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> > They revolutionized two major industries

Re-inventing the wheel for political reasons isn't a merit.

I remember life before Amazon, before Windows, before the iPhone, before Facebook, before Uber....those were real struggles and the quality of life jump that such companies provided is tangible.

Life before Tesla actually meant nicer quality interiors, buttons and doing away with the touchscreen nonsense which is a danger that should be abolished by the government

People who claim Tesla and SpaceX are a revolution are so brainwashed that they can't even compute where their quality of life comes from. Or more likely they treat the stock as it was a product but it's not and won't ever be.
Sounds like a good way to make your hardware easy to steal.
It is absolutely bizarre how many people I know that think social media companies should be able permanently ban or suspend users for literally any reason they want with no possible recourse that simultaneously think these companies shouldn’t be able to reclaim usernames without financial compensation.
This is pretty cool! would you mind sharing the command to remove it too?
It can certainly be justified under a utilitarian framework…
It's to reduce security.

Of course a long, random, unique password from a password manager is best for security, everyone knows that.

So forcing people to instead use a short, easy-to-type, memorable password clearly couldn't possibly be anything else but an attempt to undermine the user's security and put their account at increased risk. That bank does not have your best interests in mind. With that in mind, it doesn't matter why they don't.

So switch to another bank (or better yet, a credit union) that does.
My subjective guess is that the problem is starting to spill into adjacent domains, for example I've noticed that most of the decorative hedgerows in shopping center parking lots are now cut to a height that is consistently above the eye level and in some cases even the roofline of passenger cars. This makes it extremely difficult to safely turn into traffic flows inside the parking lot, unless of course you're in a vehicle that's lifted up above these hedgerows.

I wondered how people who inspected the work of the folks who cut these hedgerows didn't notice that it blocks sight lines for everyone who isn't in a pickup truck or large SUV. Then it became obvious, that both the people who do this kind of work as well as the sort of people who inspect it are both very likely themselves to be completely habituated to truck level sight lines and forget what it looks like for passenger cars.
I’m glad you can say I am only talking hypotheticals. I hope you don’t wait until your government is actively doing a genocide to decide that they shouldn’t have these powers. That’s something you should stop while it’s still a hypothetical.

It is not virtuous to hand the keys of tyranny to your leaders and then wash your hands of the consequences.

It doesn’t matter how correct my principles are. And it doesn’t matter which of the two of us walk away from this thread “feeling virtuous,” “correct,” or “right.” The downstream consequences of my beliefs are mine to bear, and yours are yours.

If my belief system permits the rise of atrocities in this world, history will remember it for that. Not for the principles. Not for the realities I was grappling with. You’ll be judged by future generations no differently.

I don’t disagree there are ongoing atrocities on this planet. I don’t disagree that it’s a moral imperative to try and stop them. But I do disagree with trying to solve these atrocities by eroding the protections that were put in place to prevent our governments from committing those very same atrocities.
Don't type your master password on zoom calls
Is there a hardware platform better suited for these types of use cases?

Not that long ago it seemed the tradeoff was either use a cheap but unreliable hobby platform (RPi or Arduino), or a stable but expensive (and usually somewhat custom) platform that involves picking the right components, board design, etc. Espressif sounds like they might be filling this gap, but it’s been a long time since I’ve looked seriously at any of this.
> I don't think the US is better off with foreign nationals that seek education in the US but have no desire to get permanent residency

I don't think this comment draws the distinction between people who came here without long-term plans, and people who came here and left because they felt they would not be welcome long-term.
A couple of comments on that 3 weeks old thread that points to https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender-addons/issues/9....

Splines are indeed not convenient in Blender, very restrictive and has a rendering bug.
Polyhedral Splines (PS) are like opensubd but with a finite number of pieces.
They are extremely light weight. (But blender's spline initialization is very slow and PS is implemented on top.)
Texturing PS is as easy as for NURBS, subdivision, etc.
It might be a Nordic thing? I'm from about the same era (but Sweden) and when writing documents like that, I'd also always use 'she'.
Is it unbridled that accomplishes that? Before regulations and unions people worked more hours per week, even children, and were exploited to a criminal degree. Mostly the profits went to capital owners. Collective assets like the environment suffered. Progress was certainly made and highly visible, yet at great cost.
The sex coach is killing intimacy
If the world was a democracy, the needs of the many would outweigh the needs of the few .

Countries are very arbitrary lines on a geopolitical map.

Take Europe and India, they have roughly similar landmass , number of people and linguistic diversity so why European states get their own measures and Indian states do not ?

If you don’t measure per capita , you are effectively seeing all humans are not equal, some have more rights and privileges than others , that is dangerously close to how slavery operated
Apple's division in charge for these services is notoriously dysfunctional, multiple Apple employees have warned against joining it on Blind.

