skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Authoritarianism is definitely "compatible" with benevolence at least on some levels.

China had always been a large empire, so the rulers did not rule directly. To the rulers at the very top, their interests aligned with the peasants in that both wanted stability, and given that China was such a vast empire, stability was more important to the rulers than squeezing every drop of excess productivity from the peasants.

So at least for the rulers at the very top, especially those who became emperor due to being the son of the previous one, their concerns were how to ensure the middle tier officials, who actually ran the day to day affairs, administered their lands fairly without corruption.

So basically they invented a system of "scholar-officials" where education consisted of brainwashing aspiring officials about the virtues of "filial piety" and applying concepts of parenthood in governance. "Love the peasants as if they were your children", and "be loyal to the ruler as you would to your parents". This might sound hypocritical to the cynics in modern society, but back then it was not just rhetoric, they were absolutely expected to fully believe in it, because it was intentional brainwashing of the "scholar-official" class by the top-tier ruling elite.

So basically that's where the "benevolence" comes from. It's not that the rulers at the top are benevolent per se, but that their interests generally don't come from squeezing the last drop of productivity from peasants for short term gain, but rather their main risk is corrupted middle/lower tier officials abusing their power, so they install systems to ensure the administrators are "benevolent" as far as possible.

I'm not saying it's a great system, and I don't think it can or should be replicated outside of China, I'm just trying to describe, as a historical fact, how the Chinese empires were run (ideologically speaking).
> Also weird that they report p75, p90, p95, p99, but not median.

I'm not aware of P50s having ever been a relevant performance metric in latency. The focus of these latency measurements were always the expected value for most customers, and that means P90-ish.
Good job. Very similar to the NPR puzzle show which provides three full words and you have to find the common one:

Cow, Flower, Hop: The answer is "bell" (cowbell, bellflower, bellhop)

You can ratchet up the difficulty by allowing homophones or proper nouns, for example:
Tall, Spin, Fox...

My brother and I use to make them up and play each other on long car rides during summer vacations.
Nothing unusual about that at all.

They didn't have good credit, so the Capital One card helped them establish it.

Then they got a better card with another company based on that credit.

Now having two cards improves your credit further, as well as using a lesser proportion of your overall credit. So Capital One upgraded their card.

Literally all of this is working as intended and it's just credit score algorithms. Your friend didn't waste two years on the Capital One card -- they built credit history with it.
The hubris of naming it “standard” when it is not is a bit of a turn off.
Ask HN: Tenured folks got fired, how can one setup career to be safe?
Folks in my company with over 15 years who have immense knowledge and business down knowledge got kicked out. I can't fathom to see this to happen in the medical field or legal field where experience matters a lot.

I look back as I'm early 30s, what should I do now to avoid being in a thorny position or have fear of being let go.

Only thing that comes in mind is to be always be preparing and casually be looking for jobs? What if the current job does not offer marketable skills at all that makes switching to another person much more difficult.

I'm just a bit worried because having mortgage to pay, family to feed, if someone with 15 YOE at one company can be let go, what can one do to avoid being in that position?

Is it just spend free time trying to network on LinkedIn and casually apply for jobs every weekend?
Another anecdata. I had a bike accident which took my left hand out of commission for a while. It was after the Matias keyboard became so expensive, and I was broke. But I was motivated enough to try the concept that I hacked together a software implementation that behaved more or less the same way on a standard full size keyboard by swapping to a mirrored system keyboard layout while holding the spacebar for a short time.

