skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article ended on a cliff-hanger too.

> Even so, as I burrowed deeper into Silicon Valley and what I came to think of as the “microcosmos”, I did find a hidden wrinkle in the way we compute, something intrinsic to the code itself, which is at odds with the way we’ve evolved to be. Something that has been concentrating power, abrading society and casting an algorithmic spell over us as a species – and will continue to do so until we bring it under control. Just when I thought my work was done, it was about to begin in earnest.

This is just an advertisement for a book.
Thats extremely fascinating. What's it used for?
Family homes rarely exceed $13M but farms and ranches can get up there. Seems like it should be easy to exclude agricultural land, but there's second-order consequences.

If farms and ranches are the best place to hide family wealth, then family wealth will pour into agricultural land. That inflates values and pushes out the actual ranchers and farmers. If farming is just a byproduct of your tax-avoidance strategy then you are unlikely to try too hard at it. We actually need farms, and nobody wants them to become tax-avoidance shells.
Isn't it also possible for other logic to run in a destructor, such as freeing pointers to external resources? Doesn't this cause (at the very least) the possibility for more advanced logic to be run beyond freeing the object's own memory?
Why are you watching me???
> You’re assuming it’s just about pay

That's how markets work. Pay is information that everyone participating can use to make judgements.

> Lots of loyalty in many cases

That's a non tangible item and it means people are finding excuses to avoid participating in the market.

> they will find something to do and that may be at a competitor.

Your goal is to have lots of "somethings" being done. That's how your economy grows and new opportunities are created.
You really should look into using the right hardware for the purpose instead. (Disclamer - I despise Raspberry and their overpriced closed devices, and also HN maniacally trying to use them for stuff they the wrong choice for)
Would you say that Lynx is not good software?
Was expecting to see different governors tested.

Is that not a thing on a pi?
I think that's been debunked. I never believed it anyway.
Your og:image meta tag is pointing to a .webp image, which I expect many services don't support as the OpenGraph image. It's probably falling back to the author photo because that's the first PNG or JPEG image on the page.
Have you looked at PlantUML?
When I was doing Econometrics at Uni, the lecturer wouldn't let us use the functions in the software that did the mathematics for us. He made us learn using Spreadsheets and doing the calculations manually, _then_ he let us use the automated functionality once we understood it.
I have to caution students that the discount isn't for as long as you're a student, it's 8 years total, so if you do a BS, MS, and then PhD, you probably won't get the discount the whole time (and that's $200 extra a year). I had to pare my membership down from societies and magazines to just the membership, as punishment for having been an excited high schooler.
I disagree with PGs take away, and would love to hear the talk to find out if I'm the one who is wrong.

"hire good people and give them room to do their jobs." is not orthogonal to running your start-up as a founder...or is it, and I'm doing it wrong?

I'd love to understand where someone like Satya Nadella would fit into this example. He isn't the founder, but he runs the company as if he is, doesn't he? So "founder" isn't the correct description.

I hope a link to the talk is made public, so we can decode what Brian is saying for ourselves.
Why would you go that far to make a fake? If the buyer can’t do a chargeback, you can just ship a rock, and if they can, how does shipping something that’s obviously broken help you prevent a chargeback? I don’t get it.
> Most protests are peaceful and even the violent one rarely invade government buildings.

Nah. Occupying Brasília buildings is basically the standard brazilian protest at this point. Happened in 2016 as well, and they too insisted the country was suffering a coup, Probably more examples I can't remember off the top of my head.

> It doesn't have to be the military. Most coups are by the military but it's not a necessity.

In this case it absolutely needs to be the military. Because there's no way you can convince me that a bunch of people with bibles and flags tried to seize power in the brazilian capital.

> That's the road to tyranny. Lies spread faster than the truth.

Lies according to whom? You? This judge-king? Yeah, I'll decide for myself, thank you very much. I'm gonna look at the stuff and I'll reach my own conclusions. I don't need or want the judge's help.

> Sadly some people fall for obvious fakes. Just look at all the flat earthers.

Yeah, and? What are we supposed to do about it? "Help" them think correctly? Put the "right" thoughts into their heads? Send them to a forced reeducation camp? The mere thought of someone being that self-righteous is offensive to me. Even if they're right.

The existence of flat earthers is literally not an argument. I think it's illogical but if they want to believe it then it's their problem. It would be incredibly presumptuous of me to try to put the "correct" thoughts into their minds. If they can't be convinced by the study of physics, we're just gonna have to leave them alone and move on with our lives.

