skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think most people would recognize Elizabeth Holmes or Theranos.

I tend to agree. I've never spoke of theranos or EH with friends or more specifically my wife. The other day she brings it up...

"What do you know about Elizabeth Holmes? She just had a baby and is going to jail for 15 years"

The pregnancy / child / jail is what made my wife interested. I told her that I didn't have much information on the subject other than the company said they could do x, pulled in a ton of cash, and couldn't do x. She then proceeded to watch every documentary / book / article she could find on EH and Theranos.

It was the pregnancy topic that made my wife interested. Not the amount of money or fraud, pregnancy which is something she can relate to.
Fermentation is a wonderful demonstration of the advantages (efficiency...) of working WITH nature and not AGAINT it.

I’m more excited about the potential of this “gentle” natural process than about that vision of AI guided swarms of nanorobots.

It is not dull. It is not low-tech either.
You play it on your PC with an emulator and download the rom from somewhere.

It is not particularly hard to find.
Even if you don't want to build all of Linux from scratch, the site usually has good instructions for building lots of popular open source software. It'll point out build flags that you probably care about but never thought to check.
What you're referring to is AML, which is part of ACPI. It defines a bytecode for short programs that are provided to the operating system in the ACPI tables for performing certain operations on devices. The operating system can then 'call' these functions by executing the bytecode.

This way different devices can use different procedures to, for example, put the device into sleep mode.

https://wiki.osdev.org/AML
Please consider "make something every week" instead. With how long it takes to think up and design truly useful prints, especially if you have a day job that does not involve CAD... "something every day" will mean "something off of the popular page on thingiverse every day, then into the bin next day" for many would-be achievement hunters.
I crimped Cat6 cables recently and found out that it's not as easy as crimping Cat5 years ago. Maybe it's the older me but I ended up with a lot of failed cables to redo. Eventually the price per working cable is not that good. Next time I bought tool less Cat6 plugs and sockets. Not only they are faster to work with but they are fool proof. Not a single faulty cable. They cost more per piece but for people like me they end up being cheaper.
A browser extension to search Rust docs, crate docs, books, etc.
If it was me, I would re-join for normal working hours, a huge upfront payment and a 10x wage.
I've been reading HN almost daily for almost a decade now. I found it through a friend who has taught me a lot about programming, the internet, and nerdy things in general. When I discovered HN, it felt like I had a whole community of people similar to my friend who introduced me to it.
You’re splitting hairs and missing the point of the article.

Nobody is referring to “UUID” and just meaning the representation. I would think it’s obvious people are referring to using a UUID generator e.g. `uuid.uuid4()` so no, I’m not being overly reductive. I’m just following the common understanding that everyone has when we say “UUID.”
I'm not sure I understand the question, but I interpret it as being about one of two things: Importing code written in a DSL into the OS at run-time, and creating a custom OS kernel specified in a DSL at compile-time. There do exist examples of both, and there is some overlap between projects.

Widespread examples include firewalls and routing rules written in DSLs, which get compiled into a form that gets run inside the kernel. Example: nftables in Linux.

Some research OSes allow drivers to be written in a "safe" language to run inside the kernel. Some perform JIT-compilation, others create a custom kernel at compiled-time. Go search for Scout, Termite2, and Synthesis Kernel.
> (The psychopathic move would be to red line the company, thereby tanking the bonds’ value, before putting in a Hail Mary bottom-barrel bid.)

Musk's counterparties are not, like, salt-of-the-earth everyday people, they are exactly the kind of people and institutions that are referred to by the term "sophisticated investors." It would certainly be the kind of play that guarantees that no one will want to do business with him ever again, but I'm not so sure it crosses into psychopathic territory, just normal selfishness. I think psychopathic would be to start kicking his counterparties' management's dogs until they agreed to sell the debt to him for 5¢ on the dollar.
more generally I think you're right about large teams needing a 'source of truth' that is complex (includes feedback from different layers of mgmt, includes user / real life bug feedback, capable of producing estimates, plays well with product design framework)

teams that have like anaplan and figma in their stack probably cannot use this

but for a team that would otherwise be using github issues for project mgmt, I don't think the in-git approach is awful
Why NERF Is the Future of Imagery (and Nobody Knows It Yet)
Same as what would happen if a real person looked like another real person, I presume.
Can measure the electric field around a magnet that is not moving?

