skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for this comment. I currently use direnv with great success for managing virtual environments (mostly various language versions, dependencies, and environment variables). I'll look into this approach of pulling in credentials for those environments from a password store.

I think direnv is a highly underrated tool. Switching between environments with a simple 'cd' is of huge benefit to my development experience.
> His footnote has a painful resonance: "I also have another less optimistic prediction: as soon as the concept of founder mode becomes established, people will start misusing it."

Exactly what happened with Product Market Fit. With the current AI buzz, I see everyone and their nana preaching about how their product has PMF. If you had PMF, you'd have onboarding teams, not sales teams.
3.5s is cool, but if the entire scenario was really connecting to WiFi and uploading an image every couple of minutes, an ESP32 would've been a much better choice for power consumption (unless the camera module you need for Pi has some specific features that none of the esp32-cam compatible cameras does)
> The problem is that the people not paying for these externalities don't want to, have no incentive to, and are not required to. They lobby to avoid laws and regulations that would make them do it.

Perhaps the externalities are exaggerated then? If you say something is scarce and the market says it's abundant, who's right? You? Why?

The fact is that Lego isn't, to any meaningful degree, contributing to adverse outcomes by using petroleum as a feedstock. The market tells them they got the right answer. Their oil use is a drop in the bucket. They shouldn't feel pressured to worsen their product over moral and aesthetic pressure from activists.

> The economic argument doesn't work, so it's a little hard not to frame it as a moral issue instead.

The market is working just fine. The trouble is that the moralizers don't like the priority stack rank the market produces and seek to use various forms of non-market power to get the outcomes they want. People doing this makes us all worse off. Trust the market.
Isn't that the whole point of the article? Microbiome research is hard? In this case, we're just left with trying to extrapolate loosely based off of trends.

There's nothing to suggest that these things are bad for your health (as far as I'm aware) and there's a hypothesis (not a theory) that these might've contributed to gut microbiomes in the past. But, rather than conclusive proof, it might just be something low-stakes that people can try until more hard research or data is found that has a more conclusive direction, even if it disproves previous hypotheses.

Until then, we're left making best-guess efforts with no conclusive proof. But, suggesting that these have no benefit is also incorrect until we have conclusive data to suggest otherwise. Hence, the point of the article: figuring out stuff about the microbiome is hard.
What? I mean, you realize that fmtlib is much more complicated than that, right? What you are describing is something very basic, primitive by comparison. I’m also puzzled why you think floats are not used by many programs, that’s kind of mind-boggling. I get that you wouldn’t load it on a microcontroller but you wouldn’t do that with the standard library either.
>The New Jersey nightmare

I remember seeing articles that showed this specific issue was not COBOL itself, but the WEB front end(s) to that system. Seems they blamed COBOL for clicks.

> The real problem is, and always has been, the fact that the failed systems hadn't been maintained properly.

This is like Cyber Security on modern systems, cheap is always the way to go. Two different problems, same root cause. Management will always do it on the cheap.

All and all a very good article.
It could be due to Trump's desire to replace the heads of many agencies like the EPA, etc, probably leading to deregulation. Elon's wet dream.
> Larger displacement engines are almost invariably in larger, heavier, vehicles.

This isn't even a good approximation because turbochargers (which nearly all heavy, diesel vehicles have) significantly increase power at the same displacement. The 5 liter Mustang weighs less than 4000 pounds. Here's a >10,000 pound bus with a 3.2L diesel engine:

https://www.tescobus.com/bus-for-sale/collins/school/
Yes. Repeat business will be zero. The seller can't sell very many before they have to shut down and go into hiding. Yet it takes a lot of cost and effort to set this up. As a scam business plan, it's not a good one.
>Unlike Medicare, which won’t pay for poor performance, Medicaid pays for services rendered, period.

I don't believe that's true. Do you have any evidence for this?

I have never heard of anyone challenging a Medicare reimbursement for "poor performance." In fact, billing codes often don't make a whole lot of sense, yet are approved without question just because the billing code exists.

What's more, Medicare and Medicaid fraud are often perpetrated[0] by the same folks without and done in exactly the same way.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/09/how-medicare-and-medicaid-fr...
Y Combinator's Gen Z founders are coming back and learning to love San Francisco
I'm not sure I follow, but yes, if he has collected personal/(un)encrypted data, then he and the infrastructure he controls would be one of the weakest links wherever he is.

I do think the Russian response is quite a bit of projection, because they know what they would do to get the keys to Telegram's kingdom. It's interesting though that I haven't heard Elon opine on how weak Telegram's end-end security is since the arrest. You'd think he would warn everyone to avoid it?
OAuth from First Principles
You’re right indeed that there is a real legal concept in EU law called EU citizenship, which everyone with the nationality of an EU member state holds. The other commenter is wrong on that point.

