skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In other words it’s easy to make a difference as a high performer in a low performance organization.

And yet, the big takeaway for me is that to be a high performer it isn’t enough to A) know what needs to be done, or B) be able to do it well. The key is C) figuring out the incentive landscape.

His story of carving out his own job only to find he had no support from the board is what I’ve tried before. In my low performing organization, I thought I could be a high performer by knowing what needed to be done and doing it well. Everybody I directly worked with loved me and thought I was highly effective, but I never made any lasting change like this author. I didn’t understand the need to skip way up the levels until I was already burnt out.
More options/competition is good. When will we see it on https://lmarena.ai/ ?
Paul Allen was Seattle's rich, crazy uncle. He threw money on so many projects (RIP Cinerama, which was my favorite theater).

Jody Allen is a complete black box that answers to no one. She doesn't care about the sports teams either, so it's a mystery why the entire org doesn't just cash out at this point.
The Vanishing Coast of Louisiana
Alongside the Unix boxen.

http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/boxen.html
I was gifted a powerful blue laser pointer from a laser enthusiast friend of mine, when I was in my 40s. It was powerful enough to light things on fire. It was far too dangerous. If that thing reflected off anything and hit my eye, I'd be at least partially blind. I also lived near an airport, so if it got pointed towards the sky, I'd be asking for trouble. I gave the laser pointer back to my friend.

I kind of doubt the laser pointer you had was capable of blinding anyone, most laser pointers years ago were very low power. I just bought a couple hundred red diode lasers (around 5mw, or less) and they won't blind anyone. But today there are also extremely powerful laser pointers available to anyone that will blind someone in an instant.
Yeah, I blame his sister. I don't know what happened behind closed doors (if anything) but I'm also disappointed neither gates nor balmer seemed to pick up the pieces either, or even Bezos given his presence in SLU
I have yet to hear an idea to implement age-gating that I would be remotely comfortable with using myself, so anything age-gated using the technologies/approaches that I'm aware of would keep me out as well, making the web even smaller.

Maybe that's inevitable and necessary, though. I just selfishly think that it's a shame that it would shut me out. Or maybe not. Maybe an even smaller web would be a good thing.
> Would you support bounties for ordinary people to enforce parking?

Honestly, why not? Let people take a photo of the offending vehicle, picture of the license plate and VIN number and tag the violation. Submit with a copy of your New York ID, and use that to filter out spam and nonsense reporters.

Hell, pay a bounty for submissions that result in the city collecting a fine. (You can deduct bad submissions from said bounties.)
Universal Construction – Category Theory and Why We Care [video]
This is kind of fascinating, they posted a migration guide that explains what code has to be updated, at the end of which they mentioned the dropped IE support. So your brain must've just ignored the code diffs above when responding, because it likes htmlx so much.

2 Examples:

1. "Convert any hx-on attributes to their hx-on: equivalent: [..] hx-on="htmx:beforeRequest: alert('Making a request!') [..] becomes: [..] hx-on:htmx:before-request="alert('Making a request!')" Note that you must use the kebab-case of the event name due to the fact that attributes are case-insensitive in HTML.

2. The htmx.makeFragment() method now always returns a DocumentFragment rather than either an Element or DocumentFragment
> Extracting the maximum amount of money possible is the primary purpose of a company. It’s what you should expect to happen.

Except that's not what they are doing. By all accounts (and their financial guys may disagree with me and that's ok), what they are actually doing is trying to extract more money than what the market will bear. They may succeed for a while, but it comes at the cost of cannibalizing your own business.
Thanks -- great clarifying point!

Private buildings are typically beholden to fire codes, because fire spreads and inflicts nonlinear damage.

Fire departments respond to fire emergencies. They use incident stats to prevent future fires.

Likewise, bad drivers/infrastructure wreak nonlinear harm.

But traffic departments are disconnected from the feedback loop. Police departments carry entirely different goals/incentives that don't seem to align with traffic safety.
> The Living Computer Museum, it turns out, cost millions, over ten million a year

I don't get how it could cost 10 million / year
I also work at a startup that switched from Next.js to Astro.js.

It was around the time of Next.js 12 -> 13 transition. The overall DX was really bad for us when 13 came out and we had struggled with integrating some third party libraries with 12 (Algolia) and decided to move on.

