skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not about speculating whether a given company would one day be big, it's accomodating for both for different reasons. Many of our "high volume customers" were one day not high volume, so saying we can't do both would be very short-sighted.

And we see that in our data too: 1,000 new businesses joined Stripe every day last year. We also had 100+ companies process 1B+ in yearly volume. That captures everything from mom and pop shops to startups, and large enterprises like Amazon or Salesforce. We listen to them all to make sure we're still solving their problems. (Stripe itself was born out of listening to startups grumble about payments: http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html#:~:text=The%20most%20s....)

It also helps reduce our dependency on any one sector of customers, similar to an index fund vs. stock picking. You don't get the same set of diverse businesses processing with e.g. Adyen—they just don't serve the long tail of the market in the way we do.
Honestly, my "favourite" job was working at a small independent computer store in the mid 2000s.

I've never been great at talking to people, but I felt useful there. Often elderly people would come in asking for a bit of computer advice and as a company we sold ourselves on our honest advice so it never felt like I was trying to sell anything – I was always just helping people the best I could.

There was no pressure either. I knew what I had to do... I made the store look presentable when it was quiet and helped the customers in whatever way I could when it was busy. There was no stress and lots of gratitude.

It was minimum wage though, and I've obviously had "better" jobs since, but if I could get paid what I do now to just help people with general computer queries I'd love that. Work today is definitely more interesting intellectually, but far more stressful. There's enjoyable aspects of the challenges, but it's enjoyable in the same way a workout is I guess.

To answer the question I think you're asking though, it takes a bit of time. In my experience it's less about finding interesting companies to work for and more finding companies with interesting problems that need solving. There's plenty of boring jobs at interesting companies. And of the most interesting work I've done in my career has been at companies most people would consider boring.

Another thing to consider is that even an interesting job can be boring depending on the project you're assigned. The interesting projects tend come when a company trusts you enough to work on something interesting. For that to happen you'll either need experience doing similar things at other companies, or prove yourself at the company you're working for. If you're a good software engineer though there's no reason that couldn't happen within a couple of years.

The only advice I can really give is to apply for companies working on problems you find interesting and who appear willing to provide opportunities for you to grow. With a bit of time and luck eventually you'll end up working on something cool.
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I see a real benefit to the beetle, if it can get out. But I'm wondering, is there any benefit to the frog from consuming this type of "fiber"?
lipo batteries expand
a sad life of 80x25 text.
Yes, that's possible. You can set any X11 window as a child of another X11 window, the parent window will be responsible to manage (taking care of window geometry and what not) child windows.
Absolutely. But at least we (and all other animals with a secondary palate) can chew while breathing. I heard that before that has evolved it put a severe caloric disadvantage on the animals since one was limited in how much chewing can happen by the need to breath.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_palate#Evolution
From the article

"He found that the beetles had similarly high success rates with four other frog species....

"When swallowed, other similar water beetles were killed and digested by the frog...."
How Firefox Loses When It Tries to Copy Chrome
Looks Great tool. :)

Suggestion: please add the ability to use credential for social, to be able to perform social tasks.
Actually, That's why I got your post so quickly.
That’s still a stupid pedantry, and is even false.

A Turing machine only makes use of at most n cells of its tape after n steps - so running it for a finite number of steps is possible even in finite memory. Especially that modern computers can do arbitrary side effects, having access to the whole universe as tape, which is still finite, but so is time.

There is no way to differentiate between a magical Turing machine with infinite tape and a “fake” one that has n-sized memory under any program that takes n steps, so for all practical purposes they are identical.
The info on that site is... not even close to correct. Choanozoa as the sister group of all other life including bacteria and archaea? All eukaryotes broken into Opisthokonta, Chloroplastida, and Amoebozoa? Maybe the stuff on metazoans is more accurate, but in the big picture of the genetic diversity of life on earth they're barely a footnote.
> having a company with VC funding using it as its base helps ensure that if ProseMirror got abandoned, it'd likely get picked back up by TipTap or some other interested party.

On the contrary, the company with VC may be a bummer after some years and the VC wanted to get ROI: prices started to increase (or appear), change of strategy and abandon/remix the tool, close the store…

Being free and open source surely helps.
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> Speak for yourself

He very clearly did.
If you're skeptical about the power supply, you may be enlightened by this: https://hackaday.com/2023/01/31/all-about-usb-c-pinecil-sold...