And I’m not talking about studying them I’m talking about measuring them.

EDITED to add:

https://www.mdpi.com/2673-592X/2/4/22/htm

It is commonly claimed that the small electric absorption depth of the human skin prevents electric and magnetic fields from penetrating the body. However, this argument is not physically justified. The electromagnetic field is a dual entity with an electric and a magnetic component, simultaneously created by the time-variable electric charges and currents. However, the elaboration of the differential coupling equations of electric and magnetic fields propagated in dielectric, diamagnetic or paramagnetic media suggests that neither Maxwell’s equations nor their solutions indicate continuous and constant causal links between the fields. Instead, they only form a dual entity of an electric and a magnetic component, created by their time-variable electric charges and currents [36].
I recall some California communities without PG&E have somewhat reasonable electric costs. Santa Clara has silicon valley power with rates of .11-.13/kwh which are significantly lower than PG&E at .28-.51/kwh

PG&E is expensive.
Buying an Instant Pot was life changing. I filled it up with chopped sweet potatoes, set it for an hour, and they were perfectly cooked to make mashed potatoes. Dry beans cook so fast. It makes rice as well as a rice cooker does. I love it
bought an apple charger, nearly set my house on fire. I opened up the one I bought from amazon, and the old one I had at home. weight, number of components, etc clearly told me it was a differnt product. Yeah I was done buying anything electronic from amazon.
I want to thank all the individuals who spend extra time making thoughtful and balanced comments. These tend not to get as much engagement on site but I promise they ruminate in my mind and help me grow as a person. Thanks.
Speaking of simplicity, the minimal amount of JS that Hacker News does use is worth a look for anybody who hasn't yet:

view-source:https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js
Yes, because you don't have to be "on" 24/7. An author selling to conventional media can take a vacation, because their compensation isn't drip-fed.
Now?

On my PC this is happening since years!
First world countries need to do their part and have less children. We just crossed 8 billion. There are enough people on this planet and there are more than we can handle being born every minute. If countries with disproportionate resources are afraid of losing their young population, just import some young ones. Open up the borders, invite young people to immigrate and encourage them to settle. Sure you may need to look at a different skin colour or two or hear a new accent, but you can sleep easy knowing how much carbon footprint you averted.
I visited my family the other month and my mother was searching for a product. I told her it's likely available on Amazon and opened the website. When I started scrolling she started commenting on the prices and how she can buy some of the products for 10x less in the store. I then explained to her that unlike a store, Amazon prices are mostly meaningless, and the site will have the identical product selling at 10 different price points.

People don't have to worry about that problem when they walk into a Walmart. They know the pricing has been carefully reviewed before the product touches the shelves. They know they're not going to see two identical products at Walmart with different stamped logos selling for $5 and $30. There's a level of trust you can buy any item and it's a fair value.
I’m still baffled that this kind of corruption isn’t frowned upon more. People are buying influence. How is that supposed to be OK or normal?
Not a book, but this paper from 2019 covers a lot of ground and reviews the different topics extensively: https://tonellotto.github.io/publication/fntir/fntir_main.pd...
Although this seems to me like saying "learning BASIC has taught me Computer Science" -- yes, the principles of MechE can be learned by study + some actual 3D printed models. But to truly grok MechE, you need mastery of some CAD program (OpenSCAD is my choice, but I also use FreeCAD), and the ability to fabricate in some other materials (metals) using subtractive methods. Plus, you know, a little math here and there...

I like your reasoning tho; I got mine when it was on sale, and just before the pandemic - so I have plenty of learnings about PLA, ABS, PETG, temperatures, glue or not, surface, and most of all -- plenty of piles of material creating 'modern art' rather than my planned masterpieces. '-)
I can see the reasoning but I still don’t see it as sensible per se. Having a buffer of just $1-3k at the end of the year instead of blowing $50 here and there could make a huge difference as far as anxiety and ability to weather unforeseen issues.

Yes, unforeseen things will still arise but you’d rather have the $1k you need to deal with it than not.

I’m more partial to the argument that splurges allow people to temporarily feel like they aren’t poor
Yes, that's true. And I agree that there is some malicious actor; a bag of Base64-encoded code doesn't get inserted as an innocent accident. But the way you've expressed yourself, more than once, suggests you have reason to believe the malicious actor is other than the maintainer.

Do you have any evidence, one way or the other?

Let's not chop logic. I don't think you've been completely frank about this. The commit was signed by the maintainer, right, using a private key? That means the maintainer "done it", absent evidence to the contrary. And apparently the maintainer is silent.
Oh no! An "oddly bold" menu! How will Twitter ever recover?
It makes sense if Ghana doesn't have US dollars and expects to have difficulty acquiring them. Their trade balance with the US isn't stable.
You may be very interested in the STEPS project from Alan Kay’s Viewpoints Research Institute. STEPS was an attempt to build an entire desktop operating system environment with only 20,000 lines of code. In order to accomplish this, the design makes extensive use of DSLs defined using OMeta. There are examples of TCP and the 2D graphics framework being implemented in an impressively small amount of code.

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf
If you subscribe to what Jim Collins called "the genius and a thousand helpers", then it's very possible Musk will be successful where he's currently guiding a thousand helpers. From that perspective, the bigger question is at what point do his other companies fall apart, if he cannot be the genius everywhere?
Aliexpress products aren't bad. And although they're very cheap at the source, I'm willing to pay a gigantic markup to get it in 2 days with free refunds rather than 2 months.
Moneyball and The Big Short were about major events that Americans noticed and cared about. Flash Boys wasn't. Most Americans never even heard of HFT.

I still think it would be a great movie, but it never had the same relevance.
What rationale is behind comparing revenue with market cap? I thought price is rather judged against earnings, eg by looking at the P/E ratio.
The closest thing to a DSL for writing the OS was C for Unix. They were created alongside each other. There are more niche examples too like Oberon.
I've been using mosh since it was announced, but I periodically try Eternal Terminal.

However I havent ever managed to get ET running on Amazon Linux which all my AWS EC2 instances run. I've tried compiling, docker, app images and nothing has worked.
This started hundreds of years ago with "things only exist because I believe they do". The whole computer thing is a twist on that, but why? Is a computer really the best way to make this happen? It feels to me that a brain would be a better fit to the job.

Not that I believe any of it.
This smacks of forgetfulness. I wonder what the age is of the OP.

As others have pointed out, *nix systems (Linux in particular) are rife with DSLs. Not just C but (c|ba|k|tc|z)sh, sed, awk, grep, to name a few. Each of these tools has it's own mini DSL, some more complicated than others, that can than be composed to with other tools, using their own DSLs to manage tasks (e.g. operating system tasks).

Even the task of creating DSLs has many DSLs attached to it (lex, yacc, etc.).

Programs that get used and become popular introduce their own DSLs, often times. Apache, NGinx, etc. all have config files that each have their own special sauce of DSL for their own tasks.

Even many of the newer systems like Docker, Kubernetes, etc. have config files/DSLs to manage them.

I'm sure I'm forgetting even more.
Yes, mosh has fuzz tests in oss-fuzz [1].

[1] https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/tree/master/projects/mosh
I like the suggestion. But learning about other peoples problems is hard.

How do they even know it’s a problem if they have no idea that it can be solved, i.e. that life without that problem is even thinkable?

It’s a bit like Ford’s saying that, if you had asked customers what they want, they’d said they want a faster horse.

