skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are underestimating the difficulty of producing something. Just check what happens with 90% of kickstarters that need to produce stuff.

And I know what I'm talking about because I thought about doing something like what you propose for a while, and I concluded that I'd never be able to beat Behringer. I'm not saying it's impossible, it's just not easy and Behringer has a lot of merit in being efficient at producing these synths.
When everyone is a contractor, you actually have to treat them they way too. That means there are benefits and supportive actions you cannot take or they become an employee by the implication. Then you may have to setup a local business, convert them to full time and deal with the local gov. It sounds much simpler than it is.

For instance, maternity/paternity leave. If you give someone full leave, one could argue that it's a benefit only afforded to FTEs and that could be enough to convince the local business office that the person is, in fact, an FTE. Now you're in violation and have to pay fines as well as setup a local office of one, who will never visit said office. So you do the proxy office thing, which incurs cost right away. Come tax season, you have to figure out what you owe based on the person and your new legal status as a for profit business in the area. Your cost to operate has just become significantly higher. Now you have to rethink the position and location and a non zero number of these will result in closing the local role and having to let someone go. Lose lose for everyone. The alternative path says "no baby leave because you're a contractor." That sucks too because you like the people you hire and want to do right by them but that also means keeping them employed.

You can find alternatives and that's not a literal situation but it is the combination of a few situations into one example, so the contents are real but not as a single tale. (I don't want to tell anyone's specific story.)

Global remote hiring is hard.
That is so beautiful.
I thought it was handled about as best as it possibly could be, and he reacted fairly well. What really sold me was his podcast appearances afterwards, which I'd highly recommend checking out.

It was definitely real.
It's surprising how many developers complain about this, here in HN and otherwise, yet STILL we have those crappy validations and autofill all over the internet.
You know, people can write text, too
> ...needs to be completely re-written ever few years.

No it doesn't, the HTML spec hasn't changed, whereas QT has. The issue is how the webapps were built in the first place. You don't need Nextjs and all it's friends to post a form to a backend once an hour but somehow that is becoming the standard approach...
Can you prove Behringer is actually loss-leading? Selling something that does not make normal profit? If you can prove that, why can't Moog?

It is simply not unethical to spot an expired patent and reproduce it at near zero profit with minimal changes, if you can make money at it. This is how patents work. If an idea works, 25 years later someone sells it cheaper, with a few modifications. Almost every product on the market now contains ideas in an expired patent. The pace of innovation means a lot of those patents expired recently.

It would be unethical to try to pass it off as identical, but one of the main problems with design is companies not actively adding their own non-essential elements to design. If form follows function, then it cannot be unethical to reproduce the form when you implement the patent.

There are (some) laws against making products that don't even make normal profit (by which I mean not paying the entrepreneur) if used anti-competitively. But Moog, Akai etc., would all have the kinds of lawyers who could prove it. So it is probably -- I would say almost certainly -- not happening.
There was no backdoor involved in the DAO Ethereum rollback, it was done by network consensus
Also, the web version works better than the electron app (for me, ymmv).
You mean the newer logo should be changed - I don't think the fruit company has had the same logo for 111 years.
When you say Inferno led to WASM, is it just conceptual or is there a concrete link?
Why do you say they are loss leading? They presumably are not. Instead they are reasonably pricing out-of-patent hardware designs which the original manufacturers are apparently vastly overcharging for decades after they have recouped their R&D costs.