If someone can be duped by propaganda into becoming violent in favor of some cause, then democracy is justified in defending itself. Not a second before. And you don't get to "prevent" such things by censoring the speech that led to it either. Any government that steps over that line is a dictatorship.
I doubt they'd see it as a slight, considering Epic themselves have helped fund Godot.

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-engine-was-awarded-epi...
There are modes of compensation besides money. There is value besides direct production.
You won’t break a machine by installing Python packages on an OS that never uses Python for anything.
I think CLI tools can help compartmentalise functionality and that can be helpful.

But I think they can also obscure functionality the same way as a GUI tool.

Take git for example, it’s much easier to visualize how it works from a GUI. Squashing is also faster in a GUI. But some other operations are clearer when you’re giving every flag yourself.

Ultimately I think it comes down to the UX of something regardless of the form of UI it’s presented in.
I agree with this. But I want to ask a similar question as OP but for services. How do you handle service account credentials in a good way? Typically multiple engineers need to be able to test out a given service account. So a number of users need to have access to the credentials of that service account. And you need a good way to enroll a new service to service connection, i.e give a service account access to another service.

I haven't seen this done in a way that didn't feel overly complex, prone to error and oversharing of secrets.
What Will We Do with Our Free Power?
In a typical suburb, providing a 2-3 minute wait would require one idling self-driving car per hundreds of houses. I think that sounds practical.
He comments on fields in which he’s unqualified, and his remake of Nova had a ton of unnecessary swearing. And goes on TV and talks about politics. That’s when he lost me.
This academic system has only existed for 100-150 years. Less for science.
I’m so happy with MacPorts I find all this discussion weird.

True, MacPorts isn’t the official Python installer, but macOS doesn’t have an official Python anyway.
In addition to that, societies and ecosystems could also upend differently if we do not develop this technology. As every technology, you can use it for good and you can use it for bad. But simple banning (or 'moratoria') do rarely stop a novel field from developing, and just end up pushing it in the less open grey zone of top secret research projects.
Sounds like a web 1.0 http server with a pug-like html templater and some popular css framework.
Installing Arch Linux ARM on a Raspberry Pi
We have 50 years or so of Unix history to honour. We shouldn’t do any less than that.
You're explicitly choosing the basis of comparison on the grounds that it will deliver the answer you prefer to hear. The piece compares professions. Professions are a way you make money to live. They should compare programmers who make $150K/yr to musicians who make $150K/yr.

Ironically, the fact that you think it is obvious that you would only compare the 0.1% of "knowledge workers" to musicians and athletes means that you find the conclusions obvious. Of course knowledge workers, at the same salary as athletes and musicians, are far worse in quality.

Not that it's an injustice. Athletes and musicians are paid to be passively watched and listened to; it's a demand thing. Who's going to pay to watch or listen to someone average? The average programmer (and the average garbageman, who also doesn't put a lot of time into the fundamentals) gets stuff done.
This is a false dichotomy I think...

The difference in this case between a "founder" and a "manager" is more about understanding the nuts and bolts of the business and being able to lean on that understanding in ways that require you to cut through the org chart.

Is it surprising that leaders who don't understand a business and aren't willing to engage across the full depth/breadth of the business are less effective than those that try to treat everything as an abstract cashflow machine?
So the labour market only operates correctly if people opt for the highest paid job and do the most work?

Hard disagree from me then.
Exactly my experience as well. I moved away from Windows (10) earlier this year, and login times (waiting for the user desktop to come up after putting in credentials) took ~10 seconds. Sometimes it was faster after a fresh install, but it never lasted, even when regularly managing what services and apps were loaded on startup.
I didn't expect that everyone can tell a good chemist. That's why I shared my perspective. Why exactly are you baffled?
> It's also worth considering who would be liable if large-scale mammoth reintroductions went wrong. "The ecosystem has been adapting to the absence of mammoths since mammoths started going extinct," Lynch said. "What if there's an unintended consequence and something bad happens?"

> Other experts echoed these concerns. "To get some impact, you need to have a lot of animals," Sophie Monsarrat, an ecologist and the rewilding manager at Rewilding Europe, told Live Science.

The target species are all ones that humans (and exceedingly primitive humans, in the case of the mammoth) hunted to extinction, and inadvertently, at that. If there are unintended consequences, why couldn't we just hunt them to extinction again? The species listed in the article are all large, and all mammalian and non-flying avian (Dodo). It's not like they can hide or get away from us easily.
> Possibly but humans basically hunted Mammoths into extinction

No, they didn’t. It’s a myth.

https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/humans-did-not-cause-woolly-mammot...
> the credentials of that service account

Why do these accounts only have a single user/password?

