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Ask HN: What Is in Your Library?
I am a fan of books and recently put together a digital collection of books I read and that I liked a lot[1].

To me it seems, there are a bunch of people in this community who enjoy a good book too and I would be interested in what is in your library.

Maybe as a start a short list of books I really enjoyed:

* A Treatise of Human Nature; David Hume, 1739
* Meditations; Marcus Aurelius, 161-180
* The Wealth of Nations; Adam Smith, 1776
* Crime and Punishment; Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866
* War and Peace; Leo Tolstoy, 1865
* Debt - The first 5000 years; David Graeber, 2011
* Bible
* How to read a book; Mortimer J. Adler, 1972

[1]: https://paulheymann.de/2023/11/24/antilibrary.html
You people all complain a lot and imagine some 'us versus them' world of evil rich people and energy companies intentionally making your life difficult. Grow up.
Given what's happening with all the rest of AI, I suspect the demand for commuting is going to go down by the time robo-taxis are viable.

Will robots that lead to less commuting be simply balanced with more fun trips for similar revenue potential, or will they lead to a complete shift of world economics that means the money stops being meaningfully comparable to today's?
Nit pick: It would be better to compare Starbucks coffee profits vs gift card "profits". Without expired gift card balances, the profit margin is zero (or negative) on gift cards.
I'm pretty sure that flying roadster is going to be here soon.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/20/elon-musk-teases-flying-tesl...
isn't it the case with every company out there? I had the same style reps with every financial institution including AMEX.
> Making a coffee table out of a solid slab of walnut, for example, will last a lifetime compared to the cheap MDF table at IKEA.

It probably costs roughly the same as those cheap tables in terms of materials costs and time/labor/skill. I doubt many if any people are doing it if they hate woodworking; meaning the cost/quality does not justify it.
The conflict can be dealt with right now. Passive agressiveness built up over time.
> internal tools are both very advanced and also fragile foot guns if you try to do anything that isn’t exactly down the golden path.

HT: That’s also an important point explained when we talk about internal VS commercial (or build VS buy) in the animation/VFX industry.

Internal softwares does less than 5% (or less) of commercial products, but they are doing it in a straight, fab compatibility way. No effort is made in making the tool working with your fab, the tool is shaped for the fab from scratch. That’s the value of internal tools. Converting those is viable product is very risky.
Your resilience and adaptability are inspiring. It's incredible how you've navigated so many industry changes and always found ways to reinvent yourself. I've no doubt you'll continue to thrive in this evolving landscape. Stay strong and keep chasing your passion.

Not everyone can so easily learn new skills and embrace change. You've explored diverse abilities - from music to technology - that many would find daunting. While some find comfort sticking to the familiar, there's something special about seeking new challenges and expanding horizons. Your journey shows the human spirit's incredible capacity for growth and reinvention.

Each new turn will give you another layer of your unique skill set and experience stack, eventually leading you to find Your Thing that you can give to the world -- the unique thing that is a combination of all this stuff that no one else can do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster_(second_generat...

Wikipedia has sources and more details, in case you are interested. I haven’t found any evidence of people paying for it, though
That story sounds so much like that joke that I'm wondering if there is some urban legend thing going on here.
Hang in there. Help is available if you need call or text 988
In this instance tech stack has nothing to do with developers but rather what software and hardware is deployed to end users.

An example:

HP ProBook + Win 11 + Microsoft 365 each allocated x amount of bandwidth allowed to burst to Y amount

It can get significantly more in depth than that and it's 90% cost driven unlike choosing which DB you will be using as a developer...
You could make an actual argument with real points that people could consider and evaluate rather than pretending like everyone else is an idiot and you have some grand truth that is simultaneously so obvious that you don’t need to state it and is somehow something that nobody else has a clue what you’re talking about.
Direnv is my favourite tool I've discovered this year. Apart from Python I also use it for k8s config. You can store your cluster creds and namespace etc with the project so kubectl just works for each project.
This is abusing the term children.

The majority of this number are adolescents between 15 and 18 that are active participants in the conflict.

Also, it should be noted that even the source for the 6000 UNRWA is providing comes from the Gaza government, i.e. from Hamas.
There is a lot of disagreement about even what documents should be in the Bible:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon

and lots of disagreement about translation and interpretation.
That might be why I said “a whole host of open source projects” and not “all open source projects”.
I didn't know this. They have less than 50 stores in a highly developed country. That is shocking. Googling a little bit tells me the reason:

Starbucks wasn't cost competitive in Australia, with drinks often costing significantly more than local coffee shops.

How is this possible? And why not in other highly developed countries?

