skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this shouldn’t be necessary and is probably fairly error prone. using one shell doesn’t mean you can run stuff in another.

if someone is saying they can’t run a bash script when they’re invoking bash from fish the most likely thing is they’re doing something wrong.
Just rewrite them once with fish_add_path? https://fishshell.com/docs/current/tutorial.html#path
Or maybe use https://github.com/edc/bass
> The balance is provided by companies competing with each for employees.

On the other hand, the recent historical record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
> Very boring, really.

Indeed. But even worse, it is also exhausting.

Meta: This post was removed from the HN feed entirely. Not just bumped off the frontpage, as I have seen before. From frontpage to oblivion. Would love to know the admin logic there.

Now it is flagged, but it was removed from the feed prior to that by admins.

I know, I know, first rule of fight club. But to quote Cicero, what's the point of fake internet points if you can't use them?
Why use this over nushell?
> Yep. There were some writers that were straight up bed-ridden. They would laugh at your little ruleset.

C'mon, we all know exceptions just prove the rules :)

I'm sure there's many coders out there who write their code with only one finger in each hand. That does not render "learn to touch type with all 10 fingers" as invalid advice.
A lot of those "quested Minecraft modpacks" end up being amazingly fun if the quests match your play style.

If not, not so much. If you avoid going the "expected path" it can become a huge slog.
Protecting Competition Is a Vital Goal
I use iTerm2 instead of the default Terminal app. In iTerm2, you can change the impossible-to-see blue and red to more reasonable values (or do what I do and use the Dracula Pro Themes).
Did you have to convert your scripts to fish? Or is there an automated way?
I haven’t been through the trademarking process myself, but I would assume that a LOT of them exist.

Would it be possible to register a trademark that looks similar to another company’s and impersonate them? I can’t imagine the process would be 100% effective.

Sure the company would probably notice pretty quickly, but not before you’ve spear phished a couple clients.
Diversity isn't specifically about race.
I wonder if zk can be used?
Which four companies?

This matters a lot; am I the only one skeptical about this move just being about cloud competitors trying to preserve margin?
Compare the population of all bike friendly areas with the global population it’s clear what’s the dominant situation. Overall things are improving, but most of the world isn’t currently particularly bike safe.

Also, it’s a bike friendly thread. I am well aware of the audience reading the post, the point was to encourage discussion rather than unthinking reflexive action.
I also follow Primitive Technology, but in my opinion it only proves that it needs more people or time than that. The channel is experimenting with smelting iron ore for some years now and still doesn't have a good recipe for doing it at scale.

Also note that he is only producing cast iron at the moment, which is not particularly useful for impact tools (like axes, pickaxes or weapons). Getting the iron sufficiently hot for smithing is very hard to do, and require a lot of infrastructure non existent on nature.
IMO the Oberon operating system would be a really good fit for this type of hardware.

http://www.projectoberon.net/
that page lists a few devices they _don't_ recommend (kindle) because they are not openly hackable. what are some ones that are more so? anyone here recommend a cheap, hackable, e-ink reader?
What are your use cases for starship? It looks interesting but I think I'm missing the imagination necessary to use it to its full potential.
Great question. Let me first answer the meta question that i see all the time, from someone who studies systems science. There’s a supposed “crisis” with the scaling of X that involves millions or billions of people, and our largest societal institutions. Here’s a simple folksy example of x that’s not really much of a problem, how is that different from X? The answer is always the same, because scale matters, always.

