skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Counterpoint: Plan 9 is supposed to be the ultimate realization of the Unix philosophy. One important aspect of the Unix philosophy is composable software. Instead of large, feature-rich programs where functionality is often siloed off from other programs, users have a toolbox of small, composable programs that “do only one thing and do it well” and that they could connect together using pipes and other inter-process communication primitives.

Composable software is something I’m highly interested in. There were efforts in the 1990s to make desktop software more composable, such as COM from Windows and OpenDoc from Apple, but the desktop world is still dominated by large applications such as those that constitute Microsoft Office and the Adobe Creative Suite. It would have been a wonderful opportunity for the Linux desktop world to embrace components, but, alas, the community embraced OpenOffice, GIMP, and other large applications.
I'll dust off some old replies:

On "How to properly manage a product roadmap": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22827841

On "Should you listen to your customers": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26814150

On "How to effectively get feedback from users": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24971875

These mainly delve into extracting the job to be done, avoiding the XY problem, and looking at actual user behavior (actions or lack-thereof aka "non-consumption") to turn into issues/tickets to solve real problems as opposed to imaginary ones. You can even encode these in issue templates / ticket templates to avoid having frivolous feature requests or unimportant/non-urgent bugs and focus on things with high frequency and/or severity. i.e: product management.

Now, for the engineering side of it...

On "How do you develop internal tools for your organization?": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29061808

The above link shows the inception of our product around a plugin architecture.

More on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25186586

The design principles I had set and enforced with iron fingers. The fist of someone who presses on keyboard keys may be weak, but his fingers are ruthless.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29397405

One way to go about this is to improve the way you build product (product management, everyone is involved) or push for that, then get the engineering to deliver that in ways that make it easy to add/remove features, integrate with users (in the abstract sense, they could be humans or other systems), onboard developers.

Other posts you could cherry-pick from can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40482961
Good to know, since ODROID H4 uses N97 and has 4 SATA ports + NVME with M.2 bifurcation, https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4-plus/ & https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/m-2-4x1-card/
Neuroscientists Battle Furiously over Jennifer Aniston
Some experience in this with a different personal product:

The issue with CLI tools is that they are going to be used by engineers, so you have to offer way more value then what it takes someone to search github for a python script and run it. This is very hard to make.

Whereas if you make something that has an intuitive front end, non technical people can learn to use it, and would pay money for it.
Mathematicians aren't having sex or changing diapers, math can all be in LaTeX
No new protocol or standard is needed for what you're describing. HTML is designed to do all of this by allowing a very fancy CSS and JavaScript for modern browsers but also be backwards compatible so you can literally use links. Unfortunately, I think that most web developers don't realize this is even a possibility anymore because if you're 35 or younger you never experienced what the web used to be unless you stumbled across some ancient site. You also have to think about the effort it takes to continue to remain compatible with a text only system. How many additional hours of development time and testing time does it take for the use case that you're describing and how many people would use that use case? The reason no one uses the functionality that already exists for sites to continue to present data when there is no CSS or JavaScript it's because almost no one browses that way and those places aren't interested in having customers that aren't using CSS or JavaScript.

Generally what you want in a case like this is an API to interact with the site you're looking for data on. Most places that do have some sort of consumable data that would be useful in a programmatic mode have an API available to you.
Going behind that big pile of fallen stuff once, and finding a whole box of NOS switches that people had been searching for, for years, for some prop replicas. I damned near soiled myself. I think Torrance was there last time I was part-hunting, but that was 10 years ago.
Are there any low-power Ryzen boards in the same price range?
Many of the more productive countries that have sectoral unions end up competing on quality over price. Although that may have more to do with their economies being more advanced. A German worker simply could not survive on Indonesian wages, regardless of unionization.
Yup, fewer overpaid jobs for those lucky enough to hold them.
memories of when this and oil in water on an overhead projector were the pinnacle of trippy visuals. or the interactive exhibits that would do the feed back live of whoever was standing in front of the exhibit.
I do worry about the national debt. But I've heard much of it was caused by both large tax cuts (including for the wealthy) and large spending bills (favored by liberals).

And here's how (Republican) congressman David Schweikert voted...

https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/106387/d...