If anything this should drive innovation not stifle it. Other hardware manufacturers are now required to innovate and actually spend on R&D to sell hardware at higher prices instead of just selling the same old designs they created in the 80.
Yes, since the data pipeline is universal, there can be multiple options on the UI, such as https://github.com/evidence-dev/evidence, which can regularly build static reports using SQL and data from the database through GitHub Actions.
Are there patterns to your low energyness? I don't know your situation but some patterns I notice for me:

- low energy after consuming high-GI / high-sugar stuff: like soda

- low energy after too much caffeine

- low energy when feel overwhelmed / stressed / over-worked

Stuff I do to get back on track is basically:

- sitting in yoga position and doing breathing exercises and meditating

- lying down and doing part-by-part body relaxation (similar technique is progressive muscle relaxation)

Stuff that makes me feel energized:

- breathing exercise, something like Ujjayi Pranayama with box breathing. So breathe in for N, hold full for N, breath out for M (M >= N), hold empty for M. Repeat. Use as much of the Ujjayi technique as you like.

- squeeze your lower jaw gum using your thumb and forefinger below the canine tooth. This is some sort of meridian point that I find wake me up.

- do some burpees or other HIT for 20 seconds.

Good luck!
That's ridiculous. Almost every large and small company has some kind of Microsoft server or cloud subscription. The Linux machines that do get deployed are absolutely full of pre-built distros, firmware images, and closed-source executables.

No serious systems administrator is going full Gentoo on their entire setup. It's a waste of time and effort to do so.

Obviously the author knows they could compile Firefox themselves. It's not even that hard, you just need to download a whole bunch of dependencies to your machine and wait for half an hour. That's not how sysadmins people get their software, though.
Beepberry Cures Lack of Blackberry
> In practice, they compile only with specific versions of GCC, CMake and libc

That's pretty easy nowadays thanks to container.

You don't have to muck around with environment variables to get the build system to detect your custom toolchain anymore.
Inside The AI Factory
This blog post is not about AI researchers — it's about developers who make products out of LLMs.
If you don't have access to the original phone number you used for registering, and accidentally lose or break the phone, how do you recover the account?
I think reasonable end result would be to ban Apple from using logo or world Apple as trademark.
I did not like Behringer in the 90s when they built their original fortune by violating Mackie patents.

However, what is wrong with perfectly cloning a chip whose patents have expired?

Analogy would be with a drug whose patents have expired. If generic analogs are available, everone benefits except the original company.

Everyone wins, who is the loser here?

Curtis family have the right to be upset but they do not have the right to perpetual profits.

https://ask.audio/articles/curtis-family-speaks-out-against-...
So basically...attention is all you need?
Ah, I will concede I probably am just a huge idiot then. I suppose I don't often find myself needing to bootstrap a linux OS in this way.
IKEA Business Strategy
> But Truman is not the story’s true everyman. The people who watch The Truman Show are.

I'm by no means a movie buff but I thought this was kind of obvious.
Underrated comment. And a good name for a fruit retailer!
At least for 32-bit x86 I've run into such problems. The Intel Quark platform has such an old CPU core in it that normal Ubuntu binaries wouldn't work on it (even at the the platform was relevant), as it lacks conditional move instructions unlike any other non-museum piece x86.

Also Glibc drops support for old kernel versions time to time, so even statically linked stuff isn't safe when compiling modern stuff against really old kernels.
The interface between the Kernel and Userland is stable.

The interface between Userland-Userland is not, very much not, a binary compiled a decade ago, unless its statically compiled or has no dependencies, will very likely not run, and is why things such as Flatpak and Docker partially exist in the first place.
Consider this scenario: i drop my phone in the water.

Now what? I have to create a new life.
Right. The pressure of a patent that is due to expire is itself a motivation to make a patentable improvement. And so the cycle repeats.

But at the same time you reboot that product you're going to look at your competitors' innovations, especially the ones that are now out of patent protection, and consider reimplementing the features you had to work around with your more convoluted, non-infringing methods, using the original patented method. Because if it stood the test of time it is a good design.

It's in the nature of things.

I am sure Behringer is a bit on the slimy side, but implementing expired patents is what literally everyone does.
The Waterworks of Money: Artist Carlijn Kingma visualizes finance in detail [video]
I don't see anything because it's paywalled.
> Flood the site with generated posts and 'engagement' that is all ad friendly. Turn the whole place into Weenie Hut Jr.

