skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my litmus tests for looking at prospective MBA programs is which ones require significant industry/career experience, versus those that promulgate a high school > college > MBA > management position with zero real world experience (i.e. are more driven to the consulting/networking audience).

That should lead to hopefully finding an MBA course that augments my knowledge on a technical level rather than a mindset of "I did this course so I must know more than you about how to do your job".
Totally sounds like Spark :D
"The Christian world has long acknowledged a division between the secular and the religious."

ALL religions _insist_ on a divide between secular and religious by definition.

I still consider myself a Christian but please do better than a quote from the big guy that related to taxation to somehow justify some sort of scientific related superiority over another Abrahamic religion.

I think you also managed to miss-quote the usual translation because I think it should be something like: "Render unto Caesar that which is due to Caesar and render unto God those things that are due to God". My Aramaic is a little rusty and I don't have access to the original docs so I might be wrong.

I think that the issue at the moment that JC was quoted talking about was regarding taxation and JC used that to make a rather neat earthly/heavenly analogy. Earthly taxation unto Caesar and Heavenly "taxation" unto God.

I think that twiddling an analogy about a situation that happened roughly 2000 years ago into another analogy, might be a step too far.
morality <> legality
Socialism makes a lot more sense when you realize that all the rigging to make people feel good about capitalism results in the same structure simply because anything else would not be permitted.
I've now seen four articles in a range of publications using the xz incident to say that same thing about FOSS. Here's one in a defense industry publication:

https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2024/04/how-fix-militarys-s...

When it appears in diverse multiple places simultaneously, I generally believe someone is coordinating a media campaign. You may think that's paranoid but look at the merits of the argument: how else is it explained? They didn't coincidentally think of the exact same argument, especially when FOSS's reputation has been well-established for a long time - why now, for this particiular vulnerability, are all these people suddenly expressing doubts? And they didn't read each other's articles: these articles need to be thought of, written, edited, and published.

You (those reading on HN) needs to push back and point out the absurdity of the argument now. Otherwise, even if it doesn't cause major changes, it will plant a seed - FUD, using the old IBM technique. Next time there's a incident, they will just keep beating that drum, as for-profit companies make another reach for more power. I'm sure others here will point out plenty of flaws in the argument; biggest of all is that proprietary software has the same problems - you can list them with ease.

Who is behind it? We may know when the first one says they are discontinuing using FOSS.

EDIT: Another reason to think it's coordinated: It's absolute BS. Nobody in IT would seriously make this claim. Everyone uses FOSS one way or another, and everyone has seen plenty of awful proprietary software. It's a deception intended for the uninformed outside IT.

Think about it: Many people saying the truth simultaneously makes sense. But for many people to come up with the same BS - and any IT professional is deceiving people knowingly - that takes coordination.
7 years is the usual estimate in a “neutral/slow” market because it usually costs 10% to sell (realtor fees, etc).

Of course if appreciation is going up more than 10% you can profit much faster, or you have flipping techniques to avoid frictional costs (like being your own realtor).
Choose your own adventure but please don't ask me to pay your academia bills ;_;
Also noteworty as a leading indicator of Apple's short-term future.

The stock price is taking a battering due to uncertainty of the legal battles and outcomes with EU, US, AU and other regulators of markets.

It could be argued that Apple isnt winning the PR battle. It also seems like Tim Cook's star is no longer on the rise.

On the one hand he has managed Apple to incredible levels of profit and market share, but on the other his actions and policies may have harmed the core of Apple's brand proposition.

The Car Project was an expensive write off, from what we can tell.

The Apple Visions Pro seems like a pompous vanity project that has poor product market fit.
It's exactly the sort of product that you could see a modern day Steve Jobs walking in and cancelling immediately.

Their product line is now confused and bloated, driven by an obsessions to squeeze as much profit out of every product for as long as possible.
Rather than actually selling what is going to be best for consumers driven by market competition and a desire and pride in their work from their engineers, product and marketing teams to deliver the best products they can to market.

Apple's offfensive pricing on SSD and RAM upgrades are the one that offends me the most. I feel like I'm being scammed everytime I look at spec'ing up a new Macbook.
Which is completley different to the feeling I got when ordering a new Framework 13" for school use!

Apple Executives needs to get our of their gated palace and see what the world actualy thinks of them and their products.

Obviously we could argue all sorts of things about Apple, and we will never know for sure until it happens. :-)
If you get assigned to something like that, own it, no matter how useless it is. It's an opportunity to bulk up your resume for free.
They already do at least a bit :)

https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/
The arab world is perfectly capable of practicing science. However in countries where your future is bleak, you either immigrate or work barely able to get by.

One only needs to read recent history of any random country picked at random. And you will see a multitude of incidents of “oh yeah that will fuck them over”.

