skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: As the 34th Rule of Acquisition states, "Peace is good for business".

Quark: That's the 35th Rule.

Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : Oh, you're right. What's the 34th?

Quark: "War is good for business". It's easy to get them confused.
Yes...but, in the bigger picture: For self-absorbed, A-list young billionaires, the educational outcomes for the little kids were never all that important. Their never-miss-it-anyway $1e8 bought boatloads of arbitrary power over little people, ~8 years of favorable PR, cool talking points when hanging out with their uber-rich social set, and other things that were valuable to them.

I'll admit that there's a flip-side viewpoint here: If you're a billionaire, in a society that very obviously has a lot of problems, and all you've got for tools and skills is a billion-dollar hammer that you're real handy with...well, okay - try hitting some things with your hammer. When the world is screwed up badly enough, even kinda-clueless change has a decent chance of improving something...right?
How are you measuring concentration billionaires have very little concentration of wealth compared to the budget did the countries they live in, it’s only when comparing to the average joe.
Civil Infrastructure Platform to maintain Linux 6.1 for 10 years
Encryption, like other things, is too important to leave at the hands of the state.
I can confirm, I have the G9 using my monitor as a dock (thanks USB-C :) and I can type LUKS passwords on it just fine.
You might be right, the extend stage would be WSL and now they are "embracing" Linux.

In that case, what would the extinguish stage be?
Please don't do a quick open source project for the sake of padding one's resume. The world is full of crap software as it is. Such software shows up in people's google searches, takes time to try out, and the user will inevitably find out that it's garbage (you can't do anything good in 2-3 months that wasn't done before if you're just learning) and not use it - but not before they wasted time to research it. Multiply it by say 10k users and you've done some serious harm in the world.

The way to go here is to absolutely code something, but not to pretend that it's a worthwhile project (e.g. don't release it under open source licence). If you put the code in a public repo somewhere so that interviers can see it, clearly state that it's just a learning excercise.
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I am also the submitter. I like Asianometry. I think it is relevant to HN.

(It's business and economics - and tech history - as it works in the real world. Both interesting and useful.)
It cares because: running out of cash is a bad idea for any company and running leaner says that you will have more runway. Whether or not it will be enough runway as perceived by that very same stockmarket will determine your share price. If there are no buyers for your stock the price will drop like a stone, so this is both a message to current shareholders 'don't sell, we'll make it' and potential buyers 'sellers are missing out on a great deal, you should buy our stock'. Of course this is more impactful if you are publicly listed (which Flexport isn't). But it will impact their ability to raise money, at what valuation that will happen and how existing shareholders will be diluted.

It may all not work and they may still go bust but that's their current messaging in ELI5 mode.

It may also be that Flexport - in spite of earlier messaging - is quietly planning an IPO. I think that would be a fairly stupid move at this stage but who knows.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/17/we-can-be-one-of-worlds-bigg....

Another audience for these messages is their customers: if it turns out that Flexport's future is insecure they may well take their business elsewhere or stop considering using Flexport. That can reduce their runway even quicker.
Because Y Combinator supports the CCP and genocide?
It's weird to me people are still having these discussions, the elephant in the room imo is A.I. I simply don't think frameworks and languages will matter much 5 years from now. And 10-15 years from now the job will be so different than what it is today you'll basically be a combo of product manager, customer service, qa and programmer all rolled into one. 90% of the job will be done by A.I and the human will be left there to supervise. That is if these jobs will even exist 15 years from now. Maybe I'm completely off about the abilities and pace of improvement of A.I but sadly I don't think I am.

Its a nice discussion to have had 5 years ago, now I think its pointless.
Which raises the question why they are not involved in the eVtol sector, doesn't it?
I'm surprised there is still so much friction about white collar jobs like programming.

One could think that by now, it should be easy for developers to "jump into" a codebase and suggest changes (aka pull requests). Turning the world of developer jobs into a fluid system that adapts instantly to demand and supply.

It works pretty well for Wikipedia, where everyone can jump in and edit articles. And then there is some hierarchical power structure, which assures high quality.

I wonder what the biggest hindrances are for software development to become this way.
I have a friend who in her 30s being a single mother of 2 kids and working as a doctor surgeon, but living in a shitty conditions in a shitty city in russia - made her way to being a well paid software engineer living in California.

She started with some courses, bootcamps (one of which was created by me - this is how i know her), some first shitty jobs and gigs and gradually built herself from there.

Within ~5 years.

