skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Positive GDP is an important measure on Capitalist system but it does not reflect fully in the life of most poor people.

You can also measure GDP in less-than-capitalist systems.

You are right that GDP is a proxy for stuff we actually care about. But it tends to correlate really well with all the things we do care about.
Great stuff. Thank you very much for sharing.
> We already have neck strain with multi-monitor setups and bad office ergonomics.

And this would make it even worse.
Here’s a decent textbook that covers the software side in aerospace (DO-178):

https://www.amazon.ca/Developing-Safety-Critical-Software-Pr...

You can read up on the system safety side in documents like ARP5754 and ARP4761 and hardware side in DO-254.
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20240201194740/https://english.a...
Are you using vim to run shell commands?
In what context would that collide?
In which case the question of "to whom?" still applies. As it stands, the primary beneficiaries of American police and military operations are the very same wealthy elites at the helm of the dollar-based global economy.
Wake me when they upstream it.

I can't afford to invest in Google's soon-to-be-abandonware projects.
"artificially create poverty" - don't like this being imposed either, but I find the real survival motivation in a wilderness situation very enjoyable. I think their concern is that people won't work without it - they may be right: many people want direction/purpose in video games; only a small proportion are happy to create their own fun.

Why not build something to help solve "finanicial independence"? It would attract money.
Watch out Ozempic.
Designer News is dead
Detailed article but not a single sample of an XmR chart.
Pretty sure this is clickbait or propaganda or both.

It's alarming that someone is pushing this to the mainstream, I'm not sure how to counter a slow creeping push like this.
It seems like the explanation might be right there in that issue. The server is occasionally not successfully sending the A record and you're getting bad fallback behavior due to the way the dial call is imprecisely constructed and this is masking the underlying problem. The code, as written, is doing exactly what you would expect in this scenario.

Should it be your DNS resolver library that takes stock of your OS environment and only make calls for A records and not AAAA records when it "detects" some configuration?

Shouldn't your application itself have an environment variable or command line option that allows you to specify that your dials should only be done using tcp4? Wouldn't this be immensely useful to have outside of "auto detection" in some library somewhere?
Still looking for one like the Sun.
Brainfuck interpreters just ignore the characters in the file that aren't those particular Brainfuck operators, treating them as comments. So, you could just write a Brainfuck interpreter in JavaScript that interprets a string literal, then write the Brainfuck program as a string literal. You'd still have to write the JavaScript BF interpreter so that everything that isn't the string literal has no observable effect when interpreted by a BF interpreter.
The assumption of who government was responsible to underwent a massive paradigm shift with the issue of the Magna Carta in June 1215.

The case could be made that there was a long slow steady devolution of power in the UK system of Government since 1215 until the present, that was branched, modified and frozen by the US Constitution which has remained in a kind of "little King for four years" stasis since while other countries have continued to evolve government, democracy, elections and representation.
Sounds like a cool model. I'd love to try it but it seems like they're not releasing it (yet?). I've really gotten spoiled with the recent language models where I can download and run any new model or fine-tune I hear about. It's gotten to the point where I don't feel a model is very relevant unless I can run it locally. Hopefully a local version of this becomes available because I have plenty of time series data I'd like to run through it!
Ask HN: How to get a team to document essentials?
Hey. I work for a startup where documentation has taken a back-seat and isn’t a priority.

This makes sense in some ways, since some things are ephemeral and fade faster than the docs might live. However, I’d like to foster a culture of sharing essential knowledge.

For example, we have one person that manages the infrastructure. This person documents nothing, even when asked, and we end up in the dumps when things go wrong in their absence. Their code isn’t self-documenting either and the nature of our setup makes it hard to grok in a pinch.

Another example is projects with complexity, knowledge of which is essential to working on the project and may result in errors otherwise.

Knowledge right know is sparsely stored around in an unorganized way, and when anything is documented there is no attempt to keep it organized, so we ended up with a jumbled list of pages without much context or way to gain context.

One thing that’s mentioned is that mob programming helps remove the need for this, but I disagree.

With this, new hires can get up to speed more easily with documentation that covers the essentials.

I’m not talking about deep and extensive docs. I’m talking about docs with essential info to understand the project and be able to work on it.

Folks are resistant to document things so I’ve taken the role of sitting with them and having them run me through their work, and documenting what needs documenting, when it’s apparent that something should definitely be documented.

We’re already seeing problems where some essential piece of tribal knowledge was not shared and resulted in customer-facing problems, and this is only getting worse as we grow.

It’s also very hard to understand the history of a project and why certain decisions were made. Often, the original developer doesn’t remember.

Does anyone know of a good way to document and make readily available _essential_ knowledge, and allow for contribution in a low-friction way?

I say low friction because every extra step between putting you and words on a page reduces the likelihood that someone will document something that should be documented.

