skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the great comment!

I am hard pressed to consider its development spiral (which requires frequent releases, if not as frequent as Agile). With an aircraft you really don't iterate on airframes the way you might even with OS releases.

> This makes is sufficiently different to the software development process discussion, that I think it's really an apples-to-oranges comparison.

Despite the prime's assertion that it was "spiral", really it was in the end a classic waterfall as I said. But you make a better point: is there really any other way with a mechanical device (especially as demanding a one as an aircraft)?

We do see coarse iterations with various adaptations of aircraft that change length, power plant etc (consider all the versions of 747, 737, A350, et al). It's a stretch to try to consider that spiral, much less agile. The iterations are slow, comprehensive (involving much interconnection) and not really back compatible. More like OS/360 releases (which is the origin of the waterfall metaphor).

I do remember the objective of the program, but it wasn't really grasped adequately (composable elements), a point I think you are making. And there was no feedback in the development process; rather the opposite, with Lockheed given essentially a blank check. The Clinton military-industrial-complex restructuring has a lot to answer for.
Thanks for the recommendation.

If anyone else is interested, the app's website is
https://trackercontrol.org
The Dyer Midget is a pretty solid boat (about 8-ft long and costs $4k). I practiced sailing around on local lakes with it as a teen and love it.

If you’re aiming for low maintenance, go for something that’s small and storable in a garage since exposure to the elements and water will beat your boat to hell. It won’t be a yacht, but you can still sail around and drink some beer with a friend or two.
Batteries: Making Electricity from Rotting Soil
I think this approach is working too hard to realize Virtual Tables and Virtual Pointers. Another, different implementation is to define an array of function pointers, one function per method implemented, and then extend the array per subclass; each child class fills in its own or parents function pointers at init time.
What $ price would you put on dedicated Linux support?
Try GNU Cash - https://gnucash.org/
Cult or Commune: Inside ‘The Garden’
Ya same here. Made my decision to purchase a System76 Lemur Pro pretty easy though, as that was the only model at the time with a centered keyboard and trackpad.
Honestly everyday people aren't becoming woke - when they actually find out about it, they get majorly pissed off and angry.
It's so funny to see this post on HN. I recently took the plunge and got rid of Mint for Beancount. I probably spent 10 hours getting things set up. So far I really like being in full control of the "database" via a composition of files. Even a database feels too heavy-handed for my personal accounts. It was a lot of fun to learn accounting terminology and methodologies like the double-entry accounting.

The most annoying part of the process is being required to download CSV files from each of my bank/cc/investment accounts.

I thought about building some APIs to be able to download this data automatically but some of my banks do not have publicly available APIs. That's hilarious to me because something like Mint or Plaid can get API access to my bank transactions but I, the owner the of the accounts, cannot.

Not only that, but you can only download CSVs for the last 2 years. Mint/Plaid can get the entire account history.
Breast milk of vaccinated mothers contains antibodies, study shows
- Reading books (most recently, Nassim Taleb's books)
- Running (before lockdowns, now home workout is a very good alternative)
- Fasting
- Philosophy (Rene Girard, ancient Roman philosophy)
- History (my home country of course... also love the story of how Mehmed the Conqueror overtook Constantinople and ended Roman empire)
- Travel (mostly due to work but I always appreciated and respect the local cultures and landscapes)
- Art
- Music
- Movies
- Cars (most favs are Porsche as a modern business, and of course Tesla)
Recently, due to lockdowns I fall in love with cooking too.
I've run OpenWRT in a VM before as a gateway to a set of other VMs on the host, but I'm skeptical about the performance implications of running it in a VM for my primary internet connection.

In general, I find VMs a huge pain to manage compared to containers. I don't run any VMs at home anymore, aside from firing a temporary one up from time to time to try out some random ISO.
wow that is one clickbaity title, not gonna fall for it
Oo neat, thanks for pointing this out. Linux-first is the way.
How bad is it for them really? I read some stories but it seems the vast majority want to continue living in South Africa.
>However, this is limited to Xorg (which is fine for most applications), however there is growing native support for Wayland.