I see cynical political bloggers arguing that congressmen only care about the deficit when the opposite party is in power. I haven't actually gone through his voting record to see whether or not that's true. But here's a chart showing the growth of the national debt -- fairly steady from Obama through Trump and Biden. (Other than a spike during the pandemic, which was inevitable...)

https://www.statista.com/chart/28393/us-public-debt/
This is a very good piece. I don't know why people are so comfortable trusting the man who caused so many harms with social media to dictate our future with this new technology.
Thank you for sharing, all this talk of beta 1.7.3 (which is over 10 years old, my goodness how time flies) has made me nostalgic to try it, and this might be what convinces me to, since without anything new I probably would set up in a cave and then quickly quit.
One drawback of Ruby code completion is that it tends to require partial execution of code that may contain side-effects, and this is inherently dangerous.
More amazing is how Caro paints the picture that really proves the point.

LBJ was a despicable human being in many ways. But, he truly believed in civil rights and making life better for ordinary people. Caro captures the toil of the hill country farm wife and the oppression of Mexican-Texans — and what Johnson did for them — vividly.

Moses was almost the opposite. He built an idealist vision in the 1920s… and never evolved. As his power peaked, he did not understand why people were against him after what he had done for “the people”.
Very popular for a plex server right now.
there's 5 people in my company, and we talk daily. want to split 10s since you've already doubled down?

btw, I can add my crypto wallet to my bio so you can pay up if you'd like /s
It isn't because they have the money, it's because they have given the government access to whatever data they want. When it comes to three letter agencies it really isn't about money, it's about power and in today's digital world data is power.

To answer your specific question, this isn't okay. Both the government and large corporations have been given way too much power and we really have no hope of making any meaningful change until the people reclaim this power and put those in charge out on their ass.
Are there any low-power Intel boards in the same price range, since this one is sold out?
Which is clearly a red flag operation so that whenever someone serious tries to tout this, they'll be rebuffed as it's an article in the Onion. Those clever bastards!
Yep, it suffers from hipsteritis and inability to adapt consistently and sensibly to prefer the greater net good, and instead randomly prefers awkward, more troublesome workarounds. It's too much like a Perl 2.0 in some respects.
It's just an expression. The point is, what happens after a union is formed?
All your analogy says is there are 2 sides to every fight. in the co-vs-union case, one of those sides is the company’s employees (you). That means the company’s interests are opposite to yours when they fight unionization.

You might be skeptical of the union side, but the company is doing whatever will let them pay you less and/or exert more undemocratic control over you.
If you watch the video, the argument is made that receipts/revenue is up, but spending is increasing faster. The government needs to budget better. I wish Democrats and Republicans could find some way to course correct by reducing spending and possibly increasing taxes.
Is this just a merge of lz4mt, or something better?
I agree, it's crazy to think how much content has been added to the game since beta 1.7.3 because I remember thinking at that time that there already was so much. Like you imply, there were all sorts of unintentional tricks to add to your bag: cart boosters, all manner of BUDs, placing a water source beneath your feet to prevent fall damage. But I think part of that feeling of wonder is nostalgia, since playing now I am not really bothered by powered rails, observers, and feather falling -- nor do I think I would be if they had been introduced from the get-go.

And of course redstone. What a lovely idea in retrospect.

Thank you for helping me revisit these memories.
This isn’t just Tesla. Mercedes and one other carmaker have non-union plants in the US south.

And speaking of opening plants: the UAW got one of the big 3 to stop their planned closure of one of their plants.
Slightly OT but Proxmox is something else I see is suddenly everywhere - is it only for a container-based homelab setup, or do people also run a full desktop distro like Debian or Fedora as one of the VMs? Since GPU passthrough is supported, seems like a nice neat way to have your cake and eat it too. In which case I might splurge on an N305 with a bit more RAM and migrate Plex and other containers (currently on an always-on M1 which is supposed to be my workstation), plus the Tailscale exit node (currently on an RPi4) to the same machine the kid uses as his DE.
I never said any such thing. I said it’s not a problem for me but that others may have a different opinion. And you could still use an older OS on that Mac; the ones it shipped with don’t magically stop working.
The world should fund the creation of a new island.
"HB is terrible. We use Chef with microdnf and Munki/MSC instead." - Head of a client platform engineering team at a MAANG
> Just because a company is large doesn't mean it needs to start making poor business decisions

To be clear this is also inflammatory rhetoric disguised as what some would have you think is ‘common sense’.
Not sure I want to google it either.
GP was saying the client would require a web browser. The server of course needs cloudflared.

That said, personally I don't really have any devices that can use SSH but not a browser.
Competitiveness is about more than just price. One of the best ways for first world countries to compete is through automation. Now you need higher skilled workers, because they're building and maintaining manufacturing equipment instead of sewing textiles by hand in a sweatshop, but you also need fewer of them and then they can each be paid more without compromising competitiveness.

