skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Late Carlin got far too misanthropic for my taste.

Like all things, we need balance. This is a good argument against guilds, but there are positive aspects of the system too. Imagine a world that was truly a free for all -- one in which there were no trusted authorities in any field. I believe such a society would quickly devolve into a dystopia and collapse.

From my perspective, the big problem is when there is no competition among guilds and the guild leaders wield disproportionate societal power. That is how you end up with oppressive oligarchy, which honestly is a reasonable description of the global order right now. My hope though is that we are better able to organize and compete against the current oligarchic order.
I found it to be incredibly annoying, with overly dramatic music and narration, not to mention nonsensical claims. This kind of thing immediately turns me off to any product.
You literally have video evidence from 2020 of people driving up with their cars and shoving 100+ ballots into absentee boxes; and you wrote the above with a straight face?
Most definitely!

I'm making no claims about the quality of any police force in particular other than the one in my city. I'm only arguing that you can't generize from one to all and that the widespread criticism of "the police" without specifying which department or agency you're talking about is both imprecise and harmful.
Is this similar to the FuseSoC package manager? I tried using it before but it required too much maintenance on my part for it to be functional. I would be interested in trying out VPM, could we move to DMs?
Why do you think it's harder to count votes? I'm not sure what belenios uses, but in the process I envision a ballot is a publicly accessible encrypted ledger, where the votes exist publicly.
Falco, I have watched your DC work since you first started on YouTube. When I say „they“ it is out of politeness to not name you directly and also because I think some of the blame lies with others. I used to be a well-known member of the DC community and defended you for years. I had a lot of respect for your efforts. I am however embarrassed to have defended you not because you failed, but because of how you handled the failure even to this day.
>I think they need to accept that this tech is just not the end-all-be-all

Not really sure why you used any words after that as it is much more of an issue than just in writing. The cult vibes are off the charts
I live near Lisbon and the tasty tomatoes from my childhood are now completely gone. Anything you can buy in any supermarket is absolute garbage, so much so that I only ever use prepackaged chopped tomatoes these days (those still taste decent).

One of these days I should get in my car and drive all the way to the Douro just to fetch a bunch of tomatoes, I guess.
> Seeing a heavy Apple user try switching to Linux on their laptop was a real eye opener for me.

Mac sales account for only around 8% of Apple’s revenue.
I do all of those. Also running, cycling and also just sitting down and listening.

I never listen with eyes closed however if I do I'll fall asleep.
> nearly everyone

I remember having a boss demand I put the authorize seal next to our credit card form, else it wouldn't be secure

We used stripe
> There's a historical model that proposes that the Renaissance directly came out of the Black Death—the decrease in population gave the working class more bargaining power

The Black Death didn't left a survivors cohort composed mostly of retirement-age people.
I remember that! I think they have just collapsed to handling what most people try, evidently '[time] description'.

A couple of weeks ago I was surprised and annoyed that adding an event with description "10:30-11:00 Pointless Meeting" no longer scheduled my Pointless Meeting. Tried again very carefully. Wasn't working. Worked again the next day. Did anyone else experience this?

I can't wait for them to feed my description to an LLM to generate the event. "Schedule drinks at 7 at the bar behind the office next Tuesday. Invite my favourite colleagues and their teammates. Make them curious but not suspicious."
That did happen to the big Central American civilizations. Killing by a mix of inter conflicts and mass desease
Why not VCs?

Every startup I've known that's attempting RTO is definitely doing so from VC pressure. Of course the announcement from the leadership will never phrase it that way, but when leadership suddenly has some inspiration about the value of working in proximity immediately after a board/investor meeting you can be sure where that inspiration comes from.

Most recently IPO'd startups are also strongly influenced by small numbers of institutional investors that have major sway in decision making. All of those investors have broad portfolios and have a keen interest in keeping commercial real-estate healthy.

At a certain level that pressure comes from the CEOs themselves since they likely have a large number of assets (and/or the company itself does) tied up in commercial real estate. All of those mega-campuses are real estate investments and have a certain value on the books. If the commercial real estate market crashes, the value of those assets does as well.
Your labels are my favorite! Love the rocket ship
Yes it does!

Just run curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/getinstachip/vpm/main/inst... | bash

Let me know what u think!
This neglects to state ... unrestricted immigration can buy us an out, for now, for in theory an maybe ~10 years.

So this immigration solution gets us to maybe 2035 or so.

And even that is dependent on none of the South American and African countries actually improving. Living conditions in Mexico are rapidly approaching the level where immigration from Mexico will stop outright. Columbia is behind that, but not ridiculously so. Venezuela is an exception, but short of the current government starting a war ... and Brazil won't be providing the immigration numbers we need.