The principle of nesting Xephyr inside the host X server easily extends to nesting cage or sway or weston inside the host's wayland compositor.
According to Wikipedia 54-74 white farmers have been killed in South Africa in the past 5 years. Compared to the annual murder rate of 20,000 per year that seems negligible. How is this comparable to apartheid at all? Also I would hardly call 10 people being killed a year en mass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_farm_attacks?wpr...
> To give you an example of the sort of high contrast user interfaces I like, turn on he dark High Contrast theme in VS Code.

No idea what they do different, but while I don’t prefer it, it looks a lot less problematic than the website. There is no glare effect where the letters bleed into the black.
Their newer stuff may be better. I just ordered a brand new Lemur Pro 14". Keyboard and trackpad aren't anything to brag about but seem fine.
Plaid does not get API access to your bank account. Plaid logs into the same interface you do and scrapes the data. It’s why account import in things like Mint, YNAB etc are so flaky.

EDIT: It seems Plaid has negotiated API access with some institutions at this point, but historically has primarily relied on screen scraping.
>How and why did we become fixated on flowers in the first place?

Is this really a hard thing to think about? Flowers brighten up any room. If they are fragrant, they can even liven up a room with their fragrance. It could have also been some sort of show of wealth. You had to have money to have a nice enough garden to have flowers available to cut. The oils from flowers have been used for perfumes for centuries. To me any room with no plants feels dead. Just something in the corner that is green and leafy makes a huge difference. Flowers also add color to that. There's lots of reasons for people to want flowers.

Unless you are super sensitive with allergies, you kind of have to be a little dead on the inside to not see the appeal.
I disagree. Most of relativity comes from the fact that all objects have an average velocity of their fundamental constituents. The highest average velocity is C, when the object is a beam of electromagnetic energy. This is why it takes infinite energy to accelerate an object to the speed of light, you can add more photons to it, but the average will always be less than C, you just get it slightly closer.

The reason for time dilation and the other facets of relativity pretty much come down to the fact that objects either move or change, but cannot do both simultaneously. One can think of time passing inside a spacecraft or object as internal movement, as oppose to the external movement of the spacecraft throughout the cosmos. Each bit of energy provides h (Planck's constant) action, a measure of change of state. The more the object allocates toward external movement in space, the less it can allocate for internal movement / internal changes, which is what observer time really is. Even though I say external vs internal, I am not violating relativity. The reference frames are relative, we do not need an absolute reference frame.

Doubly special relativity deduces most of these elegant derivations by assuming there is a smallest quanta of energy possible, but nonetheless, these concepts can be derived just by understanding the role of mass as loops of energy, energy as an allowance for change of state, and time as the usage of energy for internal change of state, and movement as the usage of energy for external change of state.

Relativity is just the consequence of energy's connection to information and movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubly_special_relativity
Linux is a side project for Lenovo though. System76 is a Linux-only vendor which means every interaction is with someone who knows what the heck they're talking about.
If you received a cow and some land today you'd surely sell it, but if you received it when he wrote this.. I'm not so sure this choice would be obvious. Also, I guess the point he makes is not getting a cow for it's own sake, but receiving tools/support to become independent - from landlords, from some businesses, etc. Freedom, even in not so great conditions, is freedom, which is arguably better than golden handcuffs.
Translation: it’s bad PR for my tribe.

One of the privileges of occupying a position of hegemony is that you get to instruct your subjects in how they are allowed to refer to power, and pathologize expressions that are offensive to it. Liberals have all these rules about how you are allowed to describe liberals—the idea that we should observe similar courtesies when describing the “reactionary right-wing” as you pejoratively put it is, naturally, absurd.

