skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I re-read the portion about Theranos but can’t follow his argument. Elizabeth Holmes once said her company had a flat structure, Theranos ended in scandal, therefore flat organizations are more prone to scandal? There are as many examples of successful flat companies as unsuccessful companies mentioned in the piece.
You may also want to try z, and, err... I don't have my config with me, but I have a plugin that notifies me if a long-running background command finishes, which is really handy.
I’m curious where the battle between paint and films goes in this new technology area, film is still ahead on total rejected power, which is why ARPA-E funded this: https://arpa-e.energy.gov/technologies/projects/passive-radi...

Film surfaces can be engineered more to withstand dirt accumulation which drops performance, but it may require more skill to apply adhesives on site compared to paint.

In factory, films can be a lot easier to apply due to VOC regulation etc.

Whatever the case, we need this tech deployed.
I find as I’ve gotten older I’m no less enthusiastic about new technology. But I’m much more reticent to assign any intrinsic worth to “new”.

Young me would have assumed “new” meant “better”. Now I’m absolutely certain that is not the case.
I can't speak to the quantum party, but that stood out to me as well

> but it is sure that Carl Sagan, in his classic TV series Cosmos (1980), was crucial in popularising it

I would say it was popularized by teaching the gold foil experiment in middle school physics.

(That said, it seems like a minor point of the article.)
A lack of legible structure can mean it's that much easier for tyrannies to hide.
Also titled “Curse of the CEMBI”, where the acronym is for ‘Corporate-Employed Maintainers with Bad Incentives’.
Briefly discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37106476
I’m gonna write a streamlined program to uncomplicated it, just you wait.
In the realm of chance and happenstance,

A collision occurs - a twist of fate's dance,

But let us embrace the hand we've been dealt,

With gratitude and contentment deeply felt.
+1 you fit many valid points into one short paragraph. Well done!
Sounds like an easy and cheap way to bump up revenue and metrics for next raise.

Prob buying at 1x revenue and selling stock to investors at 100x revenue
The real question is how much can you fit into the time machine.
Paraphrasing an English judge in the 80's ("the public interest is what the government of the day says it is"), misinformation is whoever holds power says it is.

Whatever is "true" today might be "misinformation" tomorrow and vice versa. This is just plain censorship, dressed up in different clothing.
That's really odd. I have never had a single issue with this, I don't understand how shebanged scripts can fail? What's the error?
I’ve used fish for nearly a decade now, it’s awesome.
The autocomplete works for so many things you don’t expect!

Command line arguments!
Remote path completion!
Git!

It’s something I install basically on everything machine I can. The history based autocomplete is so useful for keeping track of and refinding those less used complex commands that you have not saved in a function yet.
On the process note, I’d say your best process is automating processes. Any sort of process that requires active thought is a huge effort sink. This is why so many devs hate Jira. It’s process that can’t really be automated.
The problem is the disinformation narratives tend to clump together the way that mythologies form into cults and religions by combining stories about external threats.

You can see this in present-day disinformation because conspiracy theory adherence is rarely about one thing. it's always a package deal.
> I want to teach them how to be safe around roads.

"Assume that everyone that can see you wants to kill you."

It's not bad advice elsewhere, either; but its the only realistic attitude on public streets.
Because we don't have direct access to reality. Axioms exist as parts of models, which are human abstractions. Thus at some point to formally talk about reality we have to make rigorous assumptions about it.

That human beings are as good as we are at finding axioms that appear to correspond pretty well to reality is amazing to me. It's a really interesting philosophical question to ask why it is that we are.
Programming team of the future … 9 lawyers and 1 programmer. I think we are getting there.
100% agree. Don't ask customers for solutions, ask them for problems. If they knew the solution to their problems, they wouldn't have problems. They would often suggest solutions that are round-about or overly complicated.

I remember at work someone said they wanted a way to arbitrarily update a SQL table and clobber old values. After some digging I realized they just needed a task to scrape a particular page and throw it in a structured format. Of course when they did it manually they made mistakes and mismapped a bunch of fields
You're right, weird gags have no place on a resume; I was just being pedantic and
wondering aloud about what I thought he was going for.
It's non-intended sarcasm. Lot's of people who work in London spend 2 hours (each way) a day travelling through open countryside in order to have both a decent job and somewhere basic to sleep at night.

People who actually live in London tend to be either very rich or unemployed.
The only way to question some perspectives here without getting downvoted is irony and maieutics.
Hopefully Community Notes in Twitter helps provide useful context in many cases?
Totally agreed. But we've also gotten clear signals from HashiCorp that they aren't very interested in community contributions for a long time now, like removing commit access from community maintainers years ago and no longer allocating company time for reviewing community contributions.

They liked the idea that customers could try before they buy, and that customers could inspect the source code for debugging or other purposes, but they clearly didn't buy into the whole catb thing.

From where you and I sit, it's a missed opportunity. Perhaps Hashi had good reasons to believe that they had to be the ones to drive Terraform forward themselves, and that community contributions would at best play a negligible role, whether that's because core Terraform code is hard to work on, because the contributions they saw tended to be minor, or because they wanted all the core contributions to be their own for the sake of retaining control. But whatever their reasons, they weren't on the same page as you and me about this.
So what do I set my MX record to?

Do I have to run my own node - on a server in my basement, or on a VPS?

Do I have to trust your infrastructure?

Do I have to go through another, existing provider?

I'm trying to get a simple answer to these questions since my original post.
There’s been some recent success with a diy method.
https://hackaday.com/2023/07/03/cooling-paint-you-can-actual...
Do you mean "drop you" as in stop paying for you while you're off sick? Or is it "drop you" as in simply show you (an emailed picture of) the door and terminate your employment?

Both sound bad to me, but I can to a certain extent understand the logic behind the first option in terms of the financial interests of the company. I can definitely see a "Sorry Ashley, you're out of paid sick days so we won't be paying your salary this month, we can't afford paying for nothing. I hope you recover and can come back to work with us soon!". The way we make up for this in Spain (and I'm assuming in varying similar ways in other countries) is by having the Social Security start taking charge of growing percentages of the employee's salary during sick leave as it prolongs in time, so as to reduce the impact on the business.

The second "drop you" sounds much worse though. You have an illness or an accident bad enough that it exhausts your paid sick days, so your employer simply sacks you out of impatience? And what happens to the employment-dependent health insurance which (I assume) was what was covering you on your long sick leave? "Sorry Ashley, you're out of paid sick days so we're firing you. I hope you recover enough from your severe TBE before your savings run out so you can find a new job. Also I hope you weren't depending too much on our health insurance plan for rehab. Good luck!".
>It also implies a company being diverse is a mandatory thing, and non-diverse firms are somehow inherently bad or non-desirable.

In a way, it's astonishing how much work has been done over at least the past one or two decades to renormalize racism and discrimination.

And for those who don't quite get what I mean: "Diversity" at least in the political sense is a racist concept, you can't be "diverse" without explicitly considering someone's race.
It's science to support the use of physical colocality as a very specific type of tool. Not a general argument.
> Most recently, President Biden, citing national security concerns, signed an executive order that will make it more difficult for U.S. firms to invest in certain Chinese companies.

I don’t understand this Executive order. Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Stop allowing the Chinese from buying land in the US or owning businesses here?
That said, I want a python interpreter written 100% using 64bits risc-v assembly (with a very conservative usage of a macro pre-processor, because some assembly programmers are going amok with the pre-processor, some sort of abomination reaching the c++ abomination grade).
Start right now. Nothing will make it easy.

Use what is immediately at hand. That's as easy as it gets.

Deal with eventualities if and when you cross them.

Good luck.
Except in this example the iPad and the MacBook both have a hemi (M1) and nearly identical body weight (especially if you add a keyboard)
Check out the Mondragon corporation if alternative models interest you. It is fascinating, both by its size, the scope of the individual businesses and the structure.
Nobody needs QA, right?
What's the smallest statically typed language implemented in itself?
Personally - I'm waiting for the research on the research on the psychology of expertise in whether forecasting.
Real or other
seems like you've missed the point, if you think I'm making your point for you – your point seems to be pedantic and grounded in your personal opinions. Your feelings about derisiveness just underscore what I mean: the complaint is pure opinion and self-righteous indignation, devoid of substance.

the term "non-technical" is used because it is useful (notwithstanding your personal interpretation of it to mean "knows literally nothing about any technology"), so what term do you suggest we IT professionals use which conveys the same information in an equal or shorter length? Consider providing people an alternative they think is better if you personally don't like the language they're using, vs. just feeling upset and complaining.
This article is not very good. It is riddled with non-sequiturs and irrelevant facts/opinions that doesn't really get into a lot of the subtleties and nuances around org structures.
Flat vs hierarchical structures exist on a continuum where neither end point is ever reached. The success of an organization is not just a matter of the structure but how people act within that structure. Different kinds of organizations need different kinds of managers. Sundar Pichai would be a nobody at Apple, and Tim Cook would be pulling his hair out if he were at Google. It's not that one structure is better than the other. What matters is the people.
Flat structures are prone to a lot of problems, but in my experience a lot of the most common issues with 'flat' orgs originate from the fact that the org is not actually flat and people are lying about what roles and responsibilities actually are.
My point is that if there is a market for devices that can be easily repaired, then there will be devices that can be easily repaired. If there is no such a market, then there will be no such devices.

If the second case is true, we can clearly mandate this by law, but then we must explain the reasons behind it, and we must also search for alternative ways of enforcing such reasons.

IMO the modern devices are way too complex to service on your own for most of the people. And those who might be able to technically do that often times are not interested into actually doing it. Also, the tradeoff that such a serviceability would imply might be not interesting (e.g. bulkier device, more complex waterproofing, less sturdy chassis, ...).

Again, it's my personal opinion, based on personal experience, but since we do have alternatives (e.g. the fair phone) and since these devices are not that widespread, I'm afraid my opinion is more common that you'd think.
> Archive's catchpas are useless and absurd so I will comment without reading the article.

Set reader mode and refresh. Or at least that seems to work for me, on Firefox on both mobile and desktop.
As TikTok Ban Looms, ByteDance Battles Oracle for Control of Its Algorithm
> Software complexity is proportional to the number of engineers working on it. Hiring more people will increase complexity. So, hire as few engineers as you can get away with to solve the problem.

You haven’t heard of resume driven development?

Or better yet - “we need to use K8s from day one”

> Programming languages, tech stacks, and other areas of engineer preference largely don’t matter

It very much does matter. I can easily and cheaply find a developer who knows and would be glad to work with React on the front end and Node on the back end to replace a developer who leaves.

Some obscure front end framework and Elixer on the back end - not so much.
Possibly relevant:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_influence_on_public_opin...

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/02/09/archives/cia-infiltration...

But then, it's a dangerous world out there, who am I to say whether the ends justify the means or not?
Luis Rubiales suspended by FIFA over Hermoso kiss
> COVID Disinformation spread as fact?

I agree. It was pretty egregious how many people were claiming that ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine were able to cure COVID. But a lot of that stuff was getting banned at least.
But whoever has the power to decide what the powerful are and aren't allowed to say probably has too much power.
I love their tagline. Very funny. I used it for a while and liked it enough but their development strategy is explicitly against having configurable options. A few things nagged me and there was no way to change the behavior so I switched to zsh and made it work like fish, but the way I like it instead. For me this was a good decision and I recommend it. (I am not a fan of oh-my-zsh or plugin managers etc either)
I do not have a firm policy answer, but I think that either of "do not share these images at all" OR "absolute free-for-all" would make more sense than what you propose.
True, but we don’t know how to recreate that kind of pretraining.
I couldn't express it any better, thank you!
To clarify, it's the pro-censorship politician who is brainwashed and sectarian.
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could set union the rights of all sides of any border vertex/line and use that as the baseline of understanding?

I’m not sure how rights to property would play out in this regime, but it may still be useful to think about it like this.

Imagine being detained at the border. Human rights advocates would argue strongly that you still have a right to a speedy and fair trial, for example.
It seems like you've either not read the rules, or don't understand their purpose.

On the one hand you're not wrong, but this observation applies to most of life, not just art. As much as people like to think they're rational beings because of the media they consume or the knowledge they've acquired, a lot of life just happens and you justify your decisions with a reasonable sounding narrative.

But within that framework, you're really misunderstanding the purpose and value of these rules. It's not a map to get you to a specific destination like "writing the greatest novel", it's instructions to make sure that you don't run out of gas, take enough water with you and rest enough to make sure you don't crash the car on your way to wherever you're going.

Whether your novel is great, whether it resonates with people, whether you'll die and only after that people will recognize the value of your work, that comes from the sky. But to get your ass to sit on the chair and bang those keys, that does not come from the sky, anyone who has actually tried will tell you that.
I loved fish for about 5 years. My only gripe is that going back to Mac it wouldn’t play nice with the terminal color scheme, or the dark mode switch. Anyone found a way around that?
This sounds like they're going to be collecting a large amount of data from a huge variety of small businesses that all operate in different ways and have very different clientele.

I wonder how practically useful all of this data collection is going to be, and whether doing it will be accurate and result in insight.

Learning about small niches where modest profit can be made (which is where many small businesses tend to fit, IMO) is not the typical/theoretical "scale to the heavens" startup plan, but if just getting ideas is the goal... good luck?
Understood. The people that are the most vocal around this whole 'post truth' thing are as a rule part of the problem, rather than part of the solution. Usually it boils down to 'don't trust the government, don't trust your eyes, don't trust the media and don't trust your friends', but here is a link to a shady website with a bunch of ridiculous stuff that you should definitely trust. Very boring, really.
the shebang is literally handled by the kernel, so fish has nothing to do with this here.

are you sure you're running `./scriptname` or bash scriptname`
What's the endgame here? F*#!& it up even better than the first one and profit from documentaries?
If you're running a script, you can use edc/bass to run it from a fish shell. Fisher is one of the first things I install after fish, then bass, z and a few other helper plugins.

https://github.com/edc/bass

https://github.com/jorgebucaran/fisher
The biggest screw up is that fish is not bash compatible. I'm just too used to bash and am not willing to change that because there are corporate systems where I only have access to bash and nothing else; and cannot install fish.

It will just be hurtful to need to keep switching between different scripting languages; I will never be able to do so comfortably and with muscle memory.
I might agree, but my experience with this brand in particular is that I buy much less devices, and I pay them more. All in all I think that the money I spend is similar, but the quantity of devices is lower.

Again, this is MY experience, in MY context, with MY use case. I believe that my use case is pretty common, but I might be wrong, of course.
Installing a new tool just to exclude certain parts of the list has much more friction involved than just making a shell alias/function/script though. It's also much more portable.
you just push ctrl-r just like in zsh
Apparently it is "Command" but also the Swedish campground symbol?

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Swedish_Campgrou...
Please indulge my curiosity. Do you agree with the rest of the grandparent’s comments? It seems like many people disagree with someone’s vaccination personal opinion and then discard the rest of their ideas. How do you feel about the rest of their points?

I have some bias about vaccines: as an old man I was grateful to get vaccinated and also grateful to get PAXLOVID after I got Covid. However, I have 100% sympathy for young healthy people who didn’t want the vaccine.
Can you provide a link to Valerian? pills?
I had to abandon the last time I tried fish because it’s not compatible with my export PATH declarations from tooling in bash/zsh, any tips?
The whole comment shows a locally centered viewpoint that somehow gets blown up into worldwide support. I don't buy that. There are plenty of places where the bicycle is the dominant mode of transportation. And what's with the 'downvote all you want' nonsense.
Not sure about bash, but iirc, zsh’s tcp module has a proxy function to listen on a port and pass input to a shell command.
I write every day and make music. I didn't downvote but there's a clear misunderstanding on this comment's part. The stuff does "come from the sky". The sitting down and getting the stuff done, that does not come from the sky. These rules apply only to that second aspect.
this sounds really strange. i don’t suppose you have an example?
Messages for Android (the Google SMS app) has a great web interface.
There’s a whole world of folks who do this, with acquisitions and sophistication ranging from really small businesses[0] to ones in the range the article discusses[1]. It does seem like a numbers game where it makes sense to pool the risk.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Buy-Then-Build-Acquisition-Entreprene...

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01KP33K4Y
Despite Cheating Fears, Schools Repeal ChatGPT Bans
We use user mode containers for that. Mostly Apptainer. It supports MPI, GPU and other bells and whistles that we need.
The Netherlands is unusual in instructive ways here. If everywhere were an extremely flat high population density area we would already have noticeably different infrastructure globally. I suspect E-Bikes will do quite a lot to increase bike infrastructure over time, but that’s the future not how things are today.

As to the decision making process, it’s very true that humanity doesn’t hand out power equally. But, while we can strongly disagree with the system that doesn’t actually change what currently exists without action.
But to me -- this is different?

I believe "useless use of cat" is FAR MORE useful than what the ultra-nerds say; I could care less about "saving a few characters."

The mental model of the pipeline --in one end and out the other -- is entirely too usefully intuitive and way better than some imaginary geek-cred.

(I was more thinking about the new rust tools, e.g. rg instead of grep)
> (I honestly thought both projects worked very poorly, but also better than anything else we could find at the time.)

Each of us must first earn the right to forget Hudson by finally decommissioning our respective companies' remaining, bespoke, janky Jenkins server. ;)
I end up installing mcfly (https://github.com/cantino/mcfly) in all my shells, and it works great in fish as well.
What is the added value compared to Hostifi or Cloud UniFi?
Doesn’t this just reflect that humans are generally just large language models? Maybe throw in an extra dimension of “emotions” that are useful for training?
Why do they call this fintech?

Isn’t this essentially a reworked trust?
Totally true. In Spain happened the same in the from the 50s to the 70s with thousands of people emigrating to France, Germany, and other European countries, talking about how well they could live and how they can eat every day, but excluding how they live in mass in barracks away from local people, and how most of local people made an effort to avoid them to integrate (like making them go out of bars and buses).
that would be a great business. rent them over the internet and deliver them to the airport
Careful though: we don't have any way of knowing with remotely any accuracy what the conspiracy theory world is composed of, or what conspiracy theorists believe, we only can go on what others (often very persuasively) say about them.

Believe what you'd like, but at least have some realization of what's really going on.
And you can do that for a lot less than $38k, just get GitHub pages and a domain.
Here we are, one of the primary reasons why I adore the BSDs. Linux seems to be just neverending layers of indirection, abstraction, and a kitchen sink of features that less than 1% of its users actually need.

The full command to get a "clean" mount list on OpenBSD, including disk usage with human-friendly units, is:

$ df -h

https://man.openbsd.org/df