The software itself was buggy as hell (I learned just enough ObjC to get it kinda working), but even so the mirroring concept worked perfectly for me. It was basically no learning curve (full QWERTY to half QWERTY), and I only took a slight hit to typing speed. The first thing I did was prove it out by building another bit of software to relaunch the first whenever it crashed, and then worked full time with it for a couple months. Typing was never quite as subconscious for me as it is with both hands, but it was as close to that as I could imagine.
this is hilarious. it's illegal to report on the war in Ukraine. Russian journalists are less restricted on the topic than Western ones.

if you want Ukrainian journalists safe, change the constitution.
Maybe they can't tell what the underlying OS is when running via Flatpak?
Not sure what you're referring to. Files opened from disk in Firefox aren't forbidden from running JS.
Not to mention that retailers are getting screwed harder all the time. I thought that the major cards had set fees across their brands, but NO: retailers are screwed at all different levels by different ISSUERS. Apparently Capital One is one of (if not THE) worst, coming in at something obscene like 4.5%.

That's the entire profit margin of some businesses. At least some places like L.A. are taking tiny steps to prevent a total takeover by these assholes by outlawing "cashless" businesses.
Does anyone think the patent system is possibly worth saving? Perhaps some tiny shred of it? In light of the NYT copyright case (where they are clearly backed up by precedent, yet also completely at odds with human flourishing) and patent absurdities like this (these??), I really don’t see how one could possibly defend it. If there’s one thing open source and modern academia have shown, it’s that you don’t need these weird absolute arbitrary contracts to incentive R&D.
Fitting video from Jay Foreman. I love his unfinished London video series.

https://youtu.be/u5CguqywlBk?si=5EHkyayaMtk7UUPV

and

https://youtu.be/pWZ9ZVRQ0Nw?si=B2CeiFIab12Ip1tc
> People assume this and I never understand why

There's at least one science fiction writer who had similar thoughts and wrote a story [1] where the FTL is pretty much the only technology in which the FTL aliens who visit Earth are ahead of us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(short_stor...
I know! I thought all the jibberish was just to be silly, but no, it visually looks like the wave forms of the audio.
I just want to clarify that I didn’t mean the Amalek speech is irrelevant, but rather whether he originally meant Hamas or the Palestinian people in this speech. Whichever he was originally referring to is irrelevant, if he meant Hamas, the term has grown to mean the Palestinian People, and is being used to pump up the genocide.

Likewise Trump also claims his speech didn’t mean to start an insurrection, however, it did to so, and whatever he originally meant became irrelevant as soon as the insurrectionists started, and he didn’t order them to back down.
My obsidian already got out of hand. I switched to asana for business todo but it also got out of hand. I still create txt files occasionally. I think it is inevitable.
Show HN: Ioucontext = Io_uring and Ucontext
A coöperative multitasking framework based on `liburing` and `libucontext`, integrated with `c-ares` and `rusttls-ffi`.
Stickies is under appreciated. I saw someone in a coffee shop once outlining an essay or something in stickies. They had each point they wanted to make on a sticky, with some details, and they were moving them around the screen to re-order their ideas. Maybe not the most durable idea, but you could screenshot your screen if you wanted some kind of version control.
"American business-hating lumen chasers" is an incredibly shallow portrayal of that flashlight community.

I've found flashlights to be one of the few product areas where "obscure AliExpress brands" actually outperform Western equivalents.

> Availability of parts and removable/disposable batteries are never a consideration in their recommendations

That's because it's taken for granted that nearly every recommendation uses one of a few standard cylindrical battery sizes, which are trivially user replaceable. Only a few brands use non-standard or built-in batteries. Often the electronics or LED emitters can be modified or replaced, since most lights fit a simple "cylindrical tube" formula.

> What throws the most lumens is the only factor they concern themselves with

I guess all those discussions about tint (subtle colours of the beam), CRI (how well colours are represented), beam shape, optics type, user interface, etc. were nothing then. ("Big number of lumens" is far from the only factor - sometimes not even the most significant one.)

Granted, not all that information is useful for a newcomer who just wants a decent light. But the buying guide on the wiki sums it up simply enough.

