skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
House and Senate Republicans are motivated by their own goals and gains, not fear of Trump's vengeance.

To even compare Trump with Stalin is idiotic.

Also, Devil doesn't exist.
It would work if the villain sells conventional weapons - we've been itching for a conventional world war for a while now, and nukes are the only reason we've not been able to.
The title need (2003) at the end, as this is when this paper published on arXiv.
OKRs without strategy are just random walk.
Have you deployed Vanna as yet? Curious if it lives up to the claims of near 100% accuracy
Current record for magnets: 45 teslas.
Show HN: Franz – A desktop client for Apache Kafka
This is the source code to Franz, a native desktop client for Apache
Kafka I've been working on for the past ~three years or so. Around
2021, I started using Kafka at a startup and I didn't like any of
the clients that were available at the time, so I decided to build
my own in my spare time[1]. I wanted a solid native experience
on the Mac that wasn't web based and didn't require any Docker
containers to run.

A few months ago, I decided to make the code source-available[2]
in part because I like the idea of my users being able to see the
code they're running and in part because I want to showcase that
one can build serious applications with Racket. The app also has a
somewhat unusual architecture: the "backend" (the "core" folder)
is written in Racket, the Mac "frontend" (the "FranzCocoa" folder)
is Swift + Cocoa/SwiftUI[3, 4], and the two sides communicate over
pipes. The Windows and Linux versions (the "FranzCross" folder)
reuse the Racket core and implement the frontend using a wrapper
around Racket's cross-platform GUI toolkit[5, 6]. My goal is to
eventually port the frontend for the latter two platforms to use
their native toolkits directly as well (see [3] for some more
details re. Windows).

Happy to answer any questions!

[1]: https://defn.io/2022/11/20/ann-franz/

[2]: https://defn.io/2023/08/10/ann-franz-source-available/

[3]: https://defn.io/2023/03/19/racketfest-talk-2023/

[4]: https://defn.io/2022/08/21/swiftui-plus-racket-screencast/

[5]: https://defn.io/2021/11/07/racketcon-talk-2021/

[6]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16024v1
Microsoft Autoroute Express (1995)
In my country the car registration document has the weight number but not the width number. I suspect in France it's the same, and that's the reason they went by weight instead of width – it's easier to administer that way.
A system of underground railways! I wonder if Ian M Banks saw our future when he wrote about the planet of the dead...
Imagine that you are an executive managing an org with 3000 people in 4-5 levels of hierarchy. That's common in large companies.

You get to "talk" to the enire team perhaps a once a quarter, in some town-hall event where most people aren't really listening, and maybe send a mass email every now and then, which no-one reads. You get to talk to your immediate management team more often, and they talk to their reports, and so on, but of course whatever message you've had is greatly diluted, sometimes comically so, like in a game of telephone.

People are not robots, their understanding and communication is very ... creative. And context-dependent. And self-motivated. So that's not effective. Most people need to engage with the message you have - your priorities, changes in direction, specific goals - on a daily basis. Otherwise you are not really giving them any direction. And so you need some device to enable that. And OKRs are a part of the solution.
Tesla Cyber Truck and Apple Vision Pro [video]
a little Off-Topic but if you ever get to visit Geneva, there is a permanent exhibition at CERN to show how the LHC work and what is the organization around it to collect information, keep it running... etc... it is rather kid friendly too.
In the event of some issues. Physically moving to the seat could be impossible in time.

The a380 is certified to 853 people aboard, just pay the fucking skills. Skilled people are why an economy exists, paying people is the point.
I seem to recall a video (perhaps KurzGesagt) that a magnitude 25 earthquake would overcome the binding energy of Earth - the planet would be in separate pieces. That definitely is an upper limit: when the "earth" in earthquake literally cannot take more.
Randall Park Pranks Ryan Reynolds as John Krasinski in 'If' Super Bowl Teaser
My kind of mid-2010s hack to that end was to use an app that put my whole screen into red monochrome on a black background. It didn't abuse my eyes and, since the whole screen was usually filled with tiny code, people assumed I was doing something important.

But more importantly, I think, I came from an epoch where if you're going to take your work out with you, you'd better be prepared to be interrupted and be gregarious and conversational with people. No headphones, no cold shoulder. People ask what you're doing and you take a 30 minute break and show them. Maybe make plans to get drinks after work. I used to meet other coders that way - it was actually how I met most of the really solid people I worked with over the years. Otherwise why would you be out?
The issue with this approach lies with the current content of the stdlib: the stdlib is for vocabulary types, that is, types that are meant to be used as interoperability bricks in almost all programs (think Option, Result, Vec).

If you start versioning the stdlib now you need a bridge between the Option from std1.0 and the Option from std2.0. This will become confusing quickly for programs that use libraries that depend on different versions of the std.

