skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that companies might want to implement OKRs as a way to align everyone on the same goals and check progress. The actual numbers aren't too important since everyone is free to miss their targets. OKRs don't give as much steering control as some might hope.
The "the likes of" phrase is, itself, overused and cringe IMHO.
I am sorry, but this is just dumb to me!
It is like the contaminated feed that was fed to British cattle back in the 80's.
Horrid way to go from JCD.
Thank you, I find it interesting to read the "back cover" now that I know about his writing method: one can see how it emerges from the various steps he described.

Also, it manages to make me want more, even though the premise is as corny as can be. If I ever write a novel, I will definitely have a closer look at this method.
Living in central Europe I didnt even know at the time a company named Acorn existed despite reading tons of computer literature.

Acorn had no retail/dealer network, no marketing and zero presence outside Commonwealth (UK and I think Australia), or even narrower outside UK/AU educational market buying Acorns due to BBC Micro Computer Literacy Project program inertia. Acorn was run so bad they didnt even have money to pay BBC for this absolutely fantastic and cheap marketing! Part of the reason for sale to Olivetti was to gain retail channels and pay back BBC royalties. In the end BBC was forced to write off last couple payments.
Can Your Integrated-Circuit Design System Do This?
Written in Java, this thing seems like a neat way to generate your VHDL.
maybe .gz ? ;)
Because you haven't articulated them were well.

My experiences with OKR's is that they are an cargo cult practices covering the lack of good coherent strategy, the exception to this is things that looks like OKR's but evolved differently within the organization rather then being adopted top down by a set of management consultants.
I built a summarizer for drilling reports. Anytime you drill boreholes, whether it's on a drilling platform in the ocean or the middle of the desert or wherever, there's a geologist watching what comes out and writing notes about it. They likely do this multiple times both in the field and a laboratory setting. These notes are paired with logging software which also asks the geologist more quantitative questions sometimes (e.g., on a scale 1 to 5 how many fractures are there). Typically these are written for at least every meter of extracted core/rock/etc. typically you are drilling hundreds or thousands of meters, or more. So you end up with a highly unstructured data set that occasionally someone glances through to find tidbits. Using chatgpt we converted this data into keywords that could then be used to look at depth dependencies of various geological or petrological features of the region.
my experience with OKR's is that it doesn't really apply to the product or specifically software engineering teams

like, whatever the CEO is doing and whatever the HR team is doing or whatever the sales team is doing are not processes that affect or should include the engineering teams in that way. The OKR process - in its unfalsifiable glory - doesn't really have the utility to all teams.

for example "don't do binary goals" is just a waste of time

then there are some implementations where personal OKR's are the final end of the cascading concept of OKR's, and that's a waste of time too. oh like learn rust? or like go hiking? pass leetcode hards so I get the f* out of here? its not the company's business but done on company devices or collaborative tools for all or an admin to judge

then there's the "if you meet your goals then you weren't ambitious enough", okay tell that to the product manager who is reducing the story points per sprint every two weeks because the team as a whole can't meet any goal and that's the PM's most innovative reaction

and then you're going to spend half the quarter doing OKR rituals on top of that, christ
Windows doesn't show any special warnings for the certificate installation, just the usual UAC prompt.
Static?
Maybe, but from a practical perspective even if this crazy hypothesis were true, the distinction is irrelevant.
Yea you have a workflow and usually stick to it if it's good enough. For me I have many projects in different tmux windows and I name them to keep an overview.

I am convinced that having all of this in vim would make it harder for me to find things :)

But you are right.. I use splits inside Vim and with Tmux and sometimes I get confused when switching.
I gave up on custom Android roms after all the safety net crap and the special cameras that each phone brand seems to insist on.

My next phone will be some kind of dedicated Linux one so I can finally finish killing big tech in my life.
This makes me even more incredulous than the GP commenter.

How did people who "read /etc/password from disk on every file access." get hired by Google?

Or perhaps the right question is for which roles, because with that level of DS&A they shouldn't have passed Google's DS&A whiteboard interview.
I agree with whats in the post.
Just to add my 2 cents.
Regardless of the industry a bureaucracy will grow around it. I think its because there are only a very few people who can actually create value. When the rest of the population sees the value generated they want to extract from it. In reality it is theft. But most of it is routed through some extravagant process to seemingly give it some validity.
That may be true yet even smart folks affected ran to them like there is no tomorrow, long term consequences be damned, I need my notifications now !
I believe that, completely. Your projects are always a joy to read - your hardware is great, your emulation is great, but the way you document them is outstanding.

I think if somebody was talking to you, and saw your site, you'd get great offers regardless of the physical sample though.
I built a blog with stupid & overengineered technical solutions.
Also has an audio interview for every blog post.

https://shitops.de/posts/
I've had a to-do item to build a collaborative AR experience for people to graffiti the world and find the creations of others.

