skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insulting the CEO is rude, because insulting anyone is rude. There's nothing special about the CEO that makes it rude only to insult him.

The article even gives a better example here: casually introducing yourself to the CEO and making a joke. If the CEO feels insulted by this, it's because he has "Authority" and you are "not respecting it" - but wait, the other CEO I met really appreciated this! Suddenly it makes no sense. There's a special rule that this CEO insists I should know, but it's not even consistent with other CEOs. How am I supposed to know which authorities it's okay to make jokes with?
Electricity is something you have to pay for for always-on computers:

Prodesk G3: 24 hours * 365 days * 35W * 1000W/kW * $0.30/kWh = $91

Raspberry Pi 5: 24 hours * 365 days * 12W * 1000W/kW * $0.30/kWh = $31

It's likely that 12W over-counts for the Raspberry Pi 5 and 35W under-counts for the Intel chip, so it might be even worse than this.
VKB and Virpil for flight simulation hardware.

Monta for Swiss watches.

Isovalent (Cilium CNI) for software.
more people should go to america just to annoy this person :p
the athenian system, as per the UVM article, doesn't align with modern capitalism. It had democratic features like paid public service roles, but was primarily an oligarchy, not a free market. economic participation was broadened, but the structure remained class-based, with power concentrated among the elite.

It's economy wasn't modern free market system focused on capital accumulation and investment for profit. It was a mixed economy with significant state involvement and a variety of revenue sources that went beyond simple market transactions.

State actors paying their civil servants isn't evidence of capitalism, or wage labor.

( David Graeber does write about ancient Greek city-states and how their coinage came to be, according to the historical and archeological record, in "Debt: The First 5000 Years," by the way. )

Capitalism, is a relatively modern phenomenon, with a pretty common, well understood definition. This isn't a heretical or radical idea. You may find some societies prior to the 16th/17th century that fulfills some characteristics of capitalism, but they don't make the cut.

People naturally want to trade. Markets existed before capitalism and they will exist after capitalism.
When I run a speed test for my internet it will often give me comparisons to give me an idea where I fit in with others and can also give suggestions, such as explaining what docsys means, etc.

Don Quixote and tilting at windmills comes to mind.
The main point of the Tyranny of Structurelessness is not to approach governance of groups of people with naiveté because power exists whether or not it is acknowledged.

The argument I am making is that there is benefit to having social units of >1 families be easier to form in modern society, and better transport helps that by relaxing space constraints. In fact, better transport allows us to explore the frontier of connection to close community and the connection to the amenities and cultural richness of modern living. It's an unlock of scale from what was possible before, which means it is at least partly uncharted territory.

I never said 'and these social units should ignore governance', or define exactly how these social units should operate or how close their ties should be. Obviously they should be mindful of power and define explicit ways to work together, and arguing that this is simply an interest vs kinship category thing is limiting to the point of not saying much. And of course it doesn't happen tomorrow; my argument is this is the way it happens and thus it's worth going down this tech tree.

One thing to consider is that scale has a profound impact on possibility, both in cultural normalization and discovering the appropriate models of governance for a given situation, which are much more likely to emerge when operating at a larger scale. So in turn we a) don't get enough examples to have replicable models emerge, and b) we only get groups that are pretty out there that want to do the thing, and these people tend not to be great models of generalizability because they're culturally far different from the norm. The examples you give are the extreme cultural outliers, not regular people. A weird hippie commune isn't for me, but a place where my four best friends and I can raise kids with some shared outdoor space and nannies and kitchen all within 20 mins of the city? Sign me up yesterday - that's resource pooling at its best, and a way to live more efficiently and sustainably as a species.

A recent analog is the increased sophistication of funding structures for early stage startups, from clunky & predatory term sheets to convertible notes and SAFEs. This happened as a result of the normalization and scale of the early stage ecosystem. Before then early startups were weird and only attracted the types that were ok pushing against the grain or were too rich to feel the pain. Now it's been around long enough and at enough scale to be normal enough to provide an easy on-ramp for good people and good ideas to make waves in the world, not just a place for the elite and the weirdos.

Zach Klein's thread here is a good read on the on-the-ground constraints of proximity and amenities for larger social units: https://twitter.com/zachklein/status/1422293114480250880
This part had me the most worried. Given Qualcomm's history they really need to show they mean it otherwise they will have trough convincing people to invest in their chip. With mobile and automotive Qualcomm had a habit of dropping the support after 3 years unless the OEM paid up. As an end user i do not want to own an insecure laptop after 3 years just because the manufacturer did not want to pay qualcomm.

If they actually sustain this effort I can see this new chip becoming a success regardless if it beats the M2 or not. It only has to have decent performance and decent linux support. Fingers crossed, I hope they succeed.
> With a startup, you’re dropping comp and healthcare, which was a bridge too far.