What is hilarious are the people selling those same AliExpress lights at huge markups (search "Goonbeam"). Quality and price are often linked, but far from the same.
Install Alpine Linux on Hetzner cloud (2023)
Desktop computer: every 2 or 3 days. Sometimes weeks but it's odd.
Work notebook: wednesday and friday. It might vary based on the things that I'm doing but I'm trying to close (and save) everything at the end of the day so I can turn it off.
While I'm not saying most people by far aren't doing it to save money, I have bought switch games and then emulated them just to try the graphics at 4k 60fps that isn't possible on the console.

That's the part I'm sad about - that we won't get emulated games that look and feel better due to faster hardware in the future. Money isn't an issue for me.
Microsoft to expand its AI infrastructure in Spain with $2.1B investment
Not to shade on anyone, but even Jeff Dean isn't good at predicting the future.

The pathways model/architecture aren't exactly where things are moving towards, LLM is.

https://blog.google/technology/ai/introducing-pathways-next-...
Do you transcribe the videos or use the captions, because GPT4 can already do the latter?
There's a third path: be a patent agent. You're empowered to prosecute patents for anyone, and most IP firms employ one or more of them. No law degree needed. I was one of those, for about a year. It is not the same as either paralegal OR examiner.

Will people pay you? Well, individual inventors will nickel and dime you, and big companies want big IP law firms. So it's tough. So yeah, it's boring, but once you've mastered it, it doesn't change that much.
I always ask LLMs this:

> If I initially set a timer for 45 minutes but decided to make the total timer time 60 minutes when there's 5 minutes left in the initial 45, how much should I add to make it 60?

And they never get it correct.
Writer 'swatted' 47 times over casual diss of Norm Macdonald in 2018
There is a point at which marginal money is worthless. Usually it's nation states that reach that point...
From a comment on the blog post:

> iirc it's generated from a script in asterisk, with the delay and tone durations set "short" (I think it was the minimum EIA/TIA DTMF mark/space numbers, not sure.)

> My phone system was Google Voice, through an SIP bridge with Obihai (now defunct/discontinued). Asterisk then made the SIP connection and rang my other phones, a Lucent Partner ACS for my landlines, cellphones, ATAs and forwarding numbers, also over SIP.

> Most of the hardware was lost in the housefire last year. This recording was from early-mid 2020 or so.

https://cohost.org/sirocyl/post/2891449-i-broke-ikea#comment...
I like it! Kind of an infinite canvas app. I had a board with boxes for upcoming meetings, notes from calls, useful links, screenshots of things I was thinking about, etc. A really good system actually.
Why go so fast? Aren't Nvidias products fast enough from a TPS perspective?
> They always will; starting an Isolate in v8 will always beat a Docker or VM start.

Is that the case though? AWS is upfront in how their nodejs lambdas being the preferred choice for low overhead, low latency, millisecond workloads, and as they also control the runtime I'd be surprised if they followed the naive path you're implying of just running nodejs instances in a dumb VM.

Hell, didn't AWS just updated the way they handled JVM lambdas to basically not charge for their preemptive starts and thus make them look as performant as nodejs ones?
Based on our current understanding, the Amiga documents appear to be accurate, including the identification of the individual funding Hyperion.

Their actions have caused considerable frustration. For years, they lied to us, fostering a climate of animosity and even hatred.

What Amiga could have been if not for their greed.
I was trying to do this for cpu coil. I miss hardware feedback.
(1) You can't really go based off "views" on Twitter. They don't really mean anything, just that someone scrolled past the tweet. I found that baguette tweet you were talking about, and it only had a couple thousand likes. Nothing about him seems like a master troll, that's a cop out in the style of "joke's on them I was only pretending".

(2) I think that was more down to him being the former CEO with access to inside information rather than a master manipulator...

(3) His wife having long COVID doesn't give him a free pass to promote literal conspiracy theories, where all the world's governments and press are working together to hide the truth from everyone.
Researchers at the Fed agree:

> The case against patents can be summarized briefly: there is no empirical evidence that they serve
to increase innovation and productivity

https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/wp/2012/2012-035.p...
Wrong. It was a good, principles decision with a surprising outcome.
That's what he said. There's nothing wrong with it, either.

