skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I know! While I got discouraged trying to learn K (I was a little too hung up on the notion of free software back in the day...), I learned J and had a terrific time interacting with the community. There were some bad apples, but the basket labeled "Smalltalk" is filled with many marvels. I enjoyed Factor while it was actively developed, which led me deep into Forth-land - an unforgettable experience. By the time I arrived on the other side of s-expressions, Smug Lisp Weenies were out and lots of friendly, curious, intelligent folk lived there instead. More recently, I invested some time into learning Raku - a beautifully eclectic, shockingly expressive language whose development is severely understaffed, underfunded, and underappreciated. I had a great time in all those instances - I know there are passionate people approaching programming creatively in all kinds of shapes and forms, and it's indeed heartening.

The problem is, when I go to work, I see exactly none of those people among my coworkers. I feel like breaking down on the spot and declaiming:

> I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die.

I don't, mostly out of respect to Rutger Hauer. Anyway, while in absolute terms people like that are probably much more numerous now than 20 years ago, they feel much more distant to me than ever before.
That would be a terrible idea for multiple reasons, mostly because of Goodhart's law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
In a prisoner's dilemma, if you know the other person is going to defect, are you going to cooperate?
The IRS has no incentive to collect more than what you owe. If you overpay and the IRS discovers it, they will send you a refund.
Unfortunately the DOM APIs were specified to have Javascript-specific details in them. As far as I understand it, the best way to access the DOM from WASM would be to define a new WASI Component -compatible API for the DOM.

Nobody's done the work yet, and I think the current strategy is to tackle easier APIs first, as WASI might not be good enough to describe the DOM at this time.

With a DOM API independent of Javascript, you could have a C/C++/Rust DOM in the host, and C/C++/Rust code inside WASM calling functions on the DOM, without needing to talk about Javascript types in the middle.
"Pls fix" proposed a market for bribing meta employees to deal with customer support requests.
I can Ctrl+F on a web menu. I have to manually scan to find stuff in a paper menu for one.
As is the plug of 'should have bought protection from hudson rock'
Furthermore, if fusion ever works electricity will be too cheap to meter. So why sign a non-binding forward purchase agreement for something that if it works will cost $0?
But hey, they blot out the name of the alleged attacker in chat, because of privacy...
The National Archives Quest to Retrieve a Stolen Civil War Document
https://archive.today/EfVmG

Document: https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rw.QY97E...
I'm Gen-Z and talking to a human representative of a company makes me much more confident that something will happen as a result of my efforts (though still not certain).

I scheduled an apartment viewing recently, and the only method they provided to do so was chatting with an AI (seriously)... I then tried and failed to find a way to contact a human for confirmation multiple times. Lo and behold nobody at the leasing office when I showed up at the scheduled time. Came back later and eventually found somebody - they had not seen anything I'd done with the bot.

Software for small businesses and local governments is often really bad and I'd much prefer to make sure a person knows what I'm trying to get accomplished.
Some states do require it, and in others it’s practically required if you plan to teach more than five or so years, because your comp will quickly plateau at a not very high even by teacher standards level if you don’t.
"This first part of this article discusses creating language-independent components, that is, components that can be consumed by apps that are written in any language. You can also create a single component or app from source code written in multiple languages; see Cross-Language Interoperability in the second part of this article."

From "Language independence and language-independent components" in MSIL, originally published in 2001.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/language-i...
There is a huge difference in salaries between elementary and high school education, probably based on the traditional gender difference between the two fields. My wife has taught for 10 years as an elementary teacher and earns below the average teacher salary for our state.
Great question! I work for a computer vision company (Roboflow) and have seen computer vision used for everything from accident prevention on critical infrastructure to identifying defects on vehicle parts to detecting trading cards for use in video game applications.

Drawing bounding boxes is a common end point for demos, but for businesses using computer vision there is an entire world after that: on device deployment. This can be on devices like an NVIDIA Jetson (a very common choice), to Raspberry Pis to central CUDA GPU servers for processing large volumes of data (maybe connected to cameras over RTSP).

Note: There are many models that are faster and perform better than YOLOv5 (i.e. YOLOv8, YOLOv10, PaliGemma). Roboflow Inference that our ML team maintains has various guides on deploying models to the edge: https://inference.roboflow.com/#inference-pipeline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Ayers
Good points. To go further, the analogy I give is it is like hiring Stephen king vs a mediocre writer. The latter can get some interesting articles written, but the former will spawn book series, spinoffs, movies.

