skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about not locking up children for life? How about not making snap judgements based on a short article?
I saw ISS in formation with visiting spacecraft a couple times - once with Space Shuttle back in the day and at least once with Dragon. Looks pretty interesting. :)
Salary caps don’t quite mean what they seem.

Labor is guaranteed a percentage of revenue by the league. Caps are normalized against the total percentage. Salaries past minimums are estimates.

So, not quite socialist but closer than the European model.
"The new dividend and an additional $50 billion in share buybacks may win more patience from investors with Zuckerberg’s long-term bets on artificial intelligence and the metaverse."

At least metaverse isn't listed first on the ingredient list any longer.
I am a little sad that there was no homage to autonomy, mastery, and purpose. I've found that to be the most accurate and simple framework for intrinsic motivation. I think purpose is the clear problem. How does working make you feel?

Pick your company and I think what might have started out as a venerable goal, expressed in a mission statement has long been forgotten:

Google: Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible
Facebook: Give people the capacity to form communities and bring the globe closer together
Amazon: Amazon's mission is to be Earth's most customer-centric company
Microsoft: Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more

When faced with the choice between mission and money, which companies are choosing their mission?

None of them. Because all of corporate America has one mission statement that decisions are made in regards to: Increase shareholder value by optimizing for next quarters profits.

That is the problem. Mission statements are a punchline for cynical employees.
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Hacking for hire teams have saved lives and prevented terror attacks.
Every criminal by definition exposes a critical security flaw in the system. Should we pay them all?
Devs in small companies often have a ton of access to systems and almost certainly aren’t heavily scrutinized about random novel binaries (being devs), so those are some of the first machines you’d target in an org.

You wouldn’t keylog “random devs”, you’d keylog all of the ones doing ops.
I'll assume there is a lot of double/triple (or higher) accounting going on here as data is sent through multiple relay hops to get the intended target.
Power types: to multiply your effectiveness on those days when product and sum types just don't add up.
> they are horrible people just because they exist and don't play the game the way you want it played

Multiple people involved have lied multiple times, materially, about their business operations. Not just "lack of candor" or transparency, but active deception.

Reducing that to "don't play the game the way you want it played" is facile.
I use it extensively and it really is awesome. It’s not perfect, but the limits I run into aren’t what 80+% of users will ever hit. Even if hacky and ugly, you can work around most of the limitations
Well, both the bodybuilding and oncology communities would love to hear your method for losing fat without losing muscle.

So, let's hear it ...
You could spend your one wild life writing hate articles about people having more fun than you, or you could live a little. The choice is yours!
It’s not open source (or even source available), and it’s targeted at users who, what, use csv files but can’t use excel very well, but are searching for a new revolutionary file system?

I don’t really see a use case for your product based on the pitch page, just a lot of marketing speak that (to an engineer) seems like an apples and oranges comparison (eg. You’re running a local db, could be in memory even, and benchmarking it against Postgres, which is an incredibly flexible and comprehensive piece of software with multitenancy, transactions, replication, schema management, query planning, and a full on webserver? How is that the same product? Why not benchmark this against Excel? Cuz I’ve already got excel installed and I can open a CSV and grep for a string and count the matches in like 5 seconds. That seems to be what you’re competing against.

If you open source the code and make it a general purpose library (and not windows only) and market it toward developers, you might get some more interest.
FWIW, Safari supports 1-color SVG favicon using this format:

<link rel="mask-icon" href="/favicon.svg" color="#990000">

If you use something like Vite, you can also auto-generate all favicon/homes screen icon creation from a single source image.
I suppose that makes sense for a professional web dev- but it still feels like an arbitrary feature gap and is the first ‘speed bump’ in standing up a simple website for safari. Just because your pixel-perfect corp might rather have specific image renders for all screen sizes doesn’t really explain why I can’t put a SVG in there and call it a day. I can’t imagine my svg-to-png converter does a much better job of it. It’s all just a hassle. Again, happy to recognize I’m not a front end expert and not the target demographic.
I found an even older source. Same guy, though

https://www.cs.rice.edu/~javaplt/411/23-spring/NewReadings/f...
Comes standard on Squarespace (which I've liked except for the expense) in the WYSIWYG post editor. I would not know how to make them from scratch.
I dont really see the issue with leveraged buyouts.

It is basically the same as banks buying a company and paying the equity firm for management.

>The last thing a struggling company needs is to take on a massive load of debt, just to change to owners who have no skin in the game!

This depends on your the goal. The owner of the struggling company wants out, and this is their exit. In some cases the purpose is simply to pay someone shut down the company in the most profitable way possible, which is a completely legitimate financial goal.