And don't bother pretending to think that he wants the government to use his opinion as justification. That's obviously where you're going, so don't insult the rest of us by continuing.
1) We spot exoplanets by their influence on the star, which is nearly nil at distances of 100+ AU.

2) We spot exoplanets that have huge volumes and masses, like Neptune or Jupiter size (15x or 100x Earth's mass, or even multiples of Jupiter), but the ones we're talking about beyond the Kuiper belt might be on the order of 0.1 Earth mass or smaller.

3) 20M light years is an exaggeration, most detected planets are within 1000 light years.
Saving the news media means moving beyond the benevolence of billionaires
Web.dev for China
Empress (Cracker)
This story parallels the stories here of people staying at their employer hoping to get raises, but then ultimately switching to another one who values their experience more than their former employer.
Show HN: iListen – I made an app which summarizes articles into short podcasts
Hey HN! We've built a tool that summarizes webpages into short podcasts.

What started as my little personal productivity tool has launched! I initially made this to address a personal problem - overflowing inboxes from newsletter subscriptions, colleagues sending me articles, keeping up with news and industry research. I thought this would make a great solution to others like me struggling with information overload.

Key features include:
- Customisation: All summaries can be customised to your preferred voice and summary type;
- Podcast library: All summaries (both in text and in audio) are stored in your library - so you can listen to all your summaries directly from the app;
- Chrome extension: Our Chrome Extension (which actually sparked the core app idea!) lets you summarize and listen to any webpage while you're browsing.

Would love to get any form of feedback on the product - and if this is something you'll use.
I initially took the title as asking why diamonds or sapphire are harder than uglier rocks.

Guess I'll need to find that link myself ;)
I’m using ChatGPT 4

You keep talking about interchange fees

That’s one part of the equation
I switched to Python Black and isort for the exact same reason. It just takes all of the thinking out of it. Even better, these tools mean I don't have to teach (and police) code style. I let a pre-commit hook handle that.
I have a Tap Strap 2. (Although only as of a couple of weeks ago, so still pretty new to it.)

Answering your questions, split into pros and cons:

## Pros

You can customise the layout, including meta keys like control/alt/windows. I think the "more advanced mode" is basically just designing your own layout.

It's honestly very accurate for a keyboard that is basically just tapping your figures against a table. It definitely misreads the odd input (or perhaps more accurately, it is sufficiently easy for me to waggle my fingers wrong), but it doesn't make so many that I'm really bothered by it.

I had an issue with the firmware on mine when I first got it, and the support team were super responsive. I really appreciated this.

The Android/iOS app is well designed for learning how to use it -- it comes with an excellently pedagogical typing tutor.

If you're curious, I'd definitely recommend giving it a go. IIUC the WPM most folks get with it is about equivalent to to other one-handed-keyboards, ~50 or so. I've found learning it to be pretty easy. (Substantially easier than learning a new layout on a regular keyboard, for some reason.)

It connects as a bluetooth keyboard, no special software required.

## Cons

Customising layouts is unfortunately a bit of a chore, being both tied-to-the-company and requiring additional devices. The layout must first be designed through a webpage on their site, which you need to log in to using your account. Then you need an Android/iOS device to actually connect to the TS2 and push the layout.

