skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pure communism doesn't exist, pure capitalism doesn't exist, pure fascism doesn't exist. Pure ideals of any kind don't exist. Meritocracy exists to varying degrees all over the place, and it's something we should be striving for wherever possible. There are good arguments for temporary exceptions to meritocracy to, say, correct historical inequities, but it's extremely important that those be viewed as temporary roadblocks on the ultimate path towards a society that is as meritocratic as we can make it. Which, by the way, doesn't necessarily mean that those low on 'merit' need to be left to die, we can still provide a good life for even the least economically valuable individuals, but yes, those who are providing the most economic utility to society should get to consume more of that utility.

> According to Frank, this is especially true where the success in question is great, and where the context in which it is achieved is competitive. There are certainly programmers nearly as skilful as Gates who nonetheless failed to become the richest person on Earth. In competitive contexts, many have merit, but few succeed. What separates the two is luck.

This is also completely false. What separates Gates from most other programmers of his skill level is willingness to take on risk. Gates took on tremendous risk to do what he did. He could have failed spectacularly, but he chose to enter the startup lottery and he won. That's the deal you make, you go into that game knowing that it's a lottery, and of course luck is involved. But we have that lottery in place for a very good reason: New companies provide tremendous value to society, and so it's important that we incentivize people to create them. Nobody would take on the kinds of risks that he did if the rewards weren't enormous.
> My fan comment was a joke about Slack's efficiency.

It's less of a joke and probably just a statement.

Seriously: even something as small as someone adding an animated emoji makes slack eat CPU :-/
> The fly-by-wire system malfunctioned and the pilots got confused.

The Wikipedia summary of the investigation report sounds quite a bit different.

It says there was an intermittent malfunction that could be cleared by following a procedure, which was done three times during the flight, with no impact on flight safety (AIUI). The fourth time, instead of following procedure, the pilot toggled the flight computer's circuit breaker, which he is not allowed to do in flight, which reset the flight computer completely, disabling various automated systems that they would now have to re-start, which they did not do. Then the plane entered a stall and due to communication issues pilot and co-pilot gave contradictory control inputs which resulted in no control input to the plane.
But if (most) people don't know, "nothing goes wrong", doesn't it ? And surely that means we can ignore the problems.

If ever there was an apt description of youth services, or the justice system. And yes, I get it, in both cases, it merely describes the terrible crimes and abuses happening in 99% of those systems. For the remaining 1% of cases, they are necessary.
That's why software integration testing is nessessary for any critical feature. Considering airplane as a software, i think there're no integration tests to be run in this case before delivering actual product to customers.
It seems like this issue would benefit from a github/gitlab page?

There are a lot of tracking bugs that would need to be created for fixing userspace by reaching out to other projects, mitigations/workarounds, RFCs for the posix change? etc.

It does seem like a big effort but it seems like a worthy fight.
A more simple and clean solution, that I always use in my python scripts: always work with absolute paths, that starts with /, and you solve all these problems.

No reason to have relative paths outside the shell for me, relative paths are only a convenience for the shell user that doesn't have to specify the full path as an argument, but if you invoke a program from another program, it doesn't cost you nothing to pass to it as an argument the full path.
What remains, hustling?
> Conversely, when I don't see a profile photo, that's concerning.

Ever considered how women or non-whites feel about this?
The Mouth of Truth from ancient Rome was likely a manhole as well:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-mouth-of-truth-rome-...
Right where luck is.
Key quote is training on a simulator

That's a tall order when the manufacturer doesn't inform their customers out of commercial expediency.
Those are both issues with running Windows on Thinkpads. The article's author is running Linux. Besides, there are very few options for decently built laptops with good keyboards.
Ask HN: Do you have a recommendation for packaging a small product?
It's actually pretty hard to find a reasonable custom box printer, particularly for small initial runs. Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations? Any forums online I can get educated through?
It should be remembered that terminals have had "'\0' keys" for a long time. Control+@ yields NUL.
> in the US there are practicing nurses without a college degree, right now..

Ok? So what? I was replying to 'there is no path to academic research', and there is. Saying not everyone follows it is irrelevant to whether or not it exists.

> also nursing is not always unionized, especially in the South..

What on earth does that have to do with whether you can do research or not?
>The notion would be laughed out of any city budget here.

An ironic thing is that, not caring about immediate ROI and budget justifications in the past (and investing in public parks, nice buildings, etc), is what makes some cities tons of money (from millions of tourists every year).

Will ever a new city (born under the "quick ROI is everything/who cares for beauty" mindset) be as nice as to attract visitors in the future? I seriously doubt so.

(Shanghai, which is largely built lately, was also an treasure of a city for many centuries, and spends a lot in the impressiveness -if not construction quality- of its modern buildings and skyline).
Thank you for describing this "hypnotic transcendental feeling", which I now realize is the common quality that I so enjoy in both Bolero and Terry Riley's "In C" (especially the Ictus & Blindman quartet version https://play.google.com/music/m/Be26kwoxcafkgcyxad6c25y6m3y).

Anyway, now that I've discovered this, I'd love if you'd share some pieces (or a playlist!) that you've found that have this quality?
Many design choices still exist. Some design constraints were irrelevant already when the plane was introduced, yet they still exist and haunt the plane.

They made the ground clearance as small as possible, because 737 engineers assumed that people have to walk stairs to the ground level to enter and exit the plane. The luggage and serving of the plane was also done by hand without lifters at that time. This unfortunate choice led to engine placement that increased fuel consumption they tried to fix.

Newly designed aircraft would have better handling without these fixes.
More OCP hardware (or designs that will eventually be contributed to OCP), in many different SKUs depending on use case. This page lists most of the current-gen hardware that I am aware of:

https://www.opencompute.org/contributions?refinementList%5Bc...
My feelings on this couldn't be more mixed. I enjoyed many years working as a coder in the academic research setting, but I lost my best friend to suicide in the second semester of his PhD program.

It's just sort of a test to see if you're stronger than the system. If you want the strength to survive grad school, spend a few years scraping by in a third-world nation, or climb mountains, or get serious about wilderness survival. Do something aside from following the rules and getting inevitably raped by a system you have done nothing to learn to dominate.
This is the "what about" fallacy or something like that. The article is about meritocracy, which is often overstated.

You very rarely hear people claiming that "hard work and intelligence" is always ineffective in every context.
Tango has a very different etiquette, especially the Argentinian tango danced in saloons in South America and Europe. The invitation, accept and decline is very different being completely non-verbal and it is as easy to accept as to decline; it makes it easy to decline without causing tensions. It took a while to learn to do it well, but it is well worth.

I know that US has different, non-traditional and relaxed rules, but in no way better.
On Linux at least, it's not recommend to run continuous TRIM (aka "discard"). Instead, you can run fstrim on a timer to clean things up periodically. Most SSD's can actually do either, but discard is recommend against for NVMe drives, and many SSD's have bugs, so overall periodic trim is the way to go.
Ah, those are a bit of a special case.

I visited APL a while back and loved it. The job didn’t work out (federal stuff has been....turbulent lately), but hopefully it’ll work out one day.

Thanks for the pointers!
Yes. But the first recorded use of "hacker" did have to do with phone systems. I wonder what the first recorded use of "phreaker" is?

https://manybutfinite.com/post/first-recorded-usage-of-hacke...
>and that one million people have already paid $99 for a perpetual license (with one year of free updates).

$100 per year no matter what! That's mind boggling! Congrats to the team for making a useful app.
You are predicating your entire premise on merit already existing. The surge in articles recently dig a little deeper.

What is merit? Is it merit if, because someone is of faith, they donate food to those without? That person who is receiving the food has more than they did prior, the person who had the food has less.

Merit is a metric, and in contemporary culture, it is one used to reinforce ownership and capital. Yet in the above overly-simplistic example, we can see that not all human interactions are, nor should, be overfit into the idea of “merit” nor “ownership of capital or goods.” In the above scenario, “merit” conveniently tries to avoid disclosing its ethical structure.

It’s a fallacy. More folks are waking up to this fact[1].

[1] Avoiding the whataboutisms discussing “talent” or “skills” and other bogus terms.
I wouldn't say defensive, but rather informative.

The main point of that thread is not actually to "solve the mystery" of the crash, or even to point fingers at where the fault lies.

The point I took away from the thread is to show that these issues are complex, and there is never one single thing you can point to as "the problem". In most cases, it is really a series of interconnected events.

Our media (and I think many of us - so I'm not singling them out) loves to simplify problems in an effort to make them understandable by the average person, and while that may be necessary for them to get people to pay attention, it does us all a disservice in the long-term I think.
Batteries (or rather, individual cells) do have a standard: 18650. Unfortunately too thick for the ultra-thin laptops, but the older Thinkpads use them. I suspect safety is the reason why no one makes replacement laptop battery "empty shells" that take 18650s and have the appropriate balancing/protection circuitry to interface with a laptop, but then again you see mobile phone powerbanks being sold this way... go figure:

https://megaeshop.pk/5v-dual-usb-power-bank-box-diy-shell-ca...
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I am looking for some example case studies/exercises in order to learn play with some libraries, is there a book or website you can recommend?
It'll be a little while before I'm offering them again. Still clearing new projects out of the way.
Sure:

>Your Twitter account URL

Also:

>Excited? Notify on launch?

Are seemingly two different questions, one might be excited and still don't want to be notified of launch or vice-versa one could be not excited but still interested in being notified of the launch.
First Recorded Usage of “Hacker” (2008)
How about not viewing every human interaction as a market transaction?
I was amazed at that. Boeing used to be known for overdesign for safety. The B-747 had four redundant hydraulic systems. Here's a 787 doing aerobatics at the Farnborough air show to show that it can operate way outside the normal passenger aircraft flight envelope.[1]

Boeing used to be an engineering-first company. HQ was at Boeing's own airport near Seattle. Then they got new management and moved corporate HQ to Chicago.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzr313wSY_Y
This study needs to be replicated before its conclusions are taken seriously, because much of sociology is known to be deciding on a conclusion in line with intersectionality ideology dogma before writing the paper and producing papers with extreme methodology flaws. See the sokal hoax for a recent very clear expose of this academic bankruptcy
Then the PC and the OS is off the hook and the search continues with the software.
I was going to comment that I'd love to know/read more about the author. Where can I follow him?
Some of the links have since rotted. Here's Fred Shapiro's email reporting the discovery:

https://web.archive.org/web/20051023131548/http://listserv.l...

And here's the (unrelated) "paper with a most hilarious and offensive name":

https://web.archive.org/web/20080903094328/http://findarticl...

There are also the Tech Model Railroad Club dictionaries of 1959 and 1960, which include "hacker":

http://www.gricer.com/tmrc/tmrc-dictionary-intro.html

Why does this not count as an earlier recorded usage? Is it because those dates have not been independently verified?
> The amount of harm these platforms have caused is at this point much larger than any positive value they provide.

You want proof of this, but I think the standard should be higher - to prove that platforms like these cause greater harm than state censorship would. Censorship that has, even in the US, been used to criminalize anti-war activism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States
However, from past thoughts and discussions, there are issues.

(1) We have to be able to mount filesystems which have bad filenames and allow users to work with them.

In that situation, that means the kernel cannot reject all requests for bad file names, only creation requests. And perhaps not even that.

It can be a mount option with three values: off; reject all dubious names in all filesystem syscalls; or just in creating syscalls: open with O_CREAT, mknod, link, ...

It could also be a capability. Superuser could work with the dubious filenames and set up capabilities for non-privileged child processes to do same, so people needing to work with a filesystem full of these names can get into an environment where they can do that.

(2) Enforcement at the kernel level is too late in some situations. It doesn't entirely compensate for broken programs. Here is a trivial example of what this means. Suppose that some program receives an argument "foo bar" and decides to split that into "foo" and "bar", treating this as two file names to create or process. Those filenames look fine to the kernel, so it is allowed.

In shell scripts, not all name-related issues arise from files that are already in the system. In fact, shell scripts are often robust in the face of existing files with poor names. For instance names generated with globbing expansion are safe, even if they contain spaces and shell meta-characters. The one danger is that the prefix of the expanded list looks like command line options to the program.

The issues that arise in shell programming from failing to quote variable expansions cannot be fixed outside of the shell. The OS cannot fix the lack of quoting in command $VAR; it can't prevent a shell internal variable VAR from containing spaces.
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History podcast has a whole series on the Persian empire (King’s of King’s) that draws heavily from Herodotus. It gets quite meta in places with a lot of time dedicated to Herodotus and his storytelling style, and he ends up as one of the more fascinating characters in the story itself. Dan likens him to a modern day screenwriter with a sense for drama and emotion that previous historians lacked and that reading Herodotus vs earlier records is in some ways like the difference between the black and white silent film era and modern cinema.
I feel headlines like this can be answered using simple logic. Most people want to learn many things, but are lazy. Learning while you sleep would solve this. It would be an absolutely enormous industry.

Want to know French, but too lazy ("busy") to learn it? Listen to this magical audio file before/during sleep and in just x weeks you can amaze your friends and neighbors with your positively paralyzing parlezing without any of the work! Order now, just $xxx!

So the answer is going to range between a plain "no" and a "kind of sort of in a way that can, at best, work as an extremely modest supplement to conscious learning, under best conditions." And you need not worry about missing out on some cutting edge breakthrough. If and when such things happens this would be really really big news - not something restricted to a random classically clickbaited headline with the actual article hidden behind a paywall.

I just mention this because I think our inclination is to let our curiosity get the best of us, and of course - what if there's something we've missed out on? But in the process of this, we greatly incentivize this form of faux journalism. And the nice thing is is that the above logic can be applied to absolutely huge swaths of the entire media.
> There are small towns, villages, (and certainly suburbs) much worse crime-wise in most western countries. So it's not just a village vs city thing.

My comment was about comparing past and present, and how some times people overstimates how good the past was. I agree with you that it is not only about big cities vs little towns.
Simple: This kind of content would not be allowed to be broadcast on a tv station, you would not be able to show it in cinemas. The fact that it is accessible on Facebook and Youtube to minors and the only excuse they can offer is that the algorithm didn't catch it is simply not acceptable. They should be held to the same standards as any other media company.
What's the utility of an app is over other apps in its niche?

It's all about how it operates, feels, etc., not that it does something profoundly different.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was geofenced (I'm browsing from the EU).
An exec-like mechanism be used to construct a [ "/bin/sh" "/bin/sh" "-c" "yourcommandhere", NULL ] argument vector.
How is this different from extra safety features available as option packages for automobiles?
Greening the desert, I've been following that for months, after watching the Oregon YouTube channel on permaculture. I've just spent an hour following up on Managed Aquifer Recharge, albeit not entirely relevant in my part of Europe.

To bring it back to HN, I keep thinking there must be ways to model landscapes, and planting strategies to increase permaculture efficiency, although probably the antithesis of permaculture.

The issue seems to be putting plants together so they can support each other in close quarters, sounds like an optimisation problem to me, I've called it augmented permaculture before.
Sure, but we're in a discussion of what recruiters look for. If you only code something for yourself, that's fine, but if you want it to be taken well when job-hunting, you should make it at least minimally presentable (i.e., a recruiter can tell what they're even looking at).
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10866115
At least my 2013 MacBook Pro would get 10 hours of battery life with the screen at medium brightness, WiFi on, and using Safari and Word (which is not a particularly light workload given how heavy the web is these days). Working in Emacs/SBCL would result in even longer battery life. Unless you’re rebuilding Chrome from source every few minutes, the compile-edit cycle is mostly typing into your editor with short bursts of activity in-between. Even more so for languages with lightweight compilers like Go and JS.
“Crime, Genes, Neuroscience and Cyberspace”
If anyone is interested in seeing other artifacts from this "dig", the Minneapolis Institute of Art has a special exhibit entitled "Egypt's Sunken Cities" through April 14th of this year. One Egyptologist I know saw the exhibit in St. Louis and says it's the most spectacular ancient Egyptian exhibit he's ever seen.
Ok, so I can see someone doesn't agree with my comment due to the downvote. But would you be willing to share your opinion as to why?

For example, how much more valuable would Sketch be as a company and to society if it were available on more platforms than just Mac OS?
For some narrow definitions of technology, yes. But if we make space for not only internet thingies, such as new medicines, how are those not net-positive?
I suspect the TWA hotel ones are not bakelite telephones (cf. images from https://www.google.com/search?q=bakelite+telephone ).

The bakelite phones had some edges and were really heavy. The photo seems a later 70s/80s model with a softer plastic shell that would not really hurt if tossed at you. I think they had to weigh those down with some metal inside,
I can't tell which part of this post is getting downvoted, but it rings totally true and relevant to me.
I actually already have a copy of the first printing of The Sokal Hoax on my non-fiction bookshelf, thanks.

EDIT: I too fail to see its relevance.
Add it to the clear dangers of vaccinations by those dodgy doctors, and the dubious science behind the roundness of the Earth, surely to blame on dodgy measurements. Sigh.

Great times indeed.
Since I'm also looking for this, let me share my favourite (and only other I know of):

In C by Ictus (Terry Riley): https://play.google.com/music/m/Be26kwoxcafkgcyxad6c25y6m3y?...
I doubt this.

The standard ATX form factor has been upgraded to reduce size over various years with the vast majority of accepted iterations maintaining the same mounting hole and IO panel locations. I literally have a mini-ITX board sitting in a case I purchased in 1999. This probably fits more into the fear you state in your comment with a reasonably new technology "forced" to consume more space than is necessary, but I think it argues for the opposite by showing that incremental changes to a standard format can allow for wide ranging compatibilities.

For an example, when ATX was altered by squaring the board to the shortest length (microATX), it didn't require a new case or a new power supply to be placed on the market in order to be consumed because it fit within the "too big" ATX case. Then when cases that only fit microATXe became abundant and another incremental change to the motherboard size to DTX, we again didn't have to release new cases or power supplies or IO cards to start to consume this version. It allowed consumers to purchase and use the boards until they decided they wanted to reduce their case size, amortizing the upgrade costs over months instead of requiring larger up front payments.
I don't think there's any reason to replace nginx. If F5 going to cause problems I guess that a fork can replace it as it happened with libreoffice.
You can say there is a reason American's are heavily gaslighted against collective action. Because the C student overlcass that runs the place knows it's not a meritocracy. And they mean to keep it that way.
Where are you meant to learn this?
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Meh. I can differentiate. I hate the UX of most Electron apps, but like that they're available on Linux.

Though I do think the server-side doesn't need to be shipped. I have most of my web apps as simple "Web clips", which are basically bookmarks that open in a window.