skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree - I know many founders - and all of them were broke, broke, broke (and went broke to bootstrap). Yes, some subset of founders have parental backing - and that's fine. They're at a different wealth level trying to increase their wealth.

Founders I know (including myself): - One worked years on the side to grow it enough just to get seed. With newborn kids, then quit his CompSci job to live off his teachers wife salary for years. - One was on foodstamps for 6 years, and kids on medicaid to pull his shop through - One saved for years, and spent most of his money to get through the rough spots and is coming out the other side just now. - One failed 4 times - each attempt taking a few years, entered bankruptcy to try on a 5th attempt. - One lived at poverty means for years with a family while bootstrapping.

So.... there is a lot of "entrepreneurship is easy pr0n" as viewed from Silicon Valley. But if you're rich - it's easier to just sit back and be rich. So only a small group do. The rest of us are just trying to create something with little resources in the rest of the country/world.
I remember this panic. I, and many others, actually learned at that time that anchors damaging undersea cables are actually a common occurrence.
UX Analysis of Apple AirTags
I think the answer is to view Free Speech as a positive right. Ie, something the state guarantees you have. As a logical consequence, the state must then also fight those who actively oppose you having the right to speak freely. Or any of your other rights. Those who seek to destroy your positive freedoms should have them taken away. Similarly, not being discriminated based on skin color or sex or gender is also a positive right in my view, so anyone who discriminates based on those categories should similarly be punished, otherwise their intolerance propagates.

Censorship of those who seek to oppress is necessary to require freedom (or to put it another way, the paradox of intolerance is that you must be intolerant of those who are intolerant, to guarantee that maximum tolerance is not only possible but guaranteed over a long time frame).

On the note of meme machines, I always liked to think that Memes ought to be studied in a university course, Memetics could become a serious field of study.
The post says "up to 23% faster". On average, it's probably less than 1%.
I _do not read_ the docs. I read the readme in githib, if there is not enough information in it for my use case, I may continue searching.

Also, when I find a lib, I want to read some user stories, not 20 pages of documentation in yet another doc format. Simple user stories. If you need to do A, here are 3 lines. If you need to do B - here are 5 lines. If your lib lacks these user stories, I will probably skip it. Or if I really need it, I will use StackOverflow to find some use cases so I can relate to and get a better understanding of the lib.

_NOW_ I may read the docs after I have the user stories, so they better have some information how you can customize the 3 and 5 lines of code above.
People committed evil actions 100 years ago, 1,000 years ago, 10,000 years ago, and people unfortunately commit evil actions today. None of that changes who should be able to understand and engage in politics. In fact that is an argument that politics should be accessible to all. That way we can guard against an evil cabal of a ruling class that oppresess everyone but themselves.

You've changed the discussion from the intended simplicity of politics to an argument about who was allowed to vote. In some ways, this type of strawman is similar to the types of arguments that create difficulties and barriers with present day politics.
Social Media Isn't the Problem We Are
Not sure where everyone is getting their numbers but the failure rate for manned launches over the last 20 years is 0.8%. The percentage chance of death while climbing Everest is around 1%. SpaceX’s Falcon has ~2% failure rate. Unmanned flight failure rates are considerably higher. So risks of manned flight look comparable to climbing Everest.

Sources:
http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/logyear.html

Everest:
https://www.washington.edu/news/2020/08/26/mount-everest-sum...

SpaceX:
https://spacex-info.com/stats/
I had the same thought. The author talks about 25cm resolution cameras, and still being surprised by obstacles, but they are driving a rover that is more than 10x smaller than the vehicle driven in the Martian.

This article claims that the Dhofar desert in Oman is one of the closest analogs to Mars. If I tried to control one of the Mars rovers through it, I'm sure I'd hit some nasty obstacles, but I wouldn't worry much about rocks when planning to traverse in a Jeep.

1. https://apnews.com/article/deserts-oman-yemen-ap-top-news-ma...
In this case, what does it mean to know how to program? Assuming you succeed in teaching your cousin, what did they do, or what can they now do? I would not say "hello world" is enough, but I don't know where I'd draw the line. It's easy to go through a tutorial and still not be able to actually do anything, I think.
"Everything became a slow, entangled, expensive mess now called "Creative Suite".