So even an anodyne description like “liberal moral agenda” of what is objectively a moral agenda informed by liberal priorities becomes verboten, simply because it allows its adversaries to vocalize their opposition to it. Depriving the opposition of their own vocabulary and replacing it with one of your making is a classic move—anyone who fails to update their dictionary marks themselves as an enemy.

Someone is indeed making conversation impossible to have, but whose fault is that, exactly?
More could be done to fund research that showcases the importance and value of transformative models, so that countermeasures to existential threats have time to be developed. So long as there is a practical strategy for mitigating the philosophical problems such as software licenses and risk-managing existential threats to public safety, I think OpenAI deserves the liberty to take a profit. But exclusively licensing such models to corporations is very harmful to liberty and continual exaccerbation of the imbalance of economic power will lead to humanicide. All people need to benefit from this technology, or the people that are ignored will suffer from it.
Damn it has been that many years...
depends about the meaning behind the act, overwhelming anger or moving on I guess
Any particular suggestions? Although it is compact, I have tried to carefully choose the wording and arrange the sections so each concept builds on the last. Also, I intentionally avoid unnecessary mathematical abstraction; for example, the abstract definition of manifolds using coordinate charts, and tangent vectors as differential operators. This really tripped me up when trying to learn GR from standard textbooks.
> Even the full majesty of the Texas state government presumably can’t force a webhost to ignore its ToS if it doesn’t want to

Given that there's a growing movement to use state power against tech censorship, I expect this claim to be empirically tested in the near future.
Still? I’ve never seen it proposed before so would love to see the existing conversations on the topic.

Countries that already have something similar are productive, the differences are that quarterly profits arent obsessed over and valuations arent as stretched as a “consequence”. So who cares? Ooohh noo productivity declined because some ridiculous impossible quarterly goal wasnt met, not the strongest counterpoint
Sure, Linux happens to work on your Zephyrus. But System76 is a Linux-only vendor and is working to integrate hardware and software. That means you're getting great support from Linux geeks on any issues that arise - and investing in the future of Linux rather than begging free help from a community.
This is a problem with any similar thing that already has a heavily established site. One is my hobbies is boardgames. The longest running site is Board Game Geek (BGG). It’s age shows (this was the front page of the site until very recently https://www.boardgamegeek.com/dashboard), but more modern competitors have had issues trying to get a foot hold. The most recent one is Board Game Atlas. They have tried all kinds of things to lure users, such as contests, but I’m sure the percentage of people using it is a fraction to BGG.
>I also consider it completely unforgivable that florists

Computers can be used for evil, do computer sales people mention that to any potential customer? Do car sales mention that you can murder people with the item you are purchasing?

One could flip it and say you are a bad pet parent for not knowing things are dangerous to your pet.
> You can get a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu preinstalled and a 4K 3840x2160 display

I have the 4k XPS 15” from 3 years ago running Ubuntu, which I have been very happy with.

The biggest issue I have is poor support when using Linux for the 4k display. So many niggles and problems with the Retina display and I have tried a variety of different workarounds, and I still have quite a few unresolved issues. I personally wished I had bought the 1024p display. Currently I am fighting with trying to upscale Wine and there is no simple solution - meanwhile the fonts and everything for the application I am trying to run are so tiny as to be unusable (Aside: the Wine Display Configuration text size setting does not help).

Apart from that, the XPS has been a solid performer running Linux with no noticeable software issues. The firmware is still getting patches through Ubuntu which is impressive.

The one persistent niggle with the XPS range is that there is a “coil whine”, which sounds exactly like a tinny speaker tuned to the CPU usage. It isn’t loud but if a noticeable annoying noise drives you insane then be very careful before buying an XPS. I would hope they have fixed the problem, but it had been an ongoing problem with previous models for years, so caveat emptor.
> That little circle of exposed circuit? That's a touch pad. Yes a touch pad. Not a switch. No, a switch circuit with a physical switch doesn't look like that. Yes I'm sure.

