skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd really like to have a large e-ink display on my wall showing various dashboards, but I can't justify the exorbitant cost. It would be really elegant to have a low powered programmable setup with an Arduino and a battery, but I'm tempted to just buy a large LCD display and connect it to mains instead.

It's a shame that this technology is kept artifically out of reach to hobbyists.

I've seen the Waveshare displays, but they're too small and limited in features (monochrome or few colors, very high refresh rate, etc.).
Can Money Set You Free? (2010)
To be fair, FreeBSD with ZFS (especially with the poudriere pkg build system, and 2 different linux compat environs) has quite a few (40+) filesystems mounted. See my workstation: https://dpaste.org/bnwdt
Sounds like a Snap/Ubuntu thing. On my Arch system:

$ df -h | wc -l
7
$ lsblk | wc -l
6
$ mount | wc -l
26

(in the article: 25, 56, 77)
Yup Corpos are part of the equation.
« The article also includes:

> The companies may reflect the same biases as society, without safeguards to avoid them.

which is as close to a justification as the article comes to, which does not seem to apply more to flat organizations than not. »

There's been a fair bit of noise about needing HR departments in order to enforce safeguards (which depending on who you ask will look like standardized interview processes or quotas or whatever). That's hierarchy and structure.

« Flat does not me you do not have systems or and controls. »

Something that's nominally flat may not actually be flat in practice, yes. That's actually the main idea presented in "The Tyranny of Structurelessness".
How many amplifier companies actually enable their factory workers to negotiate individually effectively in ways that they couldn't with a union? Why couldn't a union negotiate terms that guarantee pay for performance in the way you want? In software, people often complain about doing the work of a certain level but not being able to be paid at that level. Union contracts could mean a seat at the table on promotion decisions.

And sure, there will probably be some people who are in unusual positions where they can negotiate more effectively by themselves. Similarly, there are people who would improve their status in the United States if we had a Putin-esque autocracy. Even if someone personally benefits from this scheme, I consider it to be pretty bad for uber wealthy individuals to sabotage our democracy so that they maximally increase their wealth.
Replying to my own comment because I just can't get over how ingenious this is.

On HN we're used to FOSS devs acting quickly when, say, a proposed or implemented license change turns project X into project X'. Upon reading the diff, they'll fork from X and continue on with a new org, and X' dies on the vine. We've seen it recently on HN.

Employees of a mom and pops have specialized skills either in the frontend or backend of the business but typically only a basic idea of the fundamental business model. If they were to become owners in X it would take them at least a year and probably longer to learn the ins and out. E.g., how a change to even a few vendors can have a large effect on the bottom line. If they think they are getting X but instead get X', they won't know for awhile. In fact, if were talking about succession then the owner may be gone and they'll never know.

Perhaps I'm being cynical and fintech really is here to help the little guy. But something tells me that's unlikely.
> apart from installing other reader apps

Yeah if you discount the one huge and obvious advantage of this approach it’s not clear why anyone would do it.
I'd drink it.

They should just send everyone in the EU a free bottle of wine as a Christmas present or something.
Well, OpenTF hasn't given anyone anything there - the original open source licence Hashicorp put in place is why CNCF/LF can adopt the project. OpenTF is just an administrative middleman in that process.

My comment was about a previous commenter thinking it was amazing that other companies put FTEs in place for a few years to work on OpenTF. It's not amazing; their businesses were built on Hashicorp licencing Terraform as OSS. They've been given far, far more than a few FTEs' worth of effort, and their continued existence depends on OpenTF being actively developed. It's not a noble thing (unlike the original open sourcing); it's just business as usual.
Was firmly in this camp, and preferred paper to electronics, until the Remarkable 2.

It managed to get close enough in feel (not perfect to be fair) to paper that I don’t mind using it for notes and studying.

It’s pretty nice being able to markup text books and research papers as a separate layer I can toggle to de-deface the page, add note pages, etc. And having my whole book collection at hand everywhere I go without lugging around a 50lb backpack.

