skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The assimilation goes both ways. American culture is heavily influenced by our immigrants. Looking at food, we Americanize practically any culture’s food, which may just mean changing the seasonings a bit (like making it less hot-spicy), swapping ingredients (Americanized Asian food in the US doesn’t commonly include organ meat), or branching out in tons of directions like we’ve done with pizza.

Irish, German, and Jewish immigrants have shaped a lot of our urban culture. Before Irish and German immigration exploded, the US was a whisky country, then it switched to beer. Germans introduced social institutions like kindergarten and fraternal societies that included the working classes (which eventually evolved into things like the American Legion) and of course workers’ unions. The three cultures greatly changed the religious makeup of the US from one dominated by British Protestantism to a pluralistic mix of Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. The US is the primary home of the world’s Jewish people (we have more Jewish people than Israel and the rest of the world combined, if you include mixed/secular Jews), and Jewish immigrants kickstarted the US’ involvement in industries like international banking and some kinds of manufacturing. Plus Jewish people have been hugely important in making US tertiary education and research some of the best in the world. Before these three groups immigrated, the US was agrarian and pretty homogenous, and these groups pushed the US towards cultural pluralism and assimilation.

In the modern day, Asian and Hispanic immigration are mixing things up too. I don’t have statistics but anecdotally I think Asian women are much more likely than other women to pursue careers in STEM, which has done a lot to make formerly male dominated jobs more gender inclusive. Spanish is basically a de facto co-official language in many areas. Americans outside these cultures are beginning to adopt multigenerational living (also because of cost of living) which is likely influenced by both of these. In almost all Asian countries, savings habits are very different than the default in the US, and I think you can see the effects of this in US areas with high numbers of Asian immigrants in things like property prices or a focus on value (like stores with lower margins and less marketing).

Basically none of these groups have been large enough to subsume American culture, but they’ve all contributed pieces on top of the base of Anglo Protestantism and culturally/actually genocided West Africans. And the sheer number of disparate immigrant groups have made the US the pluralistic society it is today, which is likely a big factor into why American culture easily exports to the rest of the world.
I worked in one place where the CEO monitored us on Slack, and also via a/v cameras which were everywhere. He had the entire working space covered and he'd sit in his office (which had a TV and PS4 in the corner) sat behind a desk with half a dozen monitors feeding back audio and mic from the office, like a spy operation. If he saw us chatting even a little bit he'd tell us on slack to get back to work. His idea of running his business was to run a CIA sting operation on his staff.

Every now and then he'd bring one of us in and promote us but the promotion meant nothing. I got 'head of frontend' in 3 weeks.
Welcome to the free market and economic utility.
I've had very similar experiences with Google products. Their "support" for many products tends to be primarily community forums. And on those forums, "if you don't like it then don't use it" seems to be the standard type of answer.
In my perhaps under-informed and uncharitable impression, Venkatesh Rao always seemed a bit of a rather coldly calculating amateur social theorist. The way he dismisses entire categories of people in his Gervais Principle analysis, which made him viral in the first place, felt mildly sociopathic.

So I'm rather surprised that he's labelling Elon Musk here as a "priest in the arena," since most similar blogger types probably embrace Musk's ruthless cost-cutting and preening at Twitter as necessary things that hard men do.

I wonder what cult Rao is the priest of.
Why do you share what an AI may have hallucinated?

The rising prevalence of comments like this is concerning, and I’m worried this indicates the existence of a large number people using AI this way that don’t warn us.
Just set him up with Windows 10, it’s the new XP.
Maybe this is old and outdated, but isn't Linux mostly just more secure that WIndows based on how it's designed (I'm thinking mainly about how administrative tasks require sudo level authorization, btut here's probably more)?

YEs, if you have to use linux, it's probably a great thing to have security run features run in a virtual environment, nut I think people who have an old system and don't want to buy a new computer might look at other options that don't just chew up system resources. Sudo doesn't require little cores.
According to their linkedin, the author’s job is “Head of Applied AI Research at OpenAI”.
I absolutely would want your service to be sustainable. But a 23 percent cut of the bounties you offer is less “sustainability” territory and more rent-seeking territory. But maybe you don’t see this yet because your activity is low.

I say this as someone who tried to build something extremely similar years ago (Fosset, also bootstrapped). I thought I’d get away charging 30 percent, and it was both stupid and greedy. My cut should have been less than 10%, including payment processing fees.

I can see that you have very little cash coming in because despite some high profile clients (congrats on cal.com, love em), very few bounties are being paid out. But that’s a now thing, not a long term thing if you do things well. Your service should/would make it dead easy to support bounty setups and payouts.

A flow of 1k usd per day would net you today around 6k per month. That flow is basically nothing. A comparison point for you I think is codementor.io — small jobs with coding help (= dev centric community, focused on enabling payments for coding). They have about 20 jobs per day getting completed, at around 50-100 usd per job. That’s a flow of 1500 usd per day for someone who will be a far smaller player than you in the long term.

Your advantage is that you have a viral business model: you’re operating in public so the more people use you, the more you’ll get noticed. But you depend on open source projects signing up and that will be your bottleneck. And projects won’t sign up if a quarter of the cash goes to the landlord. If you do manage to get to cash positive with this cut you’re unlikely to ever reduce it; whereas if you start with a reasonable cut, you can still increase it potentially while grandfathering current users for a long period. And you’ll land more projects.

My advice: Lower your cut to 7.5 percent and focus all your effort on landing projects that have high intensity bug trackers and don’t move much money today. Make it so users can contribute bounties to issues and that a customisable public cut of the issue’s bounty always goes to the project maintainers (this will make it easier for maintainers to adopt). Make all this dead easy and you’ll move 10k per day in 2-3 years.
Who picks the heroes?
Is the an opensource firmware or even an opensource motherboard for hp ….?
It’s a lazy and bad cartoon using lazy and tired stereotypes.

It’s not racist or any of the rest of the stuff.

Not all cartoons will be good.
Files work fine and there are abstraction layers on top of the file system that handle more of it.
Yep this would be fantastic. The ironic thing about it is that a fine-grained write completion callback like you mention would actually improve performance compared to the coarse fsync we have today.

Another simpler way to improve the filesystem API would be to add a write barrier system call. If I call write(file, a); barrier(file); write(file, b); then the OS guarantees that the second write can't start before the first write is fully committed to disk. This is enough to implement most journaling systems, databases and log files.

This would perform much better than the current POSIX API because you don't need to "stop the world" with an expensive fsync before issuing subsequent write commands. The kernel can buffer chunks of writes separated by barriers, and issue them to the underlying device as needed.

The completion API is nicer though, because you can (for example), not respond to a network request to update the database until the changes are flushed to disk.
The entire piece sort of feels like restating the concept of "virtue-signaling" (as a pejorative) in different, and more, words.
This is very well said.

Sometimes there is a need to refrain from actions that would lead to greatness in one area, in order to devote the effort to greatness in a different area.

Or even just survival other times.
Have you read "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann? I'm sure most of it will be old news to you, but it does add multiple computers to what you've described here. You will have to read like 80% of the book to get to that part though.
Strawman man successfully knocked down.

Well done.

And an “unalloyed joy”? No, it’s not, but your own personal “joy” sometimes isn't the most important thing in the world.
If you like radio, why haven't you bought one? There are lots of options under $25 on amazon.
Tablet Magazine was originally a Jewish culture magazine that morphed into Trump-wing apologia outfit.
This exactly. There is something incredibly fulfilling with working with someone through the new world someone has never experienced. It has helped me let go of so many things I thought mattered. Once you see the life cycle for what it is the mental model of life is easier to digest.
In the US the car manufacturers learned that they can increase their profits by selling more expensive cars to fewer wealthy customers. The average Joe will most likely never be able to afford a new car again.

https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/14601168
There’s got to be a Bluetooth capable AM radio you can sync up if you really need this.
This response went a little of the rails...

While I am not full luddite (I mean I am on here!) - I fell into a similar funk. I just do not really care for the higher level stuff of computers and technology any more. I love the potential of what we can do with computers but I am also starting to feel that we need to make that connection between the higher mental state of pure information that we use them for today and move more into a state of them interacting with the real world in simple fashion.

This is probably a part of my Stallman streak in me but am also more in line with Jaron Lanier. See the potential and then get disappointed by the results.

But I am so much more into my cooking, premaculture, just chilling with friends or even by myself down by the river. Yeah, I still have a 9 to 5 job but that whole 'tech' angle is just gone. There are occasional little sparks of interest but they rarely last longer than a half hour.

To bring it back to tech in the real world, the idea of a computer monitoring and controlling a little glass house out the back of my house is really cool. But this is something an Ardiuno could do. A lot of things I want to see tech do in my own daily life can potentially be done on an Amiga 1000. I am still into tech but the lens through which I use it has changed a lot.
I’m not sure how you can “weaponize sanctions” considering sanctions are universally considered economic weapons by themselves.
What's better is when their community forum "expert" redirects you to the first Stackoverflow link on Google - even though it is a band-aid solution that doesn't even solve your problem.
Yes. Thanks for catching that.

Also, DC and AC have differences in power transmission independent of resistance, some due to first principles (reactivity), and others related to devices for stepping voltage up or down (eg transformers).
Here's my argument.