It's funny how confident he is here, because that is actually not a touchpad, it's a trace for a membrane pushbutton.
Ah good to know, I've been trying to understand the difference between this and the Lemur Pro. I just purchased the Lemur and am happy with it.
A simple aspirin will work as well.
Would you light candles and leave flowers in a trail to the bathtub? Make an occasion out of it
Yes. Any time there is a power vacuum, there are strongmen waiting to step in and grab that power. As terrible as democracy is, we haven't yet invented anything better to keep the strongmen at bay. So the libertarians will have to live under the rules that society dictates, and here we are.
Clicking the button to "download info" about their products leads me to a form to schedule a meeting. Talk about wanting to keep to secrets!

Luckily, the other websites are more forthcoming. Their "Intensifier" reduces sodium usage by providing taste of umami (according to [0]), so this is an organically-derived and mysteriously-named MSG equivalent.

[0] http://blog.investchile.gob.cl/chilean-foodtech-firm-creates...
You should talk to someone, they might be able to help you to look at your life from another perspective
I chose my callsign to have palindromic letters, NT4TN, because I like the rhythm of it when spoken and I think the repeated words are easier to copy. November Tango Four Tango November.

I might have made it morse palindromic if I'd thought of that, instead I chose it to have a short morse and vericode length.

(I think I might have selected the palendromic available call with the shortest vericode length, but I think it was still close to the shortest morse, or maybe the other way around-- I'm not sure if I could figure out which now since I dunno what callsigns were available at the time)

Here is a one liner to get all the matching words from the dictionary using the rule in the article:

$ cat /usr/share/dict/words | perl -lne "tr /ABDFGQNVULWYabdfgqnvulwy/NVULWYABDFGQnvulwyabdfgq/; print scalar reverse" | sort | uniq | cat - /usr/share/dict/words | sort | uniq -c | awk '{if($1==2){print $2}}'

Here are the longest ones on my system:

finspot
footstool
gorcrow
ottetto
pip-pip
saimins
secants
sememes
stances
topsail
waifing
wailing
wairing
waiting
I mean... I remember reading a story about a guy in CA that brought a calculator to a store to make sure he didn't shoplift more than $950 or whatever the Prop 47 limit was.

See: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:R-TCCeO...

"There was the thief in San Bernardino County who had been caught shoplifting with his calculator, which he said he used to make sure he never stole the equivalent of $950 or more."
Suck it up for awhile and support a Linux-focused vendor? Linux won't magically succeed without your support.

Linux is a side project for Dell at best, they have one model that officially supports (Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition).
I haven't tried it yet. I'm still trying to make Lunch Money work. They just implemented roll over budgeting. I want to see if I can get that going. TBH the main problem is a lack of time dedicated to figuring it all out.
Where in the world are they still paying pandemic relief funds 18 months into the pandemic?
I’m not an expert in this but I can see you’re mixing up a few things

> However, the only acceptable treatment for trans-presenting children is 100% acceptance and affirmation

This is a bit reductive isn’t it? You can take them at their word while observing and interrogating in an age-appropriate way. If that means others need to treat the kids as if they’re 100% trans while their guardians work on it then so be it

> including a continuing push for puberty-stopping medication.

Only relevant when puberty is about to begin and kids need more time to solidify their identity

> If some of those children aren’t trans, but they are being told they are and are given hormones

Kids don’t get hormones. At the most extreme they get puberty blockers, which are generally safe and given to many other people in many other contexts for many other reasons
Is there any advantage to OLAP cube over plain SQL (large historical database regularly updated with production data)?

It sounds like certain common queries may be extra fast as it's kind of pre-computed?
It would be a bit of an oddly named event should a man (of effigy of) not be burnt.

