skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's about incentives.

One example: What if companies rented sofas instead of selling them? Perhaps a weird idea, but humour me. The incentives would shift. Companies would be more interested to give you durable sofas. Because there will be less profit if they have to replace sofas more often.
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> the mission is to make money and the vision is to make more money.

This is just fine, but it's not enough.

The purpose of writing a proper mission and vision is to say something about how. There should be some coherent strategic guidance, some notion of where the company is and/or wants to be in the marketplace or in customers' minds, and so on and so forth.

If you have that (and it's actually backed up by reality), then the OKRs emerge organically across the portfolio of investments the company is pursuing. Land N more deals with this existing customer segment, experiment with new features in pursuit of that other customer segment, staff a team to ensure customers aren't lost for reason X or Y, etc.

The real magic, of course, is that every person in the company can then make a clear statement about how they're contributing to the broader mission and vision of the corporation. When it all lines up, it really is a beautiful symphony of capitalism.
I buy my RCA cables for a buck from bins in charity shops. It doesn't make sense for me to make them economically or time wise. But that's me. Because I am cheap and informed, I wouldn't buy a new gold-plated audio cable anymore.

But I understand why people would and the usual reason is reasonable. People buy gold plated HDMI cables as insurance in the face of uncertainty. Same as any other insurance.

Sure the gold plated HDMI cable market is exploitive. That's capitalism baby. There's a lot of specific life circumstance that's led me to make slightly-informed right cable for the right job choices.

Likewise there's a set of circumstances that put me in a place where I think it makes sense to me to think about how I am choosing. I don't begrudge anyone having more money than sense. That amount of money exists for everyone.
Because if you can't understand the syntax it's quite literally a skill issue. They didn't give any substantive critique beyond "reading is hard".
I mean I respect him for his contributions but what about being more specific with the contributions, like “I brought the idea” or “I supervised the research” or even “I managed the lab and arranged for the equipments with which my students conducted research”, any would be perfectly valid contributions to science. But it seems like the academic norm is just to boast “I was an author of these shiny new papers” and the details of how are obscured away almost intentionally.
But it's defninitely NOT "free software", that's comonism.

The inability to even utter that phrase is the primary ddemonstration of the modern corporatized linux environment...

p.s. been using a linux, fluxbox desktop for ~25 years
"Shock", my goodness.
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Yeah, Turbolinks was huge throughout the Rails era—I remember it even being part of the random beginner tutorials that I did back in the day. I only ever heard of intercooler.js after htmx was announced.
Just a random thought which may or may not be possible for you to try — apply to The Recurse Center [1], ask for financial assistance and spend time there. Recurse makes money from jobs or job offers that its attendees may accept, and companies recruit from Recurse. Instead of trying to “boil the ocean” and studying everything again, you may be able to focus on something smaller but worthwhile in your job search.

[1]: https://www.recurse.com
Launch of Chang'e 6, the instrumental 7, and claims that are questionable
What two words are you contracting with "several've"?
Note how you have no trouble enumerating famous academics from pre-1960s. Shouldn’t we have much more such famous people, if your theory is true that institutional obstacles kept a lot of geniuses out?

What are the „luminaries like e.g. Bertrand Russell or Tolkien or Wittgenstein or Gödel or Whitehead or Heidegger“ of today? There should be many more!

The progress of science should speed up, the number of groundbreaking papers should grow. Yet the opposite is true [0].

Could it instead be that progress in science is driven by a few geniuses, and 95% of academia nowadays is just a mechanism of turning grants into (often fraudulent) papers [1], suffocating the institution of university as a byproduct?

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x

[1] https://youtu.be/LKiBlGDfRU8?si=JQmc17eb0v8oHRAH
I've built many production applications using a lot of these techniques and others - it's made money either by increasing sales or decreasing operational costs.

Here's a more dramatic example: https://www.grey-wing.com/

This company provides deeply integrated LLM-powered software for operating freight ships.

There are a lot of people who are doing this and achieving very good results.

Sorry, if it's not working for you, it doesn't mean that it doesn't work.
Was it Pomona or Pomona knockoff? IME the real ones are eye-wateringly expensive but they actually work, whereas the knockoffs are dirt cheap and tend to require even more effort than soldering (between making initial contact and discovering+fixing intermittency problems).
I can second this. My fursuit has a large tail that uses a kidney belt. I can feel where my tail is without thinking about it. When it curls under me, I use the back of my foot to push out of the way.
So cool! At 0:28, you can briefly see the shadow of one of the landers legs about to touchdown
Seriously. Poor people in Mexico and India are frying in their homes right now while monkeys drop out of trees.
Is it obvious to Saudi leadership?

This same line of questioning was used about the Russian buildup before invading Ukraine. Some thought the prospect of an invasion was so ridiculous that it must have had another motive.

