skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the solution, though? You're criticizing "accepting corporate monopolization of what should be a public resource," which is fair, but you're also ignoring the actual problem that we have a public resource that can only handle an amount of utilization that is less than demand. We need a system to allocate demand.

The post you're responding to isn't saying these things are good, but it's taking the practical perspective that the current system is better than what existed before and probably better than what the government would produce itself.

It's easy to say that we shouldn't accept involving corporations in this way, and it's easy to say bureaucratic waste/theft should be punished. I think most people here would agree with you in a theoretical perspective.

The problem is that we have to deal with the constraints of the real world, which the parent post addresses and you ignore. I'd invite you not to ignore them and just criticize, and instead to propose a solution - what do you think is the right way to allocate usage of national parks and related service that does not involve private corporations and also avoids bureaucratic waste?
> Two years ago, a messaging app startup called IRL reached a $1.2 billion valuation

> Earlier this year, a former employee alleged that IRL—the name stands for “in real life”— had fired him after he voiced concerns that many users were bots

It's hilarious that "In Real Life" was 95% bots.
I will never understand why someone would choose to use RHL over Debian flavored distro unless you want the enterprise support they provide. In which case, you reap what you sow.
> We just keep changing and changing the same things again and again because that's the new way to do

Capitalism doesn't work unless you have something to sell, and that's just as true for tech as it is anywhere else.
That probably is what would happen. That's certainly the way it's played out in CA - it's a relatively rare (but still findable), meaningfully more expensive service for those who want it.

Why is that a bad outcome though? Few people want/need it, and it's certainly more expensive to provide, so this seems like a pretty reasonable outcome to me.
>utilities haven't built up enough battery capacity to take advantage of it for later.

After Tesla was able to supply a battery pack to the city in Australia after a Twitter bet, I'm really surprised that more storage has not been installed everywhere. Maybe I stopped paying attention to the story too soon, but did this battery buffer not fix the problem?
i have used renesas microcontrollers in probably 20 defense contracts fwiw
Again, I grew up in an extended family, being taken care of by grandparents, aunts etc. Singleness is not the problem. Single people are not opposed to a nuclear family. Divorce is. Divorce with children takes a family and breaks it apart. To compare divorce to singleness is disingenuous.

> but divorce rates would go down quite a bit if those for whom marriage is not compatible with their personality didn't get married in the first place, and there was a space for them to thrive within the family/community.

Being single is as socially acceptable as ever (in fact, it is slowly but surely becoming the default) and I see no sign of things improving.
Will they? Only if they can. Tech industries are example #1 for this behavior. At some point very few people can create a competitor for Amazon, Google, or Apple.
I don't subscribe to newsletters, instead I developed a smart RSS reader that can ingest a few thousand articles a day and show me just a few hundred.
I'm currently trying to decide how/where to publish, and haven't decided whether or not I'll use a pseudonym when publishing (a lot of my personal stuff stems from family issues that I'm cautious to go into publicly).

But I will put a link in my HN profile when I get things up and running, and if you shoot me an email (address in profile), I'd be happy to ping you when I get this off the ground. I expect this is at least a few months out, but I'm hoping to do most of the writing while the experience is fresh.
Ideally we should write and organize our code such that it is easy to visualize. We shouldn’t write code and then visualize it. And we also shouldn’t think we have to abandon text-based editors when we want to do such.

People forget that higher level languages are only to help _people_ understand and organize code better.

I’m waiting for the first programming language or text editor that visualizes your code from the first line you type.
Ah, thank you! I had failed to search for "epithet". I was always searching for "insults".

It looks like the same book, though it says it was revised in 2006. I hope they didn't bowdlerize it.

Anyhow, I promptly ordered it!

My friends and colleagues should be suiting up for the coming onslaught of insults from me.
That's super interesting, thank you for the content and for the reply!

I'm an Asciidoc (+GitLab/VSC/Antora) user and a Markdown, eh, I guess you would say "researcher"[1], but I'm not jingoistic about it. I realize the Markdown tool ecosystem is an order of magnitude larger.

[1] Never having used it in production, R Markdown was one of the "final three" markdown candidates for a project, but we didn't go that way.
how do you handle multi-timezone teams or international companies with people spread around the world?

it would be counterproductive to tell a team in london team that they can't message each other because the the email server server only sends things during california working hours.
> I'm not sure it's quite that simple, as some marriages are toxic to children.

Some marriages are, certainly, but all divorces are.
Rust has great libraries for TUIs. tui-rs (https://github.com/fdehau/tui-rs) has been used in numerous popular applications, but is unmaintained. ratatui (https://github.com/tui-rs-revival/ratatui) is the maintained version, and is pretty new. Less widely known is cursive (https://github.com/gyscos/cursive), which I have yet to try.

