skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regardless of whether you hire in-house developers or hire a software studio that does contract work - I believe the key to success is giving the developer unfettered access to an experienced subject-matter expert who really understands what is needed.

No offense meant - but by my personal experience, executives like yourself are a bad choice for this - some experienced longtime employee that's deeply involved in day-to-day operations in the trenches, would be preferable, I think. Ideally somebody who went through process changes before - like was already working there before your current software had been introduced.

Don't get a developer who wants to start programming right away - you want somebody who asks for time to first really learn and understand the processes the software needs to cover - and who actually questions all the underlying approaches your current software takes - but does not just rule those out out of hand.

Then get that senior employee to mentor them and teach them the job - not the existing software. I would even advise have the developer DO the work for a while - under the supervision of that senior employee.
I know from this book[1] how deep and far reaching even just publicly available data can get you. Furthermore with financials even so far that one can predict upcoming events from analysing the money flow.

Very powerful people are very good at hiding. It’s no surprise that they want themselves excluded from various searches and are successfully able to do so.
Would be interesting to know if the data is excluded already from the training data or if it’s technically inside.

edit: source added
1. https://www.amazon.de/INSIDE-CORONA-Pandemie-Netzwerk-Hinter...
4WD drive means all tires spin at the exact same speed, no matter what. AWD drive means each tire can rotate at a different speed. Tires with less grip will spin faster. Notably, if a tire on an AWD car is in the air, only that tire will spin. You won’t move anywhere because all of the force is expelled through the free wheeling tire.

4WD solves this issue by essentially locking everything together. Great for unsticking yourself, but terrible for every day driving. Things like turning into a parking spot can cause binding since wheels on the outside of the turn need to travel a longer distance than those on the inside of a turn
How about connections not becoming flaky after you've plugged in the cable a few times. Micro USB was horribly unreliable. USB-C isn't great either, but it's an improvement. Maybe they will get it right some day.
I am one who would love to have written a book (goal) and I don’t love writing (quest). I think writers love the act of writing and that’s how they get to the goal of writing a book.
Certainly there are people more offensive than Terry Davis, I'll allow that items on this scale could be at 11, maybe even 12. It's just that the top of this scale is 10 :)
Free cooling also. You cannot really run a big GPU with external cooling. I needed rather big 15cm isolated cooling tubes to get the heat out of the building.
The Google Ngram viewer shows "fired for buying IBM" has a bump in 1978 and took off in 1983, with its peak in 2007.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fired+for+buyi...

Google Books finds two 1978 uses, in "Mini-micro Systems, Volume 11" and "Personal Computing Digest, National Computer Conference '78", but with no way to view the page to verify it.

The earliest use I could see and verify on archive.org was from 1981, at https://archive.org/details/comparisonofinteunse/page/36/mod...
What? Per Wikipedia: "With over 230 billion ARM chips produced, as of 2022, ARM is the most widely used family of instruction set architectures."[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture_family
Besides a crippling nicotine addiction?
this is reworded alan watts. life is like music, its not all about the final chrashing chord, so enjoy the journey. thats with all things, but not everyone flows like that. some people enjoy results and are ok being frustrated getting there. personally, i think that is physically unhealthy. you might have the mental fortitude to push on forever, but physiology is affected by stress, and friction / frustration causes stress. thats hormones and thus kind of unavoidable (but managable again... with the anti hormones.). stress management takes time though, building anti cortisol. so it would be more efficient not to build so much cortisol (enjoy the ride) so you dont need to waste your productivity time building anti cortisol.
Don't think it has much to do with ADHD. I have it too and rarely keep more than 5 tabs open. Can't attribute every little quirk to it.
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I have been working on YOTEY: a different take on (technical) project management. The idea is to put emphasis on expressing actual components, modules, complete products, goals, risks, etc. and corresponding concrete tasks in an easy to share, discuss and present "plan", visually. This is in contrast to issue-oriented thinking which seems to have become the conventional idea.

Take a look at the web-site for some more background info. It's still early days, but the first Beta is available.
But for older compilers they already have something that compiles correctly for valid inputs, no? They don't need e.g. the type-safety-check nonsense for that. The newer compilers will still catch mistakes in the usage sites via the intrinsics.
> To my mind, tabs and bookmarks should meld into one. If you don't close a tab actively, it stays deactivated, its tree likely gets collapsed until needed, so it's not an eyesore. When you need it again, it's there, in the proper context.

Have you tried Arc? It's essentially completely designed around the concept you describe. I believe someone is actively working on an "ArcFox" clone of its behavior for Firefox, but I'm not sure what the current state of the project is.
The final boss in link’s awakening is a multi-stage shadow thing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZu01qH2f0c) with the final one being the arm flail thing. I managed to beat it with sword beams (meaning never getting hit through all the stages, because sword beams only works at full health).

Apparently you’re supposed to use arrows on it, but when I had initially tried, they had kept bouncing off. So only bombs and sword beams seemed to work. It took me a few weeks and many tries, but finally I got-gud and eventually did it. Sometime after I learned arrows do work.
thats thata given me quite a new hole to fall into and discover :D
> Also, 520K of RAM wouldn't be enough to fit a the whole application + working memory for any ARM embedded firmware I've worked on in the last 5 years.

what are you smoking? I have an entire decstation3100 system emulator that fits into 4K of code and 384bytes of ram. I boot palmos in 400KB of RAM. if you cannot fit your "application" into half a meg, maybe time to take up javascript and let someone else do embedded?
It's absolutely lovely that you looked up the spec.

First, you could screenshot each page, and print that. That's a lift.

Second, It's not that hard to extract text from pdf file formats. That's also a lift.

but like, it's not that complicated. yes, text flow, font selection, on and on, but it's just postscript. Pull the text and print it. It's signed not encrypted. It's challenging to implement pdf. javascript support is nuts, for example.

But if you just want to pull the text? there's not much to it.

Pay the author. It's not much. But like, it's not locked down.
I would first look for someone you can trust who is an experienced software engineer or software engineering manager to take a look at what you're trying to build and give you a gut feel on the scope and schedule. You'll need to factor in some risks on top of that basic gut feel.

I think being in Europe is a plus here in terms of being able to get talent for a reasonable cost. I think you can find good people in any industry but it's never easy. Paying well, benefits/perks and good working conditions are a good start. Count on it taking time and effort. You will need at least 1-3 strong people (one is a bit risky but can also work) and those can help you grow the team and also lead more junior engineers.

What about making some arrangements with your provider with you paying for time/people and them making changes/fixes/custom features for you? Could even be on your premises or some other similar arrangement. That can work if the software has some good bones.
Fair enough. To clarify, my point was not necessarily “I know better”, but that it is incredibly difficult to get a broad view of the market from a single perspective. This market is by definition a chain of steps with parties that may be antagonistic. It is atypical in that way, and writing software in-house may be more difficult in this sector than in others because of it.

While writing software in-house gives you software better tailored to your exact situation it is at the cost of losing the overview of the business and the perspective of the parties you interact with. Whether that trade-off is worth it I’m probably pretty biased on, so take my stance with a grain of salt, but imo the business is intrinsically relatively ill suited for in-house dev considering the high degree of collab with other parties.

Apologies if it came off as arrogance, that was not what I was going for.
Incredible! Any plans to support SASS instructions for Nvidia GPUs, or only PTX?
Calling someone an "enabler" of "dark triad bullshit" after snarkily misrepresenting their comment in the nastiest way is...certainly a personal attack by HN standards. Not only that but it's all-internet-tropes—something else the HN guidelines ask you to avoid.

I referenced comments from this year, 2 years ago, and 5 years ago to make the point that this has been a problem for a long time. There's more where that came from (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31213019 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20079646). Worse, you've been either breaking or (let's call it) stretching the site guidelines in many of your other recent comments. That's not good.

But I didn't ban you because I saw other comments, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41187694 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40971535, which are within the intended spirit of HN—especially the latter one, which struck me as thoroughly decent. Moderation has to go by the worst things people post, not the best things, but I always stretch to avoid banning someone who posts good things like that.

If you'll post more of those good things and fewer nasty things and especially avoid attacking others in the future, that would be a good improvement.
> The Smishing Triad network sends up to 100,000 scam texts per day globally

This should not be possible. I guess the iMessage scams used e2ee, but the SMS scams should have been caught. It would be great if there was law enforcement that competently handled cybercrime, or at least triaged it.

More broadly, and at the risk of creating another TLA, the US needs a Blue Team version of the NSA. In other words, identify critical infrastructure, figure out how it can be hacked, and require that companies fix the issues. Use national security if need be. Banks have to undergo stress tests to prove they are solvent, there is no reason that critical infrastructure should be able to leave their doors unlocked.
I've read both and they are simply phenomenal.
To show them that their battery life could go from 2.5 hours to 8 or more, perhaps. That was the Mac experience that customers weren't asking for yet "wowed" them when it came.
I proposed the Swiss system as the solution and welfare reductions according to the budget and you're calling it non-solutions. Why are you being dismissive in Bad faith without any arguments?

The German welfare state will slowly collapse by itself on the long term anyway at this rate since the expenses are growing faster than the income and the only way to save it is to reduce it. Why isn't that a solution? Are you saying math is wrong and can be altered by votes?
Depending on how niche the third party company is, and how large your company is, is it feasible to consider a takeover? You can then get your issues solved without having to prioritize features you don't need, you get to keep the technical staff and don't have to train up a new team in something your business may not have the expertise in.

You also get to keep the same UI, the same business logic and it means less disruption to migrate to new software.

Just a stab in the dark, probably not feasible but you are looking for interesting suggestions...
What does that have to do with the welfare state I was talking about?
At uni first year curious about other use of '*' and '?', reading Mastering Regular Expressions and playing around a bit.
The motor controller is impressive, but it sounds like a motor controller (as it says), rather than a motor. That is, it's not mechanical, it's electrical, it sends inputs to the motor telling it when to turn the individual magnets on and off. That is a nontrivial challenge since it has to monitor the motor speeds under varying loads and send pulses at exactly the right time, but it's software and electronics, not machinery.
As an alternative you could appoint a software services business to build it for you, to your specifications, then they step back responsibly handing it off to your business. It's more expensive but they will be off your books in 6 to 12 months unlike if you hired your own team. You'd hire a small team to maintain the system, rather than a large one to build it.
No, locking diffs are not standard with 4WD. Tacomas have 4WD without locking diffs. This guy on Quora claims that 99% of 4WD vehicles are open differential: https://www.quora.com/Do-all-4WDs-have-lockers/answer/Glenn-...
I don't think I agree at all with your assertions about ultrabooks and blaming intel CPUs.

To be honest, all x86 processors are reasonably efficient if you pick the right power points to run them at. My experience with my laptops is that windows will arbitrarily use 2-3x idle power draw while on battery for no apparent reason. There is no reason for a CPU to be running higher than idle the vast majority of the time in a laptop, for tasks that you would be using a laptop for on battery.

I think most laptops are just poorly designed and Windows isn't reliable about using minimal power. MFGs make big laptops with 60whr batteries (instead of 100wh), they put bloatware on them that consume excess power at idle, MS Windows doesn't reliably ensure low power consumption on battery (seriously, I have to hibernate/shut down my laptop when I stop using it, otherwise it will consume its entire battery in 8hrs during sleep mode, somehow), and so on. Most problems with Windows laptops aren't Intel's fault, IMO.

I agree that Intel really should clarify, at least, the difference between their "Celeron" class (e-core only) and "Core" class processors (with P cores), since there's such a massive difference in performance capability between them.
Romania’s is all but privatized by this point, I’m talking de facto.
"- Removes stamina (attacking / running / blocking)"

That's a core part of the gameplay and trivializes a lot of encounters.
Ah, but it is quite possible that they are only in the situation they are in because they are so niche and they have to focus on unnecessary new features in a vain attempt to get new business.

If you purchase them, you just focus on bug fixes and features you actually need. The developers might be great, you might find you need to get rid of management dead wood. Or it might be that you get a very nimble team who in all likelihood have been itching to fix bugs for years and yet who haven't been able to due to competing interests in the business.
I built a web scraper that runs in terminal, it was trial and error to get it working. If I was doing it again now I'd use chatgpt to help learn it
Congrats, you’ve proposed the already existing Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency
Minecraft is really great - I would stop ignoring it and play it with your kid. My two "non-gamer" daughters play it several times a week together. They have done so for nearly 10 years.
Possibly dumb question:

How large is the company supplying the existing software? Can you just buy them, or even just that one team supporting the product line you need?
> the point of an open cuda is to force Nvidia to stop squeezing us

Nobody is forcing you to buy GPUs.

Your logic is flawed in the sense that enough people could also simply write alternatives to Torch, which, by the way, is already open source.
I've always likened Minecraft to a digital version of LEGO.
G wagon is a proper 4WD vehicle. It might be able to drive in AWD modes, but it has proper diffs to do it.

There are loads of exceptions, but generally AWD vehicles have weaker or non-existent locking diffs. For example, I believe my AWD vehicle simulates locking diffs with clutch plates. Those clutches can and do slip. They’re effective at keeping the wheels “mostly locked” but not true 4WD.

Further, most of the brake based torque vectoring required “slip detection” that’s only possible when a wheel spins. These systems aren’t really perfect in actually locking out motion on a free wheel. They kind of have to let them slip from time to time to check condition. These systems also tend to allow a lot of spin before they kick in - that years up roads.
sitting on the curb drinking gatorade is what it's all about. you, or I, just sort of accept that it's miserable. but survivable. It's a thing we can do.

my experience anyway. your milage may vary.
Depends on the class of performance you want. I think at the low end laptops are surprisingly cost-competitive with desktops, but if you want high-end laptops either don't exist or are hilariously expensive.

Also depends on the type of laptop. A desktop-replacement laptop with extremely basic frame and screen (ie. cheap and shit) can have excellent specs at a competitive price, whereas an XPS or mac with a great screen, aluminium frame etc will be very expensive relative to the specification.
It's not particularly useful since the simulation is too high level. Good for games or homework projects, but not anything real world.
No, I'm talking about NES/SNES/PS1/N64 era.

My children are much younger than yours though: 3 and 6. The reflexes are just not there yet.

Of the old games, I probably can replay Castlevania SOTN, Super Smash Bros 64. I can make personal exceptions for Super Mario World 2, but not for my children, those games are highly unforgivable, even for stuff that repeats over and over: dying puts often you so far back in the level that after 10 deaths, they correctly get frustrated with the game, it's not fun anymore to repeat the same part that you already know can do. And the gameover offers no value, but it's there ready to annoy you.

For the others many game I've played, they are all full of farming, permanently missable secrets or poor punishments for failing.

I played them back then and loved them, but I was trying to play Final Fantasy VIII recently (I played JRPGs extensively as a child) and I was going to vomit over the amount of farming and boring battles that are there.
I remember picking back up the legend of dragoon as an adult and the dialogues were atrocious.

Castlevania SOTN aged well because the exploration is still incredible, but the challenge of the gameplay (combat) drops significantly once you can read English and can make some strategy: all bosses end up being very easy.

The thing we lost are couch co-op games: bomberman 64, bomberman world, baldur's gate dark alliance 1 and 2 (I know there are the remasters, but those are indeed remasters) and such, these are so rare now, you need two computers every time.
Panic Portal is a software solution designed to enable emergency switch activation and remote desktop control through Discord. It integrates seamlessly with Discord's platform, allowing users to manage emergency procedures and access remote desktops directly from their Discord server. Ideal for swift response teams and remote support scenarios,
I beat it in a weekend without a guide.

And GameFAQs was a glorious thing in my days; I would print out pages as a kid.
Can you explain the example in the docs?

Here’s an example. To retrieve the current user, simply call:

export function MyComponent() {
const user = useUser({ or: "redirect" });
return <div>{user ? `Hi, ${user.displayName}` : 'You are not logged in'}</div>;
}

That’s it! Stack will either return a User object or redirect the user to the login page.

It seems like the "not logged in" message is dead code as the earlier logic would instead redirect to the login page. Am I misunderstanding something?
Public domain gets assigned automatically when some time has passed or by the author releasing it into the public domain under the cc zero license. Unsplash started like that. There are potential issues like uncertainty about signed model release documents when people are the main part of the picture plus trademarks prominently appearing.

it’s complicated

Just realized I did not really answer the question.
Counter example: blender. It may not be winning in video editing, but it has serious market share in 3d rendering. Different players are investing money in it and extend it with their own stuff.
this isn't really true. It was very expensive when it was first released but now it's pretty cost competitive with EC2, especially when you consider easier scale down/up.
> Can you explain how [4] breaks guidelines, please?

Assuming you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41123755: it was personal and flamey.
Carnival Night Zone in Sonic 3 (& Knuckles) is what you’re thinking of.

I once called the hotline as a kid to figure it out. If that doesn’t date me, I don’t know what does.
> at this stage of development does make them distinctly different products

I agree with that.

The base concept is the same, there is a map between element handles on the server and elements in the browser contexts which are synced over channels with websockets. The user creates an element handle in the sever and the element gets wrapped inside the browser context with a unique id. Any events emitted by the element, are sent over websockets to the server.

At one point, I had used this code to inject a script into browser contexts with a Chrome Extension which communicated with a server over websockets to automate browsers with the Chrome Extension installed.
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Well, I mean, if you ignore the 8GB RAM base model.. and the pricetag at 2-3x a similarly-performing windows equivalent, and probably +50% on similar screen windows equivalent.

I can make a great computer that meets everyone's use cases for 2x the going price too :).

Unfortunately it is far too easy for a non-savvy person to walk into a store and buy a piece of shit windows laptop for the same price as a macbook, because they don't know what they want or need and the salesmen aren't that interested in making sure you get good value :'(
Nobody is forcing you to buy a computer.

Nobody is forcing you to live under a roof.

Nobody is forcing you to eat.