> Do this pre IPO then bail forever.

I wonder if that would constitute what the SEC calls "Internet fraud" at that point.
Man on the Moon too.

Also not a fan of his variety of slap-stick & such, he's good at it but it just isn't something that works for me from other performers either, but give him a slightly more dramatic role where he isn't just being Jim Carrey Jim-Carrey-ing like Jim Carrey, and you can see he has a talent.

(not that I object to his other stuff existing – different strokes for different folks!)
This is the wisest comment I've read in a while. Trump, depending on your politics, is either the beginning or end state of that particular problem.
Plan9 is the perfection of a dead end.
I think they meant SBCs, which if they did they would have a point, work there to standardise outside the server space is very slow.
I would not compile Firefox on AM64. I would also not download it from Mozilla. I'd just install it via the usual repository mechanism.

The range of ARM64 binaries in the various repositories has been increasing in the last years.
Most people use Bash trap incorrectly, and it should be documented.

# All normal and error exits

trap 'e=$?; trap - EXIT; your cleanup here; exit $e' EXIT

# Error only trap

trap 'e=$?; trap - ERR; your error only cleanup here; exit $e' ERR

Save the previous exit condition to preserve it, otherwise it will be destroyed.

Untrapping is necessary to prevent multiple calls, especially if it can call exit or fail within the trap handler.

You don't need an exhaustive list of signals, which is almost never correct in oft touted cargo culted examples.
"quite productive"? If I'm not wrong, all the major compilers have full C++17 support and almost complete C++20. And C++23 is coming.
Yeah, the way I read "emergent" is as "surprising" to our intuition, but technically expected. So I read this as surprisingly surprising performance.
I guess it depends on the jurisdiction, but in Europe (at least, France and Italy I'm certain of) the phone number is treated as personal sensitive data[1] and "owned" by the contract owner, not the telco.

[1] https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
What is B in this context? Billion?
Parents work hard because their #1 priority is to secure their children's future, which includes giving them any morally-acceptable leg up in an increasingly uncertain, overpopulated, and competitive world. The main way of doing this for millenia has been to leave them what you saved up.

Now you're saying I can't leave my kids anything, not even our family home? Because it has to be shared asset with the other 100 million people (or 7 billion, if you're one of those open border types)? That's completely unacceptable to me. It also removes my incentive to work hard. Are my children to become equal to everyone else (which given overpopulation drives them down to a bad comfort and safety level) if I get hit by a car?

You don't seem to think anyone would mind, "Oh, you'll be dead, why would you care" , right? What you're missing is that I care more about my children and their future than about myself. Every good parent thinks like this. A suggestion like yours likely comes from the moralism of detached, childless, too-online rationalists. To put it as a trolley problem, if I have to choose between my kid and 5 other kids, the other 5 kids are getting a train in their face without a moment's hesitation. I'm saving my kid even if 50k other kids are on the other end.

Seriously, talk about this to your parents (as I'm certain you have no children of your own), see what they think.
Sports Writers Out, Zoomer TikTokers In
True, I was only talking about Kernel-Userland.

It's also why closed-source software often include every dependencies in their installation package. And even that is sometimes not enough, like when the host's glibc is too old.
One theory I've had re: inequality and peoples feelings towards it now vs 10/20/30 years ago (its been fairly stable since 1992 in 40-41 range) is that its a social media phenomenon.

Previously, I didn't know any of my friends (or their friends) flew private jets or stayed in $1000/night resorts regularly. Someone in town might have a nicer house or nicer car, but I didn't see them (or their kids) flaunting or humblebragging on social media about where they did spend their money.

Unironically it's probably much worse with kids because they don't have the social mores & filter to understand what they shouldn't be posting.

There's a lot of "stealth wealth" that has lost it's stealth out there due to this.
I take the argument that enabling 2FA increases the risk of getting locked out of the account with no recourse.

