skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He also ignores many situations were Barter does happen. He ignores that in economic history economists and others had already studied and written on things like gifts and credit. He ignores much of the moral philosophy of the Scottish enlightenment in general.

Frankly, he simply hates economics and economists. While it is absolutely clear that he has never actually read in economics or economic history. I think he actually literally believes that reading economics will 'taint' him.

Let look at an example. When people pointed to Menger work on some of the things that he praises anthropologists for. He responded with 'all Menger did was some math' or something along those lines. This is pretty baflfing, because anybody with even the most basic knowlage of economic history, knows that this is not true. So where did Graeber get this ridiculous idea?

Turns out, after being informed of these things, he likely just googled the name and found Karl Menger (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Menger) who turns out is a mathematician. But he is the son of the economist 'Carl Menger'.

And why this is particularly bad, is because Carl Menger is one of the most famous economists, being part of the 'marginal revolution' in economics. And further, he is well known to have written on the exact topics discuss in Graeber book. Basically he would be on of the top 3 people you would start to read if you are interest in the subject of money, money formation, various forms exchange and so on.

All Graeber seems to actually know is a small part of Adam Smith, and even then he is doing his own interpretation. He ignores all other works of Smith and literally all other works by economist.

And even ignoring all those discussion, the conclusion Graeber ends up drawing from this whole debate doesn't actually support by the evidence. So the whole discussion is kind of pointless.
I believe what you're saying is correct, but the OP is also correct in pointing out that those who lived prior to antibiotics or other modern inventions probably died a lot more often of things we can prevent now. Not to mention all the routine surgeries that save lives. The massively declining child mortality is the big disruptor here, but there's more going on in the data. More recently, we might be reversing the positive trends with our extremely unhealthy diets that have led to other issues such as heart disease and diabetes.
ARrgh: A newcomer's (angry) guide to R
My wife once got bumped off the last flight out of DC one night because the airline decided to switch to a smaller plane. There was no mechanical or logistical reason given.

Hopefully its rare but it can and does happen.
> That analogy fails because all the contractor needed to type was `SHOW DATABASES`

No, what the contractor needed to do was extract those credentials, create a manual connection and manually execute arbitrary queries. Not one of these three steps is part of how the database was meant to be used (i.e. specifically through the use of the software).

Also, again: I'm not arguing that the company's security practices were in any way acceptable. But that doesn't mean what the contractor did was in any way authorized behavior. That you can doesn't mean you're allowed to.
> With a fully automated economy, all 8 billion of us can have that

We probably can't. I mean why stop at humans? Let's give every pet the same luxury, or ... in the limit we could give this to every living being. Ultimately someone is going to draw the line who gets what and who is useful or not "for the greater good".

It just happens that many living beings don't contribute to the goals of whoever is in charge and if they get in the way or cause resource waste nobody will care about them, humans or not.

Human rights and democracy is all cool, but I think we just witnessed enough workarounds that render human rights and democracy pretty much null and void.
No unless you like, giving away the goose that lays the golden egg. How successful would Coca-Cola be today if they open sourced their company?
The article then also contradicts itself slightly with that for hiring look at their previous public contributions.

However, I get their point for both cases. Looking at contributions gives a glimpse of that person. However with a grain of salt.

And the imposter syndrome is strong in public contributions. I get it, and agree with the article, don't worry.

I am working with a gov client at the moment so back to coding in the open again, and it is great. I am not worried that my quick one-line comment on a PR for a tiny repo is now public. Or pushed typos. It happens.
Also, relentless dominance ("cultural colonialism") of film and TV for decades.
https://archive.is/cEUKk
> The lesson is that you absolutely cannot trust corporations to uphold OSS ethos

I'm absolutely with you here but I think this is a matter of least worst situations: I still think an OSS corporation trumps a non-OSS corporation regardless.

> These days it's not unbelievable that they are doing it on purpose.

I think there's a bit of a leap between a company - at a management level - deciding to "go open-source" for mainly marketing/branding/image reasons & that same company actively endeavoring to make their open-source product deliberately worse.

It's still likely (& common) that profit incentive will lead to paid plans receiving more investment & QA than open-source offerings. But again, this is a least worst outcome imo. A semi-abandoned corporate OSS project isn't very different from a semi-abandoned personal individual OSS project - maybe even better as there will typically be less social reluctance to build a community fork.
HN does this. Just yesterday there was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39078539
thanks, thrwwycbr!
I can't find any suggestion that they shouldn't use WordPress in the post you replied to.
It goes the other way too, when infinities are used to hand-wave some pesky detail; which turns out to itself have beautiful structure.
This is valid assumption when talking about particular airlines and their maintenance model, yet not good when talking about bad design.
As you can see if you dig into my code and then look at the X protocol implementation [1], the (incomplete) pure Ruby X11 binding takes up more lines of code than the WM. I was tempted to write the code to generate it from the XML spec, but a lot of the scaffolding for the current X11 binding predated my own work and it seemed like it'd be more and more painful work to write the generator than bite the bullet and do it manually (I don't expect to/care about supporting the whole protocol anyway). So a PHP version would be totally viable, just tedious.