One analogy is someone buying a car because the market value is less than they can get by driving it until it dies and then selling off the parts. It is normal to buy assets you know will depreciate to zero, as long as you get more value than the price.
Absolutely, it's cool to see a real extension in this space, I didn't mean to diminish your work at all. If it were a few years more mature I'd try it out. I just happen to be messing around with DuckDB today for this exact use-case, but your thing is new, so I can't adopt it.
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I knew the word, but I hadn't realized that it was officially «'pataphysics» and not just «pataphysics». I don't know whether paying attention to this is, or is not, in the spirit of the whole enterprise.
Assistant makes reservations for me just like that demo :P but in general I agree it's gone very downhill
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Why “maybe”? OP asked for must-have features—-am interested in what you could omit and why?
I understand that US courts are not sovereign everywhere in the world, just as North Korea's courts are not sovereign everywhere in the world. So I guess I'd feel indifference.
I was wondering what the spike in The 15-44 graph near the end of 2023 was... then I saw that Israel is included. RIP.
> There's very little cyber crime that happens by bribing someone

If competence was the norm the bribes, violence, etc. become the preferred tactics
In the long run that could become a massive strategic advantage for the US. A 2nd layer of resilience over undersea cables
RTX 50 Delayed? RTX 4090 Ti and Titan Incoming?
I applied months ago, the point of contact seemed to think I was going to be a good fit, but our meetings kept getting rescheduled on their end, until I was told that I was in the wrong time zone(I wasn't) and further emails were ignored.
Two things not mentioned that I believe destroyed 'business culture' and employee motivation:

- Covid. Doesn't matter what you believe in how dangerous Covid is or is not, in Covid times companies happily required their employees to work in unsafe conditions (and now they're back at it again with requests to come into the office). A contract was broken in that time; why work for peanuts to risk long covid.

- A professionalisation of management. Ask a boomer, you used to be able to start at the bottom of a company and work your way into leadership levels. As an 'elder millennial' I have never worked in a company where that is possible: the leadership level usually consists of McKinsey, management consultant, finance people. If you don't have the background in those things you'll clearly never end up on that level. So why bother?
(what's worse: complete demotivation because the leadership level has no domain expertise so spends its time inventing vague, waffely strategies far removed from the tech the company produces. see that recent linkedin google-employee post complaining about 'glassy-eyed leadership')
Interesting parallel to solar panels.
A per-pound tax is appropriate. After all, the impact on road wear is roughly proportional to weight.
What books or webpages do I read to learn how to understand the why of your first sentence?
The issue is it turns player wages into a zero sum game. In the NFL, quarterbacks have been taking up a bigger and bigger percentage of the cap, while players in positions that don’t last as long (due to injuries or just aging out) make less as a result. Now, on one hand, it makes sense because QBs have been more impactful to teams over the last 25 years, but at some level, you have to respect players like RBs who take more hits, have shorter careers, and more medical issues after retirement are getting shafted.
Every swatting incident I've read about over the years happened in the US.

Are police in other countries also vulnerable to being tricked in this way, or is it just police departments in the US?
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No.. I know. I was saying that since alternative formats clearly don't improve access to the "truth" then sheer volume and open access is your only last resort, and do the extent the internet was supposed to bring that, it has been stunted somewhere along the way into the half-penetrated and half-captured version we have now.
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Such a beautiful report and beautiful ownage.

Whenever some shitty Australian telco gets owned, people are angry and call them incompetent and idiots; it's nice to see Cloudflare gets owned in style with much more class and expertise.

Like the rest of the HN crowd, this incident has only increased my trust in Cloudflare.
You can easily get ESP8266/ESP32 boards with header pins already soldered on; combine this with some DuPont cables (as I’ve just learned they’re called) and you can start messing around with things without much soldering at all. You can also connect to e.g. LED strips and simple sensors in the same way.

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> If I see a bold claim that I have a hard time believing, then I'll ask follow-up questions. But when someone makes a bold claim that is just factually incorrect, while admitting they don't know much, and then get upset when someone tells them why it's incorrect, then that's just plain frustrating.

But that doesn't seem a situation that would have been addressed by fixing the problem that you originally identified:

> Yep. This is one of the big problems with online communities. When someone makes a bold statement, I have no idea if they’re a grizzled engineer with grizzled, hard earned engineering opinions, or some kid fresh out of a coding bootcamp who thinks they’re all that. In person, I’d treat those two people incredibly differently. Online? It’s impossible to spot the difference.

Here, it sounds like you knew on which side of the divide a person fell. The resulting problem is still a problem, but it's one that also occurs offline!
A privately-held strategic advantage?
With 266,000 acquisitions per day, I suggest they are regularly doing links across orbital planes.

If they could only do in-plane links, they would have barely any acquisitions per day, because most links would stay up for long periods of time.
Salary caps aren't there to make teams competitive, it's to limit player expenses.

They also don't have the secondary effect of making the teams competitive.

Take a look at World Series Champions (MLB -- no salary cap) [1]; everybody memes that the Yankees win all the time but they haven't won since 2009 and before that 2000. There have also been 16 different winners in the past 23 years.

