skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When people call teamwork "design by committee", it's time to move on - you know you've accumulated a prima donna or three when that happens.

Ideas on large projects are almost always collaborative. There's never just one spark of insight - you've talked about the problem for a long time, and the whole team slowly chipped away at "but we can't do that because X, Y, Z".

The idea of a single genius motivating it belies pretty much every large project in existence. (Based on personal experience, the threshold where it's not just a single person having the crucial breakthroughs seems to be at projects requiring teams of ~20+ persons)

You solve problems via "Yes, and", not via "behold the genius".
Ask HN: Extreme MacBook Shipping Delays?
Hey HN - Is anyone else experiencing extremely long shipping delays for Macbooks? I ordered a 14-inch MBP* in March, and Apple’s showing that it’s estimated to arrive June 6-21 (!!). Are others experiencing similar? Should I contact someone about this?

(Apple M1 Max with 10-core CPU, 24-core GPU, 16-core; 32GB memory, 2TB SSD)
Yep, came here for this.

There were a couple of strange twilight years when Commodore was almost (then actually) dead, and at the same time:

An Amiga with external third party graphics card, 68060 third party CPU, SCSI-2 was faster and cheaper running MacOS than anything Apple could offer.

Notably Photoshop was faster, because it took quite a while for all filters to be competently ported to PPC, and as OP said, the PPC in the Macs weren't even that fast in the first models.

Edit: I think I might have had an account on that BSD Amiga of yours, at one time? Early 2000s if true. Someone gave me shell access to a tricked out A1200, I wonder if it could have been yours. If I recall correctly, some people had web pages there, including some musician called Zia. (You!?)
led light consumes less… for all of you not from france, bear in mind cities can spend 2 millions for just 1 roundabout. how much cost to make this light keep working in 20 years ?
two companies control nearly 100% of everything that is seen on mobile (Google / Apple)
If you care about voting don't own the ETFs and instead own the funds directly?
Not to mention there used to be more multigenerational homes...therefore more people to pay the cost.
They've evolved from the 90s into the 00s.
Almost all of their systems are hit with the same delay times right now.
Do any of these mini PCs have rack mount options/kits available? It seems like all the affordable+low power opn/pfsense boxes don't have options for rack mount other than plopping them on a shelf. Even the official ones from Netgate, their rack mountable routers start at a much higher price and performance point than I need but I really want everything tidy in my existing rack.
I was refining the posters "natural" language.

The VCs fund these projects are going after monopolies, not some capitalist delusion about "best" outcomes.

It's clarifying: Facebook isn't the "best" social platform, it simply became big enough to box out competition.

This is why corporations are allowed to operate at a loss.
When it comes to laptops:

"This my laptop, there are many like it, but this one is mine."

I look at apple's website, put the sliders to the right, and do it again in 5-6y.

I can't be bothered to figure out who has xyz feature or whatever. I don't care.
Great job! Just one comment: you spelled basketball wrong. It is not spelled “Baseketball”. Anyway, great work!
But then that's "the market", isn't it?

I also think the point of these sorts of seed programs is to offer early money that doesn't take 3-6 months of distraction-from-building to fundraise.
I’d like to see a flag somewhere to enable this. Perhaps it is a filesystem flag, similar to case-sensitivity.
- People are spending all (slight hyperbole) their time on those platforms,

- The news is informed by the content on the platforms

The platforms control the information and they control what people see as the "news".
> At this point, everyone has accepted that it is Hunter's laptop.

That isn't true at all.
It's fast on Linux and Windows for me (no Mac experience), and I use it quite a bit. It does have some annoying limited precision behaviour in GUI input fields though, always (?) rounding to a small number of decimal places. This is problematic when you're doing things like rotating by 1/7 of a turn and need things to line up.
Disney makes lots of books. Plus they own Marvel Comics.
It's not the same in the Netherlands, these companies are not big there.

However, we do have a similar problem: Almost all the news outlets are controlled by two mega corporations, DPG (De Persgroep) and Mediahuis. Both aren't even Dutch but Belgian! Only the state media (NOS) is still independent.
Sequoia has been running a similar funding program in ASEAN and South Asia for 4 years now, https://www.surgeahead.com/introducing-surge/
Heyyyyy, just realized you are that guy! I ran across your blog a couple of times and got really interested in van life.

(hehe, sorry, I got over excited)
Im sure the dev work that went into this was fun and skill-building and enlightening, and im a huge fan of indie multiplayer in general, but stealth games like this have never really worked for me.