Is the margin for Australian local coffee shops very low? I assume yes.
Cybernetic implants?
That’s just a fancy IRC client.
tesla valuation is a meme.
I thought these concepts are lower division EE undergrad concepts? AC power clearly depends on electron motion and electron drift velocity is one of the first things they teach about electricity. Maybe I'm a dummy and I'm missing something but I don't understand why this is groundbreaking.
It kind of reads like some sort of VC version of the Drake Equation.
What Can We Learn from Rick and Morty on Authorization Models in Healthcare?
6 years ago, Tesla needed cash. Musk himself has said that the company was less than a month from bankruptcy at the time.

$250M in deposits made a difference-- both directly and in their ability to access other capital.
Which is exactly ehat Tesla did trying to maintain a "tech" market cap instead of defaulting back to a more realistic car maker one. Among other things.
Love so much
I think their strategy is to charge the highest prices they can, early adopters pay up, demand gets exhausted and they have to keep the illusion alive that supply is the growth constraint, not demand. Demand falling is a death knell for them so that is one thing they absolutely must avoid at all costs.

They want people to believe that the demand is a foregone conclusion and they need to build more factories to satisfy it. But clearly they are trying to maximize the profit. Of course they would like to lower their costs in pursuit of that but it’s not to charge the least they can, otherwise they’d have led with a compact EV instead of an $80k luxury sedan.
Well, there is also that its competitor (also from the US but failed there) Gloria Jeans happened to fill its niche. The fact that each chain won in one country and failed in another seems to suggest it is just luck.
We had a Brazilian come to visit us in Europe and she was wondering why do we insist on using Sicilian lemons instead of the "normal" ones. When she went out to buy limes, she understood it at the cash desk.
Not profit. Cost. Using robotaxis is going to cost less than operating your own car.

The cost of operating the current car fleet is way higher than $700B. Buying the cars alone is higher. There are 70M new cars on the road each year. At $10,000 per car, that would already be $700B.
People still lose them and never redeem them.
Caching is nice, but if it takes an hour when the cache is cold then it's not usable even if a directory with millions of entries posed no problems for any tools. Now for most projects that's not going to happen, but for something like the Linux kernel it just might. And there might be many caches to warm, and much to cache. For a large enough project and a computer that one might not think of as small that might just fail to work at all. This is why as Git grows up it's using Bloom filters to optimize things like git blame and git log on one file rather than adopting the fully relational model of Fossil. (Please read into this all the chagrin I'm feeling about that, because I'm quite the fan of Fossil's relational model.)

PS, the single biggest problem with million-entry directories is the propensity of tools like ls(1) to want to sort the darned things, so one has to remember to use `ls -f`, or to at least use the C locale to get memset() collations instead of much much slower Unicode collations. Another problem is that the POSIX stat(2) family of functions combine reading metadata that could come from just the directory (e.g., a file's inode number) (and which contents has already been read) with reading metadata that requires [possibly much] extra I/O to get, so if you're doing `ls -l` on a million-entry directory you might as well go on vacation (but make sure to send the output to some file, cause your scrollback buffer just won't do).
Regulation can be bad or good. I was stating a fact about what regulations and EU have to do with one another. I believe that EU has big problems however I also believe that it has a much bigger potential. I am also glad that UK left because no one can have preferential treatment.
Probably just folk etymology (and from the 18th-19th century?).

Note that the county of Viken was established in 2020, (though roughfly based on a historical name).

The first documented viking raids to England was described as coming from Hordaland, on the west side of (southern) Norway, while Viken is/was on the east side (and partially in Sweden today).

Also, people from Viken was in old norse called víkverir, not vikings.
Cloud Valley
Especially retro tech, I think a lot of it is fan funded (I do fund some myself). It's probably not a ton of money you get from YouTube unless you're Adrian Black.

Niche youtubers you already support, but especially retro tech, are probably prime candidates for putting their stuff on Peertube too.
They don't. As per Weta's statement [1]

> Unity will continue to own the technology it acquired and will evaluate the best way to enhance its offerings over time.

[1]: https://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/unity-software-with-a-com...
Lobbyists don't exist to accurately inform the populace or to profess sincerely held beliefs but to effect advantageous political change.
I only read random passages. I only pick books from a few favourite publishers, they do the filtering for me.
Thanks for that extra info, that was interesting. I've also been taught that viking (víkingur in Faroese) simply means person who lives in a bay (vík in Faroese). But it does sound likely it would originally refer to someone from Viken.
> If it had a definition that everyone agreed upon

And there's your problem.
Even as a tech-savvy person,'smart home stuff' does totally means bugs and backdoors everywhere if you just plug and play things.

Of course there are available possibilities to take somehow full control of your automation with some Home Assistant or the likes but honestly, it’s really not that easy if you are not already a tinkerer.

