skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SC has been a fantastic spend for $40 for my original kickstarter pledge. I even bought another ship for a 2nd account because the game is really most enojied with others.

I have 100+ hours, and yes it fracking sucks when you spend half an hour going to some desolate moon, to do the equivalent of some USPS worker, just to stub your toe on the stairs and die. Be spawned back Lorville, wait for the wrecking crew get your ship, only to realize you og ship has dsynced and every was a waste. But it is funny, or at least maybe I enoji that masochism of it all. Besides that the game is actually really beautiful and weird, and vast, and lonely, all in one.

When did the internet or HN in general become the gatekeepers on what people are allowed to enoji or spend their money on. We all do stuff than anyone else can call out as wasteful.
This is what I use as well. The software can be a slight pain in the ass, but once you get used to a handful of quirks it's pretty smooth sailing. I've used it for teams calls, web-based barcode scanning testing, etc. Never had it cut out on me due to some arbitrary limitation.

Having a webcam on a proper tripod makes it really easy to control variables in testing of things like barcode scanning and other image recognition tasks as well. Being able to swap lenses and manually control the entire system can make a huge difference for my purposes. I will tape my test samples to a whiteboard (sometimes with varying backgrounds) and place the camera at a fixed location from it.

I don't go much further than the camera and basic software. I don't have patience for backdrops, lights, finicky software chains, etc. I simply do M50=>canon software=>windows webcam device.
For a second after I read the title, before I saw the domain, I thought that Linus had written a followup article to his original -- very popular on HN -- one.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=The%20TTY%20demystified&sort=b...
Checkout Tow-Boot, it's not 100% there yet, but I'm using it to EFI boot nixos on a pinephone, granted it's the Alwinner one, not the rockchip one, but still.
Short answer: No.
Longer answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Bugs? Roll back. Bugs are generally proportional to LOC, not number of deploys - given that's a DevOps variable and not a programming one – so the only relevant difference I can imagine is less chance of a multi-bug, multi-factorial, multi-dependent, nightmarish-to-fix incident.
And yours reads like someone who can hardly paint but has pride in their developed taste. The "naive unrepressed expression of a random grade schooler" is absolutely not difficult to achieve, especially compared to something like this from Ramon Alex Hurtado:

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541f6defe4b091...
Reminds me a lot of what you could do in "Tachyon: The Fringe". Space combat sims are a lot more fun when their devs remember that spacecraft aren't as constrained as World War II fighters.
Every single time there are some people who love C (in my experience for the reason they haven't worked professionally in C++) that claim that they're actually WAY more productive and readable when working in C.

C++ is basically almost a perfect super-set of C. Use the parts of C++ that are useful to you, don't use the parts that aren't. Clearly std::vector, std::string, std::unordered_map would be ultra useful to anyone. Especially because they are easier to use, more optimized, not as prone to errors as their C equivalents.

I blame Jonathan Blow and Muratori for this. They somehow got the entire gamedev community to worship the idea of writing things in C. People grow out of it really fast though, as soon as they actually learn C++.
I am intrigued that a restaurant can seemingly just be flooded with orders without regard for capacity. Surely this has been an issue before?
Also, using external compactors give another independent scaling dimension. Nice
This is not true, qualified dividends are taxed at the capital gains rate. Most are qualified.

Also, with the windfall the $1,000,000 company is no longer worth that much, it is worth $1,000,000 + the windfall, so you will be buying back at a much higher rate.
Netflix genuinely did break with orthodoxy on this point and paid more than “reasonable pay” (meaning median pay) and the approach seemed to work with their engineering so competent that a major AWS outage that seemingly took out a quarter of the internet didn’t take down Netflix despite its disproportionately higher needs for cloud infrastructure. I think it certainly made sense for them to do in hindsight as a high growth company, high standards and high pay likely fuelled their growth and expanded their moat.

I question if the strategy still makes sense as they seem to be getting eaten alive by spendthrifts like Disney.

