skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Boeing decline was brought about by the bean-counters and their quarterly goals, not by the dedicated engineers working on years-long projects who built the company.
yup! the user base is 99% of the value in any network enabled platform
I only use the old.reddit.com but the newer one appears to change rather frequently?

They also do things like the chat, live threads and other nonsense that I will never use but clearly will take a decent number of man hours to build.

There are the user avatars, the different events like Place. Or having to implement their own image/video sharing back-end.

Does that add up to $450M/year of R&D costs? I don't know.
Diabetes is a biological disease which can be objectively proven and diagnosed based on biological tests.

There are no objective biological diagnostic criteria for anything in the DSM.

"psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests" -Allen Frances, The New Crisis of Confidence in Psychiatric Diagnosis

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Frances
Dewey, Cheatem and Howe
Loved the TFA.

I've been working on robotics pretty much my whole career and people usually miss how complicated it can get even for simple things once you consider what can go wrong AND it's a meeting place for a multitude of areas: hardware, software, mechanical, electrical, machine learning, computer vision, control, driver, database, etc. An issue can hide in between any of those for months before it shows up with bells and whistles.

What is sometimes difficult to get across to people is that building robots is not only difficult per se, but the base of comparison is unusually unfair: if you build an e-commerce website you benchmark it against other e-commerce websites, maybe Amazon, maybe ebay; for robots usually the benchmark is against people, the most adaptable and fault tolerant machine that exists, every robot will suck compared to a human doing the same task, but that's what we compare it to every time.
Isn't this effectively - more or less - giving everyone a 20% pay increase? At the very least, it's increasing days off from two to three, a 50% increase. More time off means more time to spend, usually, yes?

Ultimately, I'm asking, won't this increase demand, at least for certain goods/services? And that's going to make prices higher, correct? Won't it be a "double whammy" for goods/services that increase in demand but production falls due to less hours being worked? Or if the company hires more bodies, doesn't that drive up costs?

The issue here seems to be, this is trying to put a bandaid on a symptom. It's not going to fix housing supply. It's not going to fix the monetary and fiscal policy (that devalues worker's pay / savings).

How is this going to be any different from other gov manipulations (e.g., home loans, student loans)?
THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!

It was really tricky balancing momentum while battling Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria thinking (one of the common ADHD comorbidities) and impostor syndrome traps, but your message has put a HUGE smile on my face and made me glad that I not only created the site, but also shared it here .

Also, thank you for the specific feedback regarding the design! I did usability tests with ADHD'ers (with some I even pretended I didn't design the site so they would give me 100% honest feedback), but you can never know the potential response without putting it live. I'm also super happy that the small design/content elements are something you appreciate.
Some music video commentary on russian immigrant labour:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fix7P6aGXQ (Uzbek artist)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7pSztJFomE (Circassian artist)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ugivNRYfjc (Russian artist — for the taxi driving character introduced at 3:30)

these are all from about a decade back; there's no doubt been much more since...
I watched that a couple of months ago and loved it. It does a lot to humanize that team, I've been thinking of them during the recent news cycle.
If Reddit has stored historical mod actions, they could probably train an AI mod that mimics the behavior of the existing mods. Mods have much less leverage than they did 5 years ago.
I think marketing is more critical choke point in current saturated markets.
And if company needs lots of fund to promote product, it doesn't really matter if product is lean or not.
I wonder what percentage of mods will buy stock? I would think that if you are willing to give that much of your time and attention to Reddit, you would be interested in owning a piece of the company. The more mods own stock, the less chance of them deciding en masse to tank the stock.
How much do homeowners donate to political campaigns vs landlords?
Don’t host media, just host text like they used to.
>In my neck of the scientific woods we would be publishing papers about how our metrics are totally wrong and we need to reform our science because we're disconnected from reality.

But...you're the one using anecdata?
Demo of Figure 01 humanoid robot, powered by OpenAI
How do I know what I am signing in legal documents?
Became a founder recently, never realized how much random paper work is involved? And then you start talking to the lawyers and I just got 6 word documents between 5-15 pages all updated a bit.

The lawyers are updating the documents but don't think there is a easy way to see the diffs?

How do you guys figure things out before you sign.
Employees came forward that 37 kept a list of "funny" customer names - some offensive and racist. Instead of fixing the problem Fried and DHH banned employees talking about it. Later it came out DHH was a contributor to the list. https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/27/22406673/basecamp-politic...
Incorrect. The reddit UI/app/experience has frequently changed and always for the worse in every iteration. They "revamped" the new web UI just recently before this IPO after the "revamp" earlier maybe 5-6 years ago and is somehow both better and worse. Their app continues to be a crock of bile and the mobile web experience insists that you use it and we no longer have many viable alternatives after they told all the third party developers to suck eggs.