Great automation will also require more work and knowledge. As soon as you start playing with heating or venting, you are doing work that could require some background. It’s something to buy a nice smart thermostat, but it’s something else to understand where you may place it, how you may program it …

It’s an interesting topic for those who like to tinker, but it’s very understandable that most people aren’t going to invest their time on it.
ChatGPT, LinkedIn Premium (purchased at a 50% discount), Infinity for browsing Reddit on Android, Spotify, and YouTube Premium.

Among these, Spotify seems the least worthwhile to me. However, since YouTube Premium does the job and both are cheap, I keep subscriptions to both.
> 16 chips in one node would be ambitious, I would expect the 16 chip offering to really be several closely located nodes in the same rack/nearby.

I'd expect it to be like Google's TPUs which have 4 "chips" in a "pod", attaching 4 of these pods to a single system doesn't seem unreasonable.

Looking at the corrosponding CPU and RAM of the available instance types it looks like they're using 32-core CPUs in dual socket systems.
What's to complain about? My adblocker hasn't had any trouble at all yet, and even if it does, it won't be long before the adblocker people update their lists or software to work around whatever attempts YT might make against them. YT's efforts are utterly futile; there's absolutely no way they can stop adblockers without going to really extreme measures (like requiring a special client viewer app, or basically turning into another Netflix). Trying to devise a technical means of stopping ad-blockers requires far more effort than working around those attempts, and it only takes one determined or bored hacker to figure out a workaround and update the ad-blockers so suddenly everyone worldwide is blocking the ads again.
It’s not a high horse, it’s an educated horse. If you want to live in a box, go for it. Students, especially poor ones, don’t always have a meaningful choice in the matter.

Why not make the coffin-rooms half height too? People sleep lying down, right? All that wasted space.
Although N.B.: it’s still an open question whether NF is consistent.
I read more and I'm a dummy
Things like that is why I too always tried to avoid reading back covers or jackets. Way too often they reveal crucial parts about the story. Spoiling Ender's Game makes reading the book 90% pointless.

I also avoid film trailers like the plague, except for pure zero-content entertainment and visuals-only stuff like Marvel movies (to the extent I even bother with them anymore). Every other type of trailer I block or avoid watching.
One problem I remember having with British TV series, in particular Doctor Who, is that they would spoil the next episode by showing a trailer of it in the previous one. In the end it made me stop watching it altogether.

For books of (to me) unknown authors I'll read the first couple of pages, that'll quickly reveal if they're of the "show" or "tell" type of authors, and other things about their writing style. Other than that I'll try to skim the headline of the summary but avoiding reading more than the bare minimum to get an idea about what it's about but nothing more. Sometimes I read books completely without any idea about what's it going to be about.
Are you suggesting the only use for locally run free SD derived models is porn?

Creating illustrations for articles/presentations and stock photo alteratives are huge!

The ability to run for free on your local machine allows for far more iterations than using SaaS, and the checkpoint/finetune ecosystem the openness sprouted has created models performing way better for these use cases than standard SD.
Desktop GUI Is an Efficient and Fulfilling Way of Human-Computer Interaction
Can VS Code do this in virtual console or even in terminal?
> This is a nice political slogan, however I don't think it's true.

This well documented in many places:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2022/net...
technology/

https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2021-12/agri-s...

I think in since the COVID pandemic and with War in Europe is clear how important is for every single country to have food security for its population. Every country is responsible for themselves. Nobody is coming to help them. So to have a good and effective Agriculture is a geopolitical advantage today.

> They could grow less, export less and pollute less.

Maybe, but it just make sense if you first reduce your costs and pressure in the housing market. Sounds like thats what the Dutch people is asking for and what the new government is saying they are going to do. If that's what really going to happen. Just the time will tell us.
The sentences are concise with little interjections. Long sentences are reserved for enumerations, donkeys and horses, which are easy to read too.
That seems like a mischaracterization of what the comment said.
The fxguide article is the more interesting of the two, as it includes further updates and clarifications from Weta.
My first job after graduation was programming and running a PDP-8 in a Psych lab (my degree was in Psychology with a minor in Computer Science). Data transfer was interesting from today's perspective. I would have to print out data to a teletype machine with the paper tape writer turned on, then take the paper tape to the computer center (where the Burroughs B5500 lived) load the paper tape into a teletype machine connected to the mainframe, and after that the mainframe would output the data on punched cards. After all the typos were corrected on the punched cards, the Psych Grad students could run their data analysis using programs also on punched cards.

One interesting episode I remember to this day was when we got some error messages from the PDP-8. I ran a diagnostic that said the one of the boards in the computer was experiencing intermittent errors. I ran a diagnostic which said yes one of the boards was failing. We had a maintenance contract, so I called DEC and they sent out a repair person. He ran the diagnostic again and confirmed that a board was failing. I expected him to just replace the board. But No! He pulled the board out of the computer, unsoldered a transistor, and soldered in a new transistor. After running the diagnostic to confirm that the problem was fixed he went on his way and we were back in business. Nowadays if you get a hardware failure you have to replace an entire Motherboard, or a memory board.
You may want to rethink your comment.
Similarly I avoid watching trailers for films. Not only are they obnoxious pieces of marketing, they ruin how the film maker intended the work to be received. Often they seem to have no respect for the film maker at all. I love just letting the story unfold before me.
Watch Munro channel to see what is realy under the hood.