Despite some arrogant naysayers suggesting her getting a CS degree first or chose different path at all.
Can someone tell me if there is a German version of Life of Pythagoras available? I cannot find anything for some reason (only one bok on amazon that has only one review claiming it is an automated translation).
Have you been harassed by Wizards of the Coast's lawyers already or not yet?
More Bandwidth Doesn't Matter (much)(2010)
This is similar to David Seah's compact calendar, which has been featured here a few times in the past: https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/
Any idea when you could do an Intel or AMD device with coreboot?
The scrollbars of Windows even have a right click menu with amazing features such as

Scroll Here
Scroll Up
Page Up
Top

etc. I am wondering if those ever gets seen, let alone be clicked
Looks like it’s been ported to FreeBSD also.
ChatsNow, a Chrome extension for Chat GPT, is powered by GPT-4 and GPT-3.5. It will provide the most accurate and effective AI answers to your writing, translation, code analysis and Q&A needs. You can always chat and interact with ChatGPT AI assistant in the sidebar.
Reading assistant: summarize, list key points, explain complex text, explain code, translate various languages, etc
Writing assistant: grammar checking, rewriting content, expanding content, writing papers, text editing, etc
Chat: Chat freely with ChatGPT
Enhanced search: One click access to the core content of search engines. Supports all popular search engines such as Google, Baidu, Bing, and DuckDuckGo, making it convenient for users who frequently switch between different search engines.
Custom question response: Reply content on social media such as Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Product Hunt, chat content on WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram, and Facebook Messenger, reply to emails, select webpage content to ask any questions, etc
AI painting: It allows you to generate images by inputting text, just like using Mid-journal, stable diffusion, and Dall-E painting.
Is it still okay to make "nothing sucks like a VAX" jokes?

(I kid, I think VMS has a better design than Linux)
> Open Source

Eh, Qutecom, AMSN, Ekiga, Kopete... these looked fine and modern 15 years ago.
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Thanks for taking the time to appear here, give in depth answers, and still be a human face on the company.

My non-technical wife's laptop is needing replacement. I was going to buy a second hand thinkpad, but if enough stars align, a framework might be a good option.
Not sure if that would work out.
Learn Rust Bot: An Interactive, Multilingual Assistant for Rust Programming
Exactly, a current UI would be far from optimal on 30 years old hardware. Furthermore it would look alien, not in a good way, even if Windows 10 would probably feel old fashioned to us in 1995, because of the flat look that was forced when hardware was more limited in the 80s. It's almost a Windows 2 with a few more colors and less borders. Check this site for screenshots https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/win203
It's self-reinforcing. Because there is a subset of the population that reads health news and acts on it, they both:

A: exercise, sleep 8 hours, avoid ultra-processed foods

B: take whatever the latest anti-cancer fad supplement is

Behavior A actually helps, while B is probably neutral. But studies will show that all the B behaviors will be associated with lower cancer risk, because they're also associated with A behaviors.

So this entire class of studies (looking for associations between foods and health) is complete crap.
Quality: the need for more of it than Wikipedia has.

Coherence: Wikipedia pages are small and loosely-coupled.

Stability: Wikipedia has no external API. Any page can be renamed and restructured at any time.
Sneaked references: Cooked reference metadata inflate citation counts
> Possibly unrealistic, but my fear is that they will end up like Netflix more than uber.

I am convinced that's how they will end up.
> Miscellaneous AMD bugs: vp9 hw decoding broken

This is so annoying, I use a Firefox extension for Youtube called "Your Codecs." that allows to block VP9 so I can keep hardware decoding on without having random GPU crashes.
I'm of the opinion that money concentrated in few hands actually leads to better big projects.

Sure, some will fail, but it's better than the alternative, which is everything run by committee.

Committee 's tend to never manage to agree on any big bets - and therefore all resources get ploughed into low risk mundane things with no ongoing benefit. The town hall gets repainted frequently, rather than resources being spent building a cathedral.
Alt-Space, 'M' is your friendly keyboard method to move a window around.
After pressing those three keys, use the cursor keys to move the window around as you desire, and press the Enter key when you're happy with the window's new location or press the Esc key to cancel the move op.

Works really well when the window's title bar has been moved offscreen for some reason.

IBM's CUA for the win. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
Anyone who would like to share their adblock rules to remove these popups?
We made $10k with a GPT Wrapper
Devs need to understand that the technology behind each of these businesses is the most irrelevant thing out of all. Marketing is 90% and we are living proof of it. Now onto turning the project into something cool.

Single tiktok got us continuing traction and we've made $10k to date in the last 2 weeks.
Ah, you tell me this now I just go to step 47!
The guy bought another Apple laptop, so I don’t know why you think he’s a hater.