In any case, my answer would again be automation. Script the test, have the authorized process test out the service account on behalf of any employee who can create and run those tests.
As someone with zero knowledge regarding Zero Knowledge Proofs in a programming context, can someone give me a basic explanation regarding the utility? I do understand the basic principle of ZKP’s, but as yet I’m failing to understand how this would be applied in industry.
If you want to look at something specific like software engineering, it is not even a little bit similar to being an athlete or musician.

Athletes and musicians are performers. They are repeating a set sequence of movements over and over. They are reacting to the same situation with minor variations over and over.

If your knowledge work is in any way similar to that, then it should have already been automated. Probably by you, if not someone else before.

And there is no live requirement for doing programming while someone watches in a particular time frame. In fact, it's better to take your time. That will allow you to solve more difficult problems more robustly.

I would almost say that programming is just about the opposite of something performative like a sport or playing music.

You can get better at reading and solving problems by practicing that. But I don't see how toy exercises are usually important at all for professional programmers. Much less something like reading for the sake of practice.
This so much. The hacking and coding doesnt matter, nobody really needs a 10x engineer. Well capitalized startups can just go hire 5 more engineers if they need to. I wish when i was younger i could have just accepted this
YES please. I'm really terrible at math, and even more terrible at trying to convert equations into code whenever I ask a math expert for help.
Scientists discover simple charging trick to dramatically improve battery life
It's worse than that, it's feigned surprise. "I disagree" is at least intellectually honest, "Huh?" is pretending that the position is so far off that they couldn't even understand it.

I learned the term "feigned surprise" from Recurse Center's social rules[1]. It's related to, but not exactly the same as, that well-known XKCD about "today's 10000", too[2].

[1] https://www.recurse.com/social-rules

[2] https://xkcd.com/1053/
Symmetric surface-energy ratchet motor driven by biased random walk
This is a great idea and in the backend it tracks how many tries it took to win, so the data is there. Also, NYT crosswords does this similarly where you can see on the calendar how far into each puzzle you got visually.

Let me take a stab at this...I'll let you know when it's been updated.

Appreciate the feedback, really good insight!
Professional managers (aka not the founder, climbed up the corporate ladder the old fashioned way): Tim Cook (apple), Satya Nadella (msft), Sundar Pichai (Google), Arvind Krishna (ibm), Shantanu Narayen (adobe), Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber), Lisa Su (amd) and on and on. Just scan the Fortune 500 for tech companies and it’s nearly all professional managers. The YC audience could have debunked this Founder Mode nonsense in just 10 minutes on Wikipedia, as I did.

Most professional managers are BS artists. Perhaps Chesky hired of bunch of those. The conclusion is not to run everything yourself, but maybe hire better managers.
I still don’t get what exactly this does. There are Graphviz wrappers so I can already create Diagrams programmatically, what is the advantage of using this?
Never took it, huh.
> It is quite complicated to understand or to set up, yes, but I agree that it is easy to use.

The problem is that everything works--until it doesn't. And then nobody knows how to fix it.

You wind up needing a single person who serves as local "nix tech support" who then hates life because he's a high end devloper dealing with nix n00bs all day long.
I think it’s still undecided if Airbnb is a force for good or a force for evil in the world.

A lot, I mean a lot of people with middle incomes have bought desirable homes in nice locations and rent them out. There are many aspiring families, young couples priced out of the market because of this.

Sure, this option was always a thing but the people who rent these properties out do not improve the community or unit they purchased and they rent out to anyone. This weekend a Airbnb guest kicked my door front door open. I pulled a gun on him and he apologized and said he was messing around but I wouldn’t have to deal with this if I didn’t live near short term rentals.

Hotels needed a check to their power but I’m not sure if 15 years from now Airbnb will have been good for the median person. It sure helps the wealthy however.
Oh, this is nice! I would love to see a Slack unfurl sample. I don't entirely understand why Slack unfurls are unpredictable sometimes, but for example, an Instagram reel link unfurls just fine on Twitter or Facebook, but has no unfurl at all on Slack.
The fate of Twitter is completely irrelevant. The circumstances that led to Twitter being blocked by our ISPs is the only reason it is being discussed at all.