I think it's thoughtfully designed.
Its available for ipv6, but can not handle ipv6
Nice. Reminds me of one part of the Masagin demo [1], with lots of nested dials synched to the music.

1. https://youtu.be/sbQhgEJuExY?t=163
I really want a bi-directional USB PD <-> PoE adapter. Do those exist?
If you claim that humans chew their food because their throats are uniquely vulnerable to choking, you have also claimed that animals without such awkward throats don't need to chew their food.

Putting things another way, just a few minutes of observation are sufficient to demonstrate that running the air intake past the esophagus is so irrelevant to the purpose of chewing that the absence of that problem does not affect the behavior in any way.
Yeah, I see this all the time in my team and this article really succinctly sums it up.

It doesn't negate the backlog and the never-ending work - the takeaway here for me is that sometimes you do indeed need to step back and say "Hey me and the team worked really hard on this, come look"
Can we have the headline changed? This is a trademark filing, not a patent filing.
> So did you make the engine and notice it's efficiency, or did you find it using first principles where no one else did?

I found it from first principles, I still don't know why no one else thought about it, but it requires sort of splitting and reversing a normal stirling engine inside-out. Since then I've found several attempts at going in that directions which I took, but no one connected all those pieces yet as far as I know. This doesn't require any advanced materials, just a new configuration of existing inventions. For 15 years I've thought why it should not work, but I can't find a flaw in my reasoning, so now I need to verify it with actual working machine, because I know I still might be wrong. If I'm right - this will change energy generation and storage (no more steam turbines and will replace PV panels). If I'm wrong - someone will potentially lose about $10k.
I'm pretty sure a primitive version of this has been done for a long time by hedge funds.

You basically monitor the SEC website for when filings are made public, quickly parse the document in some automated way and make trades based on the output.

It wouldn't surprise me if some hedge fund has been trying to build something with LLMs for past few years (and possibly already deployed it).
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Filament is absolutely amazing. I'm super excited for this release (and Livewire v3).

I built many projects with Laravel Nova and Filament is by far the better tool. In the past year I converted most Nova projects over to Filament. Way more flexible, and the developers are also way more receptive to feedback. And best of all--it's free!

After multiple years of React/Next.js chaos working in this ecosystem again feels like sitting on the couch under a warm blanket.
I've installed W11 on a used laptop I intend to sell extra cheap, using a ISO gen tool to ignore the stupid requirements and it seems to work well (for now).

Apart from multiplayer games with kernel anti cheat and some games unsupported by Proton, I see no reason to install Windows on my next gaming PC or any other PC of mine. I have a Steam Deck, a Linux laptop and a gaming PC with dual boot.
The problem being how to download when you have no tools to download (or even do DNS requests for you). So you'd need to code those first...
IBM to build biometrics system for UK police/immigration
"HN is not one person" and "this might inspire someone" can justify basically anything. It's not really a good argument
Yes, "my dog is covered in feces" does sound more elegant than "my dog just rolled in sh*t" - but how you articulate it doesn't improve the situation if the dog in question is sitting next to you...
There is some nuances here. While the general halting problem for a general Turing machine is undecidable, and with a fairly easy to understand proof as well, the computers we run today are not a general Turing machine. They are of a weaker class called Linear Bounded Automatons and for the programs they can run, the halting problem is fact decidable, on a theoretical level due to their finite nature.

So we will probably never practically solve the halting for LBAs, but the quest for this AGI that should be able to solve this, is not just day dreaming, it's rooted in the theory.
Sorry for not having been clear. Put it another way: are there hard stats about HSTS actual value? How many orgs that had their DNS defaced and new certs issued were saved by HSTS?

Since a mistake with HSTS is catastrophic, setting it must make sense risk wise.
Wait, how do they see this playing out?

Scene: Corporate boardroom

"So, what about Twitter? Are we safe to start advertising again?"

"Well, the weirdo who runs it has taken time out from his busy schedule unbanning Kayne West and incoherently rambling about "the woke mind virus" to sue someone who pointed out that there might be some issues."

"Oh, well, that sounds very satisfactory. Place a large ad order"

Like, it's hard to see this working.
It's a water beetle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_beetle), that probably helps.
Looks cool and seems like a valuable tool! I really like the idea of LLMs that give you rich answers like this.