Aside from the libraries, I just wanted to start a project that would make be better at Rust. The easy distribution with cargo is a huge bonus though.
The paper does not claim that firms have increased profit margins: "the limited available data does not point to a widespread increase in markups"

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2023/06/23/Eur...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36484267

> I suspect what happened was rising prices because of the pandemic and the war showed companies they can increase prices without also suffering a significant decrease in sales. After all, when virtually all prices are going up, where are consumers going to go?
> I suppose RHEL uses basically the same kernel, with patches that don't alter its interface too substantially. So I presume that a driver in source form, or even partly in binary blob form, should build and work approximately equally well with any stock kernel.

No, I think that's exactly the difference; Linux (in)famously has no stable ABI for drivers, and regularly makes changes that break things if you don't recompile against the updated kernel. Part of the value in RHEL was that they froze significantly more ABI surface, which made it possible to write proprietary drivers that would work across at least minor kernel updates without needing to be changed. That won't work on an upstream kernel because upstream doesn't go out of their way to freeze that ABI surface.
Hi, nice to see the vendor participating in the HN discussion (and hopefully gathering feedback from users) :-)

One of the main factors driving me back to the DK board was the fact that many NCS samples take advantage of the 4 switches + 4 LEDs on the DK board. Even the light_switch sample uses all 4 buttons to trigger different functionality.

The smaller boards don't have room for these switches and LEDs, so you'd have to tweak the program to work around the hardware differences. And that's a big investment if you just wanted to play around with the stock sample code for a few minutes.

A more general critique of the NCS samples is that many of them require a great deal of "polishing" before you can use them in a real project. It would actually be helpful if NCS shipped ready-made overlays that allowed them to run on smaller boards like the MDK and Dongle, in a configuration that's closer to what a shippable product would look like. As it stands, a company that wants to ship a Zigbee bulb or switch has to do a lot of work to convert the samples into something usable.

Maybe this is worth filing some PRs on the sdk-nrf github.
The people actually in charge of the App Store don't seem much better
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36424090
Renesas is (or was, at least) pretty big in the automotive sector. They are much less common in general consumer electronics, though.
Cambridge being a suburb is like calling Brooklyn a suburb of NYC.

It's just a technicality of Boston not eating all the surrounding small cities like most larger cities eventually did.

The peninsula in The Bay is decidedly suburban - but it is sandwiched between two of the biggest cities in the US.
Do they made solar panels that aren't affected by clouds or trees?
> I mean.... daily blackouts vs nuclear... which kind of a politician would you want to be?

Apparently you’re missing some context since nearly every politician is risking daily blackouts vs ramping up nuclear production.

Do you think that every single one is mistaking what will go over well with the people or that there is maybe a political issue that changes the calculus that you are either undervaluing or have missed entirely?

Edit: I didn’t even engage with your question correctly. That’s a false dichotomy. The politicians are banking that moving us towards renewables with its associated risks is a better path forward than moving us towards nuclear with its associated risks. Moving to a new energy paradigm like nuclear also could come with the risk of “daily blackouts” as whatever that migration would look like plays out. It’s not a “risky” choice vs a “risk-free” choice
https://www.netflix.com/title/80990771 was surprisingly watchable
Implicit in the term "burnout" is that it's good and healthy to do this (rather inhuman, intense) thing in these vast quantities. That to get sick from it is somehow this weird aberration.

But if you consume too much of pretty much anything you'll get sick. Even good stuff. That's perfectly normal.
This is rarely difficult when the buying company is large enough. You just need to offer a good multiplier for the current price of the private company. Very few private companies will turn down a generous offer, especially when the option is to compete directly with the larger company.
> It’s really a testament to the Objective-C runtime (and Ruby C extension API) that while much of the original code was written in 2001, an incredible amount of it runs unchanged over 20 years later on modern versions of macOS and Ruby.

This is one of the things I love. Starting in 2014 with the introduction of Swift and continuing to the present, I've heard people claim that every line of Objective-C code you write is technical debt, but the opposite turned out to be true: any Swift code you wrote in the early years is now completely unusable. Apple even removed some Swift version migration tools from Xcode. Meanwhile, old Objective-C code still Just Works™. I continue to write ObjC today, with no regrets.

Another thing I love is that you can import open source C projects with no changes whatsoever.