There's probably an opportunity to make better versions of these tools. Even their crown jelwels. If a decent enough quality version of lightroom that works with Linux comes on the market I'll cancel my creative suite subscription instantly.
Thank you. Dang said something similar to me once, I got it from him. :-) and that being on HN is a continual lesson in not replying when feeling triggered. Anyway, some comments don't merit a reply, and are best left hanging there, wheels spinning.
Ziggurat 3.14.0 supports kafka streams monitoring
Ha ha, exactly. Again, I emphasize that this is a toy. On the other hand, there generally _is_ a limit:

$ getconf ARG_MAX
2097152
Perhaps you should read Hogfather or Making Money by Terry Pratchett. In which the importance of the lies that society tells itself is touched upon.

"All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"

MY POINT EXACTLY
-Hogfather

For a TL:DR of Making Money, there's

https://www.ft.com/content/1aebc9f8-70bb-11dc-98fc-0000779fd...

I'd still recommend the book though. There are so many things that are little more than flaky veneers taken for granted in adult human life that the fact anything works at all generally comes down to an intentioned group of people 'conspiring' to make it so, and no one ever bothers to ask about it, as it 'just werkz' and creates value. It's only a problem when too many externalities get ignored, in which case, everyone starts to notice.

Once you understand this, the beauty of the 'conspiracy theorist' meme coming out of an intelligence agency to get people to stop taking those who ask inconvenient questions starts to take on a stroke of genius. You get people who rock the boat discredited out the gate, and reinforce the status quo.

...Until that document gets declassified and blows up in your face anyway.
So what? I’m putting >50 hours per week so that in 20 years my kids could have more than one shot in entrepreneurship.
M## is the milestone number or stable release version
Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs shared her personal images
Europe's socialism (for example) is very different from the Chinese one and does not suppress its citizen's private property rights. The generalization you made about socialism is not accurate outside China.
But, isn't that discrimination? Why should I belittle the hard work of a person that was fortunate enough to attend a prestigious university that gave them certain privileges? What is that majority trying to achieve? A world where that hypothetical person would stop trying?

I'm someone that's not from a privileged background, and I did not attend a prestigious university, but I sure do respect the time of anyone as much as I respect mine.

Sadly, it seems to me that it boils down to that quote from WarGames - the only winning move is not to play.
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Yeah, the non-sinister explanation is that mcdonalds decided to go with a self-cleaning machine to reduce the possibility of workers messing up the cleaning cycle, taylor implementing that badly, and no one else using self-clean machines.
I'm convinced that attacking educated white males is just the absolute laziest thing you can do in a piece of writing. Not sure what I expected from "injustice mag".
>> It’s worth mentioning that Tim Ferriss didn’t actually get wealthy by following his own advice.

This is missing the point of the book though. Wealth isn't the goal. Earning enough money per month to satisfy your needs + wants in addition to freeing up as much time as possible is.[1]

[1] https://tim.blog/lifestyle-costing/
I actually love Fusion 360. My prior experience was autocad about 20 years ago when I was in high school, and more recently, Sketchup. The cloud stuff though is crazy annoying. But I also don't pay anything for the tool, so :\

That said, there is a makers version of SolidWorks coming to the market this year.
> The problem with modern large farmers is the same as with richer tesla owners... you buy a car/tractor with 5y warranty, you service it at a dealer (to keep your warranty), and after 5y, you trade it in for a new one.

I don't think that's how that works. My grandparents own and operate a very respectable size farm for being independent and they definitely do not trade in their tractors like that. I'd be skeptical that mega-farms do this too. Even with cars the majority of the market buys second-hand, which is why the few who buy new every 5 years have someone to sell to. Tractors are an order of magnitude more expensive and independents who might consider paying good money for second-hand equipment are vanishing quickly.
You see his outline a bit later in the video, still looking fit. I actually thought the same when watching the video. I saw similar features in the faces of multiple friends who needed regular cortisone intake.
How much money is in the world and how far would it go if we evenly divided among every person? How long until it gravitated for whatever reason back into agglomerations by 1% of the population? There is no equity in the distribution of matter, accumulation begets accumulation. Why would it be different for money?
I like the idea, but I don't think it should be on github's shoulders to directly fund opensource. They do more than enough.

What I'd like to see is a fund which companies who use opensource are expected to contribute to. For every 100 employees at your company building on top of opensource software, I'd like to see at least 1 employee's salary funneled into the opensource ecosystem. That fund could have a default division based on community needs, or each company could specify how their donations are allocated. And if they donate by having their employees publish generally useful packages, thats fine too.

I don't think it should be compulsory, but I want this stuff to be very visible. If someone files an issue against one of my projects, I want to know if the organization they're part of contributes to the community, and how, and to what projects. If you want me to donate my time to fix an issue you're running into, but you don't contribute back in any way, I'd like to know that before I decide if I'm going to spend my weekend helping out.