Apple is well known for screwing individuals over when applying vague policies, then fixing the situation after the person runs to the press.
Mathematics is overdone nitpicks.
> I think that "proof" rests on an as-yet circular assumption. Even if that assumption is accepted, there no evidence that humans are capable of designing a new mind or that it's possible to make a mind that greatly exceeds ours in capability.

I don't know what you mean by "as-yet circular assumption". (Though in the philosophy of knowledge, the Münchhausen trilemma says that everything is ultimately either circular, infinite regression, or dogmatic).

> there no evidence that humans are capable of designing a new mind or that it's possible to make a mind that greatly exceeds ours in capability.

Sounds like you're arguing against ASI not AGI: G = General like us; S = Super-, exceeding us.

That said, there's evidence that ASI is also possible: All the different ways in which we've made new minds that do in fact greatly exceed ours in capability.

When I was a kid, "intelligent" was the way we described people who were good at maths, skilled chess players, good memories, having large vocabularies, knowing many languages, etc. Even ignoring the arithmetical component of maths (where a Pi Zero exceeds all of humanity combined even if each of us were operating at the standard of the current world record holder), we have had programs solving symbolic maths for a long time; Chess (and Go, Starcraft, Poker,…) have superhuman AI; even before GPT, Google Translate already knew (even if you filter the list to only those where it was of a higher standard than my second language) more languages than I can remember the names of (and a few of them even with augmented reality image-to-image translations).

And of course, for all the flaws the current LLMs have in peak skill, most absolutely have superhuman breadth of knowledge: I can beat GPT-3.5 as a software engineer, maths and logic puzzles, or when writing stories, but that's basically it.

What we have not made is anything that's both human (or superhuman) skill-level while also human-level generality — but saying the two parts separately isn't evidence that it can be done is analogous to looking at 1 gram of enriched uranium and a video of a 50 kg sphere of natural uranium being forced to implode spherically, and saying "there no evidence that humans are capable of designing an atom bomb or that it's possible to make an atom bomb that greatly exceeds chemical bombs in yield."
Very great! Is there a way to increase the resolution though?
It's not just opinionated. The article is straight up gaslighting.
> With Linux?

Yes, with Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37864883
They can't rely on the odds, because scammers would step in and increase the odds if the possibility existed to exploit Apple's behavior. IMO, this is what should happen given that Activation Lock is enabled.

It's a separate question whether the customer should be able to disable Activation Lock before it gets tripped, which would prevent the computer from bricking itself. Apple makes that choice for the customer because they don't fully respect your ownership of the device that they made.
I blame macOS for popularising this
Scrollbars are becoming indeed a problem, but what about struggling to find the right spot on a window corner/border to grab in order to resize it? Did they test how much of a hassle can be to grab a two pixel wide area on a 13" screen laptop? I can understand they need real estate to be used for actual content, but seriously how hard would be to have a small "handle" that protrudes out of the closest window corner/border when the pointer is like less than 10 pixel away from that, and disappears after say 1 second that it moved away?
I'll give that question a try: because it scales!

I run a small science club where the kids learn and experiment in small groups guided by tutors who enjoy the stuff. And I'm running out of money fast: I cannot charge much for the courses and workshops (those without money run along free of charge anyway) and I need to spend money on rent, materials and especially the tutors. And the last expenditure is growing linear with the amount of classes I offer and is easily the biggest.

People in business, especially in tech business, try to set things up in a way where you can automate stuff away and it's easy to see schools and classroom education as a great opportunity to try the same approach.
Maybe give them a hint ;)

Also: AH is in Flexport as well, so that's two of those long shot investors.
Thanks! Yes, it's intentionally sparse on details for the moment. I only threw the holding page up yesterday, as I was finally ready to get it running somewhere besides localhost. This is the first time I've shared it but a proper landing page is on the way!

To whet your appetite, it's a visual programming tool which aims to be easy enough for non-coders to use. Users can stack pure function calls together into increasingly powerful workflows, many of which are augmented by AI, then run them on-demand or via an API call.

Macrocosm is being designed to encourage playful exploration and creative discovery. I've been building in my spare time over the past 6 months, excited to launch very soon!
Good to know! I almost wonder if my specific laptop is broken in some way. Either that, or I'm overly sensitive to these things. And the Venn diagram overlap of people who often use both macOS and Windows is probably not that large... :) I don't see many people talking about this!
Visualizing Graphs with Graphistry and Memgraph
I've written this blog post to demonstrate how to use Graphistry for visualizing graph data from Memgraph.
I'm currently in the queue for one of these, and was expecting there to be some minor issues like these (fingerprint sensor, some driver/kernel related performance issues) as is often the case when running desktop Linux.

