skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have forgotten the name of another big company that tried this and kinda failed. I hope something comes out of this for Bayer. I remember this because I liked the idea in general and the term stuck with me -- Holacracy (I think I read a book too).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy
Yea, I was thinking that volunteering would help them meet people and see their pain points first-hand. Observing/shadowing sounds like a lot better way to get insight into what's going on. Plus they're offering up help in exchange for a chance to learn about their potential customer base.
I think the attitude is more the result of lack of competition. All of this was from before my time but doing a quick check on Wikipedia shows that VisiCalc came out in 1979 where 1-2-3 came out in 1983. I’m not familiar enough with the spreadsheet software landscape from the early 1980s but given that the article mentions 1-2-3 specifically I am going to assume there wasn’t really any real competition for at least 4 years. It can be easy to think that the future is in a new product since they seemingly had little to no competition in their original market for 4 years
This comment from Slashdot[1] suggests it might be a case of execs taking more in pay than they should.

[1]: https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23296842&cid=64409...
Here are the words from the bill:

(1) CONTROLLED BY A FOREIGN ADVERSARY.—
8 The term ‘‘controlled by a foreign adversary’’ means,
9 with respect to a covered company or other entity,
10 that such company or other entity is—
11 (A) a foreign person that is domiciled in,
12 is headquartered in, has its principal place of
13 business in, or is organized under the laws of
14 a foreign adversary country;
15 (B) an entity with respect to which a for
16 eign person or combination of foreign persons
17 described in subparagraph (A) directly or indi18 rectly own at least a 20 percent stake; or
19 (C) a person subject to the direction or
20 control of a foreign person or entity described
21 in subparagraph (A) or (B).

I do not see how the hypothetical scenarios you posed could ever manifest under a reasonable interpretation of this law. If that happens, the government went full tyrant and we have much bigger problems
Yes, I have similar experiences with people in the same age bracket. I'm not sure what the root problem is, I'm sure it's myriad in its origins, but there's some combination of individuals being fully checked-out of the democratic process taking the structure for granted and letting it kind of wash over them, and also a systematic failure of education which has completely failed to impart certain vital aspects of knowledge.

Like you I would classify most of these people as intelligent, and although literally qualified, (possession of university degrees at various levels), they are actually completely uneducated.
This product was publicly known; it was called Lotus "1-2-3/M" and you can find a little information (not a lot) by googling for that name. The Wikipedia article for 1-2-3 also cites a few scanned articles from the time, although sadly they also have some broken citations here.
Also I flagged your comment, way out of bounds for HN. Also went back, lol, you got enraged because I didnt follow your rule I was only supposed to talk about the last sentence in the post you replied to. And now I remember why I was rolling my eyes and being direct with you. You were being rude to other people, kept changing the subject, and not addressing what people were saying. I.e. you completely ignored 2 different people's analogy about chickens, replied more about hardware, then I pointed out you did that, and you tried to pop quiz me, then when I patiently explained the relevance of their two comments, you went off about how you were done talking about anything else anyone said other than one sentence and I was trying to make myself feel smart (??? You're the one doing the pop quiz!!). Bonkers behavior.
Do you know that many SSD's go into read-only mode prior to failure ?
If you have a spare on hand; copy && go!
Like it or not, but storage has become a consumable.
That's ~$24.4 million in explicit fringe benefits allocated by Meta's board; it's not like Zuck is willy-nilly exchanging family security allowance for Gucci bags.

To the GP's original remark, Meta paid out a quarterly dividend of $0.50/share a few weeks ago[1]...I'm sure you can ballpark what Zuck's cut of that was. When you do, square that notional figure against the limited use total comp above and tell us why the latter even matters.

[1] https://investor.fb.com/investor-news/press-release-details/...
Probably but that’s not how they’re organized in my contacts. It’s a list not a graph.
We had the same issue however I took a different path; I got the company to dump exchange and sharepoint. Things were happier from then on.
I am happy to see Racket make it to the front page. After using mostly Common Lisp for research programming since 1982, I now more often turn to Racket. There are parts of Racket I don’t like, which is most everything *NOT* the compiler, package management system, GUI IDE, Emacs bindings, fun language to use.

I don’t care for much of the programming language research parts of the ecosystem - that is the parts that the computer scientist professors who run the project probably care about the most. More power to them!

So I feel like a freeloader on the Racket project, just enjoying the little parts I like and ignoring the rest, and not contributing anything (except maybe the little Racket book I wrote).
In other words, it has a D12 exoskeleton.
…did you write a script to enumerate all of this man’s [dupe] comments and post this reply?
I recently learned from a The Verge podcast that the U.S. has law in place to limit how many shares can be owned by a foreign shareholders if the company is a news/media company (??? Alert: I'm not so sure about the detail). Which is in fact a fairly common idea among the nations:

> U.K. Moves to Bar Foreign State Ownership of Newspapers, a Blow to Telegraph Bid
> https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/business/media/jeff-zucker-telegraph-delay.html

as well as:

> https://politics.stackexchange.com/a/68072

I guess it's too bad that the industry are calling this kind of service "Social Media".