But the other commenter is also right that there is not the kind of independently existent EU citizenship that would persist when one ceases to be a national of an EU member state - it gets lost in that case even if the reason for this change is not an individual loss of the member state’s nationality but because the member state withdrew from the EU. The ECJ definitively settled this last year. Nor are EU passports issued on the basis of EU citizenship, nor would EU citizens typically include “EU” as one of the answers if they are asked by a government to list all their citizenships or view themselves as dual citizens if their only national-level citizenship is from a single EU member state.

For several reasons like this, it’s not at all unreasonable for the other commenter not to view EU citizenship as a real citizenship of its own, despite the use of the term under EU law.

Personally, I view the term EU citizenship in part as a briefer shorthand for “national of an EU member state” - including in the definition whatever edge-case handling is appropriate for each country’s special-case territories, and therefore more precise in a predictable way. Beyond that, it’s just a symbolic reflection of the EU’s official aspirational policy goal of ever closer union.
You might want to take a look at Infisical (https://infisical.com)
Walmart to Offer Logistics Outside Its Own Marketplace Sales
Am also wondering if part of the problem might have been timing. Did have 5 locations during the pandemic?
Most people who report ufo sightings are not navy pilots.
A fun full-circle. The Jacquard loom was influential for input for early computers, and now the computer is influencing the output of looms
Doing some rough numbers:

There are ~2400 NFL players in the US, which means about 1 in 140k people.

If you figure that 10% of the people care enough about football to make an attempt, then someone who is in the 99th percentile of that group of people--someone I think many people would call undeniably good at the game, then they still have to be at least 99th percentile among those people to actually have a go of making it as a career.
Speaking as an artist and a programmer, has it ever struck you how utterly low it is to sit in a room making things? You are interacting with little speck of dead stuff. Staring, unmoving, practically dead yourself. Playing with a little dream. There's something deeply wrong with that. Spiritually wrong even. Sometimes I reflect and feel shame at my wastefulness.
- nop. I've been here homeless over 2.5 yrs ago, with less than 20% of the time stepping out of the bay. So you might say I'm cosplaying as a nonhomeless person.

- Actually it rained and rained and rained so much that even mission district was washed clean like they were brand new. I was wet every other day so I know.. but how would you know? Just by keeping the curtains open? It's too easy to miss.

Like which day was the coldest last year? really how would you have the faintest idea I wonder?
Caterpillar Pickup Truck for the US
This is typical solve-one-problem-with-another approach. Anaconda may be bloated but it is really straightforward to use from the navigator and yes you can have many different Python environments installed at the same time.
No, because half the students in your 200 person class don’t have anaconda installed and now you are managing students in yet another state of python environment management with TAs who are economics grad students, not python experts
Minor, but no it's 1/(8 choose 4) = 1/70 because there are 4 tea-first, 4 milk-first, and the lady tasting tea knows this.

Once the locations of the four tea-first cups are decided, the locations of the remaining milk-first cups are completely determined. (And there are 8 slots for those first 4 cups, hence 8 choose 4).
I was thinking that Circle (https://github.com/rsta2/circle) might be faster to boot than a kernel, but it doesn't seem to support MIPI cameras.
A smart government would mandate that all new apartment blocks have at a minimum the electrical infrastructure in place to support the installation of charging points.

I was recently renting an apartment and when I asked building managers about this kind of thing they just blinked at me slowly like they had just now heard of electric cars existing.
"trust but verify" goes a long way here, and simple management techniques like goal set and review (OKRs, etc) address the "professional fakers" issue - ironically one of the first things you should learn in formal management.

As a founder and later a C suite exec - you really can't make this black and white. As a founder there is no greater feeling than hiring someone and finding out they can do a subset (ideally a large subset) of your tasks better and more efficiently than you. What you can not/should not do is walk away from that area of the business and never look back. You should still be invested and collaborative. A creative founder that can think from first principles should be able to contribute positively to any level of initiative even when they are not the most experienced person in the room. They should also be able to convey why an idea should buck convention and understand the consequences of it from the domain experts they hired.
I wonder if booting the OpenBSD kernel would be faster. Although, the OpenBSD init system is notoriously slow.

Also I feel (but don't know for sure) most of the time before executing the user space program would be spent by systemd.
You may be able to find a local community college course that offers free/cheap observation or participation in human cadaver dissection.

This 2022 LessWrong post mentions a $60 5-hour option at the Sf Bay Area's Merritt College (in Oakland):

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5PBWgHiCiiJHjPRSn/what-it-s-...
Why wouldn't it be the hospital who has to pay?
Why do you think that post-covid no one is working Fridays?
Iko Iko [video]
This is about the beta iPad calculator in iPadOS 18 from a month ago:

https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-18-calculator-app/
That's not the point, is not a matter of frequency, how many miles or so, it's a matter of WHY showing up in a office if your work could be done from remote, even in the company jet, reading their news? Why having an office at all, if that's not needed in modern time, since we haven't paper anymore and so we do not need a unique physical place to work and keep a paper archive?