Dysfunctional orgs produce dysfunctional outputs.
I was 6-7 at this point in time but I went from DOS to Win 3.1. I don't remember ever hearing about Win 3.0 and a quick google search makes it look like Win 3.0 and 3.1 were drastically different for some reason that I'm not really tracking down. I wonder why my dad held off until 3.1.

This was a fun watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuMeqcuTjSY
Being a Clojure addict, I guess I have to leave the obligatory link to Babashka too then: https://github.com/babashka/babashka (Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting)
The GPL does not say that. You may feel that way, but it doesn’t change the GPL.

It is not the spirit of the GPL to force continued distribution of source.
The Uncertain Future of NetBSD: Challenges and Considerations
every investment and activity has tail risks that you have to factor into your decision making, there are always things that can happen outside of your control

In 2007, social media was still the "Wild West" and having expectations one way or another was not a sensible, it was not something you should have gotten involved in if you wanted low tail risks
A mandatory random set of numbers at the end of every name is an approach I quite like. Not only does it directly make every name available to 10,000 people, it should reduce the demand for these desirable names in the first place since you have to share them with thousands of other people.

Platforms should also consider accommodations for trademark holders. Most have some sort of program, but it seems to be a mess. If every normal screen name has a numeric code at the end, there's room to give trademark holders a non-numeric name without having to seize a handle from someone else. The spot normally occupied by the numeric code could be replaced with an indication that that account is owned by the trademark holder or with the name of the entity that owns the trademark, to differentiate it from normal accounts and also from any accounts that might hold a similar mark in a different business.
By objective I meant the bad guys identify as bad. And the good guys largely identify as good.

It is definitely not a problem.
Lesson two after learning how to quit vim should be that q: opens command history. If I had a dollar for every time that window opened and left me wondering 'wtf, quit damnit', I'd have at least 12 dollars.
> When opportunists go to crack them open, they find a raspberry pi, an SBC created for educational and hobby purposes but has been infamously out of stock because larger companies want to vacuum them all up to use in their own products.

What a strange complaint. RPIs are out of stock because they're useful - this company found a use for them. Really the issue isn't one of who's buying, but rather an issue of the Foundation not making enough of their wildly successful product. Seems like a high-quality problem.

I can't imagine the Foundation being up in arms over someone finding a use for their product. The more users, the better the economy of scale, the cheaper the product is for everyone.

> Then you wonder where all the engineering cost for these scooters went.

Well, into the backend, the integration, the mechanical engineering - the myriad other things that mark the difference between a fun thing you made at home and a product you sell to the public.

> After the presumably thousands of hours of labor that went into designing this, they went with a consumer grade, off the shelf product for an application that would have required a fraction of the power it was capable of?

Again, economics of scale. One product that's more capable than any one person needs - but has a bigger audience - is likely cheaper than a niche one that's 'right-sized.'

Your remote control doesn't need a Cortex M0 but they're cheaper than an 8051 now.

> Not to mention that Spin can be identified as one of offenders of why the raspberry pi is so goddamn hard to find.

So can anyone who hit 'add to cart.' Especially since they only have like 500-1000 scooters per city in which they operate. That's not exactly Apple-scale orders.

The issue is supply, not demand.
Bad poem. But creative. It took some creative liberties which you did not like. Also the LLM took creative liberties on the picture, similar to a human. I guess if a human drew extra people in some mock up I would automatically assume that human is a robot. Makes sense? No.

As for the spec of dust. It's there , it's just too small for you to see.

I guess you not liking the poem is now the demarcation for intelligence? Come on man. This poem is better than anything you can come up with and it's creative.

Hmm as for the nukes. That one is your most legitimate claim. It definitively failed in that respect. But I would hardly call that a clear sign that it's not intelligent. This is more a clear sign that the LLM is not understood. We don't know why it didn't draw the nukes. To say it didn't because it's not intelligent? Well that's too bold of a claim.
Janitors, baristas, waiters, waitresses, bus drivers are also living in the Bay Area on nowhere close to those salaries.

SF engineer salaries are still insane to these people. And they need to deal with the cost of living in SF.
In the case of FOSS the reputation for old being worse has something to do with ever evolving platforms.

You can still use unchanged GNU utilities and apps from the mid 90's. But you'd have to run it with layers of emulation or shims. And it couldn't handle newer formats or protocols.
The idea that every good project should be a full scale financially stable enterprise with a proper administrative team and dedicated supportive fan club is severely limiting (and is indirectly telling you to know your place in existing chains of power made that specific way). More often than not, services like those are made not by underground kingpins, but by common people who happened to be at the right place in the right time. For example, torrents.ru was once just one of the many regional and global torrent trackers, sometimes run by literal teenagers (albeit that one had the best domain name). Look at it today.