I speculate that the R&D costs are adjacent to their forays into NFTs, TikTok-esque video scrolling which requires a lot of investment into video capabilities, their new AI stuff where they sell all the data to AI companies and so on
This course is excellent. I personally prefer Caseys communication style as he pre-empts any ifs and buts to the point be is making. This may lead to longer videos but the actual ideas are explained thoroughly and stick. Every section I have completed has led to decent insights for me, personally.

I can see some comments saying hes long winded, but he also provides written transcripts with diagrams too if you prefer to speed read through.

Hope he continues rolling out high quality videos going deeper into the subject matter. Overall an excellent course imho.
I don't dislike Bernie per se. But his shtick seems to be, "Government is the problem...the answer is more government." I have a difficult time following that line of reasoning.
... where VCs are cannibalizing the end users ..

FTFY
Contextualized Representations for Enhanced Social Media Spam Detection
It depends on your vision of 'the case for bitcoin'. To me, it is absolutely the case. You collateralize your debt with bitcoin, to buy more bitcoin. Using your pet rocks to create more pet rocks, creates more scarcity, price goes up. It is a perfect circle. Saylor is a genius to see that, but he isn't the only one.

The problem though is that long term, I'd argue that ETH is playing this game a lot better. If you can mentally get past the DAO failure and whatever other drama, programmable money, is the absolute future, especially since they solved the energy usage issue, and soon the scaling issues.
Nile is a Serverless Postgres that virtualizes tenants/customers. It is specifically built for SaaS companies similar to Figma https://www.thenile.dev/. I am the CEO of Nile.
Daunting to think about, right??
This comment gives me Harrison Bergeron vibes.

I do agree with the intent, but large breasted women do exist in the world as well. Some of them even like bursting out of their clothing.

Naomi Wu / SexyCyborg on YouTube, for example [0]
That's just a bunch of empty assertions you're putting forward, you need to back those up with an actual explanation of how you formed those beliefs.

You might say most of my comment was just a bunch of assertions, but they were assertions about my own perception of my own experience. I think you have a higher burden to elaborate when you're making assertions about someone else's experience, especially when it contradicts what they allege.
there are plenty of ads on reddit
Pidgin was (is) great, but that was possible with jabber transports on any client. I had multiple major closed networks, blogging platform, RSS, IRC and more in one jabber/xmpp client. Cli, phone, second computer... No problem, including self hosted.

Miss those days when companies didn't invest into building walled gardens.
What does saying “this will never happen” spread awareness of other than the futility of even trying?
> ...requires developers to "pay Apple a new fee of 27% on any purchases users make outside the app up to one week after clicking a Link."
What do you mean by disrupted here? And don't you have to stop riding a bicycle or driving a car eventually too?

Endurance racing, which is what they're actually talking about as they care about "making time", is a sport that also appears almost identically in cycling and driving. And in all those contexts it's just an elective hobby that helps paint a picture about pacing, goals, and burnout. It's not about transportation at all.

But as far as running goes for transportation, it's 500,000 year old technique that ultimately requires no manufacturing or contraptions and runs on foraged berries. Other options may creep into use for a millenia or two, but it's not going anywhere.
If it is discontinuous with the broader urban fabric this is definitely a risk.

Look up Ørestad in Copenhagen - a massive master planned area that never gained any of the hoped for vitality you would see elsewhere in the city.

A decent video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OMxzXsufq8
These leaseholds are typically more difficult to get a mortgage on, restricting lenders and increasing price :/
Since you’re directly quoting me in one of the three, I’ll just point out that I haven’t said either of the other two, here or anywhere else. You can’t establish internal inconsistency by merely superimposing multiple viewpoints onto one of them.
It's a great question because I didn't know the answer, and I asked, and many people didn't know the answer, and now we do
I thought this was a bug at first. Does anyone actually want this?
A metaphor aims to illustrate a specific point better. It does not aim to be a full equivalent of the thing itself. This does not only apply to sports metaphors.

Sports metaphors are common because the are usually easy to grasp.

And I think in this specific case it makes a ton of things to not pick any metaphor, but an endurance run as opposed to … a sprint, which is currently THE most common (albeit only implicitly used)sports metaphor in the software engineering industry.
Yes, but I don't get your point.
Thus, larger animals expel larger amounts of liquid in a brief period of time with high flow rates, resulting in an almost constant duration across large mammals (21±13 seconds) following the ‘law of urination’

Awesome. I've bookmarked this to read later, perhaps tonight if I wake up to have a pee.
Beeper at least has source code for the bridges, which you can have some hope is the same code that they run and that they don't get court orders to look at the messages.

If they ever chose to implement remote attestation for bridges, and you chose to use an open source matrix client to control your local keys, there is at least a potential path for you to prove they can't look at messages so you don't have to trust them.

