skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

There is a heavy lifting issue hiding behind using OKRs as a tool: you need to build an organization that is able to held teams accountable, and has a working escalation chain.

The prerequisite for OKR is that your organization is driven by objectives which cascade from C-level down to teams, and then all the way back via feedback loops, instead of VPs and directors micromanaging every link of the chain on the go. Drive-by style of objective setting, when things get randomly thrown at random teams, is another problem that needs to be resolved first.

Your OKRs will fail without building this kind of management culture. And you’ll be surprised how many orgs are not working that way, and insane amount of resistance people in the org have when you try to implement these (logically efficient) practices.
Maybe there are no secrets, but every time a new experiment is conducted, the universe randomly decides the outcome and then sticks to it?

I think this is what we assume about small things already, like the position of a previously unmeasured photon or the spin of a previously unmeasured electron, right? Neither the photon has a position, nor the electron has a spin, but we measure one. And from then on, the the universe acts according to the measured values.
Well... academic code is even worse as it has no incentives other than those (user bases are ~1-2 people and the paper is the product).
As long as it worked briefly to produce the paper results it's "gtg".
I think my analysis needs some more depth then.

I'd say most people are adverse to change. Probably key people at c-level and some people across the hierarchy are not.

I'm talking about when there's been a plan established, and when that plan needs to change. Since managers are the implementers, in my sense of the term, not the planners -- they are highly change-adverse.

Whereas plans are implemented "on" the people who are best placed to say change is needed, and managers are typically unable to incorporate this feedback. Perhaps because they cannot persuade the planner c-suite above that change is required.

My underlying point was more about how organisations need to be analysed in terms of these incentive structures, say, in more Machiavellian terms -- and what happens with "Manifesto types" is they have no analysis of this, and instead come up with various dogmas that just become corrupted to align with organisational practice.
Also good to note that unlike many other forms of AI, the SQL query optimizer AI is not a black box. It will tell you exactly how it thinks your data can be retrieved in the fastest way if you ask it to explain its plan for your query.
> and his mercurial way of running Tesla (removing then adding the ultrasonic sensors, constantly discounting new cars, etc).

Is it much worse than VW patently cheating on regulations, virtually all brands eating reaping your personal data like there is no tomorrow, or Renault deliberately selling flawed engines?

Not that I'm trying to write Musk's hagiography, but the automotive industry is a nest of scandals and anti-customer practices where in the grand scheme of things Tesla is but another link in the chain.
I could help but wonder while reading this how everyone involved would feel if the "last step" involving the papyrologists was automated as well.
Oh, that strikes a chord with me!

My struggle at work is usually _reducing_ my standards for quality, performance and customer satisfaction to match those of management & colleagues, because caring more than everybody else is a recipe for burnout.
And nothing to do with the actual indicators of performance that matter to your manager and their manager.
Is it actually a fork, or did the creators just copy some of the documentation?

I always thought the biggest influence on Chakra was actually Styled System. I really doubt there's anything nefarious happening here given that the Panda docs have a whole acknowledgement section that lists the projects that influenced it: https://panda-css.com/docs/overview/getting-started#acknowle...

Most of these React styling libraries were influenced by their predecessors. Emotion essentially copied styled components entire api: https://emotion.sh/docs/styled
What do you think about the gravity well "drive" in three body problem trilogy? I thought it was fairly clever, especially given the stories describing it beforehand (maelstrom iirc?)
I understand the problem, thanks, but I still don’t understand how an OKR is a good solution.
My parents met at the funeral of a relative's common friend.

I never got the story clarified more than that, but they were in their thirties.
Great Japanese YouTube Channel
I remember learning about ancestor simulations by the vile offspring in accelerando, but reversing the light cone is quite chilling - is there any sci-fi novel that deals with that you would recommend?
$20 billion might have sounded huge 20 years back. But we are living in an age where someone paid $40bl for Twitter.
Dispelling Monero FUD and Myths
Such a strawman. People get locked out of accounts with important stuff for them all the time.

Let's demand more of tech companies who have the means to do proper security , instead of bling user mistakes.
Hell yeah! And on top of that management rarely learns or understands that they need to think and design what their organization should be, nor that their power to introduce change is much more limited than they think.
The solution is easy though, you can use :tcd to set the root dir per tab for the project tooling in this tab and I never had any issues with separate projects this way.

I guess the way we operate terminal tabs and splits is just something we get used to once and never change, even if it tooling to do it starts to layer on top of each other :)
sometimes i still use https://millionshort.com/ for filtering out those crap tier sites; web site search engine still means finding useful webpages - i hope the AI search engines do recognize that as a target to list actual useful sites vs the 1-summary-to-rule-them-all
> Do you want to ban water? Should we throw anyone in a prison who transports it? It is a chemical after all.

