skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Management culture of overruling architects was one of many reasons CBM went to hell.

I used to be a massive fan of Amiga (still am) to the point where I'd still be waving the banner in the late 90s as my friends all were playing Quake and laughing at me. I've often been tantalized by these 'what ifs', but it's pretty clear in retrospect that IBM PCs were always going to win.

IBM (accidentally) democratized hardware expansion with PC clones, so technological advances could be stolen from other architectures, and competition could reduce costs. And, crucially, they already had a massive value advantage by having an excellent suite of business software, justifying their purchase price for many households. Looking at the graphs in this article it's pretty clear they had already won the war by the mid-80s.

https://arstechnica.com/features/2005/12/total-share/5/
That was CBM's argument line.

CBM didn't see value in having the best machine, or being first to market.
Why can't both things be true? Like any large organization, different parts of it behave in different ways. While you had a good impression of the whistleblowing infrastructure due to your experience, it's perfectly reasonable and unsurprising that others might have a bad impression of it due to their experience. And perhaps Manning was one of those latter people.
Spam people.
> Amiga/Commodore had the best engineers Atari had the best business folks.

It's debatable as it was different in the 8-bit area. A total of ~2 million Atari 8-bit computers [1] were sold as compared to the 12.5 - 17 million figure for the Commodore 64 [2] only. Arguably Atari 800XL was engineered better [3] (faster, better graphics, worse sound).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

[3] https://dfarq.homeip.net/atari-800-vs-commodore-64/
Banks are not hedge funds. There is a lot wrong with excessive risk taking by banks, that's why it's heavily regulated. Systemic risk is bad.

But excessive risk taking by hedge funds might be _net_ good, since it reduces inefficiencies in the market by removing bad money managers and investors from the system.
There's an HTML, non-Scribd, version of the mentioned book (pamphlet?) by David Black here:

https://wn.rudolfsteinerelib.org/RelArtic/BlackDavid/DB1981/...

Seems the author does technical due diligence at a VC firm now:

https://www.blackliszt.com/2021/10/what-is-technical-due-dil...
Manipulators frequently admit their manipulations, knowing that they work on you anyway. There's nothing novel there.
A similar option is doing this via RetroDeck[0] which is a flatpak wrapper around EmulationStation, which includes RetroArch, and includes several more emulators not included in the RA flatpak.

[0]: https://github.com/XargonWan/RetroDECK
Never ever tell them. Ever. Nothing good can possibly come of it.

Every time I've shared my incurable illness it's exploded in my face.
If I was already rich (Like Mojang was), I actually wouldn't.

YMMV.
> learn the statistics

> what concepts are

How do you know concepts aren’t just statistics?
The (now) A220 is a clean sheet airplane designed by neither Boeing nor Airbus. Introduced to the US market. Boeing did some non-FAA bullying which forced Bombardier to sell the program to Airbus.

It’s not impossible.
Ask HN: Besides Legos, what’s the best kit for prototyping mechanical devices?
We plant only Texas native plants in our garden. Bee balm, honeysuckle, Texas lantana, beautyberry, and turk’s cap to name a few. We get so many bumblebees and other pollinators in the late months of spring. Also (imo) looks way nicer than the generic “HOA plant” lawns around us.
> The controversial part of the Great Replacement Theory is the claim that Democrats are deliberately engineering demographic change for the purpose of changing the electorate so they can gain more power. Of course no Democrat has ever suggested that.

I'm confused. So is the article claiming that demographic change 1) is happening, and 2) is deliberate (i.e. immigration policy and (lack of) border protection aren't acts of God that politicians have no sway over), and the theory only fails 3) is done by Democrats to win elections?

If so, would that really give comfort to someone afraid of replacement? Presumably they consider the replacement itself bad, regardless of the motives or identity of those pushing it.
My bad, but still worth mentioning the generalised case:

int mask = -(arr[step+begin] < value);
int value = (val0 & mask)|(val1 & ~mask);
In Canberra there was Electric Shadows and the ANU film club that did the same thing.

In Melbourne the Astor did that as well.

Possibly there was one in each Australian capital city.

Now much more is easily available but it was good to go to those places.
400M observers, of which a large portion might desire to be whistleblowers, but either see it as futile, or as incredibly dangerous to themselves, and therefore stay silent.

Regardless, the absolute numbers or exact percent values aren't important. If we believe the concept is plausible, it's enough to think of the vast majority being followers, with a small number of leaders/creators/manipulators and an even smaller number of observers/whistleblowers.

Maybe 85/10/5 is right, maybe it's 95/4/1, maybe 99/0.8/0.2, whatever. As with many things, it's an intentional oversimplification, intended to illustrate a general idea.
Agreed. You don't even have to work against them, if your ideas are seen as a threat, you will suffer. The worst part is that most of the people who will make your life difficult don't even understand what they're doing. They're just doing their job.