I still prefer paper for desk references. Flipping through a 300pg tome looking for a specific familiar page is still easier with analogue.
Good explanation. But it should be noted that though democratic, unions have had and some still have issues with corruption. This is one reason why workers may be against a union.
I may be mistaken, but since I have to work with different machines that all have bash as a shell, I try not to mess with my muscle memory and stick to bash even on my own machine. But maybe I should try Fish.
so when you use them, they say its abuse of service and rate limit you and block you.
Right but I (and I assume others) wouldn’t trade 100-200k usd per year for 5-10 more days.

Not to mention most in that environment have plenty of flexible work arrangements as well.

I also CAN take unpaid extra days and most years do, in essence doing that trade for a better price (~1k per day), but I recognize it’s not that common in the US.
This idea is potentially so terrible I almost feel bad for the founders -- if it also wasn't scummy. The crux of their problem is that these businesses have a very finite lifetime regardless of the succession plan. The succession plan is completely secondary, the bigger question is the viability of the business plan, which for many small businesses, is not robust. TeamShares is merely acquiring customers until they abandon after the business plan is replaced and changes the quality or price of service.

Of course business owners who are selling to them are happy because they can buy their business back for less when TeamShares goes tits up. TeamShares is probably going to find this scheme will only work if the businesses being acquired are very homogeneous. Trying to scale something which inherently cannot or should not scale is kinda silly.
Whoever wrote ProDOS that they purchased?
Is Codeberg planning on implementing this?
The generated results can come from other means - for example, pretraining on rendered CG imagery is quite popular in the computer vision world, especially for problems where acquiring ground truth data in the real world is quite difficult.
> It quotes some professor who says it's related because “you’ve still got middle-aged, privileged white men making decisions at the top” due to a lack of safeguards.

Said professor looking very pale and mature is a lifelong academic bureaucrat who would love to sell you an online MDA about the topic.

With over 30 years’ experience as an academic, Cliff has held positions at Queen Mary University of London, University of Leicester, King’s College, University of London, and Westminster University. He has also worked as an HR manager in local government.

Cliff’s research interests include the application of aspects of discourse, dramaturgy, tropes, narrative, and rhetoric to the study of organisations and organising.

https://online.bayes.city.ac.uk/courses/global-mba/teaching-...
86-DOS was purchased by Microsoft and renamed MS-DOS.
I followed NightHawkInLight's recipe from youtube, and I've made several batches so far.

I tested the results with an insulated box with an open top covered with glad wrap, and confirmed 11 F less than ambient temp at night, at a variety of humidities. I haven't gotten up early ( or stayed up late ) enough to do a test in the early morning when it's close to 100 percent humidity, but it seems to not be affected by atmospheric humidity, which would confirm it's emitting at that "atmospheric window".

The materials are cheap at scale and the process is probably about as complicated as brewing beer, actually probably less so.

I bought a pack of standard asphalt roofing tiles, so I could paint them and leave them exposed and see how quickly dust, rain and etc degraded the effect. I used the acrylic / acetone / water paint that NightHawkInLight describes, but also tried mixing it with clear coat, and I have a few other cheap and scalable application methods to try.
Would you recommend me some? Thanks!
The Philosophy and Magic of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli
No, the average US commute is 16 miles one way, whereas OP was saying 30 miles each way:

https://hbr.org/2021/05/that-dreaded-commute-is-actually-goo...
That’s just offloading the responsibility to the public / to the government.
http://suckless.org/philosophy/

More or less. It's the "Worse is Better" philosophy. Instead of adding features to make user experience better make software instead that is good at one thing. It emphasizes minimalism and frugality. You may know the Suckless group from `dwm`.
Many people have also stopped using twitter. A decline is just that: a decline.
I wonder how much of this is due to innovation happening "under the hood" rather than on the surface.

As an example: the newest model of iPhone looks 99% the same as the original one that came out 15-20 years ago. The iPhone 5 years from now will probably look the same.