But I doubt that many people with good password discipline will revert to bad password discipline after enabling 2FA (the Charlie example).
I would still ask why would you pay for Buildkite.

Github Actions might not be the best but so is Buildkite. It's not exactly strictly better in every way.

Having used all 3 mentioned, it'd be Gitlab > Github > Buildkite for CI/CD for me.

Github wins at least by the sheer community support. Every vendor has an action.
On the other hand, shouldn't "those that produce new technologies" be producing new technologies, instead of milking 60-year old designs?

Behringer is essentially producing a copy of Ford-T...
At the risk of torturing this analogy beyond recognition, it’s more like having an 8 core CPU but with a weak 150W PSU such that you can only run one core at a time.
It is sad that trap interface is not reversed:

trap EXIT WHATEVER -- cmd args

But as it is common with bash interfaces crystalized before good practices became apparent.
Do gift cards go up & down 50% in a year and have large transaction costs?
> this company not bothering to put a backup controller in their death tube

the really strange part of that, is that the pilot was the CEO of the company. Like the Norfolk Southern CEO would never in a million years set foot on one of their trains of death.

Anyhow they now heard sounds in 30minute intervals, so looks like they are still alive down there.
I learned the chords very quickly, but everyone works differently. What kind of feedback exactly would you expect from it? I can't immediately think of anything that would make it much better. I guess animations could help, but then they might just be distracting.

I think the main thing people get confused by besides the chording is the teleporting of the cursor, but then you realize it's actually really useful once you get used to it (at least I did).
Soundwise those are quite poor copies.

Behringer are hit and miss on this. They killed it with their Minimoog clones - very, very close to the real hardware - but not so much with some of their later efforts.

I have their Pro-One and their K2 and both lack the character and warmth of the originals. They sound like clones.

The P800, Solina and Kat all seem very good though.

People who accuse Behringer of cloning are missing the point.

They used to literally copy circuit traces and component BOMs. That's just outright theft. But they don't do that now.

The recent synths are clones in name only. They keep the panel graphics and functions but reimplement updates of the original circuits with SMD parts on new board layouts using a new industrial supply chain.

They have a deliberate policy of building reusable platforms so the development costs can be spread across multiple products.

All of that is innovative, and there's a lot more involved than copying an old circuit.

There is a psychopathic edge - like cloning MI's Plaits, which many suspect helped push Émilie out of the business, to everyone's loss. But it's not necessarily more psychopathic than (say) Roland's approach, which is to keep reselling versions of the same technology - often with the same samples - over and over at cash-grab prices for a couple of decades.
Yep, this is what I am thinking.

Since it is already giving interesting results, let's say a "brain" is a connectome with its current information flow.

Comparing AI with a brain in terms of scale is somewhat hazardous but with what we know about real neurons and synapses, one brain is still several orders of magnitude above the current biggest AIs (not to mention, current AI is 2D and very local, as the brain is 3D and much less locality constrained).
The "self-awareness" zone would need a at leas 1000x bigger, redondant, with a saveable flow of information, 3D with less locality, connectome that of the current biggest AI. Not to mention, realtime rich inputs/outputs, and years of training (like a baby human).

Ofc, this is beyond us, we have no idea of what's going on, and we probably won't. This is totally unpredictable, anybody saying otherwise is either trying to steal money for some BS AI research, or a the real genius.
Sometimes a fresh start is a good thing :-)