(Of course, you might be thinking "Oh, social media is not newspaper or broadcast station"... well, the interpretation of law can be a spectrum sometimes. Also, now days people are reading (algorithmically recommended) news on those platforms instead of buying newspaper/radio)

It's quite funny. As a Chinese myself, I'm actually a little sympathetic towards TikTok in that IF they can survive outside the Communist Party umbrella, it will show the rest of Chinese entrepreneurs that pledging to the party is not essential. But, I guess apparently these entrepreneur needs to pick the right industry first.
the way it's defined is incredibly broad. it includes people who are so deep in the hole that they can't take care of themselves. but it also includes people who are just cynical and pessimistic

it all sounds too convenient. If we're chucking SSRIs at depressed people, all of these different cases should have the same cause that's addressed by them, right? But how do we know that?

the way it's treated sounds incredibly primitive, just throwing different pills at people and hoping for the best. Doesn't inspire a lot of faith in our current understanding of depression or the mind more generally
Of course that’s what it is.
You have worse things to worry about if a three letter agency is after you. This is for the regular police, and they won't even bother.
Same, switching between <emoji>.cctld. and bare <emoji>. made me question the author's understanding about DNS as a whole, those two are very much different things! Then again, the average tiktok viewer wouldn't, I assume, care too much about needing to tack on .kz to an email as long as there is an emoji in the address.

But yes, it's an amusing (ab)use of punycode, but still fun in spirit.
I’ve worked in an environment where there are no managers for 4 1/2 years and it’s been fantastic. Here’s to getting rid of them in most (but certainly not all!) places.
You're still missing the point. If HIV were airborne, it would have 8 to 10 years to spread to every part of the world, everyone would have it, and then suddenly people start dying, not just a few but practically everyone everywhere would fall ill, including the scientists you're expecting that would find a cure.

AIDS started being noticed in 1981 when a lot of gay men started falling ill and dying. It took until 1983 before scientists figured out it was a virus causing it. By the early 1990s, HIV was the No. 1 cause of death among Americans ages 25 to 44. There weren't any real mitigations until around 1995. So be glad that it wasn't airborne, because there simply wouldn't have been any scientists left to work out how to keep people alive, because an airborne AIDS would have infected literally everyone and killed off almost all before we'd have time to work out how to prevent it from killing people.
Yes, actually, one only needs to be as developed as an adolescent human to understand the basic concept of reciprocity.

Reciprocity is one of the fundamental pillars of trust in society.
Let's ignore Wiki host their own Server for a moment. Cloud provider DO cut their prices ( not Data transfer ), especially over the span of 10 years. They just do it at a slower pace.

But even accounting for the cloud, AWS in 2017 is still easily 10x better in performance per dollar over 2006.

I haven't even factor in the software improvement. JVM / PHP / C# / Python or Ruby compiler has gotten at least 3x faster over that period.

At one point I even wished Wiki to have saved those money so they could acquire Mozilla and be in the browser space and saving ( or at least participating ) in the Open Web.
Reliability is one reason, residential internet and power is less reliable than commercial. You will have to provide UPS to everybody. Plus, if employees are located together then there is risk that regional power outage could take the system.

Then there is latency. Most apps talk to a data store, which is now separated from clients. The load balancers are going to be separated from the backend. Also, database servers tend to be beefy servers so either need to shared it or someone hosts a rack.

Another is that need write software to really be distributed. There is difference between distributed when things break and distributed all the time over the internet.
When bacteria die, their brethren will literally absorb the DNA of the fallen and obtain their abilities. Bacteria are the Mega Men of microbiology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_(genetics)

Oh you evolved a new antibiotic resistance mechanism? Now I've got your power.
Zappos, I believe.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zappos-quietly-backed-away-ho...
some people just arent equipped to deal with the world and/or other people, for whatever reasons. best we can do for them is give them food and shelter for free. its not like theyre gonna go and have incredible amounts of fun, theyre by definition fkd. dont know why people want to see them suffer more than necessary its quite inhumane.

edit: was kinda replying to one of the comments further down but somehow posted as a top level. plz forgive.
As much as precision is important, I think bickering about what we're scientifically calling the current man-made catastrophe is like arguing whether an aeroplane that's had its wings sheared off is still technically an aeroplane while it's plummeting to the ground.
I guess it's a feature of single-representative districts. Loud voices at the margins can matter, if losing a small number of votes may lose you the election.