Which is to say, I think there is a non linear effect to product quality provided by engineers who build the exact right thing and build it well. (For exact right thing, to illustrate, there are 1000s of requirements in a software system, perhaps more. Meanwhile there might be 100s of JIRA items. Meaning, there is a magnitude order gap between specified requirements and the rest. All requirements need to be coded up whether you know about them or not. The pro engineer will bridge this gap, the mediocre engineer will NPE instead)
Tech CEOs outperform business CEOs in SaaS
Ukraine suspended consular services for draft-age men living abroad last month, and that seemed fair to me. It's reasonable that someone might not care enough about the state to fight in its defense, but it's equally reasonable that the state might then decline to provide its services.
My co-founder is CEO and comes from an engineering background.

I have always believed the headline to be the case, but never actually ran the numbers. Turns out there is something there.

I ran the numbers for all 167 public SaaS companies and got it published (link). Check them out!

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Number

Business - 79
Technical - 88

Revenue Multiple - Median

Business - 3.44X
Technical - 5.80X

Revenue Multiple - Average

Business - 4.81X
Technical - 7.49X

Quarterly Revenue - Median

Business - $158M
Technical - $222M

YoY Growth

Business - 11%
Technical - 14%

Net Income Margin - Median

Business - (1.1%)
Technical - (2.9%)

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TLDR - Technical CEOs in SaaS have materially higher revenue multiples in the public markets (60-80% higher). They are growing faster at larger scale, but are less profitable than CEOs with a business background.

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Here is the raw data. Have fun a play around with it. I put in G2 ratings, CEO linkedins, and backgrounds. Super cool!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rinNwdw2lbUtvGBt-9kM...

*Credit to www.publicsaascompanies.com for a lot of the financial data. Awesome free resource**
Lots of glue involved, but it was relatively "easy" to replace the battery in a 2019 Macbook Pro. I would take a swappable battery with a thicker case in an heartbeat though.
I think there are plenty of smart, experienced developers rooted in smaller cities, making CRUD apps for companies you never heard of, making barely over 100K. The local market rate is stagnant. These Devs can only make much more if they can find a remote position from a high COL based company willing to take a chance on them.
> I don't think what laptop you buy has any effect on climate change.

This is the same attitude as people that say 'The plane is flying anyway whether I am on it or not'.

Nothing will change while people are still making decisions on an individual rather than global level.
Great, so these companies do not give a flying fuck about their customer data in making sure the data stored at cloud storage companies are end to end encrypted.

To think these random cloud storage companies can access your bank information is utterly shocking.
Good score!
Weird... Maybe Google thinks that the closest inexact match is a VIN number?
Unless they’ve got a purchase order or contract, it’s meaningless.
Was the stain gate the one where you could remove the coating with lots of vinegar and scrubbing?
It's trivial to defeat though, all you need is your own domain and an email provider that supports catch all email addresses.
Taxes? The investors in the PE's fund that owned this company?
This will get worse when scammers get good at data manipulation for AIs.

After SEO we'll get AIO.

Same with prompt injection by malware.
Is it? West is only openly doing what USSR used to do during Vietnam and Korean wars. And West still did not send pilots on F35s to help Ukraine however USSR at that time did send pilots on Migs. So there is still way to go for the West to at least level what USSR did during its time.
"Intuit doesn't see a success story here, arguing that the Direct File program is costly for taxpayers"

Good Lord
if you leave the specifics to be implemented at local level then you're just going to create perverse incentives in a variable manner based on how competent local administrators are.

the whole idea is poor. there's little benefit in putting pressure on teachers like this. all you're doing is unnaturally dragging their motivations away from helping kids grow into well-rounded individuals for the sake of them and society to earning more money based on some arbitrary goal dreamed up by a local bureaucrat
These stood out for me:

> No snacks, only lunch + maybe dinner.

As someone in their 40s who writes code for a living, I've discovered that eating three reasonable-sized meals is actually way too many calories for me. These days, I often only drink water till lunch.

> even better than using vim + tmux

Indeed, I'm confident that exercise provides long-term returns that exceed even this dynamic duo.
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Works on web & mobile.

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* Spaced Repetition
* Only asks borderline questions, makes it faster paced
* Some early effort to gamify (moba-style killing streaks).

Much more on the roadmap :)
I'm actually curious on the reverse. What programs did the GOP start that were cancelled by the Dems? Note I'm a biased liberal, so potentially the reversals might've been propagandized to me as lifting restrictions or some other such political language and I might be unaware of the actual policies.
While I agree Total Compensation should be what is talked about, in general pension plans for government employees is self-funded by them. Some states are as high as 10-15% of your salary going into your pension and the employer picking up the same or higher rate. Pennsylvania for instance has an employer contribution rate of 34.94% plus an employee rate of around 7.56%. - https://www.psers.pa.gov/About/PFR/Documents/ECR%20fact%20sh...