Also, «Маша» (Masha) and «Мойша» (Moishe/Moshe) are completely different names, and I've never ever seen anyone using the former for the latter. Either the author stretches it a bit too much, or the author knows something that should not be publicly revealed in the manner they chose (and the whole post is just an intimidating leak).

Anyway, if the author(s) have successful illegal business, as implied, they shouldn't have any difficulties in acquiring enough spare identities to burn. As a side note, it's quite ironic that “security” is such an idol today that common people need to go out of their way to evade tracking, while even petty internet criminals buy virtual identities in bulk, and have special instrumented browsers to load fake system data with one click.
> You asked for examples where it could do better than you

No. I suggest you read again. Or is that "you" a collective for "humankind"?

> First this proves it can do better than you.

No. You are misusing the word "proof" in a dishonest way.

> The word salad is likely better than anything you can come up with.

Feeling combative, are we? You know nothing about me. I don't feel compelled to write anything for your amusement; I suppose that makes me different from a LLM-powered chatbot.

> The picture and the text prove your initial points wrong. I will be sticking to this point until you prove otherwise. Until then I request you do not deviate the conversation to alternative points.

I feel no obligation to follow your whims, unlike a chatbot. The text and picture prove nothing of the sort. Besides, I didn't claim I was a particularly good writer, let alone a good poem writer (I didn't claim the contrary; I made no claims at all).

I didn't claim there is no creativity with LLMs. I claimed it's barely equal to and certainly doesn't surpass human creativity.

PS: I am very skilled at drawing (in a different style than the example) and I can easily surpass it in my preferred style. I don't find the illustration you showed very good, either.
Cuck is a good word for this case, but perhaps “addict” is better?
As an austin native this is beyond tragic and sad. I returned to Austin after a number of years in New York. Although I still like my home town it's sad to see how much has gone away and been replaced with things finance bros or transplants from CA might like.

Zilker is just another domino to fall in what I used to love and remember from my time growing up in austin.
I'm not at all surprised that the propaganda arm of a fascist cult [1] has a Youtube channel. It's one of the best places for propaganda these days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times
We’re entering a post-privacy era jesus
A composition of a poem from this prompt is creative. The poem and the picture had to fill in elements not included in my prompt.
Easier to browse version: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/137472.Rich_Hickey_s_Clo...
Apologies for my negative assumption. And thanks for clarifying.
I'll also add 'infinite scroll'. Just use a pager. It's linkable, searchable, browseable, works correctly with the history. Infinite scroll breaks all of that for no good reason.
Las Vegas Sphere Live Stream [video]
why should he be better than replacement level CEO? why can't we assume 225 million is what an average CEO running a Google sized company deserves? Like how we accept 300-500K is what an average Google SWE deserves?
Yes own domain plus self host for communities is necessary to really own it. Either but not both can leave you with an issue.
Many companies don’t allow personal GitHub accounts to work on their repos, or use gitlab or something else.
Why's it so hard to believe that a worse CEO for one year would result in a 0.01% lower market cap? Given that framing, 200m is a very drastic under estimation.
I dislike Musk but this seems fine to me as long as they actually do transfer the followers.
Then write a better poem. Draw a better picture.

I wouldn't say this example surpasses all humans. It surpasses most humans and matches those trained in poetry and in illustration. Where it does definitively excel is timing. Both the poem and the pictures were generated in less than a minute. No human can create that quickly ever. Even the best of us cannot match that in speed.
I've used DuckDNS for over five years. It seems reliable and makes running a gopher server from home quite simple.
s/Easy/East
Not true. NileRed shows it at 32:30

https://youtu.be/RS7gyZJg5nc

That's how a levitating train levitates.
Yeah that's definitely not the situation here unfortunately.
George Church lab creates ovarian granulosa-like cells from stem cells
> $225 million in 2022, which marked a staggering 3,474% increase from the previous year

This is obviously a "creative" calculation done in order to get the highest number possible, which makes the best clickbait. I'm disappointed that so many Hacker News commenters are stupid enough to fall for this.
NileRed at 32:30.

https://youtu.be/RS7gyZJg5nc
the main issue is $$$
> But there's a reason why co-ops are rare outside of that: why would people work hard without personal upside?