We could forbid that situation, but then we have an ecosystem split
I never understood the banking app thing. I can use my banks website to manage my finances, using my built-from-source Gentoo Linux computer. Why must a phone then be totally locked down?
0. risk is the risk all businesses take when they invest. It's why low-risk bonds pay low interest, and high risk stocks (potentially) give high returns. No savvy business is going to invest in a high risk endeavor with poor expected returns. You don't need a book to tell you that.

1+2. the higher the risk a business takes, the more profit it needs to justify the risk

3. Note how I said if the business underpaid the employee, the employee can leave and get a better offer elsewhere. That's how markets work. That's what drives compensation up to fit the equation. Or the employees can quit and start a competitor. Unusually profitable businesses draw competitors like flies to honey. Every businessman is looking for a high margin business to get in to.

Let's put it another way. If you started a business that made $100 per widget, and the employee that made the widget cost you $10, that would be a great business. Until your competitors caught wind of it and enticed away your employee for $20. You entice him back for $30. Until it reaches equilibrium that matches the equation.
Levels.fyi exists.
> Obvious consequences are enough.

Obvious potential consequences are not enough. This is the richest man in the world, surely you have an example.
Have you tried compressing your plain.txt into a plain.zip?
> Of course we do stand a good chance of destroying ourselves with nukes, but it's not entirely clear to me that we stand less of a chance of destroying ourselves without them.

The problem with nukes is they're an absorbing state. Once the nuclear war happens there's no retries. Nukes present an x% chance of near-extinction over the next T years. That x% goes up as T goes up, asymptoting to 100% as T becomes sufficiently long, assuming no ground-breaking paradigm shift in global cooperation such as a single world government, which won't happen in our lifetime due to how hardwired nationalism and nativism is. Each generation, we're going to keep rolling the i.i.d. nuclear dice and x% will go from 2% to 10% to higher as T goes up, then eventually it'll happen. Recall that it almost happened in the Cold War, only one random person who stopped it is the reason you're alive.

The main argument I'd accept for nukes is that we need to reduce hot war in the short-term to accelerate economic and scientific progress, which will then reduce other civilization-scale problems (like climate change, pandemics, cancer treatments, diversifying life to other plants) to a point where the perpetuation of the nuke existential risk becomes justified.
I do see your point but the Ronan Point disaster was principally due to poor building practices.

"The gas may have accumulated at the ceiling, explaining why
the resident did not notice it. The explosion was not significant in
magnitude. The resident’s hearing had not been damaged. This
suggested that the pressure was less than 70 kPa (10 psi) (Bignell
1977). Items were taken from the kitchen of this apartment and
tested. Results indicated that these objects had been exposed to
pressures of less than 70 kPa (10 psi).
The Building Research Station and Imperial College of Lon
don performed an extensive battery of tests to discover how much
internal force Ronan Point could withstand. The results indicated
that the walls could be displaced by a pressure of only 19.3 kPa
(2.8 psi) (Levy and Salvadori 1992). It was estimated that the
kitchen and living room walls were moved by a pressure of only
1.7 kPa (0.25 psi), while the exterior wall was displaced with a
pressure of 21 kPa (3 psi) (Griffiths et al. 1968)."
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...
I don't like the comparison to gold, because gold just sits there. It's a stable element. Bitcoin needs a variable amount of watts for upkeep. Who is paying for those watts and why?

If we're talking about the value of a currency, we're talking about what we can get in exchange for it. And when we talk about the store of value, it's what we can get in the future. With Bitcoin, we know it must burn energy, so we can get something only less that energy. The currency may get more "believable" due to the burning, when you look at sacrifice as commitment. But what are they committing to? Burning more in the future, because they now have coins they want to keep their value?

The funny thing is that most people trade in virtual Bitcoin they don't control. Because it's more comfortable and the ledger doesn't support the volume. So they need a government to assert their claim on their coins. I guess one can't even get Bitcoin from their ETF and needs to round-trip to some other currency.

The market is settling out of chain, because it's cheaper.
Well as two armed slaves, we'd be useless at handling their devices that require all 8 tentacles... We might not even be useful as snacks, having picked the wrong handed proteins. They might annihilate us out of frustration and build a hyperspace bypass instead.
> would be better off if they promised a $800m incentives-based / performance-based package (e.g. stock options etc.) than promising $80m if the CEO performance sucks.

I don’t know about the relative ratios between the two but i believe you need both.

From a perspective of a succesfull CEO candidate with a proven track record joining your company is risky. There might be something structurally wrong with your industry, or there might be some “ticking bomb” with your business (like some hidden technological flaw, or personality conflict, or regulatory/compliance risk, or the risk of some catastrophy hitting your factories/offices) Many of these are already present before the CEO candidate joins and there is nothing they can do about them.