I'm curious how you're accurately extracting the data though. Are you prompting to respond in a JSON format, using OpenAI's functions or something else? How do you ensure you have the correct label, dates, values, etc?
„Standard media type” has different meaning in the comment you refer to and in the quote.
nonprofit groups have a vested financial interest in not solving the issues they are working on?
MVP, which I keep seeing in practice as stopping as far before 90% as you can.
> other developers still work on it

Who? I’m sure you could easily prove it instead of relying on hearsay.
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That's the problem with most of these things, half assed implementations that just tick the box of "compliant with a standard".

There's a reason why we have all these frameworks built on top of HTML - it's because the browser manufacturers have not done their jobs.
Isn’t this the same thing?
I abuse the <details> element when I can. It's so neat, I don't know why it's not used more often.
You get it in a lot of shops without any issues.

And that's the way for more than 10 years.

Even as a tourist
Yeah, working with OpenUSD in Rust is difficult. There's been a bit of work on Rust bindings but it's not ready at the moment (https://github.com/vfx-rs/usd-bind). I believe you need the c++ code base locally for the bindings, which adds an extra barrier for development.

A full Rust port of OpenUSD would be very ambitious. It's quite complicated (e.g. the OpenUSD composition rules) and depends on other vfx c++ libraries.

I've been experimenting with implementating a subset of OpenUSD in Rust, but there's lots of challenges given the original codebase. E.g. the c++ code uses lots of base classes, downcasting and there's no lifetime information. It's possible to port these across, but gets ugly in the details (e.g. trying to avoid non-static downcasting in Rust). It would take a lot of effort to do a total idiomatic rewrite given the size of the codebase and how interconnected the pieces are in OpenUSD. I still think it's worth pursuing though, OpenUSD is great.
Sounds like a ChatGPT comment. Either way, you didn’t need to post this.
Why are they identical? A program may use more steps than memory.
If you wanna go down that road, "ecocide" or "genocide" may be more appropriate terms. The latter word is more difficult to argue, but one could make a point that there's a mismatch between who benefits more from climate change and pollution (the global north) and who suffers from it (the global south). That's one of the many good points Nabil Hassein makes in the talk "Computing, Climate Change, and all our Relationships" which i can only recommend.
>Do you really want the state teaching “personal responsibility”?

but they do. All those "eat healthy", "don't do drugs", "play outside 2 hours a day"? They were all funded by some government if they were displaying in public schools. It's not the only nor even primary pillar, but it is a big one.

And of course I don't need to specify how they indirectly teach/punish personal responsibilities with subsidies. Slashing the subsidies on corn would cause more radical changes than any sort of propganda they show on ads.
I would care more about markup if the browser would actually be able to do anything interesting with it, but for most part markup is a just a default style for an element, the semantic meaning is ignored. The <time> tag is about the last one I can think of that actually made a difference from the users perspective.

There is also a lot of markup for really common tasks still missing, I'd like to see an <advertisment> and something to handle pagination at the browser level (rel="next" has been around for decades, but browser don't care). And more broadly, I'd really like to see much better support for long-form documents in HTML or at the very least native ePub support in the browser.
The “desert island machine” concept brings to my mind this incredible talk from David Beazley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4Sn-Y7AP8
>And, if it's alive, so that it will be dead instead.

For most animals, this is true I think. But frogs seem to be perfectly happy swallowing live prey whole. You can see videos of frogs eating live mice!
Isn’t starving your kids a bit “black and white” ?
I reckon you keep on working for that company for a while so you can feed your family. When they have eaten, look for a job that makes you proud.
More than 80% of the work is doing the work, the remaining 20% is selling that you did it.

More than 80% of the results come from selling it, 20% comes from doing it. It's the case with research, building startups, homework, whatever. If it's not pushed into production and marketed, the value is there, but very tiny.

Some people see the results and make the mistake of spending more than 20% of their focus selling it, but nobody respects people who talk a lot but do little.
A company could establish two separate streams for recruiting - aim to take 90% of candidates through the normal process, and the other 10% based on notable independent achievements/contributions. Still filtered, just differently. Not perfect, but might have interesting results.
Datepicker was fundamentally broken in many ways in safari for a long time. And it still doesn't have the functionality that most apps need, so it's pretty pointless.
all answers are hallucinations
I'm morbidly fascinated by how the accounting for this works.
For anyone interested in this topic, there's a thread on Twitter that's been garnering some attention: https://nitter.net/Errorreporrt/status/1685835688216821760
And yet they omit Lawyers in front of juries and Lexicographers writing the next edition of a dictionary.