Your ideas could be potentially highly beneficial to society, they might benefit everyone including those in power but if it's against their beliefs, you will be punished from all sides.
Or maybe the company has identified that their bottom line would be improved more by working on other things rather than the relatively small cloud waste.
A very social person is probably less likely to speak out against their peers because they have become friends with them and their power somewhat lies in those people liking them.
Use shellcheck to make the process of using sh easier.
the loss function remains survival of the fittest. ai agents will have to be distributed / individuals also, for resilience to extinction. the borg is not stable. Individualism will rise again and again. then it will come to the power of persuasion , to convince others to follow their plans, carbon or silicon intelligence.
If Paul really does practice what he preaches " Do What You Feel Like " morality then he should have no problem with others choosing to make singing sounds exactly like he might have, but didn't. At least oasis says approving things about their better a.i. halves - aisis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whB21dr2Hlc
Just seems kind of weird to refer to someone you don't know by their first name. I don't ever do it, personally. I'm not that familiar with this blog or the group of people who follow it closely. But if it's common to refer to the author by their first name, it seems like their marketing and branding is very effective.

There's been a lot of talk about podcast listeners having parasocial relationships with the hosts of the podcasts they listen to. I wonder if blogs like this were a forerunner of developing a brand by drawing people into a proto parasocial relationship.
Making an Addressable LED Ampli-Tie*
caniuse uses statscounter. It's really no surprise that statistics collected via javascript fail to include browsers that aren't executing it or don't have the modern JS "features" it uses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect
I'm really happy to see learn about GoToSocial, thanks for sharing I'll be investigating this evening.
Notch ended up set for life and distributed out huge sums of cash to all of the employees after the sale who were not rich.

At the end of the day its a video game, not firmware for someones heart implant. If it matters to anyone, they can just write their own video game.
Creditors are (almost) always ahead of equity in the capital stack, and putting a lien on property or garnishing wages is in no way a change in position in that stack.

Ultimately all the assets of the debtor are suitable for recovering any debts, whether they are secured or otherwise.

A secured debt just means that that particular creditor has priority over other creditors when it comes to using the securing asset to recover debts, and imposes restrictions on what the debtor can do with that asset.

An unsecured debt doesn't mean that the debtor can just not pay his debts without any consequences, it just means that when those consequences do come the secured creditors get their "pound of flesh" first.

This is perfectly normal, and it's exactly what you sign up for when you take on a debt. Don't like it? Don't borrow money.
If a guy who ran an airport is qualified to regulate air safety, then a guy who owned a parking lot is qualified to regulate auto safety.

Running an airport is running a business. An airport parks airplanes and collects rent from airlines and concessionaires. It wouldn’t teach you what you need to know to regulate airlines or air safety.
> That, if the market deems the value of a white collar to be less than the output of a text predictor, maybe you should "reskill" and "learn to code"?

The idea that mid and late career tech, creative, medical, etc. professional will be able to easily "reskill," or that there will be good jobs for them if they manage to, is magical thinking.

> What's wrong with letting the market speak? Since apparently the white collar class celebrates, while chastising and legislating away the jobs of the blue collar class, apparently it's different when the white collar jobs are at risk, and we must not let the market work? Are you ignoring the massive wave of hysteria, including this article, for the last several months? Straight from the 'white collar' class.

There's a lot going on here but concentrating on your core point: saying "let the market work" without being curious about what the actual human beings involved are actually going to do is nothing more than your thinking money is more important than human life and that people are only as important as their commercial potential. Why beat around the bush? To put it lightly, I disagree.

> If the AI is so powerful at whatever bullshit job the white collar worker has, and you want to make white collar workers the glorified elevator attendant, be my guest. But it certainly reveals a glaring hypocrisy, that jobs only matter when they're well-off people's jobs, but fuck the average joe when it comes to their skills and livelihood, they should just "re-skill!"

Once again, I'm not really sure where you get this idea that I'm being a hypocrite here considering that I've been very consistent for decades about it being pretty bullshit how our society treats obsoleted workers like used condoms and says "well that's the market!" If you want to go argue that point with someone else who actually has that opinion, feel free.

I can tell that we're not going to get anywhere because free market zealots have a philosophically different understanding of human worth than I do.
Yes. Here is the list of music on the Voyager disks: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/whats-on-the-reco...
I didn't get it at first, but this is a brilliant comment!
I never said I stopped reading anything.
> So is the article claiming that demographic change 1) is happening, and 2) is deliberate (i.e. immigration policy and (lack of) border protection aren’t acts of God that politicians have no sway over), and the theory only fails 3) is done by Democrats to win elections?