As an aside, from an employees perspective, I think expecting much out of your employees and giving them high pay is fundamentally respecting them more than giving them “reasonable pay” and shrugging your shoulders and going “eh, I’ll make do with what I have”.
Can you share what you liked? What are the magical moments?
I was recently at the Getty Villa where they have many of these in display. Really fascinating to see such realistic paintings of people from ancient times. Egypt at this time period was such a diverse mixture of people.
It’s been a while since I read the book, but I think Johnson had hypothesized that more modern reading experiences (e.g. browsing the Internet) might require more context switching and mental processing than traditional written formats like a newspaper. Granted, he wrote the book in 2005, but I do think memes and other internet-native forms of content are challenging in new and different ways.
But I have seen professional knife jugglers, and none made a mistake.
The guy should have been "axed" for dating a student. Not for his opinions. Given the power dynamics at play, any professor found to be dating a student should be terminated immediately. The real scandal here is why he wasn't "axed" in 2020 for dating a student. Am I wrong in believing that a professor dating a student is a far more egregious "crime" than stating an opinion on a controversial topic?
thanks for the tips, will definitely try to replace the USB port and back when I do the battery. Is your phone still waterproof?
I just used my iPhone's rear camera as a webcam. Works surprisingly well, and had even less issues than trying to use my mirrorless Fuji cameras. Quality is substantially better than my built-in webcam, but about the same in a compressed stream as the mirrorless really.
Copying a comment from below - it’s been a while since I read the book, but I think Johnson had hypothesized that more modern reading experiences (e.g. browsing the Internet) might require more context switching and mental processing than traditional written formats like a newspaper. Granted, he wrote the book in 2005, but I do think memes and other internet-native forms of content are challenging in new and different ways.
The reason it's important to stick to established standards is precisely to avoid discussions like this. It's a total waste of engineering time, so, in this case, be boring.
During lockdown I did it fit about 7 months. Like Justinram I found myself looking for home base, though for me it happened sooner.
-VS Code
-Xcode
-CodeRunner
I don't think this actually solves the problem.

Say I know exactly when the window ticks over. I still want to put my order through immediately anyway since it's to my advantage to get it in the earliest possible window. There's no advantage in waiting for the next window to start.

So I put in my order, and my closer competitor puts in their order at the same time, and they get in the current window, while I have to wait for the next one. And now my disadvantage is even bigger because my order is delayed on top of my base latency by the remaining time until the next window ends.

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Even if we remove the window idea entirely and just add a random 100-500ms delay to every command immediately, being closer still has an advantage since 10 + Rand(100,500) is still lower on average than 100 + Rand(100,500).
The PowerPC G3 "eats Pentiums for breakfast"...
> The public interest should come first, but it rarely seems to.

"Should" is a wish, in this case by an outsider.

The "public interest" is not in the interest of any of the participants.
No bonus clawbacks, no care.
To be fair, it was pretty future when they first built it. They had already built a successful DVD-by-mail business that toppled the Blockbuster monopoly, and decided to double down and bet the farm on video streaming when bandwidth was still crazy expensive, even before cloud services had really taken off, then aggressively navigated a ton of legal hurdles to aggressively expanded internationally.

Clearly their business-as-a-sports-team mentality paid off in spades. But now that spinning up a competing streaming site is "dead simple" (as you put it), they have to compete on content alone, and they're kind of getting their lunch eaten.

I do wonder if their sports mentality starts to break down when it comes to more artistic undertakings. Greenlighting the right projects means bringing the right people together takes a lot of experience and intuition to get right. I think they still have a lot to learn from HBO in terms of focus - it seems like Netflix is still throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks, and to constantly show their customers new movie posters, but for the past few years scrolling through their offerings feels like walking through the unorganized aisles of a giant discount store, when they probably want it to feel like walking into an upscale boutique.

They optimized for a local maxima that's now rapidly eroding, and I think they could theoretically push themselves beyond it, but it seems more likely they'll just throw ads on the thing, or start squeezing and penalizing their users for using the product wrong like the Blockbuster of yore.
OrioleDB seems like a more complete distributed postgres (https://github.com/orioledb/orioledb). It uses RAFT as well as a bunch of other changes too
The Overconfidence Game
> $250K - $500K a year not unheard of.