[1] https://github.com/vidarh/ruby-x11
Disagree. CRPGs back then had been hitting a minor renessaince for a while, notably from Owlcat, and D&D in specific has been on a never ending gravy train of popularity thanks to podcasts like Critical Role (and in spite of WOTCs attempts to break that gravy train by making inane audience alienating decisions).

BG3 whilst undeniably a massive success was likely always going to perform very well for Larian. The suprise was mostly that it ended up being a GOTY title I think.
"R is a shockingly dreadful language for an exceptionally useful data analysis environment. The more you learn about the R language, the worse it will feel. The development environment suffers from literally decades of accretion of stupid hacks from a community containing, to a first-order approximation, zero software engineers. R makes me want to kick things almost every time I use it."

Care to elaborate why? Besides, all languages evolve and gather cruft.
According to these documents[1], Masimo applied for patents after Apple had already independently developed the software. So it appears that Masimo is in fact, a patent troll.

[1] https://ipfray.com/u-s-trade-agency-itc-incredibly-portrays-...
I have no experience in the field, but I have a close family member with a fairly uncommon kind of cancer (multiple myeloma).

One thing that is clear through speaking with doctors and moving through the process of treatment is that a _lot_ of the treatments he is receiving are quite new. Everything from drug selection to the process of marrow transplantation enjoys the benefits of recent scientific advance.

We have been told regularly something to the extent of: "the best time to get cancer is always now/in the future". If he had this cancer 1 or 2 decades ago his projected outcome would have been very different.
People have actually died because of this, yet these still don't take it seriously and take the responsibility for it...

How much longer will they drag this through the dirt, because the families of the deceased can finally have peace?
I doubt that would be legal in my country.
Australia: 'Golden visa' scheme for wealthy investors axed
Heat from the chip to the radiator still flows in one direction. So you're effectively limited by the bandwidth of this joint even if you have radiators or liquid-cooling (remote radiators) later in the pipeline.
ive done it with transforming data (for example pasting a table in and asking it to turn it into LaTeX) or something and had the occasional issue with it misordering or forgetting things. It didn't take long to spot the error for me though
The real issue is that we live in an economic system where people are exploited for labor, and in turn they buy products and services made with their own labor (and another class get to profit from it).

If we introduce AGI but keep the system, people will be unemployed. If people aren't employed (and instead machines do their jobs), then they can't buy stuff. The whole system crumbles.

But it's possible that AGI will be disruptive enough to completely change the system. Let's hope it's a change for the better.
While collision detection is quite straightforward its collision resolution which always leaves stopping me attempts
Going through a LLM may improve the performance. From my experience working with Stable Diffusion 1.*, clip is not very intelligent and a 7B quantised LLM could help a lot.
If you open source your product, your business product becomes hosting / maintenance / consultancy.
It really isn’t the core need. The core need is industrial settings where you want to be able to fit and forget a sensor and have it alert you to problems or provide a stream of data for diagnostic monitoring.

Can it be used for spying? Maybe, assuming audio surveillance that’s a large power requirement though, so seems unlikely for the foreseeable.

Source: I did my PhD in energy harvesting
PR Firm accused of questionable business practices files DMCA notice
A PR firm accused of spamming people from fake profiles created using stolen photos of real people issues a take-down notice of article alleging their bad business practices.

Original article here: https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/11/23/shady_scam_mogul_press/
Outside counsel has one desire: Maximize billable hours.

There is literally no incentive to have customers do well. I've seen a ton of frivolous litigation due to having legal strategy defined by outside counsel.

Internal counsel, charitably, at least, has employment and gets to slack off if there's less work. Outside counsel wants those hours.

There's a complex story about:

1) IANAL disclaimers and why it's often important to consult a lawyer rather than assuming you know the law

2) What NOT to trust lawyers on. This is much more than whether or not to sue; no lawyer ever got in trouble for being too conservative.

Business decisions like this one should not be made by lawyers at all. Lawyers, inside or outside, should explain what the law is, but the decision should be made by someone who can do math on things like risk and ROI, and who understands brand value / impact on the above of any action.
In an archaic language like C, it may be clearer. In a modern language, in no way is subtraction of an offset clearer and simpler than almost any alternative. Even in C, as you've mentioned elsewhere, you've had to use macros to make it at all clear, and macros can do anything and are inherently opaque.