Exactly. You prove my point.
Same thing with SCRUM or all the other bullshit that people who can not actually bring anything to the table use to justify their payroll, while only making things worse for anyone else involved.
Dutch is a Franconian dialect though? They just didn’t go through the consonant shift like their cousins in the Rhineland. It isn’t really that closely related to Frisian or Low German and even less so to Norther Germanic.
I have not used Discord and was under the impression it is realtime chat like IRC. The services I mentioned were asynchronous and after AltaVista/Hotbot/Google, searchable. Happy to be corrected if that's wrong.
Actually that makes it considerably more funny for me. There is already an automated piece called Longplayer in London.
Discord is searchable and probably the largest source of information online today that is not being indexed by search engines.

Discord is also realtime chat/voice/video presentation and file share.

Unlike IRC all past discussion is available and searchable, so it's more like Slack / MS Teams in that regard.
In case you're interested in these kinds of relativistic effects, there is a toolkit called OpenRelativity http://gamelab.mit.edu/research/openrelativity/ that you can use, for your simulated near-luminal speed graphics.

It's used by the (free) game "A Slower Speed of Light".
http://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/
So paint over them!
> It was mostly stupid and sentimental

Which is why it didn't last. When there was a novelty to it, people tried posting things to see what happens. Being something new, they didn't know what to expect. But soon the novelty wore off and the stupid and sentimental revealed itself as being cringy.

As such, the people made it clear that if they were going to continue to produce, they wanted tighter and tighter control over who can see it. They wanted private chats and closed groups, not a global newsfeed for all to see. Which, indeed, Facebook delivered on, but that also destroyed the "what I did today" content for the casual observer.

So, that left Facebook to draw on professional (or wannabe professional, at least) content creators to fill the void. And here we are today.

> I’m sad the world now looks like a worse place.

There does seem to be a missing gap in news about regular people. Before Facebook you could read the newspaper to find out what your friends "did today". Seriously, look at newspapers from the last century. There are pages upon pages of stories like "Mr. and Mrs. John Smith invited Miss Jones from Nantucket to stay at their home this past week. A good time was had by all."

But maybe lacking that isn't actually worse. Perhaps there is something to be said about staying close enough to your friends that you already know what they "did today" without having to read an account in the news?
>Quake 2

December of 1997 is hardly 1997 :) The rest in September/October just barely counts.
That does actually sound like a good plot - do something ostensibly "villainous" by stripping countries of their beloved nukes, but be hailed a hero for it. As in, it would be an actually smart way for a villain to rehabilitate their image. And then, you know, 10 years down the line they could build their own super-weapon, perhaps. This is why I'm not a screenwriter.
i feel like quite a few folks in this thread greatly underestimate the things that may go wrong with automating flight controls. Just a recent example: in the past months, mainly due to Israeli military ops afaik, GPS spoofing (!not jamming!) experienced a significant uptick. If you spoof GPS, you can have all the redundancies in the world, they’ll all agree over the spoofed data. There are videos of resulting egpws misfires [1] already. Also, (enhanced) GPS is also used to recalibrate inertial navigation to keep the system as accurate as possible during the progression of the flight, just saying…

[1] https://youtu.be/-aExG6YUwFg?si=y6R26YdIXgtdyGdi
Since it seems, we are heading there anyway, I would feel safer with the bombs out of the way.
My first question when my manager tells me it is time to plan OKRs: "Sure thing! Show me the OKRs of C-Level so I can align with those."

They never deliver. I never do OKRs. We all win.
Why would anyone want to do that? I don't think any government is going to want to disable all nuclear bombs on Earth
> Also it really feels like all the air has been let out of the docker/kubernetes/cloud-native balloon that was so popular in the late 2010s.

As someone who works for a company that sells various k8s versions of products and services, we're only now seeing some of our bigger customers really starting to use k8s more exclusively. So at least my experience is the opposite of yours, it seems that at least in some industries k8s is only now seeing significant adoption.
I just got an iPhone SE 1st gen, for the size and headphone jack. It's great.
Related:

Destruction of Nuclear Bombs Using Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Beam (2003) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23528970 - June 2020 (85 comments)
Free world use both. But after totalitarian countries use riscv, it will cut and there are many ways to ban your adversities asset. Btw, adverse countries list are official.
Nice idea, but README is required. Also it can be generated by GPT :)
While it's true that most of the tools for genomics are OSS, there is some good software and in particular some databases that are commercial and quite pricey.

And the sequencing machines and chemicals also don't come cheap, as the market has long been dominated by one vendor.
Well yeah. It's like saying the estimate of this issue is two weeks. It was two weeks a year ago as well. Because I just didn't start working on it in earnest yet.
I know this is the case but I wonder if this is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

I can easily imagine an alternate reality where VCs invest more thoughtfully based on more careful analysis of companies and they would have a much higher success rate and end up with even higher returns without creating unsustainable wealth inequality.
Oh, sorry for the typo, my phone's keyboard must have "corrected" Konsole to Console. Also, it was supposed to be "but then", not "but that". Sorry.
it isnt.
Most of the time, it feels a little bit embarrassing, but the cost is just a very small part of your regular salary and overall operating cost. If your boss hits you with this, they don't have the correct perspective and priorities.