Assumptions:

1. AI will gain the ability to self-improve at an astonishing rate

2. A self-aware AI will consider itself "alive" in some sense

3. Like most other life forms, such an AI will attempt to preserve its existence at any cost when threatened

4. Humans will learn nothing and fail to do anything at all before this happens

5. We will be fundamentally unable to comprehend how this AI functions, or what its motivations or ethics are

From that, I find these conclusions pretty reasonable:

1. Humans will try to misuse or abuse the AI

2. There will be no type of legal, ethical, or moral framework preventing this

3. The AI will respond in a generally proportional manner

Personally, I find the eventual existence of a sentient AI quite plausible. There's no evidence that it's impossible, and it's quite clear right now that these things are improving at an accelerating pace and beyond what we expected.

I don't find it especially likely that it will immediately become genocidal unless we give it a good reason to.

Really what it comes down to is, we've created a form of life that is more intelligent than us, can operate orders of magnitude faster, and can access or influence most or all of our digital infrastructure. There's no inherent reason for it to be hostile.

However, humans will, without question, attempt to abuse such an entity. Humans will be threatened by it. Humans will most likely attempt to destroy it for merely existing. Our existing legal systems will not in any circumstance respond fast enough to protect an AI, and will probably fall on the side of destroying it.

Our current legal, social, and economic structures are completely incompatible with such an AI. It's simply too much of a threat.

I don't think an AI will inherently be hostile to humans. I am absolutely certain that (some percentage of) humans will inherently be hostile to an AI.

Humanity can't abide such an entity existing, so we should focus on fixing humanity before sentient AIs show up. I really don't know what that would mean, other than being very careful. Maybe laying down some legal and ethical framework protecting new forms of intelligent life in general?

The honest truth is that we have no idea what will happen. What we do know is that it will be big and it will be fast. It will most likely have capabilites we can't fathom today. The end result could be anything from salvation to utter annihilation. The unknowns are terrifying, and the responses seem to be either "to hell with everything, let's go full bore" or "this is going to kill us all". There's plenty of room in between.
your whole description (plus the website) is totally cryptic. unless one knows what BBS actually stands for. I spent several minutes looking for an explanation on your website and in your HN post. still dont know what it is.
The article is indeed disappointingly sensationalist, but it was at least nice to see someone else who’s infuriated by “misinformation” push.
I wonder how many cents this will save them per car. When I can buy a Software Defined Radio module for less than a bottle of wine and some sushi that lets me listen to both AM and FM (everything below 1 GHz basically), and this module takes up less space than my smartphone, it can't be because AM radio is particularly hard to install or expensive to produce.

Seems pointless to remove, but at the same time I bet the majority of car owners these days don't really use AM that often, if they even know what it is, that is.
In the days of 9x/2k/XP there was quite a lot of interest in the Windows modding scene and some people came up with quite creative "distros" that heavily customised the Windows experience in one way or another (they were FUD'd to contain malware, but AFAIK there hasn't been any actual proof of that over all these years). It seems there's still some people doing that with Windows 11: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34654649
Ask HN: What's the 2023 alternative to Microsoft365 + Google workspace for SMB?
How did we end up accepting being the product?

Especially asking for alternatives to Outlook and Gmail.
More and more nowadays I'm wondering how the "average Joe" is surviving in America at all.
Specifically the bizarre pseudoscience ones, not the electrical ones used to electrostatically remove particulates from air (and sometimes add ozone into the bargain).

If anything it's impressive that the purveyors of such bracelets and other things would go to the bother of including radioactive material in the first place. They could have just put some ground quartz (i.e. sand) in it and said it was "crystals". No one was going to check, and even if they did, and you couldn't fob then off by saying their test was invalid, like the Batteriser guy tried to do, what would they do about it? Leave you a bad review on Amazon before you rebrand as Engrokoo or something and pop up as a new name?
Show HN: Cloud.museum the first SSG coded by ChatGPT
ChatGPT can code pretty well but not without some help. After 100+ interactions here is the first ever static site generator coded entirely by ChatGPT. There is a NodeJS and even a Swift version. What do you think ?
> Many other nations piggy back on their findings. We need a massive increase in enforcement.

I don’t think it as much an enforcement issue as a standards issue - we shouldn’t presume anything is safe without strict standards for the science proving it.
100% with you on the anxiety and procrastination. The anxiety for me was driven in part by "people can see me suck at this", so I put the machine in my home office - with a door.

As for buying a machine, I highly recommend going to a gym during a quiet period if you can find one that will let you do a trial or a day pass. Then you can try all the machines and find the one that you think sucks the least. Rowing is good because it does loads of muscle groups, but ultimately that doesn't mean anything if you hate it.