More like $500k minimum. Netflix mostly hires senior engineers – until recently it was only seniors – and those seniors make over $500k.
It's not about paying them off imo, it's about employer brand. They don't to that for them, they do it for the next hires opinions of them.

"even if your performance declines, you'll get a nice check before being let go" sounds a lot better to a candidate/employee than "not good enough? just leave. now."

it's nonsense to you because you just don't have the budget.

For a huge tech company, how much you pay people seems to matters a lot less than who's building the product. It's better to have a few amazing people that you pay way above market, than a bunch of crappy employees that you pay at market level or below.(for their level of "experience")
> ... none of this is “waste”. It’s already being stored or used.

Turned off wind turbines at times of surplus. They tell us that nope, it is not (yet) being used or stored.

> Finding new demand for it simply makes it more expensive for existing users.

It's not that simple. It could very well be the case that selling a portion of energy that otherwise has no demand to a buyer of last resort enables the business to be profitable. Not selling this portion of energy would mean that the operator would have to charge their other customers more in order to be profitable.

So it could in fact make things less expensive indeed.
Typical DAOs are neither decentralized nor autonomous, but the idea of voting is not as bad as you suggest. In fact, it's the same decision making procedure that corporations use.
It’s called GitHub Enterprise Server [0] and has been around for a while. It costs the same as their saas product so there’s not much incentive to run it other than you just really want to host your own stuff.

I haven’t evaluated it in many years but it’s supposed to have all the same features as regular GitHub.

[0] https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-server@3.2/admin/overv...
I used to have Verizon so I get emails and flyers touting plans starting at $90/month (but only for the first year).

Except I'm on AT&T pay-as-you-go for $30/month so I don't even look anymore.
I am currently using a Pixel 4a, which in my opinion is the latest useable Pixel.

Since we are basically doing market research, here is my take ;)

It is kind of sorted by relevance as it is in the order in which it came to my mind.

Here is what I need from a new phone:

- height between 145mm and 150mm
- width between 70mm and 75mm
- thickness up to 15mm, I honestly don't care
- storage atleast 128GB, expandable if possible
- 3.5mm heaphone jack
- USB-C 3 (at least 5Gbps)
- fingerprint (in-display, or front bezel, back is also acceptable)
- stock Android
- hardware security features of the Pixel Line (Secure Element, Hardware attestation, everything that would make the GrapheneOS people want that phone)
- "enough" RAM, maybe 6-8GB
- recent SOC but *not* a power hungry flagship, I want the efficiency king
- battery for two days of messengers and phone calls (no games, no social media crap)
- no glas where it doesn't need to be
- current wifi and bluetooth

This is what is nice to have:

- small top bezel for camera, ear piece, sensors
- small bottom bezel to better reach the on display controls
- fingerprint resistent, non slippery and light casing (maybe aluminium frame with tpu around)
- easy to replace battery (doesn't need to be hot swappable, but no glue, not burried under the mainboard or next to *flimsy* ribbon cables)
- IPXX rating
- camera on Pixel 5 level
Art is about storytelling. People are drawn to the story of someone realizing something technically difficult; if the world forgot about Michelangelo, and I recreated The David using a 3d scanner and and some sort of CNC machine, would the level of detail impress as much?

The story of Picasso's paintings extend beyond an individual painting. If a painting on its own, without any context, doesn't impress, then so what? You need to read a whole book to appreciate its story, not just a page.
art, like writing, is all about the ideas, not the literal, physical object (or lack thereof in some cases), and as such, that's either a fool's errand or an intentional deceit. while some (post-modern) art has woven the medium into the message, the medium takes a backseat to expression (of ideas) for art in general. to "emulate" the art of any so-called master, you'd need to have powerful ideas that are begging to be expressed, not masterful painting prowess (as an example). your challenge wouldn't bring about appreciation of art so much as an appreciation of the lack of technical skill, which is not art, but simply painting. many people are skillful painters, and yet are not artists, and vice versa.

this is also why art generally follows fashion rather than being truly avant-garde--artists need to pander to the wealthy/powerful (the church for many centuries, for example) to make a living, so trying to "emulate" popular art would first require a pandering/fashionable perspective, which is hard for an outsider to truly achieve without first becoming an (art) insider.
Refer to profiles, specifically OS-A Profile.