Okay ... and then? I won't even reach retirement age until 2045, and I do hope to enjoy retirement for 20-30 years. By the time I kick the bucket, if I calculate right, we'd need ~1.5 times the size of the human population to immigrate to the west.

I find this figure problematic. For one thing, that's more humans than the UN predicts will be alive at that time.
Also, for the record, LOL, ElysianVMU caused "drama" and extra work for the team?

The constant tangents did, that project being one of them. The VMU emulator did not kill anybody’s firstborn, but like the other many tangents it ate away at your time, which was required elsewhere.

I see you haven’t changed and still try to misinterpret people’s comments rather than really owning up to the past.
Capitalism has given us the most "efficient" tomato for the market. If you want to optimize for something else, you're trying to solve a different problem.
Sure my email is sathvik.redrouthu@gmail.com and my phone is 571-420-6106.

Github to VPM: https://github.com/getinstachip/vpm

Looking forward to a chat!
There is no connection between your comment and what I said
Is this a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41154410?
Chrome: Use Apps, Not Tabs (08/2024 Update)
China is probably the best case scenario for high speed trains. They have high population density to support train networks, virtually no opposition from NIMBYs, and low construction costs. Yet high speed trains there operate at a loss[1], and airplanes are still competitive there. If high speed rail doesn't work there, how could you seriously claim we should switch all air travel to high speed rail?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China#Profi...
I think the point is that Impact is _not_ a turd because it could be polished.
Hey, don't forget that the government needs their taxes just as much as the shareholders need those juicy profits.

I wonder if there is anything in common between the people benefitting from the labour of others in this modern economy, hmmmm...
Home is arguably the most important part of life, it's where everyone's story starts and ends every day. I definitely think there is a whole population of people in the US and around the world who have been waiting for this exact tech experience in real estate. This is going to scratch a lot of peoples' itches for something better in the real estate market.
Honesty must be earned by the receiving party, because honesty is risky. Integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching, or if you get caught you would be in trouble. Neither honesty nor integrity are on the line here.
I am 60 and I retired a few years ago. I still have a side project that I work on because it is interesting to me; but I can work on it as much or as little as I want.

While it is the kind of project that can 'change the world'; my well-being does not depend on its financial success.

You don't have to hit the lottery to FIRE. Just make good money for a reasonable length of time and live beneath your means. Save and invest and before you know it, you don't need to do the daily grind in order to meet your needs and many of your wants.
I too have this problem but I just straight up drop the routing table entries that block me from my printer.
Retiring means different things to different people. Many people don't plan for things like future health conditions, inflation, etc. Some have kids and want to pay for their college and leave something for them, others don't have kids or don't care. Some want to travel the world in retirement and some just want a log cabin away from everyone.

Also, while I think there's less of it on HN than the rest of the internet, most people overstate their income, savings, skills, experience, etc.

There's also a confirmation bias taking place, because most people aren't posting "I can't retire until I'm 72 because I have 4 kids to put through college and the stock market has screwed my 401k!" Your sample size on this is extremely small. ;)

<insert star wars "stay on target" meme here>

Ignore what you _think_ everyone else around you is accomplishing. Focus on yourself. Most of what you believe is taking place around you is smoke and mirrors.
> mechanism like neuroplasticity that modifies the topology of neurons

Isn't this already accomplished via weights?
To be fair their position in Europe is not particularly stellar either. It’s good but can’t be compared to their US stronghold.
Their business is manipulation, spying, control and deception, things money cannot buy.
The landing page is inspired by Linear and Apple, which are indeed very common sources of inspiration, especially for dev tools
We used to say "get the scaffolding of the entire app done as quickly as possible, and then iterate."
This argument might have flown a decade ago, but our current economic environment is largely characterized by ignoring reality - creating vibes for upper management and shareholders is what really matters. And telling them we implemented a CAPTCHA solution creates that vibe.
I guess the question is if someone's shown him ChatGPT yet.
This is incredibly helpful, thank you!

If you have resources I can read or learn from about all this, please share them. You've clearly got wisdom in this space!
Neuralink implanted second trial patient with brain chip, Musk says
3. Prevent overemployment. We can't manage people as easily without the leverage / deterrent of being able to make them homeless or at least put them in financial shock.
> just how lucky the west got with Temüjin dying and stopping the expansion that was literally right at our door.

For geographical reasons they would have gone further west than Germany.
I have ran into this with meats as well. I had never had shrimp until I got some fresh in Baltimore. I had never eaten beef until I had some freshly butchered in Garden City, KS.

A quote I heard from some movie that released recently was..."the one thing to remember if you travel into the past is that everything is going to taste better."