I picked up the domain OutHere and spent some time drafting the initial experience because I think it's a compelling idea, but life has gotten in the way of late.
Honestly, I think any software business model where you're not paying an explicit monthly/yearly sum is more deceitful for B2B.

No business wants to use a software product that is not being actively maintained, so even if you get sold a perpetual license to "own" a version of the product, you will keep going back to the same vendor to get new versions. So, you are actually still paying a periodic fee, just maybe with capex instead of opex. And if the vendor goes out of business, you'll have to start moving to a new product, so you didn't really "own" the software any more than if you had been paying an explicit rent on it.

Now, SaaS where you are sending all your data to the company's servers is probably one step too far, for various other reasons. But perpetual licenses are generally a bigger scam than periodic ones for business software.
I agree with you and Kat Nagel, btw.

I think the overgrowth phase in #5 is why social media doesn't work in scale. This is what I tried to address in the parent comment (the stuff about Tribalism).
I can review the OKRs every day, and structure my plans for what to work on accordingly. Objectives tell me what is the strategic direction. If what I do doesn't help move in that direction I can stop doing that and do something else instead. Key results help me assess whether I am making progress. If I am not, I can stop doing what I was doing and adjust my plans. That's not perfect, but a lot better than getting to the end of the quarter (or, more commonly, semester) and realising that a few months of hard work have gone to waste because we weren't aligned to the strategy and so didn't achieve what we set to achieve.
we don't need anywhere to go, i'm quite happy having a life outside of the internet.
This is definitely a bad look for the Chakra team, but at most it proves that they need to hire a copywriter. I'm not sure I would extrapolate from this that they're stealing code.
How do KRs help you migrate faster?
> Is there a URL in the top million ranked URLs you could MD5 hash collide?

This is answered in the article. No

"Q: Is it possible to make a file get an arbitrary MD2/MD4/MD5/MD6/SHA1/SHA2/SHA3, or the same hash as another file? A: No."

I'm not sure page ranking works that way.

But you could get people to share www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/world/asia/osama-bin-laden-is-killed.html?garbage=blahblah and collision it with your site crappyproduct.com?rubbish=meh
That's how you find writeups like this:

https://aphyr.com/posts/353-rewriting-the-technical-intervie...
Those aren't really domains. Chances are if portability was a concern to you, you didn't start your project in Python.
That doesn't match my experience. Town hall style meetings are generally more frequent than OKRs and paid more attention to. My experience of OKRs has always been "set then once or twice a year and then immediately forget about them until the next time".
Thought the same. What most first-gen social media users in my bubble want is a messenger (WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Matrix whatever) with the possibility to form groups/topics...
ideally this should be open protocol and there should be clients for all systems and of course everybody would have to use the same protocol and not a zoo of different apps :-D
Yeah, it feels just wrong to call Facebook and twitter first gen. When sites like MySpace or here irc-galleria existed years before either of those two. With everything that we can consider as social media.
It's not just the money, it's all the things around using corporate money. Procurement is its own level of hell. Dealing with (or even having to think about) vendors' sales critters is a drain on brain cycles. The frustration of "call us" pricing structures.

Or if you want to combine all of the above: perfectly functional but artificially gated features.

If you could pay for a service that GUARANTEES the vendor does not allow their sales people anywhere near your details, that might change things.
> In fact, we don’t even care about chord names, we just care about the relative differences, which is why we use Roman numerals to analyze instead of note names.

I mostly reacted to this sentence.

Yes, I agree with the gist of what you are saying.
Yes and anyone who doesn't meet your expectations is 'bottom of the barrel' in your book, you've made it clear.

Sorry mate but not everyone gets to always work with the best of the best. I went through this exact exercise in the past and avoided v1 IDs because I suspected there is a risk they become externally exposed down the line, perhaps even years later when I'm gone.

I suppose you might decide otherwise and then blame others for incompetence instead if down the line someone failed to comprehend UUIDs like you so effortlessly do.
That hypothetical has very little to do with the situation at hand. Badd software clearly exists and it is possible to talk about how much mathematics went in it. If no mathematics went in that's still an inidication of 'how much' and therefore is an amount.
I know these 'tricks', registered letter, filling out cantonal forms on official pages, went through that after first 2 months. Didn't help a bit, this was advanced shit.

Email response from filled cantonal online form came back after 3 months, with... 'wait'.

Till this day I believe this was an actual evil person getting kicks from this slow suffering of poor desperate foreigners who have absolutely 0 way of doing anything, even having decent polite conversation. And its hard to ignore the fact that suing an office which maybe will issue you most important papers in your life may not be the smartest course of action.