"Co-op". It's in the name. Reciprocity? Community? There is personal upside, just not the HN-approved shareholdery kind.
“Bram's Law”
https://martinwguy.github.io/xvi/
Very true, formerly command line only network devices now have APIs in some cases; the Cisco Meraki devices don't even have a CLI, only a cloud based web mgmt GUI, or a Restful API.
Maybe he just doesn't care that much. Inconvenienced, evidently, but to stake a personal dislike towards a human being for this seems unwarranted.
It's a relief valve for crowd mania. Humans really love to communicate in jokes, especially when those are in-jokes.
Thank you, I this is precisely what i came to the comments for.
Awesome, thank you. I'm forever manually adjusting block comments to be a sensible width so this will help. Probably asking a bit much but do you know if there's a command that can operate on a visual line selection and do the same? e.g. I come across a block comment, add to it, then want to re-width it. Worst case, I guess I could create a command to collapse the lines first then run gqq.
Sounds very similar to a databricks style datalake, except with a custom file format instead of parquet.
"Blood vessels grow according to growth factors that are released in response to hypoxia"

Is this how some people have managed to grow secondary aortic passages naturally and usually without knowing until some cardiac event shows it?
If we could harness energy from cognitive dissonance, this site could power us-east-1. To be fair though, I've only seen a bit of masked capitalism defense here, and no one outright trashing municipal/coop options. I'm oddly optimistic lately, as the state of things continue, some consciousness seems to be becoming inevitable.
That's just a broken site. Breaking it in a different way doesn't fix it.
Also useful: gw is like gq but leaves the cursor where it is.
I thought that the two focus knobs would be horizontal and vertical focus, but they weren’t. Not sure how they work but there are only four options to try out (increase or decrease knob 1 or 2) so didn’t take long to do.
Even if I use neovim (some great plugins) there are better modals out there now (helix is cool but I hate some of the differences from Vim) Vim is the editor.

Vim is how I type. Vim is how I code. Vim is how I think.

Made a donation to ICCF in Bram's honour today. It will not be the last.
Could mention the site in profile btw. Afaik it's common/good practice to have some sort of way to get to a contact method in one's profile
Hard disagree. Abstractions are nice when they match the mental model of a problem domain, but the odds you have the right set of abstract primitives in mind from the outset is practically 0.
Ask HN: Who Died?
I see HN is showing the "half mast" (black top border) which traditionally means someone close to the hacker community passed. But I have heard of no such news. What happened?
I don't have access to the paper so I can't read it.

There are a few problems though.

One, we don't know for sure that the aboriginals were the first in Australia. It is possible a tribe made it to Australia and were attacked by the present day aboriginals who came later. Your paper presumably doesn't disprove that?

Second, it seems like you are suggesting that no aboriginal tribe ever attacked another tribe and took their land. That seems like a ridiculous assertion and I need definitive proof, because that has never happened anywhere else in the world.

Even if you posted is accurate, which there is no proof of, it would be an exception that proves the rule.
Nah you are very correct, I just feel that our compilers can still do a better job with the general purpose code because they are usually completely blind to the systems the compiled code runs in (as in, I/O takes orders of magnitude more time for example and this can be used to auto-parallelize code; but I know compiler authors will never auto-spawn threads). I feel this can be improved a lot but for various (and likely good) reasons our tooling is not as good as it can be.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37011324
Cool! I didn't like that the orientation of the clock hands rotated over time, and I made[1] one that maintains the typical analog clock hour/minute hands alignment with 12 o'clock while rotating once per minute on a long second hand.

Scroll down if you don't want to wait for it to finish. Squint, and you might see a 12-ness nested in the epicycles.

[1] https://ouruboroi.com/epiclock
Ask HN: Favorite Educational Products?
I recently realized that some of my favorite purchases have been educational products. It made me curious to know - what are the all time great educational products out there I may not know about?

Some of my favorites:

Refactoring UI - A book teaching UI design fundamentals:

https://www.refactoringui.com

ThreeJS Journey: A self-paced course teaching a browser graphics library called three.js:

https://threejs-journey.com/#

Building A Second Brain: A cohort-based course teaching technologies and techniques for consuming information and using it to create:

https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com
It's a 20 kg scooter, of course it's easy to steal.
What if Google took your 16 year old email address? Corporate cloud is an absolute trap. A prison. You cannot trust these companies with your important digital belongings.

Free, libre, open source software, peer to peer networks, and citizen run communications infrastructure are the only viable way forward if we don't to live in a rental society where none of your belongings belong to you, not even your identity.
Such "broken" sites happen to include some of the most popular sites on the internet, so I don't think anyone cares.
This isn't the fault of RPi as such. It's the fault of the whole embedded industrial SBC industry whose boards are expensive, long lead time, have awful software and are poorly documented.
The fact that they decided not to mention who the largest emitters are should clue you into who it is.
More important: Direct Representation with optional Proxy (aka Representatives)

There's no reason the 60% should have thier will ignored just because thier votes are split between two or three parties and the remaining major party ekes out an extra 5-10% of the population than the next highest voted candidate (see canada for exactly this happening).

Each person should also be able to have thier will about a bill included in the voting at any time instead of having to hope whoever you voted to rep you actually does what they said let alone what you want.

That's way more important than the issue of districts (though that is an issue needing addressing its just not remotely as impactful in both the short and long term).