Here’s one where im from, a famine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_Mount_Lebano... induced by both Ottomans and the allies. Where 50% of mount lebanon the population died of starvation (christians and druze).

The list is literally endless. What drives me crazy is that the average american thinks arabs/muslims hate the west because of “their way of life”. My jaw dropped the first time I heard someone say that.

One small thing that can help is if the west can stop propping up dictators and genocidal countries. That would really help
> But open sourceness in no way contributed to this being found, it was not in the source code.

Where was it? The explanation I saw included obsfucated code. ?
> This why the US hegemony is so crucial, it is a counter balance to all of this non sense... I moved to the states at 13 and I have been here for the last 17 years.

Did you study US history? It's riddled with countless examples of when US hegemony has done the exact opposite. Middle East, Latin America, etc. (This is not a comment on US/Western values... Because I'd say a lot of US interventions around the world haven't exactly been congruent with those values).
Or “it’s best to wait till the migration complete before our team needs to do anything”
> It's not censorship. Generating two different people is a hard problem for Stable Diffusion type systems.

Does the technical mechanism matter for the social impact? The net result is the same: A certain category of ideas becomes comparatively harder to express.
Still better than leaving people stuck on Safari. Now Apple will have to work to make Safari better.
Do u also use lustre?
Basically it's because of unlimited/unconditional student loans that are 100% backed by the government. If students had to pay out of pocket, the market for useless and expensive programs would collapse. If lenders had to bear the risk of default due to the sheer uselessness of certain degrees, they would loan much less money.
In addition to the already mentioned Command Palette, macro expansion is also available as a quick fix, either by clicking the light bulb icon when it appears, or triggering it via hotkey (Ctrl+. by default).
Speculators are definitely gambling on appreciation but investors (while liking it) don’t want to depend on it.

They want appreciation that they can be causal on, like reducing or increasing vacancies, raising rents, etc.
You living there reduces supply.
It was stated that aftershocks are a concern.

I guess the idea is if you didn't notice the initial quake then you should be warned there might be a follow up.
There is no technical limitation, there is even an API for doing so.

It's just that apple block any submissions using that API from the app store.
I feel like Musk’s bizzare mental decline should be on an anti-drug abuse poster somewhere.
That's all fine. But the article isn't about the current state of any part of the Arabic world. It's a guess at the historical process by which science became less significant in the Arab world, something that happened centuries before you were born. You may well have grown up with the implications of that, but that's not what TFA was about.
Ask HN: How do you set targets and manage consequences with a new Co-founder
A couple of months ago we brought in a new Co founder to be the head of growth. We are a young startup with a product and a few paying customers.

The new Co founder is experienced and smart. I'm sure he works hard. But today I expressed the concern that if we don't meet some minimum sales targets I won't be able to pay my rent and I will not want to continue with someone who isn't able to meet minimum sales targets. To him this sounded like an ultimatum, a deadline with the worst consequences. I realise it's not great to put conditions like that, adds pressure and risk. But on the other hand if I'm not clear with the expectations and consequences from the beginning I'm afraid this will happen abruptly at the end.
We are all fulled by dreams and equity here. How to manage this situation where he is understandably afraid that I'll walk away with the app and he will be left with nothing if he isn't meeting some targets in another 4 months. It's like a probation period.
And I don't really want to be stuck with someone who isn't able to sell.
Any advice on how to manage situation like this would be very much appreciated.
> we are talking about really small amounts of energy

Napkin-math time: I see 4 motors, searching the model-number suggests each has a max draw of ~380 watts, so let's assume it averages 1000 watts in operation, for 6 hours a day, with a local cost of electricity at $0.20 per kilowatt-hour, and this continues for one month.

1000*8/1000*$0.20*30 = $36 per month per drone.

That's not give-a-penny-take-a-penny territory.
In fact, if you have a rural undeveloped plot of land amongst other undeveloped plots, and you pay to bring in electricity and gas or whatever, the properties around you will go up in value because now it’s cheaper to connect them up.
based on what is currently known, arch was never vulnerable to the backdoor that was discovered. arch doesn't patch sshd so that it links systemd like how debuntu/fedora do, which was a requirement for the backdoor.

ofc this doesn't rule out any as-of-yet unknown vulnerabilities in xz/liblzma.
I havnt seen people using dollar signs for MS since I was a small child. Are you a child?
> But just because something is your hobby doesn't mean you're not a professional at it.

While I do understand how you use that word here, it literally does, and it does in the general case because of incentives. (Thankfully, exceptional people that rise above this do exist, but hopefully we'll find a way to do better than basically using martyrs.)
My biggest problem is contemplating all of the steps and future work that will go into a project, then getting disheartened as I begin. Eventually I delude myself into believing it’s not worth the effort as it might fail anyway.