Take a look at Superbowl Champions (NFL -- has salary cap) [2]; 14 different winners in the past 23 years.

Take a look at Stanley Cup Champions (NHL -- has salary cap) [3]; 13 different winners in the past 23 years.

Only the league without a salary cap has the most different winners.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Series_champions

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Super_Bowl_champions#S...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stanley_Cup_champions#...
I was not trying to state otherwise. It is just that there is such a massive body of work out there (e.g., on CSF or take your pick), that highlighting one discovery seems like a drop in the ocean without much context. You may as well point out that a new issue of Nature came out: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06899-4
Haha! Yes, I actually was aware of this specific case where an SVG favicon works. I suppose it was disingenuous of me to say it’s not supported altogether, but I’ve yet to have an opportunity to use it due to the 1-color restriction.
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Yeah more complicated queries haven't been great for me. I still think it's notable that Bard can spit out two images in photorealistic quality in half the time it takes Dalle 3 to do one and much much faster than midjourney.
I use visual mode a fair amount for block-wise changes (something that helix does very well).

Unfortunately I reliably labor to get might visual selection correct in helix and then mistype a key and it's gone. Glad to hear it's coming!

`g;` takes the cursor to the location of the most recent change you made (and then the one before that, etc.). <C-o> in helix doesn't ever seem to get it right (unless I remember to <C-s>, which I never do).

Also glad to hear about macro support.

I should take another look at if they are interested in contributors. One of my main interests in helix is that I enjoy rust and don't know C/C++, so I feel like I could maybe "give back." That said, my first issue I raised was not taken very seriously (and is a show-stopper for helix on windows in my case).
Interesting that they started a dividend. Facebook has been doing heavy buybacks for a while now. Wonder why they started a dividend instead of plowing more into buybacks. Perhaps Mark wanted some cash without selling and disliked the current interest rates? Im reading he has 350 million shares so this is a 175 mil payout for him.
It isnt very different than an auto loan. A bank gives you money to buy it, knowing full well that the value will only go down after you drive it off the lot. The car is collateral for the loan, and if you pay a high enough premium, the bank may accept the car as the only collateral. The bank has an actuarial team that models the rate of loan defaults and car crashes.

Back to the real examples, banks invest in leveraged buyouts because on average, they make more money than they lose.
Congress restores immediate R&D expensing for US R&D
Does it matter?

There are enough scamming companies in India hiring student leaving university with proper training for other jobs. Does it means we shouldn't take down those scamming companies because it hurts India economy?
>Classic google insanity.

Gaslighting ahem sorry...A/B testing I mean
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> you can put me in a place where I become demotivated

You’re leaving out an important word there.

> you can put me in a place where I can become demotivated

It’s not a foregone conclusion that I become demotivated because of your actions. Because your actions don’t guarantee my reaction.

> I can become unmotivated from eating dinner from watching a documentary on the food industry.

Yes, except that the demotivation is your action. Many people can happily eat dinner after watching the same documentary. The movie maker can try to influence your reaction but they don’t dictate it.
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> who can't really comprehend the American obsession with race/skin color

America's very founding was based on the "obsession" of race/skin color. The expansion west wasn't very, uh, egalitarian.

> I'd understand it – in a sense – 100 or 500 years ago

100 years ago was 1924 - the "Tulsa race riots" had been 3 years prior, and a certain voluntary organization known for grandiose titles and its obsession with race/skin color was having a massive resurgence.
Feels like there must be 40 or so distinct open source llms now. What gives? We need some more new text to image models too... :(
I like the symmetry of Weezer's "Buddy Holly" being one of the first PC videos people ever saw by virtue of it being included on the Windows 95 installation CD, and 30 years later, Cuomo quietly carving out a little piece of the coding universe for themselves. Rock on!
Some people have foresight. He made $500m.
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So what's up with that vxworks?
Apple's Vision Pro lacks any real vision
'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant
Somewhat tangential: I assume that Starlink is not yet profitable. How many customers do they need to become profitable?
Real time video and telemetry for military drones that’s nearly immune to electronic warfare counter measures is the real end game. The fpv drone carnage in Ukraine is currently limited to the contact lines plus or minus a few kilometers. Satellite comms change that drastically. Yes it’s available now but highly restricted.
Honestly thought this headline was about OpenAI before I read the article. Was I the only one?
Why it "has to show something"? Isn't it enough to present a more elegant mathematical formalism for describing the same reality? Like you take an "ugly" and self-inconsistent set of existing theories and "refactor" / "unify" them — yeah, it makes no new or testable predictions, but the math is more beautiful. I guess this is what attracts researchers to it.
> because they're so high, such satellites can remain illuminated with the Sun further below the horizon. The Moon is the most extreme example: it's almost never in Earth's shadow.

Very good point.