Notion seems a good option and I’ve made a small test site, which works well. Our current solution is not sustainable.

Do we have deeper issues here? If so, what are the issues that you identify and which solutions could you perhaps suggest?

Perhaps documenting in the manner I mention isn’t even a good idea. In that case, please also let me know why it isn’t and what we can do instead.

The more we grow, the bigger the issue of tribal knowledge of a few longer-term developers becomes.

I need to head to sleep now but will respond when I wake if there are any replies.

Thanks in advance for your time.
you have to pick where

Everywhere.

and how quickly to ramp

Yes, that is the one and only tuneable variable. It's a single, obvious scalar, like the interest rate set by a central bank. There's no room for favoritism or shenanighans. Of course, like central bank interest rates, it will be an object of impassioned political debate. That's expected.

which will eventually lead to you having to make some “assumptions” about what size (range) is “too big”

Absolutely false. You're confusing a value with its rate of change. The speed limit on the highway doesn't constrain the length of the road.
What improvement does it bring? I actually hope it can argument my ordinary life but that probably depends more on software.
Learning Rust in 3 Attempts
CD Baby and others have sold these cards for people putting music on their services for a while.
oh hey look another handwringing about crypto mining without mentioning actual mining waste or video game or movie waste?

How utterly suprising.
I didn't know much of him apart from his Arrested Development cameo, but my partner told me about this anecdote about him today and I think it's brilliant:

Hurwitz recounted how, when he actually got in touch with Weathers, the actor immediately dismissed the exact type of joke Hurwitz and the writing staff were envisioning. And not only that, but it was actually Weathers himself who came up with the running bit for his character:

"So I called Carl, and said, 'Hey, I don't know if you've seen the show but we wanna use you for it, and you'd be working with David Cross.' And he goes, 'Great, but let me ask you something. It's not going to be just a bunch of Rocky jokes is it?' I laughed, 'No! No! Give me a little credit, Carl. Of course not! It's a multidimensional character.' And he was like, 'Because I direct and I'm a funny guy and I don't wanna just do a bunch of Rocky jokes. Nobody wants that. Maybe I could be really cheap or something?' And I said, 'Whaaaat?' 'Maybe I could be really cheap?' 'Really? You'd like to do that?' 'Oh, absolutely, that's what I'm saying. I want to play someone funny, not just be a sight gag.' It was so much better. I went back to the writers room and said, 'You're not going to believe this. Carl Weathers wants to be incredibly cheap.' All credit to Carl on that."

https://www.slashfilm.com/1508464/carl-weathers-idea-for-hil...
The fact that they care about nothing other than profit is exactly why they're attracted to places where energy costs are a net negative. Lower energy cost = more profit. Higher energy cost = less profit.
Are those dots just like a density map/gradient? Or are they real symbols / characters?
I think that in this context what it means is that it's something fabricated and put on flat screens. Quite literally there's no depth to it.

Dreams are another beast entirely, you're fabricating and perceiving the contents at once, like you say, with all the senses.

VR takes advantage of our vision being so prevalent among our senses, but the fact that only it and sound are involved is what makes it fake.
IIRC this property of fiber optic cables was discovered via cicadas. Previous link on HackerNews: “Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can ‘Hear’ Them”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38500065
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I very specifically said that the government should fund projects and personally I think it should fund more. But they can't do everything and they won't always have the foresight to fund everything worth funding.

I am arguing that more-or-less randomly allocating wealth to individuals to then re-allocate will produce better results and the larger number of individuals, above a certain amount of wealth necessary for grand projects, the better. I think we are better off when we have a diversity of directions in funding grand projects. There is a very real cap on how much money is actually necessary for great projects. No one needs 100 billion dollars to do any particular thing. Idk where the line is, probably the high hundred millions or low billions?

We also really need better wealth distribution in the middle too, but the main post's assertion is literally "no rich people" so I'm arguing against that because private investment has created an incredible amount of the good things we enjoy every day. I'm not talking about the "great men" I'm talking about boring people writing checks for new companies that they think sound cool.
This is the point in the discussion where I'll point out that .NET started out as ".NET Passport", e.g, what people now think of as a Microsoft Account.

See also Apple, who, after a relatively brief dalliance with the name iTools, rebranded its online service as ".mac".

Sigh...

I miss early Internet names like these, although I suppose the fact that the original dot com era didn't last and a bunch of early startups got wiped out - Pets.com, anyone? - gave it a stench that marketers were all too willing to run away from at the first possible opportunity.
Depends on what features you want in your book. Out of most of the free/open source tooling, pandoc is probably the best.

I've written multiple books with it and have also used proprietary tooling of publishers. I have a few plugins I use to customize my books, but have yet to find a tool that I wouldn't need to customize.
That must be the most profitable apology in history.
The original webpage doesn’t use the html element.