They say its roughly 1/20 sociopaths and 1/100 psychopaths in general population, not that hard to meet them if you are unlucky.
To be fair the screen to surface ratio was pretty awful before the X.
I won't use it on general principle; I've seen the way the frontpage will pour literal poison and mental damage on you.

There was a time I had a relationship issue that was pretty stressful; I discussed it with a few people (my family members) via FB messenger, the way the frontpage immediately became wall to wall 'walk away bro' 'she's cheating bro' 'man up bro' type memes and stuff that served only to spread alarm and despondency was ridiculous and so obviously keyed off of private messenger conversations.

I genuinely think it's a cyberweapon that should be destroyed and that anyone that works there has their hands literally dripping with blood, because I could easily see people who were less well grounded and less able to solve the problem directly (i.e. by talking face to face) being driven to severe levels of despair by such tricks.
Can you provide source? I've never seen Apple locking someone out of their account à la Google, only rare dumb user errors in the system clearly designed to effectively prevent them.
Why is it irrelevant for the universe, but not for electrons?
Trusting Google for anything is a lot riskier than trusting a carrier once in many years.

Their own internal teams as well as game studios didn't know about Stadia's end until the day it happened, what makes you think they'll treat you better with an unpaid service?
You need _some_ system for accountability on goals and to cut down tasks to units that go through some workflow (specification, implementation, testing). That's all it can and should do. Beyond that it's only about motivated, capable people. You can't create culture with a methodology. You can bash all of them the sun if the org is just aping it and the culture is not there.
Was a long time ago, way before them. I agree though, glad to have changed fields.
Not really no, it was more to explore a greenfield web engine design, and also to use rust to do that.
Not for user facing features as all, for one thing servo barely has a UI
OKRs are nothing more and nothing less than a way of telling your organization what’s the most important thing we want to improve and how we are going to measure if it’s improving.

It really is just telling them and checking once in a while how it’s going.
I‘ve had almost the same experience. First I was super impressed how easy it is to get data into BigQuery and retrieve it using their IDE.

But really soon I noticed the slow startup … simple queries took too long (1.2 sec vs milliseconds in a traditional database)

Then I learned a lot about BigQuery views. That helped a little.

At some point I simply wanted to export data. New Google tools needed to be learned: Cloud Storage, Data Flow.

After 18 months of using BigQuery on roughly 850 million rows, I switched back to a traditional database.
NASA announces 'super-Earth,' exoplanet in 'habitable zone'
First 3D-Printed Neural Tissue Grows and Functions Like a Human Brain
Yes, that is the first "bad" ending. After that follow just the one relevant context clue and look under the bed. That might be already enough.

I chose this game, because the game just helps you, at the every step, what you have to do next. Not much to try out. Just the narrative changes. One time, you have to go to work and one time you have to flee.

Other text adventures are even more problematic. I saw GPT-4 trying for dozens of steps in the "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" adventure just to turn on the lights. And this just the first command you have to get right in the game.
It was commerce in the old (late 20th century) days too, but releasing on tape/disk had its advantages:

We shipped every year, or maybe every 6 months. What this meant in practice is that every team got their features to "shoddy" state, but one team would always take much longer to get there than the others, and because we were in a "feature freeze" near ship dates, the teams who were waiting for integration could use that time to clean up their features, applying craftsmanship to make things "shipshape"; products could ship with one or two wobbly new features, and most of them pretty solid.

Now, with internet updates, as soon as a team gets to "shoddy", the feature ships; no one polishes; and all new features tend towards wobbly. (for the business this is an advantage, as features are stabilised only in response to demonstrated customer demand, but I think the enforced opportunities for cleanup on the old schedule, however disadvantageous for the business, were advantageous for engineering, as well as those customers who hadn't explicitly signed up for the beta program)
Can you provide examples of productive stuff
Its good, but I was expecting a rotate/zoom

I really like travle.earth: https://travle.earth/challenge/
If one buys it from a reputable source it should be safe. Besides, who says that the binary firmware blobs in the computer don't already contain suspicious code?
Google Authenticator backs up to your Google account now, somehow. Not sure exactly how that works.
>Those prices are not what I remember from back the

You most likely remember bare Amiga 500 price versus loaded brand name system. Here a comparison from 1994: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37851056 :

>Commodore didnt bother to build fast ram memory controller into the thing. You couldnt just slap some simms or ram chips on a card, you needed additional logic. Cheapest contemporary Fast Ram cards were ~100 pounds + ~30 pounds a meg, half the cost of 270 pound Amiga A1200 in 1994.

>A1200 bare system £276 https://archive.org/details/cuamiga-magazine-050/page/n28/mo...

>4-8MB fast ram £200-400 https://archive.org/details/cuamiga-magazine-050/page/n49/mo...