Many other languages also have newer/different approaches to solve some of these problems, be they subclassing, generics, macros (often safe ones), JITs, or other. They mostly cannot do this as efficiently, but that seems less like a clarity/complexity concern and more like a low-level-programming concern.

> How do you get from the child to the parent in, say Java?

In Java, you do indeed have to embed mutual pointers and just be careful. As a C user, you must be used to being careful. Even C#, which does allow structs, doesn't have references-to-members that can be turned into references-to-owners. The aforementioned language features like subclassing (for lists) and generics can help.

> How do you copy an object that holds, say 4 vec4, vec4 being a struct that itself 4 holds floats?

Copying structs as a block works fine in Rust, C++ and C#, along with many other languages. Again, Java is a little more limited in this regard, though I believe they are working on adding value types.
Ah, thank you. Found some useful links here: https://www.bls.gov/cps/lfcharacteristics.htm#discouraged

Seems like this measure of discouraged workers is down over the past 10 years: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS15026645
Yep. For example, Spirit and Opportunity were part of the Mars Exploration Rovers mission. 2/3 of that mission's total cost was the development, manufacture, and launch of the rovers themselves. Which more or less "per unit" works to 1/3 of the total mission cost per rover. The other third of that mission cost was staffing for the (15 year) ongoing mission from when it passed the initial mission parameters to when opportunity finally was deemed dead in 2018.

https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-the-mars-expl...
Your Headline is misleading and untrue.

From the source:

"We are investigating a security incident that occurred on January 17th, 2024, where there was unauthorized access to the third-party support ticketing portal we use."

There will be phishing mails to users who used the third party ticketing portal. Dangerous, but that's it.
Just started doing government research contracts. If this is in anyway similar, I'd be wary. The contracts can be lucrative, but there is just a ton of red tape where you need to have people experienced in dealing with it. It isn't for everybody and it does take a lot of time and negotiation.
Soldering the Pinecil Breakout Board
"the population of the country would be quick to disapprove" - now you've got me curious. Who would be disapproving? I doubt US population would care much for a Boeing Swapout, or Europe for an Airbus one. Embraer is from Brazil, but I don't think LATAM even has any. Does the Eastern world care more?

Or is it a model thing? Noise/pollution thing? Are you flying to some small island nation with special planes?
That goes without saying. Building a successful company is hard enough. Doing it based on an open source product is even harder. But companies that do this right generate far more good will from their users than companies building strictly closed source products. This is a good thing for users, customers, the company and its shareholders. But for this to work, it's important that the founders believe in open source as something more than just a business strategy.
I heard good things about self-hosting it through elest.io.
the data in the code is encoded as a bitstream using possibly different alphabets, byte is just one of them.

Then, depending on the size and error correction level (not covered in the article where this is decoded from) the bitstream is split up into blocks, ecc data is calculated for both, and then the blocks are interleaved.

So this method will fail for any qr version above 5 for any level of ecc, and 3-5 with high levels of ecc.
Splendid rant

All indexing in R is base-one. Note that no error is thrown if you try to access a[0]; it always returns an atomic vector of the same type but of length zero, written like numeric(0). Unaccountably, nobody's in jail for that decision, yet.
European management culture is very business-first. Chances are that things went more or less like this:

- Management sees cost spike, asks Sysadmins
- Sysadmins investigate and say "not our fault, it's them pesky commie devs"
- Management rings up legal, shenanigans ensue

Now they've been publicly bitch-slapped, it's likely that management will do a bit of a sing and dance and then let engineers talk to engineers, while they piss off to some expensive restaurant at the company's expense.
> you do indeed create anarchism through creation of mutual aid networks

#Theoretically
> I have no idea what's that "upside down Y-shaped character" is about

The sibling post's "bopomofo" seems far more plausible, but if you're talking European alphabets, the Greek letter Lambda (for the L sound, AIUI) looks pretty much like an upside-down (lower-case) 'y'. Maybe one working hypothesis at the time was that the person set to find pics for the Chines pirate manufacturer looked at it the wrong way around, read it as a Lambda / L, and looked for pictures to illustrate that. Idunno, WAG.
Per IP limits don't do anything about the scenario where the API is integrated into a third party website that sees a sudden spike in popularity. At that point, the API is providing free capacity to the third party site. Maybe that is fine, but you seem to be ignoring the possibility.
But did they go out of their way, while believing the fancy software they bought?
I love Panic and their software but I’m hesitant to jump on this. Even just for iOS, as I’m very happy with iTerm. Prompt 1 & 2 became abandonware a little too quickly IMHO. Yes they were good when they launched, great even, but over time they were not updated and little issues started cropping up. Fool me once, fool me twice….