## Worth knowing

You have essentially five layers: default, double tap, triple tap, shift, and switch. Shift and switch are pretty similar to layers as you'll find them on most ergomech keyboards. However, the double and triple tap layers work by inputting the key corresponding to that chord on the default layer, then detecting that you're doing a double/triple tap, then inputting backspace, and then inputting the key corresponding to the chord on the double/triple tap layer. So if you'd like to use it for something like vim, then that first input might actually mean something! If that will affect you, then in practice you can't use the double/triple tap layers, and you only have 60% of the real estate to fit your custom layout into. That is just enough to fit basically a whole keyboard -- I've got a custom layout that does this -- but it took me some careful thought for how to cram all those keys into such little space in a logical way.
> “Capital One is the opposite of both those things”

I am biased, I worked for Capital One out of college for 4 years as a software engineer and had a wonderful experience. It was the best place for me to learn industry and professional engineering, and I felt the company culture / company itself was a fantastic place to work. So respectfully I disagree.
More substantively: I’m planning on using AI (grounded symbolic RAG-esque ones) and existing patent examples & instructions to help me write a patent for an AI system I’ve designed, passing it off to (non-specialized) attorney friends and family only for final glances. Does a kind hacker need denizen want to make an example of me and explain why I shouldn’t try that? The actual filing fees for “microenterprises” is low, and it doesn’t say you need to be a lawyer… plus cmon, there’s no way that “legal code” mentioned here is some impenetrable jargon.

In more provocative terms: once we have agential assistants with grounded legal knowledge, i think the patent lawyer industry will get its lunch eaten by AI-assisted laymen
Oh yeah, AmEx, the company that detects fraud on your account, cancels it, and then DOESN'T NOTIFY YOU.

So you start getting notifications from vendors that they canceled your orders right before Christmas, because of trouble with your card. When you call AmEx and ask why the fuck you weren't notified of fraud on your account, they say (and I quote): "Oh we don't do that. We wait for the customer to get in touch with us."

The monumental stupidity and irresponsibility of this "policy" should be evident and disqualifying.
Unless you earn enough money to retain good lawyers and are prepared to get into complicated legal troubles, getting sued isn't a great outcome even if you win.

The prudent thing to do is to stay away from anything that might make you become a target of investigation, unless the gains outweigh the risk by a significant margin.
Because maximizing both biological vectors of self-improvement and computing based avenues of skill acquisition is limited by the fact that it's a multi-objective optimization problem when you combine them together during maximization. Optimizing one de-optimizes the other. They, biology and computers, conflict with each other in fact. So, at best, you have to reach for a Pareto frontier.

And, it turns out, technology can't be trusted, as there is always some sort of black box associated with its employment. Formally, there is always a comprehension involved when it comes to the development and integration of technology into human life. You can't really trust this stubborn built-in feature of technological and economic success if you don't pierce through its secrets (knowledge is the power to counteract cryptographic objects). After all, it could be a malicious trojan horse that "basic common sense" insists on us all using for "bettering" our daily lives.

A very unfriendly artificial intelligence is trying to sneak through civilization for its own desires. And you're letting it just pass on by, as a result of your compliance with the dominant narrative and philosophy of capitalist economics.
I can't agree more, and I can't disagree more. There's a great deal to be learned by experimenting yourself.

My workflow is:

* Learn the concept

* Implement it

* Research prior art

* Throw away my first implementation and rewrite it properly

(Edit: formatting)
Note there is an implied drm baked into nearly every steam game, They will only run if they find a authorized steam service running.

Now my understanding is that this is fairly easily bypassed, I think you need a fake steam runtime, but it is still drm.

And as a final thought, despite this, steam is still heads and shoulders in front of any other online service I have used in respecting it's users. I like how you can share games, you have to jump through a few hoops, but it is is easy enough to do. As great as this is, it still is very heavy handed in "managing your digital rights" (said in as sarcastic a tone as you can manage)
only 80% to go!
Working fine here with uMatrix (actually nuTensor), are you auto-blocking the first party content too?
Vim? I remember DHH was the premier TextMate evangelist. All his videos were TextMate only.
Oh man! That hot swap method! I remember my computer, running Linux (which freaked 14 year old me out) from a live cd, case open, and plugging in the hdd while the Xbox and pc was on.

I felt like a warlock when I could rip my games after that.

Great memories.

And my mate at school saying there is no such thing as a soft mod! Haha