Firmware interface is a solved problem (opensbi), so is enumeration (dtb).
Why does every government seem to be intentionally marching towards a surveillance dystopia?

Of course reporting or warrant requirements are never included.

Just automatic unaudited AI word matching, a secret trial and then straight to the gulag for you.

Every one of them seems to demand completely unfettered power to invade innocent citizens privacy.

If they were not acting in bad faith they wouldn't be scared of the sunlight, they would be proudly shouting their achievements from the rooftops.
> he wrote in the Wall Street Journal that he had "survived cancellation" after [he] characterized a Princeton student group as a "local terrorist organization."

Maybe I'm a bit jaded, but this tells me everything I think I need to know about this guy.
My understanding is that control codes for [every possible modifier key combination] + ['standard' US keyboard keys] aren't all standardized.

Is that correct?

I seem to recall having a hell of a time trying to figure out which key combinations Emacs could understand and why (keyboard -> OS -> terminal emulator -> protocol -> program.)

Are there any proposals? Workarounds? Proofs-of-concept?
I mean, it's not like Utermohlen is some entirely unknown artist. Though most of his popularity was posthumous, he was in exhibitions and galleries throughout his career. The probable reason he has not risen to the profile of something like SFMOMA is the aesthetic similarity in some of his work to Francis Bacon's, which is very distinct and well-known, and who enjoyed success before Utermohlen even began his career.
I don’t think that’s true. Or would need to see a lot of studies. I’ve interacted with c-level execs in many industries and companies and sociopaths are pretty rare.

Also, sociopaths aren’t bad, they just extremely focus on goals. Psychopaths are bad sociopaths who harm others. If you have a sociopath surgeon or something that could actually be beneficial to society as they’d just perform tons of surgeries.
Deepmind's Gato: Generalist Agent
hard to see Google, MSFT or Apple laying anyone off
Alternative Entrepreneurial Curriculum
I'm sure this is lacking, but I am attempting to assemble an alternative curriculum for entrepreneurship and would appreciate thoughts or assistance.

Part I: Foundational Knowledge

1. Story of Civilization by Will Durant, History

Provides and encompassing digestible narrative of all of human civilization in chronological order.
Assists entrepreneurs to better predict the future by studying the past.

2. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Philosophy

Perspectives by Roman emperor and Philosopher about how to be a successful leader.
A framework to be a successful leader, family person, and maintain self-discipline.

3. Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosophy

Collection of works by Philosopher Nietzsche which represent independent thought.
Assists those to avoid herd mentality and perceive things from different perspectives.

4. Emmanuel Kant, A Critique of Pure Reason, Crucial Reasoning

Lays the foundation for a priori logic fundamental to critical reasoning.
Assists those to analyze problems using deductive reasoning and methodologically solve problems.

Part II: Emotional Intelligence

1. Robert Green, Sociology

Best summarized as ‘practical psychology & sociology’.
Advantageous for understanding human nature for purposes of market research.

2. How to Win Friends & Influence People, Dale Carnegie

A manual for developing interpersonal relationship and the basis of business development
Classic approaches to developing and nurturing professional interactions.

Part III: Technical Knowledge

1. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

Outlines the basis behind AI algorithms
Assists one to identify complex patterns and better analyze information.
>Most of them could paint like the masters if they wanted...