Every startup I've worked for had a PPO option. (One didn't originally but then added a PPO as soon as they raised a Series A.)
Well, ok, but that's not what I'm doing. I'm using neurotypical to describe people who don't have neurodivergent brains. I think there's arguments that there is no "neurotypical" at all, but it should be clear that when we're discussing autistic people, everyone who's not autistic is in the "other" group.
Back in 2008, i remember reading books thousands of pages long, about genetics in biology, and i was impressed by how easy the subject is. I was an amateur in programming at the time, but programming, regular programming of web servers, web frameworks and so on, was so much harder.

The cost of DNA sequencing had dropped already from 100 to 1 million [1], but i had no idea at the time, that genetic engineering was advancing at a rate that dwarfed Moore's law.

Anyway my point is, that no one is getting upset about censored LLM's or AI's, which will stop us from stitching together a biological agent and scoop out half of earth's human population. Books, magazines and traditional computer programs can achieve said purpose easily. (Scooping out half of earth's human population is impossible of course, but useful as a thought experiment.)

https://images.app.goo.gl/xtG2gJ2m49FmgYNb8
The "bad acting human" are the assholes who uses "AI" to create fake imagery to push certain (and likely false) narratives on the various medias.

Key thing here is that this is fundamentally no different from what has been happening since time immemorial, it's just that becomes easier with "AI" as part of the tooling.

Every piece of bullshit starts from the "bad acting human". Every single one. "AI" is just another new part of the same old process.
You can do anything at Ertdfgcvb!
It's a secondary or tertiary source that does a great job or collecting and summarizing primary lit (which can be cited if more rigor is preferred, at the cost of context). My college professors encouraged the use of both, maybe with the caveat of citing a particular Wikipedia revision rather than the article directly.

But seriously, these were the discussions we've had two decades ago. If a professor today had such an issue, they're very old fashioned, and I'd probably walk out of that class because who knows what else that professor is out of date on.

So many fields today are evolving so rapidly, I wouldn't trust any single expert on a topic. Better to have a living crowdsourced reference that collects many sources.
Conversely we the 'human gods' can ruin our planet with pollution. If we wanted to ensure that everything larger than a racoon went extinct we'd have zero problem in doing so.

It should be noted the above world scale problems are created by human intelligence, if you suddenly create another intelligence at the same level or higher (AGI/ASI) expect new problems to crop up.

AI risks ARE human risks and more.
Yes, because not only does it look stupid that you have these things constantly hanging from your ears, but I have no way of knowing if you're listening to me or to the disembodied voice in your head.

Take them out and show proper focus and attention. Act the same way you'd expect others to act if you had something to say to them.
completely ridiculous to the point of being offensive. Think I'm done with HN for today.
Blocking people who are harassing you seems like a reasonable balance to free speech.

Just because you are saying things doesn’t mean another citizen has to listen to them.
I listened to this live! That's probably why I was wondering, because I remember you talking about something you used in Linux that didn't quite live up to your expectations with DTrace, but I didn't catch all of the names. Thanks!
Open source Datadog alternative SigNoz crosses 15K GitHub stars
C forbidden variable names: free HongKong?

Forbidden floats : square(Tieanmin) ?

TikTok coding convention: there is a toctic to this madness..
>make that money back very quickly doing various digital tasks on fiverr.

>an almost insane complaint

That's not the complaint. Not everything is a "I can make x money back" preposition. The complaint is "A $10 item is costing me $25." It's costing me 2.5x the price it should be. Maybe you should see it from that POV.

You can also keep going on about kids starving right this instant while I complain about 2.5x price difference, it doesn't change a thing. a $10 pi zero 2 w still costs $25, if not more given it's almost never in stock and runs out so quickly.

>Having grown up in a world where 8 bit computers with 4-16k ram (and no storage) cost the equivalent of $1000

That doesn't mean much though, does it? I'm not comparing today's costs to back when you grew up. Nor am I saying today's costs costs are worse than when you grew up. If I was, you'd be right. I am not. I am just complaining about the price I have to pay due to scalping/availability vs price something is advertised at usually.

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That being said, I understand why shipping exists, but $5 overcharge for sake of it plus $7 to ship something this tiny is a bit iffy. They literally just pack it in a soft wrap and throw it in an envelope.
What Qualcomm did have was an undisputed patent monopoly on one of the possible ways that cellular communication could be done.

Now that 3G is being turned completely off in much of the world, the last vestiges of that advantage are going away and Qualcomm will have to learn to compete on a more level playing field.
Nowadays the python bottleneck is typically moreso with the GIL. Assuming you're already using native extensions for heavy lifting, the GIL is what prevents workloads from being efficiently multithreaded if they need any sort of communication without really hacky workarounds.