It’s probably a self-confidence thing, but so are most of the funny names in the article.

I should probably just focus on step one once I decide the end result is valuable.
It’s hard to say with this little information, but it sounds like you might have chosen the wrong school for your goals?

The database class at my uni was mostly relational algebra. Likewise, many other classes were mostly foundational theory (though we did have project-based applicative classes too).
I think the main concern about libc is that there are many aspects of it that aren't "minimal", so developers who want an interface for syscalls only are pressured into using libc in its entirety. I do not think libc is currently well designed either.
> ~3 hours of highway driving the other day used 75% of a full charge and it's taken 30 hours on a 15A circuit to charge back up

Good grief, what are you trying to do? No one charges cars on a wall outlet. I mean, sure, it "works", but yikes.

Take it to a supercharger for 20 minutes, or at the very least one of the copious 6-12 kW "Level 2" chargers you find in parking lots.
Yes but almost all shackled by Apple. Orion Browser is probably the only one I've come across that lets me install uBlock and it actually seems to work. None of the other ad-blocking extensions for Safari have the same power as uBlock as per my understanding and usage.
> Near --a-- birth of civilization

I was referring to Ur, but fair enough, I haven't tracked recent discoveries in other cradles.
Need to start doing basic verification of identity, being suspicious of users always using a VPn and proving their real location, many many years of contributions before becoming a maintainer and having that control etc.
It can be quite a long time 10-15 years.

I was in that situation and probably on paper we should have walked from an underwater house. But we could afford the payment, so we stayed.

The only really annoying thing was waiting ten years until the value went back up enough that we could refinance from the relatively high rates we had been paying. Annoying to be paying 8% when you could get 3% but you can’t refinance because you don’t have the cash to become not underwater.
I've known this to be true, as the subject of the article states:

> "Windows is the most accessible operating system there is"

and people don't believe me when I tell them.
This is all true (or certainly could be). But what does it have to do with a process that, in TFA, occured before the 14th century?
Quite impressed by your depth and experience in the sector.

You making such a bold statement makes me even more curious.
I've often thought about what a solution to this looks like. The best I've been able to find is something like the genius stipend.

If you meet a certain IQ cutoff, you can get free money from the government, enough to make as much as the average citizen. There's no direction, or additional hoops to jump through, no milestones, no stakeholders, no grants, no check-ins, no demos. The only condition is that all of the intellectual property you produce on the stipend is public domain.

Depending on the cutoff this could cost less than a stealth bomber per year. And it seems like it would easily be among the government programs with the highest return on investment. Unfortunately, smart folks aren't numerous enough to be a voting block, and so promising them money at other people's expense isn't a great political strategy.
I feel the XZ dev or at least the US government should subpoena Google for sure.
Yeah, if anything Turkey's a damning argument against Islam-influenced governance. Ataturk dragged Turkey into the 20th century with his secular "reforms". I put quotes there because the word seems like an understatement.

For a US audience, imagine if George Washington had declared that we were abandoning Latin script for Cyrillic (Ataturk brought in Latin script to replace Arabic), abolished common law for civil law (islamic law to civil law), banned people from wearing crucifixes in public (banning the fez, headscarves, veils), made the weekend a Sunday-Tuesday affair (thursday-saturday became the European friday-sunday), gave women the right to vote, gave us all an additional name (introduction of surnames), and put us on the Chinese calendar (Gregorian).
TFA is about a process that was mostly over by the 14th century.

Contemporary events are not a part of the story it is trying to tell.
Yes they do. Depending on the architecture, there's either a stack pointer register and CALL/PUSH/POP instructions, or a general purpose auto-increment/decrement addressing mode.

Local variables are placed on the stack as well, this is necessary if you want recursion, and it also typically results in faster/shorter code, because the instruction set and microarchitecture are optimized for this type of memory access.
Ik about Laiklik and Kemalism, yet it was under Erdogan that Turkiye became a leader in UAV research.

And it's not like Islamists weren't attending METU or ITU - look at Erbakan (the founder of the precursor of the AKP and Erdogan's and other Turkish Islamic politicians mentor) and the fact that he was a western trained MechE professor and researcher. Or Turgut Ozal (a Power Engineer and Professor by training) in the 1980s and his hardcore Naqshabandi leanings, as a number of Kurds in Turkiye like him are. Heck, ITU was an Ottoman institution.

And that doesn't explain modern Malaysia which was basically a product of the Hertog riots, and Tunku Abdul Rahman and Mahatir Mohammad's Islamist leanings.

Heck, Erdogan is literally a Turkish knockoff of Mahatir Mohammad - who was the original Erdogan back in the 1980s-2000s
The justice system is filled with all sorts of this stuff, sadly. Claiming they can match a shell to the gun it came out of, blood spatter, etc. My favorite example of this existing at a micro scale is when a professor claimed she could determine age, sex, and race from the footprint of a suspect.