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
It's a self defense mechanism after all - someone demonstrably successful and accomplished holding different views forces you to introspect the narratives you were sold... so it's easier to just argue against the former.

I would venture a guess that the bulk of Elon animosity started exactly at twitter acquisition time, when the people selling the narratives lost their merchanting channel and so they made sure to poison the well beforehand.
To be fair LLMs have already shown more productive use in the last couple of years than BTC has through its existence, which means applications are more likely to be run by responsible companies that will try and find better ways to get the power they need.
Written in Go no less, a GC language!

I was expecting C/C++ or Rust, pleasantly surprised to see Go.
PFAS are in the DWR coating on the outside of Gore-Tex fabric. The PTFE membrane is on the inside. The DWR finish definitely ends up going down the drain or wears off in use.

There are new PFAS free DWR finishes, but don't know if Gore-Tex is using them yet.

Gore does not consider PTFE to be environmentally friendly and is working on flourocarbon free fabrics.
If you click on the source link under it you are redirected to https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/3s2adqyp5tajl2auiuuml/h?dl=0&... they apparently got all reports including a photo and just published it unredacted.

Maybe I misread the report but he doesn't even seem to have been convicted of any of the filled charges yet.
I wish we had meta-moderation and voting and flagging reasons like on Slashdot. Flagging as a super-downvote seems user-hostile and passive-aggressive for a site like HN, but I’ve seen it tacitly acknowledged as allowed as okay on HN by dang, which seems counter to the spirit of the guidelines.
In the wake of the 1929 crash and The Great Depression, a huge swath of regulations were put onto financial institutions so as to limit the riskiest investments with money in personal savings and checking accounts, aka Glass-Steagall. FDIC insurance was also born in this time.

Prior to these changes, bank runs and financial crises occurred about every twenty to thirty years. By contrast there were none until the 1980s S&L crisis following…major deregulation of the financial sector.

Many provisions of Glass-Steagall were repealed by late 1999. Less than ten years later, risky investments using consumer monies mostly in the form of real estate mortgage-backed securities imploded.

Deregulation of the financial sector often brings short term windfalls with near term crises and catastrophes.

When folks trot out the old "government is the problem" canard, I can't help but point out the economic arsons working on Wall Street and/or owning huge buildings in the middle of downtown financial districts. The government sometimes f's things up due to bureaucracy and ineptitude. The financial sector always f's things up because risk means nothing to them when it's someone else's money and they get their bonuses either way.

One makes infuriating mistakes. The other doesn't make mistakes; only self-interested sabotage. I consider the latter a greater evil frankly.
> But "tell them to go away" isn't a triage strategy.

The stubbornness of large organization can be maintained for several hundred years, assuming it exists for that long, so this isn't quite true.
> To world power with a much MORE equal society,

This statement relies heavily on how one might want to measure an equal society.
And yet Conway's Law still holds up surprisingly well

One way or another, your app reflects the org chart. So either you force the split because of your architectural choice or it happens because of your org structure

One way or another it will happen
you should make your resume visible to anyone with the link
The design of Kubernetes is based on Promise Theory
I can see who you are. This comment is sufficient. Is this enough context for you?
Bubbles don't cause recessions.

However I agree that doom and gloom isn't necessarily bad. And I would also say that short sellers perform one of the most vital functions in finance. (And that's why we should encourage their activity, instead of curtailing them with ever more rules or casting them as the bad guys.)

> Not sure about Europe though. But seeing as oil prices are global, I image y'all didn't much like the early 90s either.

Depending on where you were in Europe at the time, you would have had much bigger fish to fry: the end of the Cold War and dissolution of the Communist Block. You would have to look at individual countries to judge the impact (eg just a quick look at real GDP per capita reveals vast differences between eg Germany, Poland and Russia during the 90s.

(I grew up in (East) Germany and was aware that Russia did really badly in the 1990s. So I was a bit surprised to see that Poland's GDP per capita was on an upward trajectory almost immediately. I naively assumed they also had a painfully long and protracted transition phase. But it looks like their 'shock therapy' might have worked.) See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcerowicz_Plan
Monitors anywhere though is useful, the issue is that the technology to it isn't there. The 4K monitor I have sitting about 45cm from my face needs a 16K monitor sitting 5cm from my eyeballs to be adequately emulated.

The problem is "virtual" monitors in VR aren't high enough FOV or resolution to be as useful as real monitors.
I wonder if it would be possible to store the data in such a way that another program importing it without user consent would be trivially illegal.
TLDR: Half the people in the second group needed $20 :-P
I certainly think our current system is better than 0 rich people.