In this case, here’s why scale matters. We know these ads work. On an individual basis let’s say you have a 0.31% chance of buying a thing you wouldn’t have otherwise. On this individual scale it seems like no big deal, certainly no amoral or unethical undue influence. On a massive scale however a 0.31% increase makes the advertiser a lot. AND there’s a network effect because desire is contagious, so the more people that buy, the more others will want - double winner. Now let’s say there’s a organization that wants to push some new technology into people’s lives, let’s say voice assistant smart speakers. At scale this doesn’t just sell smart speakers, now 5% of homes have one, and this now has the power to fundamentally change a small slice of culture more broadly as it becomes more common, ubiquitous, and relied upon. And the drift in a small slice of culture drifts the ultimate the trajectory of our civilization - simply by using small but statistically proven edge to influence people. Not to mention in this case, it further entrenches this power of corporate data collection and influence! And now, imagine instead of selling smart speakers, an organization wants to push a political idea, let’s say for example, that democracy is an conspiracy built by elite bankers. I think you can see where this goes.
Do you not know poor or working class parents? Do they not use iPads or other tablets?
I don’t follow… could you put #!/bin/bash at the top of your scripts, and still use it for scripting, but then use fish as your interactive shell?
Labour is often most costly part of running a business.

Once people can be reliably replaced they will be.

One can only guess that cost, availability, or proficiency, of machines is still not matched by machines.
Because the idea is to sell fintech products to the acquired businesses.
Cimber: Transfer Data via Camera Lens
I use fish since they relented and allowed to use && and || instead of ;or and ;and. Still, I always script with bash (or POSIX sh for certain things). I can't recommend that split enough. Also, I can't speak highly enough of shellcheck[1], it's a lifesaver especially when you target POSIX.

1: https://www.shellcheck.net/
AI-driven conversations replaced keywords. Emotional intelligence (EQ) entered the equation. The lines blurred between organic and AI-generated content, with user experience taking the forefront.
Those days are over. I’ve been using Intel Unison on my 11th gen desktop for a long time now. Microsoft Phone Link also works but isn’t limited to Intel, it’s inferior but it does the job. Both work with iOS.
Get familiar with the Levi Civita tensor[1], never look back.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi-Civita_symbol
I'm firmly against using chatbots for customer service, at least without a clear label and option to immediately opt out.

That said, this doesn't sound different than the "support" I used to get from places like Uber (when they had support) where you'd email with a problem and get a reply that was obviously just someone copying and pasting big chunks of superficially relevant text from some database. So it can happen with people too.

In this example, it looked like an issue that was purely informational, as in a good chatbot actually could have solved it.

The real problem is customer support being shitty and impersonal.
> But by the same token, a fruitful creative nugget left unpicked can quickly evaporate, and won’t be there when returned to.

This is true but if you've done creative work for a while, it becomes less true, and the coinciding of "I've spent a full hour writing" and "I have this magical sentence left in me" is not frequent enough to render the rule completely moot. In fact, breaking that rule because you have a freight train of paragraphs left in you after the timer is done is one of the greatest feelings, and that alone makes the existence of the rule justified. It's really a win-win situation, and in the long term it encourages consistency and commitment.
All of the things you consider truth were once labeled misinformation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei
I like https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish

Can also do cool stuff like search for a file to open in $EDITOR and searching git log
My 80+ year old dad uses his iPad+keyboard 90% of the time. He’ll use the computer when he needs to print or scan something.
I don't use fish but it does have one great feature that I'm surprised hasn't been replicated in zsh: automatic completions derived from man pages. So you get at least basic flag completions for basically every program automatically.
I only charge users for the devices they connect, it's cheaper than the competitors.

For hackers who love to run UniFi devices at home, I added a free plan that allows for 5 devices.
Added. Thank you. I wish you well with your dad and your brothers.
Lol this headline is disinformation
There's also fzf.fish, the only plugin I use.

https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish
So instead of a private, unaccountable censor you now have a democratically elected one? How is that worse?
They aren't buying them for the business upside, but to force the business to buy its own ecosystem of Fintech products.
>Right now I am running Fedora 38 with Gnome on Wayland, enabling experimental fractional scaling, and my two 4k screens are displaying wonderfully at 1.75x.

Does that scaling work/look good across other apps, outside the Gnome/GTK4 ecosystem?
DFT is like it is a cloud of density charge with some aditional weird rules.