The difference between Framework and other laptop manufacturers however is that it has shown that it is actively tackling these issues, and so I'm not so worried.

Couple that with the fact that components are upgradable, I am not so worried about being let down by this machine once I get it (I won't feel locked in to a unchanging brick). It is still early days for this company and product, so my expectations about a hiccup free experience are tempered (I'm sure the first 80's Machintosh or 90's Thinkpads were less than perfect).

My one strong hope though is that this form factor will be able to get a slightly larger battery in the near future.
Sure, but those kinds of tax credits are incredibly common across basically every developed country, so not sure why the Irish ones matter.

Full disclosure: I live in Ireland and have benefited from these credits in the past (though not at present).
> I wonder what the biggest hindrances are for software development to become this way.

Context and complexity. Jumping into a codebase and suggesting changes that add value to the company usually require having context of what the company is doing, who are the users, what's the product used for, etc. Not to mention how a lot of codebases are complex and understanding where and how to do changes is not something you can just do straight away.
The Interface of Kai Krause's Software (2003)
> It is incredible and beyond conception

Could you elaborate a little bit about what you think gives it these qualities? I've dabbled in some classical literature before but I've always found them to be very difficult reads, so I rarely have the motivation to finish them. I am wondering if there is something I am missing about the genre.
I'm astonished that people view companies and their leadership as this timeless monolithic entity
That's fair. Running bleeding edge hardware is not a 'average' use case tho.

In 99% of all cases driver are installed and updated in the background.
I wrote one in Haskell [1], ostensibly as a uni class project but also as a way to teach myself Haskell and have fun; I had the infrastructure in place and was trying to run Zork, implementing opcodes, one by one, when finally I saw the familiar message "You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here." The sense of accomplishment was rewarding and elating.

2004. Good times.

[1]: https://github.com/nathell/haze
I think a common way to teach classical statistics is to start with a binomial test. The binomial distribution is quite concrete so the students can hopefully grasp the concept of p-value. Then things become more abstract with the normal, T distribution, etc. and cookbook of when to use what...
At this time it seems the "anti adblock feature" is being rolled out casually. You might trigger it, you might not. I have FF+uBlock Origin and still saw it, pretended I was about to file a bug report on it, dismissed the pop-out, then got to see the video ad-free. I suspect this will not be the case a week or so from now.
It's cool seeing Microsoft explain Linux use, yet the 'embrace and extend' tactics seem present. FTA: "If you are good with a slightly more complicated install process and don't need access to Windows tools (like Outlook, Teams, Word, PowerPoint, etc), you can run Linux on bare metal." It hints that cross-compatibility isn’t possible, and omits that most don't use alternatives like Google Docs and LibreOffice anyway. Overlooking Wine and VMs feels intentional. Classic Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.
Outside normal desktop Linux, Chrome OS is trusted more that Windows for good reasons. Instead of odd Linux takes, Microsoft should better their products and reputation. Contextual AI features won't fix their trust issue. Being trustworthy might! I'm not sure they can do that though this side of the singularity.
"Complementary medicine" is a scam.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/so-called-alternative-medic...

https://quackwatch.org/related/altwary/
Rack Attack – Rails Tricks
Then you should lobby your national government to fight for this interest at EU level.

Note that you'll need to accept common debt and burden sharing if you want any hope of it passing.

If you don't want those things, then you're accepting tax competition as part of the price you pay for avoiding things you don't want.

Like, Ireland has incredibly high debt that we weren't allowed to default on by the EU/IMF/ECB so if you fix that, then I suspect the Irish people would be super happy to stop this unfair tax competition that you're talking about.
Linux GUI apps that only work from WSL.
> historically the best crypto has been invented in the US

ENIGMA?
I wish there was a "rise of the alright"
there are various programmer types who find the Apple way really onerous and problematic, because they want to control everything, these can be either Windows or Linux since both give you the ability to control and mod your system at very high level.

Every example of bad behavior by Apple in relation to their products, customer service etc. connects in the mind with this underlying philosophical difference between how computers should be used, and so the indignant feeling wells up in their brain that Apple users are misled and abused, and if you are misled and abused you must have Stockholm syndrome.

This however is just my reading of the phenomenon I have observed quite a lot.

Before anyone tells me I'm an Apple lover, I would say until the M1 I considered all OS'es equivalent with some various benefits to each, but as long as I have M series Macs I do believe they are very superior (but haven't tried recent - this year - non M machine)
This is a surprise to me lol, job searching right now pretty much every company I talk to is desparate