>340MB £380 pounds https://archive.org/details/cuamiga-magazine-050/page/n28/mo...

>14 multisync monitor ~£320 https://archive.org/details/cuamiga-magazine-050/page/n52/mo...

>~£1200-1400. 1994 £/$ exchange rate 1.55 = $1860-2170.

>Now compare to 1994 PC https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/7235w0/the_sp...

>486dx2-66mhz, 256KB cache, 8MB, 1.44MB fdd, 350MB HDD, SVGA monitor/card, keyboard/mouse. $1840
They're just saying it would be an extremely inefficient weapon. You could kill a couple people with it but so could a drone or some deadly gas.
We used to have it too.

RIP Boxee.
I sure want to read about these things. :) Any more books about chaotic assholes? Not necessarily junkies, but misfits at odds with civilized society.
Is it possible to change the dig server to fd00:ec2::253 from the IPv4 one.

https://isgithubipv6.live/detail.txt
No, it is not wrong. I think your statement comes from a rather short sighted view on scientific and technological developments. We need progress as a society and as humankind to develop and further advance our (currently rather poor) state of affairs (on a global scale). Be it technological (where new tech can actually improve stuff considerably) or 'just' on the understanding of things, i.e. knowledge'.

The comparatively small research budgets would not have any noteworthy impact on dysfunctional systems such as healthcare anyway.

EDIT: Actually, I am not pro this new CERN machine. I think, there are other scientific things where it would make more sense to fund them.
If that were true, what difference would it make? We would do everything exactly the same as how we would otherwise. There's also no way of testing your hypothesis becauase of that. It might fit well in a good hard sci-fi novel though.

"Consider the practical effects of the objects of your conception. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object."
Point defenses would work only if you keep a 5 km distance from any object.

But maybe you want to land a ship. Then you would need a nuke scanner since it could be disguised as anything.
I worked at a company where every year we'd decide we were going to do OKRs or something similar, and we "were going to do it right this time".

We'd spend weeks in meetings coming up goals and things we could measure, and end up with something like, "increase foo from X% to Y%". Here, "foo" is a placeholder for something or other, but the X and Y are not. We would literally leave them as variables, under the impression we'd fill them in eventually.

A year later, we'd look at them again and see that we never filled in the numbers. Then repeat. It was pretty wild.
Yeah. Instead of spending money on improving AGI, most places should spend it on improving WIS. ;)
Reminds me of the time I had an OKR to reduce page load time by some ridiculous amount. The speed wasn’t even bad and there was no theory about how exactly it would help the product. We didn’t sell ads or anything like that.

We ended up achieving our goal by greatly reducing the quality of all images to almost nothing, such that they looked like a rorschach test, and measuring performance on a fast internal network. Management was so happy they bought a white sheet cake and had the graph of improvement drawn on it in icing.

The next quarter, customers started to complain and a new OKR was set to improve image quality by 50%. So we just reverted all the prior changes, and once again victory was declared.

This company operated like this for the entire year I was there. I finally had to quit because I started to question my own sanity. Ever since that experience I have PTSD whenever someone says the word OKR.
I am not able to use Instagram or Twitter for my own use cases. Either I want to gather information about some topic or I want to gather the news. But the search function is completely useless. What I dislike about the "new" social media is that it is missing the focus more and more and I am not able to make any use of it. YouTube if awesome to learn some new skills. TikTok or YT Shorts are pretty much useless for this.

Question: How do you feel about this, and how do you make use of the next-gen social media apps?
It makes complete sense if you don't strawman comments in bad-faith. This isn't about "allow" or "disallow" - there is no attempt here to abridge somebody's free speech.

Anyone can criticize anything. It takes genuine effort to create a new system that works across an industry - if you think you can do better, go for it - I'll cheer you on.
Golang Co-Creator Rob Pike: 'What Go Got Right and Wrong'
You need an account for Motorola bootloader unlock, but at least a few years ago they used to email the unlock key instantly. It could have changed since, but if you see the supported devices, there are far more in Motorola compared to other OEMs.
Maybe they want to steal our memes.
nobody asked you, it has no such connotation in British English, and your comment is irrelevant to the matter being discussed.
But why would you want to write CSS like that?

Better off learning CSS and using it more effectively rather than single attributes
> 'pocket picker' illustrates my point though, you swapped the verb for noun form, and it became the other way around.

No, "pickpocket" is already a noun, and it means "pocket picker". Just like "kiss-ass".
Some colonizer needs to teach the person who wrote this the importance of stating a clear thesis and backing it up with facts.

Halfway through the article it still seemed like a random hodge-podge of disconnected anecdata about a niche language and ethnic group.
What does a fine pattern mean in this context?