Compare that to the difference between cars in 1960 and 1980, or telephones in 1980 and 2000. The external form is vastly different.
I can see many reasons why Optane PDIMMs didn't take off, other than not being cloud-available (which Intel might have subsidized with the help of a big software player and a series of killer apps). Price was excruciating, number of write cycles (so lifetime of machine, architecture) not very clear and upgrade path / exit hatch was also not clear. Also the programming model wasn't very clear and not many big important applications had migrated to use them efficiently or in an interesting manner (we were still in the 'crazy interesting papers' cycle).

It still grates me that the only interface we ended up with for high speed durable data is nvme through pcie and regret the lost promise of fast byte-addressable persistent memory, but once again, worse is better seems to have won?
You can snag them on Ebay[0], the A100 with 40GB is ~$5000, the 80GB is like $13,000, good luck, hope it doesn’t break, since you’re not getting a warranty!

[0] https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=a100+40gb
Ask HN: Fiction books as tours of current cultures and settings?
I like novels as a way to explore life in other cultures or countries. I want much of the
novel to be about way of life, motivations, principles and ways of thinking there. Current in the sense of "relevant today". Great writing and great translation.

Any suggestions?

Skip authors that expensed out a vacation!

Mysteries are great but let's not overdo "police culture".

Only include "slice of life" if the author describes way of life more than "inner life".
That is a recent(-ish) addition¹, arriving in 3.1. Your interpretation of recent may be a different length to mine, but one Debian release in this instance ;)

¹ https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/6140
This sounds a lot like the Search Fund model except at scale. Typically in a search fund an entrepreneur raises a small pool of capital for operations and search for a traditional low tech company to acquire where they can optimize operations typically leaning on their MBA education. When a target is found, they make a capital call to the investors and buy out the company.

This basically seems like a search fund run at scale. Its actually a cool concept that I suspect is quite profitable. From the article though I don't really know if there is a tech component. It's more like a pure-play private equity company, e.g. finance. That said, there are a lot of interesting opportunities here and probably limited competition.
We are now in de facto monopolistic behavior (think apple, Microsoft and Google or Azure, GCS and AWS) with permanent price raises of the richest companies in the world. Data interop can break this de-facto monopoly and allow competition.
As much as I love the hacker spirit of cracking open hardware and software and bending it to your will (whether or not it was designed towards that end), I enjoy my reMarkable precisely because I can get away from the ubiquity of computing and needing to constantly tinker with and repair software.

I've fucked with Gentoo and Arch for so long that sometimes I just want a break from it all. No dependency hell, no bugs, esoteric stack traces, nor popups, advertisements, notifications, nor distractions. Just some pen and paper, except without the eraser shavings or ink blots. Not having to scan your notes to digitize them is a nice bonus as well.

Especially since the pandemic and in the WFH era it's nice to get away from the omnipresent touchscreen or mouse and keyboard interfaces and deal with something a little more tactile; something reminiscent of a less perpetually online era. I'm tired of being hyperconnected to everything. Not to mention all the problems from staring at LED monitors all day long.

Sometimes I don't want to troubleshoot software; I've done enough of that already.
Looks like a wrapper around insightface along with a dash of GAN face smoothing (esrgan and gfpgan).

Also using a pretty standard nsfw model that could be disabled in 1 line.
Plus sometimes you want to throw something like `pv` in.
Pure personal speculation here, even though I'm one of the OpenTF folks. If one wanted to make secret encryption ultimately flexible, it could become a type of extension like provider, which would work as a sidecar and simply encrypt and decrypt each secret thrown at it. It should be possible to wrap SOPS into one such plugin.
They need a huge wine festival where is all consumed or wasted. The October fest of wine
In comparison to ww2, the fall of the soviet union was worse than ww2.

https://www.rferl.org/a/life-expectancy-cis-report/24946030....

To put it into perspective, after ww2, the russian population recovered in a few years. The russian population today is still below their 1990 levels. In terms of population, life expectancy, quality of life, etc, ww2 (as horrible as it was ) was an insignificant blip. The fall of the soviet union has been a generational catastrophe for russia. A funk they seem unable to get out of demographically, economically, politically, etc.

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/RUS/russia/population

In the US, our population has grown 50% since 1990 ( almost 150 more people ). The russian population has dropped 5% since 1990. After ww2, russia had major population growth like the US. After germany and japan lost ww2, their population, economy, etc improved drastically. For some reason, losing a hot war ( japan, germany ) turned out to be much better than losing a cold war ( russia ).

Think about it, we are nearly 2 generations into the post-soviet world and russia still hasn't recovered their population. After ww2, russia almost doubled their population in 2 generations. Losing the cold war appears to have demoralized the russian elite and people far more than losing ww2 did to germany and japan. Why? Who knows.
Funny that it's still called STM32 even though it's a 64bit chip. I suppose stm32 has become so much brand recognition.
I don't know, I'm forty and LLMs are exciting as hell. If we're talking web frameworks, Django was the last good thing and there can never be any more innovation in that sector.

In seriousness, though, a technology that lets me do things I couldn't do before is great. A technology that slightly reorganizes my code and makes it so I have to throw everything I have so far away, I'm less excited about.

What motivates me is building things, which unfortunately means that I'll always reach for the tools I know, and only learn new tools if my current ones don't work, which is why I've been unable to learn Rust.

With Django, I can get stuff done really quickly, and people don't care that it's not a SPA, they care that they can solve their problem with it.
> That would fun to deconstruct

It's pretty straightforward for me. You hit me, I sue you. Not your driving instructor. Not the license administrators. Not your parents.

I sue you.
These worked for me:

Tony Hillerman <the early books, 1970s and 80s> (US Southwest indian lands)

Carolyn See, The handyman, 1999 (Los Angeles)

Henry Chang, Chinatown Beat, 2006 (New York City Chinatown)

Laura Antoniou, The killer wore leather, 2013 (BDSM convention in the US)

Sujata Massey <the early books, 1990s> (Japan daily life)

Natsuo Kirino, Real World, 2006 (and other titles, Japan daily life)

Inio Asano, Goodnight Punpun, 2007- (manga, small town and middle school life in Japan)

Inio Asano, Downfall, 2020 (manga, Japan midlife crisis, mangaka)

Peter Tasker <several 1990s and 2000s> (Japan daily life)

Hideo Yokoyama, Six Four, 2012 (Japan job hierarchy - here in a Police setting)

John Burdett, The Last Six Million Seconds - Hong Kong will never be the same, 1997 (Hong Kong)

John Burdett, Bangkok 8, 2003 (Thailand)

Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games, 2006 (Mumbai)

Craig Joseph Danner, Himalayan Dhaba, 2001 (India mountains)

Faïza Guène, Kiffe kiffe demain, 2004 or Du rève pour les oufs, 2006 (Paris projects)
Right, I would more ascribe that viewpoint to some journos on Twitter. I think if that viewpoint is referenced on HN, it is done so derisively.
Airline pricing is clownishly bad
An ArrayList is not an Array?

> comfortable making zero-length simple-vectors

Btw., CL allows also zero-dimensional arrays:

CL-USER 3 > (make-array '())
#0ANIL
> That's a bit disingenuous and short-sighted view from people not knowing or understanding the industry, market, technology and manufacturing challenges.

For clarification -- disingenuous is defined as:

> not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something than one really does

In your post, are you claiming there's a shadowy group of people who at the same time are both unknowledgeable but also conspiring to hide their own knowledge?
Huh, Wikipedia buries that lede in the "history" section, thanks.
> the technological expertise Russia has always had

...used to have. For several reasons they're lagging behind now and the war isn't helping.
Another use for the Option key that I didn't see in the article: if you hold it down and click to another application (or on the desktop), all of the current application's windows will be hidden. It's the same effect as the menu item [Application] > Hide [Application] (⌘H).
> It's a shame that this technology is kept artifically out of reach to hobbyists.