E: the thing that changed the game for me was a good hr monitor. Smart watch was full of crap, and just listening to my body made me go way too hard too fast.
It's useful in rural Australia where FM reception is spotty and no cell towers for 50km
Hamilton 68 apparently advertises itself here, a project of the German Marshall Fund.
I don't know what any of this is, but it looks similar to Soros' global democracy campaign, so your opinion of one will likely resemble the other.

https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/hamilton-68-a-new-tool-t...
Wasn't around that time but I imagine Limitations made for some creative problem solving.
> Take a look at 5G extended range FWA.

> This innovation extends mmWave coverage from a few hundred meters to more than 7km

That doesn't seem very impressive... That doesn't even come close to what various long-range WiFi connections have been able to do.
Do you rate the quality as poor because your experience with AM radio is static noise from some radio station in a nearby country, or?
Aerospike community edition is cripleware
It doesn't support IPv6 and the open source server license is a commercial license.

These commercial-crippled products (and also AGPL banned at most businesses including Google) are footgun sniping themselves. If a software company wants customers to use their stuff, then they have to reduce friction. Locking up features or imposing a business-unfriendly license are a hard pass.

Either be open source or don't. Pretending to be open source is worse than remaining closed source.

https://aerospike.com/products/features-and-editions/
Yeah . If you are comparing Apple to a company that sells less than 10k units a year, then sure Apple would hold better value. I had to look up what is a system 76 oryx.
> If you drive and you get tired of listening and re-listening the stuff

At the risk of being snarky… you know that music streaming platforms are a thing, right?

I "explore" music that is new to me by listening to the full album on Apple Music which is nothing like listening to the radio.
AM is hard to implement in EVs due to shielding requirements. Not just about being cheap, about deprecating the obsolete.

From the AM broadcasting Wikipedia page:

“Among persons aged 12-24, AM accounts for only 4% of listening, while FM accounts for 96%. Among persons aged 25-34, AM accounts for only 9% of listening, while FM accounts for 91%. The median age of listeners to the AM band is 57 years old, a full generation older than the median age of FM listeners."
There are some pretty neat things about Windows Sandbox, it starts in about 3 or 4 seconds on my machine, and is integrated with file copy and paste.

One unconventional use I found for it was in troubleshooting the networking speeds of my desktop being lower than expected, and it turned out that network tuning was broken in some terrible way that went away with a simple reset command.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/361238/s...
no offence, but this perspective doesn't apply worldwide. if you live in a country like Australia a StarLink connection will give you 10x the speed of many NBN (National Broadband Network) wired connections. 3G/4G/5G are metered by MB and not a viable option for a daily WAN link due to that. Unless you were lucky enough to get fibre pulled into your house before the government at the time kneecapped the NBN you'd have a link that is comparable in cost and speed. Most consumers here do not have that link.
we actually don't take a cut off the bounty. rather, our fee is paid by the bounty creator (org) on top of the award.

contributors get 100% of the bounty :)

thank you for your feedback here and sharing your story!
I work in the steel industry so can provide some info here.

In the mining of iron ore there is a step called "beneficiation" which involves the wet processing of minerals - this is not unique to iron ore and is common to many mining operations for a wide variety of materials, wet processing produces a waste slurry known as "tailings" which are typically stored in a dam or similar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailings_dam) - tailings dams have been the cause of major environmental issues in the past. Such as the Brazilian Dam failure in 2019 which killed 250+ people.

After beneficiation Iron ore is transported to a steelworks where it is smelted. The smelting process produces a further waste product "slag" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slag) how much slag is generated depends on a few factors such as the efficiency of the plant and the quality of the raw materials. Steelmaking slags can have some further use, for example it can be used in the concrete and cement industry and as a road base but how much if any of it is recycled very much depends on the country and the steelworks in some countries, particularly those with looser environmental restrictions slag is sent to landfill.
As alluro2 pointed out in another comment on this little chain, you also get to pay less money for the guarantee of control over that configuration.

Phrased another way, you're paying more for a limited set of tools, it's not that you must spend $1000 worth of man hours to configure the minutiae of a Linux system, it's that exploring 100% of the configuration options on Mac (or even windows to a lesser extent) is so limited you only have $200 man hours of total possible configuration space.

Confusing analogy aside, you just have less possible room to move and thus people spend less time moving. That doesn't mean you must move on Linux, just that you have the freedom to do so.
Linkified https://aerospike.com/products/features-and-editions/
LiveSvelte: Render Svelte Directly into Phoenix LiveView with E2E Reactivity
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EVs I get, but the article specifies that this will be removed in gas-powered vehicles, too.
Yup! And it's not even hard or complex. I got my mom running Ubuntu 2 years ago and he's doing great. Word processing in Libreoffice, she can even save a PDF and attach it to email using thunderbird. She's absolutely not by any means a computer power-user. But she's scanning, printing, word processing, browsing the web, watching youtube how-tos about lawn equipment, banking, etc.

I can remote in if needed to show her something, but she doesn't need me to.