Basically your business might stink and “explode” in the face of the new CEO. On the other hand the CEO candidate presumably have some other options. You are usually not recruiting CEOs from the literal bread line.

Let’s think through a concrete example. You tomp is a succesfull business person and you estimate you will conservatively earn $200m in the next 5 years. You have unique skills and they offer you a chance to become the CEO of Boeing today. You have what you belive is a good plan to restore Boeing to its former glory and the pay package will net you if everything goes well $800m in the same time frame. Sounds good, isn’t it? But you are worried that some gizmo in the airplanes already out of the factory might have some flaw. Maybe costs were cut and maybe some part you have never even heard about fails, kills a few thousand people a year after you joined and tanks the whole company. You don’t know what is the chance of that happening, nobody knows. What you know is that if that happens you will earn in your estimate $0. If that happens you might need to sell off your yacth, and tell your daughter she has to drop out of that lovely swiss private school she loves so much.

Will you join?
Double majors are more protected against economic shocks by 56%
Lol. Like I said, you just don't get it. The Russian slave mentality is as strong as ever.
HuggingChat Assistants Beta
I'm building a platform where product managers and engineers can build interaction automation with users using small model. The goal is to help people to build LLM for them without deep expertise in DS/ML, train and host the model in their infrastructure, where no data require to be submitted.

Still on progress at https://www.chathip.com/
Linking to the abstract instead would have been nice.
Boeing may delay jet deliveries after supplier finds glitch with fuselages
> Bill Gates gave them money

you mean was caught stealing and quietly settled https://www.theregister.com/1998/10/29/microsoft_paid_apple_...

TLDR: Apple was stealing with help of Intel, both companies scared by QuickTime positioning Apple as the leader in Multimedia (1991 Adobe Premiere build by ex Quicktime engineer on Mac platform, 1991 Avid ported from Apollo $workstations$ to Mac). When Jobs came back in 1996 he didnt like (or couldnt afford) all the litigation and promptly settled for $ and Microsoft support commitment (Office, IE) in exchange for letting MS save face.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company

"David Boies, attorney for the DoJ, noted that John Warden, for Microsoft, had omitted to quote part of a handwritten note by Fred Anderson, Apple's CFO, in which Anderson wrote that "the [QuickTime] patent dispute was resolved with cross-licence and significant payment to Apple." The payment was $150 million."

"Microsoft and Intel had been shocked to find that Apple's QuickTime product made digital video on Windows seem like continuous motion, and was far in advance of anything that either of them had, even in a planning stage. The speed was achieved by bypassing Windows' Graphics Display Interface and enabling the application to write directly to the video card. The result was a significant improvement over the choppy, 'slide-show' quality of Microsoft's own efforts. Apple's intention was to establish the driver as a standard for multimedia video imaging, so that Mac developers could sell their applications on the Windows and Mac platforms. Microsoft requested a free licence from Apple for QuickTime for Windows in June 1993, and was refused. In July 1993, the San Francisco Canyon Company entered into an agreement with Intel to deliver a program (codenamed Mario) that would enable Intel to accelerate Video for Windows' processing of video images."

"Intel gave this code to Microsoft as part of a joint development program called Display Control Interface."

"Canyon admitted that it had copied to Intel code developed for and assigned to Apple. In September 1994, Apple's software was distributed by Microsoft in its developer kits, and in Microsoft's Video for Windows version 1.1d."
I wanna add Xiaomi, however with the caveat that I like neither bootloader unlock procedure. Xiaomi wants to install their software on the host (I recommend a VM), you need a SIM installed, and you have to wait 7 or 14 days for the unlock to work (on MIUI at least, Android One does not have that). On Motorola you have to connect to the internet for 3 days at least and you may not interrupt it otherwise it resets (I heard 7 days max, but not sure if it resets indefinitely). You need an account on both of them btw.

The best experience is probably with Google and maybe OnePlus, but I did not have any myself recently.
> I miss the focused discussions

There are many such communities alive and well today, on for example Discord.

Here's one I use often, for the Bevy game engine:
https://discord.gg/bevy with 3100 users online.

The issue as I see it with reddit et al is they are too open and too large.

When there are too many unknown people around, users tend to treat each other as strangers and that can turn ugly fast.

I think this is related to tribalism [1], where you can have relations and "know" a couple of hundred people, but with too many people around you no longer feel the same connection with them, they are all strangers to you.

That's just my take, but I think there's something to it. Most if not all enjoyable groups I found, even on reddit and facebook seemed to be working because there were just a few hundred to thousand people, rather than a 500k subreddit.
The same held true on older forums, where usually you have a few hundred active users.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribalism
A country that borders Canada and Mexico and also underwrites security for selected countries around the world. That’s Pax Americana isn’t it?