Overall, the multiplayer experience was seamless, the ui is a bit offputting, and the game itself feels like a non-starter:

moving in steps is less fun than free movement, so if you have turn based movement you need a secondary goal or some kind of resource generation

1v1 puts more pressure on players

hidden opponent = no clear goal at start of game

My ideal version of the game would have:

larger lobbies

timer for turns instead of sequential (or even better, an action point bar that fills up in real time)

drops as money for a shop instead of straight powerups

make movement a single click (remove confirmation)
This is just really fun & cool to see in general.

The very end has an absolute gem. @rctestflighty compares the 3-element versus single element wing by using a fog machine & line laser to see the airflow very clearly. So delighted to see this low-cost visualization tool in action! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc7PcmAl7Ag#t=13m18s
They host but don’t control content via e.g. editorial policy, ideology or private interests.

To push a movie to Disney+ one needs their agreement to take it. YouTube allows anyone to post anything (aside from infringing or illegal).
Wow. So I read this as benefits to humanity. Clicked in: peak-HN - it's personal.
Interesting, only in the anecdotal sense, that in today's world of incessant "AI" hype, a top commenter on HN would not have encountered the SAIL acronym.
This hits the nail on the head with a sledgehammer. It’s not merely difficult for the ideological reasons I outlined but also because of the power structures one deals with discussing it. Ah, the banal bureaucracy of evil.
For a list of clients see: https://delightful.club/delightful-fediverse-clients/
Documentation; narrative & technical.

Systems like SDF have an enormous rich history of implementing technology but the what, how, and why seems lost.

In a corporate environment, this knowledge is often passed down (or later inferred) because it must be but unavailable to the masses.

I couldn’t technically recreate SDF if I wanted to. I can build something functionally similar but the components would be very different.
There are cheap HDMI to USB capture devices on Amazon/eBay: https://sites.duke.edu/ddmc/2020/06/23/ultra-cheap-hdmi-to-u...
People have thought of it. I recall a Soviet design that would have put wings on the strap-on boosters.

Wings are heavy, a parachute is lighter. Every pound added is many pounds less payload.
The two buckets I'd put people in are those who regurgitate mainstream news and those who ignore it completely. In other words, the brainwashed and the braindead. People who read books have become outliers. Social media has destroyed people's attention span.
The previous poster does have a point though. A lot of the 'news' people see on Facebook and the like are simply shared from other news outlets on facebook. Facebook doesn't produce the news but it disseminates it.

Because of this some countries even wanted to impose a facebook tax. Like Australia.
"Britain is not a democracy in any modern sense of the word."

Demos kratos - things/doings of the people (or similar) - Old Greek. Nowadays it describes a generally agreed form of government and approach to governing. After that it gets pretty complicated - your democracy may not match mine ...

I'm going to be voting for councillors soon in Somerset, along with everyone else here who can be bothered to turn out. We are not forced to vote. We can freely discuss the vote. We have a reasonable expectation of our vote being counted correctly and can inspect the process if we wish. We can volunteer to count votes too.

That's just local government stuff. Obviously, countrywide elections are taken rather more seriously.

I'm sure your home country of India has similar processes and probably invented them in the first place.
>No one confiscates passports, it is a nonsense.

Confiscate is probably too extreme a word, but when I lived in UAE many employers held onto (e.g. in the office safe) their employees passports. At some point I think the government realized this could be abused, and then there was an centralized office (at least in Jebel Ali, it was different in Abu Dhabi) where your employer asked you to have them hold your passport. To get your passport you had to get a letter from your employer saying it was okay for you to get it. Or, in my case, I left my job and got it back.

Personally, I hated the fact that I had to ask my employer for my passport when I got accepted into Grad school in the US and had to tell my employer I needed it for a few days to get a visa. I never questioned the legality of it though, and according to this it's not legal for employers to force you to hand over your passport.

https://gulfnews.com/uae/find-out-if-your-employer-is-author...

But like most legal things, when you are on a work visa you are scared of anything that might harm that. So you don't challenge or ask questions. It's pretty common for people on H1B to stay at an job they hate even though changing jobs on H1B is supposed to be easy. I certainly stayed at a bad job longer than I wanted to until my green card process hit a certain point. I think legally I could have changed earlier, but the company immigration attorney certainly gaslighted me on many things, and I was just too scared to take any risks with visa stuff. It's easy for a company to exploit that fear.
Yeah but they choose what, from all that produced stuff, you will see and not-see. Which is a pretty big deal. Maybe bigger control than the producers.
I think the bigger issue is what % of content is being filtered through a recommendation algorithm that has been trained on probably very similar metrics.