My unproven response is that's simply a ritual because Starbucks will die without modern cities, or will die without mid/high income office workers with a certain mindset who like being in places like Starbuks. A cohort of people who will change mindset if WFH.

Did you see the impact of the "covid" switch on airlines, hotels NOT due to the lack of tourist but due to the change in working travelers, with conferences moved to remote meeting, business trips much reduced due to remote meetings and so on? That's the point: could Starbucks live without the office, not it's own office, but the office model, or the modern city model, since most factories are not in cities anymore and in modern city the economy, at least in the west is essentially driven by the tertiary sector and could such modern city model live?

My personal take it's a double no. I expect cities slowly evolve in ghetto's for poor and desperate people, a cohort not likely to buy Starbucks, and so despite the substantial ritual of "being in an office at least some days per week", their business model is doomed IMVHO, not tomorrow morning, things do change slowly, but in not much years in the future anyways, rituals do work only a bit, if the economy underneath is flawed they can keep things up for a bit more, but not save the game.
IMHO boot times of Linux distros in general are rather sad, which is then significantly amplified on weak(er) hardware such as this. I've gone through similar efforts with the MQ-Pro SBC. One can also really feel this on laptops (except Macbooks I guess). Annoying.
I don’t believe it is that mysterious or revolutionary. What PG is describing is the “optimization of local maximum” problem.

Founders focus on the strategic goal. Managers focus on tactical goals. Rules and processes are put in place to efficiently achieve these tactical goals. The problem is, in certain situations, these local process are at odds with the broader goal. Only the Founder has the authority to break the bureaucratic rules.

My favorite example is from the film Zulu when the British quartermaster adamantly dispenses ammo per the rule book and a long queue of desperate soldiers form up. Nevermind the British were out numbered 10 or 20 to 1 and should be firing their rifles as quickly as possible and using up all their ammo as quickly as possible.

https://youtu.be/8xjCX_TXkyU
> ... without thinking about it much

God forbid if you had to think and know about your infrastructure and how it worked, and whether it was as minimal and simple as possible whilst delivering results. Best to just use abstractions upon abstractions you don't know well and hope for the best.
> we have reached peak oil

That's just not true. If it were, oil production would decrease every year from the current year onward. It's actually been increasing, and given recent discoveries of large unconventional reserves in the US and elsewhere, we can keep on increasing oil production every year for a long time.

See https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-production-by-country...

> extracting oil will consume more oil than it produces.

Huh?

1) EROEI is still strongly positive in fossil fuel extraction, and
2) even if it weren't, we'd still extract fossil fuels.

Given the utility of petroleum as a chemical feedstock and energy-dense fuel for aviation, we're going to keep extracting the stuff long after it becomes EROEI-negative. It makes perfect sense to spend 1.2 units of nuclear/solar/etc. energy to extract 1.0 units of oil energy if that oil energy meets a need that nuclear/solar/etc. can't satisfy.

You can't make legos out of uranium.
I hope they source better steel than whatever Ford is using these days.
Since Steve Jobs died, Apple's valuation has gone up 10x and revenue about 4x. It stands to reason that a larger company would attract more antitrust scrutiny, but it's hard to blame the executives for that.
Twitter publishes the names of 7 account owners that led to Brazil ban
Yeah, fuck me for having a (low-wage) job and living in a house with housemates, I guess?

Still confused what this post is about. If you've been homeless for 2.5 years, the majority of which spent in the bay area, wouldn't you already have had answers to your questions, many times over, before posting here? Or is it just a spring-board to dunking on non-homeless people in the bay area?

bless you.
And as sad it is, they cycle as has repeated itself and its still a sad situation around Shiprock.
I'm someone who lives within the general area and poverty is still saturating the Navajo community. To make things worse the oilfield in the area has shifted to Texas. And within the last year the Four Corners Power Plant (PNM) and Navajo Mine (BHP) have shut down. These have been 2 extremely large employers of the area for the Navajo people since the 70's. Lots of businesses in neighboring towns like Farmington and Gallup have shuddered. And a large amount of people (who could afford to) have moved to places like Phoenix and Denver so they don't get stuck being part of the situation.
> As the matter of fact we had another product that was running on Kubernetes, they are now migrating off from it, turned out that the old school approach with bare EC2 instances, Ansible, Terraform and Packer is much more reliable, scalable and cost effective than Kubernetes.

Absolutely it is. I've found this to be the case across a lot of orgs now.
> professional management

Management incentivised to grow stock market value. look, if the incentives are wrong then you get distortions. A good example with "founders" is wework.