If you cared one bit about what's good for this society, you would not be trying to divert attention from this omnipotent judge-king's actions.
Personal automobile ownership is the source of more tragedies of the commons than anything else I can think of.
Though we have an understanding of what the Vagus nerve does, and I think this article misses that it is involved in both calming and stimulating the para-sympathic nervous system (someone correct me if I'm wrong), but the challenge with any of the "therapies" that apparently stimulate the vagus never is that we can't measure the vagus never directly, and are therefore making assumptions that this is the pathway these therapies are taking.

I had built a "vagus nerve stimulation app" a while back which used vibration to enhance calm. I did some measurements comparing this vibrating stimulation to neurofeedback with a Muse device, and the results seemed positive, but because we couldn't say specifically which mechanism was being triggered, and that it wasn't more than just "listening to calm music", we didn't pursue it.
Cryptocurrency Price Prediction Algorithms: A Survey and Future Directions
Abstract:

"In recent years, cryptocurrencies have received substantial attention from investors, researchers and the media due to their volatile behaviour and potential for high returns. This interest has led to an expanding body of research aimed at predicting cryptocurrency prices, which are notably influenced by a wide array of technical, sentimental, and legal factors. This paper reviews scholarly content from 2014 to 2024, employing a systematic approach to explore advanced quantitative methods for cryptocurrency price prediction. It encompasses a broad spectrum of predictive models, from early statistical analyses to sophisticated machine and deep learning algorithms. Notably, this review identifies and discusses the integration of emerging technologies such as Transformers and hybrid deep learning models, which offer new avenues for enhancing prediction accuracy and practical applicability in real-world scenarios. By thoroughly investigating various methodologies and parameters influencing cryptocurrency price predictions, including market sentiment, technical indicators, and blockchain features, this review highlights the field’s complexity and rapid evolution. The analysis identifies significant research gaps and under-explored areas, providing a foundational guideline for future studies. These guidelines aim to connect theoretical advancements with practical, profit-driven applications in cryptocurrency trading, ensuring that future research is both innovative and applicable..."
>> for some reason my body on the left side is clenching up, with this constant pulling on my head, pulling down and to the left. I also have severe TMJ, again on the left, and constant headache

@computerdork do you have a tongue tie/lingual frenulum or narrow airways/diaphragmatic dysfunction? These things can cause extreme issues with the fascia that lead to things presenting in such a manner.

If you’ve made it to teens/adulthood, it’s typically missed by fucking everybody in the medical profession.
The 1967 British TV series The Prisoner, episode A Change Of Mind, prescribes the milk-first method, as part of a general instruction on how to make “a decent cup of tea”.
Soeaking as an engineer, has it ever struck you how utterly low it is to sit in a room making art? Sculptural materials and paint is dead. Words are but faint echoes of human life.

Your comments are more a reflection upon your own worldview.

To improve things you merely need to change your own perceptions.
I will no longer feed trolls. Lesson learned.
It's not an extension. It's a standalone app that connects to postgres and listens to a replication stream.
Some people wonder why the use of ‘AI’ in pathology is not more effective, and this is part of the reason.
> kicked my door front door open

What the hell kind of messing around is that? Did he think he was at the unit he rented that came with door-kicking privileges?
Personal automobile ownership is the source of more tragedies of the commons than anything else I can think of. The only personally incurred negative externality that comes to mind at the moment would be the decreased likelihood of having a healthy lifestyle based on decreased need to walk anywhere.
Right, because it's much harder to measure a specific amount of milk in isolation than to eyeball how much of it you've just added to something else.

If you were concerned about regulating the amount of milk you were adding, tea first wouldn't even be a possibility.
That was the approach GM's senior management took with Opel during World War II. Opel wasn't nationalised; it continued trading and did business as usual with the German government of the day, just with less direct involvement from Detroit.

While it worked out very well indeed for GM in a commercial sense in that they retained control of the business, it continued to be profitable and the U.S. Government paid for damage to their factories due to Allied bombing, history has a less favourable view of the individual people involved.
Sorry, I always get irrationally angry when it comes to shortcuts. :^)
The other side is plain gray silicon; I've looked at the back side of dies by mistake many times. (Intel is starting to do power through the back side, which would make the back more interesting.)
You shouldn't have to launch a sub-shell to run a script interpreter. That is exemplary of how nobody in the Python leadership can fix their perpetual packaging f-ups of the last two decades and are now just sticking their collective heads in the sand.
To follow on a bit, the wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremsstrahlung links to a paper by Weinberg: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.11168 and a quick skimming shows that he's perfectly happy to use the Coulomb field as an approximation...
Did you benchmark it? Could be an old chip relasered to fool consumer