This opinion is common and untrue. If you've ever seen Tim's Vermeer, David Hockney, a well-known and very successful 20th painter, claims that Vermeer absolutely could not have achieved a particular gradation without some sort of optical aid. Then, check out https://www.instagram.com/grandcentralatelier/. Buncha 19 year olds with proper instruction developing near-absolute control over the kind of gradation Hockney claims is impossible. Hockney just can't paint, like most 20th century painters.
Skeptical of anyone who claims "The inconvenient truth is that our Navy has 12 carrier groups and all are now obsolete." China sure is building a lot of carrier groups for a country who supposedly just made carrier groups obsolete,

And the only test I can find from last year was this. https://www.mda.mil/news/21news0012.html
This is mostly irrelevant for considerations of the effect of rocket launches in the upper atmosphere, e.g. anything above the troposphere.

This paper is mostly about the upper atmosphere.

Global warming gases like CO2 accumulate primarily where we live in the troposphere.
That sounds like an upgrade to me since my C920 and C922 had very fidgety auto-focus. I could turn it off via the Logitech camera settings application, but it would always reset itself to on when the computer was rebooted.
Video was well done for sure. Great editing, killer use of music, good scene selection and incremental reveal of message. However PSYOPS doesn’t to the cool guy stuff shown like CQB.
NASA has written such code.
"I basically went to work like 4 hours a week last quarter"
It made sense when ARM was only selling cores for android phones and embedded devices. Maybe they're just stuck in a comfortable groove.
Can't be that hard to make an hyper-sonic weapon when some planes are able to go hyper-sonic... you could use a plane as a weapon if it was anyways.

My laser gun is hyper-sonic too....
We are looking to move to either fly.io or render. Leaning towards render currently but I haven’t spent a ton of time on the effort.
What if you are working with 1000s of rows? Still worthwhile?
oh shit. I'm surprised we haven't heard about major services getting hacked to oblivion right now, so much is stored in environment variables

are there any mystery hacks occurring yet?

is this database known to have been spread anywhere?
Please google "zombie formalism".
Multics. The Unix philosophy (and name) is a direct response to the failure of Multics. And they were right. It's true that by the 80's, we were starting to see real competition. But really what distinguished Unix in the 70's was that it worked at all on the kind of interactive hardware its users wanted to buy. Most stuff was either missing huge features, aimed at IBM style batch environments, or priced out of reach. Unix worked.
That is crazy. Any way I can start using this soon? I have a backlog of articles I’d love to listen to.
> he news has always been "almost entirely negative", even when the only source was newspapers

This doesn't ring true for me at all.

What percentage of broadsheets were dedicated to crime/murder back in the day? Now estimate the same for crime/murder being covered in the local evening news.

From my experience it's not even close. Broadsheets were actually informative, cable news is a lot of fear-mongering.
Nit: Jamie Dimon (and not Diamond).

Less of a nit: You apparently care about liking your workplace. Sample size of 1, but I know of (a) no-one who went into finance who enjoyed their tenure; and (b) plenty of folks that retired early from their tech careers and none from their finance careers. (Most have moved from i-banking to PE or VC, but they’re still slogging away.)
vterm in emacs has a command to jump to the previous shell prompt.
A professor dating their student is not unprecedented. Abhijit Banerjee married his PhD student Esther Duflo. Both are tenured at MIT and even won Nobel prize in Economics. I'm pretty sure this is not the first time.
So it's for hoarding?
This seems like a pretty surprising process failure for a mature company like Grubhub, for such a marketing campaign to be greenlit without any guardrails. Wouldn't this be the kind of mishap you might expect from a startup or a 2-year old company?

Edit: I stand corrected. Per the Buzzfeed article, their spokesperson seems to be spinning this as an unexpected hit. So it wasn't a mistake, they were genuinely convinced it was a good idea?

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kelseyweekman/grubhub-f...
I wish the game was in a better state but I can't say the $5/mo or so I spend on it has been wasted. I play with a friend and I upgrade my ship every couple months (hence the $5).

If they got rid of the forced slow play where you have to trek from apartment (or hospital) to the ship request terminal I'd be a lot happier. Or at least they could let you request a new ship using your mobiglas wherever you are.