Arizona is at 12.29% each for employee and employer for a combined rate of almost 25%. https://www.azasrs.gov/content/contribution-rates
Yeah it is a bit muddled honestly. I had to read it a couple times and I still don’t completely get what happened:

1. Employee installs a key logger

2. Snowflake does not expire session cookies

3. Malware steals their session cookie and password, so can bypass employee MFA/okta

4. ???

5. Somehow this one employee has admin access to 4000 snowflake instances
fusion is quite costly in capital isn't it?
> no one writes more beautifully

Whats this obsession with beauty in language among some English-first speakers? Aren't meaning, insight and import of more consequence than beauty? Every single time I hear someone wax poetic about beauty and elegance in things it immediately sets off my bs meter. If you haven't got much of anything substantive to say, you use flowery artifices to mask it.

Also non-English-first speakers, do you see this to be a very English-thing or is this sort of fixation if not fetish with beauty in language and other things present in your current day language too?
> Can you explain why this completely abnormal behavior is an accurate prediction?

“Abnormal” is ambigous. It can either mean “unhealthy” or “uncommon”. I mean that this behavior, while unhealthy, is not uncommon. Most parents absolutely do not trust their kids to be adults, since in the eyes of the parents, the kids still are just that; kids. It takes an uncommonly strong sense of self-discipline and insight on the side of the parents to force themselves to break out of that thinking.
That particular exchange is bizarre and cartoonish. I don’t know what to make of it.

“should have bought protection from Hudson Rock
could have saved them this one”

“yes i agree
it wouldve helped for sure”
People buy in places like this because “the neighborhood looks nice” and then immediately complain about not being able to break all the rules that led to them having that opinion in the first place.
I'm not sure it does, perhaps it violates the spirit but not the letter.

You need a way to give your employees access to customer data; for support cases.
So you build a "request access" form in your ITSM.
Now you can tick off every box related to certification: There is a process. Only authorized persons have access. Every aspect of it can be audited.

Later, perhaps sales people (the 1000's of new joiners) start using it as well for lead generation. It's a lot easier to sell if you know how your product is used by other companies in the same industry.

Much later, someone's account is compromised, makes the same requests and it gets waved through. Why wouldn't it ? It is a valid request made by a current employee of the company. What other criteria would apply ? This is not a bank.
What header? Our client was envoy and it's pretty standards compliant, and it just kept trying to use the connection.

Edit: I see that it is `connection: close` I wonder if that is new behaviour or if envoy did not honour it at the time we encountered the issue.

Thanks for the info!
Yeah, the younger generation must just be wired up differently, it's all those popular kids, can't be anything to do with the proliferation of scrum, agile, and crunch that make them focused on doing all those tickets ;)
I've already addressed these points here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40534047
The ceo and board of directors should go to jail. Suddenly these corporate crimes would stop happening.

A company itself does nothing. People make decisions and carry them out and should be accountable.
The Place of Postgres in History [video]
Please don't call this "the correct thing". Please recognize that there are multiple, valid, points of view. What you meant is "the thing I like".
I've never traveled far, but I would imagine the most remarkable thing about it is that it's simply good fun, like sports. I just don't buy the notion that one's worldview is necessarily constrained without physically touring different places around the world.
One reason for Pluralsight’s success is through acquiring a bunch of tech training and e-learning companies to have a huge content library. No doubt they used some of their quarter of a billion in VC cash to perform those acquisitions.

Who is to say they reach “unicorn” status and have a good exit if they didn’t take on that VC cash to do those acquisitions?
And unfortunately hadn't evolved in those many years to be a good alternative for this year
It doesn't say how much is for normal instruction of normal kids, how much is zoo keeping of unruly kids, how much is remedial teaching of the slow kids (or sometimes the ones who had other reasons for being behind), how much is AP teaching (or better) for the smart kids.

It just says:

Pct of Per
Pct of Public Student
Total Exp. School Amount
i. Teachers $10,124,379 32.1% 37.7% $9,914

(Edit: fix tab to space conversion/layout)
You need to email hn@ycombinator.com. “@dang” doesn’t trigger anything.
Headless Terminal – making terminals easy for LLMs to use
> How else would it work?

Like grandparent said: by having a catch-all email address on a domain. Then emails that are being sent to invalid email accounts on that domain end up in that mailbox.
It will be more reliable because of its simplicity, but it won't last longer if they're both maintained to a high standard. You can't really get around the fact that a much higher end car using more expensive materials, construction processes, etc. is going to wear better over time. All of the highest mileage cars in the world are old european cars- mostly Volvos and Mercedes.

It also depends on how you use it... a Porsche isn't as reliable in daily driving as a Honda, but the Honda could be destroyed immediately with hard driving on a race track, and you could do it everyday for years in the Porsche.