Which goes full circle, somewhat of a line break after a paragraph of text, or <FIN> in a movie, as what's being burnt is one's self through the event, in-person or in-spirit, seeking catharsis, though perhaps best captured Sartre-esque in the words emblazoned on Patrick Bateman's eyes as he stars and realises that this is not an exit but a return to lives passively rejecting status quo, outwardly promoting radical change by words while passionately embracing the norm, tiny iterations of which are pointed to for the justification of conforming to a safe radical that maintains a lifestyle and entry to the club, a very empty club, for the unchanging monotony to maintain itself and me to maintain my place in the hegemony of our constructed rules.
Typically people think they are a citizen of their countries even long after the writing was on the wall
Very little margin and too much optimization/efficiency is bad for resilience. Couple that with private equity backed near entire market leverage monopolies/duopolies/oligopolies that control necessary supply and you have trouble.

HBS is even realizing too much optimization/efficiency is a bad thing. The slack/margin is squeezed out and with that, an ability to change vectors quickly. It is the large company/startup agility difference with the added weight of physical/expensive manufacturing.

The High Price of Efficiency, Our Obsession with Efficiency Is Destroying Our Resilience [1]

> Superefficient businesses create the potential for social disorder.

> A superefficient dominant model elevates the risk of catastrophic failure.

> *If a system is highly efficient, odds are that efficient players will game it.*

Over efficiency and supply chain concentration single point(s) of failure (China/Asia with chips especially across Hong Kong and Taiwan that make most of the chips) caused supply chain disruptions, some hoarding is also going on with chips. [2]

The HBA MBA-itis and Chicago style thinking of excessive efficiency made the players that can compete larger and less of them, that takes away resilience and leads the market to gaming. The market has thus been gamed as the players that control it are more powerful in terms of market leverage. When you give up diversification and flexibility you get leverage and added weight to any needed quick changes as the large players attempt to control the market. [3]

US is now building up silicon supply chains again [4][5], it was much bigger in the 90s/early 00s with Intel/Motorola/etc additionally, but business leaders allowed a concentration to happen and it led to market leverage.

Hopefully that same mistake is not made in the future. It will take time to build up diversification of market leverage in terms of chips for availability.

This chip shortage, and all the supply chain problems during the pandemic as well, will hopefully introduce more wisdom and knowledge into business institutions that just because things are ok while being overly super efficient, that is almost a bigger risk than higher prices/costs. Competition is a leverage reducer. Margin is a softer ride even if the profit margins aren't as big.

[1] https://hbr.org/2019/01/the-high-price-of-efficiency

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-stockpiles-chips-chip-m...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-03/china-sto...

[4] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/23/intel-is-spending-20-billion...

[5] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/15/tsmc-to-build-us-chip-factor...
Borax
What you fail to mention (although you linked to an article that covers it) - is that Toyota was prepared due to the setbacks they suffered in the Tsunami. If it wasn't for that, they would not have stockpiled for and been ready for a pandemic. Even so, they are now dealing with chip shortages as well.
Definitely check out System76. They're one of the few Linux-only laptop vendors. That means you're supporting the future of Linux by making it mainstream and helping more Linux-focused models exist.

Dell and Lenovo put up with Linux but it's a side project for them at best. And other vendors dgaf.
The problem is the "write everything in Go" mentality doesn't result in the best result. Syscall interfaces aren't easy, and glibc has been doing this properly for ages; Go reinvented it and screwed up vDSO calls.

I want whatever programming language I use to allow me to make use of the best possible code available. These days, that means C libraries very often, especially when performance is concerned (this isn't a "C is fast" thing, it's a "people have already spent decades optimizing C libraries, often with architecture-specific SIMD and assembly" thing). Not only that, but this is required on Windows for syscalls. Go started off with this idea of prioritizing reinventing the world over a good FFI, and is now paying the price in overhead on Windows, because they couldn't reinvent the world there. If they had a good FFI, they also wouldn't have had to reinvent glibc, and would avoid the potential bugs that come with that.

In the end, I just don't agree with treating FFI as a second class citizen. You need to be able to interoperate well with the C world (Rust is a good example of this).