I want to believe and chances are I’ll buy this anyway but I don’t have high hopes for a long life.
Those are the most complex customers.

They directly cost more than they bring in. However, they're also:

1) Thought leaders / influencers. How you treat them translates directly into blog / forum / etc. posts.

2) Innovators / bounds-pushers. This can impact future products, market research, etc.

3) Ecosystem builders. Network effects!

It's a complex conversation. Apple courted education for much of its early history, not for direct profits, but so people entering the workforce would be trained on Apple. Balmer said "Developers, developers, developers!" even though developers cost money.
Hierarchies are not necessary based on coercion ("command"), leading by competence or charisma is also hierarchy.
I think it has been generally accepted that Josef Capek (Karel's brother) was actually the one who coined the word "robot". Karel Capek wanted to call them "labors" originally.
> It's a bit disappointing to see Haier's very reasonable response (an extra high AWS load is expensive, because AWS is just expensive by design) but only after internet wide outrage.

If this is the real reason, how long can you expect Haier to support the API free of charge for existing customers? Not very long I bet.

The only sane solution are applicances that can be controled locally without an internet connection.
> particularly when it comes to grocery shopping. Transporting a large quantity of goods can be impractical, if not impossible, without a car. Even carrying a moderate amount can be exhausting due to the 'last 100 meter' issue, which persists even if one lives close to a metro station, say within a five-minute walk.

For a five-minute walk (or even a longer ten-minute or fifteen-minute walk), pulling a small cart is not exhausting at all. I do it every week when buying food: I choose one of the several supermarkets in one of the nearby blocks, walk to it pulling my empty cart, after paying for the goods I put everything into the cart, and walk back home pulling the full cart. No public transport needed, though I've seen people carrying these carts into public transport too (this is easier when it's a low-floor bus, instead of the high-floor ones).

You can also get things delivered when it's a larger amount than can fit on your cart: while paying at the supermarket you ask for delivery, and they'll use a cargo tricycle to bring it to your building.
What you describe is called an informal leader. But you are correct on everything else so far.
Yeah, I've toyed with Mruby, and it's great. Same w/webasm support for Ruby. I think overall the huge improvements in the Ruby ecosystem kinda drove my own down the priority list - it was mostly educational to start with, but the better the various other Ruby implementations got the less of an incentive I got to try to turn it into anything more than that (and doing so would be a massive undertaking). Hitting the "self-compiling" milestone felt like it was a decent place to pause it, but I'd still love to find time to take it a few steps further. At least fixing the most egregious bugs (the compiler itself has various temporary workarounds for bugs to allow it to compile itself without triggering them, and I'm not happy about leaving it in a state where I can't at least strip those workarounds out).
If I knew programming when I was much much younger I would be in an even better
position than I am now

In what way? Looking at everybody I've known and worked with over my career, I'd say the correlation between how good they where at programming as a child and where they were in their career at 40 was basically zero.
You can have fairly cheap (but not entirely free) runtime memory safety at interface boundaries in any language that supports arrays via "tagged index handles" (basically weak references which protect against dangling access). To be efficient this requires a specific module design philosophy though (you basically want to avoid converting between a handle and a pointer for each memory access, only at the interface boundary, and interfaces should be designed so that they avoid "high frequency functions" with handle parameters).

Interestingly this approach is also somewhat popular in Rust to workaround borrow checker restrictions.

For instance see:

https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html
Yeah, it's economics. Research labs can be allowed to be independent and do whatever experimental stuff when there are resources to go around, such as when you're holding an inalienable stranglehold on an entire sector of the economy. Every decade or so there's a good chance they lay you a golden egg but mostly they're just sitting there and going to conferences in Lapland or something. When someone in government goes 'wait a minute, this is terrible' and you become just a normal company again, you kill off what doesn't immediately contribute at the expense of some foresight.

Currently leading tech research? Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, NVIDIA, Intel, and for some ungodly reason, Elon Musk with his government grants and Teslabucks. These are all effective monopolies in several sectors to the point where dethroning any of them is going to require either a massive change in the world through new technology or extensive multi-governmental legal action. These companies have the ability to spend a lot of money on something stupid (for the ones we have seen in the public eye, see Stadia, Metaverse, Itanium, we had Plan 9 as Bell's last hurrah into the void, these types of stupid things.) which loses it for the promise of an eventual golden egg. As a theory I'd say this is a pretty good one considering that it extends well into the modern day.

Ideally, we'd probably fund research in some better way, but I have no clue how the hell that would even work. Until then, the future comes in the form of price fixing and anti-competitive practices.