Right now there's no incentive for companies to contribute to opensource because contributions are generally invisible. And bugs they run into usually get fixed anyway. If we tie a company's contributions to their reputation, and make reputation affect public standing, we might have a shot at changing social norms.
Sure, they are pretty closely related in pratice. The Senatorial oligarchy of Rome were pretty much also the wealthy of Rome, and often those with military power.

Still, the term implies politics... not just money. I would also hazard that it implies hereditary power. You could argue that dynastic politicians are oligarch. I'm not really disputing, just pondering.

Ultimately, for both Russians and Americans, oligarch is a (usually derogatory) analogy. It's not a formal oligarchy. We could also say aristocrats, which is more appealing to me.

Also, there's an idea that all governments, or systems of power are oligarchies. No matter what the formal system of government, some group of powerful people wield a lot of power. Rich people, religious leaders, senators, backscene power brokers, generals...
This looks very interesting... But no tests?

I'm not 100% happy with a project at work, where we're building out a jsonapi from a legacy rails app (part rewrite in-place, part move to react for front-end) - and after setting it up rswag with integration tests generating swagger schemas has been pretty nice. Not quite decided on what I think about activemodel::serializer... But it mostly works, without too much tweaking.

I've also adopted some ideas from:

https://github.com/guillaumebriday/jsonapi-scopes

For filtering/sorting - I think something like it should be in rails, really.

Rswag: https://github.com/rswag/rswag
Even (West) Germany had these odd-even driving restrictions at the same time, so definitely not related to communism.
4HWW is a how-to guide to hacking capitalism as an individual, and is a case-study of itself:
- Screw over your day-job if you have one
- Invent a "good-enough" product to entice buyers but "shit-enough" so you can make it cheaply
- Sell it to unwitting shmucks

Is this net-positive for society? Nope.
Of course. Those people are incredibly lazy. They will bite.
Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos to Be on Blue Origin’s First Human Space Flight
I love Chrome and I am amongst those who are not planning to switch anytime soon. My ecosystem is mostly Google for work, my passwords are in there, and I just enjoy the synergy with my phone, too.

But... It's true that trying Safari or Firefox or Brave showed great speed improvements over Chrome. The memory hog is real with Chrome, too.

So, if this is true and replicates in my session then this is amazing news.
Wow - surprised they rejected takeover. Most of these go through after some negotiation on price - very interesting to see a firm look to preserve itself - guess I'm curious what boards plans are.
No, Critical Race Theory Isn’t a New Civil Rights Movement. (Just the Opposite)
A search through data recovery forums like hddguru.com (they tend to have a secretive "trade union" attitude, but some useful stuff leaks through...) and the Internet reveals some more info like this:

https://www.recoveryforce.ca/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=157

Most of them seem to be head problems, and there are some outright head crashes too. Seems like bad media (leading to head failure) is mainly to blame:

https://www.cheadledatarecovery.co.uk/2016/02/seagate-dm001-...

It sounds vaguely reminiscent of the IBM DeathStars, which failed in a similar fashion.
I stopped reading at “more fragile white Princeton….” The author was making decent points, and I’ve seen plenty of non-whites going all-in on the various Feriss-style minimal work/maximal outsourcing cults that exist. There was no need for that dig. It’s quite literally irrelevant to the article.
I'm really happy that they implemented a dark mode. Hopefuly it will get a bit more customization so we can adjust the colors since the contrast is pretty harsh right now.
Why do you suppose those poor are willing to be fed off of? Maybe because they don't much in the way of better work alternatives. But guess what happens in places like India and China after a couple decades of exploitation by the rich countries? They have a huge rise in the middle class, reduction in abject poverty, emergence of their own big companies, and their country becomes significant economic players on the world stage.

The pie isn't a fixed size. It grows with increased economic activity. What happens in countries that are closed off to all the global "exploitation"? I'll let you work that out for yourself.
I am talking about simple string concatenation. Take two python programs "a.py" and "b.py", exclude command line arguments and stdio file descriptors - and, yes, the string concatenation of "a.py" and "b.py" will generally execute the same computation / "function" that executing "a.py", followed by executing "b.py" will compute.

That's true of Forth as well (and you don't even need to exclude the stack state), but not of C.

And indeed, it's not worth arguing about a non-rigorous definition, except that at the surface level there's a very inherent difference between the definition you presented and the one I know - which goes to the (rather unusual) definition of "concatenation" which appears to require function application in your definition, unlike the common use of the term in software in general.