You may correctly point out that they only did this because peace encouraged trade, which made them rich. You may also say that they did to increase their global influence and that would be right as well.

But that means that the $750B a year is a rational expense that has economic and geopolitical benefits. That doesn’t mean any expense on any unrelated thing can be justified with “it’s only a few billion. What’s a few billion when you’re spending 750 on an unrelated thing”. Each expense needs its own cost benefit analysis.

It may well be that $20B for a collider is cheap compared to the benefits, but you have to make that argument. Comparing expenses isn’t a compelling argument.
This is nonsense. You're allowed to criticize a system without having a solution. For what it's worth, I've worked at a few OKR driven companies and it sure seemed like a waste of time. Metrics and measurements shifted, goals changed as the product changed, and we wasted time measuring the thing instead of doing the thing. The measurements for OKRs never lead to meaningful action. Meaningful action was driven by customer interviews, market analysis, and R&D.
Most middle managers are the prime example of Dunning–Kruger effect and simply are kept in their position to do C-level dirty work, C level only care about maximizing profits, no one cares about employees mental health, the work from home was a clear example to everyone, HR isn’t your friend, hell, even the tax system is rigged to benefit the corporates while milking the employees dry, their income is taxed, what left of it is paid to items that are also taxed, to save for a house that you will pay taxes to keep it for the rest of your life, modern days jobs are a covert slavery.
I skimmed the paper, and it's interesting that this seems like these were identified purely from scanning public RNA sequencing datasets and then finding things that look like they would make circles. As someone with only a rudimentary understanding of biology and bioinformatics, I'm wondering:

* Has anyone experimentally demonstrated that these RNA sequences actually form circles?

* Is it possible that these are the result of some reaction in the transcription process? (My understanding of RNA transcription is that we sequentially dump some enzymes into a petri dish, so it seems plausible that we could generate novel DNA/RNA not present in the source.)

* Is it possible these are actually ubiquitous, exist in every cell, but we don't have any reliable way to detect them?
That defense budget is also saying "I am powerful and dangerous" which keeps the dollar strong in a way. Imagine spending $1B per year instead. China and Russia would be on top of America within days.
The problem with OKR and every other fad managment system weather it be agile. SaFE, or LEAN is that they are all essentially cargocults once the leave the orgnisation that spawned them.

The problem is that organisations that feels the need to import management dogma's are trying to avoid doing the hard and potentially ego-destroying for upper management task of examining why they arent getting the performance from their mid management they want, by simply copying in the surface aspect of someone more succesfull,

Add to this that there is a surpricingly small number of people both in management and programming that have ever managed a project from cradle to grave at all let alone done so successfully and you get a culture of management consultants that have never been with a project long enough to watch the pretty facade crumble diue to a lack of solid foundations.
If you happen to be there during a shutdown for maintenance or long shutdown, there is a great chance that you can get an on-site tour that will show you the machines itself. There are other tours too.
Time will tell, most of your objections are temporary and don't represent any fundamental limit to the technological possibilities, only the current reality. Personally, if nothing else, I would gladly trade a bulky phone for something less intrusive.
My facebook is still that somehow. In desktop I use FBPurity. On mobile, ... I think I don't use it much but checking it right now, it's not toooo bad? When I do I say "not interested/don't show" though it's gotten worse in the last 2 months. Loops, which I have zero interest in, showed up 8 posts in and ever 6 posts is trying to get me to add more friends but the rest was all actual people/friends/groups I was following

I wish there was a social media all my friends were on that didn't try to show me anything. All I'd want is chronologic posts by friends and family. Also, no "so-and-so was tagged ...", no "so-and-so commented on" unless it's my post or a post I commented on, no "you're all caught up so here's a bunch of other stuff", No "shorts/loops", No more than 1 ad every 5 non-ads. I'd use it way more if that's all it was.

I recently finally quit Instagram because it was all noise, no signal.
Your comments prove you aren't in the industry.
OKRs are just a tool. They can work pretty well if you have competent people and apply them correctly. But, that can be said of any other project management system, goal management system, gamification system... Some are worse, some are better, but most have books written about them that heavily feature survivor bias and correlations/causation bias.

The OKR book assigns most of Google's success on OKRs. Assuming there is an alternate reality somewhere, where Google chose SMART goals in that critical point in time. In that timeline Google of today is one floor below Yahoo in some random Verzion corporate building.

I haven't seen a goal management system yet that I cannot destroy with bad management and misaligned incentives.
It's a government handout either way, but the former goes on indefinitely for an individual (while also putting downward pressure on other workers), while the latter (ideally) increases earning potential - improving the workers lot, the tax base for the government, and the workers ability to patronise other local businesses
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