skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. A better sales book is "Big League Sales-Closing Techniques", which has a similar set of advice, but imho laid out in more easily practical abstractions.
Allowing for inflation they've stayed in roughly the same ballpark, price-wise. It's just that there are now also cheaper boards available, which used not to be the case.
Pepfar and the Costs of Cost-Benefit Analysis
His point was that pushing more work into the few busy per cent of time is making things unnecessarily difficult. He was talking about fast charging, which is needed if you want to charge during the 5% of the time when you're in a hurry, see?
Everything is recorded on an SD card, so you could copy the files online somewhere and download others files. There is no automatic sharing.
Have you actually used these / seen them in use?
Arent most things in a kitchen standardized cooking device? Like stainless pan is stainless pan…
Is it your extensive research into anthropology that leads you to call this a "garbage essay"? Or could it be your resistance to some experts (admittedly not all, but many do agree with Graeber) looking at the evidence and finding that it raises interesting possibilities about hierarchal societies? In "The Dawn Of Everything" Graeber and Wengrow do address alternative views, and why they believe theirs has merit and is better supported by the evidence. So maybe this shorter essay just doesn't fulfil that need for you, and you'd be better off reading the whole book.

Scholars will focus on what they find of interest, and are not exempt from having personal ideologies, but I'd argue that the fact that Graeber acknowledges this (at least in more detailed treatments of the subject) makes him more interesting (and dare I say it reliable) than those who pretend or claim to be completely impartial.

On the other hand many of the objections to Graber and Wengrow (and notable others) conclusions have seemed have come from those who have strong personal biases in favour of hierarchy, negative views of human nature, fundamentalist religious beliefs, or positive views of capitalism. So this gives me good reason to be suspicious of their motives or perspective (especially when they don't acknowledge them, or consider their presumption beyond challenge).
> through some kind of federated horizontal structures.

If you federate horizontal structures, what you have is a hierarchy. All this proves is that some kind of hierarchy and delegation of power becomes neessary for large-scale decision making. We see this even in voluntary organizations, such as large firms (including large co-ops, which do have formal management).
It is like Samsung shitposting on Apple about removing the 3.5 mm audio port, enjoy the marketing stunts, and then remove it themselves a coupl eof years later. All companies and their PR teams know the memory retention of their audience is tiny. I'm honestly surprised the airlines that dont have Boeing 737 in their fleet are not taking this opportunity to make a splash yet.
Annoying, but if you're a first-gen user paying $3500 for the device, you probably either have Apple's TV/movies offering or don't care much about paying for it for your flight.
Except during the pre-flight safety presentation, the airlines generally don't want you thinking about safety at all. Simply advertising that they don't have a particular incident prone aircraft in their fleet makes customers think about all the things that could go wrong. A press release highlighting that they don't have that particular aircraft in their fleet during the news cycle of an incident should be sufficient enough.
Explainshell.com: write a command-line to see the text matching each argument
> As for throwaway account, I am tired of death threats!

Death treats?

I never use a throwaway account so I have had to create a few new accounts after having been shadowbanned. I'm used to getting voted down when I go against the narrative.

I have never ever seen anything resembling a death threat here. Never. What does such a 'death threat' even look like?
I don’t think they would go for that. Airlines do not want customer to think about the possibility of a crash at all.
Differences Between miniKanren and Prolog
So, its a shim, and a perfectly valid one, since it allows for the correct placement of another component in order to provide functionality ..
I've done some work on chemical plants with hydrogen. Through a long chain of people (I was nowhere near the actual bare metal operations) I got a very strong impression that sealing hydrogen is a pain in the ass, it makes its way through every joint and seal. I'm sure some of it is reactivity but it being tiny I think also causes it. I know some of the machines must never be turned off because the sheen created by the ongoing reaction helps to seal it
There didn't use to be any mention of pre-merge reviews in that website. In fact, the text in the website used to be pretty emphatic against any branching whatsoever.