Even if there are 6-20-100 companies if they are all using similar metrics, ad clicks, retention and so on in terms of what to recommend people it seems likely there will be a high degree of convergence.

What does society look like when most of what we consume is optimized for these metrics? It also changes what content is even created. There is a lot of talk about politics/elections but I think the changes are even more far reaching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgmpJIyYY1Y

Weirdly I think this video is one of the most disturbing. Makes you really question to what degree our collective culture is being shaped by these recommendation systems.

The algorithmic construction of reality.

Designed to drip feed us dopamine in high definition. How many people are going to be on their deathbed wishing they had scrolled just a little further?
This makes a lot of sense to me.

What do you think about their other assertion that the search page is getting a gigantic number of hits that a/ cannot be cached and b/ cannot be rate limited because they're using a botnet?
If anyone from a16z is monitoring this thread, there is a 404 from the apply page, the link to "find out more here".

I'm keen to find out more before I fill out the application.
And of course: the Scary Devil Monastery.
Right, but don't come crying on HN when you are locked out of all of them because a single one of them got flagged for some arbitrary reason...

You can agree or not, but Google effectively starts treating them as a intrinsically linked accounts once you sign them into the same session (as you are now noticing).

The solution is to keep them in separate sessions, using either profiles, multi-account-containers, or whatever else you prefer.

Alternatively, if you have a handful which are more of occasional transient sessions, you could start the habit of using those from private(firefox)/incognito(chromium) windows, though that sounds like it could be more hassle if you have many of them.
Hardware, Software, Wetware
I feel like it was an issue that a lot of people cared about when only a few cars had super bright headlights. People wanted to outlaw it, or at least put an upper limit on it. I'm surprised that the world went in the direction of everyone having them, but maybe I shouldn't be, since a similar thing happened with giant military-style SUVs. Now that most people have crazy bright headlights they don't complain as much, or they're used to it, or they're like "got mine, screw you" as with most things. Older people like my parents just won't drive at night anymore because oncoming lights are too blinding. But if you don't regularly drive an older car it's easy to forget how you used to actually have better night vision when all the lights on the road were dimmer.
How come you have owned 10, do you replace them regularly when they aren’t broken?
Not just nuclear weapons. NATO, huge military installations all across Europe and carrier groups patrolling all around. That coming after WWII lend-lease, direct military intervention and the Marshall plan.

The pacifist European needs to learn about geopolitics.
I stopped reading around: "Protestants may have arms for their defence suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law;" and something about (only) Ireland repealed it in [1].

In [2] it says, quite straight faced, that "The Constitution of the United Kingdom or British constitution comprises the written and unwritten arrangements that establish the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a political body. Unlike in most countries, no attempt has been made to codify such arrangements into a single document. Thus, it is known as an uncodified constitution. This enables the constitution to be easily changed as no provisions are formally entrenched.[2] However, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom recognises that there are constitutional principles, including parliamentary sovereignty, the rule of law, democracy and upholding international law".

There is no codified constitution but there are constitutional principles. Because it is not "entrenched" it can be easily changed. How can someone even say this without an Orwellian sneer? If a North Korean said that we would laugh them out of the room.

Edit: North Korea does have a constitution. Written. Just not followed. Britain does not have a written constitution but it is followed (how?), except when it is not as in the wag that it just takes a minister's signature to violate an unwritten (but somehow codified) constitutional principle.
> But I am curious why "critical race theory" would be in a math textbook.

Unless they actually tell us what they found, we really won't know. It could just be more FUD to stir up the base, actually, that is probably what it is.
I've been daily-drivering on Linux for Desktop and Laptop for months and Linux across 4 different distros has made me feel more helpless than Windows ever did. Sure, the Windows "police" would come in and straighten my update settings (which is ultimately why I abandoned Windows), but Linux you get the helplessness of sometimes having something break and the only answer you can find after spending half of your weekend searching for solutions is just "idk, give up and reset your entire OS" or "Yea, that bit of hardware just doesn't work with the Linux kernel and never will because some BDFL hates someone who worked at that company".

I'm currently living with SO MANY "crooked picture frames" on all my devices that I've just given up on fixing after spending tens of hours on them and burning my free time on it. I still prefer Linux in general for a lot of the reasons you like it, but just doing basic "I want to install a program to take screenshots" has send me down hours of reading about how window compositing systems work, and why Snap is the devil even though everyone seems to be using it now. If I wasn't single and had better hobbies other than tinkering with config files, I'd have given up months ago.
Even less justification when you can use GNU Octave, which has the same language, can use the same scripts, has the same functions, and has Octave Forge to download plug-ins for those functions you could miss from MATLAB.
Relatedly — the court found that LinkedIn was selling a very similar dataset to the one they were attempting to cut off — so the claim that they were protecting customers' privacy was stretched
> Z but also in X&Y to actually work as a Faraday cage.