Compiling is much faster. The debugger actually works (though Apple has been making it worse lately). There are so many practical advantages to Objective-C, even if it's not the most "beautiful" language. Objective-C has always valued pragmatism over idealism, as the marriage between high level object-oriented programming and low-level systems programming.
Or it's a garbled message.
Yeah. Just like you can't guilt consumers in buying a Prius, you can't guilt companies into seeking something other than profit.

Companies and humans operate on incentives. The one to blame is the ones who control those incentives.
> Why should they risk their lives for a society that hates them?

Ideally because they are paid to do so, and voluntarily sel-selected into a job that requires such. Nobody is forcing anybody to be a cop. But every citizen has a responsibility to hold their public servants accountable for their (again, self-selected) responsibilities.
it doesnt have to...its a democracy and to defend its values there already exists a superpower thatll defend them
https://archive.is/JE6MR

https://web.archive.org/web/20230626181049/https://enigma.ho...

(I wasn't expecting this to hit #1)
This one tickled me a lot

>Brad Cox and Tom Love create Objective-C, announcing "this language has all the memory safety of C combined with all the blazing speed of Smalltalk." Modern historians suspect the two were dyslexic.
Nice to see Meta embarking on genuinely helpful social networking projects. There's massive social distrust & unrest these days, and building actual pro-social pro-user capabilities is maybe the only way to guard against existential risk.
Besides slowing the vehicles behind you down to a safe and legal speed, a secondary advantage of obeying the speed limit on neighborhood streets is to influence routing algorithms.

Many routing algorithms base their decisions on past travel time and current traffic conditions. If you convince enough of your neighbors to drive legally then eventually the routing algorithms increase their anticipated travel time for those streets which (depending on what the alternatives are) may result in fewer people being routed onto those streets.
Perhaps. Or perhaps nobody wants to admit publicly that they don’t get it either, and don’t want to miss all that sweet, sweet, alpha that gets generated when SoftBank figures out how to enable telepathic communication.

There may also be a fair amount of The Common Knowledge Game[0] going on.

0 - https://www.epsilontheory.com/harvey-weinstein-common-knowle...
Usually these kinds of regulations are about keeping existing jobs rather than creating new jobs. I certainly understand the impulse, even when misguided, to slow down the rate of “progress”. There are always winners and losers, even if society as a whole would be better off in the long run.
Amongst the upper working class, the argos catalogue featured as a central part of holiday (christmas esp.) life until perhaps the mid-2000s.

You could walk into any argos and take one of the 1000pg+ catelogues of massive pallets of them, and paw them over days.

The working class, typically unsentimental in the UK, would then purchase the child's designated item for xmas. The pretence of "santa clause", i think, more often a middle class ritual.
Stencil v4.0.0
I never subscribed to any newsletter in all years I'm on the Internet
The state and federal governments trains hundreds of thousands of computer science engineers a year. Engineering students are also in dire need of internships to appear employable. Seems like another way to run a website at little cost to taxpayers would be an internship program using a portion of the massive engineering workforce government is already paying to train, although that would mean a consultants hands are removed from the honeyjar.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if booze allens own college summer interns are doing the bulk of the work on this website.
Thanks for caring. I read it after through your link. It is indeed a beautiful piece.
Probably not, in the 10 years retrospect post he writes that he built it :) In an Echo Nest company blog post he is referred to as "The Echo Nest director of developer platform". I have no first-hand information however.
In my closet there is a bin full of batteries. This bin has no internal organization; all different types of batteries are jumbled together. You could say that I have just hidden the mess, and that there is no point having a battery bin unless you are also going to have a sub-bin for each type of battery - but in practice, this is enough. When I need a battery, I know where to look for it, and there are no batteries cluttering up any other parts of my house.
This last weekend was ARRL Field day, a huge operating event designed to be "practice" for when the "stuff hits the fan" but also just gets a ton of people on the air using portable stations set up in public and austere environments (like in a park pavilion, not in a cozy basement or office).

I made a playlist of as many FD videos i could find on youtube [0]. There's a lot of examples of stations, setups, and the actual contacts - which are very short.

Field day is a sort of contest. In a nutshell, the more contacts you make, the more points you get. So, the contacts are short and have a bare minimum of information (callsign, operating class (#radios + power level) and US state/CAN province).

"Normal" voice and CW conversations are much different, and just sound like two people chatting about life, the weather, family, health, kids these days, or technical radio-related topics like descriptions of their station, propagation studies, or reports of the last hamfest they went to.

There's also "nets" which usually have their "check-ins" give a short report, or none at all (aka short-time). Some nets relay information about severe weather (skywarn / storm spotting), others relay official national traffic in accordance with the Incident Command System (ICS) to practice for wide-spread disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes. The radiogram system still runs via ham radio too, and you can hear national traffic system (NTS) nets relaying messages the old-fashioned way.