The dynamics are different with proportional representation. You care more about keeping your core supporters happy, because the random people opposing something loudly will probably vote someone else anyway.
although I suppose they make it up as they go along

Well, that sort of fits with a lack of organization.
I find myself in an odd position - I am pro-Anthropocene but I find this reasoning suspect:

> But the Anthropocene’s future as an informal time period is assured. It’s too apt—and too important—a term to be abandoned. As Paul Crutzen pointed out in 2002, barring a “meteorite impact, a world war or a pandemic,” humans “will remain a major environmental force for many millennia.” Science recently summed up the situation this way: “the anthropocene is dead. long live the anthropocene.”

If this was all the justification I would be against the anthropocene being accepted. As the anti-anthro crowd says, geology is not the study of "maybes" or "if this trend continues".

Instead I am pro-anthropocene because even if humanity died today, there would still be an extremely weird layer of rock that would need to be explained and the existing human impacts on the enviroment would still take millions of years to dissipate. Further, '1952' is in the past. It's very recent, but it is in the past. Stratigraphy is the study of layers, and humanity has undeniably created a clear and very odd layer in the rock. Therefore, a new age is justified to me.
Rack servers are significantly more powerful than NUC. This means going to need more little servers. And more employees or employees that host lots of servers and turn into point of failure. There are also powerful servers, like database, that can’t be split.

How many people do you think have symmetric gigabit? The company is going to have to pay for employees to upgrade. And do some separation to keep from saturating link from either work or home.
The first two models were TI-81 and 85. According to my math teacher, it was the years the team lead graduated high school and college, so they were the HS and college level calculators.
> Passcodes are vulnerable to shoulder surfers

And countless cameras with frame-by-frame playback.

Linux: print * to hide password keystrokes
BSD: print * to hide password keystrokes
Windows: print * to hide password keystrokes
Apple iOS: E N L A R G E and INVERT password keystrokes

What do stock Android and Graphene show during password entry?
Is there a technical reason or is it just ideology?
Ask HN: Does anyone using Zorin OS pro as their main OS
I just saw Zorin OS which seems like cool alternative to current OS in the market. But i was wondering does it support dev work. Anyone using Zorin OS as daily driver for work?
Just googles stranglehold on the web, so yes I guess ideology
because like most things blockchains (cl)aim to solve (primarily money and its transfer, but in this case ownership of domain names), those things do not really really have a centralization problem. 99.999% of the people do not, and do not need to worry about getting their domain name seized. cryptobros like to pose centralization as a huge problem where it really isn't so that they can peddle you scamcoins to pump and to feed their gambling addiction. "web3 based domain system" solves something that is at most a nuisance (and at best a necessary evil) by introducing massive problems into the equation, all to do something that isn't really a problem in practice (and it doesn't even do it, you admit there is still centralisation, so what did we gain by introducing all those problems, really?)
What under if McKinsey will start pushing this at other orgs?
I worked for a company that claimed to use this system. Got fired after arguing with my totally no boss.
I feel like when I dive into LISPs like Racket or SBCL I’m presented with a very academic purist view of programming that clashes with my desire for more tangible, material apps.
I feel like I’d be able to comprehend deep computer science theorems in CL well but god forbid if I wanted to crank out a weekend web app.
It's a great product. With a SaaS with 109K revenue a month why do you need YC? I guess you want the network and advice which makes sense. Can help you reduce risk and provide an imprintaur of "premium credibility" (for want of better word!!) and aid access to US market and investors.

Your costs must be high, have you considered colo or lower cost cloud providers like Hetzner? I'm sure you have but just sayin!! :)

But I'm curious what have other investors said? It seems like with your combination of desire to raise, AI, revenue and great product you will have investors already beating a path to your door??
Some are not great, but all are thought-provoking.

Lord of War was good, inspired by true events.
There seems to be a bit of over-correct going on here:

When Anderson took the helm last June, he learned that the company’s rules and procedures handbook was longer than War and Peace. and “It’s just too hard to get ideas approved, or you have to consult with so many people to make anything happen.”

So sure, makes sense that there needs to be some correction. Yet basically it seems that they're just tossing everything into the bin. Perhaps an actual review of that entire rule book would have been more prudent? I expect they'll have some sort of disaster, then turn around an start writing that rule book from scratch.

I wonder if something crazy will happen. They'll end up with the equivalent of tenured professors, with unlimited grants, working on all sorts of pet projects, yet the result being an explosion of research.
Libya didn't reclaim anything from ICANN -- ICANN didn't have anything of Libya's.
I had never heard of deep space 43, only deep space 9
I’m still waiting for a shell with a parser as great for natural language as discworld mud was.