The cost of modernization has been a net decrease in quality of foods across the board. "Real" foods (and many other products) are actually incredibly expensive. We don't count this along with inflation, but we should.
Bad search results doesn't necessarily mean less profitable search results, however counterintuitive that is. Google's incentives are different from the incentives of the websites surfaced through Google Search, unfortunately.
Isn't this describing such a machine?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blum%E2%80%93Shub%E2%80%93Sm...
It would be foolish not to look for inspiration in a system that had billions of years of evolution invested in it.
Google is installing face recognition on some offices to prevent this trick.
Thank you that sounds fun and less of an undertaking
Agreed, but parent article makes the good point that the Hansa League and guilds also pushed back very effectively on the nobility in Germany snd Northern Europe (Bergen Norway was in the Hansa League).

And if you are willing to be more generous (as the author and I are) these protective societies of workers and merchants were an early step toward free market economies unencumbered by lazy landed gentry. Compare the history of Spain and France during this era to that of Germany and Holland.
Music labels' AI lawsuits create copyright puzzle for courts
"Try without email" - I hope this feature will start appearing on more new services.
Enum class improvements for C++17, C++20 and C++23
…and an LLM agent.
> I'm just unconvinced that UI experts know what good user interface is given the utter monstrosities UI experts create, or advise others to create

Sure, I agree with you there. However, text and more broadly readability are not purely UI. Readable text should be part of a good UI, but it is a field in itself and which actually has been quite extensively researched. Unfortunately, as you aptly point out, a lot of people ignore this sort of thing in favor of what is trendy or (in the case of this blog) specific aesthetics.

There are a few things that are quite good understood about what makes text readable on a display. These have been reaffirmed by research spanning decades at this point. Yet they are often ignored in favor of other things.
DIY Password Manager with Vim and Syncthing
> “The Bonds sincerely regret these circumstances and the unintended consequences that were created,”

As far as I can tell, the only unintended consequences are that they were caught and I guess for that they have sincere regret.
So, you are asking OP to get a dupe badge or ship their badge to someone else? If latter, what if OP needs their badge? Proxy entries can be easily validated through camera. It’s all asking for a trouble for a small short term benefit
Serious Question: What happens to stocks in wartime? And in the next BigWar - a large % of it will be comms related. What happens to telco/handset-providers stocks if they become useless during major warfare?
I grew up online and it isn't a problem if you have a process. You don't need a process if you're in the same physical place.
Signal should separate WebRTC handling into its own process so that an exploit doesn’t have access to its critical database.

A messaging app has almost all the same security concerns as a browser, so the recommendations here apply: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/browserenginekit
I think we're in violent agreement.

phoboslab was downplaying their own efforts by saying that the Cross Code team customised the Impact engine a bunch. My point was that no amount of customisation can turn a bad engine into a good one (you can't polish a turd), so phoboslab definitely deserves credit for building the base engine for Cross Code.
Gotta rep the tangentially-related bolt from the blue

https://youtu.be/ruAi4VBoBSM?si=5g0lfyUEEE6jfLnv

To me, what's enchanting about this is how unpolished the leader is. In a lot of organizations the polish comes first, and the people come second.
A commercial off-the-shelf alternative for the impatient:

https://greatscottgadgets.com/cynthion
LLM Prompt Testing: All Your Mistakes
Also: DDG, Qwant, Mojeek and Brave Search.
The amount of work that went into this is amazing. Brought to mind Henry Darger’s 15,545-page magnum opus The Story of the Vivian Girls (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger).
That statement means the comittee does not want to stop it from being developed. The question is, has it? They mean a specific implementation could work as portable assembler, mirroring djb's request for an 'unsurprising' C compiler. Another interpretation would be in the context of CompCert, which has been developed to achieve semantic preservation between assembly and its source. Interestingly this of course hints at verifying an assembled snippet coming from some other source as well. Then that alternate source for the critical functions frees the rest of compiler internals from the problems of preserving constant-timeness and leakfreedom through their passes.
Archaeology does not take place in a vacuum. It has always been a product of political human beings. Archaeologists are keenly aware of this. Mussolini excavated Pompeii with bulldozers to reveal the past greatness of Italy on a schedule compatible with his ambitions. British archaeologists conducted digs around the globe through the lens of empire. Natives in the Americas, to this day, hesitate to trust archaeologists because they have, far too often, ignored the culture and concerns of descendants while digging up their ancestors. Most archaeologists strive to tell the truth, but truth is often a matter of perspective.