But you're still back to the original problem, because you're not just competing with Indonesia, you're also competing with other industrialized countries that have skilled workers but may not have unions. And you'll have to pay the market wage in those countries, which will certainly be higher than the median wage in Indonesia, but having a union that e.g. prevents bad workers from being discharged would still put your industry at a disadvantage.
It's not relevant. Unionization takes months at least but usually years. The workers at this store in Maryland had their first vote in 2022. The campaign started in 2021. The NLRB moves like molasses and heavily favors employers.

If workers had a notion that their store was underperforming, there's no way anyone could unionize fast enough to prevent it from closing. So it's not a realistic hypothetical. In fact, the company would probably close an underperforming store sooner if there was a unionization drive and would have plenty of time to do so before certification.
I recommend tearing it in half.
> Another corollary: it really pays to be a tolerant, stable and welcoming country.

Yup. The US has a pretty incredible history of brain draining European countries when they become intolerant or living there became otherwise intolerable. So many inventors in the states were brilliant immigrants.
It's a mess not because it's complex, it's because of bad design.
Losing 1% of your banks in a few days is not normal.

China’s government stepped in and corrected big during the Evergrand thing, but it isn’t a big secret that China is super leveraged into junk real estate. The complete lack of transparency makes it super hard to tell what is rumors, but it wouldn’t be a huge surprise to see a major correction in China.
> Mathematicians aren't having sex or changing diapers, math can all be in LaTeX

Sex and LaTex! I dig it!
The opening ceremony is a fashion show. It's fun to judge all the teams' costumes. Hard to do that when they're shoulder to shoulder, leaning on the rails of a distant barge, seen through a rain-soaked lens.

And then there was a concurrent runway show to distract from the athletes, which was more of the same featureless body positive chaff they've been bombarding us with for the last decade. It just looked like an American commercial.

When are we going to hand the keys to North Korea and let them show us how it's done?
just wait til you find out how LLMs work
Is the library parametric such that it works for other electrolyte systems like sodium batteries? How about flow batteries? I would think cracking isn't such an issue for 2 fluids across a membrane.

Or even just lead-acid?

ie is this 'debug lithium'
This isn't always true. Tech s
tartups are more and more the core form of the business world.

Most businesses that are successful in North America in any industry started self-funded.

The cost of building software has fallen 10-100x compared to 10-20 years ago.

Self-funding can be strategic, especially for experienced founders with industry chops.

Waiting for VC green light might waste time you could spend learning the market. It's good to talk to everyone, get introductions, but keep product learning going.

Don't underestimate dilution. Self-funded or lightly-funded SaaS can exit for impressive multiples, sometimes matching heavily diluted unicorns. Billion dollar funded exits are for the already rich, not the founders. Choosing between that or a 50-200M exit where its 70-90% the founder(s) is pretty staggering.

VC cash doesn't guarantee success or hustle. It's pressure, sure, but timing and execution are still king.

Self-Funding or smaller rounds early to prove scale can lead to sweeter terms later.

Investor rejection isn't a "no" to building. It's a chance to fine-tune and find the right partners.

B2B consulting can be paid market research if you play it smart.

In B2B software, strong demand might turn clients into both customers and investors.

YC's approach is solid - they don't push startups to fundraise if the timing's not right. There's good investors aligned around that (and them) as well as other ways.

The key? Balance. VC or self-funded, focus on building something valuable. Don't chug the VC Kool-Aid, but don't be overly sober either. Pick the path that fits your goals, experience, and market opportunity. Sometimes, the untapped demand is there with or without you - might as well go after it.

Smaller investment funds coupled with many successful founders coaching (actual help in doing) are worth looking into. One I came across recently was TinySeed. There are others.

If you're still not convinced, check out the VC's silent cousins, private equity firms snapping up self-funded startups to grow themselves.
> If "resource satiation" refers to the ability of the player to build/do whatever they want, then it is true. If "resource satiation" means "having enough resources", then for some people it is impossible by nature. There's always a temptation to do more and build more.

Just to clarify my point, when I refer to satiation I mean it in the same way one might feel about MMOs. OK, let me be honest here, I don't play any MMOs but my understanding is that after you "beat" the game and max your level, one thing that might bring you back outside of new content is obtaining all the best gear, different skins, whatever you might want to collect. In the same vein, in Minecraft you could imagine wanting to obtain the best armor, weapons, food, etc. In some of the servers I played on, there were players who lived in a ramshackle hut and spent most of their time mining to get enough diamonds for gear -- and after a certain point they ran out of things to improve upon for their player character so they started looking for rare items in dungeons (remember when mossy cobble was a rare item?). At some point, they had gotten enough, and saw no further reason to keep playing. An extreme case, but not completely dissimilar to my own.
My past comment is wrong but you do need to install cloudflared on the client if you want to SSH without a browser.