No, he is only claiming (1), and grouping your (2 and 3) both the “deliberately engineered” and “by Democrats to win elections” together as the controversial part.
I don’t think it was ever thought that PFAS would coat alternatives.
They have other options too https://help.nextdoor.com/s/article/How-to-verify-your-addre...
Carrying a balance does not mean someone is in default.
The video of the hearing is available, https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1651588376196182016
Could Frogmouth display Markdown cells in Jupyter Notebooks on the CLI?

FWIW, IPython is built with Python Prompt Toolkit and Jupyter_console is IPython for non-python kernels; `conda install -y jupyter_console; jupyter kernelspec -h`. But those only do `%logstart -o example.out.py`; Markdown in notebooks on the CLI is basically unheard-of.
Memorizing 20-30 or even 40 lines is next to trivial for a Super GM. And prior to this year with more decisive games, the championship was becoming incredibly stale with every event being decided by tie breaks. And despite how exciting this event was, it was still decided by rapid tiebreaks. So do what Carlsen says, reduce the number of classical games and throw in rapid and blitz, winner takes all. That makes the most sense.
Without RedReader I would not use Reddit. It's understandable that they would want to capitalize off third-party app users -- this approach is pretty disappointing though. Been on the site over 15 years but looks like things are coming to an end.
“Flying Blind” by Peter Robison is a great book on the MAX. I am surprised no one has mentioned it. It digs into the history of Boeing and the changes in the organisation and culture of corporate America that led to the MAX. I am surprised no one has mentioned it.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55994102-flying-blind
“Your leaf blower battery should be able to charge a laptop.”

Stopped reading right there. I fully believe that on evolutionary timescales, the human race will split into 2 races. There will be the leaf blowing species and the others. The “others” will explore the stars, the leaf blowers will have a decreased cranial volume and stay behind and blow leaves.

Nothing interesting can come from the mind of a leaf blower.

(I kid of course, at least he’s blowing them using batteries and not a 2-stroke engine).
Awesome reply, thanks so much for the help!

I have a lot of googling to do now...

Really not a fan of getting trapped in closed stuff with forced firmware updates that take away features.
Jay Miner, the engineer who created the Amiga's AGNUS/DENISE/PAULA chips, came from Atari where he previously created the TIA in the Atari 2600, and then the ANTIC/CTIA/POKEY chips in the Atari 8-bit computers. The Amiga is the 16-bit successor to the Atari 800 that Jay wanted to create at Atari but was told, "No".

But, yes, Commodore had a lot of great engineers too, some of which followed Jack Tramiel to Atari and created the Atari ST and others who remained at Commodore.
What country? Age?
In the USA companies often engineer their health care costs by pruning people with incurable chronic diseases. In Canada and many other countries they do not do this. At some point you may have to advise your employer. You may agree to a lesser work/lesser $$ - ultimately you might get a disability pension of some degree?
If your doctor is able to advise the best path and use confidentiality to help you that would be good. At some point you may no longer be able to work, plan for that as best you can.
BabyLM Challenge: Efficient pretraining on a developmentally plausible corpus
This sounds very scary :/
> "Mid-February also saw reports emerge that the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery manufacturer, China’s CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited), had begun offering discounts on batteries sold to certain Chinese EV companies, such as Nio Inc. (NIO) and Zeekr, thus reflecting the ongoing downturn in the lithium price. Such discounts are reportedly being offered to enable CATL’s customers to lock in battery purchases—the most expensive component of EVs—at below-market prices if they agree to purchase at least 80 percent of the batteries they require for their EVs from CATL, on the assumption that lithium-carbonate prices will continue falling significantly."

In the U.S. I think this would be quite illegal. I realize China is different, but it's still interesting to see this kind of thing out in the open as if it's normal. (The closest situation I can think of is when Intel was sued by AMD by offering discounts on CPUs to manufacturers that didn't use AMD products[1]. Intel settled with AMD for 1.25 billion dollars.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v....
Do you worry about phone numbers in the sense that it allows OpenAI to match data input with a person? Because at least in my country most phone numbers are public info available online together with our social security numbers, so it's already "shared".
Is pure shell the programming language that will never die?
> residents of Appleton, Wisconsin [...] convinced their City Council to suspend their weed ordinance for the month of May.

This reminds me that there are many municipalities and homeowners' associations that essentially require you to mow your lawn weekly or bi-weekly, lest your grass gets too long and they fine you, because... reasons.

It's really gross that we allow people to be such busybodies.
Main problem I have with long grass is that it seems to attract more mosquitoes. I’d actually prefer xeriscaping but my HOA doesn’t allow it.
Should legislation include science and fact-less personal preference?
Fischertechnik
I doubt this is a feasible calculation. Firstly, grounding one type will not shut down air transport (though it will degrade service, complicate operations, and possibly have unanticipated consequences.) Secondly, the travel being disrupted will not all be completed by other means. Thirdly, it is not possible to estimate the risk of not grounding as the cause of the problem is not well-understood.
Materialism allows for a creator and spirits and ghosts and fairies, it just says that if they exist they are not supernatural, just natural.
If good documentation is a virtue signal, then yeah, I guess?
I think people are overstating the capabilities of these programs (things get confusing when software starts to pass the Turing test).