It's not being anti-Chinese to observe that China is currently an expansionist totalitarian state, and that Chinese archaeologists will be under pressure to support a state-approved narrative. Their research should be viewed with their cultural context firmly in mind.
> Syntax highlighting code visible on the screen

That... does not work in most programming languages. Especially so for showing indent levels correctly. Generally speaking, the language server (or whatever) is parsing the entire file.
Which was on the frontpage just yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41145517
Try Mac/iOS calendar - it has allowed to do just that for ages.
I would love to grow some of my own food, the way I did when I was a kid. But alas, I will never be able to afford a garden, and the soil here is heavily contaminated with PFAS, heavy metals, and goodness knows what else.
State is not tied to type of programming language but to the App architecture
> To some extent the Elks is a healthy community. Our lodge is definitely a place where kids can hang out together free from interfering adults

I do get that. Between scouting and youth leadership I have been part of organizing and running similar environments many times over.

But they are not communities. They are adult-generated, curated experiences. They are facsimiles, built out of patchy facades.

One facade: Moving the adults to an adjacent space and pretending that is adult-free time (I've done it).

As far as we think these simulations meet kids basic needs, we're fooling ourselves. Placing kids in adult constructs denies kids their autonomy. Every time. Mostly by design.

Worthwhile autonomy includes kids being able to come and go fully on their own. Trivially.

It's through autonomy (and genuine independence) that kids' critical growth happens. Organic kid-spaces are fertile soil where ambition grows.

They are the safe spaces (safe from adults) to make the kind of mistakes that teach strong interpersonal relationship and vital problem solving skills.

It's what every generation of kids had throughout human history, until we adults eradicated it - seemingly everywhere we could.

We adults put cars everywhere. We blast out false stranger danger messaging. We made criminal trespassing the default and maximized development. And we made lots of other kid-hostile changes to society that I'm certainly missing here.

sidebar: Compounding this is that parents are stupidly expected to fill all those new gaps in kids needs. Parents are now required to have the wisdom of all those nearby adults that disappeared with communities. And parents now have to spend 10x the time parenting, compared to their recent ancestors.

Together, this is all an unimaginably enormous loss for kids. These simulations you and I put on aren't really capable of mitigating it.
I don't know about India or Africa, but births peaked in Brazil by 2012.

By stable I think GP meant resistant to measures that governments take to purposely increase birthrates, like slightly better childcare benefits.
Hawaii to Australia will use a high-speed sailboat.
If you are concerned about plastic you could substitute terracotta half-round channel pipes and do a micro-canal / channel irrigation. More expensive than plastic irrigation pipes but worth it if you’re determined to avoid plastic. Wood would be a cheaper alternative but requires a lot more maintenance and replacement. We’re talking small scale agriculture with these robots anyways so either option is practical especially compared to the cost of the robot.
I don't think Apple "bet big" on them, they just made some very good chips because that's obviously good for their business. They didn't stake their business on nobody else also doing that.

VR/MR I'll give you though. The weird thing there is that games are clearly the only (non-porn) application for VR that has any kind of real-world appeal, and Apple went in completely the opposite direction.
It can't be binding unless it's a treaty. A presidential administration could tell Taiwan that they would definitely come to their aid, but a new president could establish a different policy.
This, super happy with it. Search engine that doesn't rely on ad revenue.
it is not that they are not caring to make it better.

it is that they are making it steadily worse, to make more and more profits.

don't ask me for proof, or why or how, because I won't answer, because that's a huge rabbit hole, but with tons of proof right here on hn, as well as on the rest of the net.

just ... google for it.

/irony intended
Sadly the management at kx/fd didn’t have the vision to push this product beyond being a boutique platform for a handful of rich finance firms and their moment has passed
It sounds like you’re just trying to convince yourself that Apple can only ever go up and to the right - forever?

Which hey, maybe. But that is exceptionally rare in practice.
It is curious to market a device as an improvement in self-sufficiency and design it to require an internet-connected centralized webapp.
Right, the age differential is a huge problem and one we should spend time on.

But this article isn't about how we take care of the elderly during this time of adjustment (we all know that the age gap isn't permanent, it will stabilize as people die), it's about how we keep GDP growth high.

I'm not comfortable setting new, higher norms for what's expected of workers (or of how much immigration we should be driving) with the justification that we're going into a 20 to 30-year adjustment window. We should figure out how we ride this out with the full understanding that it's temporary and then separately figure out what a new developed world with fewer native-born people looks like.
Oh man, apparently I'm not alone in using /tmp/ as my storage space. I like it because it's self-cleaning!
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> people are smart enough to ask why should new pianists be churned out and is there something more valuable these people could do with their time.

Being a classical pianist would have been a dream career for me if I had started early enough

Some of the deepest fulfillment I have gotten was teaching myself how to play Bach
> With ssh I upload my key and I’m done.

Not quite. Hopefully you also manually check the host's SSH fingerprint.
https://painkillerideas.com/
right. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41156028
Awesome work! As always, there is an opportunity to “extend” this down/up a few layers :)

Also, are you Algerian by any chance? I am Tunisian - it’s always nice to see North Africans (and Africans in general) on HN!