Read the docs, you can do it either way.
Show HN: A low-friction way to get started with web extensions
This is a generator project I'm working on for making browser extensions. It's about as "one click" as it gets for anyone with Node installed and wanting to see what web extensions are all about.
That's all very abstract, but in reality the countries with sectoral unions all compete relatively well. And the cohesion provided by sectoral unions is enough of a social benefit that you rarely find their employer class willing to destroy that contract. Countries are more than their economies.
> just as the GDP per capita of any individual European country pre WW1/2 is higher as well.

Is that true? https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...
I also got the sense the way authentic self was presented was kind of morally nullifying, a variation that reduced to "do what thou wilt," where the animal chaos is the true self, instead of the active exercise of choosing good. What Arendt was clearly onto has been said elsewhere as something along the lines of, nothing short of indefatigable exertion can induce the habit of virtue, where she notes Augustine emphasized it was this regular exercise of virtue that would render the soul pure, where Heidegger appears to be taking it for granted as a base state we need to strip away our experiences to find.

I've been down both roads and have spent a lot of time alone in the woods at night to find the fears that only exist without others around, and really, it's dwelling on the past. The search for Heideggers authentic self is a substitute for engaging the present and the real. Worse, it's neutralizing. If you want prevail over hell, it's other people, and engagement the necessary condition.
Python's `venv` Just Works (and is standard), while whatever it was that I dug up to get the same effect in Perl mostly didn't. I somewhat prefer Perl for things where this isn't an issue.

I should probably make time look again in case I missed something or it's improved in the last decade.
> will let them pay you less and/or exert more undemocratic control over you.

the latter isn't necessarily bad for the worker, e.g. if a tech union tries to force divestment from Israel

if more money for workers is involved, sure, I'm with you. but I kind of doubt it. If the (tech) union spends more effort pushing political things unrelated to money, best of luck to them. for unions outside of tech, this seems like less of an issue
I could never get a straight answer. Everyone kinda snorts and laughs if you ask about it, "Like, really?" I tried translating Arabic statutes. I don't want to test ME laws because they generally have Sharia for the locals and a standard criminal code for foreigners, but that all sounds like a recipe for A Bad Time(tm).

It ain't no China, though. It's a really flimsy attempt to block things. Skype worked perfectly, but not Facetime, even though not having an iPhone for natives was like not owning a Toyota Landcruiser.
Had the misfortune of opening TFA while not on my PiHole's network. The undertones of the article seem a little ironic given how utterly riddled with ads the site is.
> All your analogy says is there are 2 sides to every fight. in the co-vs-union case, one of those sides is the company’s employees (you). That means the company’s interests are opposite to yours when they fight unionization.

I think that what you say here can be true, but I don't believe it is definitionally true.

I have a vote in the US elections every year. In my entire adult life, I haven't ever felt like the federal government represents me. Most of the time the US federal government acts against my interests while pursuing the interests of some other segment of the population whose vote matters more to them. This suggests that having a vote in an organization does not make my interests by definition aligned with that of the governing body that the majority elects.

A union is much the same: it represents the interests of the majority of its members. Most unions will actually fail to represent some portion of their members well, because their obligations are to the majority and few organizations are completely homogeneous.

This may be fine and right, but it also means that I can't just assume that my interests will align with the interests of the majority and therefore of the future union. Sometimes my interests may align better with those of the company, and the rational move for me in the event of unionization is to consider that possibility.
Ethics of Local LLMs: A Response to Zuckerberg's "Open Source AI Manifesto"
> I know this site is pretty pro-union

This site is pro-union for anything outside of tech, but staunchly anti-union for tech. except maybe gamedev, which has a reputation of underpaying
Here's a comparison of the J4125 (Radxa X2L/Palmshell) vs EliteBook 8560w i7-2820QM vs Radxa X4 N100.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/3667vs5157vs885/Intel-Celeron-J4125-vs-Intel-N100-vs-Intel-i7-2820QM

In comparison with a Pi 5, the slowest of the above, which is the X2L/Palmshell kicks the butt of the Pi 5 six ways to Wednesday. Just so much better, it's unreal. Web-page resizing works immediately, video plays well, it just feels like a real PC, even though it's a bit slower than my EliteBook, which is still pretty handy.

Not got an X4 yet, but from the link above, it should be about 50% faster than the EliteBook, which in turn is 50% faster than the X2L / Palmshell.