I have a feeling this is why ultimately why PEP 703 is being accepted despite the setbacks to the Faster CPython effort-- while faster CPython is a great goal, it is rarely the bottleneck nowadays.
It's a pity that jython was never more of a thing. I got promoted integrating it with the product we were working with.
The delta between the goals of journalism and comedy deserve scrutiny, but they do not, by definition, necessitate that comedy lies. Of course, it sounds like you are making a more direct criticism of this specific show - I'm not sure what "weird mixture of outrage and humorous quips for entertainment" means in this context. It sounds like you're just describing a normal comedic news show in deceptively harsh terms. Truth and comedy can be a valuable mix, despite (because of?) truth being frequently dark. Should people not be outraged by child labor in chocolate production, or are you saying that his specific reporting is so far from the truth that the truth is actually not even outrage-worthy? It's unclear.
It’s pointless against a targeted attack, but it will help attackers target you? That doesn’t really make sense to me. Can you share an example?
It is fair to assume that it'll eventually stabilize at some, probably meta-stable, equilibrium.
thanks for sharing.

since you sound like an expert, do you know if this technique works for live imaging of RNA molecules < 200 nucleotides?

or would tagging such a small molecule potentially alter biological processes and contaminate results?

[edited to clarify live-imaging requirement]
Old-school. The industry culture has moved over the years to one that doesn't sit well with me from an ethical point of view. I realized a little while ago that somewhere along the line, I became embarrassed by it and don't really like to be "outed" to people that I'm a software dev.

All of which would be manageable except that the majority of the time that I express my specific concerns on HN, the responses clearly demonstrate how much the industry (at least as represented here) and I have diverged from each other.
That is very cool. I under specified when I last spoke. I was hoping for something that would cache arbitrary files. I have a slow FUSE fs I would like cached.

But perhaps I can use bcache instead of cachefilesd to have some more controllable NFS cache.

Bcache seems to use block devices and I don't think it can stand in front of FUSE.
From the second paragraph of the introduction to the book we are discussing:

> Besides being a first course in linear algebra it is also supposed to be a first course introducing a student to rigorous proof, formal definitions---in short, to the style of modern theoretical (abstract) mathematics.

So it's certainly meant to be the first math book one sees in their life that discusses rigorous proofs.
How does nuclear energy solve your problem when a huge faction of the US population says you can pry their ICE vehicles out of their cold, dead hands?

Also, when you do the full analysis, we only need a 10% bump in generation to accommodate every single US household have 2 EVs - and that's if they don't shift to charging at night and insist on charging during the day during peak load.

Add in the fact that the average US household can produce 50% of their power using solar power and you realize there's no need for any bump-out of generation at all.

Why promote nuclear with all of its attendant complications when you don't need to?
I still don’t fully understand what makes something a monolith.

For example, I have a big app which is serving 90% of the API traffic. I also have three separate services, one for a camera, one to run ML inference, and one to drive a laser welding process. They are split up because they all need specific hardware and preferably a separate process (one per gpu for example).

Is this a monolothic app or a micro service architecture?
You might also check out this previous thread on the subject. It offers some pretty fascinating discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35826929
I have vivid memories of reopening game installers from CLASS, long after installing, just so I could keep listening to the music. This one by Maktone still pops into my head from time to time, almost 25 years on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NjxgaZtHqA
That is a fair point, absolutely.

I don’t think the would should have shut down instead of tackling that problem.
Context: I've never been formally diagnosed, but based on informally discussing things with therapists and various self-assessments it seems pretty likely to me that I'm somewhat on the spectrum, probably on the shallow end. Maybe this means I understand both the neurotypical and neurodivergent worlds a bit, or maybe it means I understand neither.

But many of us experienced "listen to me because I said so" as children,
and continue to experience that in school and into adulthood in the
workplace. It's meaningless, but many neurotypical people neither notice
that it's wrong or understand why it's wrong, perhaps because their brains
aren't wired a way to unconsciously detect those red flags.

I feel extremely confident in saying that everybody hates this. Honestly, it might be the first thing I've been certain of all day long.

I'm less confident in this, but: I certainly also think it's possible that many on the spectrum underrate how much literally everybody hates because-I-said-so's.

I know one other thing.

If a person is in the upper N% of intelligence, "gifted" if you will, they will have a natural curiosity about how things work, and have probably improved many things in the past, and will naturally tend to chafe at doing things in sub-optimal ways for unexplained reasons, and will therefore tend to hate "because I said so's" even more than most people.

Does autism sort of act like a force multiplier when combined with that trait? Maybe. Probably? I mean, one of the traits of autism is that we tend to need our own ways of doing things.

growing up I always knew that arbitrary authority doesn't exist for me

I think one possible issue is that neurodivergents can't understand the reasons why neurotypicals (sometimes) like authority, or seem to like it.

Imagine Bubba, a guy with USA and police and military stickers all over his pickup truck. This guy just loves the imaginary absolute authority of the USA, right?