Putin charged ahead anyway.

I've known plenty of people in leadership positions who thought they could change the laws of physics, tax law, or demand ridiculous things be completed by fiat.
Rising seas erode reproductive health
No worries, with Claude's assistance I came across the FDA's Title 21 chapter 1 subchapter B, specifically 21CFR175.300. You're welcome to see what the US government has to say versus some random ceramic site.(edit:tl;dr safety-tested food safe epoxies exist)
It was fairly easy to communicate between frames with JavaScript, so before this was widely adopted, I remember the way we used to “fetch” new data was with an iframe that always had a meta refresh tag in it, and the server response would include JavaScript that would call into functions from the main window passing along any data that was needed.

I might be wrong, but I think even early versions of Gmail did something similar.
Add a "Clear" button on the ChatGPT desktop. Too much scrolling is breaking UX
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Litestar: Production-Ready, Light, Flexible and Extensible ASGI API Framework
You probably already knew that Google Apps Script allows your spreadsheet to run functions that can trigger HTTP requests.

Did you know that your spreadsheet can also receive HTTP requests that trigger functions?
There is no issue with a company that someone's not gonna show up and say "Well of course they don't care about anything but profits" which in an environment where governments are systematically willing to backstop risky bets made with financial leverage, mostly means make whatever decisions align with the confidence or whims of the majority of an increasingly top-heavy pool of investment capital

I'm well aware and I agree. Systematically, this fundamentally means that no human being should extend any trust to any corporation in this economic environment, that no corporation can be trusted to build anything remotely resembling infrastructure (including any tool anyone will depend on for a period of time longer than one fiscal quarter). That no corporation can be trusted to keep any promise to anyone who is not a top-level investor

You are telling me, and I agree, that these large firms are dangerous animals that I can't reason with, that could decide to maul me at any time, and that my best bet is to limit my exposure to them as much as I can manage, moreso the larger they are. This means that it is in the interest of everyone who isn't themselves an oligarch to use every meager lever of power available to them to try to change this situation, up to and including killing these things when possible, because it is deeply difficult to avoid being under the power of these behemoths, and they do not and will never have your best interests in mind in any respect someone doesn't force them to

That's the logical conclusion of this thing people keep telling me is obvious as though that also means it's inevitable. But for some reason a lot of people who wanted to tell me how this all works seem either surprised or sometimes even hostile when I start talking about stuff like that

That said, the part they should "know better" about is that this use case makes no sense whatsoever for the technology as it actually works. I'd be really surprised if this kind of thing even positively impacted their stock valuation because it reeks of a flailing and incompetent vision for how to apply the technology. The most charitable I can be for a thing like this is to say "well they got caught up in the stupid hype and are just trying to throw an LLM into anything they can", which works for a lot of companies but not for one that's spent over a decade building world-class expertise and could be argued to have actually invented the specific underlying technology powering this hype wave. I get that the underlying motivation for any decision made by a company is that they think they will profit from it. This is tautological. I am saying that even from that perspective, this is conspicuously stupid in a way that only seems like it can inspire investor confidence if investors continue to buy hype that seems decreasingly tethered to reality
And that is exactly the setting of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" - where everyone still on Earth is socially expected to take care of at least one animal, but because of being so expensive, there's a black market of robotic animals.
The Shadow of Tiananmen Falls on Hong Kong
Weird statement. Some of the best work relationships I've ever had were in a remote setting.
You absolutely can buy the ISO publication (though I wouldn't recommend it). Also, given that n new version of the C++ standard is published roughly every three years (and named every three years), I'm not really sure what your point is.

Implementors will (mostly) implement the new standards in due time and it actually does matter what the standards say. So what is it that nobody cares about here?
Blue, Costa, Rush, QBF OS 99, Fastmenu, DOS Start!, Millennium OS, and Fun500 were all written in Quickbasic. There was a fun little trend back in the 90s and early 00s of writing "Windows clones" or "Mac clones" using Quickbasic, some of them were even hashed out enough to be useful scripted file managers for MS-DOS.
I'm talking about threatening nukes for helping the victim to defend. Denying existence of nation and its state. Russian TV debates with Solovyov. Religious leaders sanctioning military aggression.

None of that is civilized, but however, that is not the end of it. Covert operations blowing up arm depots in other countries. Financing anti-system helpers and being successful in finding traitors who sell classified information. Russian government having ambitions in toppling post-Cold War status quo in Europe. All this induces massive militarization in Europe, which will get stronger as Russia comes closer.
I don't disagree with you - but this also explains the determining factor in which product wins and why today's markets or sofas are lower quality than they were 30+ years ago. If price doesn't matter - what's going to be the driving force in buying behavior? Consumer behavior in other words is no longer driven by quality or long-term cost: today, people will simply choose the lowest cost items and deal with the pain of having to replace it every X years. This drives the market to place a premium on what then? LOWEST COST. Lowest cost = the manufacturers that cut corners and reduce quality, so the market driving force (consumers) lead to a game where the lowest cost producers win and thus saturate the marketplace with junk.
> Unfortunately WG21 seems to have some issues with any ideas coming out from Circle, going back to its early days, and I don't see them being willing to adopt Sean's work.

What reasons? Are those valid?
Part of a manager's job is to suggest better measurements if the ones that are in use are flawed.
For that Nordic 52 dongle... the ones I bought early on had locked bootloaders and only allowed apps on top of that, AFAIR, and needed at least some HW debugger connection to remove it.

Is this still necessary, included for TOCK or is not needed at all?
It is a statistical model. Why would it not be any better than a CEO looking at spreadsheets? (Rhetorical question.)
never heard of such a thing, and it doesn't look like a typical synth. Seems to me it almost looks like an early predecessor of FX processing units - has MIDI in, audio outs, and a few other bits. Even more now that I think about it, it looks like a physical ROM-pler. I wonder how it was actually controlled or utilized?
Are we finding it surprising because academia has changed, becoming more corrupt? Or was it always corrupt, but only now coming to light with more awareness? In any case, this is unsustainable. Our civilization relies on academe to help understand and navigate our world.
I did something similar (same time frame) that definitely manipulated the DOM, but I didn’t keep the HTTP connection open, I used hidden Iframes. Clicks got redirected to the iframe, which returned <script> elements that would replace DOM elements (in the parent frame) using their .innerHTML.

AJAX streamlined the process, but there were a lot of hacky ways to get similar dynamic HTML effects. I like the idea of keeping the HTTP connection open, but that seems quite resource intensive… particularly for the early 2000s.
Going to need something to pass the jail time he’s earned himself!
Well, maybe I'm biased - I've tested a 120Hz monitor recently and I legitimately didn't see a huge difference between 60Hz. Maybe in mouse trails when I was intentionally looking for the difference. I can't imagine how insignificant the change to 1Khz would be for me. But I'm not a gamer and I've spent my whole life on screens like this, so maybe I'm just blind and other people are much more sensitive to this - in this case I agree my analogy doesn't make sense.
> you seem to be implying that the best a 60hz display can manage is 16.6ms of latency

Yes, if you control the whole software stack it is possible to do beam racing to get lower than one frame of latency (assuming low latency hardware for input and display panel scanout). But I'm talking about desktop/mobile applications. In general operating systems do not do this, and many actually make it impossible. Only very recently has it become possible to do beam racing in a windowed application (not using fullscreen exclusive mode) on Windows with recent graphics hardware with multiplane overlay and very, very few people have attempted to do it. I believe it is strictly impossible to do beam racing for windowed applications on macOS and Linux/Wayland. Not sure about iOS and Android.
> Well - the consumer will need to buy 4 of the $800 dollar sofas just from having to replace them throughout a 20 year period vs. having the ability to buy one (the $1500) one

Even an $800 sofa will probably last much longer than five years. An added benefit to disposable items is that when you move and/or your tastes change, it's easier to abandon the old sofa and buy a new one than to take the old one with you. (With a little luck and perseverance you may even be able to recoup a few bucks by selling the old one.)
> At runtime, C&P generates executable code by copying the object code and patching the holes with runtime known values.

how would this work on OSs under hardened runtime rules?
personally lose someone, no, but i've gotten the chance of being a citizen first responder to a lost of life one. i feel like your's and OP's response are because you've never seen or been impacted first hand what dying by car is like. it is usually horrific and violent that to be able to say those outweigh the time saved traversing the sprawled built environment created for the sake of those very same cars shows a lack of any lived experience. your argument fundamentally relies on the idea "all i know is cars, and there is nothing better". it's uncreative, unrealistic, and devoid of humanity. it's terrifying you and others with your mindset are on the road.
Why delete the copy on the client at all?
Live views in Phoenix were way before both.
The End of Starsky Robotics (2020)
Have you experienced a pivotal moment in your startup journey where the promise of supervised machine learning fell short of expectations? Drawing inspiration from the challenges outlined by Starsky Robotics in their Medium post, "The End of Starsky Robotics," I am curious to hear your own encounters with ML in production. What hurdles did you confront, and how did you navigate them amidst the evolving landscape of machine learning technology?
That feels like a I was learning how to program and this bit me and now I'm always scared of it type of bug. I've never seen it myself. But then again some of my friends complain about OCD coworkers that can't not obsessively remove blank lines from code.

I have seen

for(size_t i=0; i<n; i++);
foo(i);

if(a>b);
a=b;

The famous goto bug was because the assholes had no tests for that module.
A very big reason for the “go big or go home” mentality comes from very simple company valuation metrics:

If you have $10M ARR and modest growth you’re probably going to get a ~4x P/E valuation.

If you have $100M ARR and modest growth you can go public and get a ~20x P/E valuation.

So you’re not only 10x more valuable, you’re 50x more valuable.

Basically you get a massive multiplier boost on top of the increased scale.

(Rough & approximate, YMMV, etc)
It's the other way around - this behaviour is so normalized and so common, that it's outright not reported on because it's such a part of daily academic work.
Whatever is hosted on the domain, registrar should never intervene without a court order.

This is beyond comprehension how registrars are abusing their clients.
What Spotify does (at least for me) right is enabling me to be able to listen and download music from all over the world without any strange market segmentation going on (at least not that I see much).

I wish that would work for movies and games as well, but that's still a long way to go.
Not one link or citation to back that up.

A fun story sure, but hard to believe.
Since you asked nicely- I have no real desire to be a CEO. I also have no yearning to work for a glorified shell script. There's a disturbing mindset shared by some people here who can't differentiate between intelligence and the babbling of a mechanical turk.
It seems to have been removed some time in the last year: https://web.archive.org/web/20230701000000*/https://scholar....
I’d add - stimulusjs lets you write your own htmx-like functionality by providing a convention for triggering and passing data to js via html data attributes.

The stimulus JavaScript controllers (not to be mistaken with the Rails mvc controllers) are reusable and nest-able which makes them very powerful and quite fun to write.
i tried to find some resources on this but came up empty. can you provide a link? sounds like a fun workflow
I don't know where you got the idea of "under US influence", but mixed Korean/Chinese character writing was common in South Korea well into 1980s, long after Korea became its own country. For example, in 1987, the newly founded Hankyoreh newspaper made a splash by deliberately writing all articles in pure Korean script, which was not the norm until then.

Gradually more books and newspapers followed suit, because pretty much everybody found that writing everything in Korean letters actually make communication less ambiguous and easier to understand. If your phrase is ambiguous between whether someone's offering apples or apologies, then you just change the word or add additional context to make it clear which one is being offered. It's no different from how English speakers deal with bear/bear, tear/tear, arm/arm, ground/ground, and so on.
If you pull a blind cord to the right it stays up, if you pull it to the left it comes down. My whole life I've just been jiggling and tugging the cord to get it to stay or come down.
It does make sense. The key thing with nixos is one config for all OS installations. This makes sense for casual users, and also for mid-tier users and developers who want a really good OS but not the technical baggage that hinders development.

Right now NixOS is mostly used by devs who don't mind doubling development time because that's the extra time it takes to learn and deal with Nixos.

This makes sense for everybody:

An OS with the power of NixOS and ease of use of MacOS or Windows or Ubuntu.
Didn’t Biden already effectively ban it?
I would argue that "money spent on advertisement is money not spent on R&D and improving the product" isn't strictly true.
Yes you can spend money in improving the product instead of advertising. But if advertising increases your profit, then you have even more money to spend on r&d. It isn't exactly a zero sum game.
Europe was divided, we know that. My people fought both against USSR and together with it against Germans. History and its significance can't be explained in single historical essay, and it certainly should not be misused to advance one's poor argument.
Not really. This is more like SQLite or DuckDB for vector databases (on disk.) Chroma is more like redis for vector databases (in memory.)

We have seen similar products in the olap space, as well, ie. Clickhouse local.
C++ has a specific definition of UB. Most languages don't suffer from it, regardless of halting problem.
Post-Exploiting an F5 Big-IP: root, and now what?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface
Huh, there hasn't been a significant change to our build system for our React application in the last ~5 years. Same is true for state management (redux). Our users include half of fortune 100 companies.

Really don't understand the argument that React apps must be rewritten all the time. Most of our code is still old class components that still work in the latest version of React.
It used to be so during the golden age of personal computers or if you run Linux and have tweaked it so. But modern-day operating systems will bend the nature of reality itself if they have to, in order to restart and install updates, or to force you to change your password which is already 120 seconds old, or to log you out for security reasons if you stop moving the mouse. You better save that message promptly.
Yes getting the JavaScript community to just STFU when it comes to revising for the sake of revising is an entirely different issue. Some day they will have to maintain something they haven’t touched in 5 years and then they will learn. Well, some of them.
Yes, but it seems that we can't satisfy all reasonable real-world use cases this way, or else Rust wouldn't have the "unsafe" escape hatch that's actually used by real code.
No. Turbo is js and HTML.

If your backend can send templates down the websocket, you can use Hotwire.
Because that's not all a leader does? Maybe it could replace some of the repeatable parts of spreadsheet looker worker's job though- or augment the decision making process of spreadsheet reader CEO if she's okay with hallucinations sometimes.
Add to [target] would be extremely powerful. In my case target would be logseq in my PC or my Telegram bot in my phone