$ ls every second jpeg in first red folder in my backpack
this article is all over the place. At one point it even starts admonishing actual video games, with the usual granny complaints.

The article sounds like alex jones style of piecing things superficially together. The worship of ted kaczynski is also bothering, since his views are so banal and not even accurate. (technology is making human a creature of society? not really. We always was. Ask jesus what happens when you go against the grain).
The reason something like this is unacceptable in USA is because it will drive down property prices and increase wages because people can choose to not work multiple terrible jobs just to barely make food and rent.
Are there other ways? Like sure there's other systems that assign numbers differently and have different ceremonies but is there any way that works that doesn't involve assigning numbers to stuff?

The basic premise of people being simultaneously really good at estimating work and at the same time absolutely garbage at it when you make them use real dates naturally evolves a number system. Make up an arbitrary unit, have people estimate tasks in that arbitrary unit, and behind the scenes without telling them determine the conversion factor for that person so you can plan accordingly. Everything else is just flavor around the core gameplay loop.
A self organizing department within a sea of non-self organizing departments sounds terrible. Thankfully this is being implemented company wide.
"Gov uses improved statistics to predict metrics" oh no, dystopian...
> Sub 10% of 1 billion is 7 figures

8 figures, not 7
Solar-powered drones support sustainable aviation
ICANN says the next round will happen in 2026.
Unfortunately I will probably not take the time to help you find a source, but FWIW this was taught to me several times in medical school and is generally believed to be true by myself and many colleagues.

It is one huge reason I work as a federal employee -- FTCA helps me feel free to do what I think is right for my patient without worrying nearly as much about getting sued. In my line of work, a tremendous amount of absurd testing is done because there could be a 0.01% chance of missing something serious, and if you see 1,000 pts per year and plan to have a multi-decade career, it's easy to justify almost certainly unnecessary testing.
You mean your 'advisor'?
I think you’ve confused a couple of things. Your db should be in a private subnet as opposed to a VPC, and it’s never advised to have public access directly to your db. You also don’t need NAT for RDS instances as they shouldn’t be initiating outbound connections to the internet. If you do want to connect to your db from outside of AWS for ad hoc connections then you should be setting up a bastion host in the public subnet and you don’t need anything other than security group rules to configure communication between them - same goes for a web server (routing between public/private subnets are configured out of the box).
Yes. Apply common sense. Especially considering the state of Lisp back in the day, not to mention the utter lack computational power that a 1MHz 6502 has.

It’s not even worth considering the concept of them writing in some high level proto-lisp that is cross compiled into 6502 from a larger machine.

While a lot of software was cross assembled on larger hardware for microcomputers back in the day, almost nothing of note was written in a high level language. (To wit someone will mention things like the Canon Cat being written in a Forth dialect, which is why I said “almost”.)
did they kill it?
Just wait, next you have to buy your daily work tasks as a dlc, being at work itself is f2p tho. :)
The Replicant: Pocket Key Casting Perfected [video]
>> the risk of violence

See, you're doing it again. The "risk of violence"? "why would you even bother doing anything"?

Fight Club covers all this in detail. It really is one of the most inspirational movies ever (and book too I guess).

Violence is OK. It can kill you but so can bacon.
Consider reading On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser
It's "holacracy" all over again!

How soon they forget.
This is unironically the equivalent of an “ideas guy” asking for a software developer to “just build the app” and do a split on the equity.
Can the police force you to open your eyes for FaceID? If not, you can enable that setting and it’d lock the phone.
Following...
> Teams will crater in popularity once it's no longer bundled with Office 365. Nobody uses Teams because it's good, they use it because it was free with stuff they already had.

And what if the unbundling doesn't affect the price? Don't confuse MSFT making mediocre products with them being commercially stupid.
Everyone loves Racket (Lisp) but no one uses Racket (Lisp). I’ve read Beating the Averages but I still don’t get it.
the data must flow!
Nice. Will check out Milvus.
My grandmother passed away in the 60's. I still remember her number, and three others from those days.

All would serve as passcodes, custom numeric but not custom alphanumeric.

Hope that shoulder surfers don't have great memories or video. Bodycams?
I'm not sure about it being a legal requirement in all states (may be) but is generally done by the boards that oversee one's specialties (with some very vague and inconsequential requirements by the state licensing boards).

Unfortunately it seems mostly to be a money grab in many specialties, with passing rates in the high 90s for recertification exams, fees of over a thousand dollars, and often with multiple retries if one fails (as long as you pay the fee for each attempt).
Legally I can’t imagine that it’s any different, but it is certainly more difficult on a practical level.
The pay listed in that comment doesn’t seem particularly outrageous for C-level execs in an organization, even a non-profit
Uncompetitive Programming (Part 1)