You also have the option to self host bridges and take your ball and go home at any time, given that Matrix is an open protocol. Minimal lock-in.

Texts.com by contrast is completely proprietary as far as I can tell, with no path to self host, so it is strictly worse than Beeper in every way in terms of transparency.
Now that I look Finnish prices it is surprising. The coffee table is 40/50€, tv stand is 15€. Side table 8€ or 10€ for next size.

Okay those cheap ones make sense, but for coffee table it is robbery...
I wonder if something about technical competence corresponds to being a jerk.

I’ve seen this happen again and again. Nice people become jerks when they become good at tech.

It doesn’t always happen. Plenty of compassionate tech wizards.

I suspect it’s due to the fact that being a jerk gets reactions quicker. “You messed this up, fix it like I tell you or I’ll ruin your reputation” gets more effect than “Let me show you how this works.”

I also suspect that programmers are often so lost in their heads, they don’t take good advice when it’s given.

I’ve been guilty of this. I’ve decided a problem is from X part of the stack, that when an expert in Y says to look in Y I’m like “but that doesn’t effect X!”
> Having to click expand a million times

Which is almost impossible on mobile with the tiny (+) target on the latest iteration of new Reddit. If you miss then, as you say, it opens a new page instead, which has random unpredictable effects on the browser history for some reason. You can sometimes click on the whitespace above the comment to do the job, assuming the username isn’t so long as to fill all the whitespace.

Actually writing all this out really brings it home how much of a clusterfuck Reddit’s UI is.
will fix these, thanks for the heads up!
This.

HR defends the company against legal attacks from outsiders and employees alike.

Not all people working in HR have this as a prime motivation, but that's why HR exists.
GitHub repo uses EUPL, but the website has another license…
I really hope "banged" is a typo for "banned"...
Vancouver has sky high real estate prices, particularly in terms of local wages. There is limited land as Vancouver is locked between the ocean and mountains (and the border to the United States). But go look at any aerial view of Vancouver and you'll really see why.

Downtown is high-density. Across the water it's basically all single-family homes with astronomical prices and none of those people want higher-density development, for obvious reasons (ie it will lower prices).

This shouldn't be allowed to happen. This proposed development is on the other side of the water in what is otherwise SFH zoning. That's why some oppose it. NIMBYs strike again.
I’m just saying that you should be aware of it. Whether it’s a problem or not depends on your threat model, of course.
Germanized, really.
No good comes from spreading a defeatist attitude. It undermines any attempt at positive change. A call to action or specific critique may be interesting or constructive. Saying “this will never happen” isn’t helpful and doesn’t invite conversation.

> I'd rather this thread go down the path of what obstacles exist in the face of realizing right to repair in the long term over being an echo chamber about how good it is or something like that.

The comment in question offers no insight or justification for the belief. How does this encourage the type of conversation you want to see?

In fact it does the opposite. It shuts down conversation before it even begins because why waste the effort on a hopeless cause?
I love this book and, having read it, it gave me a new was of looking at "Gomer Pyle, USMC". Probably not the intention of the series creator, but imagining Pyle as much smarter than he lets on and quite mischievous is a lot of fun.
Damn near the whole west coast.
And a major cable on the east coast got cut off a while ago in the Red Sea but repairs are impossible because well, it’s in the Red Sea…
Linkedin jobs or connecting with people? It's challenging to post #OpenToWork while still employed :)
There is a certain irony in these buildings not using indigenous construction techniques.
My personal view, as an industrial control systems engineer, is that so much of the world's production software requires teams of software professionals to monitor it and keep it working. When these same software professionals look at systems which physically interact with the real world on a real time basis then a different dynamic comes into play.
It is a mistake to blame the high cost of housing on market forces. It is largely the product of local housing policy. It is a choice.
> Random works that end in -O

Not random, but otherwise yes, end in O. But someone above said you have to be an American to get these and I generally agree.

Daddy-o: a 50s hipster term

Day-o: a song by Harry Belafonte

Jackie O: Onassis, wife to President John F Kennedy

Jell-o: a longstanding dessert mix
I want to try it, but I don't want to become dependent on it if it will transition to a paid product in the future (It's cool, but I probably wouldn't pay for it).

How long will it remain free to use?
> My wonder is when does it to go from a kid just being a kid to a child actually affected by ADHD

That's the multi-billion dollar question. From grades K-3, my son got straight A's and was a typical "boy" in the classroom. Occasionally not the best at paying attention, but no big deal.

Fourth grade was another story. He'd come home exhausted, and cry himself into a nap nearly every day. Not coincidentally, that's what the academics shifted from pure memory, associative reasoning, and recall to tasks that also required planning and executive function. That, plus the expectations of better ability to sit still and pay attention were just too much.

We eventually paid the big $$$ for a full, two-day neuro-psych evaluation. It was eye-opening for both my wife and I. For me, it showed how differently my son's brain was working, and for my wife it shined a light on her undiagnosed ADHD.

We did resist giving our son medication, and waited until he decided that he wanted to try it (16 years). It made an amazing difference in his ability to study and stay on task, but it did come with the weight loss and a serious 4-6pm crash every day, though those effects seemed to mitigate over time.
Temporal.io: It Just Works
When building our open-source reverse ETL platform, built on Ruby on Rails & Postgres, as part of the ETL process running SQL queries in background and extracting data from data warehouses was critical and we needed a way to handle long running workloads.

We wanted something that was durable & that could handle retries, our initial thoghts were to use Rails Sidekiq, but the lack of durability and the need to handle retries made us look for other options, also we didn't want to create a dependency on Redis.

When we first did a POC with Temporal IO, we were amazed by the performance of running long tasks using Postgres as data store, we were able to benchmark by running a workload that tool 3-4 minutes to complete and processed 100K records from a data warehouse. Of course, we had to make some changes to our code to make it work with Temporal IO, but it was worth it.

it also provided a nice looking UI to monitor the Syncs and the ability to retry failed tasks, which was a big plus for us.

If anyone looking to build a long running workloads, I would highly recommend Temporal IO, it just works.

Link to our Github Repo:
https://github.com/Multiwoven/multiwoven
If 37Signals invested more money in their products, wouldn't they be doing a lot better than they are?

Basecamp is hardly talked about anymore. I don't know anyone who still uses it. They sunsetted a bunch of their other products.

Yes, you don't need to take VC money, but this post talks about keeping the profits instead of reinvesting them in the business.

I'm sure Fried and DHH are doing great taking profits every year out for themselves, but is 37Signals really a healthy and meaningful company?
I strongly disagree. If I'm looking for one of these libraries then the language is written in is extremely relevant in almost all cases. If I'm writing a Rust program then this is very relevant but if it said "in Java" then I would only use it if I had literally no other choice.

FFI is generally very painful.
Thats in part why I subscribed to the IPO - also, its 800 dollars a small stake, enough that if I lose half of it, I wont care.
Haha alright I get the picture. Too expensive.
Yea and moderation is an absolute horrible minefield these days. You will always have someone complaining they’re being moderated out of the discussion, whether they are or not.
Just to add to the sample size, I abandoned Reddit as it got increasingly user-hostile, and I have been enjoying the fediverse. There's a lot of cool hackers on there, and I feel like I have a really good signal:noise ratio. Sorry to hear it wasn't a good experience for you tho.
> This means every year we take risk out of the company.

erm, not sure how a company which doesn't reinvest it's profit is less risky than one that does....
> No this is not a plausible scenario.

COBOL exists. Billions of lines of COBOL still in production today. The scenario is already happening now.
I will never have children but shouldn't you guys that do have some (or will have) teaching your kids how to write prompts so the computer can create such code for them? Isn't that the goal of AI and all that? To automate things further so people don't have to learn to code and so for? To "empower" them to automate things that couldn't be automated before? And maybe eventually even skip python (or any other programming language) as intermediate step and go straight from AI to bytecode.
Likely you know this, and you're just being funny, but the try/catch statement is more like setjmp/longjmp in C. The Result type in Rust is syntactic sugar for integer return codes, returning early on errors, and tagged union structures. And where C programmers use goto statements, C++ programmers use destructors, and Rust programmers use the Drop trait. Walter Bright also says that nested procedures in D eliminate most use cases of goto for him.

You can also always avoid goto, in C, but usually, either it has excessive if-statement nesting, it uses boolean flag variables in loop conditions, or it uses structures to create state machines, but these are usually just uglier and more error-prone than the equivalent version using goto. The same applies to avoiding break, continue, and early returns.
So viral marketing.
Thanks! We definitely experimented with V only (that's the dream), but there's too much context missing:

1. What's behind a select option? You don't know until you click it, which means you need another iteration. This sucks.
2. How do you consistently correlate things in the images to actual actions (ie upload a file to a file input, click on a button, insert a date into a date)? Having the additional HTML Tag information dramatically improves the action selection process (click vs upload vs type)
That's essentially the issue. Market effects competition failing.

Compared to nothing, yes there is 30% value is CDN hosting and a forum. Compared to a competitor there isn't - it's mainly network effects.

Or put differently, if you changed the name steam and launched them today along with a competitor that charges 15% is there enough more value to use Steam to downlad at that higher fee?

The answer is very likely not; however, that competition can't happen because of past network effects.

You want markets to compete on who has the better product, not on who got their first.