It's probably more complicated than that. In the micro sense of things, he probably hates being told what to do just like the rest of us. He probably grumbles when paying taxes just like the rest of us.

But he probably likes to imagine the USA as a superpower that will crush its/his perceived enemies. But maybe Bob just kind of wants an identity to cling to. Also maybe he and/or many of his friends and relatives are in the military, possibly because it's one of the few stable career paths for people without higher education, and he would like to think there is some kind of positive thing being done. Maybe he's sending a dog-whistle signal to "liberals" or immigrants. Or hell, maybe he does just have pride in the cool things that do happen in America. Maybe he's an American history buff! But for all of the complex factors in Bubba's enthusiasm for America, actually doing what America tells him to do probably isn't the part that delights him.
Annoy came out of Spotify, and they just announced their successor library Voyager [1] last week [2].

[1]: https://github.com/spotify/voyager
[2]: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2023/10/introducing-voyage...
If you apply this thinking to Nuclear weapons it becomes nonsensical, which tells us that a tool that can only be oriented to do harm will only be used to do harm. The question then is if LLMs or AI more broadly will even potentially help the general public and there is no reason to think so. The goal of these tools is to be able to continue running the economy while employing far fewer people. These tools are oriented by their very nature to replace human labor, which in the context of our economic system has a direct and unbreakable relationship to a reduction in the well being of the humans it replaces.
Thanks for the link. I will check that.

From the comments, it seems quite effective...until perhaps youtube decides to check the ads speed & blocks them at x1.
A corporate monopoly is a company that consists of people freely choosing to work together, yet it is still a monopoly. There is no mandate to join the company

A monopoly is not a monopoly due to it being enshrined or mandated by law, it is because it has market power far exceeding that of any current or future competitor. Because it is uneconomical to compete with them

A deeply embedded labor union, even if nominally optional to join, is still a monopoly on labor because there is no incentive for an individual auto-worker to break off from the union. They have 0 individual bargaining power unless they are part of the union.

Ford cannot go out and hire an entire set of "scabs" overnight to run their plants, because they lose too much collective domain knowledge and its too costly to do so.

This makes labor unions such as UAW directly comparable to what a corporate monopoly looks like. It is a direct and clear analogy. Right to work is irrelevant here.

Your entire counterpoint is based on misunderstanding the definition of a Monopoly. Anyway the semantics of what a "monopoly" is are subjective (is Apple or Google one?). This discussion is about "effective monopolies" and the economic impact when one body has enough market power that alternative options are not realistic, even if nominally available.
This is what I'm contemplating in the near future. My house mostly paid off, but I struggle to afford the maintenance and some stuff is starting to go seriously wrong, and younger people are moving into town with eye-popping incomes, driving up COL overall. But then I can't afford to rent either because my income is tiny. I understand RV living has many issues but there are likely no other options for me.

Its "funny" that I'm not that old (40s) and I've now lived through 2 major housing crisis as an adult. Its the same number as my parents who are in their 80s, and they never even had to buy a house in a post crisis era. Housing was basically ez-mode for them their whole lives (as was healthcare). Only now are they having any difficulty, even with a defined-benefits pension, but they have me to help out, lucky them (not so much me).

As for healthcare I've given up on that already. I might have one elective surgery next year, after that if anything major goes wrong with me, I'm dead. Not even really bothering with many doctor visits now, though I manage the prexisting issues I know about.
I haven't spoken to them in a couple years because I don't work for a company that uses Solidworks anymore, but Dassault Systemes had fantastic customer support (maybe it was one of their VARs, I can't remember).

I became somewhat well-known among their tech support agents for having some of the most difficult and creative problems with Solidworks. Usually some kind of "I'm trying to bend sheet metal in a way that Solidworks doesn't natively support".

They were on-the-ball about RFCs too. I submitted no less than 3 RFCs and they were all accepted in a more timely manner than I hoped for. And they weren't just little nonsense stuff, some of them dipped into nasty mathematical theory; sheet metal is apparently really difficult to calculate in certain situations.
> You can also opt out of modernity in smaller ways, decisions like not owning a car, not watching TV, and so on.

Sure, if you reduce the effects of "modernity" to only your own ability to consume goods and services. One cannot "opt out" of the degeneration of social will, or the increasing demand for control over each part of our lives by unaccountable bureaucracies.
Do you not need to use the device when out of the hotel?
> It's meaningless, but many neurotypical people neither notice that it's wrong or understand why it's wrong,

That’s a very bold claim and I don’t think it’s that accurate. Rather maybe “neurotipical” are less willing to challenge “authority” when they have nothing to gain from that.
Yeah, the same with Messenger. Want to send someone a photo from last year? Good luck scrolling through their clunky interface a thousand pictures back, vs just using the jump-to-month in my native gallery app.