Alternatively, you get a new phone, install a TOTP app and scan or import your TOTP seed backups.
AI is already revolutionizing technology, according to Sachin Dev Duggal
AI into security technologies, organizations can improve their overall security posture says Sachin Dev Duggal. However, it\'s important to note that AI is not a silver bullet and should be seen as a complementary tool rather than a standalone solution. Human expertise and judgment remain crucial in interpreting AI-generated insights and making critical decisions.
It's a very impressive memo, but I'm not sure if I see anything here that's replicatable. It's clearly a sick team, whom have clients lined up (many of whom probably wont ever engage with an American AI firm until they find ways around Schrems II and, possibly III). Most four-week start ups are not in such a situation.
Right: but even in then, you'd still be able to drop a microphone down through the layers and rapidly survey the whole thing at once. Much easier if the target is making a racket.
When did Argentina have the worlds reserve currency and nearly a century of economic dominance?
That’s what the EPIRB is… problem is it has to reach the surface to broadcast; they’re designed for finding floating vessels / life boats, not submerged objects (in this case, tombs). To be useful it would need to be spooled out on a VERY long line that you could follow back down. In this case that means the EPIRB would need to be buoyant enough to float both itself and 4000+ meters of heavy line … which would be great, although also a threat to navigation.
For me the equivalent was seeing Adam Sandler in Punch-Drunk Love. I was channel surfing and this came up randomly. It was absolutely captivating, and was easily the best portrayal of mental illness I had ever seen in cinema.

Adam Sandler! That goofy idiot that plays in low-budget comedies that won't even make you laugh once!

Someone on Reddit explained that Sandler is a true genius because he doesn't work too hard, does "fun" low-stress movies, and takes his friends along to "assist" in beautiful tropical locations. All probably as a tax write off.

Brilliant.

Score of 7.5 on IMDB is not too shabby! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272338/
Show HN: Browsernaut App Picker Update
Browsernaut got a huge update that now allows for both light and dark mode, and greatly simplifies the UI.
Browsernaut is an app picker built for macOS that lets a user choose which app to open a link in. For example clicking a Discord link in your email client won't first open a web browser before opening the Discord desktop app. The entire application is open sourced and built in Rust and TypeScript using Tauri. PRs and feature requests are welcome!
And if Behringer can do it to the competition -- using their expired patents and making a still-competitive product -- then someone else can do it to Behringer.*

This is the preferred outcome of the patent system! Someone got to make a design for 25 years with the protection of the system, and now everyone can. And if you don't innovate, you don't get the protection.

* Edit: including the very firms Behringer is cloning, after all.
> Bash is riddled with absurd footguns

I agree, shell programming is ugly and very unsafe.

> Anything more complex than that? Python, Perl, or any other proper programming language is there for you.

I disagree.

First, there are certain things, specifically when you want to process very large datasets that are easiest - by a very large margin - to build using shell scripts: a combination a ripgrep, sed, awk, grep, cut, tr, paste, jq, head, tail, etc ... is way easier and faster to put together in bash than anything else.

Second, to get maximum flexibility you'd like to be able to switch from one (python, perl) to the other (shell script) transparently and both ways

Do certain things that can be expressed cleanly in python, and then transparently switch to bash calling a horde of specialized shell commands when the task at hand is easier to express that way.

Shell can transparently go down to Python or Perl very, very easily.

Unfortunately, the converse is absolutely not true: while Perl can - to a certain extent - be used to construct complex pipelines of data processing external commands, it is nowhere near Shell in ease of use.

And it is a giant PITA in Python which gives you fuck-all above exec/fork level subprocess manipulation: writing large external pipelines in Python is about as easy as it is in C.
TFA left me confused. I was at ASU briefly around 2000 and while it lived up to its "reputation as a party school for hot people," it also aggressively pursued being a major research campus. What did Crow do differently? From the article, it sounds like more of the same. The administrative changes mentioned sound like the sort of thing schools do to save money but that worsen the teaching environment. I haven't kept touch with anyone at ASU, so I don't know how faculty have regarded the changes.
Yes, nB is n-billion number of parameters
It is. I don't think people are well familiar with what Plan 9 calls "files". They're objects or resources, which also happen to be files. REST/OOP/Actors/Plan9 are very similar systems.

And like it or not OOP shows that it's possible for one idiom to describe all the things when it's flexible enough.
Fwiw, last time I looked, wee-slack was a decent improvement for slack text chat. These days maybe a matrix bridge?

https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack