skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many city parks have grills that can be repurposed into a forge. Annoying to pack everything in and out, but it can work '.
> If unemployment did not exist, the capitalist class would have no power to make workers work harder using the threat of losing their jobs.

This seems to envision that nobody can find new kinds of useful work or otherwise work for themselves, which is odd when you're on a site where most of the people work in jobs that did not exist if we turned the clock back just a few decades and quite a few people are their own bosses.
> The (US) first amendment protects citizens from government censorship and doesn't necessarily apply to private venues.

I agree. Read the wording of the report, and it very clearly draws the line at what "shouting down" means: https://5666503.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/5666503...

They sampled students by asking them if they approve of three protesting scenarios, two nonviolent and one not. The statistic referenced in the title explicitly refers to the students who approve of nonviolent, nonobstructive protest. There is a specific, discrete and defined category for "Using violence to stop a campus speech."

My original comment holds true under federal jurisdiction, as far as I can tell. Speech is speech.
Because the threat of a less convenient job is nothing compared to the threat to existence that is unemployment in capitalism.
These guys [1] claim to have "the fastest payment HSM in the world, capable of processing over 20,000 transactions per second." I imagine the peak load for signing authtokens for Microsoft accounts is way higher than that.

[1] https://www.futurex.com/download/excrypt-ssp-enterprise-v-2-...
The original cargo cultists built runways on islands to cause supplies to be dropped off. It didn't work. If someone copy and pasted something they don't fully understand off the Internet, but it works, can you really blame them for it, or call them cargo cultists?
Thanks for a reasonable discussion.

Whilst hobbyists can still use whatever they want, including simple options, I in particular empathize with those new to the field or looking to turn a hobby into a job.

You need to know React/Typescript/CLIs/Docker/Git/Unit testing/IDEs/CSS/5 million other things. Or there's simply not going to be a job for you at all.

So "just don't use it" doesn't apply.

On the upside, once you do master the unwarranted complexity, pay is great. Fiddling around with toys and a Frankenstein tech stack whilst continuing to produce outcomes with worse UX than 15 years ago is somehow richly rewarded. It paid for my quality of life so let's add some more "absolutely essential" tools.
> Norwegian Transport Minister Jon-Ivar Nygard said in the statement:

> "Electric cars give us greener transport, but they also have a clear intermodal competition with public transport in urban areas. We must make it more attractive to travel by public transport, cycle, and walk."

I don't find that statement anywhere though, but that's from the article. I think that means they're working on doing something about it, but haven't reached any proposals yet.
Cheers for the links.

In my experience attempting to evade tracking by trying to mitigate these approaches will often get you a "you look like a bot" message from websites (by which they mean, "your HTTP requests do not permit us to track you").
We may have more programs by volume but the barriers to entry and weird-ass financial requirements to keep benefits often drives the outcomes those programs are notionally intended to address. The social safety net today is significantly less functional than it was 30 years ago.
Apart from this transitionary period where we still use fossil fuels to produce EVs, it's going to be 0 eventually.
So many people in leadership at top companies just won the start-up lottery as a junior employee and had the internal drive to get promo at all costs to gradually get to the top. As soon as they leave the bubble it’s clear how few real skills they possess.

Likewise, the degree to which Director+ jobs just hire based on current title at a competitor alone is bonkers. I’ve worked under people who are utterly clueless but managed to make VP at the place up the street. So they just get to be a VP at the next place.
The 60's were an era of labour shortage in the UK. Recently some British towns had a labour shortage, such as Reading. This means that garbage collection jobs pay well, which is a good thing for those that want to work and be home in time to collect the kids.

A labour market should have people dropping out for having babies, going to education, sickness, looking after elders of the family, going on adventures and self improvement, for example people that want to write their own app/book.
That's fair, adding another service is definitely a downside. If you are running nix-built images though, the underlying data still needs to land somewhere on disk. Nix-snapshotter lets you store less data and download less data due to its package granularity.

We already have rootless containerd and nix-snapshotter. And I believe there is work underway to run rootless nix (and rootless k3s too). You may be able to run the whole thing unprivileged one day.
A Paper Route Funded James Ellroy’s Pulp-Fiction Addiction
Strange that parts of Switzerland are darker than than NYC - higher popularity of diesel cars combined with no breeze from the ocean, perhaps?
> There exist such cryptographic trapdoor constructions that are perfectly secure, if the government backdoor key is kept safe.

A big problem with this statement is the term “the government”. If you give the private key to the UK - the US, India and China will want a copy as well.

The UK might want to spy on foreign nationals only in the country and only for CSAM, but that doesn’t mean other nations won’t use it for more traditional espionage.
https://archive.ph/iw1Xd
There's like 2 registry keys to edit and poof, no more web results in the start menu.
Were you involved with its creation? I would be interested in finding out what libraries and frameworks were used.
I’ve driven it, it’s a very nice car but not very close to this concept. It’s pretty much a “normal” car on the inside, with B pillars, a center console and standard seats.

Apparently production has been stopped, which is understandable given the price (about the same as a Model 3), but still a shame.
The awards and grants line item for ~15MM is the second largest thing listed under staff and ahead of Internet hosting.

I do not mind that they provide those grants, it is just something to keep in mind.
Is this blacksmithing, or metal art? On his gallery page, I see that he's making metal sculptures. In the article, it talks about him making decorative art, and turning gun barrels into shovels (which seems like a form of artistic statement, albeit one that produces a functional object). Not trying to be a gatekeeper here, but I think of blacksmiths as making small household objects like horsehoes and nails, but what I have seen this guy doing as being more about sculpture. Relevant because of the headline.
I worked at Cycorp as a contractor for a few months. Lenat was, without a doubt, the smartest person I ever met in my life. There are levels of scary smart... his intelligence was downright frightening.

I'm sad to see so many call his work a failure. His work was anything but a failure. I think this perception comes down to the fact that the company worked on many things that aren't public, and he do much publicity and self-promotion.
This is one of the most interesting Nix tools I've seen in awhile!

Nix is a fantastic tool for building isolated work artifacts, but not the greatest for actually scheduling work across a fleet of machines.

This combines both worlds, I hope this succeeds and gains adoption!
Walk around any office in Seattle or SF, and you'll see many people on Amazon, Reddit and YouTube as well... the only difference is they had to commute from Pleasanton/San Jose/Duval/Renton/etc. first.

Most of the people I know who shifted to WFH from in-office during COVID ended up buying places in cities outside of the "urban" radius, and now feel like they are randomly being forced back due to nth-order repercussions around overpaid pandemic hires and shortsightedness from executives who spent all of 2020-2021 remarking in memos how successful and wonderful WFH was for everyone.

In my opinion, it's not that people don't want to work in offices. It's that cities are hostile places for work, period. Companies can start by covering 100% of moving expenses, guaranteeing safety inside and around corporate offices, and offering in-office daycares/preschools for free just to start the conversation.
Could you do this for arctic ice? And hallucinate reasonable super-resolution forecasts for ships? For example, the icebreaker Healy is up there right now: https://www.cruisemapper.com/?imo=9083380
Already soldered 2 dactyl manuforms (one for home and one for work), not going to solder another one until one breaks :)

Though honestly if it broke, I'd probably just pay for the next one, not worth the labor (literally hundreds of solder points and hand wiring over like 30 hours). I did it mostly to learn about soldering/electronics and thought it would be fun.

The careful hand wiring is the laborious part, which the flexible PCB seems to solve. So I'd imagine it would take a 30 hour task down to 2 hours?
I just think that you can't be a non revenue company for like 20 years. Specially because the resulting market just doesn't seem to be there.

Also I just don't care that much about a Mach 1.7 jet, its just not really all that impactful.
Been using it as my daily driver for two weeks.

Battery life is not great but manageable. I bought two spare batteries as backups. I charge the phone at home, and put it into suspend when I’m on the go.
Battery life may even improve as software and drivers mature.

Build quality is very decent. Hardware performance is barely enough for web browsing. But you get used to it quickly.
Adverse inference is very valid.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_inference
College football in the US is awash with money
For what it's worth, I got the same "account integrity" explanation. Until proven otherwise I'm assuming that's the same canned response they always give. I did not use a proxy or a VPN, and I did not use an anonymous email address like a protonmail account or something similar.
That's actually basically how the economy of Yugoslavia worked, worker's self-management [0] being the key term. You had worker-owned coops competing on the market.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers'_self-management
^H used to be a common idiom back in the usenet news days
Sounds cool, can you link an example?
> Elle a dit au revoir trop souvent

I would go for this one. child comments suggest "tant", but this means "so many times" and not "too many times" (another way to say it would be "si souvent").
Adding "avant" sounds very wrong, but maybe it does in English too, I don't know.

You could use "par le passé": "Elle a dit au revoir trop souvent par le passé". This sounds more natural to me.

> Elle salua excessivement avant

Nice gulf :-) Now, the passé simple ("simple past") tense does not sound right for two reasons:

- It's never used when speaking, only in writing, and even then, only if you want to write a novel or something.

- This tense also refer to a one-off event. Like, one day at a particular time she said goodbye too many times in a row, or something. I would not assume a one-off event here.
Hey thanks a lot for the inspiring words

> I’ll keep the wonderful feeling of shaping metal.

Could you expand on that please? I connect with those words on some level but would love to hear more about what’s special about it.
One of my grandfathers was a blacksmith unfortunately he died before I got old enough to ask about the philosophy of it
C and x86 real-mode works just fine, why would it not? Yes, the segmented model is a bit of a pain but totally doable and it's not just a problem when programming C but also x86 Assembler, Pascal, etc. Even in Q(uick)Basic you won't get around it once you start to do more advanced system things.

http://alexfru.narod.ru/os/c16/c16.html

But indeed, we were all glad when the 32bit flat model was introduced with the 386.
none of these are options when the only way to talk to my landlord or my customer is whatsapp.
It's not so much "de-westernized" as it is "sanitized for The Party". The details really matter here, because when it comes to censorship it's much less about "East vs West" and more about "The Party" vs "all others".
Took my daughter to check out a blacksmithing class in Brooklyn and was pleasantly surprised to find there was no open fire at all. The iron and steel are heated by an induction machine. Just use the tongs to hold up your material near the coil and press the pedal and voila, it soon starts to glow red hot. The space is small, maybe 3 students at a time plus a teacher, but it was bright, tidy, and clean. Not at all the dark, sweaty cave of fire and fumes that I'd imagined, and interesting to see tech slightly more modern than fire.
I want to find part 1 & 3 of this series and cannot. Any links would be appreciated.
I often want to contact people about old research, but they have changed institutions or retired. I can usually find their most recent address, but no working phone number, and they usually have no social media presence.

It is ironic that the fallback method for cold-contacting people in the Internet age has to be snail mail.
What else is a small group of people owning the means of production, if not a privileged class?
Please Don't create the Torment Nexus
jq 1.7
Formulating developer metrics is kind of like writing HR regulations defining sexual harassment; it certainly can be done, but you can’t phrase them in entirely in reductive terms.

E.G. compare:

“Employees should not stare at their colleagues in a demeaning way or in a way which makes them uncomfortable.”

With:

“Eye contact should not last more than 1.5 seconds, and after finishing a conversation, an employee may not continue to look at another employee for more than 2.5 seconds.”

The second sounds so very much more objective and measurable, but is unworkable in practice and in fact doesn’t actually rule out harassing looks—-any more than stipulating that a programmer crank out at least 100 lines of code an hour will rule out programmer slacking.

The trap is conflating “objective” and “measurable” with being expressed in a reductive language describing actions which can indeed be objectively measured, but which bear no essential or logical connection with the way programmers deliver value.

I once made a 10 minute hack which saved our company $50 million dollars. I’ve also worked 80 hours a week for 11 months on code which was ultimately just thrown away.

Most companies I have worked for have had an end-of-year rank-and-yank-style of programmer performance review process which soaked up MONTHS of management bandwidth. It’s certainly annoying and inconvenient, especially if you do need to tap your manager for a substantial amount of help during that time, but on the other hand, there is something reassuring in the thought that evaluating our performance is something which everyone realizes needs a lot of discussion, negotiation, and TIME to see what the longer term impact of our efforts are.
Yes, TC is superb, almost 30 years old and still in development.

For those who want to take TC even further, there is the TCUP project here:

https://tcup.pl/news/
> and hour-long standups

What's the point of standups, anyway? It seems like it always addresses the wrong people.

I don't give a rat's ass about what other developers have done. Or, more accurately, I do care, but their work is highly visible. I don't need them to retell the same story. I already know what they are doing.

What is not visible is what the leaders at the company do all day. Having a better understanding of their work would be far more impactful in allowing me to make better decisions around my work. Yet, if they show up to standups at all, they don't say much.
Take China out of your global poverty numbers and see how that changes the story.
I wonder how many people here have genuinely read and comprehended the works of Marx. While he remains a controversial figure, his theories offer valuable insights into the complexities of capitalism and socialism. Marx provided a framework for understanding how the capitalist system operates and how it creates class contradictions through components like rent, interest, and profit. These ideas continue to be relevant today, especially in identifying and addressing the societal issues caused by large banks, major corporations, and big landlords, which collectively place burdens on us all.
> The relevant outgroups animating Afrikaner nationalism aren't the Zulu ... It was the perceived "threat" of racial integration driven by English liberals

The article compared "South African whites and South African blacks". It sounds like you're comparing Afrikaners and the English?

--

The article links "narcissism of small differences" to the wikipedia page which says:

> [It] is the idea that the more a relationship or community shares commonalities, the more likely the people in it are to engage in interpersonal feuds and mutual ridicule because of hypersensitivity to minor differences perceived in each other.

I don't think this even slightly describes the "outgroup conflict" in South Africa. Furthermore, I think that Scott using this as an example minimizes the sources of conflict, e.g. Apartheid, because the rest of the article is solely about outgroup hatred.
Does the AGPL prevent anyone from running this on their own server for themselves (or not, since the source is provided by ddosify)?
Do you have a simple explanation for the difference between complex and complicated?
Of course! Made in Britain
I still don't see his argument, unless he is saying that human neurons are magic so artificial consciousness is impossible.
I've been a bicycle commuter for 20 years. According to Strava I've logged 800 miles so far this year. And when snow is on the ground, I drive.
Until you’re in your 30s with impacted, infected, or rotting wisdom teeth.

It is not always possible to care for them properly due to their location. Removal earlier in life is much easier to recover from.
It comes down to profit. Costs (like labor wages) cut into profits. Capitalism could hypothetically support a high thriving-wage for all workers and still create profit for the owners, but historically the owner intentionally depresses wages so that the owner's profit portion is larger.

High unemployment creates conditions favorable for the owners. It creates leverage for the owners to coerce the workers into accepting lower wages. A scenario where the state offered full employment as a competitive labor market to the private sector would force the private owners to raise their wages. Then they would have to deal with how they want to approach their profit situation. They'd probably just raise prices of their products. But in the end, the owner is making the decision on what the prices would be. Not the employees.
What does putting into suspend look like? Is that just you'd do on a normal smartphone by locking the screen? How fast does it come back from suspend?

Sad to hear it's not performant at all. Have you looked at Pinephone?
Exactly. Most of the things I listed are artificially scarce--they are intentionally restricting new supply. These are not issues in other countries. That's why I called it a scam.
Microsoft investigating a ginormous breach at Microsoft.

Common guys. This requires at least one 3rd party investigation to be credible.
You may like Marta Harnecker's "A World to Build: New Paths Toward Twenty-first Century Socialism." She outlines a vision that I resonated with a lot, but it is a little hard to put a neat label on. She comes from a Marxist background and usually frames her vision in such terms, but she frequently emphasizes the importance of decentralizing systems, and the importance of pushing power down towards the local levels as much as possible ("cities" are not local enough, for example, and she outlines a systems of communes that organize at something more like the neighborhood level). So there's still some level of national organization, but the goal is for ordinary people to have as much influence over that process as possible and to move decisions away from national levels down to more local levels.

The book can be found here: https://monthlyreview.org/product/a_world_to_build/

And she wrote this essay on the subject, each can kind of serve an introduction or high level summary of the ideas in the book: https://monthlyreview.org/2010/07/01/ii-twenty-first-century...
why would I do that? Are the Chinese not people?
i don't think that is relevant. every other country in the world except china and maybe russia has the same problem. the EU is the only one at least to be able to do something about it, and in the long term that will help other countries as well (as they now can just demand the same openness, which will allow local alternatives to at least have a chance)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_employment

This explains it better.

Milton Friedman's "natural rate" of unemployment is basically "the rate capitalists are gunning for" in an attempt to suppress wages. Quite a bit below full.
Perhaps… but perhaps first person point of view is merely control over one’s thoughts and extensions. The more you control yourself the more conscious you are. So then consciousness has been achieved, it’s in there, and we’ve all fallen into a horrible trap where the AI is destined to take over the world with some sort of digital government. Digital as opposed to analog, not as in device like a smartphone.
That would only work if each vehicle weight class had its own lane to work with. Otherwise you can’t mix vehicles of widely different speeds on the same road.
I'm wondering if there's a prototyping use case in there somewhere. Like... throw in a bunch of LLM calls that return vaguely sane data, in order to get the thing running, then replace them with something reliable before you get to production. Would that speed up building a demo enough to be worth doing?
Indeed, there is a positive feedback loop that I choose to grocery shop at a grocer with parking (and the grocer chooses to provide parking in order to get customers) and I choose to drive to my office rather than commute by public transit due to the horrible time inefficiency of the MBTA "solution" to getting me there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31723197

I almost never want to go to the city center (in part because it's still a pain in the ass and time-consuming to get there, due to needing to use a bus and a subway or possibly a bus and two subway lines). I can find ready substitutes for most things in the mid-density half-urban area near where I live or in one of the nearby suburbs which are terribly connected by public transit [buses only and mostly radial bus lines].

If there was excellent public transit, I agree there'd be more services highly coupled to the transit hubs. As it is, much of the shopping areas have vast parking lots/garages instead, because that's how the merchants can stay in business: by catering to people who can actually get there efficiently.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Start
Plastic infilled roads seem like false concern where they've been paved with tar (a coal/petroleum product) for decades. And yes, the tar comes off in tiny pieces over time too.

https://ecoshieldasphalt.com/news/environmental-impact-of-co...

Maybe if we'd already shifted to all concrete roads, or every road we're talking about was paved with something else. Or if road diets were happening all over the world.
I live in a similar climate, and while I don’t know what constitutes a “substantial distance,” I will commute and run errands in either of those extremes.

On those days it’s a little less fun than the other 95% of days, but still feasible. And even I didn’t brave those extremes, 95% of days biking is a lot more than 0%.