk of the job.
NYT article describing your exact point on the perils of bank safe deposit boxes

https://web.archive.org/web/20230108123245/https://www.nytim...

Edit: HN discussion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20545276
My company came up with a structure where we have an overall quarterly revshare in replace of bonuses for the entire company. It works where engineers get X% and sales reps get ~4 x X% of the revshare pool for each team. Of each team's bonus pool, 2/3 is given out guaranteed based off a few tangible factors and then the remaining 1/3 is given out to individuals who have performed above & beyond.

The idea behind this are a few-fold but essentially:

As an engineer (now CEO/CTO), I've hated having to wait the full year for my bonus. It's just a way to lock me in for the year when my incentive to stay should be to love the work & team. I don't want to create a place to work where you're forced to stay because of some guaranteed bonus - if you want to leave, leave & then let's hire someone who finds the work engaging + we all know performance slips as you wait for the bonus.

For the sales team, it means they're incentivized to work with the engineering & product teams to make sure they get the engineers the proper feedback in order to build a better product that they can sell more easily.

We've found this has generally built a better more team-oriented & results-oriented culture. Happy to expand but overall I think a quarterly revshare for everyone is a much better end-result (other than the fact I'm now forced to care more about making sure engineers are happy but that should be a huge focus regardless...).

Edit - also worth noting that we give everyone equity so there's still a long-term focus of building a company, not just cashing out quickly.
I understand, I have a decade old 2 nvidia 1080 to card, can we infer and train IF on them ?
The 68030 does look like a curious choice for a machine launched in 1988.

Wikipedia says that they considered the Motorola 88000 but with a source that I've not been able to track down.
SQRL is an open standard for secure website login and authentication
that would be like roman marble tablets, the more text you chisel into the marble, the lighter they get.
From this thread is emerging that pretty much most operating systems had this for a while in some forms… except maybe openbsd (and a few others?).

Btw congrats to the openbsd people for catching up.
OpenAI’s moat is stronger than you think
A) the AR-15 is a semi-automatic rifle out of the box.

B) "militarize a [gun] into a semi-automatic" - yeah, that's not a thing.

C) "No need to hunt with a semi-auto" - no, there are several subjective reasons one might prefer to use a semi-auto hunting, and several objective circumstances where it makes sense. Remember that semi-auto means one pull of the trigger = one round fired.
This harms your credit rating
What if the lifetime of the building is considered? Don't concrete buildings presumably last much longer in the face of fires, tsunamis, and other disasters? Whereas entire towns of wooden houses get ravaged by fires every year in California?

Speaking of which, is there any possibility of making a brick that is 80%+ carbon (for the purpose of sequestration) and non-flammable? Like some sort of low-cost carbon fiber brick?
Ah, I never really bothered to verify and instead used it to measure whether I walked as much as I did the previous day. I assume it does a bit better at this. Thanks for pointing that out.
I think the primary discussion is more about using the word "enshittening" over a word like "degeneration" than adding dashes.
> ... I see why we do react now

I switch between a fair variety frontend, backend myself and have never had that reaction.

It's always, I could do exactly this in 2005 using jquery + JSP, it would not need any of these 1500 dependencies and the user would see absolutely no difference (except downloading 10 times more js today at 5G speeds)

The scalability issues non-facebook scale webapps are trying to solve for do not exist. These apps will be dead before they reach a 10% of that scale and yet the project folks just don't get it.

anecdotally, github project bookmarks I have 3-4 years ago won't even compile today. a large chunk of projects from 2010 still work. Including mine I wrote a decade ago as a newbie js junkie.

Why ? Dependencies.
I would wager you could build something pretty close to what data dog is selling for $65M
I don't think anything I wrote disagrees. As someone who started implementing IP networks just a couple of years after RFC791 was published, I'd say that was completely correct. But more than 40 years later, the fact that it has gone beyond everyone's wildest expectations means some of those early design decisions are starting to bite. Unlike tabs in makefiles, which is just something certain types of people like to complain about.
Is the speculation that this was Coinbase just based on Coinbase being a big crypto company? I see nothing in those messages that implies who the customer is (rightly so) and I am wondering if there's some other information I'm missing.
Please do post. I'd love to have a smaller bash alternative to this tool.
Has anyone noticed a recent "counterculture" movement against fitness trackers, at least for casual wear? Sure, people at the gym will wear them, but more and more I see people wearing normal (and more fashionable) watches for regular activities that aren't fitness related. If you have a nice outfit on, be it suit, dress, even just nicer casual wear...fitness trackers just look comically bad even with non-sports straps.
> I saw an article praising LISP, I decided to chime in with realism because certain fandoms (LISP's included) seem very unaware of the realities of the commercial programming outside of their niche hobby language.

Lisp's detractors often seem equally unaware. I've been using Lisp in a commercial setting for the last ten years. And before that I used it in a research setting for 15 years, and even got Lisp sent into space. It worked great.

> LISP is not cutting it for commercial work in general

Lisp is rarely tried for commercial work nowadays, in no small measure because people like you keep taking pot shots at it from the side lines. Have ever actually tried using Lisp in a commercial setting? I have. It works great.

> > There's no market for it.

> You're doing post-hoc rationalization. You don't know that for a fact.

Well, I pitched the idea to you and you didn't bite, so there's a data point.

Yes, it's possible that there's a huge untapped market for Lisp out there if only it had Erlang-style concurrency. But I'll give you long odds against that being the limiting factor. The limiting factor from where I sit is ignorance and prejudice.

> To me it doesn't go all the way however

That's fine. But please don't assume that because it doesn't go all the way for you that it can't go all the way for others. Different goals give rise to different requirements.
Put this in to perspective. Alphabet had $282 BILLION in revenue in 2022. I don't know exactly what they will pay in 2023, but in previous years it was somewhere around $10 billion a year.

Google incentivizes it's employees in a certain way. Those employees have a very high expectation of not only income but wealth.

Management has demonstrated an ability to waste an enormous amount of that money (Alphabet/Google is certainly not alone in that regards.) Because they own a monopoly they can get away with it. Because the monopoly is in advertising they don't have to be that exceptional in terms of delivering new and improved products. Because of the stock ownership structure and because they've had tremendous revenue growth for so long they really haven't had to answer to their investors about their failure and waste. In some regards a lot of those investors are asleep and don't really understand what is going on.

However, the managers need to crank the monetization dial to hit whatever incentives are set for them to become wealthy or grow whatever wealth they already have.

This is a bag of tricks (the monetization dial) that has worked well for over a decade. When it runs out, Google's revenue growth will end and employees will no longer get to become wealthy by being employees. Maybe they will suddenly get a lot of capital discipline and experience a second wind like Microsoft appears to have. Maybe they will start looking more like Yahoo. To be determined.
962, but it didn't register my last jump. was this a bug? I was shooting for 10k to see what would happen to the number as it wrapped the space.
Exclusively from previous work relationships. Mostly around network infrastructure stuff (BGP automation) and e-commerce full-stack development and operation. I explicitly only took gigs that where very clear in scope to ensure I had enough time to try out my own ideas.