A quick look at Wikipedia[0] indicates we are both right; The overall definition does refer to programs as functions, but the "Properties" part says "Any subexpression can be replaced with a name that represents the same subexpression. This is referred to in the concatenative community as factoring and is used extensively to simplify programs into smaller parts." It is likely an equivalent requirement (from what I remember, it is, but I don't remember all the details), but relies on the standardized, general meaning of "concatenate" rather than a narrow one specifically for this definition.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenative_programming_lang...
I've heard that the vast majority of those downloads are from CI systems. It would be cool if GitHub could draw anonymous metrics from GitHub Actions and help with this mystery.
Nope, if people in less developed countries had acceptable work conditions and were able to realize their potential in terms of skills and passion, we'd have 10x the number of innovative companies/products/technology. Life isn't zero-sum.
What about all the developers (who spend 10 hrs/day in front of their screen) that choose unix machines?
Don't use MIT. Use a GPL.
I read this a year or so ago. I remember finding the vision of the Utopian future absolutely fascinating, but I always find the sort of dystopia he described happening before that unrealistic. For me at least, it's hard to imagine there not being enormous pushback before society could get nearly that bad.

I'm definitely a bit of a utopianist, but in my mind the power of consumers versus profit driven business people always is cyclical.

I find it much more likely that the technology to autonomously create houses, grow and harvest food, and generally automate a sane, healthy life for a person will advance significantly, and some philanthropist trillionaire will buy up vast swathes of currently uninhabited land and turn it into a utopia.
Unlike the startup founders those don't get a 4 hours week after they're successful. Yes they can because wealthy, but they have to keep working 70 hours weeks to keep their business afloat.
> This is clearly historically incorrect.

> What reason is that?

How long do you have?

https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs in particular from 13:30 onwards, though the whole thing and the follow up video are both worth watching.
Since the 50s productivity has supposedly gone up by around an order of magnitude[0] in much of the world, so why isn't a four hour work week possible? Or more to the point, how come two people working 40 hours a week with only one receiving pay was replaced by two working 70 hours a week at full pay, at a time when productivity supposedly dectupled?

Say what you want about Tim Ferris and his devotees, but at least 4 is greater than 0, which is the number of hours you work if you've got an intergenerational fund of wealth slowly but surely extracting rents from the rest of the world through mortgages and dividends.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/labor-productivity-per-ho...
Taxation does fix the problem. The tax system is simply intentionally overcomplicated to allow the wealthy to avoid taxes.
Maybe... Compare these different proposals:

1. Disenfranchise everyone who hasn't voted in the last 10 years.

2. Require a two-year waiting period from the time you register as a voter before you can vote. Require registrations to be renewed every 6 years. Voting automatically renews an unexpired registration.

It seems to me that both proposals should attract a lot of attention. But one is more alarming than the other. And you could water it down to be even less alarming and make some good arguments for your proposal. This is how you boil a frog.

Here's one nobody seems to care about:

3. Require people to join a private club to be able to vote in primary elections. Only allow candidates who were nominated by those private clubs. Allow the private clubs to be controlled by a handful of people.

You know, now I think about it, right-to-repair has a great deal in common with right-to-vote.
It's gotten to a point where if I run into an issue, my first instinct is to go to the source code instead of the docs.
Jobs are automated only and only if:

If it increases yield by magnitudes while also improving quality by magnitudes.

Example from the Pickle factory:

You have 4 people putting and screwing lids on pickle jars. 4 people. 2000 Lids a day. With around 40 faulty lids.
Lets say you pay those 4 20k a year: total 80k.

An automation solution would cost you at least 400-500k. So unless this automation can do 20 000 lids a day and with only 10 faulty lids per day. Then Maybe it will be worth it. But most of the time it would not be automated.
Wow, that's a big omission in the article then.
I think the solution is pay everyone fairly. In the US, we are uncomfortable with dictating wages so it’s easier to take money away from where it accumulates and redistribute it. Unfortunately, we also suck at redistribution so no one is happy with the result.
Targeting TDP-43 Alleviates Cognitive and Motor Deficits in Aging Mice
>would love to retire in Spain. The tax burden alone makes that untenable.

Could you expand on that? Does Spain heavily tax retirees?
A global tax, is the way to inject global enforcement and global justice, hence global government. Guess which party is the only one that is international, has many genocides in its history and wants to rule the world eagerly as a predator with hunger?
It's not just that FreeCAD is "a bit hard to use" it's that it has maybe 3% of the features available in the AutoCAD suite of tools. Plus there is the massive collection of third party industry specific tools the build on top of AutoCAD.