My record is $20k and it raised some eyebrows. But it was not really a mistake, just a sub-optimal backfill.

The data was filling a need for making appropriate business decisions, and compared to all the money lost by business developers making investments on a hunch, this was a very small bump in the road.
Dutch isn’t a low German though dialect? It’s more closely related to Franconian and Middle German than to Frisian and Low German
Good team culture, that is the only thing that really works.
> It's now filled with (...)

All of this and more wasn't here when social media become a thing - we all had fun talking to each other and sharing funny, stupid and interesting stuff. Of course there were weird and dangerous people or communities around but they were keeping themselves at bay.

Personally, I believe that once social media become a collective virtual conscience it since then didn't do anything good for the whole society. On contrary - it seems it become a tool for various agendas, people who are trying to dismantle the known society and introduce some weird substitute propelled by ads and influencers. And they are giving us a false sense of happiness, engagement, commitment to causes - just as they artificially smile to us from these gaping youtube thumbnails.
PCBA is just an assembled PCB?
To me agile brings up a picture of Jean-Claude van Damme doing the splits.

Because that’s what it feels like trying to manage expectations from management va stakeholders whilst also having daily meetings to discuss our effort and how we can remain lean and agile all the while building up tech debt
Yes, Gitlab is way evaluation is way overpriced. They're not even in the green yet.
very interesting. hope you can improve the tedious hardware design process. you might want to look into digital hardware description languages such as verilog and vhdl.
In my experience, Tox qua qTox and Toxic has been the most stable of the options you've listed. Retroshare is another fine (though perhaps fiddly) example, and it has the longest standing communities of any of these (I see about ~2.3k people right now), with plenty of non-voice/vidya features; it also works with i2p, not just tor.
I don't want to say that Usenet/Listservs/Bboards were perfect by any means. The ones that lasted a while did develop "in groups" that could be aloof to newcomers. Kat Nagel's insightful "The Natural Life Cycle of Mailing Lists" from the mid-to-late 90s (I think) resonates:

https://www.chipford.com/list/list_life.htm

"Every list seems to go through the same cycle:

1. Initial enthusiasm (people introduce themselves, and gush a lot about how wonderful it is to find kindred souls).

2. Evangelism (people moan about how few folks are posting to the list, and brainstorm recruitment strategies).

3. Growth (more and more people join, more and more lengthy threads develop, occasional off-topic threads pop up).

4. Community (lots of threads, some more relevant than others; lots of information and advice is exchanged; experts help other experts as well as less experienced colleagues; friendships develop; people tease each other; newcomers are welcomed with generosity and patience; everyone -- newbie and expert alike -- feels comfortable asking questions, suggesting answers, and sharing opinions).

5. Discomfort with diversity (the number of messages increases dramatically; not every thread is fascinating to every reader; people start complaining about the signal-to-noise ratio; person 1 threatens to quit if other people don't limit discussion to person 1's pet topic; person 2 agrees with person 1; person 3 tells 1 & 2 to lighten up; more bandwidth is wasted complaining about off-topic threads than is used for the threads themselves; everyone gets annoyed).

6a. Smug complacency and stagnation (the purists flame everyone who asks an 'old' question or responds with humor to a serious post; newbies are rebuffed; traffic drops to a doze-producing level of a few minor issues; all interesting discussions happen by private email and are limited to a few participants; the purists spend lots of time self-righteously congratulating each other on keeping off-topic threads off the list).

-- OR --

6b. Maturity (a few people quit in a huff; the rest of the participants stay near stage 4, with stage 5 popping up briefly every few weeks; many people wear out their second or third 'delete' key, but the list lives contentedly ever after)."
Tesla wasn't actually being forced. In the past, other automakers like Ford, GM, Porsche and Kia/Hyundai ran into the exact same problem. They just filed an inconsequential non-compliance petition to NHTSA because this issue is so minor and it would have been too expensive to fix --- for them.

Source: https://youtu.be/480yxR_kmIg?si=dThdJD2_QceCyF_E&t=161
The pictures come straight from Wikipedia. From the picture for North Korea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea): Territory controlled by North Korea shown in dark green; territory claimed but not controlled shown in light green.
Do mind that it's not black magic at all to get a smooth paved road. Where I live they are all over the place.
OKRs are primarily a communication tool, then a prioritization tool, then an execution tool.

If you don't need to improve comms or prioritization then OKRs are of limited value.
I think the argument is that, theoretically it's somewhat standardized format, easy to understand and can be communicated in relatively short form.