Right now, the majority of amateur radio traffic on HF is currently FT8 [1]. IT's a low-speed weak-signal FSK mode, in which operators exchange only each other's callsign, signal report, location (4-char maidenhead gridsquare), and a few extra characters to say hello (CQ), roger (RR), or goodbye (73) in a 77-bit message.

Other stations might not even be hams talking, like APRS, WSPR, or signal propagation beacons. There are quite a few automated stations that perform a variety of tasks.

There's a TON of low-earth orbit cubesats that use amateur radio for telemetry and command/control, and a few operate as a repeater that hams use to relay a signal across wide areas. There are even hams aboard the ISS, as well as a repeater. So sometimes we say hi to astronauts. They don't say much since a lot of people are in line to get that highly-desired contact. Sometimes schools coordinate with radio clubs to have students ask questions directly to astronauts via ham radio. It's old-school, but it provides an excellent learning opportunity about the utility of radio.

Bottom line, hams talk about anything. And some don't talk about anything at all. And some aren't even people. Some are astronauts. It's a very broad, multi-faceted hobby so there's lots to talk about.

--N0SSC

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG8UQxewXrtbT9cBWL-3J...
Agreed - with the start of Covid I manage to buy a Concept 2 (which wasn't easy - they were all sold out and you had to pay premium for used ones on Marketplace) but this is the best purchase ever. Since 2020, I managed to lower my hr, improve overall fitness for other sports I do and in general much happier. On my way to sub-20 min 5k, yay
yes, exactly, the same confusion google has.
> sets out to give users of software the freedom to modify and run the software themselve

No, not just “modify and run”, it's about “modify, run and redistribute without any other restriction than publishing the redistributed code under the same licence”. That's exactly what makes creative common-NC a non-free license by the way.
and there is rub, or at least part of it.

If you got gas at one of those stations it is because it was open.
being open cost an employee even when no one show up which in a sparsely populated area is usually. The only rational response is to limit hours.
now you have a condition where people over a wide area are being blocked from being able to buy gas when ever they want like the people in the city who are preventing them just take for granted.

These paper cuts accumulate add in some divisive propaganda and here we are.

source: I'm one of those city folk now.
The whole reason these are called "hallucinations" is because they usually sound plausible. Making up something stupid kind of misses that point.
Completely agree about going to the east side [of each state].
If, for the sake of argument, the government printed 100x the currency that currently existed, in short order, corporate profits would skyrocket as that money was deployed and the market as a whole into which that currency was being deployed realized what the situation was.

Those corporate profits wouldn't be causing the inflation.

They would potentially be the place where they are first noticeable and measurable according to certain measurements, but in a complex system that you do not have instrumented up completely, the first place you see a particular thing appear is not necessarily its origin point. Anyone debugging distributed systems should have direct experience with that.

This is not what is happening, but I kind of this kind of boundary analysis where you stick large numbers in to a system like a helpful way to feel out the landscape of a problem like this.

I'm open to the idea that this or that corporate action is making things better or worse. But "inflation is bad because corporations discovered greed in 2020" is such an obvious falsehood that it calls into question why anyone is even pushing it as a reason. Greed was invented somewhere around the time the first cell divided into a second cell, not several years ago.
Every day is HugOps day in this land :)
After growing up with Astérix and learning half my French from it (the other half from Tintin) there was a pun that I finally got only now, many years later, thanks to a French colleague.

In "Le Domaine des Dieux" (The Manions of the Gods) there is a character called "Oursenplus". This always registered to me as saying "And a bear" ("ours" is "bear" and "en plus" is like "one more" or "on top of that").

Then I asked my colleague: "I don't get this Oursenplus pun from Astérix, can you tell what it means?".

My colleague hadn't read the issue so he didn't immediately catch what I said, but he replied "Comment? Ours en peluche?"

Which, said quickly with a French accent sounds very much like "oursenplush" (with a "shh") and means ... "teddy bear" ("peluche" is "felt"; a plushy).
Yes big money exploit workers. What else is new?
Tell that to France who has repeatedly had to shutdown nuclear stations because the rivers were too warm to cool the plant.
does someone actually make an compressor that runs off DC directly? It'd have to be a universal motor from what I understand. That seems really unreliable.
>You're forgetting the huge growth our National Parks have seen

Except this isn't true. 2022 saw 311.9 million visitors, up from 2000 which saw 285.8 million. That's not "huge" growth, that's not even keeping up with population growth (2020: 329 million vs 2000: 282 million).
https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/visitation-numbers.htm