I have known and worked with Steve Smith (the only "friends" mentioned in the website [0] - hi Steve! :D ) for years and we had many discussions about the merits of short-lived branches for peer review. Myself and a few others have argued that you can have pretty much all the benefits they were looking for with TBD without the draconian "always push to trunk" rule. It just takes a bit of discipline and communication, but to be honest I think the draconian one needs even more of those if it is to succeed.

I'm happy that the website has been updated since (it's been at least a few months, maybe even a couple years) to acknowledge and "allow" that strategy.

[0] https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/contributions/
This feels a _bit_ like that "We should improve society somewhat" meme.
This still becomes another CO2 emission that is unnecessary. Depending on the quantity of CO2 being emitted by this combustion compared to simply requiring the methane to be captured, it’s still bad. It’s still CO2 emissions.
> "Yeah, it seems as if he has forgotten the G. ... I still see no path from LLMs and autonomous driving to AGI."

That is exactly my view too. While LLMs and autonomous driving can be exceptionally good at what they do, they are also incredibly specialist, they completely lack anything along the lines of what you might call "common sense".

For example, (at least last time I looked) autonomous driving largely works off object detection at discreet time intervals, so objects can pop into and out of existence, whereas humans develop a sense of "object permanence" from a young age (i.e. know that just because something is no longer visible doesn't mean it is no longer there), and many humans also know about the laws of physics (i.e. know that if an object has a certain trajectory then there are probabilities and constraints on what can happen next).
Good point. What would you suggest? I wouldn’t know. Lowering taxes on beer in pubs? Raising taxes on social media accounts?
For me the main question is not, is the code good enough or will competitors copy, but how can we make enough money to build a sustainable business?

The quoted and beloved open source projects are not good businesses:
PostgreSQL, Python, Bitcoin, React

Mongo and Elastic are great, but exceptions.
There are more successful closed source database companies than open source ones.

Open source companies are hard.
However, they are super valuable for users.
Frontier Airlines, Hawaiian airlines and Azul Brazilian only operate Airbus aircraft
Interesting company.

NFC and RFID use radio energy and have been around for a while. There are a few variations of chips harvesting energy from other sources. Including body heat, movement, ambient light (even electrical light), and other sources of energy. Magnetic energy of course make sense. After all that's how most generators work. Doing that without mechanical parts is interesting.

A wireless sensor doesn't need a lot of power. With multiple possible ways to power them, somebody is likely to stumble on a way to mass produce them cheaply eventually.
Somehow I expected Linus to be very anti-LLM but I actually share his viewpoint. I used to be pretty averse to the idea but it's since grown on me.
- content farms that wreck the signal to noise ratio, getting much much worse with "AI" now

- unchecked astoturfing and referral-laundering "reviews"

- everyone being on walled gardens that restrict what can be hosted (both content and format)
So you did high school in the UK and uni in DK? How did they convert the grades?

My kid might do this someday, that's why I'm asking.
That is kinda misleading. They can act as a very limited version of a client of a very specific and largely unused spec.
I see. Depends very much on the usage pattern. Since all my charging is done at home the thought of standing in a forecourt in winter weather just to spend 4x as much isn’t something I’d rush back to. But if I did more than 200 miles per day the thought of trying to use public chargers would change that.
extraordinary statements need extraordinary links to data backing up claims

extraordinary fantasy and or science fiction premise needs wise rabbit superheroes with psychic powers and laser pistols.

I'm not sure which of these your comment was meant to be but I think you should provide the needed content.
There is zero window decoration other than a 1pixel unshaped border, so there's not actually much to show, but here's an example of one of my tiling desktops w/a couple of my terminal windows running (one of the windows is st rather than my own):

https://m.galaxybound.com/@vidar/111739055121708028

Here is one I did that shows a couple of file manager windows and my terminal and desktop switcher on my floating desktop:

https://m.galaxybound.com/@vidar/111799111872848650
Similarities to birds? "Birds" aren't real, they literally are dinosaurs.
Ask HN: Project idea – mood tracker for your online activity
Hi! Inspired by two posts from HN (below) I decided to create a browser extension that tracks your mood when browsing the Internet and shows you which pages improve your well-being and which websites make you down, anxious or addicted.