Or in another words, you must sum many rules to calculate the energy, an one of them is easy to remember because it's the result you'd get from a cloud of density charge.
they will ask you to give your google password, you will have to comply
There are some E-ink fans in the urbit community (disclaimer I work on this stuff) and it really lets you fully extend the retropunk feel.

I’ve got my Urbit running on a native planet hardware box (https://martiancomputing.substack.com/p/product-review-nativ...) plugged into my router’s switch that I can access from anywhere. The UI for groups also looks good on e-ink (mostly white and black, nice design) one of the devs has an e-ink phone that shows it off. It’s cool to really own the entire stack.

I had the original remarkable tablet mentioned in the post and it was really cool (someone was also using it as a browser to access urbit back then), the new tablet looks better too.

There was someone at the first urbit assembly (probably here on HN) working on cool new e-ink style tech that had some advantages without having to engage with all the patent nonsense and vendor lock-in that has plagued (imo seriously stalled) e-ink as a technology.
Kubuntu 23.04 kernel 6.4.11 here - works fine. The issue you describe may be XFCE specific.
Sure, but one way to ensure that is for them to think in terms of what is rather than what should be. I would love to buy my niece and nephew a bike, but doing so would be a serious risk to their safety.

There’s awesome bike trails near them but they have no way to get there safely on their own.
replacement?

why not make df better...
I was under the impression there were a few big issues with the openness of the reMarkable. Don't remember the details, but at some point I decided it wouldn't be for me. But this seems like I may be wrong?

This seems like there should be good ways for a) easy sync and b) OCR without relying on their subscription (that's required, no?).
Sadly it seems that the current trend is to throw in android and apps and whatnot to make it a terrible tablet replacement, whilst driving the cost up. It baffles me how android is in any way (apart from installing other reader apps) an improvement for e-readers.
Sure, but whenever someone says "diversity" they definitely do not mean the diversity of thought. They mean diversity in immutable attributes (sex, gender, race, nationality, etc.)

The original point of increasing diversity was to improve decision-making by not having basically an opinion bubble where everyone thinks the same way. So, companies tried to have non-traditional hires which would think differently than the existing employees. It only warped to what we know as "diversity" today later.
And yet, despite that, Jewish space lasers don't actually cause forest fires.
If you knew what you were talking about, you’d understand that they ripped off Chuck Berry and Carl Perkins.

Nujabes steals Gigi Masin's "Clouds" totally wholesale for a remix of Five Deez https://youtu.be/Yu_hqMfXIN8

It had even been stolen wholesale before by To Rococo Rot in 1999:
https://youtu.be/Dzx7p2HyKik
and by Bjork in 2002:
https://youtu.be/A-AukyfMTKE
Radburn Design Housing
They also linked to the Remarkable and Kobo communities.
After coding for more than 15 years, I can assure everyone that technology is always an enabler, and never the main thing (even if it pretends to be). The main thing is human interaction. We are humans after all.

Since "value" can either be a societal construct or a biological one (e.g. needs for food), it has now occured to me that it makes more sense to view technologies themselves as without intrinsic "value". Technology can only be a mean to an end, and not the other way round. (Or who is going to fund it? The military? Then it has to be military tech.. which is used to enable the strong stablization of a status quo, a currency, or the American dream... so once again, tech would always be a mean across any social/cultural/political/psychological vehicles.
While I think OP's idea isn't great, Windows seems to have an acceptable solution here: you can continue to allow drag-selection, and when clicking while holding down Ctrl/Shift you add to a selection rather than opening. The first click for the drag will be on the background and not on an icon, so it can still start a selection. This is how it works on Windows when you enable one-click.
How do you deal with how so much of our current values were once persecuted as misinformation?
From the same page
> Convinced that you should hack on eink devices? Grab a reMarkable or Kobo and get hacking

But kindle is The cheapest e-ink afaik
Is the path you’re shebanging to correct? One of my coworkers was having this problem and it turned out his path had a typo in it.
The article feels like it was written on a tight deadline by sleep deprived journalist trying to get something out.
Theranos is a case of a place that calls itself flat when it really isn't. If anything the moral issue presented here is more significant in hierarchies than in flat structures. In a hierarchical structure a few bad actors can do a lot without anyone even knowing about it. For this reason, more explicit hierarchies typically have a series of checks to try to curtail this issue. The lack of these checks at Theranos is less about being flat and more about the fact that it was a heirarchical org that refused to act accordingly.
Investigating the Nord Stream Attack: All the Evidence Points to Kyiv
Conway's Law and Kubernetes
The author mentioned them already, but didn't recommend for violating the GPL, but I have an Onyx Boox Poke 3 and Boox Leaf that run Android that I've rooted. They're not very cheap (the Poke runs about $180). They're pretty fun devices to tinker with. https://chuck.is/rooting-onyx/

Edit: I also experimented with the Poke 3 by creating a sort of "writerdeck" setup with a bluetooth keyboard and termux, then attaching everything together with velcro and magnets: https://chuck.is/writerdeck/
Yes, it really is odd, I couldn't figure it out so switched back to zsh.

The specific issue was to do with a script we had to run to gain ssh access to an internal network. I can't post the script, but it was related to openssh.

Even logging into bash and running the script didn't work, I had to remove all fish binaries, symlinks, etc and set my shell to bash/zsh. Maybe it was an issue with how I installed fish, but yeah like I said, very strange, but I can vouch that I've encountered a similar issue before

It's a real shame because I think the fish syntax alone is worth the switch, for my personal machine(s) I use it.

Edit: this was years ago now, about 4 years, maybe the issue doesn't exist anymore but it caused me a bit of grief at the time (beacuse I didn't know it was related to using fish!), I've not since tried it again. I might try again and get back to this thread
I would recommend looking at the Supernote. I did a ton of research and the ReMarkable seems very oddly limited. Supernote A5X is one of the best purchases I’ve made in 10 years easily.

Idk about hackability and whatnot but as far as a useful e-reader, note book, sketchbook, planner, it’s amazing.

Edit: Also unaffiliated with this product but it’s awesome: https://hyperpaper.me/

Configurable, highly linked PDF planner with a very responsive person behind it (I figure he must be around here somewhere :))
“Place of interest sign,” according to the Unicode spec. Also, command key and OS key as secondary meanings.

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2300.pdf
Some lessons on software development were learned a long time ago, but have not really sunk in everywhere.

Fred Brooks was a project manager on IBM's project to launch the System/360 from 1961 to 1964. He took on the responsibility to do the operating system software for the System/360 - OS/360. There were problems during the project of writing the OS software and lessons learned. Ultimately the System/360 (and OS/360) launch was successful, and the product sold well.

Brooks wrote a book on the experience in 1975 called "The Mythical Man Month". One of the things the book covers is how a software development project can differ from other kinds of projects, so business should have different expectations.

One lesson is if a project is running late, adding additional programmers to the project tends to make the project even later.

Another is the second-system effect - that a follow-up to a successful project can be an attempt to reinvent the wheel, which is too complex and with too many features (just keeping to the operating system example, Windows Vista and Hurd could be seen as two examples of this).

Another is to "design one to throw away, you will any how". Inevitably for any good product, the software will be refactored or even rewritten.

Some ideas from the book are almost universally accepted. Some are debated, such as whether it is good to have a technical team divided into a leader/architect/"surgeon" and assistants (something Brooks favored) or whether other approaches work. If you read over past comments on this forum, or read other programmers and PM's thoughts, the book is considered to have had a lot of valuable lessons for people over the past half century or so. However, I know for certain that despite it generally being considered a source of a lot of wisdom on software development, many of the lessons are ignored nowadays in companies large and small.

One of the main takeaways though is 60 years ago, Brooks realized software development projects worked differently than other kinds of projects. He put his lessons into a digestible form in his book almost 48 years ago. But even half a century later, many businesses large and small blithely ignore a lot of these lessons.
The wirecutter response that the end of the post is responding to is from 2017 and the new CEO. I don't see any repudiation or acknowledgement of the earlier bad behavior so not sure why they would deserve the benefit of the doubt here.
My advise is reading the comment above carefully ^^^^^
I haven’t found much need to swap due to using bass

https://github.com/edc/bass
I left out the company-wide holidays, which in 2022 amounted to 4, and the 10+ public holidays.
To Compress or Not to Compress- Self-Supervised Learning and Information Theory
Most public libraries require an Android/iOS app for (controlled) digital lending.
Open-ness as in open source, I can't comment on, but open-ness as in being able to get root, is almost easy enough to stumble into

https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Help documents where to find the information, and the account details you are given afaik are for root
According to the article, half of the Sahara Desert based on 2019 calculations. Probably more now.
can you elaborate on what nagged you? i am just curious, not critical.

i use fish, zsh and now also elvish. the main thing for me is autosuggestion and getting history with uparrow. zsh has a module for autosuggestion. elvish has uparrow history (but only matches at the start). so fish still wins over the others. elvish comes second because typing a command and hitting uparrow once is almost like autosuggestion. but i could not find a way to get that in zsh. i also prefer the way fish and elvish handle blocks over the traditional sh-shell style.
Plenty of people were making money off the internet in the 90s.
Well, if you're seasoned enough, you start to read df output from right to left.

Find the mountpoint you're looking for, read to left to see the stats. When you're managing a storage box, no amount of tmpfs entries can create the noise stated in the blog post.

P.S.: If you know the device names like your name, you can quickly skim that list, too.
Finally had a use case, used it to split a PDF AMAZING JOB!!!
Except here, that is exactly what wirecutter is using affiliate programs for.
Completely banning the sale of cars was and still is an option.

The possibility of doing so in any but the most limited situations is currently unthinkable by most people. If I could wave a magic wind I would ban all cars and Taxi in NYC, but that’s a seriously minority opinion.
OPs point was completely valid.

> same old cliched anti-imperialist anti-“West” rhetoric while adding nothing of substance
> lazy advocacy

This characterization you're making is what's wrong. It's definitely arguable that Belgium enjoys the prosperity it does today because of centuries of economic exploitation of other countries.

You may disagree, but the behavior of HN both in its programming and users to erase valid opinions like this is ridiculous.

> HN is exceptionally left-leaning

You're criticizing GP as making blanket statements (his statement was accurate) while making a blanket statement that's inaccurate. There are political trends on HN but they don't necessarily fit neatly into left/right, especially given that defining those terms is extremely problematic in the first place.
The structure is less important than what the structure dictates. If I can email a question to the ceo and it’s no big deal, but there are three layers between us, I’d argue the hierarchy isn’t much of a hindrance. I think sometimes the hierarchy has a chilling effect on candor.
It's the passage of quantitative changes into qualitative changes. It's one thing if a single lemonade stand keeps track of its customers. When the same lemonade stand can almost instantly access its customers' complete life history, it's a completely different thing.

Imagine being hailed by a random lemonade vendor, "Hello Mr. dcow, I have some cold lemonade for you! It's sugar-free, so don't worry about your diabetes. I can even put it on your tab, since I know you've never been late with your payments and you pass through here every Saturday"

It sure might be convenient, but that doesn't make it less creepy.
Great article. I lived through the early days of artificial neural networks. I was on a DARPA advisory panel for neural network tooling in the mid 1980s, wrote the first version of the SAIC ANSim commercial product, and created the simple back-prop model that was deployed in the bomb detector my company built under contract to the FAA. I also managed a ‘conventional’ deep learning team at Capital One 5-6 years ago.

My world has been very exciting in the last 18 months. I spend as much time as I can exploring self hosted LLMs, APIs from Hugging Face, OpenAI, etc.

My mind is blown even thinking about tech 33 years from now!