Wework's innovation was two fold:

zeroth) vast funding

one) run the company like a mystery cult

two) Have beer in a shared office

Everything else is exactly what a shared office company does. WeWork's entire incentive was to grow as fast as possible and get as many customers as possible. No one cared about business fundamentals, because WeWork wasn't a buisness. It was a commodity to be traded by softbank.

Buisness fundamentals have been royally fucked by changes in finance. Stock buybacks, limp monopoly actions, toothless market regulation, have all meant that profit is one thing, but share price is everything.

The capitalism that made boeing et al is not the capitalism that we live in now.
If you’re worried about developing type II diabetes, yes, A1C is probably as much data you need. However, there are plenty of other reasons to want to measure blood glucose. Just one example I see: Endurance athletes already use these off-label to keep an eye on fueling.
So what tools do you recommend?
I Miss Make Deploy
This has to be super common. My wife and I both are acutely aware of acid reflux causing flutters and other weirdness. During her pregnancy it got worse, and after a full cardiac workup her doctor's best guess was interaction w/ the vagus nerve.
FDCs were tricky things. When reading you had to pick up a byte every 8 usec, when writing you had to be ready with the next byte in the same amount of time, and a whole sector's worth would need to be dealt with without interruption. (Idk if the number was exactly 8 usec, but it was in that neighborhood)

Most of the early 8 bit micros couldn't service an IRQ fast enough to keep up, so you'd be more likely to see a polling loop, but even those had to cut things tight. I saw some 1.7MHz 6809 code that could just about do it. Not sure how the old TRS80s dealt, maybe LDI type things? I know the IBM 5150 relied on a DMA chip to shift the sectors to/from disk. Would be fun to find out what the old S-100 systems did.
Not to downplay it or anything, but it is "just" the normal Erlang BEAM VM compiled together with the real time OS RTEMS (which basically implements all POSIX things that the VM needs). Of course, getting it to work needed a lot of research and and experimentation, but the end result is surprisingly simple for what it is. The maniac/genius part is coming up with the idea in the first place and actually pushing through until it works, not many people have the stamina and focus for that.

Source: I was part of the original core team, and I developed the first version of the Erlang support library and runtime.
That's the thing: we're _only_ 8 billion and amongst that we only have so many researchers and people who have the knowledge to do anything like that. We have limited capital to pursue any major initiative, so wasting it on unfeasible and non-beneficial initiatives like starting a Mars colony just wastes time we could do doing something more useful i.e. reforming deserts, stabilizing ecosystems, developing cheaper materials for various industries, etc.

I'm not sure how dangerous "de-extinguishing" a species would be, but we've had numerous faux paus with destabilizing ecosystems by introducing non-native species (i.e. lionfish, as an invasive species). These cause extensive environmental damage and can be irreversible if not contained in time. The worst thing that could happen is losing control over the population of de-extinct species and damaging an ecosystem(s).

That all being said, I'd be stumped if we somehow lost sight of a woolly mammoth... and I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to see one myself, so...
With a chinese manufacturer, I think you could probably make about 100 of these for less than a few thousand bucks easily. With all the cost in the cnc'd heat spreaders. Maybe 100 for < 1k.
>Although, the OpenBSD init system is notoriously slow.

Is this on the PI where it is slow. On my T420 it seems fine, but the re-linking of various daemons does add time. But that is done for security so I am fine to live with it.

Me, I want fast power down time so I can get out the door fast. And so far NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux seems to meets that need :)
GenZ and Its "Sense of Humor"
Well, it's a current hot topic, since it's clearly imposed for reasons clearly against worker's interests and not direct interest of the companies they work for. So... It's natural to find many discussions who end up touching that topic...

Indeed what do you think reading about someone who works from home most of the time, but took a jet to be a 1000km from home some day per week to show up in the office, something clearly not technically needed since office works is still at a desktop, not physical conference, not factory inspections or something like that. Hard to talk about something else.
With old systems the catches always seem to be knowing the deep hidden why's to the encoded business rules and all the bugs, not just the high level goals and basic code.

Older systems have tons and tons of business logic encoded in them to handle edge cases and those functions will be in odd places, and then downstream systems have tons of logic in them to handle (and expect) bugs that your original system has.

Saying "let's rewrite a System that does X" is fine, but you also need to know all the arcane business rules and weird bugs in the system that aren't nicely spelled out in docs, or requirements, or some config file, but are nested deep deep inside in the app, hidden in unexpected places. The complex interactions of these functions generates the complexity, not just "Cobol". 50 years of rushed additions of weird rules to handle years past incidents or business logic changes.

Especially with old finance, insurance, and other systems that have this sort of longevity the original people who knew the why's have long since left. Any attempts to optimize, fix rules, fix bugs etc will produce a beautiful new clean system that's performant and simple and doesn't work at all.