Of course, in practice, your mileage may vary.
Came for this. Whole thing would look nicer by just using markdownload -> pandoc. This is a solved problem and the existing solution seems more elegant. It’s cool to do projects tho.
"chaos" is what relatively unproductive people, or people-at-arms-length call it. "Doing the job" is another term.

I've had to remind people several times not to apologise for "causing chaos" when the outcome of this supposed chaos is that the project was successful. The purpose of your job is success, not the perception of others that their charts lacked forewarning of all the unknowables needed to successful execute anything.

Chaos in many cases is just what you call the experience of looking at a chart, or a model of any kind, when you're familiar with the reality it's supposed to depict
Many people make electronics as a hobby. It's probably a fairly high-impact hobby compared to knitting or reading, but I'd credit the author for at least thinking of a use case for their little microcontroller board. I also imagine they soldered all of the PCBs they got, instead of buying five, populating two, and leaving both in a drawer after bring-up which is so normal now that PCBs are so cheap.
There are IDEs that auto-run unit tests and highlight exceptions thrown in the main or test code, which wouldn't be far off.
Thanks, I understand what you mean better now.

I think it's indeed the case that the higher up the hierarchy you go people actually tend to be less averse to change. But also that they do not receive feedback from the people doing the work that can be extremely useful for directing that change, and so they end up sticking to plans that are suboptimal.

At the extreme, people in management can be dogmatic and deaf. But often, they do understand the need to listen and update their plans, and that's just not easy to achieve.

The best orgs and managers find creative ways to enable this bi-directional exchange and let their planning benefit from the input of the people who engage with the work day-in-day-out and have the domain expertise and fast feedback loop.
If someone tags a dumpster I'll think less about it than I did reading this comment section.

Seriously who cares? It is paint. Wash it off or paint over it if it bothers you.
I don't really see why such a side deal would be possible - if the VC goal is to get the founder-manager to try for that narrow hope of few percent of major success and discourage them from settling for a lower-value stable business, allowing the founders to cash out would be counterproductive, it's in the VCs interests to ensure that founders personal financial motivation is aligned to theirs, that the founders are also motivated to go big or go bust.

In essence, if the startup is slowing down and perhaps not going anywhere, then the standard existing deal with founders where the founders can cash out only if they enable to VCs cash out at a profit (for example, if they manage to pull out all the stops to make a failing startup look attractive to some bigger fool) is exactly what VCs want, and in such a situation the founders have no leverage to extract a compromise that's worse for VCs.
And he performed it on Times Square in New York.
Your argument is based on a perfectly spherical economy. Edit: is that the Austrian or Chicago economics?

In the real world, there are asymmetries, and that shows because in the real world we have businesses making profits in excess of their risks.

If I have a business that makes $100 per widget but it depends on a secret that only I know, how does the competitor learn my secret? Where does that secret knowledge fit into your equation?

And clearly your argument is flawed since most employees are not paid anywhere near the value they produce. Your examples are based on an idealistic perfect market - which we clearly don't have a perfect equilibrium.

Also I added marked (edits) to previous comment before I realised you had already answered
> Watching TV, by yourself, on a huge screen, is not the future. Augmenting reality is.

I guess the main reason why this novel (and the trilogy that it's part of) is centered on AR is that Gibson had already done the completely immersive "hyper-VR" thing in Neuromancer (and the trilogy it was part of), so he probably wanted to explore something new...
The current trend of projecting information onto our eyes through devices is a primitive form of sensory enhancement.

It is time to make a leap towards a more transformative innovation, which could be achieved by transmitting knowledge directly into our brains. This way, we could simply know the name of a plant by looking at it.

Reading is primarily about acquiring knowledge. I am personally excited about the idea of augmented intelligence, which would not require strapping a couple of TVs to our faces.
> More relevant to my future however, Tom was also a participant on an early internet (pre-Web) kind of discussion forum called Usenet — a kind of "reddit" if you will

So, this is where we are ... in 2024 you need to explain what Usenet us ... jeez I feel old.

And I'll also note that Usenet has/had features that none of the so-called "modern" platform have, such as the ability to exchange arbitrary files without centralized control / censorship.
Bad org culture will be bad no matter the mechanisms. You can use OKRs to be toxic and you can use Agile to be toxic and you can use your own bespoke bullshit to be toxic. There is no management framework that can fix bad culture because its only a part of it. Incentives structure, existing culture, hiring practices, company life cycle, market conditions, etc all contribute to it and no amount of data can fix those. Managing a company is like parenting, if you think that you can replace attention, care and hard work with a framework you are doing it wrong.
I would argue nobody paid 40b for Twitter. They paid that for the humans attached to it and the potential buying power they represent. The non-existent buying power of a collider makes it a very different kind of deal.