The project will contain three modules:

1. Mood tracker - gather all info about your emotional state - from physiological data (Apple Health, band wrists etc.) through behavioral data (typing speed, mouse movements) to facial expression recognition (FER)

2. Content analysis - time spent on each website, emotional valence of consumed content, how often does the emotional value of the content change (dopamine swing) etc.

3. Data visualization - for personal use (to see impact of visited websites to your mental health) and also globally by ranking websites by different categories (inspiring, depressing, addictive, creative etc.)

I'm curious what you think about this, maybe you have comments or ideas on how to extend/improve such a project; where are the potential pitfalls and where are the opportunities for development and cooperation.

Thanks!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38622404

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38935605
As an alternative to the ones you mentioned, Starlab Systems comes to mind.

General advice: If possible, buy one with a current Ryzen model. Chances are, the 64GB max is not the limit but that they can be upgraded to 2x48GB Crucial SODIMMs.

[1] https://starlabs.systems/
The 1k-Year Photo
mKanren: A Minimal Functional Core for Relational Programming (2013) [pdf]
The other replies that are "about 15+ years out of date" do cite literature that is more than 10 years newer than your references, though...
It's not the TX hardware part that will be expensive - but rather bespoke encoding and crypto. Not prohibitively expensive, just annoyingly expensive in money and/or time - enough to prevent anyone except criminals from tampering with those devices.

Or worse, vendors will use it as an excuse to make their products cloud-dependent, with strong cryptographic auth and actual processing done on the other side of the world.

(And with that enabling the rent seekers their recurring revenue, we arrive at the reality foretold by IIRC Philip K. Dick, where you have to subscribe to your own apartment doors.)

(EDIT: the more IoT embraces actual security, the more I feel that US gov had a point in classifying cryptography as munition. Perhaps there ought to be legal limits on using crypto against other people.)
He writes:
"But my code is bad: This is just ego. The person who spends the most time thinking about you is you, and the person who spends the most time stressing over your bad code is you as well."

In most places in life this is valid, but in the developer community I disagree. Developers love talking shit about each others code.

Still yearly ritual here to bash the "Clean code" book.
Green Hills is a little bit out of our price point. Wind River compiler is very cheap by comparison (ie just a few $k)
money isn't the most important driver in decisions. Making something previously free paid is a much bigger drive than tripling the price. Why? it's the fact that you actively have to decide to do something and execute on it. If you made it so that in order to keep a social media account you had to submit a form each week to the local social media office, hardly anyone would have one. Even (especially) if you could submit a reimbursement form to have any costs associated with filling and posting the form returned.
while i agree you could link to the document itself, you don't have to be mean about it. And the twitter post does have contextual information relevant to reading the actual document.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xfN5T8VChK8fSh3wUiYtRVOKIi9...
I was kind of kidding, but I was also kind of intrigued by the idea. My instinct is that it would work in a vacuum, but that is just a gut feeling. But I also could not think of why one could not.
Not gonna lie, I’m not convinced we are in the “last days” of the barcode. Large institutions and associated standards change slowly.
FWIW, in case you haven't got it from somewhere else or noticed here, he says in several places that his email is lars dot doucet at gmail dot com .

Sorry if it's presumptious to jump in in your place Lars, undskyld, but I'm going on the premise that you just missed this question.