I think a better system would include more money spread around the middle class, fewer people in poverty, and a larger number of rich people with fewer individuals having > 10 billion dollars. That makes it harder for a small group of rich folks to band together to screw up democracy since there should, presumably, be greater diversity of opinions in the group of rich folks.

The main post is literally saying "no rich people" so that's the part I'm focusing on, but yes the middle class in America needs far more help than it's getting.
I think you both have made a mistake that seems all to common among people who are eager for a fight: namely, failing to recognize the distinction between someone who disagrees with your conclusion, and someone who believes your argument to be unsound.

In reply to a comment about the inverse square law, you replied with arguments about droplet vs aerosol when neither concept was mentioned in the comment you were replying to. Simply put, your argument was unsound; it lacked any connection between the concepts in your comment and the concepts in the parent comment. As written, it falls somewhere between a non-sequitur and a straw-man.

When your conclusions are correct, such unsoundness is usually easy to rectify; you've now made it at least halfway there by implying that the inverse square law applies to droplet transmission but not aerosol transmission. You now only need to reinforce that new claim with evidence to complete the originally broken chain of reasoning and have a convincing argument.

Even when you are right, you still have a responsibility to make your point using complete and coherent reasoning. I routinely downvote people whose conclusions I agree with when their explanations or justifications are clearly deficient and overreaching and don't come close to proving their point. I flag such comments when it looks like the poster is being disingenuous or displaying egregious intellectual laziness. Because discussions here are meant to be thoughtful and substantive, and you don't accomplish that by regurgitating talking points without even re-writing them to fit appropriately into the context of the discussion. Bad arguments are always bad comments for HN.

(Not having researched the droplet vs aerosol issue myself, my suspicion is that both are likely subject to distance falloff that is at least quadratic, but that the constant factors are so wildly different that effective "social distancing" for aerosol transmission would require distances that do not fit into most indoor spaces, and consequently aerosol transmission in confined indoor spaces can result in aerosol concentration becoming fairly uniform instead of maintaining a strong gradient. But that's rather more reading between the lines than you can reasonably demand from people.)
"Landmark" Safe Drug Supply Study Has Serious Flaws
How about the classic "I'm So Meta, Even This Acronym..." ?
Right now, not much. But I imagine it being pretty neat. You should go to the Apple Store and check it out.

The ability to pin menus at locations is actually really cool. I see why it’s called spatial computing
jj did drop the index. What appeal do you see in git's index? All it's ever done for me is slow me down by needing to do extra commands / arguments which I sometimes forget.
7 years old, 2017
1) Sigh. These arguments are far too ideologically generated.

2) There are many “cryptos” and technologies. Crypto is not a homogeneous system. Fiats all suck: even ones I implemented as crypto or digital currencies or whatever terminology one would want to use.

3) I think you have it out for crypto. I’m not a hype person or a crypto advocate, but I like the idea of decentralized financial systems and believe we have had very little innovation in the space (and need more).

4) Technology waves take 20-40 years to reach maturity. Radio. Television. Internet. They all take a lot longer than people realize.

5) There has been plenty of progress. If you want to be closed to that progress and dig your feet in to defending the existing system, that’s fine. But the idea that there hasn’t been “progress in 15 years” is absurd reasoning.
Just want to highlight that the way you phrased it, someone doing 99% harm and providing 1% value can be said to be providing value.
Jujutsu is not a Google product. Jujutsu is not a fork of anything, so upstreaming it does not make sense. It does support git repos, but that is a mandatory feature for new version control software to compete with git as people don't want a VCS that is not compatible with one's existing repos. It doesn't mean it's a fork of git.
This is absolutely critical and I wish the whole industry had your attitude!

Well put!
It would need to be extremely reliable also. Imagine crossing the road and your vision just randomly freezes. I'd assume it would be so disorienting that you'd immediately lose balance and fall over.

People may get seriously injured if they're actually wearing these things all the time. Even if they're 100% reliable you could imagine someone getting a low battery warning running down stairs to fetch their charing cable only for their vision to shut off as they're running down the stairs...
This is so cool! I wonder why it's not part of MAME though. Unless they're not into recreating the original experience 1:1?
Remember, the enemy's gate is down.
Internally ZFS is more or less an object store. I seem to recall there was a project to expose this to users directly, similar to how ZPL (filesystem) or ZVOLs are just two different ways to expose the internal object store.

Seems like it could be an interesting approach.
I might be that idiot. But, whatever. I enjoy my failure enough to try again.

https://joeldare.com/how-to-lose-money-with-25-years-of-fail...
Also listening for water leaks in underground pipes. https://terra15.com.au/terra15-provides-leak-detection-servi...
While I appreciate your attempt to provide a more-meaningful headline, that's a foreign language to me and is marginally less useful (or at least equally information-free insofar as I can't do anything with the information).