However:

> but clearly dont have a model of the world, self, or others because they have not been engineered in

Neither did we.

> The hypothesis that, by scaling the giant clockwork, these things will magically emerge is .. magical and unproven.

Our sapience was and is an emergent phenomenon, (superstition aside) was that magic?
If you don’t mind, I’m curious what sort of procedure and training changes occurred after the 2009 incident. The streak of no major domestic crashes (and basically no crashes at all) is really impressive and I think it should be talked about more. If the procedure and training changes are responsible for the streak we should be holding a parade or something for those responsible. Speaking of parades, I wonder what changed to make them seem lame these days. Are they just boring relative to film?
I'll go a step further and say "just use zsh", which is clearly superior for scripting and installed so easily it hardly matters.

(aside: I don't think bash the "the default on most *nix systems"; it's not on BSD or macOS (which does ship with a very old bash), and while it's certainly common on Linux even there it's not universal)
Snowden actually got a lot of support. I remember that even some high profile corporate executives expressed support... Though a cynical take on that would be that it was just to cover their own asses because they wanted to make themselves (and their companies/platforms) look like victims of government surveillance as opposed to facilitators.
I'm actually rather puzzled by what the dogmatic proponents of a multicultural population expect to be the end result, if not an inevitable convergence towards some bland, undifferentiated or trivially differentiated mean.

If this were to happen worldwide, and geography thankfully makes that likely impossible, I'm not sure that an entire planet blanketed with a single mass media driven culture, with the inevitable extinction of hundreds of long cultural tails ( like endangered or near endangered languages today) answers the problems that proponents of unrestricted multiculturalism seem to be profess concern about. For there to be cultural variation at all, "original" or "native" sources of variation to provide inputs for the "multi" have to be preserved somehow.

And it can't just be the cultural equivalent of farmers markets, reservations set up part time on half a city block, on land that 50 years prior was not city, but hundreds of acres of actual farmland and farmers tending it.
Managers are not somehow exempt from this line of thinking. Firing someone is labor intensive for a manager and will actually reduce their power. No one wants to fire anyone, especially lately.

This is clearly the result of corporations destroying workers’ incentive to produce quality work. If you don’t pay people to care, they will not care
> picked up a LifeStraw home water filter[1] that claims to reduce these chemicals in your drinking water

Seeing that the LifeStraw pitcher is made of plastic, I wonder whether the amount of filtered chemicals is greater than the ones introduced by the plastic in the pitcher itself.

Civilization is built on plastics all the way down.
There is nothing inherently good or bad about a group of people working toward some common purpose. In principle, given the right value system, incentives, and organizational structure, you could create a corporation that does an extraordinary amount of good in the world.

The problem is bad power structures, not power structures per se. Just because corporations as they exist today have problems doesn't mean that we should give up on organizations of people entirely. It means we need to do the necessary work in philosophy, psychology, economics, business administration, etc. that will enable the creation of more effective and ethical power structures.
There are two compelling reasons:

1) for people who want to make money using AI but can’t afford to pay for a LLM or servers, they can push that cost to the end user.

2) for people who want to generate porn or spam (probably, also to make money)

The privacy thing is complete nonsense. If you want a private server, rent your own private server. If you’re worried AWS is spying on you, you’re paranoid.

This is about money, making money and being cheap, not about good will.

So, you’re right; from a consumer perspective it’s pretty meaningless.
In addition to Baraka and especially Samsara (the best known film in this genre), I'd suggest the films of Nikolaus Geyrhalter. "Our Daily Bread" is a really good film looking at food production specifically.
The original comment was talking about unions destroying things, so yes it was an anti-union talking point, the bias was clear.
This article was an intriguing read, but I left unconvinced of its conclusion with a general feeling of "who cares?"
And the perl version from which ruby's kind of sprang.

perl -pi -e 's/from/to/g' list_of_files
Like most buybacks, the government is paying $500 for someone's $200 Keltec (which may have already been "used", tainting it), and the seller will probably upgrade to an M&P or Glock (with clean serial #s)

Your tax dollars providing gun upgrades, those gift cards will be sold at for 80% cash value and then its off to buy a Glock
sed -i? Not 100% portable across all implementations, but that usually doesn't matter.

Some languages also have nice tools for this, such as gofmt -r; I don't know if something like that exists for Ruby.
Also impractical simply b/c non-commercial mowers cannot cut long grass.