Good luck Nerdhead; all the best Larsius.
Ok, I'll bite. What happened at Canonical?
Fun article
Could be worse, they could be "Zune Guy", who if you Google his name, will show you the tats he got to celebrate the Microsoft Zune (which actually was pretty good but much like Windows Phone, suffered from product management and marketing issues). He eventually got it hidden by a Dick Cheney tattoo that also quickly became outdated. At least a barcode stands a chance of being seen as retro.
Hes getting downwoted because this site is called hacker news. Dont be such a corpo chicken. I am pretty sure people are aware of legality of similar actions and dont need this mentoring.
I expected to see a concern that it was a PDF hosted on a Google drive, not that it was just on a social media site!
That's cause of time frames involved.

Think kahnemans system 1/system 2 or the difference in reaction time of the (electrical)nervous system and the (chemical)endocrine system.

Culture generation happens along both time frames.

Engament metric driven social media and news media are all system 1. Reaction times ate fast. There is no system 2. It's still evolving.

So current Culture generation doesn't exhibit system 2 fall back when required.
There are some things that look better on a CRT e.g. pixel art games or shoddy set design that you really don't want to see without an Instagram like filter to suspend your belief.

Too much of what people think is fidelity is actually a type of noise e.g. what matters to me in a drama is the writing, acting, plot, ideas and message. Going from 320p to 4320p does not add signal if it means I can see all the seams in the set, all the make-up, how badly the wigs fit etc... it's actually added noise.

> Ditto for all of the technology Millennials have ennui for.

Do you mean ennui (apathy)? Or do you mean nostalgia, yearning, yen, rose-tinted romanticism etc.?
As an idea, (1) vs. (2) might be interesting, although you cannot deduce about things like dopamine and I doubt whether consumer-grade physical sensors really convey "emotional states". If you do it, open source and open data would be ideal as the idea might fly also as a research topic.
This is nonsense, pipes are the weird case, not the typical. The socket interface looks largely identical to ttys, which were in the first version of Unix over a decade before Berkeley sockets were introduced. Pipes didn't exist until Research Unix v3.
Yea but Qantas never crashed.
> wealth == inequality

Yeah, Switzerland or Liechtenstein are so much more socially unequal than a brutal dictatorship like North Korea. Oh wait, actually they aren't. So this "wealth == inequality" thing is just nonsense. It might just be trying to say that everyone starts out "equally" poor by default but that's a trivial observation.
> Games used to be entirely this way, and some still are, but any manner of live-service game can’t realistically work in that model for an indefinite period of time like movies and music can.

Which is why the industry keeps pushing these and why we should oppose them.

> This is also true to a lesser extent for patches and DLC, although they shouldn’t be necessary (but day one patches are a thing, I imagine the games companies aren’t unhappy about this, as there’s an incentive to release a broken game with a day-one patch as a future copy protection measure).

Patches can be distributed as standalone installers that are fixed once released just like the original version remains fixed. This is how things used to work.

Being able to go back to earlier versions even if the developer wants to change things (for whatever reason) is precisely why we need archivable games.
Foundry led our last round and as a result I was lucky enough to meet Ryan McIntyre (one of the Foundry Founders) and he's an absolutely stellar guy! Chatted about everything from thinking PageRank wouldn't work, to guitars, to making telescopes on the far side of the moon!

Wishing them all the best of luck!
Jane Street Does Code Review
The problem with the Flipper is it's missing documentation. And new learners need documentation. The response from the Flipper team has been telling people to read the source code.
You can easily say the same for the actually competent front-end devs.
Clickr, or a young man's Flickr clonejure
From own experience, the latest (in the day) a flight is (especially the short 2-3h flights within EU) the more chances is you will be delayed (if every fight is delayed by 30mins, by the end of the day multiple those 30mins x 4 or 5 or 6).

When a company may see that "oops we are gonna be paying $$$$ for the delays" they will have no fear to bring in another plane (not the one you booked).

The same applies of course for any planes that are damaged, etc.