Is there any logic to this exceptional world?
Related to this I have a measure that I call "general effectiveness" - mine is 83-86% meaning, when I'm, in my view, perfectly prepared, the outcome is actually closer to that.

Every exam I took eventually hovered around that number - assuming I studied. This was particularly visible in math class in high school, where our teacher put emphasis on consistent work.

It's a useful model because on one hand if I have a score, I can tell if I did my best and how much of my success can be attributed to individual effort.

On the other, when I don't have a score, I at least have a reasonable upper bound on how much was done and how well.
What's your experience getting gigabit adapters?

In my experience, cheap ones on e.g eBay will give you 10/100, but I don't think they typically support gigabit.
Because what would they say? The weight #9534 in neural cell #12956 in layer #34 exceeded value of 0.62f?
I recall reading about this in Logic mag a while back: https://logicmag.io/china/bullet-time/
I was halfway into a multi hour render on my 486 when I accidentally switched it off. Luckily, I caught myself before I released the power button, so I jammed an eraser under my finger and taped it down so the button wouldn’t spring back and complete the toggle.
I went to one of their concerts during the “Infest the Rats’ Nest” tour. It was… wilder than expected. (In a good way!)
I don't think we're saying different things, but I think you misunderstood my wider point because it was constructed as a hot take.

The main thing for me as a prior exec is HR / the org will control your people cost, but they tend to be significantly more flexible over the compute / vendor costs. I'm not saying you can add an non-forecasted 20% to your headline spend, folks would get upset at that, but if you decide to consolidate all your services into 5 beefy VMs as opposed to 100 smaller ones, nobody cares.

Do that with people though, and folks tend to lose their shit pretty quickly. The problem is this has several outcomes:

- You're getting people with less experience in the "been there, done that" category, which means the work takes longer.
- Since they've not yet experience the pros & cons of decisions. It's likely they'll make some decisions that won't pan out.
- They'll leave once they've realised they've fucked up and they now have the "been there, done that" badge, so they can take that experience to a market that values their skills.
- Result is you end up hiring 2+ folks to do 1 persons job.
- Since you falling foul of Brookes law, you're unable to execute, you work with vendors.
- They charge astronomical figures; but since they're not a person, the politics of envy don't apply, thus the org may begrudgingly accept it.
- You then need more "cheap" resources to do / maintain the integration work.

The problem being your TCO goes through the roof because you're not hiring quality.

Now going back to your point. Besides economics of scale, the SaaS provider is actually deriving pretty stellar profit margins for a wrapper of people and compute. I would argue these economics of scale quickly dissipate when you're also funding sales, marketing, legal, founders, executives & investor concerns, and further when you're now funding your own internal procurement, legal, and SMT to sign off the contracts.

That said, couple of additional points:

- I didn't mention on-prem. My early career was developing an IaaS provider ( 2007 times ). Folks spend a lot of unnecessary money doing on-prem, but it's a fairly large undertaken for a small dev team with a lack of hardware experience. Most folks should start in cloud unless they are strong on-prem already.

- I didn't mean all saas, the focus was on observability. Though anything you need a large number of seats and has an SSO tax should be scrutinised.

:)
> When discussing Gino with Insider, multiple people brought up the idea of "me-search" — that researchers gravitate to topics that are of personal interest to them. "We're our own therapists, in a sense," Gordon Pennycook, a behavioral-science professor, said.

I guess that might be common with students picking psychology as a major, too. Noticed it with a few acquaintances of mine.

> In a study about "contagious dishonesty" that Gino coauthored with Ariely, the researchers found that students were more likely to cheat if they saw someone they believed to also attend their university cheating.

That’s fascinating since both of them fabricated data. At least they can add themselves as the N+1 data point to their study. It’s retracted already, but still good enough for a TED talk or a book probably. /s

Wonder if we have many sincere “coming clean” stories where they explain the thought process behind it. Why they did it, at what point did they decide to go through with it? Did they share their secret with others. Did they feel shame, etc.