The x-y could be done by the contiguous ground above and below the tape. For example a can/shield stuck onto a ground region of a PCB, with signal lines going up nearby. I imagine this is mostly used with flex PCBs.
A single place where all government officials, maybe elected officials, can make announcements that you can filter (or follow officials youd prefer to follow, would that make it web app enough?)
by branch or state? Haven’t seen such a webpage yet.
There you go and that is the truth here. Other than the open source tech echo chamber using it, it has no network effect to get regular users off of Twitter and to use Mastodon (the actual platform).

2 million users after 6 years is more or less of a slow failure to move users off of Facebook, and Twitter on to Mastodon's own platform.

I had high hopes for Mastodon to compete against the likes of even Twitter. It still cannot. It is also not 'early days' either.
What does this mean?

"If founding a technology company is a dream of yours—even if you don’t yet have a fully formed idea and haven’t yet quit your day job—we want to hear from you!"
I think you mean 3×10¹⁴ ohms/square.
> How do you know the other compiler is "clean"?

You assert that the other compiler won't contain the exact same backdoor, not that it contains no backdoor.

> different compilers could produce different, equally valid instructions, such as debug vs. release builds

The binaries you're comparing are output by two instances of the same compiler codebase (each instance created by a different compiler). So as long as that compiler is deterministic, each run should have the exact same output.
I'm the same way - I just signed up (again) to the main mastodon.social server and realized I have to have a separate account for each server I want to be a part of? I'm just confused at this whole thing.
there is an old meme about VK users begging Pavel Durov (then CEO) to "Bring back the wall"

"the wall" was basically a classic feed without the algorithms and bullshit

Smithereen actually takes this idea to extreme and completely recreates 2011-era VK look and features and especially "the wall"
is this similar to e3 metals?
Because you're visiting from HN and annoying HN users can be funny. See also https://jwz.org (NSFW when visited from HN)
Oh, that's awesome that it helped your NT friends understand! :D

That was my goal with the video, even though I thought it was somewhat "lofty". lol

This is the first time I've been on the ycombinator forum. I created the account just to respond to this thread. I'm happy to reply here, although I may be slower to reply here than on Twitter.

I forgot to mention earlier that my lapel mic died in the middle of filming and I had to replace it... so some of that audio distortion on the video is likely because the original mic was failing at the time.
It's a truly special place.

I've had e-mail and a web presence since 2000 because of sdf.org. Long before I would have understood anything about setting up my own server.

And I learned much of my core unix knowledge there.
> To take any action but that which is recommended to her by relevant (elected) parties would result in a pretty big crisis that would ultimately see her ceremonial roles stripped.

This actually did occur in Belgium: in 1990 then-king Baudouin refused to sign abortion laws in to effect, citing his Catholic faith. The Belgian constitution allows for parliament to sign laws in to effect if the king is incapacitated so they declared him incapacitated for a day, signed the laws in to effect, after which everything continued as before (the exact legal manoeuvring is a little bit more complex, but this is essentially what it amounted to).

I would imagine something similar would happen in the UK; for reasons that elude me personally the monarchy is quite popular, so I wouldn't necessarily expect it to be stripped of all ceremonial roles.

Reading the applicable Regency Act of 1937 it has similar language that could be used to the same effort, but of course hard to be sure without it actually happening :-)
>> They host but don’t control content

Not according to professional content creators. Every one I have ever talked to openly states that they regularly alter their content to optimize compliance with youtube algorithms. Content is controlled, promoted, diminished, monetized or eliminated by the algorithms which are the embodiment of youtube's policy decisions. If you want to actually make a living on youtube, you will care as much about what youtube thinks of your content as you do your viewers.
Scrapers can pay a commercial service to Mechanical Turk their way through reCAPTCHA. It makes a meaningful difference to scraping costs at scale, but sometimes it's still profitable.
Say what you will about the value of these but I find my £99 (new) Redmi note 6 pro is doing wonderfully with LineageOS 18.1 running on Android 11 (while Xiaomi is only supplying 9 on their default "MiUI").
These phones can be priced so agressively because they know they can extract money from you in other ways like selling usage activity or preinstalling certain apps. In fact when I tried the default OS out before installing Lineage there were ads built into the system apps.
So by getting a phone compatible with a ROM like LineageOS you can both have the great monetary price without paying with your privacy and freedom.
What if we have multiple classes of threads with varying scheduling and interruption policies?