In an ideal world, i would love to walk you to random people in the street, invite them to have a coffee with me, and let them tell me about their life and their work. And i am sure that, eventually, in pretty much all of those conversations, I’d find something I can help them with.

Do you see a better way?

If I dropped you off in some city, and you’d have to find ten high value business ideas merely from talking to strangers about their real world needs, how would you do it?

Or, if anyone here has done it in actuality, how did you do it?

Thanks.
Scientific American was once like reading well illustrated research journal paper. Today it's the "science" equivalent of People magazine.
Not sure what you’re trying to say with this comment. We’re talking about weight loss, not focus medication
It's Math 101. CEOs compensation is typically tied to Market Caps of firms, while employees have fixed/sticky wages.

In the 'Yore' It took a great deal of time for any firm to add $1 Billion value to their Market Cap. So, naturally CEOs compensation grew slowly.

In the modern era, companies can add a Trillion Market Cap in a year. So, naturally CEO's growth rate will rapidly grow.

A lot of phenomenon in this world can be explained if you apply Mathematical concepts and natural laws instead of resorting to conspiracy, billionaire-hate and anything lately pushed by mainstream media
Day in the Life of a Twitter Employee
I don't think he has any special wisdom to impart, but I really like the potential payoff opportunity. Something really funny could happen! Like a pie in his face or a profoundly self-unaware quip that sends the crowd into half shrieking laughter and half boos.
Though, maybe not that far from reality...
You get the entire point wrong. Advertisers decided to allocate their budget to Twitter not because of its status quo, but its promise on improvements. In fact, there has been significant developments on Twitter advertising and many advertisers thinks it's worth to experiment with the platform. And not Elon decide to void that promise, so advertisers pulled their budget. It's pretty easy to pull their budget it's relatively smaller than other platforms while the risk is not yet fully assessed. This is so simple story, there is no place for so-called "activists" for the major role to play.
For some reason a lot of people think SBF had super connections that will let him get away with crimes. A lot of it reads as very politically partisan (he gave money to Democrats therefor they won't prosecute) and not based in reality.
I worked on ad load optimization and founded a company that specializes in ad load optimization, here's an explainer video: https://www.promoted.ai/videos/unified-ads-search-and-feed-o...).

The cynical comments here align with my experience: when leadership demands now revenue, there is an iterative game where the only correct answer is "increase revenue now." If you run enough A/B tests and ask this question enough times over a large enough organization, more ads and 3p always result.

Most companies are trying hard to produce a great user experience. However, it's hard to measure subtle degradations to buyer experiences, especially when those degradations happen after the purchase or quality metrics corrupted by motivated sellers or advertisers. This is one reason obsession with A/B testing drives this poor user experience: it's hard to measure. Revenue now is easy to measure.

Another aspect you may not see as a buyer is that when the market is down, sellers are SCREAMING at their platforms to fix the problem. Same iterated game: give boost (discount, ad credits etc.), less screaming (for that team right now). What you see as bad as a buyer may be trying to appease sellers.
I manufacture and sell one unique product. I started with direct sales, doing okay, but it was clear that Amazon is where the real action is, so I tried to sell there. Getting the listing up was a slow and painful experience due to horrible seller service (this is typical). Finally it's listed. Around 15% of revenue is fees. That's with me doing my own fulfillment! Hardly any sales at first, so I had no choice but to advertise. It looks like another 15% of revenue will end up going to amazon ads. Amazon will probably end up making more money than me, just for being the middle man. That's if I'm lucky, because sales are still just a trickle, and I'll probably have to up my ad spend to get any real traction. It seems like the system is designed to put comparable products competing against each other and the one that rises to the top is he one that Amazon can squeeze the most blood out of, unrelated to what the user might benefit from. It's www.bettergeiger.com if you're curious.
You are incorrect.

If you use any currently standard protocol such as wireguard, openvpn, IPSEC with Suite-B ciphers you are getting 'enhanced-privacy'* from eavesdroppers on your local network, which eliminates alot of low-tier/easy MiTM attacks.