I drive an old VW and old Porsche that are both decades old, with high miles, and basically both in brand new shape still. They get used very hard- the VW is used for camping offroad and heavy towing, and I both daily commute and race the Porsche.
> Maybe these exercises help some people

Similar studies have been conducted in China for multiple times, no clinically significant results were ever found. It probably doesn't help anybody, other than encouraging a short while of not using your eyes.

The guy who first invented the exercise basically just made it up from thin air, trying to fix his own myopia, which was a reasonable effort that didn't work out. But for some reason, it caught on in schools nevertheless.
Summer classroom days are not the only summer prep.

Lots of teachers also work summer jobs so they can be not-poor. Super common. (“But their wages aren’t actually that bad” 1 - in many places, yes, they are, and 2 - add a couple kids and a divorce and it’s extremely bad)

It’s also why so many end up doing MLMs.
Imagine, using a hacked and leaked customer database, to auto-start a refund process? Like, the victims do not even know they started one, but some chat-gpt generated letter is send in there name, making that road to curtail damages suddenly economically nonviable. And suddenly, data security and hacks, are no longer a "problem for the user" but a valid method, to sniper a careless competitor and buy the carcass.

____________________________________________________________

Is your product dangerous, addictive and stuck in a lawsuits-quagmire, even social engineering cant redirect away from you?
We can help you- and create a healthy-alternative, that sits on the shelves like stones calming the public spirits feng-shui with a choice.
Nothing sedates like responsibility distributed and societal agency diluted. The consumers are returning, the free market is healing. AliBuy products. We make it in red, so you don't have to.
Cool. You can get going in no time with Charm Wish (https://github.com/charmbracelet/wish).

Then sprinkle on magic fairy dust with TTE (https://chrisbuilds.github.io/terminaltexteffects/showroom/) so you can still have that epilepsy inducing effect :-p
Weird premise. I search for random hex literally all the time (checking hashes and guessing algorithms as a part of my reverse engineering work) and I don't remember car dealers coming up especially often. I suspect it's just the author who - because of their location or the previous search history - gets more targetted car dealership ads.
I'll add, correlation does not equal causation, but when you are in the business of educated bets this feels like a good one.

My theory, in the long run, the best products tend to win and the best talent tends to build the best product.

We're in the software business. You want someone that understands software running the business AND the best technical talent wants to work with a technical leader.

My thesis.
Hyundai Heavy Industries' Fuel Saving Propeller Attachment Becoming Popular
In the US, its basically that simple if you arent a business owner. Might even be simpler.

You type in like 14 numbers, each very clearly delineated.

But... if you are a business owner, it takes like 2-3 weekends. (I say weekends, because we work all day during the week)
(2020)*
I have a perhaps useful piece of feedback:

If customers are asking for this, its important to ask why. The more obvious you make best practices (like via the UI, documentation etc) and what generally GCP offerings should be used for (e.g., Firestore is a NoSQL database that is good for flexible, hierarchical data structures to store and query data) and have strong use case examples, it would got a long way to mitigating this. It won't obviate it entirely, but it would likely move the needle on customer satisfaction. Whats driving these forms of contact is that it isn't obvious and clear what tech should be used for what, and in what common circumstances.

[0]: FWIW I have the same feedback about all the big cloud providers.
When I was searching for apartments every complex had the same AI program for scheduling. It was horrible.

I got to talk to one of the leasing managers at one of the viewings and I told him it made them seem cheaper, not more tech-savvy. He told me they had spent millions of dollars on it.
In places I've seen this used, front-end developers can run any query in development environments. In production (and sometimes staging) environments, queries must be allowlisted.

This gives the front-end developers lots of flexibility when initially developing new screens and components. Once the UI is ready to ship, the backend team checks to make sure that performance is acceptable (optimizing if necessary), allowlists the new query/queries, and ships to production.
States part of the pilot program (i.e., 2023 tax year): Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington (state), Wyoming as per https://www.irs.gov/about-irs/strategic-plan/irs-direct-file....

Looks like exactly half and half, Democratic/Republican to me ...

But, who knows maybe next year ...
>before the fall of the Soviet union when Soviet citizens were forced to buy Soviet-made cars

Anyone could buy imported car, the only problem was lack of $$$ hard currency.
Funny, it works great at the districts I’m aware of that use it. You seem to be assuming that teachers whose pay is tied only to seniority care more about kids growing into well-rounded individuals. Why would you assume that?
Most likely some part of the string matches the VIN number. Dealers are legally required to post the VIN of an actual vehicle in any advertisements that have a price, as a way of preventing bait-and-switch.
Seems like a great use case for https://antithesis.com
Good thing for Oklo that neither they nor anyone else is selling fusion power.
Not to apologize for the irresponsible deployment of this chatbot but it should be noted that the guy got the number from a Google search (think about the results you'd get for "facebook support number"). It's been a massive problem for at least the last 10 years.
Does anyone here suffer from double vision? Do exercises help with that?