[1] https://greensboro.com/anthropologist-testified-nationwide-g...
More likely it’ll be utility companies that want to do remote and autonomous inspection of the transmission network. It’s already a big business, but if you can run the drone the entire length of the line without relocating the base as frequently, or have no base at all and transmit data over 5G? Big wins.
My first job was working on an open source bug tracking tool that had been overextended to hell to perform business tasks: kick off automated processes, read and write from the corporate data store, etc.

I spent years fiddling with that thing. When the layoffs came and I left, they just threw the whole thing in the trash. Completely useless work.
TFA is about a process that was, according to TFA, mostly done by the 14th century.
The terms 'GPTs' and 'Custom GPTs' are used interchangeably by OpenAI.
Most people should pay themselves HOA++ so that they have a maintenance account when needed.

The problem is if you don’t you just hurt yourself a bit - but a badly managed HOA can hurt you surprisingly when it’s discovered that they have no money at all for major maintenance items and trigger a sudden assessment.
Oh my god, it isn't the same product but I was the user of a similar thing at an old job I had for 2 years only it was a slider from 1-10. I always chose 1 no matter how productive, happy or driven I felt. I remember that HR called me in because of this and in a round-about way said I can't just keep doing that as it was bringing the whole purpose of the system down. If I didn't want to interact with the system then I should just select a higher value and a few months later, my manager said that I didn't need to use that system any more.

The funny thing is that in my current job, they use something called "Dailybot" or something integrated to google chat where you check-in and once a week, give an emoji between 1-5 about my productivity or something... Unhappy face for me.

What value is this supposed to provide? If you take part, it will be 8-9-10 regardless to "look good" and if you don't take part like me, it drags the entire team to an average of 4-5-6 which is the same as not having the system at all and yields the real outcome of average.
Simulating impact of room-temperature superconductor (RTSC) manufacturing breakthrough...

Newly discovered material enables superconductivity at 25°C.

Scalable manufacturing process for RTSC devices developed.

Energy transmission and distribution revolutionized by lossless RTSC cables.

Compact and efficient RTSC electric motors displace combustion engines.

Maglev trains and hyperloops proliferate with cheap RTSC propulsion.

Electricity prices plummet as utilities upgrade to RTSC infrastructure.

Data centers achieve order-of-magnitude efficiency gains with RTSC chips.

Developing countries leapfrog to RTSC-enabled clean energy and transport.

Geopolitical tensions shift as oil and gas lose strategic importance.

Rapid decarbonization of energy systems as renewables become ubiquitous.

Global carbon emissions fall sharply even as energy consumption rises.

RTSC desalination plants address water scarcity in arid regions.

Cheap zero-emission power enables direct air capture of atmospheric CO2.

Materials science and industrial processes transformed by precise magnetic control.

Global economy surges with productivity gains from RTSC technologies.

Unemployment rises in disrupted fossil fuel and conventional transport sectors.

Projected outcomes of RTSC mass manufacturing:
- Rapid and widespread electrification of energy and transport systems

- Decoupling of economic growth from carbon emissions and environmental impact

- Abundance of clean water and air as RTSC enables efficient purification

- Demise of fossil fuel industry and many incumbent technologies/business models

- Reduction in geostrategic importance of oil-rich regions and shipping chokepoints

- Major developing economies achieve energy independence and rapid growth

- Intense competition among nations and corps to lead in RTSC applications

- Workforce disruptions requiring transition assistance and reskilling programs

- Acceleration of space development with more capable launchers and satellites

- Societal soul-searching about purpose and meaning in post-scarcity RTSC era
Wow! I of course knew that Lish heavily edited the story but I never looked at the changes: they are huge. Talk about the old adage about the statue being in the slab of marble, you just need to take out the unnecessary parts. Towards the end, he took out pages from a story that was not long to start with.

Many edits are well placed (for a guy deemed as a minimalist, Carver, sometimes took a while to get to the point! in his sentences) but what's with changing the names of the characters, e.g. Herb to Mel? I would have been mad about that.
Or to look at it another way, the 2010s were when the people belittled as nerds came into the workforce en masse. Those born in the 80s and 90s and grew up living and breathing computers.

The nerds were now in their 20s and 30s, so when the 50s and 60s geezers called them nerds as always the response was "Yeah. I'm a nerd and I'm making money while you're slated for retirement. Problem?" and the term became an identity for those generations.

Whatever we're calling the Z-ers today, they will do to us what we did to those who called us nerds.
A fairer system would be SAT score weighted by contribution and legacy status, it makes it nice and fair for everyone.