A two-layer/double tunnel is pretty-good for mitigating against most commercial data collection by eavesdroppers. (Though your tunnel-exit/last-VPN-hop, (varying by client-destination protocol), and the destination IPs/sites will still be able to collect data of course).

*Consider privacy a vector. Suite-B ciphers are not perfect, letalone their freely-available implementations.
these folks are doing their best to combine and extrapolate mathematical principles to extremes (an approach which, nota bene, did prove spectacularly successful in explaining huge parts of the universe earlier on) but the results of this exercise has been exceedingly poor for almost half a century now.

at some point we must give up or admit that the nature of the game has changed.
In a sense even the tiniest piece of experimental evidence that probes (or at least remotely reflects) the actual inner workings of "quantum" spacetime would be worth more than this enormous cumulative effort to infer what is happening on the basis of abstract symmetries and what not.
Do you also drive to Alice's Restaurant up on Skyline at LA Honda road?
The search experience on Amazon is not actually that bad. It's only bad if you're paranoid or picky. I don't use Amazon to discover anything that I'm actually passionate/picky about so I personally never have this problem.
Visual Studio Code does this (see "File links"): <https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/terminal/basics#_links>
That's what I'm doing right now - my personal site is https://simonwillison.net/ and serves WebFinger - my Mastodon instance is https://fedi.simonwillison.net/ which is hosted by https://masto.host/ (just because I don't want to sysadmin it).

The problem is that you can't have multiple domains point to a single Mastodon instance. I'd like to share my single instance with friends who can bring their own domain name.

Basically the problem is that current Mastodon only supports single settings for the LOCAL_DOMAIN and WEB_DOMAIN.

More details on how mine works here: https://til.simonwillison.net/mastodon/custom-domain-mastodo...
Government spending without a credible increase in government revenue creates inflation. It’s astounding how many people don’t see this. You can’t print money/credit and expect to maintain purchasing power. The UK needs to supply low cost energy, not print money to buy energy.
It's a novel approach, but like you've said I think the potential negatives far outweighs the positives. Perhaps they could use obviously fake faces with weird proportions and features?

Idk, this seems like a case of using cool flashy tech because it's cool and flashy and not because it's better than the alternative (using an actor to portray the subject, blurring or blacking out the subject's face).
The 3 biggest browser engines are Gecko, Webkit, and Blink.

Gecko is the engine behind Firefox and is maintained by Mozilla, so it has a good number of open source contributors that help fix issues when they are found. It also has some issues occasionally but since it has only a ~3% usage these days you don't get as many complaints.

Blink is used by Chromium (which includes Edge, Chrome, Opera, Brave, and Samsung browsers). It has the biggest market share and probably the most people actively paid to work on it.

Webkit is currently only used by Safari and maintained by Apple alone. (Also all iOS browsers have to use webkit which is why iOS chrome has a lot of the same bugs as iOS safari etc). Apple has a conservative approach to Webkit and doesn't implement as many new features or standards as quickly as the other engines. It has the biggest non blink engine market share so it's usually the outlier when it comes to support issues.

Before 2013 Chromium was webkit based, but that year they made a fork and took their engine in a new direction so Webkit lost some of its previous maintainers.
I'm curious about the v8 thing (Google's V8?) — can you tell more?
I did this when I was a teenager. I think it took me about a week. I ran the system for a few months then moved on. It was a cool experience.
...so my b.s detector is in the red on this one

Why? A 2020 documentary called Welcome to Chechnya looked at repression of LGBT Chechens and was the first documentary to use "advanced facial replacement techniques using artificial intelligence and novel visual effects technology so the viewer could see real faces displaying real emotions while still protecting the identities of the speakers" [1]

The documentary was released by HBO Films. The BBC also broadcast the documentary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Chechnya
Did you go down the rabbit hole from yesterday too?
Not that many, but several huge ones

https://earthjustice.org/blog/2022-october/cleaning-up-crypt...

>That can't be it.

Why not?
$65B in alleged assets is what they should have said.