This is still an issue where a single company controls the entire tech, right? When do the relevant patents expire?
And yet, we can observe the status of the employer/employee relationship prior to legislation like the NLRA.
It's a boondoggle.
> The issue is not advertising, the issue is the construction, classification and use of human profiles through the collection of behavioral data, by-and-large without the subjects being aware or cognizant of the possible short and long-term implications.

I don't disagree that collection of data isn't bad, but two things:

1. The collection of data isn't the goal, the advertising is. The data is only practically valuable to do advertising better (and of course for surveillance, but I suspect the market for data for surveillance is orders of magnitude smaller). If you kill the advertising, you kill the need for data. If you kill the data, the advertisers will just find other ways to make their advertising convert better.

2. We should all be outraged at the idea of corporations using psychological tricks to influence our behavior. The human mind was not pentested before shipping to production. Some ads just remind you that a product exists, but many try to create positive associations to make the product more appealing or to make you think of it later.

We just let this happen and don't care. Mostly because we don't really notice it working. You don't think "oh yeah, I'll buy the name brand paper towels because I saw that commercial", you just buy them because they're the ones that your brain has an association with cleaning up the whole dribble of blue liquid. Of course you'll buy the one that works. Our brains are unpatched Linux kernels and advertisers are botnets.

Like, be outraged at the data mining and selling. But be more outraged at why it's happening.
No, it's better than installing artificial snow to reflect energy.

The snow doesn't change the energy budget of the earth at night, because there is nothing for it to reflect, and the infrared energy it emits is pretty much like the infrared energy from most other surfaces, and a certain percentage makes it off planet and the atmosphere absorbs a certain percentage.

The skypaint emits infrared in a particular bandwidth which the atmosphere does not absorb, called the "atmospheric window", so a much higher portion of it's energy makes it off the planet. This effect will operate regardless of whether the sun is shining on it or not, it will keep dumping something around 120 watts per square meter off the planet as long as it is exposed to the sky.
Wow:

> The plan instead is to generate revenue from a growing array of fintech products that it sells to the businesses it buys.

If these products were any good, couldn't they make money with them on the open market? The only thing that owning gives you is the ability to force them to buy from the company store, so to speak.

This isn't tech. This is pure capitalist financial engineering: extracting money from people who actually do real work for real paying customers.
Makes up for the command symbol ⌘ next to it that was stolen rather randomly from the Swedish map symbol for a place of historical interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key#Origin_of_the_symb...
There isn't a whole lot of new technology around. Apart from LLMs, everything else is a remix/retread/clone/speed bump with a few tweaks.

iOS is 16 years old. Android is a year younger. AWS is a year older. The original Oculus Rift is from 2016.

Facebook dates from 2004. Twitter from 2006. Amazon has been around for 30 years. (And looks it.)

Starlink is a consumerised reinvention of Iridium (1997).

Docker - 2013. Git - 2005. Github - 2008. React - 2013.

And so on.

Also a non-trivial wave of 80s nostalgia, with endless reinventions/emulators of 80s products or 80s ideals (Amiga, Spectrum, Atari ST, even RPi in its own way.)

Genuinely new? AI is pretty much it. (And maybe electric cars and scooters.)

Quantum computing and robotics are going to make a difference soon-ish, and likely lead to some innovations in User Space. But they're not consumer technologies yet.

The big change for me is weariness and enshittification. I used to be as enthusiastic as anyone, but what we have today seems like a nightmarish digital dystopia dedicated to mass surveillance, behaviour modification, and relentless predatory pursuit of profit.

This covers the range from the big adtech leviathans, to the mid-tech AirBnBs etc and their catastrophic effects on local economies, to the thousands of crappy addictive phone games that people waste their lives on.

There are some good things, but far less than I hoped.
A 3090 with 24GB of vram is $650 used on Facebook where I live. I think that would be a better card as you can use nvlink.

Alternatively, the 4000 series cards rely on the PCI express lanes for linking, so if you want to get the benefits of linking the 4000 series cards as a consumer you’ll want a Threadripper or even maybe an EPYC CPU/motherboard combo.