If you look at who's using Next.js, you'll see dotcoms like Target.com and Walmart.com are both on Next.js as well as many big name e-commerce retailers. That should tell you about the target audience for Next.js. If you balk at using SAP, Oracle, SharePoint, Teams, or Documentum, then you probably shouldn't use Next.js either.
The documented number of people who have survived a full blown rabies infection can be counted on one hand. I only know of 1 person, there may be others.
He wasn't _that_ young, and it's something literally every person with extreme wealth does as part of their normal financial management process. You frequently interact with lawyers and CPAs who advise you on these things as part of their duties. He would have had a conversation about it at some level. He either wanted to take LCM with him, or someone was grossly negligent.
It’s fun to look back and gain some insight into how this game was made. 30 years ago I was just starting middle school and I remember vividly seeing this game for the first time. I was visiting my cousins and they had all these fantastic games like Secret of Monkey Island, Lechuck’s Revenge, Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle. I remember spending hours playing these games. One of my favorites was Stunts which came with a built-in track editor!

Feels just like yesterday. Shocking how our perception of time works.
Umm. The contingency plan for any big corp is to continually plan to migrate off a legacy system. It takes forever for big corp, if they don’t have a contingency plan now they will never have it. He wants to drop a bunch of run books on people and tell them go do that. He only wants configuration and does not want any development.
It's a slideshow. I actually kinda like it.
That's very similar to what Qt already provides (QPainter, for raw image/windows, more sophisticated widgets with event support. Further- and this is something I've been looking for a while- they have a graphicsview that allows resolution-independent rendering of millions of objects, with events, in an larger-than-window graphics plane.
This would be a much better article if two things changed: One, skip the scroll gimmick. It's a waste of time and space (and that has been discussed enough)

Two, give us examples that live in that supposed wasteland. Without those, it looks like you're building a technology in the abstract. And, don't get me wrong, it's cool tech. It so tickles my sense of "fun engineering challenge, great way to express structure". But I've long learned that means it's also very likely in the "overengineered" corner.

I share your belief that there's a "there" there. (I'm on my umpteenth iteration of my own personal markdown, so I would ;) I think it'd be helpful to crystallize that into more concrete uses.
That's Go's out-of-the-box experience. Maybe you're looking for something to scaffold projects? There are plenty around, I've been using https://gowebly.org
The alternative is almost certain death for the readers that don't know.
> React is not responsible for the stack of poorly maintained third party packages one chooses to use alongside it.

It's not whether or not it's responsible. It's whether you suffer this pain if you choose a different framework/platform/language.

Coming from a Django/Python perspective - the Javascript ecosystem post-npm just feels pathological in this regard.
You know true Cutting-edge Technology when you see ... there's no documentation available.
Just to be clear, RFK Jr. is claiming that saturated fats are healthier than unsaturated fats, without any evidence of this. In fact, he goes as far as to call unsaturated fats "poisons".

While it would be advisable to adjust our views on different fats based on new evidence, the changes being proposed have absolutely nothing to do with anything resembling evidence.
> The cameras also failed to realize that both the M79 and Bx35 bus routes were still in the “warning” phase of a new enforcement pattern – which means even legitimate infractions should not have resulted in monetary penalties.
I think this is where you get a lot of stuff about how actually some dumb shit a rich or powerful person keeps doing must be part of some master plan, or working toward some purpose we don't know about. [EDIT] Where you get people coming up with this is their resistance to accepting that the folks with all the power mostly aren't terribly exceptional in the ways one might expect or hope, I mean. "Surely that's not how the world works... right? There has to be another explanation."

Maybe, but most of the time they're just a hell of a lot dumber than one might suppose. And maybe a bit mentally ill. And, even odds, have a drug problem ("Winners don't do drugs" and "cheaters never prosper"—grand lies of our childhoods, both are hilariously false)
> It seems to be mostly Rust FUD wrapped in a screed against RAII, implying that somehow Rust will harm the kernel, maybe

Very interesting observation, I think you might be right.
Of course people have desires. My point is that some people have their desires and their values aligned, rather than having desires that run contrary to their values. No "suppression" required.
That seems like a far superior solution.
So that's what I missed at the keynote.
How LLM Agents Took on University Hacking Competition
There's a certain charm to doing things in person. Same reason as to why some people prefer film photography when digital exists - traveling in person when google maps exists, reading books when movies exist. It's just a different medium of interaction. I personally enjoy it (heavy board games) but totally understand why others don't.
I try not to be this guy, but actually your terminology is a little off.

Film cameras have grain. Literally, there are tiny physical grains of photo-sensitive material on the film. Those grains, which are distributed semi-randomly in a film across the medium determine the limit of film's resolution and give it part of its organic, non-digital feel.

Digital cameras have noise. That's the term for randomness injected in a signal from the effect of physics: Brownian motion, heat, quantum effects on photons, etc. Noise means that while each pixel on the sensor is in principle quantizing a measurement of the real world, that measurement has some random error that can never be fully eliminated.

A digital image recorded from a digital sensor has no grain. There was no film, and no grains of photosensitive media involved. (It might have simulated grain from some "film effect" look applied to the image.)

The distinction matters because they look different. It's one of the key reasons film looks like film and digital looks digital.
> Intel with their Windows benchmarks are promoting the Arc B580 as being 24% faster than the Intel Arc A750

Not a huge fan of the numbering system they've used. B > A doesn't parse as easily as 5xxx > 4xxx to me.
Is Mr. Robot's E-Corp, or Evil Corp as Elliot thinks of it, a parody of Enron?
This is presumptively assuming that being a homemaker is an objectively “worse” position. I think a lot of women would disagree with that position, possibly the majority. Equity cannot mean that everyone works in an office, it should also mean that women that want to stay at home should be able to without being forced into a corporate world by the economy/circumstances.
Arainach nails this below
Generally, if the script is more than a one-off, I will write in Python, since all the young seem to know Python, and very few seem to know Perl. There are two recurring jobs that I have not rewritten from Perl, one because "pack" is so handy.

The only other language I use much for scripting is Javascript, or rather Jscript, for our accounting department sometimes needs files munged for integration into Great Plains, and I can count on cscript being on the machine and running such scripts.
Sandy Bridge (2009) is still a very usable CPU with a modern GPU. In theory Sandy Bridge supported resizable BAR but in practice they didn't. I think the problem was BIOS's.
What's an example of a website or feature which needs just a little bit more "richness" than a static website with formatted text and links and images?
Astro 5
> Do we default to public shaming anyone who says a word in defense of the person who is being sanctioned? (I would say that's the single most pathological feature of cancel culture, actually.)

From the article:

> PG shared his anti-Adchemy game plan. In a nutshell: YC would anathematize Adchemy’s VCs, and declare that they’d never do business with YC again unless they straightened this out. Knowing PG, not only would they be disinvited from Demo Day, but PG would probably also steer companies to take money from other funds instead. Given that many if not most YC funding rounds were oversubscribed with investors, an excommunicated investor could be excluded without damaging the fund-raising company at all.

In other words, yes, YC was engaging in what the US Government would call "secondary sanctions": actions taken to cut the sanctioned individual or group off from support.

This and the other things you mentioned have both happened and not happened in various instances of cancellation. I think you might have some motivated reasoning going on here. It sounds like you are trying to make a distinction between sanctions imposed by people you agree with and people you don't. This is a distinction without a difference. Secondary sanctions are the most effective form of sanctions[0]. Everyone imposes secondary sanctions if they feel they can get away with it, because sanctions without secondary sanctions have no teeth.

[0] Why? Simple: they force everyone in the room to not only make a choice between the intolerant and the sanctioned, but if they choose the intolerant, to also enforce that same decision upon others. In other words, they're "GPL viral".
Christopher Hitchens and the Necessity of Universalism
Of all the services AWS has, RDS is one of the best values and lowest risks. The peace of mind and reliability it gives you on something as important as a DB is well worth the cost.
> Is there an impeachment process for a constitutional violations

There's an impeachment process. Creating a separate, faster one for constitutional violations is just inviting trouble.
Dating back 10-15 years, that premise was exactly what drove the enterprise shift away from a Microsoft stack (.Net + SQL Server + Windows Server) to a LAMP stack (where the L-A-M-P were each substitutable by various OSS options). It required a lot of reskilling in the enterprise, but after everyone was up to speed on the fundamentals of the new architectures and comfortable programming in Java/Python/Javascript/PHP it made learning all the newer things to come even easier. It also set the stage for companies like Canonical and Redhat to create viable commercial businesses wrapping FOSS software in enterprise support.

Where we are now is on the cusp of starting another of these lock-in rejection cycles, but where the lock-in isn't at the OS or devtools layers, but at the data/analytics layer and with IaaS or PaaS having become unreasonably expensive alternatives to on-prem data centers [for many enterprises].

It'll be interesting to see how things evolve for Snowflake & Databricks (as well as Pega, C3AI, and similar), and whether CIOs start placing bets on their own team creating their own solutions using FOSS tooling on-prem, leaving public cloud as the domain of things like ERP & whatever SaaS business software they license.
Why Templ? What's wrong with idomatic html/template.
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”

– Brian Eno
I dont tip.
have you tested llama.cpp with this card on Linux? when i tested about a year ago, it was a nightmare.
> Over the coming days and weeks they will disperse along their orbital plane, and likely also raise their orbital altitude.

That's historic data
It is very telling that the only vocabulary that many people (especially men) have to talk about their feelings is childish. As children, parents or other caregivers demand that we express ourselves but they also set the constraints for what valid expression is. Those constraints might be something as simple yet ultimately toxic as, "I care about how you feel, unless it makes my life more complicated, in which case shut up." Or my favorite (for personal reasons), "Tell me how you feel but if you say anything other than that you're content I'll panic and start flailing."

Kids learn soon enough what the real boundaries of their emotional life are. As a little boy, I was told that it was weak to cry if I lost a Karate match but as long as I lied and said it was because I got punched really hard, it was OK. I'm not sure what the ultimate goal is of this kind of socially engineered lack of self-awareness, but it doesn't seem to be working. At least not for me.
No amount of automation will have any significant effect on the size or efficiency of a bureaucracy.

http://www.berglas.org/Articles/ImportantThatSoftwareFails/I...
I'm current working on an embedded project in rust. The most annoying part is when the project is shared with a non-embedded part, but otherwise it's a breeze to work on.

Had no issues using DMA or anything else.
> In a Presidential system like the US, there officially speaking isn’t an “opposition”

True, there's a minority and majority.

> journalists tend to impose the term on non-US presidential systems

Didn't President Yoon call them the opposition? Or is that a liberal translation?
I can’t contribute on that exact setup since I only used windows xp / usb film scanner for a similar but much less dpi setup but setting up a vintage Mac OS 9 system is not that hard. The hardware an iMac g3/g4 are still accessible and cheap enough on eBay and you can make them more reliable. A laptop also makes it easier out of the box. Emulation also works.

SCSI isn’t scary. It wasn’t scary in 2006 and it shouldn’t be scary today.

I share the same age as this writer, if not very close since the life events are similar e.g. high school in mid 00s. I find having a dark room and using proper technique and developer, or even Lightroom processing 10-50x more complicated then running a vintage Mac OS 9 or diving into scsi hardware.

It should not deter anyone and it had the same languish by people in the same time period.

After all these years I think manually mapping IRQs or having pop the side of the case off to move jumpers around for IRQs to be more challenging. I’m just surprised to read that SCSI is annoying. I wonder when I’ll be reading similar Context about using IDE drives or serial ports (okay baud rate issues can be annoying).

By all means not to be negative, article is excellent. I just see it as a trope: “scsi is hard”
Cancer Research UK: Engineering Best Practices and Guides
No. South Korea should be more alarmed about how US is treating their allies.
Henry Kissinger quote: “It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.”
> Again the capitalists will be contributing little […] The person driving the school bus risks more and contributes more than the parasites.

Your basic assumptions are wrong and troubled by motivated reasoning. But I'm sure you can already tell where you are wrong so I won't condescend. Certainly you seem to have strong feelings, which is cool and all.
Vultures did not value Paul Allen’s ideas and investments, but are happy to benefit from it while tearing down the pieces they don’t personally care about or benefit from. It’s the same story as anything else, but I agree it is strange someone like Bill Gates didn’t step in to buy out the museum.
Except I know plenty of adults who don’t have kids and they seemed to make the transition without difficulty.
All of what you say is true, but the overarching fact remains that all those problems are caused by selfish justification of one party's benefit at the expense of others. While a good people must prepare for war when their neighbor demonstrates oppressive intentions, the overall state of the world is one of competition over cooperation, selfishness or selflessness, greedy hoarding over generous sharing, and callous disregard over empathetic compassion.

And, yes, the unfortunate fact is that compassionate, awakened-to-a-better-way-is-possible folks are thin on the ground, indeed. As with all things human, we each have the choice to learn how to be better, and the power to do it. It is our human potential, so sadly denied as even possible by the vast majority, to our collective misery.
I think that is also what I am talking about.

A big central store is more economically efficient, and as a result the consumer preference, in an economic landscape where Men With Guns have removed every option except diffuse suburban housing, where they already need to have cars to get along.

Some suggest as a fix, getting the gunmen back out to force a more expensive, less efficient system for distributing food. I'm saying, can we strike at the root instead of forever hacking at the branches? Allow people to build the cities they actually want, so long as they don't hurt or endanger anyone else.
The Museum of Flight is cool, but you owe it to yourself to get down to the Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum in Hood River.

Unlike the Museum of Flight, nearly everything at WAAAM is still in flyable condition and they have an amazing restoration team on site.
> Can’t wait to see when AWS does it.

AWS overcharges for traffic, specially traffic going out.

However, they have repeatedly released instances that are cheaper than their predecessors (often, higher performing too). I don't think that's out of the goodness of their hearts, as it likely allows them to refresh their fleet more often than it would be the case otherwise.

If you are large they will work with you on pretty sweet discounts.

So far, there's been no indications that they will pull the same move. They might, but that would be surprising. VMWare has never been cheap though.
The $40k price is the current price in the USA.

Generics aren't possible in markets where the patent holder enforces their rights. The article is about how Gilead will allow certain poverty ridden countries to access the drug without the need to pay a licensing cost (i.e. they can receive a "generic").