I tried asking ChatGPT but couldn't give me an answer of the frequency "how often to air companies swap the planes" (I tried with various choices of words) and it couldn't give me a percentage or any other metric.
The Downward Spiral of Technology
The original topic starter mentioned the British Empire trying to expand across the Bering Strait in a hypothetical alternative history where Alaska was British.

(Of course this is meant figuratively, nobody would be sailing across the literal Bering Strait even in this alternative reality. "Bering Strait" means crossing the North Pacific from the American side to the Asian side.)
Tools for Thinking About Censorship
Start of the "Arab Spring" and the clusterfuck that led to the dissolution of all international law.
We have been thinking about this for our product; we are definitely (and have this openly on our site) going to open source all under MIT or Apache (whatever we like by that time), but for now, but either of those, not AGPL or open-core or something like that), we find/found (not my first rodeo) it completely impossible to make money with that type of arrangement as a product (consultancy sure). Supabase had bucketloads of VC money, as do almost all 'big' open source projects. If you are bootstrapped, this is not going to pay the bills for quite a while especially on an ambitious / hard project. People only can work for free for so long and with closed code, a small team in constant contact etc you can move a lot faster by cutting the overhead needed for a successful OSS project.

It would be interesting to hear a story like this from a project of similar size that has $0 funding, has been founded in the last 5 years, has a fulltime team >1 and exists for 3+ years and still would recommend this approach. How are they making ends meet? Things like Redis simply don't happen anymore. At least; I haven't seen any. Hell, even trivial projects, like langchain, get in 10s of millions of VC and those would be my candidates for actually being able to do it as a few-man-band while getting in money via different sources.
Just in case your "not familiar with the author" meant not Lars but Douglas Hofstadter, I suppose the best place to start is the aforementioned "GEB": Gödel, Escher, Bach - an Eternal Golden Braid -- note how 'GEB' returns transposed as 'EGB in the title; that's kind of significant (IIRC, been decades since I read it). HTH!
Your conclusion assumes the PISA test actually reflects students' abilities. This may not be the case. My daughter when attending a Romanian school told me that students know the PISA results play no part in their performance rating and many of her colleagues treated the exam either as a joke maybe even supplying deliberately dumb answers or at best as an irrelevance - 'shove anything down and finish with it'. Her experience was that the teachers were, let us say, not helpful, in countering this attitude. So, incorporate the PISA results into students' records and see if the test results change.
Epicyon Release Version 1.5.0
try:

...

except:

print("I'm sorry, as an LLM")
Thanks, it will start as an open source project, as people may be concern about privacy with such as delicate subject. And I do master studies at psychology so it will be research topic at least for me :)
The problem I see with this idea is that if people using the default xxx.bsky.social starts to effectively use it as a direct HTTPS link to their profile, it will largely de-incentivize to use your own domain (and thus be able to easily switch provider) because you would lose this behavior since the domain you use is already your personal web page or blog or whatever, it won't be a direct link to your Bluesky profile.

A way around this issue would be for users to create a specific subdomain for their Bluesky handle (like @bsky.example.net instead of @example.net) but that defeats the purpose in term of "branding", shortness of the handle, etc.
He spams this nonsense on /sci/ often and can never back any of it up.
One aspect I don't see mentioned is that it's not just about open sourcing your codebase. Many companies make the mistake of using open source as a marketing tool to attract users, and as a funnel into their commercial plans. They prioritize working on what makes them money, instead of being good maintainers of their open source product. They don't know how to build and nurture their open source community, and treat open source users as second-class compared to their commercial users.

Don't do this. The OSS product needs to be as featureful as your commercial product. It's fine to offer some commercial value added features and services that would only be useful for enterprise customers, but these shouldn't be core features of the product. You can have priority support for your paying customers, but don't leave OSS users with "community support" only. At the end of the day, the company does need to make money to survive, but treat all your users with the same respect. If the product is good enough and solves a genuine problem, you won't have difficulties monetizing.