The level of innovation and the speed of improvement is unseen.
Not only has it been an option for a long time, it’s also popular. Next.js on Vercel is more or less a goto these days. I don’t see a trend of people avoiding JS, much the opposite
I dislike MySQL as much as the next guy, but if you go into an interview-situation and argue that their technology choices are wrong then that is a big red flag not so much because you're wrong, because you might be 100% right, but because it is likely to indicate to interviewers that you will be difficult to work with, possibly pushing for changes they don't want to happen, and that you won't read social and political situations within the team well - for starters by arguing with an interviewer.

It's fine to argue with interviewers, but the threshold where it indicates to both sides that you're probably wrong for that job is pretty low.
Oddly -- I've never had this problem in interviews. Is it possible that it's better screening happening pre-interview at FAANG and FAANG-like places?

For what it's worth, I like practical programming problems. The problem comes when the programming interviews don't match the job. Why do I need to write a sorting algorithm in an interview for an SRE position? (I worked at Dropbox for a couple of years, and my interview there was probably the best SRE coding interview I've had - detect duplicate files in a filesystem, with follow-ups about improving performance.)
The alternative would have been a credit line from a bank, that also needs to be reimbursed, eithbinterest! Reimbursed down payments from customers are an interest-free credit. Well played actually... And quite despicable.
yeah, i'll fix it sorry
> "freeing the west from fascism." What?
> I guess the fact that “big animal through a needle’s eye” was a common expression would make it more obvious.

The article suggests it may not have been a common expression at all until Jesus popularized it: the gospels are the earliest known occurrence of the expression.
Someone losing their savings on a Roadster would be newsworthy enough that Tesla would just refund them rather than take the bad PR
This arguments feels like it's trying to be an inch too smart.

Consider the following: Amazon isn't really an online retail company; it doesn't really sell goods to the consumer. What it does is use "goods" that it delivers as a loss leader to get people to click on buttons to give Amazon money.

Starbucks is a coffee company, that introduces an optional extra step of gift cards for other consumer convenience reasons. The fact that there is a comically large amount of money held in the gift cards system is just that: a slightly comical fact.
This is simply "calculating yourself into richness", and in the mean time forgetting a lot of cost and failure modes. If you can get money from a VC that way the joke is on the VC.
No, because a branch is a (re-assignable) name for some commit and cannot point at different commits while in the same repository at the same time. A "branch but at different commits" simply makes no sense. You can however create a worktree with a detached HEAD pointing at any commit. By default it seems to create a branch for each worktree.
right, I forgot the only high speed low latency internet by satellite and soon for cellular too.
Not only that, but they can enforce nearly 50-50 weight distribution (the Lucid Air is something like 49.5/50.5) and the torque doesn't all come from a single spot in the car, then having to be distributed.

With the Lucid, each axle gets a motor, and the back axle gets two, so you can distribute the torque at will, limited only by how much power the battery can output, since the motors can do more than the battery will let them. You also get things like torque vectoring on the rear wheels, so you can send that thing into turns at high speeds like nobody's business without a squeal to be heard.

It's honestly pretty wild.
Language and Poverty
No; early adopters need a product to adopt. This is grift.
> Letting them earn further aids restitution.

These things have a balance, though. If you're planning on letting people out of prison one day (i.e. if they don't have a life sentence)...

And it's punitive to the point that familial relations break and people lose what little support network they have and ability to live outside of prison...

You can expect they're going to show back right up where they started. In which case, by facilitating repeated recidivism, you've neutered deterrence, incapacitation and left them unable to make meaningful restitution.
It should. Cars get recalled for serious flaws. That means Tesla is shipping flawed products to paying customers that get used in the road, and then try to fix those OTA like some app on a phone. That is bad engineering, period.
But a company deciding "okay, were done" and just shutting down is effectively laying off 100% of the staff. This company's leadership is already getting flak for laying off under 4%.
The fact this can so easily happen shows a lack of safety mechanisms. All the software-related stories in this comment section go in a similar direction: They could have been prevented by simple safety nets. If you accidentally wipe a production database, then it was likely too easy to do so.

Don't blame humans for occasional mistakes, it won't stop them from happening.
Being a "company that builds cars" and being a "car company" are different things. Tesla is a sales and R&D company, which happens to occasionally produce cars worth buying.
The SBF (Sam Bankman-Fried) Stood Up